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InDaily has posted a YouTube video on Cemex, the Mexican cement manufacturing giant, who owns Rinker Materials.

What do you do when an international conglomerate sets up shop in your backyard, pours pollutants into the air and water, and buys its way out of any environmental fines in the pursuit of profit? You don’t ignore it and hope it’ll go away, and you don’t fool yourself that the struggle will be easy. Come to Lyons, Colorado, where, despite a lack of official support, one group of neighbors is taking on a money-making factory. Check it out – here

The Independent News wrote about Cemex in March 2005 – Dustup Over CEMEX

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