Cement News tagged under: environmental
Cemex develops new concrete12 April 2006, Published under Cement NewsCemex has presented a new water-permeable concrete called Acuicreto, which allows water to filter through to urban aquifers, local press reported. "It is a permeable and ecological concrete because it allows filtration of water into the subsoil, minimizing the rainwater runoff that causes flooding and ponding, with the latter being a source of contamination due to the waste carried [in the water]," Cemex executive Romero Esquinca was quoted as saying by daily Milenio. The new product too... |
Cemex plant under a cloud10 April 2006, Published under Cement NewsA group of activists say they will know in a few weeks whether the dust covering car hoods and tabletops at homes near the Cemex cement plant in Lyons, Colorado, comes from the facility or other sources. Members of the Colorado Citizens Campaign, an environmentalist group urging Cemex to curb pollution from its Lyons plant, spent the week collecting dust samples with cotton swabs at homes within a half-mile of the facility. The group enlisted Denny Larson, director of San Francisco-based G... |
Lafarge announces new CDM projects10 April 2006, Published under Cement NewsLafarge reports that its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project which substitutes alternative, biomass energy sources for fossil fuels in two of its cement plants in Malaysia, has been validated by the CDM Executive Board, in line with the framework established by the Kyoto Protocol. Registered on April 7, 2006, the CDM project was approved by Malaysian and French authorities. It is the first CDM project of its kind to be registered by the cement industry. It is also the second CDM proj... |
EPA faces environmental challenge06 April 2006, Published under Cement NewsActivists plan to sue the US EPA over a rare decision to invalidate a final air toxics standard for particulate matter (PM) emissions from cement kilns in favor of a less stringent rule. The EPA on March 23 issued an administrative stay of its maximum achievable control technology (MACT) standard for new cement kilns that burn hazardous waste, after receiving an industry petition that argued the standard was overly stringent. EPA on the same day issued a proposal for a standard that include... |
Plan to burn tyres and trash raises worries06 April 2006, Published under Cement NewsA proposal to burn tyres at an eastern Ontario cement plant to create fuel is a safe one, company executives say, but environmentalists call it a hazardous idea that would poison the air over both Canada and the United States. The Sierra Legal Defence Fund is accusing the provincial government of refusing to launch a full environmental assessment of the proposal by Lafarge Canada, a subsidiary of the world’s biggest cement producer, to burn waste at its cement plant in Bath, Ontario, near K... |
St Lawrence Cement Group – case dismissed04 April 2006, Published under Cement NewsSt. Lawrence Cement Group is pleased to announce that the pending federal court litigation in Camden, New Jersey, involving the company’s GranCem(TM) grinding facility has been dismissed. The federal litigation was originally filed in February 2001 by South Camden Citizens in Action (SCCIA) against the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). SCCIA claimed among other things, that the NJDEP intentionally discriminated against minority residents of the Waterfront South Camd... |
Cement firm fined over emissions03 April 2006, Published under Cement NewsCastle’s Padeswood works has been fined UK£99,000 after admitting nine offences, including releasing more than the permitted amount of dioxins. Flintshire magistrates also told Castle Cement to pay £9300 costs over its plant at Padeswood, near Mold. The Environment Agency brought the case over old kilns, which are no longer in use after investment in new ones. The firm said there were problems with monitoring, but it was not convinced that the emission figures were correct. The offenc... |
China needs plan to meet energy targets31 March 2006, Published under Cement NewsChina’s government must produce firm plans to curb energy demand growth and pollution emissions before oil markets can judge how serious the country is about meeting its targets, Credit Suisse said in a report on Wednesday. In a text of its conference call on China, CS said China’s target to cut the energy intensity of the economy by 20 per cent over five years and pollution emissions by 10 per cent, represented a 4 per cent-plus annual reduction in energy demand growth versus Gross National... |
Top builders to join with WBCSD30 March 2006, Published under Cement NewsThe World Business Council for Sustainable Development announced today that it is forming an alliance of leading global companies to determine how buildings can be designed and constructed so that they use no energy from external power grids, are carbon neutral, and can be built and operated at fair market values. The industry effort is led by United Technologies Corp, the world’s largest supplier of capital goods including elevators, cooling/heating and on-site power systems to the commer... |
Municipal Waste Bound for Kingston30 March 2006, Published under Cement NewsLafarge Canada has applied for approvals to burn waste from Ontario, Quebec, and eight US states at its cement plant in Bath. This proposal has activists worried. "The Bath Alternative Fuel project is not as straightforward as it seems. This could inadvertently determine waste management policies across Ontario and set us back decades in the fight to restore Lake Ontario," warns Waterkeeper and environmental lawyer Mark Mattson. |