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Palm Beach Co. forges ahead on fluoridation
Rejecting pleas for delay, the Palm Beach County Commission on Tuesday declared again its intention to fluoridate the county water system. But the issue will receive another airing before the fluoride switch is flipped on. The 5-2 vote means the Water Utilities Department will seek bids within a month on a range of improvements to […]
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Residents fight Agrium expansion; want controls
FORT SASKATCHEWAN – As many as 750 jobs in the region will vanish if neighbours succeed in blocking expansion at an Agrium fertilizer plant, the company says. But some nearby residents say their lives may be at stake because the plant, near Redwater, leaks fluoride and low-level radiation. Others insist at a minimum there should […]
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Families fight fertilizer plant expansion
Edmonton – Increasing the size of a gypsum pile at a fertilizer plant will put the health of those living nearby at risk, nine Fort Saskatchewan families will argue Monday morning. Agrium wants to expand its gypsum pile, which covers 1.7 square-kilometres and is about 30 metres high, by about 1.2 square-kilometres. The gypsum contains […]
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Pakistani Said To Have Given Libya Uranium
The network led by the Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan shipped partly enriched uranium directly to Libya aboard a Pakistani airplane in 2001, providing the fuel stock in addition to the designs and technology to make a nuclear bomb, according to a report by Malaysian investigators released Friday. The report provides a wealth of […]
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Bolton council says no to fluoride
ANTI-fluoridation campaigners are claiming an early victory after Bolton Town Hall chiefs vowed to oppose plans to add a controversial chemical to tap water. Councillors voted to support a resolution to resist any attempts by the strategic health authority to move ahead with the plan to add fluoride being mixed with water supplies. They said […]
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I won’t pay my water bill, says campaigner
ANTI-FLUORIDE campaigner Peter Crampton has vowed he will not pay his water bill – even if it means landing himself in court. The campaigner plans to continue his fight against the fluoridation of the water supply by having filtration equipment fitted to his water system – and deducting the cost of it from his water […]
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Fluoride fears flare over delay in health study
THE Scottish Executive is being pressed to release the findings of a consultation exercise on the health of children’s teeth amid concern over the possibility of adding fluoride to the water supply. The consultation was launched in 2002, originally for three months and later extended into 2003, with the results expected to be released by […]
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Bill in Senate could make city fluoridate
The Wichita Eagle Some Kansas senators want to send a message to the city of Wichita: Fluoridate your water. A Senate committee has voted to introduce legislation requiring all Kansas cities to fluoridate their water if grant money is available. “It’s clearly pointed to Wichita,” said Sen. Henry Helgerson, D-Wichita. Legislators are still checking to […]
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Group to help spread word about C8 project
A community group is working to educate residents of the Little Hocking Water Association Service District about a study that could provide answers about the health effects of the chemical known as C8. The first newsletter about the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences study will be mailed by early next week to the 1,200 […]
United States, Ohio Perfluorinated chemicals -
Yellowstone Elk Die Early from Excessive Fluoride
Newswise — Elk that graze near the hot pools and geysers of Yellowstone National Park are dying about five years earlier than elk that live elsewhere in the park, says Robert Garrott, ecology professor at Montana State University-Bozeman. Blame it on fluoride. Fluoride is found naturally in the park, and elk take it in every […]
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