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?