Indigenous-owned Alberta company making better building blocks — with hemp
Hemp is being transformed into building blocks at a new Indigenous-owned processing plant in the community of Elk Point, 200 ...
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Columbia Waterfront Locals Demand City Shutter Concrete Facility
Columbia Street Waterfront District residents and politicians are demanding the immediate shutdown of a city-owned concrete recycling facility they say is filling the air with hazardous dust. Dozens ...
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Agriculture Dept. Report: Inspectors discovered insects, mold and mildew inside Boar’s Head Plant
The United States Agriculture Department report shows food inspectors found insects, both dead, and alive, mold, mildew and other problems at the company’s Jarratt, Virginia plant weeks before ...
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Staffordshire concrete plant opens longer to help build HS2
Extended operating hours will be allowed at a Staffordshire concrete plant until the end of March to help meet demand from the nearby HS2 project - despite noise concerns raised by residents.
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Standley Batch Systems, Inc.
While our services are primarily associated with concrete paver and concrete block plants, precast and prestressed concrete, ready-mix concrete plants, dry-mix concrete plants and bagging plants ...
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TCEQ holds up permit for Fort Bend County concrete crushing plant that’s drawn resident opposition
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) on Thursday temporarily denied an air quality permit for a concrete crushing ... saying the plant was not the required distance from homes.
Houston Chronicle1mon
Fort Bend County is fighting a proposed concrete crushing plant. They won their first battle.
Fort Bend County officials and residents have won a small victory in their battle against an incoming concrete crushing plant. County representatives on Thursday stood before the Texas ...
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Dozens picket concrete recycling plant that has been blanketing Brooklyn in dust for a year: ‘Always getting sick’
Dozens of Brooklynites raged Wednesday over a city-run concrete ... the recycling plant to a residential neighborhood — particularly with an elementary school two blocks away, a public park ...
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Insects, slime, mold found at Boar’s Head meat plants: USDA
mold, insects and other problems dating back roughly six years. Last May, one inspector documented “general filth” in a room at the Indiana plant. The U.S. Agriculture Department released the ...
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Lawmakers Move to Protect Neighborhoods from Encroaching Concrete Plants
North Texas lawmakers are taking aim at concrete batch plants not following regulations. (Adobe Images) Concern about concrete batch plants near residential neighborhoods isn’t just a Dallas thing. It ...
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Boar’s Head plants had insects, mold, and slime, USDA records show
mold, insects and other problems dating back roughly six years. Last May, one inspector documented “general filth” in a room at the Indiana plant. The U.S. Agriculture Department released the ...