Cape Fear River

Titan America—the Greek cement manufacturer hoping to get an air permit from North Carolina’s Division of Air Quality—likes to tout the estimated 160 jobs their super-sized cement plant will create if they are allowed to build near Wilmington, North Carolina. But according to a new report conducted by a leading industry consultant based in Fairfax, Virginia, the Titan plant will be creating much more than jobs for the good citizens of the Cape Fear region.

The study issued last week details a host of serious public health impacts, as well as millions of dollars in health care costs associated with Titan’s pollution.

A proposed coal-power cement plant is threatening 1000 acres of wetlands along the Cape Fear River. North Carolina's wetlands not only provide vital wildlife habitats, but are nature's way of reducing and preventing the risk of floods along a river's banks. The proposed cement plant would not only destroy a large portion of this natural flood buffer, but would spew the neurotoxin mercury and other polluntants into the surrounding air and water.

If you would like to take action to delay the construction of this plant while a thorough environmental impact study is completed, please click here to email your state senator through the North Carolina Conservation Network's website.

Senate Bill 699 calls for an 18-month moratorium on the construction of cement plants. This gives time for environmental studies to be conducted and reviewed without the eminent threat of the destruction of our wetlands.