Cement News tagged under: Environmental
Carbon Credits to float?27 March 2006, Published under Cement NewsCarbon Credits International is expected to float onto the UK AIM market within the next two months at around 45p and some analysts believe the company has potential to offer significant capital growth to investors over the medium term. Recent interest in green investment has seen a rise in the number of green funds looking for ethical, environmentally friendly companies to back. The ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in February 2005 has forced all major polluting companies to factor carbo... |
Fear over incinerator trial at cement works24 March 2006, Published under Cement NewsCampaigners fear Cemex’s UK Barrington cement works could be earmarked as a waste incineration site. Cemex UK Operations, owner of the works, announced earlier this month it was suspending an application to build the new plant at its site because of "uncertainty over the future of CO2 strategy in the UK." But now environmental campaigners fear the site faces a new threat. In July, Cemex will start a trial burning Climafuel, made from cardboard and plastic packaging waste, and environmental ... |
Terminal traffic fears23 March 2006, Published under Cement NewsAn extra 21,000 trips by heavily loaded trucks will be added to already congested roads around the Anzac Bridge each year if plans for a new cement terminal at White Bay are approved. The proposed A$32million terminal at White Bay wharf in Balmain, Sydney, Australia would distribute 500,000t of dry cement and would operate 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. The planned facility includes a 30m-tall, 40,000t dome to hold the cement, a warehouse for extra storage and six silos to load ... |
Dunbar emissions control22 March 2006, Published under Cement NewsScottish Dunbar cement works has passed a milestone in its GBP 20m programme to reduce emissions and improve environmental performance. A pre-cyclone system has been commissioned at Lafarge Cement UK’s Dunbar works, which will reduce dust emissions below stringent new limits introduced last December in the European Union’s Waste Incineration Directive. The system is the first phase of a larger project to install a gas scrubbing system to cut the plant’s sulphur dioxide emissions. |
Deal with cement plant vexes environmentalists20 March 2006, Published under Cement NewsAn environmental group says it’s disappointed with a Laramie cement plant’s progress in replacing pollution controls despite an agreement last October that settled a federal air-quality lawsuit. The Biodiversity Conservation Alliance and Mountain Cement have not yet finalized a settlement agreement agreed to in principle nearly six months ago. Under the agreement, Mountain Cement was to reduce emissions from the plant by installing a baghouse on one of its two kilns within 18 months of a fi... |
Factory dioxin levels illegal, UK17 March 2006, Published under Cement NewsDioxin emissions from a North Wales cement factory were above legal limits, magistrates were told yesterday. Castle Cement, which operates a plant at Padeswood, near Mold, Flintshire, admitted nine charges brought by Environment Agency Wales. Details of the prosecution case were not presented to the court yesterday. At Flintshire magistrates’ court, Brian Greenwood, defending, said he was authorised to enter guilty pleas on behalf of the company. Magistrate Lady Janet Jones said a two-hour s... |
Using old tyres for fuel will benefit environment16 March 2006, Published under Cement NewsThe environment will benefit from a government decision to allow Holcim to use alternative fuels at its cement plant outside Kimberley, South Africa, the company said on Wednesday. Holcim Alternative Fuels manager Johan Schoonraad said replacing traditional fossil fuels such as coal with chemically similar waste materials such as tyres, rubber, paper sludge, plastics, solvents, industrial tars and sludge is common practice throughout the world. "Appropriate waste streams will significantly ... |
Holcim Apasco provides 140 Houses16 March 2006, Published under Cement NewsHolcim Apasco and Mexican fund Provivah provided 140 houses to Veracruz, southern Mexico, under their common social programme, Holcim Apasco said on March 15, 2006. The price of each house stands at between 75,000 Mexican pesos (US$7,000) and 80,000 pesos (US$7500) according to Holcim Apasco. The local government of the state of Veracruz donated the land, where the houses were build, while Provivah covered the majority of the expenses for the construction. The families, who will live in the... |
Dramatic growth in carbon market in 200516 March 2006, Published under Cement NewsSome Euro 9.4bn worth of carbon was traded on the international market last year, up from an estimated euro 377m in 2004, according to a new report. Carbon 2006, from Norwegian consultancy and analysis company Point Carbon, found that around 362Mt of carbon dioxide (CO2) were traded in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme last year, and contracts were signed for reductions of 397Mt of CO2e from Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects. The figures for 2004 were 17Mt and 188Mt respectively. "Ca... |
Tyre-burning plant plan submitted for approval09 March 2006, Published under Cement NewsThe US State Department of Environmental Conservation has released a 92-page document answering public comments on the Lafarge Building Materials proposal to burn old tyres to fire its Ravenna cement plant across the Hudson from northern Columbia and southern Rensselaer counties. The entire application, which includes a draft permit and the public comments, were sent to the federal Environmental Protection on Feb. 23, according to DEC spokesman Rick Georgeson. The EPA will give the plan a fi... |