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Fort Simpson may add fluoride to drinking water
Fort Simpson is considering adding fluoride to its drinking water. If it does, the village will become the fourth NWT community to do so. Fort Simpson has a population of just over 1,200. Pat Kane/patkanephoto.com The territorial government’s Department of Municipal and Community Affairs (MACA) states “the addition of fluoride into drinking water remains one […]
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Donahue Letter: Criticism of fluoridation ban call has provoked reaction
Editor’s note: On May 27, the Cape Breton Post published a column by Sydney resident Marlene Kane which called for a ban on water fluoridation. On June 6, the Post published a letter from Juliet Guichon, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary, who called the ban fear mongering. This prompted a response from […]
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Green Letter: Criticism of fluoridation ban call has provoked reaction
Editor’s note: On May 27, the Cape Breton Post published a column by Sydney resident Marlene Kane which called for a ban on water fluoridation. On June 6, the Post published a letter from Juliet Guichon, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary, who called the ban fear mongering. This prompted a response from […]
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Massey Letter: Criticism of fluoridation ban call has provoked reaction
Editor’s note: On May 27, the Cape Breton Post published a column by Sydney resident Marlene Kane which called for a ban on water fluoridation. On June 6, the Post published a letter from Juliet Guichon, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary, who called the ban fear mongering. This prompted a response from […]
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3 Firefighters, 1 Cop Taken To Hospital For Fluoride Gas Exposure From House Fire
11:06 p.m. Update: Officials have lifted the shelter-in-place warning for residences on Ash Tree Court and Fawn Glen Circle. FAIRFIELD (CBS13) — Residences on two streets were put under a shelter-in-place order following a structure fire and hazardous materials incident on Ash Tree Court Saturday evening. The incident began when firefighters responded to a house […]
United States, California Batteries -
Osmunson Letter: Criticism of fluoridation ban call has provoked reaction
Editor’s note: On May 27, the Cape Breton Post published a column by Sydney resident Marlene Kane which called for a ban on water fluoridation. On June 6, the Post published a letter from Juliet Guichon, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary, who called the ban fear mongering. This prompted a response from […]
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Urenco completes construction of UK tails plant
Uranium enrichment company Urenco has today held a ceremony to mark the official opening of its Tails Management Facility (TMF) at Capenhurst in the UK. The TMF will treat depleted uranium tails, a by-product of the enrichment process, by converting them from uranium hexafluoride into more chemically stable uranium oxide. The exterior of the new […]
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State Declares East Hampton Airport Hazardous Waste Site
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has ordered 47 acres of East Hampton Airport added to the “Superfund” hazardous waste site list, in the wake of its investigation of chemical contamination of groundwater in southern Wainscott. After a year-long investigation, the DEC identified a half-dozen sites on the 570-acre airport property that showed […]
United States, New York Perfluorinated chemicals -
Eloise Kailin, M.D.: Numerous battles of Peninsula environmentalist remembered
Eloise Kailin in October 2017 at a forum on fluoridating the city of Port Angeles’ water. SEQUIM — Retired Dr. Eloise Kailin, a Sequim environmentalist whose activism stretched beyond her most recent fight — a successful battle against fluoridation of Port Angeles drinking water — died Saturday of age-related causes at her Sequim-area home, her […]
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Chemicals that tainted Bucks, Montco drinking water found in lettuce, beef, even chocolate cake
Ground turkey, chocolate cake, kale — laced with a serving of toxic chemicals. People across the country, including in Bucks and Montgomery Counties, are already grappling with the effects of drinking potentially harmful chemicals known as PFAS. Newly revealed research by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows Americans are eating the substances, too. Tests […]
United States, Pennsylvania Perfluorinated chemicals