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Groups up cash offer to fluoridate
A state dental foundation and the local health department are upping the ante in their bid to get fluoridated drinking water in a place where they still have a chance of prevailing. Their target: Puyallup. While city officials haven’t decided whether to add the cavity-fighting agent to their water supply, the health groups this week […]
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Southland District Council Says No to Fluoridation
THE Southland District Council policy review committee yesterday voted against recommending the fluoridation of district water supplies. The decision, if ratified at the district council meeting this month, spells the death knell for a proposal that has been hotly debated by the pro and anti-fluoridation lobbies since May last year. Chief executive David Adamson said […]
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NZ Democrats Support Call For Fluoridation Moratorium
The Democratic Party fully supports Fluoride Action Network (NZ)’s call for a moratorium on fluoridation of public water supplies. Latest research showing serious harm from fluoridation reinforces the basic right of New Zealander’s to choose not to be subjected to mass medication. The fluoridation of public water supplies precludes the public’s right to choose and […]
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Fluoride fight goes on
THE Hastings water supply will be fluoridated but campaigners against the move are planning an information session in Port Macquarie. Public information sessions are set down for Bellingen and Coffs Harbour later this month, and Cr Lisa Intemann is working with others in a bid to hold a similar information session in the Hastings. The […]
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Agrium gets OK to expand
Edmonton – The largest fertilizer plant in the country has been given permission to expand, despite objections from its neighbours. The Natural Resources Conservation Board has approved an expansion at the Redwater Agrium plant, which will see its gypsum pile – which covers 1.7 square-kilometres and is about 30 metres high – almost double in […]
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Puyallup council’s next to tackle fluoride issue
Sumner’s decision last week to stop fluoridating its water ended a debate that grew intense and at times took on an us-against-the-outsiders tenor. But the question of fluoridation remains unsettled in several other pockets of Pierce County. Two other utilities that started adding the cavity-fighting compound to their water under orders of the local health […]
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Mayor says ‘don’t filter fluoride cost data’
The City of Hood River hasn’t yet decided how costs will be divvied up if voters approve fluoridation of the water supply. But Mayor Paul Cummings has objected to placing the issue on the Nov. 2 general election ballot without listing the potential monthly charges. City staffers have tabulated that 2,000 customers could see an […]
United States, Oregon -
Sumner to stop putting fluoride in water
Sumner’s water fluoridation program will soon come to a halt. The City Council voted 7-1 Monday to stop putting fluoride in its drinking water, terminating the city’s contract with the Tacoma-Pierce County health board. The decision means the city will lose the $122,000 it has spent to install the system, including $58,000 that would have […]
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Mohawk official moves group with fluoride gas horror tale
HOGANSBURG – On Monday morning, F. Henry Lickers amazed and even brought to tears his audience of scientists and activists in a longhouse of the Mohawk people. For three hours, the director of the Department of Environment for the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne described a dark chapter in his people’s history that began in the […]
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We’ll Fight Fluoride Tooth and Nail, Warns Council
LIVERPOOL City Council is locked on a collision course with the regional health authority over fluoride in water supplies. The council is set to pass a motion condemning the fluoride used in water supplies as being a pesticide. It is also expected to relaunch the school dental service in secondary schools as a better way […]
United Kingdom, England