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HOLCIM
Oamaru
LRC07/08
 Notice of Application for Submission
Appn for Resource Consent - Cement Plant Site
Appn for Resource Consent - Ngapara Coal Pit Site
Appn for Resource Consent - Weston Quarries
Appn for Resource Consent - Windsor |
Holcim (New Zealand) Limited proposes to construct and operate a cement manufacturing plant on land owned by Holcim adjacent to the Weston-Ngapara Road, approximately 3 kilometres from the township of Weston and 7 kilometres west of Oamaru.
The proposed cement manufacturing plant and associated facilities, including storage silos, a raw material storage hall, rail loading facilities and offices/staff facilities, would have a total footprint of between 30 - 40 hectares.
The proposed cement manufacturing plant would use dry process technology which involves the drying and grinding of raw materials into a fine dry powder that is then fed to the kiln system. The cement manufacturing plant is proposed to operate 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Used oil is also proposed to be stored at the cement manufacturing plant site, which would be used to supplement coal as a fuel for the kiln.
The main raw materials required to produce cement are proposed to be extracted from a quarry containing limestone and siltstone, and a quarry containing tuff, both in close proximity to the proposed cement manufacturing plant. The quarries are proposed to operate up to 12 hours per day, up to 6 days per week. The limestone/siltstone and the tuff would be quarried using bulldozers with ripper attachments. The quarried material would be transported to the adjacent cement manufacturing plant by a belt conveyor system, within the quarry.
Some of the quarried materials would be screened and crushed at a crusher to be located by the limestone/siltstone quarry at the beginning of the belt conveyor system.
In addition, silica sand would be obtained from a pit near Windsor. The pit is also proposed to operate up to 12 hours per day, up to 6 days per week. The sand would be excavated and then transported some 12 kilometres by truck to be stockpiled at the cement manufacturing plant site.
Lignite coal is proposed to be the primary fuel to run the cement manufacturing plant. The coal is proposed to be extracted from a pit near Ngapara and again is proposed to operate up to 12 hours per day, up to 6 days per week. The coal is proposed to be transported some 19 kilometres by truck to be stockpiled at the cement manufacturing plant site.
Other materials proposed to be used in the cement manufacturing plant site, such as used-oil and gypsum, would be delivered to the cement manufacturing plant by truck. The majority of the cement produced would be transported by rail to a port (Port of Timaru or Port Chalmers) for shipment, while trucks would be used to distribute cement south to southern local South Island markets
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Submissions Closed:
19 June 2007
Holcim Final Decision
Appeals Closed:
29 February 2008
ENVIRONMENT COURT
APPEAL:
Appeal to Environment Court dismissed. The consent of the Waitaki District Council is confirmed. Now pending a decision from Holcim. |