Forty years after fluoride was first added to local drinking water, the municipality of Lambton Shores wants it removed. “We’re not happy we’re forced to be medicated en masse,” says Paul Turnbull, Lambton Shores’ director of community services. “A buildup of fluoride can be toxic,” he said. “It’s an imposition on my rights.” Fluoride, a […]
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Alcoa, partners find use for hazardous waste
Alcoa, Nova Pb and St. Lawrence Cement have pooled their expertise and developed a way to turn the aluminum company’s hazardous waste into a non-toxic product that improves cement. Pot-liner, the residue produced during the smelting of primary aluminum, is dangerous stuff, containing cyanide and fluoride. It has been banned from most landfill sites for […]
The fluoride debate: necessary good or outdated practice?
Melfort Journal — Fluoride. For over 40 years, the residents of Melfort have been receiving their daily dose of the element with every glass of water we drink and with every meal we prepare. According to the city, it has been added in to the water somewhere around 1960 and before 1965, but nobody has […]
Fairview may opt to drop fluoride
Fairview may be looking at rinsing out the fluoride in their water. The town of over 3,000 about 115 km north of Grande Prairie is looking at holding a plebiscite this fall to stop water fluoridation. “Maybe the time has come after 50 years that we should take a look at it again whether we […]
Fairview considers ending fluoridation program
Superindentant of public works Gary Leathem asked council to consider a plebiscite on whether the town should continue to put fluoride into the drinking water. Although some fluoride is good for protecting people’s teeth, Leathem said, recent studies show too much fluoride is bad for bone strength. The cost of the fluoride itself is low […]
Fluoride: the debate goes on
Consider this. If we as physicians were to prescribe to patients we know nothing about, a medically active, unproven drug at uncontrolled dosage and tell them to take as much as they want for the rest of their lives while not monitoring the side effects, how long would we be practising medicine before our licences […]
Renfrew firm named No. 3 water polluter
Magellan Aerospace Corp.’s Haley Industries division at Haley Station, west of Renfrew, has been named one of the three worst water polluters on Ontario by the Sierra Legal Defence Fund. The Renfrew County company, which is one of Canada’s largest aircraft component manufacturers, was included in a list of “Ontario’s Dirty Dozen Polluters” released yesterday. […]
Emotional week for area residents
Residents made their closing, but definitely not the last remarks in a week-long hearing on what life is like in a neighborhood of ‘astronomical changes’ last week. “It was incredibly emotional,” recalled Cheryl Henkelman, a resident who was the first of nine from the northeast Strathcona County area, perusing a statement to a panel of […]
Heartland: “a pollution ghetto”
A hearing pegging Fort Saskatchewan area residents against industry is a matter stretching beyond the scope of the community. Environmental Defense Canada, a charitable group committed to protecting the environment, is backing the residents plea to halt an Agrium proposal for a phosphogypsum stack extension at the Redwater operations plant. The fertilizer producer says halting […]
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 […]