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  • Windsor-Essex County: Several Sides Sink Their Teeth Into Vigorous Debate Over Fluoride

    It looks like fluoride won’t be in Essex County’s drinking water anytime soon. The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit presented an oral health report at county council Wednesday night saying that local oral health is declining because fluoride is missing from the water system. However, Essex County Warden Tom Bain says fluoride is not under the […]

  • Australian Bauxite Ltd (ASX:ABX) Chairman’s Review of 2017 and Recent Developments

    Australian Bauxite Ltd (ASX:ABX) provides the Chairman’s Address to AGM 2018. Welcome to the 9th Annual General Meeting of shareholders of Australian Bauxite Limited (“ABx”). ABx has supplied to date 78 thousand tonnes of cement-grade bauxite and six thousand tonnes of fertiliser grade bauxite to our repeat customers. ABx remains ready to sell metallurgical grade […]

  • The Lawsuit That Could End Water Fluoridation in the US

    Story at-a-glance Fluoride Action Network (FAN) is among a coalition of environmental, medical and health groups suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban artificial water fluoridation FAN has recently won two major legal victories, defeating efforts by the EPA to dismiss the case and limit the evidence that can be considered Fluoride is […]

  • Sterlite – here’s proof: The data on how the smelter is likely cause for water pollution

    From court-ordered reports, studies by the TNPCB, Central Pollution Control Board and NGOs, every assessment found evidence of water contamination. On 3 April, 2018, villagers in Kumareddiapuram thwarted attempts by Thoothukudi district officials to dismantle the public handpumps that were yielding yellow-coloured water reportedly contaminated by Sterlite’s copper smelter. The hamlet, which is located within […]

  • Sterlite: Indian police accused of killing at least 11 protesters

    Demand for investigation after demonstrators shot protesting against copper smelter pollution in southern India. Rights groups and residents demanded an investigation after police in southern India opened fire and killed at least 11 people during a protest over alleged environmental pollution by a UK-owned copper smelter. Tensions were high in the Indian city of Thoothukudi on […]

  • Fluoridation on trial: Coverage lacking

    Largely unseen, a lawsuit that aims to outlaw public water fluoridation is moving forward in the federal District Court of Northern California. In earthquake-prone California, this suit could eventually shake a pillar of U.S. public health policy. Hundreds of studies showing fluoride’s detrimental effects on the human brain constitute the heart of the lawsuit. They […]

  • Two Major Legal Victories in Federal Court Case to End Water Fluoridation

    Story at-a-glance Fluoride Action Network (FAN) is among a coalition of environmental, medical and health groups suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban artificial water fluoridation FAN has recently won two major legal victories, defeating efforts by the EPA to dismiss the case and limit the evidence that can be considered Legal experts […]

  • Owen Sound: Fluoride question to be left off ballot

    A request to have a question regarding fluoride in Owen Sound’s drinking water on the municipal election ballot has been denied. The city announced Friday that a petition requesting that the ballot for the 2018 municipal election include a question about the removal of fluoride from the city’s drinking water did not meet a requirement […]

  • Is the fluoride added to our drinking water unconstitutional?

    Did you know that there is fluoride added to our drinking water, even though numerous studies prove it is bad for our health? In September 2001 the Department of Health legislated to add fluoride to South Africa’s drinking water in order to reduce the risk of dental cavities for South Africans who don’t use fluoride […]

  • Liverpool Plains Shire Council will investigate adding fluoride to its regional water supply

    Liverpool Plains Shire Council (LPSC) will consider fluoridation of the local water supply. Council has resolved to begin an investigation process, which will involve extensive community consultation. It comes after NSW Health contacted the council urging it to consider fluoridation of the regional water supply and offering it’s support to do so, including the provision of design […]