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Brevard County: Water Quality Report for 2020
Excerpts from a 2020 Water Quality Report for Cocoa, Florida. • Cocoa’s primary water source is groundwater pumped from the Intermediate and Floridan Aquifers. • Cocoa has supplied central Brevard County with high quality drinking water since 1957. • Cocoa supplements its ground water supply with surface water from the Taylor Creek Reservoir and Aquifer […]
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1080: Five people treated after inhaling fumes in Christchurch chemical spill
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Molecular structure of highly toxic Sodium fluoroacetate (known as 1080). For more info, albeit outdated, click here Five people have been injured after inhaling fumes from a serious chemical spill at a transport yard in an industrial Christchurch suburb. Emergency services were called to the Owens Transport yard in Baigent […]
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Strike by water scheme staff leaves 900 Andhra villages without protected water
The staff of Sathya Sai Drinking Water Scheme have gone on strike to demand the release of their held up salaries of the last 15 months. ANANTAPUR: Nearly 900 villages in the district are being deprived of drinking water supply for the past nine days as the staff of a protected water scheme have been on […]
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Aluminium compound deconstructs sulfur hexafluoride in minutes
Researchers in the UK have developed a fast and mild method for deconstructing SF6. The method converts the potent greenhouse gas into stable aluminium(iii) fluoride and sulfide compounds, which can serve as nucleophilic sources of F? and S2- in further reactions to make valuable organic products. Source: © Shutterstock Sulfur hexafluoride circuit breakers protect electrical […]
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Australian Bauxite successfully converts waste to aluminium fluoride
Matt Birney Australian Bauxite’s 87 per cent owned chemical refining subsidiary Alcore’s research laboratory on the Central Coast, NSW. Credit: File Australian Bauxite’s 87 per cent owned chemical refining subsidiary, Alcore, appears to have made a significant technical breakthrough with its proprietary mineral production process used to produce commercial-grade aluminium fluoride from metal refining […]
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1080: Pest control company pleads guilty after chemical poisoning leaves man in coma
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Molecular structure of highly toxic Sodium fluoroacetate (known as 1080). For more info, albeit outdated, click here Stacy Squires/Stuff Firefighters decontaminate ESR investigators testing the Bromley site in June 2019 after a serious incident left a worked in an induced coma a month earlier. A pest control company’s worker ended […]
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UK Policy paper. Health and Care Bill: water fluoridation
Note: See response from Paul Connett, PhD, director, Fluoride Action Network. Dr Niger Carter, Oral Health Foundation said: “We believe that water fluoridation is the single most effective public health measure there is for reducing oral health inequalities and tooth decay rates, especially amongst children. We welcome these proposals and believe they represent an opportunity […]
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A Tragedy of Relying on Misinformation: Import Ban on Synthetic Fertilizers.
Excerpt: … Agrochemicals are generally considered as the causal factors for many of the non-communicable diseases (NCDs), especially the chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology (CKDu). Such unproven ideology has been forced into minds of people who are suffering from the disease. Some even dubbed CKDu as ‘Agricultural kidney disease’. This propaganda campaign has brainwashed […]
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Your chance to say yes or no to fluoride in Mims is in your water bill | Opinion by Rita Pritchett
Throughout my years of service on the Brevard County Commission, I have heard from citizens who wanted fluoride removed from their water. The commission, on May 4, 2021, voted to remove fluoride from Mims drinking water by a vote of 5-0. The commission understood the vote was to remove fluoride (hydrofluorosilic acid) from the water. […]
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Low-power nuclear demonstration reactor ‘Hermes’ coming to Oak Ridge
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — State officials announced Friday that a low-power demonstration reactor called “Hermes” will be established in the East Tennessee Technology Park. Gov. Bill Lee’s office along with the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe released the details of the upcoming reactor. The company behind Hermes is the […]
United States, Tennessee Nuclear Industry