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Simcoe and Delhi: All talk, no action
Simcoe and Delhi residents will continue to get fluoride through their drinking water. After three hours of discussion, council members unanimously voted to continue to provide fluoridated water to Simcoe, Delhi and Courtland. The decision is contrary to a vote in November, where council voted 6-2 to remove fluoride from municipal water systems. That decision […]
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Battle lines drawn in Ballina on fluoridation
BALLINA Shire Council will tomorrow consider a request from the local branch of the Australian Dental Association to fluoridate the shire’s water supply. Back in 2006, Ballina Shire Council, along with the Byron Shire Council, rejected a request from NSW Health to add fluoride to the water. Lismore City and Richmond Valley councils both agreed […]
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Science nabs two new greenhouse gases
Two new greenhouse gases – one emitted by the electronic industry and the other used in pest control – are rapidly accumulating in the atmosphere, say researchers. And they say countries should consider including these gases for control in the revision of the Kyoto Protocol due later this year. Climate scientist Dr Paul Fraser of […]
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‘Liquid’ fluorspar-miner Sallies ready for ‘bounce’ or blows – CEO
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) –South African fluorspar miner Sallies was positioned to rise with any upward economic “bounce” – and also sufficiently financially liquid to ward off any blows that may arise in the form of deteriorating market conditions, its CEO Tom Dale said on Tuesday. Announcing a R45-million turnaround to operational profit for the six months […]
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Southampton: Hampshire fluoride protesters to take campaign to court
CAMPAIGNERS have launched a fighting fund to help take their bid to stop fluoride being added to Hampshire’s tap water to the courts. Hampshire Against Fluoridation (HAF) is taking legal advice on challenging the decision to add fluoride to the water supplies of nearly 200,000 residents in Southampton, Eastleigh, Totton, Netley and Rownhams. With no […]
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European Commission agree to investigate health risks of fluoridated water
The European Commission has just opened a public consultation process to investigate the health risks of adding fluoride to public water supplies. The Irish health authorities, through the local councils, have added hydrofluorosilicic acid to public water supplies since 1960. However, unlike sodium and calcium fluoride used in toothpaste, Hydrofluorosilicic acid is an industrial waste […]
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Norfolk: Fluoride showdown
The Ontario Dental Association has weighed in on the debate over the fluoridation of municipal water in Norfolk. In a statement yesterday, Dr. Larry Levin, president of ODA, said eliminating fluoride from municipal water would be a step backward for the oral health of Norfolk residents. Specifically, ODA fears Norfolk children deprived of fluoridated water […]
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Coffs Harbour: Fluoride battle will last to the last drop
AS anti-fluoridation campaigner Wayne Evans had his day in court yesterday, a dedicated group of protestors took up residence outside Coffs Harbour court house and proclaimed fluoridation as undemocratic. The Fluoridation Is Not Democratic (FIND) group were there to let residents know they have a choice about their water supply, according to spokesperson Sylvia Turner. […]
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Protests as biggest ever nuclear waste load goes to Siberia
Several environmental organisations are protesting at what they call biggest ever delivery of radioactive waste to Russia. The load is being transported from Germany to Siberia for processing. More than 1,200 tons of uranium hexafluoride – a compound left over from enrichment of nuclear power plant fuel – was delivered to St. Petersburg on March […]
Nuclear Industry -
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Shows Strong Support for Community Water Fluoridation
ARLINGTON, Va., March 23 (AScribe Newswire) — The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) has issued a statement supporting the Healthy People 2020 goal to increase to 75 percent the number of Americans on optimally fluoridated public water supplies. According to the Journal of Public Health Dentistry, fluoridation yields a significant return on […]
United States, National USA