Cement News tagged under: Environmental
UK – Environment Agency seeks views substitute fuel regulations29 March 2004, Published under Cement NewsThe UK Environment Agency has launched a consultation to seek views on proposed revisions to the way it regulates the use of substitute fuels in cement and lime production. The consultation document is the product of a review of the use of wastes as substitute fuels in cement and lime kilns worldwide, combined with evidence and experience in the UK. The Substitute Fuels Protocol as it is known details the principles and practices for substitute fuel use. The Agency is inviting commen... |
Jordan – No decision on petcoke use yet28 March 2004, Published under Cement NewsMinister of Environment Alia Bouran has denied reports that the government will allow Jordan Cement Factories Company (JCFC) to use petcoke in its cement production process. She added that the government has teamed with up with Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company to find alternative fuels that do not harm the environment or its population in the production of cement. Moreover, she pointed out that JCFC is already implementing a pollution control plan. Last February, the company earmarked J... |
USA – Public comments due for Holcim’s Ste Genevieve plan27 March 2004, Published under Cement NewsOn Monday, 30 March, local area residents will be able to comment on Holcim’s plan to build a 4.4Mt cement plant in Ste Genevieve County. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources will hold public hearings on the draft form of the company’s air pollution permit in St Louis and Ste Genevieve. When granted, the permit would enable Holcim to build its cement manufacturing works, quarry and coal preparation site on the bank of the Mississippi River. Holcim sources commented that the plant... |
China counts economic costs of water shortages26 March 2004, Published under Cement NewsWater tables are falling. Rivers run black with effluent. Cities are slowly sinking into their foundations and acid rain falls across almost a third of China’s land area. The chronic degradation of China’s environment is not new. But official alarm is growing in step with the costs that such degradation extract from the economy, raising implications for international commodity prices and Beijing’s plans for political reform. "China faces a serious problem of water shortages. This has becom... |
Plan to combat pollution rewards the ’dirty’26 March 2004, Published under Cement NewsAn Irish government scheme to combat global warming is self-defeating because it rewards "dirty firms" and encourages them to stay in business, an Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) publication claims. ESRI analyst Professor John Fitzgerald said Ireland’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gasemissions were bad policy and unnecessarily expensive. Writing in the ESRI’s Economic Quarterly, Prof Fitzgerald critically assesses the"well-intentioned but badly designed" European policy that I... |
Europe – Saving energy-intensive industry billions26 March 2004, Published under Cement NewsNext month, the European Union (EU) is expected to approve the “linking directive”, an amendment to its emissions trading scheme (ETS) that has the potential to save energy intensive industries billions of euros in carbon reduction costs. Under the amendment, EU companies would be allowed to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by means of projects in non-EU countries and use the carbon credits from those projects to trade in the CO2 market. This directive is particularly important to count... |
UK – Greenhouse gas levels still increasing26 March 2004, Published under Cement NewsAs more coal was burned in power stations and electricity imports from the continent fell, the Scotland increased its carbon emissions by 1.5 per cent between 2002 and 2003. However, UK levels remained lower than in 2001. Carbon dioxide emissions during 2003 stood at 152.5Mt, seven per cent below the 1990 benchmark. The UK is committed to lower its carbon dioxide levels by 20 per cent of this benchmark level by 2010 and by 60 per cent by 2050. |
Italcementi, CNR Join European Research Project25 March 2004, Published under Cement NewsThe technical centre of Italian cement producer and distributor Italcementi Group and the IT institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) have joined a 3.4 mln euro ($4.2 mln) European test project Photocatalytic Innovative Coverings Applications for Depollution Assessment (PICADA), it was reported on March 15, 2004. European consortia of private enterprises, research institutes and the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) run the project set to combat air pollution... |
Albania – Elbasan Cement ordered to close25 March 2004, Published under Cement NewsThe Albanian government has ordered the closure of Elbasan Cement Factory, along with two other industrial plants, due to its environmental concerns as well as fining each company ALL500,000 (US$4700). The Environment Ministry said the companies did not comply with the requirement to take environmental pollution control measures, a fact denied by the cement producer. Elbasan Cement Factory said it is currently investing US$811,000 in a filter installation for its chimney. Elbasan is ... |
Garadag cement pays fine24 March 2004, Published under Cement NewsBAKU: Garadagh Cement has paid the State Environmental Fund of Azerbaijan AzM350m, Minister for Environment and Natural Resources Hussein Baghirov informed reporters. ’The new management of the company paid the fine of their own accord’, Minister Baghirov mentioned. This fine was paid for violation of the environmental protection requirements and rules at the truss mine of Garadagh Cement in Tovuz province of Azerbaijan. The company was discarding the fertile soil layer while digging for tr... |