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Cement Plant Proposal at Vallejo Could Sabotage Effort to Restore the Napa River Estuary
Napa County is at the forefront of a herculean effort to restore the Napa River, including the historic tidal marshes into a geomorphically stable, living estuarine system. Levees have been breached, old salt ponds are transitioning to tidal marshes and the restored tidal prism has greatly reduced the flood threat in the Napa Valley. But […]
Asthma, Localized Emissions and Environmental Justice
One of the issues that Environmental Justice communities really focused on are the localized emissions. These are the things that are triggering asthma, that are triggering asthma mortality, that are happening at epidemic rates in Environmental Justice communities. Those issues are a dimension of greenhouse gas emissions, but they are not necessarily being talked about […]
Cement industry slams eco report commissioned by Ecocem
A report compiled by the University of Stuttgart and commissioned by the Irish firm, Ecocem, which finds that cement causes massive environmental damage has prompted a furious backlash from the Cement Manufacturers of Ireland. The highly contentious report, which has not been made available to the wider public, finds that the manufacture of cement caused […]
Green Cement or Green-washed Cement
Cement manufacture causes environmental impacts at all stages of the process. All cement, whether slag cement or Portland cement, starts off as solid chunks of material which are then ground into a fine powder. Slag cement is called “green” for one reason only: the solid base material is a recycled industrial waste product of the […]
Green Cement or Green-washed Cement
Cement manufacture causes environmental impacts at all stages of the process. The fact that Granulated Ground Blast-furnace Slag (GGBFS) isn’t quarried and baked before it comes to Vallejo is beside the point. The salient question is whether shipping slag from Asia on ships using diesel engines, grinding and mixing it here, then shipping the products […]
Fresh Air Vallejo – Peter Brooks Interview
Peter Brooks from Fresh Air Vallejo describes his group’s effort going through thousands of page of documents provided by VMT/ORCEM to bring out the important information in fine print. Please share !
Where are We in the Process?
Many people have asked, “Where are we in the overall process and what will happen next?” To see the detail schedule of all meetings, comments, draft and future/final reports, go to the City website link below. Here is the short version: September 2015: City released the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the VMT/Orcem application. It was […]
The Trick of Distraction – From Gross Polluter Port to Green Business
One trick of the trade is distraction – distracting your audience. Let’s learn how we can sneak in a gross polluter port and call it Green business!! To play this trick, you need two parts, and we have ORCEM and VMT. Draw people’s attention to ORCEM and keep VMT quiet, we can sneak in a […]
The Trick of Color Change – From Black Cement Plant to Green Cement Mill
How to turn a dirty, polluting cement plant into a GREEN cement mill and call it the revitalization force for Vallejo’s future? This is a really neat trick so look carefully. First show them Camden, New Jersey – a Tragic Case Study of a “GREEN” Cement Mill. This operation has the same basic makeup as […]