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Coast fluoride plant to be tested
PERFORMANCE tests are underway to add fluoride to water at the Image Flat treatment plant in Nambour. Fluoride also will become a standard ingredient in water supplied from Ewen Maddock and Lake Macdonald dams in the near future. After major treatment plants such as Landers Shute introduced fluoride in 2008 in stage one, smaller plants […]
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SF6: California ARB approves measure to limit most powerful greenhouse gas
SACRAMENTO- Today the Air Resources Board adopted a measure developed with representatives of the electrical utilities that will limit and monitor the emissions of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) from high-voltage electrical applications. SF6 is approximately 23,900 times as potent as carbon dioxide in trapping heat in the atmosphere: one pound of SF6 emissions is equivalent to […]
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Rous seeking clearer picture
Rous Water has deferred a decision about whether to proceed with building four fluoride dosing plants at Corndale, Clunes, Dorroughby and Knockrow and is taking legal advice on a number of issues to do with their statutory authority. Submissions closed for the Review of Environmental Factors (REF) on February 5 and were then reviewed by […]
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North Carolina: Incomplete documents lead to partial shutdown at Global Nuclear Fuel
Excerpt: …The company, which is majority owned by GE, said documents related to the safe handling of hydrofluoric material were found to be incomplete Monday, which led to the shutdown of operations using the material Tuesday morning… Click here to read full article
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Vietnam: Brickmakers to build a cleaner future
NAM DINH — “My kiln doesn’t have a bad impact on the environment. Have a look! All the trees around my property are growing,” says Do Huy Toi defiantly. Many people wouldn’t agree with Toi, the owner of an old-style brick kiln in Nam Dinh Province. In 2001, the Government decreed that by this year, […]
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Marine City will resume fluoridation
Several local dental professionals, residents and a representative from the health department showed their support for water fluoridation at the Feb. 18 Marine City Commission meeting. St. Clair County Health Department Medical Director Dr. Annette Mercatante named fluoride as “one of the most important health components in the community.” Mercatante said during her extensive research, […]
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City of Port Angeles v. Our Water-Our Choice: State Supreme Court meets
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — The state Supreme Court justice asked the attorney pointedly why he didn’t want Port Angeles voters to have a say about fluoridation of their water. “Why don’t we let the people decide first?” Justice James Johnson asked the city’s legal counsel Steve DiJulio. The nine justices were convened on three real-life […]
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Editorial: Watsonville needs to stop stalling on fluoridation deal
Title of Editorial: As We See It: Tooth for a tooth — Watsonville needs to stop stalling on fluoridation deal It’s hard to believe that the fight to fluoridate Watsonville’s water is still in the dental chair. For most of the past decade, a fight has raged within the city about whether to protect children’s […]
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Iowa City: Asking questions about fluoridation
In response to the letter written by Dr. Bob Russell (DDS, MPH) to the Press-Citizen and Daily Iowan on the continued advocacy of Iowa’s water fluoridation program, Iowans For an End to Water Fluoridation have invited him to attend a locally televised public debate on the issue in Iowa City. The Iowa City Council has […]
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Seward: Prevention is a positive move
Note from Fluoride Action Network: The bold emphasis in the article below is the author’s. *********************************************************************** Healthy People 2010 was launched by the Department of Health and Human Services. It has a comprehensive, nationwide health promotion and disease prevention agenda based on legitimate science. Its goals and objectives are designed to serve as a framework […]
United States, Alaska