DIRECT LINE TO GOD PAYS OFF.

ENFORCEMENT NOTICE: has been issued, as the Agency considers another prosecution, regarding the latest large scale incident of 10th March, when 8 tonnes of pulverised fuel were dumped on sleeping Rugby residents up to 3 miles away - apparently out of an over filled silo - at the time the kiln was being shut down.
Cemex are required to review their maintenance and management systems (yet again!),and to stop repeatedly cancelling critical maintenance items, in contravention of condition 2.1.2.
Also the storage capacity of each of the fuel storage silos as specified in section 2.3 (C) of your IPPC application, is different to the actual capacity. This is in contravention to condition 2.3.1.

In the meantime they now ask to burn imported wastes, as well as doubling the tyres to 6 tonnes an hour, despite all these ongoing problems and the unconvincing tyre trials, when they could hardly burn 3 tonnes an hour.

JUDGES TAKE PITY AS CEMEX SPEND BILLIONS ON RINKER TAKE OVER.
"In our judgement, a fine of £400,000 was disproportionate. The sentence imposed by the Recorder will be quashed and a fine of £50,000 substituted." Court 4 July 18.
Cemex claimed that much of the tonnes of dust LAWFULLY came out of the stack, and not out of the open door - unlawful. Therefore, as no emission limits apply during any start up to a fed rate of 200 tonnes an hour raw meal, any amount of dust emitted out of the stack at the time of the instability was not a criminal offence, and is in fact "permitted pollution".
Why and how the "start up" was set at 200 tonnes an hour raw meal has of course never been discussed!

TRUTH CONCEALED BY CEMEX AND AGENCY.
£20,000 worth of Intercessions at St Andrews seem to have reaped a rich reward.
Cemex were today delighted to have the £400,000 fine, for dumping tonnes of toxic dust over sleeping Lawford residents on October 14th 2005, slashed to a paltry £50,000.


How did this case get through four hearings without the truth ever being told? The Judges kept on asking why the kiln went into melt down and became unstable, and out of control, and neither the prosecuting Agency, nor the defending industrialists, could bring themselves to admit (tell the TRUTH even) that changes in the chemical reactions caused by such as TYRE BURNING causes upset conditions and kiln instability. One Judge even described the cement plant as an "accident of history" and seemed to believe that the same kiln had been there since 1860. Presumably he would have great difficulty in understanding why the original single horse and cart should now have been replaced by 1,000 heavy lorries?

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS FOR CEMEX?
Maybe with this £350,000 windfall they can fund the RCCF for a few more years?
And pay back some of what they have taken from Rugby residents?
The RCCF is "due for the chop" tonight at Rugby Town Hall 5.30 pm, as the Council can no longer fund the antics of Cemex and the Agency out of our Council taxes.
But it seems more likely they will swell their coffers?

IMPORT WASTE:
EUROPEAN CLIMAFUEL HAS LESS POTENTIAL TO CONTAIN ANY TOXIC ELEMENTS THAN THE UK WASTE SUPPLY FROM SHANKS AND BIFFA WHICH ARE INADEQUATE FOR CEMEX.

BARRINGTON: and SOUTH FERRIBY CLIMAFUEL TRIALS:
Quote:

"Unfortunately the trials have not progressed as smoothly as Cemex had anticipated due to various reasons, such as supply, and logistical constraints, and elevated emissions of HCl due to higher chlorine in the clay material, burner difficulties and kiln cooling. And also due to high moisture in the climafuel, and significant chunks of over-size material. most notably of a metallic nature, causing equipment to break down and frequent stops"

- during which of course no EMISSION LIMITS APPLY - so that's all right then?

Although emission limits appear to have been broken Cemex carefully worded its CSF (Critical Success Factor):
CSF 1: "The current specified emission limit values will not be exceeded for any reason DIRECTLY attributable to the use of CLIMAFUEL"
"The initial review of the South Ferriby CEM data from the trial period showed no breaches in emission limits that can be attributed DIRECTLY to the use of Climafuel."
So what causes all this upset and increased emissions then?

CEMEX MAKE GENEROUS PROMISE TO RUGBY RESIDENTS:
CEMEX SAY THINK YOURSELVES LUCKY!
CEMEX WARN IT COULD BE WORSE!
"As a participant of the Cement Sustainability Initiative Cemex is committed to the "guidelines" which specifically state that in relation to exclusions in use of wastes:

"CSI member companies will not use any of the following in our kilns as fuel or raw material, as a constituent of cement, or in waste recovery and disposal operations:

# NUCLEAR WASTE
# INFECTIOUS MEDICAL WASTE
# CHEMICAL OR BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS DESTINED FOR DESTRUCTION
# UNKNOWN OR UNSPECIFIED WASTE.

CEMEX UK Cement also feels that this commitment to the CSI provides a level of understanding which should provide a level of reassurance to external stakeholders that operations are undertaken in an ethical and responsible manner!"

By the by - who are we dealing with?
CEMEX UK CEMENT LTD?
RUGBY LIMITED?
RUGBY CEMENT?

CEMEX in new takeover bid

Cement giant Cemex has now branched out into Religion! 20,000 pounds have been invested in GOD. Having failed to convince Rugby residents of the success of its tyre trials - after the emissions data was hidden for more than a year - the latest strategy involves getting God on their side as they invest in St Andrews Church Rugby - unless they are paying for forgiveness of their sins?

This piffling donation co-incides with their insistence on burning more tyres and wastes to "address the number of environmental pressures" placed on them by the Environment Agency, which is "pushing them to use a larger quantity of substitute fuels" - presumably regardless of the impact on Rugby residents and the extra emissions of pollutants such as ammonia and cadmium and thallium.

Meanwhile the hapless Agency struggles to define the "plant stability" on which it bases its Permits, and the officers still refuse to supply the RCCF with the AMESA dioxin tests that show emissions of dioxin of up to eight times higher than admitted by the Cauldon Cement plant where it was trialled - after a previous typical Agency "promise" to trial the equipment at Rugby Cement was broken.

Don't believe one word they say!

SMOKING BAN?.. NOT US!

According to the Rugby Advertiser :
PEOPLE IN NEW BILTON, LIVING NEXT TO THE CEMENT WORKS, in the first of NEW LABOUR'S MUCH HERALDED, and PRESCOTT'S PERSONALLY PROMOTED AFFORDABLE SOCIAL HOUSING ARE :

"FED UP OF BEING SWAMPED - as residents kick up a stink!"

"Investigating the smelly problem are non other than (the usually invisible) RBC LABOUR councillors: Ish Mistry and Don Williams. Long-suffering New Bilton residents are kicking up a stink over claims that inadequate piping in the area of the cement works has caused them to be regularly swamped with sewage" - amongst many other unsavoury and unhealthy pollutants.

Home owners in AVENUE ROAD say "toilet paper and other waste, and a slurry-like stench", and frequent dust clouds, and odours, "have blighted the area after REDROW homes started building their nearby housing development".

Some residents also blame ongoing pollution from Rugby Cement and its increasing emissions and waste-burning trials. "You don't always notice it - but at times there is an awful smell. It is frustrating - we feel like we are banging our heads against a brick wall."

RBC officers and the CABINET were refusing to answer questions as we went to press. They said that they do not have to talk to anyone, or to answer any emails;
do not have to answer any questions; and steadfastly refuse point-blank to answer anything!

Some Councillors noted that the people who "did this" to Rugby residents are either dead; or living on a fat pension paid for by the council tax payers.

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