Cement News tagged under: environmental
Castle’s help for green group09 February 2006, Published under Cement NewsCastle Cement has donated the use of offices within its Ribblesdale site, on the edge of Clitheroe, to the Ribble Catchment Conservation Trust. Since the Trust was established eight years ago, Castle Cement has donated hundreds of tonnes of stone to help stop the erosion of riverbanks along the rivers Ribble, Calder and Hodder. Now the company has stepped in to help the Trust with its growth plans by offering free use of a semi-redundant office block within its Ribblesdale works. Trust ... |
Tyre-burning to re-start?03 February 2006, Published under Cement NewsManagers at Rugby Cement, now part of Cemex, are confident tyre-burning will start again very soon on a permanent basis. The plant has just completed its trials into the controversial method, which protesters claim causes dangerous emissions to be pumped out over the town. But Mexican owners Cemex, who took over the plant last March, has always denied the claim and said its annual figures showing a record-breaking year in 2005 shows that Rugby Cement is improving its environmental performan... |
Investment cements plant’s future in Laramie03 February 2006, Published under Cement NewsMountain Cement’s Kiln No. 1 makes cement at a prodigious 576t per day. The larger by Kiln No. 2 fires its way to 1345t of cement every day. However, both kilns are being eliminated in favor of a single smaller, but far more productive, US$120m replacement increasing cement production by 60 per cent. Construction is scheduled to begin in spring 2007 and will be completed in fall 2008, a spokesman said. Mountain Cement’s parent company, Texas-based Eagle Materials, is also upgrading its Nev... |
Activists ask Cemex to clean up31 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsAn environmental watchdog group that successfully challenged a proposal to exempt the oil and gas industry from water-quality regulations last year is shifting its focus to the maligned Cemex cement plant in Lyons, colorado (reports The Daily Times). Denver-based Colorado Citizens Campaign wants the cement company to adopt more stringent pollution controls at its plant and is knocking on doors in the area to ask for help. The plant’s neighbors have questioned Cemex’s pollution-control pract... |
Cement plant dispute unresolved30 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsAfter three months, the settlement between Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, the Sierra Club and Mountain Cement that all parties agreed to in court still hasn’t been finalised. The environmental groups alleged that the cement plant repeatedly violated its emissions permit, and the settlement was agreed to midtrial. In part, the settlement requires Mountain Cement to reduce emissions by replacing the electrostatic precipitator on kiln No. 2 with a more efficient baghouse within 18 month... |
DEP to hold public hearing on cement plant permitting27 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsThe Florida Department of Environmental Protection has scheduled a routine public hearing in Branford Tuesday, Jan. 31 from 6 - 8 p.m. at Hatch Park Community Center to hear comments on DEP’s intent to issue a draft air construction permit to Suwannee American Cement (SAC). DEP ran a public notice regarding the public hearing in the Nov. 16, 2005 Suwannee Democrat but no petitions for administrative hearings or extension of time to petition for an administrative hearing were filed. This p... |
Lafarge tyre protest Seattle26 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsSouth Seattle community members were united at a public hearing Tuesday night over concerns about plans to allow a cement company to burn whole tyres in its kiln on a trial basis. The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency is considering granting a permit to Lafarge North America Inc. that would temporarily sanction tire burning beginning this spring. Almost three dozen people showed up at the South Park hearing. Lafarge has few fans in the community, which - along with the government - blames it for ... |
Green cement claim on CO2 bias26 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsThe Minister for the Environment has sought legal advice on how the EU carbon emissions trading scheme is being applied to the cement sector, on foot of a complaint that it discriminates against the State’s only producer of "green" cement. In a letter to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Environment, Dick Roche said it would therefore be "inappropriate" for him to comment on issues raised in a hearing last week attended by representatives of Ecocem Ltd and the Cement Manufacturers Associ... |
US activists to testify against cement kiln pollution25 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsRaleigh, North Carolina: Activists from across the country have gathered to protest the Environmental Protection Agency’s refusal to set limits on mercury pollution from cement makers. EPA has never regulated mercury from cement kilns, and nearly a dozen citizens are organizing to deliver a message on behalf of communities exposed to toxic pollution from these cement kilns that EPA must protect their health, livelihood and the environment (reports the EarthJustice website). EPA decided to... |
Quarry growth bad for Niagara escarpment24 January 2006, Published under Cement NewsMilton Quarry, operated by Dufferin Aggregates, part of St. Lawrence Cement, the largest active quarry in Canada at 468 hectares is causing local environmentalists some concern. Now, the company wants a licence to quarry another 83 hectares (205 acres) of this precious natural corridor to gain about ten years of quarrying. Protecting the escarpment has come full circle, for it was the blasting of a huge hole in the cliff face here in 1962 that ignited the first public outcry about saving the... |