When Marino Papazoglou, Titan Cement’s director of business development, told us at our very first meeting that his plant would emit no hydrochloric acid (they will actually emit 62,000 pounds); no benzene (they will emit nearly 7,000 pounds of this carcinogen), and their mercury emissions will be somewhere between 10 and 100 pounds annually (it [...]
This just in from WECT TV news:
CASTLE HAYNE, NC (WECT) - The Carolinas Cement Company’s controversial Titan Cement project looks to be gaining ground.
The company’s public relations group sent out a news release saying they had the support of a local advisory group, The Castle Hayne Steering Committee, but the chairman of that committee [...]
The UNCW Environmental Concerns Organization has developed a video that outlines the dangers of Titan Cement’s proposed plant and urges viewers to get involved. Stop Titan!
We’re not feeling so alone anymore. In this morning’s Star-News, Chris Mazzolini’s front-page story reports that not one, not two, but FOUR state environmental agencies and one federal agency have expressed major concerns in official comments to the Army Corps of Engineers about Titan’s massive cement plant and mine proposed for Castle Hayne along the [...]
