State Enviance

Environmental Compliance.
It’s complicated. It’s hard. It’s got to be done.
A company by the name of Enviance has a creative solution for clients looking to achieve Environmental Compliance.
This is what Kenny Floyd, Division of Environmental Protection (DEP)—Director, 1-301-496-3537 has to say about this product :
“By using Enviance, the true mission of the NIH can be accomplished in an effective manner. We want assurance that we can continue to conduct research while maintaining full compliance assurance.”
Other users of the Enviance software include Onyx, Dupont, Pfizer, the Unitied States Navy, ChevronTexaco and Valero Refining.
The company is heavily invested in the waste and petroleum industries.
I thought I would share with you an experience I had during a demonstration of the software today.
A sales engineer by the name of Mr. Stamps and his partner, Gretchen Martz, held the online demonstration.
During the course of the sales pitch the advantages of the software were detailed. It really was impressive – until Mr. Stamps got to one particular item he was very proud of.
The software is designed to let you know if your company is out of environmental compliance on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. That’s good.
If you are in compliance you receive a notice stating, ‘In Compliance’. If you are out of compliance, however, say, by dumping 10,000 gallons of insecticide into a creek bed then the notice would read, ‘Not Determined’.
Now if the company were to be investigated they would be able to show that they officially didn’t have the information needed to clearly indicate that they had dumped the 10,000 gallons illegally. They might be fined for not keeping adequate records, or failed sensors, but it would be a hard fight to get the information hidden behind that statement, ‘Not Determined’.
What is the true Environmental Compliance being achieved by the US Navy, Onyx Waste, ChevronTexaco and the National Institutes of Health?
‘Not Determined’.
The Clark Group is lobbying on behalf of Enviance – permit number 288258-12. It was filed by Chris Conrad, President of Artemis Consulting, specializing in environmental and energy policy. Formerly, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Policy Division and an Army brigade commander.
http://www.enviance.com/customers/customers_pubsec_civilian.htm
Chris Conrad – on his resume states that he managed NEPA-compliant environmental impact statements for the Assistant Secretary. I believe that all of that work needs to be reviewed to ensure that they were in compliance and that we didn’t have major spills or incompetence not being reported because Mr. Conrad noted them as have been ‘Not Determined’.
He also claims to have prepared, as part of a team with RAND, the strategic plan for the integration of American Indian/Alaskan Native training development in accordance with the new DoD Policy (1999). Prepared analyses for the Army Environmental Policy Institute on the effect on the Army of various federal and state legislative proposals, bills, and acts (1996-1998). This could be the reason why the EPA has been marketing their High Pressure Injection Control Program as a legitimate business concern mainly to Native Americans while not informing them of the dangers inherent in the outdated technology – which the EPA clearly stated are ‘Not Determined’.
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/uic.html