11 May, 2017
By AIPG-TX News

IET Guide to Houston Growth Faulting and Subsidence Reaches 1,000 Views

According to Academia.edu, as of this date, the publication has been reached by 1,000 interested persons through that venue in the Houston area and in counties up and down the Gulf Coast, but also including Arizona, and California where similar problems exist, and in some 48 countries, including China, Russia, India, many African countries and others where over-pumping of groundwater from unconsolidated and consolidated sediments exist along with similar geological conditions where growth faulting is a dominant structural feature within soft sediments.

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24 Jan, 2015
By AIPG-TX News

The Wise Report

The USGS has assessed water quality from 6,600 wells in regionally extensive aquifers that supply most of the groundwater pumped for the nation’s drinking water, irrigation, and other uses. A series of new USGS reports highlight how geology, hydrology, geochemistry, and chemical use affect the concentrations of individual contaminants in groundwater. Regional summaries of where and why groundwater is vulnerable to contamination now are available. The report that includes the Texas Gulf Coast can be found at:

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17 Jan, 2015
By AIPG-TX News

The Wise Report

During the mid-1990s, the Institute of Environmental Technology (IET), consisting of associates of the Environmental Litigation Associates (ELA) and other senior environmental professionals in the Houston area, taught a 4-month program designed to cross-train professional refugees from a depressed oil and gas industry for the purpose of finding employment in an expanding environmental industry. Over more than 5 years, some 400 geologists, engineers, and other professionals graduated from that program, most of whom found meaningful professional employment.

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17 Jan, 2015
By AIPG-TX News

The Wise Report

The EPA is proposing new rules for in situ mining. A number of states, including Texas, already have many or all of these rules in place. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy signed a draft of the proposed rules on Dec. 31. A 90-day public-comment period on the new “Health and Environmental Protection Standards for Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings” opens when the final draft is published in the Federal Register. The publication date is uncertain.

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17 Dec, 2014
By AIPG-TX News

IET Guide to Growth Faulting and Subsidence

http://ela-iet.com/HouFaultGuideDecember2014.pdf

During the mid-1990s, the Institute of Environmental Technology (IET), consisting of associates of the Environmental Litigation Associates (ELA) and other senior environmental professionals in the Houston area, taught a 4-month program designed to cross-train professional refugees from a depressed oil and gas industry for the purpose of finding employment in an expanding environmental industry. Over more than 5 years, some 400 geologists, engineers, and other professionals graduated from that program, most of whom found professional employment. One of the objectives of the IET program was to provide continuing support after graduation. The Guide released today is the result of more than 10 years of research and discussions on the subject of interest to those in the Houston area and elsewhere in the U.S.

Because the current President of the Texas Section of the AIPG (Henry Wise) and the VP – East Texas (Michael Campbell) played a significant role in the generation of this Guide, they are making the Guide available through this venue to members of the AIPG in Texas and elsewhere in the U.S. as part of the benefits of membership to the AIPG.

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