Cement News tagged under: Environmental
Environment Agency allows Castle Cement trial burning of MBM06 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsThe Environment Agency has confirmed that Castle Cement will be allowed to carry out a trail burning of meat and bonemeal (MBM) at its Ribblesdale works in Clitheroe, Lancashire, UK. The six-month trial will see MBM used to provide up to 50 per cent of the heat required for the cement making process. During the trial Castle Cement will still continue to burn coal, chipped tyres and substitute fuel, Cemfuel. During the trials, Castle will have to carry out a rigorous programme of emissi... |
Russian approval for Kyoto Protocol04 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsThe Russian Cabinet endorsed the Kyoto Protocol last week, making international implementation of one of the most far-reaching and controversial environmental initiatives a near certainty.The decision puts an end to months of heated domestic debate over the international treaty that aims to curb climate change by limiting greenhouse gases. The European Union has been pushing Moscow to commit to the protocol. The fate of the protocol has hinged on Russian approval. In the absence of suppor... |
Rugby Cement takeover fears01 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsLocal protesters are up in arms over news that a Mexican company which was fined more than a quarter of a million dollars for breaching air quality laws are to take over Rugby Cement. Bosses at RMC, which owns Rugby Cement, announced this week that they had accepted a takeover bid from Cemex. But members of pollution protest group Rugby In Plume, which has campaigned for years about dangerous chemicals produced at the site, are furious after discovering the company was slapped with a heft... |
Questions over the Dragon01 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsA US-Maine neighborhood group promises "consistent, persistent" effort to prod cement manufacturer Dragon Products on environmental issues, and it drew some 100 people to its first community meeting. "We don’t want to shut down Dragon," said Greg Marley of Rockland at a public gathering of Neighbors for a Safe Dragon on Tuesday night at Watts Hall. The session linked environmental and health concerns to alleged pollution from Dragon’s Route 1 plant. Marley said it will take a "consistent... |
Holcim clears hurdle in effort to build cement plant01 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsHolcim US operations has cleared another hurdle in its effort to build a $600 million cement plant in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. The US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri ruled Wednesday in favour of the company and the US Army Corps of Engineers in a suit regarding a permit for a harbor and a fleeting area filed by several environmental groups. In the decision, the judge noted that the Corps studied the relevant areas of environmental concern and made convincing state... |
Enviromental stock watch01 October 2004, Published under Cement NewsConventional wisdom says that US environmental stocks will suffer if President Bush is re-elected. But US company Headwaters should prosper however the election turns out, say specialist US analysts. Environmentalists love to hate coal-burning power plants, which spew all sorts of pollutants into the air. However, Headwaters recycles the ash and reportedly commands about half the US market for fly ash and other recyclable coal by-products and gets about 26% of its revenue by selling bulk ash... |
Ontario tyre burn proposals28 September 2004, Published under Cement NewsOntario tyre burn proposals Ontario industries could be burning old tyres for fuel and throwing more pollution into the air under a new proposal being considered at the environment ministry, warns the Toronto Environmental Alliance. The tyre-burning plan — buried deep in a report to the government agency Waste Diversion Ontario — calls for motorists to pay a C$4 fee when they buy a tyre. The money would go to incentives for recycling, re-using or burning old tyres. The plan... |
Committee meet on Dundee construction16 September 2004, Published under Cement NewsA Dundee cement manufacturer has begun putting together the additional equipment needed so it can burn a number of industrial wastes and sludges within the next six months. Holcim, Inc. began construction on a number of storage tanks around the Day Road plant last week, plant environmental manager Tim Schlosser said to reporters from the Toledo Blade Meanwhile, the ad-hoc Holcim Community Advisory Committee, a citizens’ group that meets regularly with plant officials to discuss concerns, wil... |
Closure of stone crushers in RAK15 September 2004, Published under Cement NewsRAS AL KHAIMAH — The RAK Environment Protection and Industrial Development Commission (EPIDC) has ordered the closure of two rock crushers after they were found not conforming to environment-friendly standards set by the governmental body. The two facilities, located at Wadi Asfeni, were found being operated without covering their production units in violation of the rules laid down by the EPIDC. The construction materials industry is considered to be the main economic activity in RAK and th... |
Day-long fire at Dragon14 September 2004, Published under Cement NewsAn industrial fire that broke out Sunday at Dragon Cement’s plant on Route 1 in Thomaston burned for much of the day before firefighters returned to their stations. Thomaston and Rockland fire departments responded to the fire that started in a coal bin inside the cement manufacturing plant, according to Thomaston Fire Chief Michael Leo. Leo said large dust collector bags hanging inside the coal bin dropped onto motors, which ignited the bags. Smoke and fire began to spread back through ... |