What a great event! More than 70 StopTitan supporters crowded into Kornerstone Pizzeria/Bistro in the Porters Neck shopping center last night for some great food, fine drinks, and fun, all for a good Kause! Thanks to Leslie, Robert, and the Krew of Kornerstone for hosting a great event; Frank and Hank for their hot licks [...]
We, the People, have spoken. As citizens across the nation celebrate the historic victory of Senator Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States, here in New Hanover County the results were just as decisive: nearly all the candidates who strongly oppose the Titan Cement plant won decisive victories, while the candidate [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A sharp-eyed Mom from the Porters Neck area recently called us to report that the new K-12 campus for northern New Hanover County is roughly three miles from the proposed Titan cement plant. A quick call to the school board (910-763-5431) confirmed that construction of the new school is already underway in Castle Hayne on [...]
Thanks to all of the Wilmington 300 (including Commissioners Kopp and Davis) who turned out last Tuesday night at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers scoping meeting on Titan’s EIS. If you could ignore all the beefy sheriff’s deputies who turned out to keep those dangerous middle-aged parents, retired grandparents, and misguided county commissioners in [...]
The time is here, so come celebrate Independence week by exercising your democratic right to tell the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers What to Do! All you have to do is show up Tuesday night, July 1, at 6 pm at Wilmington Christian Academy/Grace Baptist Church, 1401 North College Road. Then tell Corps officials what [...]
Titan America has been spending a lot of time and money over the past two months trying to convince us we have little to fear and much to gain by their plans to build a cement plant in Castle Hayne, comparing it to their cement plant in Roanoke, Virginia. But what Titan officials are not [...]
Request A Public Hearing on Titan’s Air Permit.
Titan (Carolina Cement) submitted their draft air permit application in February. The air permit is still under review at the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). There will be a 30-day public comment period at the end of the application period where people can share [...]
If you haven’t already done so, it’s time to contact your elected officials in Raleigh and Washington, DC, and tell them how you feel about the proposed Titan cement plant. Below is a contact list for our elected leaders. At the state level they’re divided by the NC House of Representatives and NC Senate. For [...]
