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The Ground Truth · August 26, 2026
By
, CEO & Co-Founder
August 26, 2026
Newsletter · Published monthly on LinkedIn
I’ve spent a lot of time on the road lately, meeting with clients and partners across North America.
The most interesting development happened right here at home. Nelson participated in NATO Science and Technology Organization PFAS test-bed work at our Acheson headquarters. The program evaluates thermal treatment under controlled conditions. It was a humbling personal experience and a very proud moment for Nelson as a company.
It was also a reminder of how much environmental remediation continues to change.
The problems are more complex and more urgent than ever. Expectations are also higher as new contaminants receive more widespread attention. On YouTube now, nearly every day there are new vlogs and videos on the health problems caused by PFAS, as an example, or by some climate or environmental disaster. Overall, people are just much more aware of the effects of what’s in the earth, water and air around them, and what affects their way of life and livelihoods.
Everyone thinks about the future. Especially those of us who have children. We wonder what the world will be like for them. We all hope it’s a better one.
There’s never been a more consequential time to be in the remediation business. People want to understand what can be done to meet contamination problems head on. And clients are more informed than ever, hungry for real information that can help them evaluate what to do next.
As we progress into the future, what we do about the environment is rapidly evolving. Nelson is changing with the environment to address challenges and give customers, decision-makers, and even everyday people better tools for understanding what’s possible to address today’s contamination challenges.
We have been expanding our team to handle new opportunities and strengthening our capabilities across the business. At the same time, we’ve been thinking about how we can make more than 30 years of experience more useful to people. For many years our expertise lived in our heads, or in an RFP response. That changed this year as we started to create a library of knowledge on our website to share with anyone trying to understand the lay of the land in remediation, recycling, and recovery today.
Over the years, Nelson has accumulated a tremendous amount of knowledge.
Some of it comes from our own projects. Some comes from independent research into our technologies and their long-term outcomes. Some comes from testing, engineering and solving unusual problems in the field.
By August 2026, we had been building a library of technical backgrounds, research findings, opinion pieces and company news since the new website launched in May. The library continues to grow.
Over the coming months, we’ll continue adding new project backgrounds, articles, research and technical resources to nelsonremediation.com. As new findings from testing and research become available, we’ll share those too.
Our hope is that what we publish helps those looking for information that’s relatively hard to get from one trusted place. We prefer proof over promotions in everything we do, so I hope you find our growing library founded on ground truths useful.
Part of the knowledge expansion we’re pursuing is developing new interactive tools that will make it easier to understand our technologies, how different remediation systems work together, and find useful industry data aggregated to one easy to search place. We are currently building new walkthroughs that help people understand the operational flow of our systems in more interesting ways. And we are working on a strategy to bring remediation across North America into focus.
The ultimate goal is to make useful information easier to find, and complex subjects easier to understand.
Environmental remediation can become complicated quickly. Someone researching a contaminant, evaluating a technology or considering options for a particular site shouldn’t have to search through dozens of pages to find something relevant.
We want the Nelson website experience to increasingly evolve as a resource, whether someone is actively considering a project or simply trying to better understand a remediation problem close to home.
That means better ways to navigate our growing knowledge base, explore our capabilities, and connect questions with useful information.
There is more to come.
The conversations I’ve been having across North America reinforce how much opportunity exists for Nelson. And how many more challenges we face.
We’re seeing even more interest in established applications of our technology, as well as new environmental problems that require different ways of doing things.
Technology will continue to change. Regulations will change. The environmental challenges facing industry, governments, and communities will change.
Our responsibility doesn’t change. It’s the one constant.
Our responsibility is to deliver the agreed remediation outcome and a verification record that supports decisions about the land or water after our work is complete.
That’s been core to our mission for over three decades.
And it will be our mission three decades from now. Because tomorrow matters.
I invite you to explore our growing library of resources and join this newsletter on LinkedIn. If you would like us to develop an article on a topic, send the team a question through our contact page, or leave your suggestions on the original LinkedIn article. I look forward to reading your ideas.
I look forward to reading your ideas.
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