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Alcoa will pay $40,000 for emitting too much fluoride
MASSENA – Alcoa announced Thursday that it will pay the state Department of Environmental Conservation $40,000 for an air-quality violation recorded earlier this year. The Massena Operations East Plant registered a reading in April of 2.66 pounds of fluoride per ton of aluminum produced, which exceeds the state minimum fluoride emission of 2.4 pounds per […]
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Nalco ‘in dock’ over toxic gas leakage
ANGUL, Sept. 16. — Once again, the mini-ratna National Aluminium Company is ‘in the dock’ in the wake of accusations by its peripheral villages of toxic gas leakage from the smelter plant here on Monday last. The agitating villagers of Tulasipal, Languliabeda met the Angul collector on Wednesday and complained against Nalco for releasing toxic […]
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Nalco plant: Experts to study crop damage
BHUBANESWAR: A multi-disciplinary team with experts from the fields of process technology, atmospheric physics and chemistry, meteorology and agriculture will study the reason behind crop damage around Nalco smelter plant at Angul, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik informed the Assembly on Friday. Replying to a calling attention notice on alleged leakage of poisonous gas from the […]
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Orissa villagers demand shutdown of polluting NALCO plant
[India News]: Anngal (Orissa), Mar.18 : Residents of several villages in Orissa’s Anngal district have launched a series of protests in the area over the hardships that they are facing due to the pollution coming out from a factory run by the public sector National Aluminum Company (NALCO). Residents of at least five villages adjoining […]
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Alcoa, partners find use for hazardous waste
Alcoa, Nova Pb and St. Lawrence Cement have pooled their expertise and developed a way to turn the aluminum company’s hazardous waste into a non-toxic product that improves cement. Pot-liner, the residue produced during the smelting of primary aluminum, is dangerous stuff, containing cyanide and fluoride. It has been banned from most landfill sites for […]
Canada, Quebec Aluminum Industry -
Soil test demand at school blocked
LYON TOWNSHIP — Residents who live near the Continental Aluminum recycling plant are furious because the South Lyon school board has refused to allow a state toxicologist to conduct soil tests at Dolsen Elementary School. The school board this month declined a request from Christina Bush, a toxicologist with the Michigan Department of Community Health, […]
United States, Michigan Aluminum Industry -
Kaiser agrees to clean some polluted land
SPOKANE, Wash. — In a settlement with state regulators, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Co. has agreed to spend $20 million to clean contaminated property at its defunct Mead smelter near Spokane. The proposed legal settlement, announced Wednesday, still must go through a formal public review and be approved by a U.S. bankruptcy court judge. The […]
United States, Washington State Aluminum Industry -
Eastalco claims EPA numbers are wrong
Alcoa-Eastalco Works, an aluminum manufacturer in Adamstown, claims a miscalculation in numbers is the reason behind a report showing the company’s release of hydrogen fluoride jumped slightly more than 2 million pounds. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) indicates that Eastalco’s release of hydrogen fluoride jumped from 594,787 pounds in 2001 to […]
United States, Maryland Aluminum Industry -
UNC senator sounds warning on La Brea smelter site
Questions have been raised about environmental dangers to La Brea residents if a US$1 billion aluminium smelter is sited there. UNC senator Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan raised the matter as a motion on the adjournment of the Senate on Tuesday. She asked for details on the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement signed between US-based aluminium producer Alcoa, […]
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Nalco smelter fluoride damages Orissa crops
BHUBANESWAR: Fluoride reportedly released from a smelter plant last week has damaged crops in at least 2,000 hectares of cultivable land in Orissa’s Angul district, officials claimed Monday. About 3,000 farmers who lost their crops demonstrated before the district collector’s office Monday, demanding compensation for the damage caused to their crops. The fluoride was reportedly […]
India Aluminum Industry