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Arkema to build novel hydrofluoric acid facility
Arkema and Nutrien will build an anhydrous hydrogen fluoride facility at Nutrien’s site in Aurora, North Carolina, that will use by-product fluorine–containing minerals from phosphate mining as raw material rather than traditional mined fluorspar. Arkema will pay for the $150 million facility, which will supply the firm’s fluorine chemicals plant in Calvert City, Kentucky. Arkema […]
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Arkema invests in U.S. anhydrous hydrogen fluoride production
Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) has announced a long-term partnership with Nutrien Ltd, the largest integrated agricultural company in the world, for the supply of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride to Arkema’s Calvert City (Kentucky) site. This project has many advantages, as it secures a competitive access to anhydrous hydrogen fluoride, the main raw material for fluorine chemistry, […]
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Agencies that keep fluoridating county water deserve applause
Fairmont Water Department employee Kevin Taylor, left, Town Manager Katrina Tatum and Water Department employee Ronnie Seals, right, accept a CDC Water Fluoridation Quality Award from Tillie Clark, regional state dental hygienist. Corey Walters, assistant director of Lumberton’s Public Works Department, accepts a CDC Water Fluoridation Quality Award from Tillie Clark, regional state dental hygienist. […]
United States, North Carolina Fluoridation award -
Two years after fluoride spill exceeded federal limits, CFPUA resumes adding chemical at Richardson Plant
In April of 2018, approximately 30,000 customers north of Wilmington were told not to drink or cook with their water by the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority. (Port City Daily photo | FILE) NEW HANOVER COUNTY — Nearly two years ago, 30,000 customers of the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority awoke to robocalls and an […]
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CFPUA resumes adding fluoride to drinking water
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – Starting Tuesday, CFPUA will resume adding fluoride to drinking water coming from the Richardson Water Treatment Plant. The Richardson plant serves customers in northern New Hanover County, including Murrayville, Wrightsboro, Porters Neck, and parts of Castle Hayne and Ogden. Its source water comes from groundwater wells. Drinking fluoridated water keeps teeth […]
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Letter: City shouldn’t force residents to drink fluoridated water
The city of Asheville is putting a known neurotoxin in our water supply. The city of Asheville states on its website that our “pristine” water supply is fed by pure mountain streams protected from contaminants and pollution. The website even has a picture of a beautiful lake surrounded by trees and mountains. If the water […]
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Testing shows pollution still too high at former N.C. smelting plant
Contamination levels of cyanide and fluoride at Alcoa’s Badin Works facility in Badin, North Carolina, are higher than a new permit allows. (© Nancy Pierce/Flight by Southwings) Residents of the community surrounding North Carolina’s Badin Lake celebrated in June when SELC negotiated a settlement requiring a former aluminum smelting operation, shuttered in the ‘90s, to […]
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Spring Hope: Towns’ water susceptible to contamination
Spring Hope, Bailey and Middlesex received no violations in recent annual state-issued water reports, but seven of the 10 wells supplying water to the towns were listed as being highly susceptible to potential contamination. The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources conducts yearly assessments of all drinking water sources across the state, listing all […]
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Spruce Pine mining company that polluted North Toe River up for NC DEQ permit renewal
Note from the Fluoride Action Network: See a list of the many mines in Spruce Spring, North Carolina ________________________________________________ SPRUCE PINE – Not quite a year after a mineral processing plant illegally discharged hundreds of gallons of hydrofluoric acid into the North Toe River causing a fish kill, the facility, with five other facilities on the […]
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Duke Energy disputes findings of environmental report critical of coal ash operations
Duke Energy’s Allen Steam Station in Gaston County ranks second among more than 200 U.S. power plants for toxic coal ash polluting nearby groundwater, according to a study released this week by environmental groups. At the Allen plant on Lake Wylie, coal ash storage sites have polluted groundwater with nine contaminants, including arsenic, cobalt and […]
United States, North Carolina Coal Industry
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