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On April 21, 2008, the New Hanover County Commissioners voted 4 to 1 to offer $4.2 million in our tax dollars to entice a Greek company, Titan Cement, to build a massive cement plant in Castle Hayne on the banks of the Northeast Cape Fear River. While the county’s corporate recruiter, Titan officials, and the Star-News have all touted the economic benefits of the plant, they have all failed to mention one salient fact:
Cement plants are among the worst industrial polluters on the planet.
No matter what you do, cement production will always release carbon dioxide. You can’t change the chemistry so we can’t achieve spectacular cuts in emissions. - Dimitri Papalexopoulos, managing director of Titan Cement. From The Guardian newspaper of London.
In order to give residents a better understanding of the threats posed by the cement industry, we’ve started this web-based forum for articles, scientific studies and reports on the subject, as well as links to impacts of plants on other communities around the nation. You can post your opinion or your experience, email letters to your elected officials with a few quick clicks, or sign- up for action alerts.
If you are attending the Castle Hayne Planning meeting scheduled for June 12, 2008, try to get answers for the following:
1. What progress has been made in cleaning up the toxic dump located just north of College Road about 1/2 mile from the junction with Castle Hayne Road?
2. When was this toxic dump assigned to the federal superfund?
3.What current mambers of the Board of County Commissioners were on the Board at that date?
mercury…FYI
Nothing on this entire site says what or how the cement plant pollutes the air. Carbon dioxide isn’t a pollutant–at least not in this sense you imply. It is a naturally occuring substance and the human lungs filter it out easily.