The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) held its public comment meeting last week at the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School. The meeting provided the community with an opportunity to officially comment on the draft permits and DEIS for our proposed Ravena Plant Modernizaton project. We appreciated the strong support and advice from the community to further improve our project.

I made a few remarks and thanked the community for all of their interest, support and input in our project over the past two years.

Approximately 70 people attended the meeting.

Members of the audience took turns going up to the mic to share their comments with the DEC.

Along with members of the community, a number of elected officials and business leaders also attended to offer their strong support for the modernization project.

The DEC will continue to accept comment letters from the public until February 22. Click here to send your letter of support today.

We promised to make the posters featured at our Information Fairs (held in Albany, Columbia, and Rensselaer counties this fall) available.

We’ve created a page where you can now access all 13 of the posters, complete with captions.

Many of the visitors who attended our Information Fairs found them to be very helpful. Hopefully you will too.

A few people attending last week’s DEC public information meeting requested copies of the presentation we made about our proposed Ravena Plant Modernization Project.

We thought it might be helpful to post that presentation here for easy viewing and downloading.

Also, the DEC agreed to let us post their presentation from the meeting.

You can continue to access both of these presentations using the DEC’s public information meeting link found in the navigation bar on the left side of this page.
The DEC’s presentation came in two parts. One on the regulatory process and the other on the air permit. We combined them here for easier access.

If you have any questions about Lafarge Ravena’s presentation, please contact us at lafargeravenafacts@lafarge-na.com.

A number of familiar faces were present at the RCS High School last Wednesday evening for DEC’s public information meeting. Here are some photos from the event.

We presented the plans for our Ravena plant modernization project and had an opportunity to answer some very good questions.

The Lafarge Ravena Team would like to extend a thank you to all who were in attendance and the helpful Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk high school staff for hosting us.

To review the details of our modernization proposal click here.

Don’t forget, the DEC is holding its information session about our proposed Ravena Plant Modernization Project tonight.

It will begin at 6 p.m. at the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School auditorium and will be a great opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the proposed modernization.

See you there!