If expansion of the mine goes through, the quarry will go from extracting about 50,000 tonnes of material per year to three million.
Company behind pozzolan mine says project is in ‘conceptual’ stage, but it has already bought land
Victoria Walton · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 01, 2024 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago
Hundreds of residents filled a meeting room at the Dalhousie Recreaplex recently to voice concerns and ask questions about the proposed pozzolan mine expansion. (Victoria Walton/CBC)
Hundreds of residents of Heron Bay in northern New Brunswick are worried about plans to turn a quarry into a massive mining operation within municipal boundaries just 200 metres from a school.
It was standing room only at two public meetings recently as people asked a mining company questions such as: “Does this create dust … that would spread in the bay or in the town of Dalhousie?” and “Have you ever thought about the people who have wells up there?”
Quebec-based companies Carboniq Inc. and Cimbec Canada Inc. have come together to form EcoRock, which hopes to greatly expand a quarry already in the Dalhousie community into an open mine.
The material being extracted is pozzolan, a low-carbon alternative to the cement now used in the creation of concrete. The company’s goal is to process the material at a local plant,
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