Cement News tagged under: Environmental
Titan plant review moves forward, US28 January 2009, Published under Cement NewsThe Army Corps of Engineers review of Titan America’s proposed cement plant will kick into gear next week when an advisory group meets in Wilmington. The group, consisting of government agencies and interested environmental and business groups, will meet Feb. 5 at the Hampton Inn off Old Eastwood Road. That body will provide feedback to aid the Corps, which is developing a document that will disclose how Titan’s project would affect the environment and evaluate a range of alternatives. The... |
Lost time incidents drop 70 per cent27 January 2009, Published under Cement NewsLost time incidents have dropped by 70 per cent in the British cement industry over the past five years, reports Construction News. New figures released by the British Cement Association have revealed a continued downward trend in incidents on the sites of the sector’s big four – Castle Cement, Cemex, Tarmac and Lafarge. In 2003, there were 101 incidents which caused working hours to be lost. That figure fell to 31 last year. Cemex, however, was devastated by a death on one of its sites ... |
MP Ekanya to Sue Tororo Cement26 January 2009, Published under Cement NewsArrangements for filing a civil suit against Tororo Cement Industry over depletion of the environment have been concluded. Tororo county MP Geoffrey Ekanya said the National Environment Management Authority’s (NEMA) negligence and the reluctance by the management of the factory warranted him to seek legal redress. "For the last 15 years, the factory management has tormented the community and no action has been taken against them," Ekanya told The New Vision in Tororo town. He said he had ... |
Cemex aims to cut energy costs with new wind park23 January 2009, Published under Cement NewsCemex inaugurated on Thursday a wind park in southern Mexico in a bid to cut energy costs by 10 per cent and depend less on volatile prices from other electricity providers. Cemex said it developed the 250MW EURUS wind power generation park in a venture with Spanish builder Acciona. The park is located in the state of Oaxaca, where other companies have taken advantage of extremely windy regions to install generators for wind power. Acciona is investing US$550m in the EURUS project while C... |
US to crack down on air pollution21 January 2009, Published under Cement NewsThe US Environmental Protection Agency has caved in to pressure from eight states and a coalition of environmental groups, and will tighten regulations of air pollution from cement plants, according to a story in today’s Albany Times-Union (which reports on the goings-on at several big cement plants in the vicinity of this writer’s home in New York’s Hudson Valley). The EPA acknowledged that in drawing up new regulations for cement kilns, it didn’t adhere to Clean Air Act mandates that it r... |
New York set standards for cement plants19 January 2009, Published under Cement NewsFederal regulators have agreed to set standards for mercury emissions from cement plants under a legal settlement with activists and nine states, including New York. The deal comes after a decade of wrangling over air pollution from 106 cement plants around the nation. They annually generate nearly 23,000 pounds of airborne mercury, according to Earthjustice, an environmental law firm. EPA actually issued mercury regulations for cement plants three years ago, but they applied only to kilns... |
Gangsu province cleans up, China08 January 2009, Published under Cement NewsNorthwest China’s Gansu province aims to eliminate 3.75Mt of obsolete capacity in 2009 to fulfill the targets of energy conservation and emissions reduction. As per report, the province will further step up efforts in eliminating backward highly polluting and energy and resource intensive capacity in the new year, trying to weed out 3.75Mt inefficient iron smelting, steel making, ferroalloy, calcium carbide, cement and paper making capacity. In the mean time, market withdrawal mechanism sh... |
Test results released on Cemex plant08 January 2009, Published under Cement NewsTest results are finally in on the quality of air in Davenport, just north of Santa Cruz. Summer tests revealed unsafe levels of a toxic chemical coming from a cement making plant called Cemex. But new tests show that levels are down but air quality tests will continue as long as the Cemex plant operates. Its been a stressful few months in Davenport. "Everyone was hoping for a conclusion to this long drawn out process," said Noel Bock, Chair of the Davenport North Coast Association. Residen... |
Ravena plant state’s No. 2 mercury source07 January 2009, Published under Cement NewsThe Lafarge cement plant is second only to the state’s largest coal-fired power plant in emitting mercury pollution, according to a company study issued Monday to the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The study also found that more than half the estimated 146 pounds of mercury a year from the Route 9W plant comes from local limestone used to produce cement. The report suggests most of the remaining mercury came either from coal used to fuel Lafarge’s two high-temperature c... |
EPA sues Cemex07 January 2009, Published under Cement NewsA Lyons cement plant failed to install the best pollution controls while tainting Boulder County’s air for possibly more than a decade, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In the action filed in U.S. District Court in Denver, the EPA alleges that Cemex Inc., which produces Portland cement at its Lyons facility, committed several federal violations since early 1997 after it made plant modifications to improve production. The EPA says those improv... |