Augusta, GA
Augusta metal plant wins authorization for $760M in bonds
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – A decide signed the papers Tuesday for the Augusta Financial Improvement Authority to obtain the authorization to problem $760 million in bonds for an organization that plans a facility right here.
The Savannah Riverkeeper was in court docket to oppose the approval that will assist German firm Aurubis open a $340 million steel recycling and secondary smelting facility in south Augusta.
Aurubis has filed an air allow request with Georgia’s Environmental Safety Division for the plant that guarantees 125 jobs.
The Savannah Riverkeeper calls it a request to launch what it calls “greater than 30 hazardous pollution into the air that the folks of Augusta breathe.”
The Riverkeeper says folks will now have to talk out about air high quality and yo let officers know what they do and don’t need.
The Riverkeeper identified that the approval in court docket got here on the identical day because the announcement of a plan to revitalize the previous Regency Mall web site, creating housing for two,000 folks together with retailers, eating places and extra.
The Riverkeeper says crops that pollute would damage such goals of development for south Augusta.
“As we announce the potential for what seems to be a superb and revitalizing non-public mission, with the potential for two,000 new folks to name South Augusta residence, what incentive do these folks have to maneuver to the realm?” mentioned the Riverkeeper’s Tonya Bonitatibus.
In an earlier public touch upon Aurubis’ plans, the Riverkeeper highlighted the request to launch what it calls “greater than 30 hazardous pollution into the air that the folks of Augusta breathe.”
“The record consists of issues from arsenic to o-Xylene that, if permitted, can be launched ‘in and across the facility,’” the Riverkeper mentioned.
Aurubis will construct its facility on 150 acres at Augusta Company Park.
Operations are anticipated to start by the primary half of 2024, and the corporate plans to start hiring as quickly as summer time 2022. Folks keen on jobs with Aurubis are inspired to go to www.aurubis.com/en/profession/jobs.
Aurubis is a world supplier of non-ferrous metals and one of many largest copper recyclers worldwide. The corporate processes complicated steel concentrates, scrap metals, natural and inorganic metal-bearing recycling supplies, and industrial residues into metals.
The corporate produces greater than 1 million tons of copper cathodes yearly, and from them makes quite a lot of merchandise corresponding to wire rod, steady solid shapes, profiles and flat rolled merchandise.
Aurubis produces quite a lot of different metals, as properly, together with treasured metals, selenium, lead, nickel, tin and zinc. The portfolio additionally consists of further merchandise corresponding to sulfuric acid and iron silicate.
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Augusta, GA
Harris heads to a hard-hit Augusta reeling from Helene water and power outages
This story was updated on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at 1:54 p.m.
In Augusta, Georgia, a line wrapped around a massive shopping center, past the shuttered Waffle House and at least a half mile down the road to get water Tuesday.
At 11 a.m. it still hadn’t moved. Kristie Nelson arrived with her daughter three hours earlier. It was a muggy morning for October but they had their windows down and the car turned off because gas is a precious commodity too.
“It’s been rough,” said Nelson, who still hasn’t gotten a firm date from the power company for her electricity to be restored. “I’m just dying for a hot shower.”
The city — along with Valdosta — was one of the hardest-hit in Georgia by Hurricane Helene on Friday. Vice President Kamala Harris will arrive there Wednesday afternoon to survey the damage, meet with local officials and provide updates on federal actions being taken to support recovery efforts.
President Joe Biden will visit Georgia and Florida on Thursday to tour impacted areas and meet with affected communities. Former President Donald Trump was in Valdosta on Monday.
Augusta and Richmond County have five centers for water set up for its more than 200,000 people. The city hasn’t provided specifics on the durations of outages for both water and power.
Local resident Sherry Brown was converting power from the alternator of her car to keep her refrigerator running and taking “bird baths” with water she collected in coolers. In another part of the city, people waited in line for more than three hours to try to get water from one of five water centers.
All around the city, trees are snapped in half and power poles are leaning. Traffic lights are out — and some are just gone from the winds that hit in the dark early Friday morning from Hurricane Helene.
“It’s miserable here,” said David Reese who was probably looking at spending his entire day in a line for water, then for gas. “But I’m still feeling blessed. I’ve heard it’s a lot worse other places.”
Some 350,000 people are still without power in Georgia as of Wednesday afternoon, according to poweroutage.us. The storm killed at least 166 people across six states, including 25 in Georgia.
President Joe Biden, who is set to survey the devastation in North and South Carolina Wednesday, estimated the recovery could cost billions.
“We have to jump start this recovery process,” he said Tuesday. “People are scared to death. This is urgent.”
Vice President Harris will make remarks about the recovery efforts from Augusta at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
WABE’s Patrick Saunders contributed to this report.
Augusta, GA
Trees Crush Roof of Home in Georgia After Hurricane Helene
The roof of a home in Augusta, Georgia, was crushed by fallen trees after Hurricane Helene caused widespread destruction, video from October 1 shows.
X user @j_wieberdink said she filmed this video of her husband’s home in Augusta and said “thousands of homes look like this.”
“Five days later, we don’t have power. Power lines down. The roads that have been cleared were cleared by citizens with chainsaws … our power grid has been destroyed by this storm,” she wrote in a caption on the post. Credit: @j_wieberdink via Storyful
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Augusta, GA
Kamala Harris coming to Augusta to see hurricane damage
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Georgia to tour the damage Hurricane Helene left across the Peach State.
The vice president will be in Augusta on Wednesday, where she will be briefed on recovery efforts.
Harris will also give updates on federal actions that are being taken to support emergency response and recovery efforts in Georgia and several other states.
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On Monday, Harris visited Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters where she received a follow-up briefing on the ongoing impacts of Hurricane Helene and thanked federal personnel and first responders for their work to support impacted communities.
During her remarks, she made it clear that the Biden-Harris administration “will continue to do everything we can to help you recover and to help you rebuild – no matter how long it takes.”
President Joe Biden, meanwhile, will visit storm-hit areas of North Carolina on Wednesday. He’ll “engage with first responders and state and local officials in South Carolina en route to North Carolina.”
Early Friday, the Category 1 storm hit Augusta, knocking out power to most of the city, toppling trees onto homes, killing nearly 25 people across the CSRA and leading to a more than two-day shutdown of Augusta’s water system.
Harris’ visit will come just a day after President Joe Biden approved a major disaster declaration for Richmond, Columbia and Jefferson counties.
The White House said Harris has spoken with Georgia leaders, including Gov. Brian Kemp and Savannah Mayor Van Johnson, ahead of her planned visit to the state.
The Augusta visit comes after ones Monday by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga.
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