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Loophole in the law that allows toxins on the farm
When the Queensland Government introduced new rules to track industrial waste there was one notable loophole. If waste was being transported “to a farm for use as a soil conditioner or fertiliser” it was exempted from state regulations. The Queensland laws, which mainly benefit the $1.3 billion sugar industry, best illustrate the strange contradictions that […]
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Alcoa costs order to affect hundreds
Aluminium company Alcoa has been ordered to pay the medical costs of a former employee diagnosed with bladder cancer 12 years after working at its Geelong plant. The decision may affect more than 7000 past and present workers. County Court Judge Graeme Hicks yesterday found Geoffrey Stevens’ work as an operator in the plant’s pot […]
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Fluoridation Creating “False Sense of Security” Against Tooth Decay
PRESCHOOLERS in WA are having to undergo major dental work, including emergency extractions, because their teeth have decayed beyond repair. New research shows about 40 per cent of five year olds in WA have tooth decay and 12 per cent were suffering from severe tooth decay. Six per cent of the 1575 children surveyed were […]
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Thiel Subdivision to reduce fluoride levels in water
The 28 residents of Richland County Valley View (Thiel Subdivision) recently received public notices required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pertaining to the high level of fluoride present in their drinking water. According to the notice, the drinking water has a fluoride concentration of 4.54 milligrams per liter. Federal regulations require that fluoride, which […]
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Fluoride Pollution from Aluminum Smelter in Kurri Kurri Australia
Kurri and Weston residents have made a ‘private eye’ to record industrial pollution in the area. Three people spent six weeks and used donated materials to build the mobile fluoride monitor. It will be used to independently check pollution from Kurri’s aluminium smelter and a newly opened aluminium dross factory. The residents have also bought […]
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