The decades-long battle to ensure that mega-mining never occurs in the Santa Clarita Valley could over, as CEMEX’s second 10-year mining contract officially expires on July 31, officials said. The decades-long battle to ensure that mega-mining never occurs in the Santa Clarita Valley could be over, as CEMEX’s second 10-year mining contract officially expires on July 31, officials said. CEMEX ...

In what has been a decades-long battle to ensure that mega-mining does not occur in the Santa Clarita Valley, on April 24, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a formal notice to CEMEX regarding the outstanding amount of $6.3 million owed to BLM, officials said Tuesday. This amount is for CEMEX’s first 10-year contract, which expired in July 2010. ...

In the aftermath of a “landmark” decision that struck down a proposed Cemex mine in Soledad Canyon earlier this year, the company has filed a lawsuit against several federal agencies, officials said Friday. The lawsuit was filed in May against the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for allegedly “unlawfully” depriving Cemex of ...

Congresswoman Katie Hill sent a letter on Monday to Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt requesting assistance in expediting the decision to terminate the contract pertaining to the CEMEX mining project. The mining project was brought forward by the building materials company CEMEX, who proposed a 56 million net ton sand and gravel mine in Soledad Canyon which would encompass ...

Senator Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, introduced a bill Wednesday to the California legislator to shut down the CEMEX mine in Soledad Canyon. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Senate Resolution 96 – calls on the federal government to stop, once and for all, the proposed CEMEX, inc. mega-mine near Santa Clarita and ...

The Santa Clarita City Council is set to discuss the Cemex lawsuit Tuesday in a “closed door” special meeting after the company alleged the city violated a contract, officials said. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Cemex is naming the city of Santa Clarita in a lawsuit claiming “numerous and deliberate” contract ...

BY ANDREW G. FRIED You would think that a big push to develop a massive gravel mine would at least be backed up by one significant factor: The need for one. As we’ve written previously, the proposed 56-million-ton CEMEX mine, just outside the City of Santa Clarita, would cause significant and irreversible impacts on the wildlife corridors in and around the ...