9/10/2012 @ 1:12AM
James Conca, Contributor
It‘s not that drilling for oil and gas is bad. It’s not that drilling has to result in environmental destruction. It’s just that sometimes it turns out that way because a few key people are greedy or just plain lazy, from the management down to the field workers. But I say it’s all up to the cement job....
James Conca must be a stockh0lder in concrete, the petroleum industry and Halliburton along with the commodity of limestone.
...Cement forms an extremely strong, effectively impermeable, seal from a thin slurry that can be pumped pretty easily anywhere, and is the ideal material for this purpose (Cementing). True understanding of cement came from the oil industry over the last hundred-plus years and without cement, there would be no drilling....
I am not advocating a law that prevents the use of cement, concrete or limestone. That is not the purpose here.
Limestone is something most people never notice, but hidden beneath Iowa's fertile soils are rich supplies of quality limestone and dolomite. Careful management of these valuable natural resources is vital to our economy, our environment and future....
