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Warwick and Stanthorp: Fluoride delayed due to safety
THE introduction of fluoride into Warwick and Stanthorpe water supplies has been delayed until next month after testing revealed some safety concerns, council has advised. Mayor Ron Bellingham said the decision was made after testing on Tuesday found the new fluoride analysers were taking in air as well as water and as a precaution any […]
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Molong tests water on fluoride
MOLONG residents will soon have their say on fluoridating the town’s water supply. Cabonne Council will write to residents who receive the town’s reticulated water supply to seek their feedback on the issue. Council decided to not fluoridate the town’s water in the past, leaving it up to residents to fluoridate their own water via […]
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Cape Breton keeping fluoride in the water
SYDNEY — Fluoride will remain in the drinking water in Cape Breton Regional Municipality. After a marathon session with proponents and opponents of fluoridation, councillors voted Tuesday night not only to keep the cavity-preventing chemical in the drinking water but also not to put the question to a plebiscite. “You can cherry-pick the studies to […]
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Cape Breton votes to keep fluoride in water supply
SYDNEY — Cape Breton regional council voted to keep fluoride in the municipal water supply after more than three hours of furious debate on both sides of the issue. Council was barraged by statistics, graphs and charts of data during five presentations by dentists, doctors and scientists. For decades the water systems in Sydney, North […]
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Cape Breton council to debate water fluoridation
SYDNEY — The debate over water fluoridation in Cape Breton is about to continue at regional municipal council. Several health professionals and scientists will make presentations Tuesday on both sides of the controversial issue. Community activist Marlene Kane has pushed for an end to water fluoridation in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality over the past […]
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Lethbridge: Fluoride will stay
Water fluoridation in Lethbridge is here to stay – for now, at least. After a lengthy and at times passionate debate Monday, city council voted down by a 5-4 margin a resolution by Ald. Bridget Mearns to end fluoridation of city drinking water, a practice adopted in 1974 after an equally close plebiscite on the […]
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Lethbridge debates removing fluoride from tap water
City council in Lethbridge is putting water fluoridation to a vote today as residents are equally split over the removal issue. Ald. Bridget Mearns is bringing the fluoride resolution to council. She said half the city’s population doesn’t want the compound in their tap water and it’s not fair to make them drink it. “I’ll […]
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Warwick and Stanthorpe: Fluoride to flow
SOUTHERN Downs Regional Council contractors today finalised installation of new fluoride treatment pumps at Warwick and Stanthorpe water treatment plants and will start introducing fluoride into the two town water supplies from tomorrow. The steps are required under State Government’s Water Fluoridation Act 2008 requiring the introduction of fluoride into the Warwick and Stanthorpe town […]
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Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing: a U.S. Congressional report
See report, U.S. Congress, minority report, list of fracking chemicals. Excerpts: From Executive Summary: … Hydraulic fracturing has helped to expand natural gas production in the United States, unlocking large natural gas supplies in shale and other unconventional formations across the country. As a result of hydraulic fracturing and advances in horizontal drilling technology, natural […]
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Calgary: Doctors’ plea to keep fluoride rejected
Alberta Environment has rejected the effort of four doctors who want Calgary to keep fluoridating its drinking water. The decision clears the way for the city administration to follow council’s wish and cease adding fluoride to the water supply by early May. After unsuccessfully trying to persuade aldermen that fluoridation was a proven cavity fighter, […]
Canada, Alberta