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Event
Titan Cement Issue: Public Forum
Presented by
Council of Neighborhood Associations (CONA), League of Women Voters - Cape Fear Chapter and broadcast live on WAAV 980 AM Radio.
Date & Time
Tuesday, August 12th 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Location
Northeast Branch N.H.County Library, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd. Large Meeting Room, (910) 798-6370
Description
A public forum on the Titan Cement issue featuring [...]
At the last minute, Titan Cement has decided NOT to participate in a public forum to discuss citizen’s concerns regarding their proposed Castle Hayne cement plant. According to Chris Mazzolini of the Star-News, without Titan’s participation, Star-News decided to cancel the event which was to be held Monday night, June 30th on the campus of [...]
A quick news flash from WHQR, who’ve been tracking Titan events closely:
The Titan meeting originally listed on our calendar on June 12th at Laney has been moved to July 1st at Wilmington Christian Academy on College Road.
This in turn pushes back the comment period from June 30th to July 15th.
Friends and Neighbors Concerned About Titan Cement!
Today is the big day! Tonight, the New Hanover County Commissioners have given us 15 minutes to provide new information about the effects of a proposed massive new cement plant on public health and the environment. We’ve lined up experts from UNCW and the medical community to speak, but [...]
(This was sent as the first of our action letters to Stop Titan subscribers. You can subscribe on the following page to receive email about this and other upcoming events and news, and feel free to leave questions or suggestions as comments to this post.
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Friends and neighbors,
Thanks for showing your concern for our air, [...]
New Hanover County’s air and watershed are already overburdened with pollutants, though few are visible to the naked eye. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s latest Toxic Release Inventory, which tracks emissions of six major pollutants, New Hanover has the highest emissions of carbon monoxide and chromium compounds of any county in the state; the [...]
Cement is a major component of concrete, but unlike the ready-mix concrete plants that are scattered about the state, there are currently no cement plants in North Carolina. Cement plants are large industrial facilities that burn vast quantities of coal, as well as fuel oil, natural gas–even old tires–to fire giant kilns to temperatures as [...]
