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Oberon fluoride: council meeting approves addition to water supply
A DIVISIVE community debate has ended, for now, after Oberon Council voted to allow fluoride to be added to the town’s water supply. But the peace might not last long as fluoridation opponents are already warning that the battle isn’t over. Oberon councillors voted 5-3 in favour of fluoridation at their ordinary meeting on Tuesday […]
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Sheridan Council decides not to put water fluoridation to public vote
City council held a public hearing on the fluoridation of the city’s water Monday and ultimately voted not to put the issue on November’s ballot or conduct a public survey on the issue. Council voted 4-2 not to pursue the issue further. Mayor Roger Miller and Councilor Thayer Schafer voted against the motion to take […]
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Tinci Materials to Use NEV Battery By-Products for Drugs, Pesticides
A unit of Tinci Materials Technology will seek uses for by-products that form while refining materials for new energy vehicles’ batteries. Jimute New Materials will construct production lines for by-products, such as photoinitiators, methyl acetate, trifluoroacetic acid, and sulfuryl fluoride, which appear while processing lithium hexafluorophosphate, the Guangzhou-based chemical manufacturer said in a statement yesterday. […]
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Dozens of fish in North Toe River killed after quarry leak, state officials say
PRUCE PINE, N.C. (WLOS) — Dozens of dead fish have died and are washing up on the banks of the North Toe River after a reported hydrofluoric acid leak at a Spruce Pine quarry, state officials say. North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) Regional Supervisor Landon Davidson said the leak happened at Quartz Corp. on […]
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Springfield City commission to review fluoride ballot proposal
Springfield City Commissioners will vote Tuesday on whether to put a measure on the ballot this fall to fluoridate the public water supply. If approved, voters would likely decide in November on whether to add fluoride to the water in Springfield and New Carlisle, said Charles Patterson, commissioner of the Clark County Combined Health District. […]
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Are You Fluoridated?
It’s time we look at the fact that we are being dosed with a chemical, in an unmonitored and unstudied way, without our consent. What if I told you that your drinking water, and everything made from it – drinks to soups – was poisoned? What if I then told you that this poison was […]
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Assam adopts water management practices to keep pace with climate change
In a small village on the north bank of the Brahmaputra in Assam, farmer Horen Nath stood gazing at his partially submerged paddy field. The floods had kept their annual date, but mercifully, the farmer said, the waters have started receding. “The weather has become very strange of late. We always had ample rain, but […]
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Local View: Citizens join mayors in demanding safer refinery
The next few months will be critical in deciding the level of risk from a chemical release and disaster that will be allowed to be reimposed by Husky Energy on its workforce and on the citizens of the Twin Ports. The company, no doubt, will be happy to provide volumes of information to the mayors […]
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Science: Electric car batteries souped-up with fluorinated electrolytes for longer-range driving [Report]
The success of electric car batteries depends on the miles that can be driven on a single charge, but the current crop of lithium-ion batteries are reaching their natural limit of how much charge can be packed into any given space, keeping drivers on a short tether. Now, researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD), […]
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Study looks at media coverage of water fluoridation efforts
Last fall, oral health advocates joined a successful push to save a city water fluoridation ordinance in Rugby, N.D. Meanwhile, in Buda, Texas, voters rejected a measure that would have reinstated water fluoridation in their Austin suburb. A misinformation campaign mounted by a local anti-fluoridation group won out over the science, fluoridation supporter Jonathan Kimes, […]
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