City Council makes statement on Cemex controversy
Santa Clarita City Council formally expressed support at its April 10 meeting for Senate Resolution 96, a bipartisan effort to urge national officials to stop the proposed Cemex mining project…
Santa Clarita City Council formally expressed support at its April 10 meeting for Senate Resolution 96, a bipartisan effort to urge national officials to stop the proposed Cemex mining project…
State Sen. Scott Wilk, R-Antelope Valley, introduced a new Senate resolution Wednesday, asking the federal government to stop the proposed Cemex mine in Santa Clarita. S.R. 96 is the latest…
The company behind a massive mine proposed for Soledad Canyon has hired three lobbyists in Sacramento to exert pressure on legislators for the project, Sen. Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, said…
City officials and Santa Clarita’s representatives in Congress are battling in the legislative arena this week with both sides of the political aisle about a proposed gravel mine in Soledad…
Time is running out to protect our community from the Cemex mining project. We can no longer afford the heel-dragging that has led us to the brink of this looming…
The city of Santa Clarita has spent approximately $12.15 million in fighting Cemex, the company hoping to excavate millions of tons of sand and gravel from an area just outside…
In response to city plans to annex the site of a controversial sand-and-gravel mine site in Soledad Canyon on the city’s eastern border, Cemex filed a lawsuit against the City…
Representative Steve Knight, R-Palmdale, said last week he’s had a positive year for legislation, but has already outlined several top priorities for the new year. The two-term congressman said he…
Santa Clarita City Council members recently approved a pair of $20,000 lobbying contracts to support its effort to keep a Cemex sand-and-gravel mine away from Soledad Canyon, on the city’s…
SOURCE: California Lt. Governor Newsom's office Lt. Governor Newsom Supports Terms to Close America’s Last Coastal Sand Mine Proposed terms would see beach dredging operations capped and shut down in…
President Donald Trump’s latest executive order opening the door for the prospect of mining the currently protected natural land inside the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument has spurred some Santa…
A March 16 article in The Signal entitled "Knight Re-introduces bill to stop mining in Soledad Canyon" states the following: "City officials have long maintained that the mine would overload…
State Senator Scott Wilk who introduced a bill to keep Cemex out of the Santa Clarita Valley is expected to add a lot more bite to the bill Tuesday when…
Congressman Steve Knight, who a year ago unveiled a bill to block future mining in Soledad Canyon, re-introduced the bill this week in hopes of ensuring Cemex or any other…
Residents worried about the possibility of gravel trucks pulling in and out of Soledad Canyon, should Cemex be allowed to mine there, should know one way or the other if…
For Valentine’s Day, the Santa Clarita City Council kept it short and sweet on Tuesday night, while voting its support for a bill at the heart of the battle to…
Regarding Scott Wilk’s column “Mine requires 2nd look” published Friday in The Signal, the Cemex question will be decided by a stroke of a pen by the Egotist-in-Chief in his…
A shakeup of BLM’s top posts will not likely affect Cemex’s appeal to the bureau’s having rescinded its long-standing permits to mine Soledad Canyon, state and local officials said. And,…
An open-top tractor-trailer motors down the Highway 14 freeway. Gravel, piled high in back, ricochets off the pavement as the tractor bounces down the bumpy highway, losing bits of sand…
“SCV lawmakers line up behind anti-Cemex bill” was a headline in Tuesday’s Signal. Why am I still seeing the name “Cemex” in the paper? This is a prime example of…