Clean Harbors gets conservation award

Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. said today it has received a conservation award for helping restore a Louisiana wildlife refuge damaged by hurricanes in 2005.

Headquartered in Norwell, Clean Harbors is provider of environmental and hazardous waste management services throughout North America.

The company said it received an award from the US Fish and Wildlife Service for helping to restore the Sabine National Wildlife Refuge, which was damaged by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.

Using equipment such as marsh draglines, marsh buggies, jib crane airboats, and pontoon barges, Clean Harbors said its crews collected items that ranged from 55-gallon drums to 20,000-gallon oil production tanks, and 30,000-gallon oilfield storage tanks.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)