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21 Restoring the environment Working with communities and regulators, ExxonMobil Environmental Services is a committed leader in remediating and restoring properties around the world. In the Southeastern United States, land and groundwater contaminated by chemicals associated with the fertilizer business of the late-19th to mid-20th centuries are being restored for productive residential, commercial and industrial use. On Germany’s picturesque Elbe River, the city of Wedel can complete a major piece of its master plan with acquisition of acreage that once held one of the oldest refineries in Germany, substantially damaged in World War II and rebuilt by an ExxonMobil affiliate in the 1950s. In East Baltimore, Maryland, residents will have closer access to department stores and other shopping, thanks to redevelopment of property that once contained an ExxonMobil refinery and products terminal. Protect, enhance, create ExxonMobil Environmental Services (EMES) stewards these and other environmental remediation and restoration projects around the world. ExxonMobil formed EMES in late 2007 to provide a global functional organization to remediate soil and groundwater at ExxonMobil affiliate facilities, inactive properties and formerly owned sites globally. EMES also provides support for new business-development opportunities. Tom Aruta (left), EMES Baltimore project manager, and Kurt Fischer (right), EMES area manager, brief Christopher Ralston, administrator for the Maryland Department of the Environment’s Oil Control Program, on progress at the Baltimore Refinery remediation site. The refinery and products terminal closed in 1998. Story by Mike Long Photography by Janice Rubin “ExxonMobil had previously carried out remediation activities within individual business lines,” says EMES Manager Andy Wescoat. “But we increasingly saw the value of having all of our scientific, managerial, legal and community affairs talent focused in one organization and working together under a global framework. “Today, we have a systematic approach to leverage our best practices around the world and to build our credentials as a partner of choice in delivering environmental services.” Wescoat explains that the mission of EMES is to protect, enhance and create. “We protect the environment, health and safety of our employees, contractors and neighbors through proactive remediation, reclamation and site management. We enhance the value of ExxonMobil’s assets by helping to prevent, mitigate or contain contamination. And we create beneficial re-use of idle and formerly owned properties.” EMES pursues its environmental stewardship mission with nearly 300 employees working with about 60 environmental consulting firms. Since its establishment, EMES has devoted more than 28 million work hours to remediation and restoration activities in nearly 50 countries. This includes the disposition of some 430 sites restored for beneficial reuse over the same period.
Ken Mallary (second from right), EPA Region 4 remedial project manager, inspects restoration work at a former Virginia Carolina Chemical Corporation site near Charleston, South Carolina, with (from left) William Anckner, a consultant with Arcadis, and EMES’ Bruce Frink, project manager, and Robert Jackmore, area manager. 22
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