Villagers in east China’s Zhejiang Province are demanding a nearby aluminum factory cease polluting the environment after they said 127 people had suffered fluoride poisoning and 84 had caught cancers over the past 27 years. From 1985 to the end of last year, 23 villagers living near the factory in Zhejiang’s Lanxi City died […]
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Columbia Falls: EPA explains aluminum-plant study
The Flathead Basin Commission got an update Wednesday on an Environmental Protection Agency assessment of the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. property. A regional director for the EPA recently announced that the agency would conduct an assessment of the property in response to a letter from Montana Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester. The Democratic senators […]
Smelter Failed To Supervise Emissions
The Environment Agency of Iceland (UST) believes aluminium company Alcoa failed to properly supervise its own emissions and, as a result, the agency will be asking for new readings from every heavy industry operation in the country. RÚV reports that the UST examined data from the Alcoa smelter in Reyðarfjörður, east Iceland, and found that […]
Turning ore into profit — for us
AN ALUMINIUM smelter has been operating in Mozambique for the past ten years, taking the country’s electricity to produce metal used in European and Japanese cars and aeroplanes. The profits, however, are benefiting foreign investors far more than anyone in Mozambique. The smelter, known as Mozal, after the company that owns it, is immense. Sited […]
New Shape for the Bauxite and Alumina Industry
Bauxite and Alumina 8th Edition The shape and dynamics of the global bauxite and alumina industry are changing, according to a new report from Roskill. New alumina refining and bauxite production capacity will boost supply over the next five years to meet the rising demand for aluminium, mainly from China, but also other growth areas such […]
Test results show no fluorine poisoning of farm animals
New test results indicate that farm animals in Reyðarfjörður in the East Fjords have not been affected by the failure of pollution control equipment at Alcoa aluminum smelter in October. As reported earlier, it was thought that there might be high levels of fluoride in hay at several farms nearby the smelter which could lead […]
CFAC a candidate for Superfund list
State senator-elect Dee Brown’s Dec. 17 announcement that she had asked the Flathead County commissioners to take the lead in getting the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. smelter site designated as a Superfund site may have caught some state officials by surprise, but it spurred some action. Two administrators at the Montana Department of Environmental Quality […]
EPA, 3 firms agree to plan for W.Va. waste site
RAVENSWOOD, W.Va. (AP) — Three companies have agreed to work on a former industrial site in Ravenswood to prevent a waste pile loaded with cyanide and fluoride from contaminating soil and groundwater, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday. The 2.7-acre waste site is fenced off inside an active industrial complex about 900 feet from […]
Fluorine pollution in East Iceland within limits
Data submitted to the Food and Veterinarian Authority (MAST) by Alcoa Fjarðaál in the East Fjords indicates that the quantity of fluorine in hay in Reyðarfjörður was in all instances below the maximum limit. In two samples out of 17, the quantity of fluorine proved above the limit for milking cows, Fréttablaðið reports. However, these […]
Cryolite: Dangerous substances on Rena lost at sea
Just over a year after the Rena struck the Astrolabe Reef in the Bay of Plenty, containers of hazardous substances still lie beneath the water. The Minister of Transport, Gerry Brownlee, has confirmed the contents of three containers of cryolite, a byproduct of the aluminium smelting process, have been lost at sea. The location of […]