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 [...]
Come on down to Kornerstone Wood-fired Pizzeria in the Porter’s Neck Shopping Center next Tuesday night, Nov.18, from 6 PM to 9 PM for some delicious food, wine, live music and community activism as we host our second fundraising event to put the brakes on Titan Cement.
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 [...]
Thanks to all who came out, signs in hand, kids under foot, braving the rising wind and cold, to demonstrate in front of the Northeast Branch of the Library on Monday, October 27th. We had a great turn out. The Star-News reported “about 100″ protesters. But our count was closer to 150. And that would [...]
County Commissioner Bill Kopp, concerned about his re-election to the 5-member board of New Hanover County Commissioners, has sent a letter out to his financial supporters. That letter, attached here, has a special message to all the citizens who have expressed concerns about the potential economic, environmental and health impacts of Titan’s proposed cement plant. [...]
Come join Friends of the Lower Cape Fear, Cape Fear RiverWatch, the North Carolina Coastal Federation, Pender Watch, Cape Fear CAN, and our local Sierra Club Chapter, on Monday, October 27th, from 4 to 7 pm, for a peaceful protest against Titan Cement!
The time has come to show all the candidates running for elected office [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
