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Tamworth: Sign up to force fluoride debate
MAY I, though your letters column, give a progress report on the fluoridation petition I am organising? The petition is to force Tamworth Borough Council to properly investigate fluoridation of Tamworth’s water supplies. This is compulsory medication (or in my view poisoning) of our population. The council needs a local policy for Tamworth. Simple as […]
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Fluoridated water poses risk, professor tells SACPA
A staunch opponent of water fluoridation presented the science behind his case Thursday during a presentation to the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs. Numerous studies from around the world cast serious doubt on the effectiveness and safety of adding fluoride to public drinking water, said James Beck, a University of Calgary professor emeritus of […]
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Lethbridge: Fluoride safe at present levels in water: scholar
A Fulbright Scholar from Penn State who’s visiting the University of Lethbridge says it’s OK to feel good about the city’s drinking water which is purified using state-of-the-art technology and residents need not worry about fluoridation. Fluoridation has come up in recent months as a topic of public debate, arising as an election issue this […]
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New Jersey. C8 update: Chemical found in N.J. water supply
The good folks at New Jersey Public Television have a new story out about sampling results that found troubling levels of C8 in at least one local water supply. You can watch correspondent Ed Rodgers’ report online, and here’s a quick summary: The NJ Department of Environmental Protection has been sampling 31 different public water […]
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International Isotopes buys uranium material
Idaho-based International Isotopes Inc., which is building a $93 million uranium deconversion and fluorine extraction facility near Hobbs, N.M., has purchased approximately 1,200 metric tons of depleted uranium materials from LATA/Parallax Portsmouth LLC, a U.S. Department of Energy remediation contractor. According to a news release, the sale will save DOE approximately $1.9 million in future […]
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Southampton: MP blasts South Central Strategic Health Authority’s fluoride plan
HEALTH bosses have been accused of “sheer arrogance” for insisting that they will press ahead with plans to fluoridate Hampshire’s water supplies – despite powers being handed to local politicians. The Government has confirmed that elected councils will decide on fluoridation once strategic health authorities are axed in 2012, in a move it hopes will […]
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Calgary: Fluoride debate bumped from agenda
The controversial debate on fluoridation of Calgary’s drinking water could have spilled onto council floor during budget deliberation, but it was immediately wiped out. The issue is not totally dry and it could very well flow back to council before the year ends or early 2011 as a notice of motion. Ald. Druh Farrell was […]
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Denmark: Substitution of an environmentally problematic substance used in the chrome plating industry
An important Danish investigation is on its way to find a replacement for the harmful substance PFOS that is used as a chemical aid in the hard chrome plating industry all over the world. PFOS is harmful to both environment and health. The investigation, which is being financed by the Danish EPA, is managed by […]
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California is first to regulate Sulfur Hexafluoride Greenhouse Gas
While coal-fired power plants continue to be the primary target of carbon dioxide regulation, emissions of a lesser known but more potent greenhouse gas from the electric utility industry are being regulated for the first time in California. Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is a colorless, odorless, non-toxic, and non-flammable gas that has been used in the […]
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Military bases: Fluoridation to begin December 1st
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Bioenvironmental Engineering Flight and Doyon Utilities want to inform all water consumers, effective Dec. 1, the Fluoride Injector system operated at the Water Treatment Facility will resume operations. The fluoride injector malfunctioned last April and was shut down due to high levels of fluoride in the […]
United States, Alaska