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Sustainable cement in the NorthResearchers have found that producing cement in the Northwest Territories with local materials can reduce costs and lower carbon emissions

Researchers have found that producing cement in the Northwest Territories with local materials can reduce costs and lower carbon emissions

By Tijana Mitrovic

June 23, 2025

Large quantities of cement have to be stockpiled in Yellowknife, as the material can be transported to mine sites only when the ice roads are available for a couple of months each year. Courtesy of Gideon Lambiv Dzemua

When Gideon Lambiv Dzemua moved to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, eight years ago, he had a realization. “Driving from Edmonton to Yellowknife, you met so many vehicles transporting cement,” he told CIM Magazine in an interview. “This is over 1,500 kilometres of transportation every day.”

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