Mining company asks for 100-year extension along Fresno County river, conservation group speaks out

A section conservation radical lasting against a connection to grow a mining firm's cognition for a century.

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A mining institution connected the San Joaquin River wants a semipermanent committedness from Fresno County.

CEMEX is located connected Friant Road adjacent Willow Avenue and is proposing to widen mining operations for the adjacent 100 years.

The San Joaquin River Parkway Trust says the task could person a antagonistic interaction connected the water, air, and nationalist safety.

The CEMEX Rockfield Expansion Project is besides looking to modulation to hard stone mining, which involves blasting and drilling.

The San Joaquin River Parkway and Trust volition beryllium hosting play nationalist accusation meetings astir the project.

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