Berrima Cement Works community meeting - Boral

BORAL BERRIMA CEMENT WORKS
Community meeting
BCSC Recreation Hall, Taylor Avenue, New Berrima
21 February 2013

Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
AGENDA
Welcome and introductions
Boral personnel:
- Stuart Hutchings –
Operations Manager,
Boral Berrima Cement & Colliery
- Alex Wnorowski –
Environment Manager
Boral Cement
- Karin Schianetz –
Environmental Engineer
Boral Berrima Cement
- Samantha Donaldson –
Administration, Boral Berrima Cement
- Paul Jackson -
Stakeholder Relations Manager, Boral Property Group (CHAIR)
Previous minutes (5 December 2012)
- Due to a technical error, notes from the December meeting have been lost and so minutes are
unable to be produced. The presentation from the meeting has been uploaded to the website.
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Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
CEMENT BUSINESS UPDATE
Off-white clinker production
- First 25000te ‘off-white clinker’ run at Berrima
completed successfully in January over 8 days.
- Next campaign planned for mid April.
- Off-white clinker is a special type of clinker made using
raw materials with a low iron content to ultimately
produce a cement with a very light colour.
- Used for aesthetic cement products such as renders
and mortars.
Market conditions remain very difficult
- Worst market downturn for many years - not likely to
recover soon.
- High Australian dollar means we are facing intense
competition from imports readily available from Asia.
- Energy costs continue to rise, and as imports put a ceiling
on prices, we cannot pass costs downstream which
reduces profitability.
- Due to difficult conditions Boral announced the suspension
of its clinker manufacturing operation at Waurn Ponds near
Geelong, resulting in circa 90 redundancies.
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Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
CEMENT WORKS UPDATE
Boral structural and costs review
- In addition to the Waurn Ponds closure, Boral announced at the end of last year it would be
reducing its Australian workforce by 700 to allow Boral to reduce costs and remain competitive
through the current severe market downturn.
- Unfortunately, Berrima was not immune from reductions and will lose 3 personnel.
- These include Karin Schianetz and Sam Donaldson who have had a great input to our
community relationship over recent years.
- Alex Wnorowski, together with other personnel from Berrima,
will pick up Karin’s environmental duties from end of February.
- Madeline Westnidge will pick up Sam’s community liaison work
from June.
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BORAL BERRIMA CEMENT WORKS
Community meeting – Berrima Cement Works Environmental Management
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Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – CEMENT WORKS
Complaints received at the Cement Works since last meeting
December
January
February
(to date)
Dust
1
0
(1)
Noise
2
5
(1)
Other
0
0
0
Total
3
5
(2)
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Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – CEMENT WORKS
No. of compaints
No. of compaints
14
12
10
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
8
6
4
2
0
Dust complaints 2008-2013 to date
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Month
Noise complaints 2008-2013 to date
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Month
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – CEMENT WORKS
Stack Emissions (Solid Particles)
Solid Particles (mg/m3)
120
110
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
1/3/12
15/3/12
29/3/12
12/4/12
26/4/12
10/5/12
24/5/12
7/6/12
21/6/12
5/7/12
19/7/12
2/8/12
16/8/12
30/8/12
Date
13/9/12
Solid Particles 24 h ave
EPA Limit
27/9/12
11/10/12
25/10/12
8/11/12
22/11/12
6/12/12
20/12/12
3/1/13
17/1/13
31/1/13
14/2/13
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Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – CEMENT WORKS
Dust deposition monitoring points – from December 2012
Old Hume Hwy
Current Dust Gauges
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Proposed Position of Additional Dust Gauge
8
Taylor Av
10
7
9
5
1
Berrima St
3
2
HVAS
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Dust Deposition
(g/m2/mth Rolling Annual Average)
6.0
5.0
4.0
3.0
2.0
1.0
0.0
Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – CEMENT WORKS
Fugitive Dust Emission Monitoring – Dust Deposition Gauges
Sep-10
Oct-10
Nov-10
Dec-10
Jan-11
Feb-11
Mar-11
Apr-11
May-11
Jun-11
Total Deposited Dust (12-Month Rolling Average)
Berrima Cement Works - Aug 2010- May 2012
Dust 1 Dust 2 Dust 3 Dust 4 Dust 5 Dust 6 Dust 7 Dust 8 Dust 9 OEH Guide
Jul-11
Aug-11
Sep-11
Oct-11
Nov-11
Month
Dec-11
Jan-12
Feb-12
Mar-12
Apr-12
May-12
Jun-12
Jul-12
Aug-12
Sep-12
Oct-12
Nov-12
Dec-12
Jan-13
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – CEMENT WORKS
High Volume Air Sampler
- Located in Berrima Rd – North east of plant
- Measures Suspended Particulate (TSP) and small particle (PM10)
- Samples are taken and analysed every six days by an independent laboratory
- Also analysed are:
- Calcium Oxides
- Heavy Metals
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Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – CEMENT WORKS
Ambient Air Quality Monitoring – High Volume Air Sampler
Particulate Concentration
(ug/m3)
275
250
225
200
175
150
125
100
75
50
25
0
1/03/09
1/05/09
1/07/09
1/09/09
1/11/09
1/01/10
Ambient Air Quality Monitoring
High Volume Air Sampler Data, March 2009 - January 2013
PM10 (ug/m3) Ave TSP (ug/m3)
1/03/10
1/05/10
1/07/10
1/09/10
1/11/10
OEH TSP Annual Avg. Goal (90ug/m 3 NEPM PM 10 Air Quality 24 Hr Standard
(50ug/m
)
3 )
1/01/11
1/03/11
Date
1/05/11
1/07/11
1/09/11
1/11/11
1/01/12
1/03/12
1/05/12
1/07/12
1/09/12
1/11/12
1/01/13
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Concentration (microgram per cubic meter)
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Ambient Air Quality Monitoring – High Volume Air Sampler
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
27/03/2011
27/04/2011
27/05/2011
27/06/2011
27/07/2011
27/08/2011
27/09/2011
27/10/2011
Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Program
High Volume Air Sampler All Other Metals Data
EPA Goals:
Chromium = 17µg/m3
Vanadium = 17µg/m3
Tin = 67µg/m3
Nickel = 3.3 µg/m3
Manganese = 33 µg/m3
27/11/2011
27/12/2011
27/01/2012
27/02/2012
Date
27/03/2012
27/04/2012
27/05/2012
27/06/2012
27/07/2012
27/08/2012
27/09/2012
27/10/2012
27/11/2012
27/12/2012
Antimony
Arsenic
Beryllium
Cadmium
Chromium IV
Chromium
Cobalt
Lead
Mercury
Nickel
Selenium
Thallium
Tin
Zinc
Vanadium
Manganese
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Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – CEMENT WORKS
Manganese (Mn)
- Manganese is a silvery grey metal resembling iron.
- Several oxides of manganese are abundant in nature,
and owing to their colour, these oxides have been used
since the Stone Age.
- Manganese is the 12 th most abundant element, and
makes 0.1 % of the Earth’s crust.
- The atmosphere contains 0.01 micrograms Manganese
per cubic meter
Blue Shale
1000 – 1500 mg/kg
Limestone /
Yellow Shale
150 – 300 mg/kg
Coal
100 – 3500 mg/kg
Cement / Clinker
600 – 1800 mg/kg
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Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
CEMENT WORKS ENVIRONMENT UPDATE
Blast Furnace Slag update
- Full scale use of blast furnace slag as a kiln feed raw material commenced at Berrima late last
year.
- All necessary approvals have been obtained.
- Up to 150 000 tonnes of blast furnace slag could be used each year.
- The environmental benefits include:
Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (from limestone calcination);
Reduction of industrial by-product going to waste;
Reduction of landfill disposal;
Reduction of virgin material use.
- Stack emissions levels have not been affected.
- The commercial benefits include:
Carbon tax incentives
Fuel savings.
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Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
CEMENT WORKS ENVIRONMENT UPDATE
Further Alternative Raw Materials being
considered:
FCC (Fluidised Cracking Catalyst)
Spent FCC comes from oil companies –
Shell, Mobil.
Already allowed by the Licence but the
waste exemption expired and needs to be
re-applied for.
Storage bin and feeding equipment
already in place (FCC was used before).
Additional sources of FCC will be included
in the application due to material
becoming available post Waurn Ponds
kiln closure.
Volumes expected to be minor; less than
5000 tpa.
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Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
CEMENT WORKS ENVIRONMENT UPDATE
Further Alternative Raw Materials/Fuels options being considered:
Timber material (‘Standard Fuel’)
Material that is not ‘contaminated’ and therefore is considered to be ‘Standard
Fuel’. Emission limits for ‘Alternative Fuels’ would not apply.
A new storage and feeding system would be required.
Sources of clean timber material:
Timber mill offcuts, sawdust, etc.
Untreated timber waste (such as
pallets) collected by and kept separate
at a waste depot or recycling facility
Greenwaste – chipped bark and
branches
Chopping trees for fuel is NOT being
contemplated!
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Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Pollution Incident Response Management Plan
In 2011, the NSW Government introduced an amendment to
the Protection of the Environment Act 1997 (POEO Act) in
order to improve the way industrial pollution incidents are
reported, managed and communicated to the community.
The legislation requires each licence holder in NSW to
develop a complex response management plan for pollution
incidents.
The Berrima Pollution Incident Response Management Plan
was prepared by the due date of 1 September 2012.
A summary of the PIRMP is available on the Berrima
website.
A formal audit of the PIRMP was undertaken by EPA in
November 2012.
The Audit identified only a few minor omissions which since
have been rectified.
The final Audit Report is due shortly.
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – CEMENT WORKS
Landscaping Plan
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – CEMENT WORKS
Landscaping Plan
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – CEMENT WORKS
Landscaping – Preparing the ground 1
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – CEMENT WORKS
Landscaping - Preparing the ground 2
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Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – CEMENT WORKS
Shrubs and tree species for vegetative barriers
Mix of small trees, large shrubs, and large trees
Native species, adapted to soil and climatic conditions
Some fast growing species backed up with stronger long-lasting trees
- Acacia (dealbata, fibriata, floribunda, implexa, mearnsii, melanoxylon, pravissima, rubida)
- Allocasuarina littoralis
- Baeckea virgata
- Banksia marginata
- Eucalyptus (amplifolia, gregsoniana, macarthurii, manifera, ovata, pauciflora, stellulata)
- Hakea salicifolia
- Kunzea parvifolia
- Leptospermum (morrisonii, obovatum)
- Melaleuca (linariifolia, stypheloides)
Banksia marginata
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BORAL BERRIMA CEMENT WORKS
Community meeting – General business / Community
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Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
GENERAL BUSINESS / COMMUNITY
Cement Works Open Day
- After several requests, Boral will resume its tradition of Cement Works Open Days on 15 April.
- Date is a Monday – school holidays targeting families looking for something to do. 10am-3pm.
- Tours of the site available: walking (14yrs and above only – must wear enclosed shoes,
trousers and long-sleeved tops) and bus (younger children and senior visitors).
- Food and children’s entertainment has been organised. All visitors welcome.
- Organised by the employees of the Cement Works.
Conservation Volunteers Australia
- Boral is a long-standing corporate social partner
of CVA.
- New agreement with CVA signed last year to
deliver new Biodiversity Classroom program.
- Berrima Public School identified as a priority
school by Boral.
- CVA will visit BPS on 5 March to assist with
maintenance on the school’s outdoor wetland
space.
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Boral Berrima Cement Works Community Meeting – 21 February 2013
AGENDA
General business
Site contact details
- Boral Berrima Cement Works – 4860 2222
- Boral Stakeholder Relations Manager
(NSW/VIC) – 9033 5215
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENDANCE
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