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Why I’m voting ‘no’ on fluoridating Portland’s water: Guest opinion
I was honored to serve on the Portland City Council for 17 years. During that time I worked to protect our Bull Run water supply from logging and other degradations. If you have tried water in other major cities, you know that Portland’s clean water is one of the things that make our city unique. […]
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Dunedin: Council opts to drop fluoride level
The amount of fluoride being added to Dunedin’s drinking water is to be reduced within days, after city councillors opted to play it safe despite lingering doubts over the science behind the debate. The decision, pushed for by Cr Kate Wilson, came despite a warning from council staff, who said the change could result in […]
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Gladstone council still considering fluoride issue
GLADSTONE regional councillors are still deciding whether to keep fluoride in the local water supply, while in Rockhampton the council voted to remove it. Gladstone councillors met in a private meeting on Monday to receive information about the pros and cons of fluoride in the water supply. Information councillors received included notes from Queensland Health […]
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Minnesota rebuffs 3M offer to pay to monitor PFCs in east metro
The 3M Co. offered to pay the $626,000 tab to continue a biomonitoring program to measure PFC levels in residents of three east-metro communities, but the offer was rejected because of the state’s ongoing lawsuit against the company. An advisory panel of experts with the Minnesota Department of Health had recommended continuing the five-year-old program […]
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Carrickmacross votes to oppose mandatory fluoridation
Earlier this week, Carrickmacross Town Council became the third town council to call for an end to the mandatory fluoridation of the water supply in Ireland – a controversial policy which is increasingly being seen as a major threat to people’s health. Carrickmacross this week became the third Town Council to call for an end […]
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Portland: Money Continues to Pour in For Fluoridators
Today’s large donation to Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland, the campaign proposing Measure 26-151, which would fluoridate Portland’s water supply, comes from Upstream Public Health. Upstream, a Portland non-profit, is the group that started the fluoridation movement rolling last year in clandestine talks with then City Commissioner Randy Leonard and Mayor Sam Adams. Filings with the […]
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Aditya Birla Group Plans To Sells It’s Stake In Tanfac
The Aditya Birla group is planning to sell its 25% stake in Tanfac Industries, a fluorine chemical JV with the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation, TOI states. The company is in talks with Arvind Mafatlal-owned Navin Flourine International and Inox group-promoted Gujarat Fluorochemicals to sell its stake in the JV. The JV was incorporated in […]
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Rockhampton is Queensland’s 14th council to get rid of fluoride
ROCKHAMPTON Regional Council has today become the fourteenth council to make the decision to remove fluoride from its region’s water supply since the Queensland Government gave councils the option to take it out. Council sought advice from Queensland Health and the Australian Dental Association before making the decision. Both health bodies encouraged the fluoridation of […]
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Fluorspar: Tertiary Minerals upbeat as losses widen
TERTIARY Minerals, the exploration and development company with projects in the US and Scandinavia, has posted a higher interim loss, but says its prospects are positive. The AIM firm, which has its administrative base in Macclesfield, made a loss of £236, 278 in the six months to the end of March, up from £190,469 in […]
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Meadville: Group requests fluoride be added to local water
A request to add fluoride to the City of Meadville’s municipal water system will be on the agenda Monday night when Meadville Area Water Authority gathers for its monthly meeting, which will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the authority’s administrative offices at 18160 Rogers Ferry Road in Vernon Township. The meeting is open to the […]
United States, Pennsylvania