Brian from sunny Suffolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When I worked offshore we started shipping all the drilling "waste" >ashore. This consisted of ground up rock from drilling wells and oil >which is used as a drilling lubricant and a hydrostatic plug to stop >the gas coming up. >Once ashore this waste was treated, all the oil removed and recycled >leaving clean ground rock. We tried to GIVE this material to the local >council to resurface footpaths etc. but the government wanted to charge >us for disposing of waste.
The mistake was not to have called the onshore operation "Fred's Surfacing Materials" or similar, and then portrayed the ground rock as a commodity being produced for sale. "Waste" is in the eye of the beholder. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
