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Cement plant work continues

KINGMAN, Ariz. -- Despite an economic downturn, a Mexico-based company continues to develop a $400 million cement production project in northern Arizona, about 15 miles northwest of Seligman.

CEMEX officials are collecting weather and pollution dispersion data as required for an air pollution control permit application under review by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.


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  • No permit decision is expected before early 2010 but environmentalists are concerned that annual plant emissions in excess of 100 tons of pollutants and particulate matter will harm the nearby Colorado River, Grand Canyon and Hualapai Indian Tribe.

    "We're just following it and we've made it really clear to them that because they're so close to the Grand Canyon and the Hualapai Tribe, that they've got to do better than what you would do somewhere else," said Jack Ehrhardt, a planner for the tribe who also has extensive involvement in both the Sierra Club and the Grand Canyon Trust.

    About 700 jobs are envisioned over a 30-month construction period that could begin in 2010. As many as 120 people would be employed by the plant.

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    rajesh kumar.N wrote on December 31, 2008 11:23 PM: i eant to know about the what procedure done in the cement plant and how many stages are in making cement.


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    John Az wrote on December 14, 2008 01:35 AM: You Dummies!!!
    There is huge amounts of $$$ going to pour "no pun", into that area. if u have any liquidity, bridge canyon is the place to dump it for now. at least, thats the rumor.


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    Leric Goodman wrote on December 13, 2008 07:48 PM: Big cement plant in Kingman!!!????? Cement has an economic radius of about 50 miles. CEMEX, which is the largest producer of cement in North American, must have reason to believe that a whole lot of cement is going to be needed within 50 miles of Kingman. Why do they know it and the R-J doesn't?


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    Free Nevada wrote on December 13, 2008 05:09 PM: Hey 'free money', it's funny how you can read an article about river pollution and then start to rant on Vegas for things that you say are flowing like a river. Plate of Shrimp. LOL.

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    Tom, Burbank wrote on December 13, 2008 03:02 PM: Yet more foreign ownership of America. I wonder who they'll employ? ("Gringos, back of the line!") Sad.


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    JohnyDark wrote on December 13, 2008 12:08 PM: Poor Johnny,
    You must have mistaken me for someone you knew,as I have never stood in a welfare line in my life,and will only stand in the line as a matter of the last resort.Hopefully some of my life skills and experiences will be sufficient when the need comes.Actually the only line I stand in now is at the pulmonary doctors(occupational lung deseases from breathing asbestos and welding smoke to many years).


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    POOR JOHNNY IN THE DARK wrote on December 13, 2008 11:12 AM: Johnny --- Get back to your welfare line!


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    JohnyDark wrote on December 13, 2008 10:36 AM: EFC,
    Careful what you wish for.Let them have their cement plant somewhere besides LV.We have enough pollution in the LV Valley.If you don't have enough,go breathe the fresh air over at the Timet Plant in Henderson,or you can just stand out in the valley any morning we have a wind out of the North,you can enjoy the remnants of a coal fired power plant from Moapa blowing through the valley.


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    free money wrote on December 13, 2008 10:08 AM: Las Vegas is addicted to the free gamblers money that was flowing like an out of control river. There is a refusal to acknowledge that the river has been tamed even drying up and a real industry is needed. Nevada especially Las Vegas produces nothing that the world can't do without.


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    EFC wrote on December 13, 2008 09:10 AM: What type of industry are we developing in Clark County besides Casino, Construction and Military? We need industry diversification here not in Arizona. You Economic Development Guys need to think bigger and get some bigger industry players to move to town.