AN EXAMPLE: A contractor on a large underwater construction job was using Green Oil Company's readily biodegradable hydraulic fluids on a tunnel micro-boring machine. The project involved the construction of a water inlet and pumping station in Rye Lake, Westchester County, New York. This lake forms a portion of the Kensico Reservoir System, which itself is a key part of the New York City water supply system.

The contractor saw fit to use these readily biodegradable fluids for this job as protection against their anticipation of a possible oil spill. One reason was that the area seemed always to be full of inspectors who had a reputation for giving fines for oil spills.

That unlikely event actually did happen on the above referred to job, and it occurred through an accident that caused a large oil slick to appear on the lake.

Initially, after easily tracing the spill to its source, the City inspectors threatened the contractor with a stiff fine in the several tens of thousands of dollars and a possible jail term to go with the citation. This was due to the seriousness of the spill and the expected amount of the fine. Fortunately, the whole problem immediately disappeared, due the contractor's clever use of GREENOCO's biodegradable hydraulic lubricant.

ANOTHER POTENTIAL EXAMPLE: GREENOCO's hydraulic fluids is applicable for the hydraulic elevator market. The reason is that the steel casings in the ground and the cylinders within them that create the pressures to lift the elevator are under up to 500 pounds of pressure, and thousands of them leak as a result of electric currents in the ground that destroy the steel casings, or from seals in the cylinder joints. GREENOCO learned that recently a New York based elevator maintenance and installation company found that its client, the US Merchant Marine Academy demanded $14,000 to clean up a ‘mere minor leak' at its facility. Note that each cylinder holds as much as 200 gallons of hydraulic fluid; and that there is additional oil used to reduce the impact of falling counterweights, known as car and counterweight buffer oil.

While there are different risks associated with each of the industries noted, they all have in common the opportunity of mitigating these risks by utilizing a fluid that readily biodegrades, is free of petroleum, and is toxicologically safe.