BOYNE Smelters Limited claimed last night it was spending millions to reduce its dust and fluoride emissions into the community. Over 30 people gathered in Tannum Sands yesterday to discuss the newly released Boyne Smelters air emissions study, which was initiated in part after a fire at the smelter in 2007. Attendees questioned smelter representatives […]
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Southwire to Pay Unprecedented Fine for Clean Air Act Violations
(Atlanta, Ga. – July 23, 2009) In the largest civil settlement obtained for alleged violations of the Secondary Aluminum Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) regulations at a single facility in the Southeastern United States, Southwire Company has agreed to pay a total of $337,500 in civil penalties to the United States and the Commonwealth of […]
Pollution board slaps show-cause on VAL
SAMBALPUR: Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), Jharsuguda, has been issued with show-cause notice by the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) for violating various sections of water and air pollution Acts. The notice has been issued to CEO and whole-time Director of VAL M Siddiqi after VAL failed to rectify anomalies regarding pollution as pointed out by […]
Two China aluminium makers say have halved output
* Aluminium fluoride producer also halves production * Cite downturn hitting demand * Aluminium trading only just above production cost DUBAI, March 29 – Two Chinese aluminium producers, Shengxin Aluminum and Shanghai Unison Aluminium, have cut their output by half due to the economic downturn, executives said on Sunday. Sinochem Shanghai Corp, which makes aluminium […]
‘Liquid’ fluorspar-miner Sallies ready for ‘bounce’ or blows – CEO
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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) –South African fluorspar miner Sallies was positioned to rise with any upward economic “bounce” – and also sufficiently financially liquid to ward off any blows that may arise in the form of deteriorating market conditions, its CEO Tom Dale said on Tuesday. Announcing a R45-million turnaround to operational profit for the six months […]
60,000 metric tonnes/year of aluminum fluoride to be produced by Pearl Industrial Chemicals Co.
MANAMA: A top Bahrain business group has formed a joint venture with an Indian industrial house to set up a $100 million company for the manufacture of aluminium fluoride. The Pearl Industrial Chemicals Company (PIC) has been established by Bahrain’s EBH Holding and India’s Archean Group of Companies. The new company will be chaired by […]
Serial polluter. Hindalco continues to violate norms, damages crops
Hindalco Industries’ smelting plant in Orissa’s Sambalpur district faces closure. The Orissa State Pollution Control Board, or ospcb, has issued the Hirakud Aluminium Smelter a show-cause notice after its team of experts reported that the plant is releasing untreated wastewater, laced with toxins such as cyanide and fluoride, into the state’s largest river, the Mahanadi. […]
Hindalco: Waste water with high concentration of fluoride and cyanide
SAMBALPUR: Notwithstanding numerous notices served by State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), aluminum producer Hindalco has failed to act on hazardous waste management. The wastes are reportedly generated by Hindalco’s aluminium smelter plant. An SPCB team pulled up the plant for its failure to curb pollution after a recent visit. The team found that waste water […]
Digging up Boyne Smelters dodgy past
INDUSTRY has lied by omission to dupe the local community about their environmental credentials, according to eco-campaigner Ian Woodhouse and Friday’s discovery of a contaminated site at the Boyne Smelters (BSL) site was proof. Waste material dating from the 1980s, including used carbon anodes containing fluorides, was uncovered last week during preliminary earthworks for the […]
Yesterday’s pollution slows today’s economy
Though it is easy and often convenient to lament the onerous and time-consuming nature of environmental laws, a good example of how far we’ve come and why those rules and regulations are so important is the former Reynolds Metals Co. site in Longview. Stories by Daily News reporter Amy M.E. Fischer on Sunday showed how […]