Solutions you can trust for RADIOACTIVE WASTE Chad Hyslop Director of Sales & Marketing International Programs Manager (208) 319-1604 April 2015
US Ecology Overview Founded in 1952 and headquartered in Boise, ID, USA Publicly traded company (NASDAQ Ticker: ECOL) Owns & operates hazardous and radioactive waste treatment, storage & disposal facilities Six (6) hazardous, PCB, and radioactive materials disposal facilities Thirteen (13) hazardous materials treatment centers ~2,000 employees in Canada, Mexico and the United States $615 million revenue & $120 million EBITDA (combined 2014 pro-forma) 2
US Ecology Washington Class A, B & C LLRW US Ecology Idaho Low-Activity Radioactive US Ecology Nevada TENORM Stablex (Quebec) Low-Activity Radioactive US Ecology Michigan TENORM US Ecology Texas TENORM Landfills Treatment and service centers Treatment and Disposal Services Industrial and hazardous wastes Radioactive wastes Mobile solvent recycling Organic chemical recycling Thermal recycling Aircraft deicing fluid recycling Metals recovery and recycling 3 3
US Shale regions US Ecology Washington Class A, B & C LLRW US Ecology Michigan TENORM Stablex (Quebec) Low Activity Radioactive US Ecology Idaho Low-Activity Radioactive US Ecology Texas TENORM
Sampling of Radioactive Waste Customers Tulita, NWT Ft Saint John, BC Ft Saskatchewan & Wainwright, AB Nisku, AB Calgary, AB Sept Iles, QC Albany, OR Blind River, ON Toronto, ON Williston, ND Tonawanda, Buffalo & Colonie, NY Port Hope, ON Eureka, CA Hunter s Pt, CA McClellan AFB, CA Tulsa, OK Chicago, IL New Haven, IN Denver, CO St. Louis, MO Wayne, Middlesex, Camden & Glen Ridge, NJ Jewett, TX Taft & Plaquemine, LA Jacksonville, FL 5
Filter Socks Radium 30-200 pci/g Very light 6
ND: 5-25 pci/g PA: 100s of pci/g Filtercake 7
Pipe, Tubulars, Valves Radium scale showing up more frequently as systems age 8
Trees & Tubulars Customers consider cleaning economics and liability vs disposal; value of item matters 9
Large Debris Tanks Heater-treaters Interior surfaces make cleaning difficult Oversize items 10
Pb-210 in Natural Gas Pb-210 common in natural gas systems & filters; hard to detect because no gamma 11
12 Canadian Federal Government Cleanup
Canadian Government (cont.) Uranium Ore contamination Services: Railcar Loading All transport logistics Rail shipment Customs export / import Take Title at customer location 13
Canadian Oil & Gas Company Radium filters and soil Bags to gondola railcars Services: Rail transport Customs export / import 15
Canadian Oil & Gas Company Radium filter socks and contaminated soil Services: All logistics Rail transport Customs export / import 17
18 US Ecology Idaho
US Ecology Idaho Hazardous Waste Low-Activity Radioactive Waste Consistent with VLLW facilities in France, other European countries State regulated Foreign waste allowed 19
8 Million Tons Disposed 2000-2014 55% 4,400,000 Non- Rad 3,600,000 Radioactive 45% 20
Safety & Compliance OSHA Voluntary Protection Program Cooperative relationship between management, labor & OSHA Star status achieved Very strong compliance record companywide 21 21
Radiological Program Tailored from Washington LLRW program Administered from US Ecology corporate office Training (Radiation principles, instrumentation, surveys, compliance) Personnel monitoring Contamination surveys Quality Assurance Programs Environmental Monitoring Air, Radon, Groundwater, Soil, Leachate Corporate RSO Audit Regulators independently audit & monitor 22
Idaho Waste Acceptance Criteria Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material Ra-226 + Ra-228 <1,500 pci/g (55 Bq/g) Pb-210 <1,500 pci/g (55 Bq/g) Uranium & Thorium waste <0.05% by weight (500 ppm) Uranium ore at higher concentrations Other material on case-by-case basis as specified in facility Waste Acceptance Criteria 23
24 New Landfill 10,000,000 yd 3
25 Current
26 Triple-Lined Disposal Cells
RCRA Treatment Capabilities RCRA Treatment Permits Hazardous Metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, etc.) Hazardous organics (benzene, toluene, etc.) up to 500 ppm VOCs Acids, cyanides, asbestos, etc. Debris encapsulation (VOC or metals contaminated) TSCA permits (PCBs) Full TSCA processing permit (transformers, capacitors) Bulk material such as oil spills, PCB paint, etc. Bulk, containerized, lab packs, etc. 27
Transportation Services USE transports hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous and radioactive waste each year Primarily to and from Canada, the US and Mexico Hundreds of imports into the United States Company-owned railcar and truck fleet 28
Summary TENORM pervasive in oil and gas industry Secure disposal important Changing regulatory environment Liability protection for those in the business for the long run US Ecology offers a proven solution 29
Questions? Chad Hyslop, Director of Sales West (208) 319-1604 Chad.Hyslop@usecology.com 30