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Hamilton Council to vote on fluoride
Spectators may want to bring a pillow to tonight’s council meeting — it’s going to be a long one. Council will debate and vote on two controversial issues: raising transit fares and maintaining fluoride in the city’s water. Both decisions failed to pass because of tie votes at the committee level and were referred to […]
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Guizhou Wengfu to issue RMB 700 million bonds
Nov. 25, 2008 (China Knowledge) – Wengfu (Group) Co Ltd, controlled by China Cinda Asset Management Corp, said it would issue 700 million short-term financing bonds with a maturity of 365 days on the interbank market on Nov. 28. According to the company’s statement on the official Chinabond.com website, the bonds will become tradable on […]
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Orchardist seeks $1m for acid damage
Acid clouds, secret payouts and protecting the brand of New Zealand apples are at the centre of a $1 million claim against New Zealand’s largest fertiliser manufacturer. Napier orchardist Paddy Donovan has taken Ravensdown to the High Court over claims that he was not paid compensation for acid and fluoride damage caused by the company’s […]
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Ex-boxer takes on fertiliser giant Ravensdown
A former top New Zealand boxer started one of his biggest fights of his life yesterday seeking $1 million in damages and costs for the loss of orchards he says were ruined by emissions from the Ravensdown fertiliser manufacturing plant near Napier. Paddy Donovan, a 1956 and 1964 Olympic Games boxer and 1962 Empire Games […]
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Yesterday’s pollution slows today’s economy
Though it is easy and often convenient to lament the onerous and time-consuming nature of environmental laws, a good example of how far we’ve come and why those rules and regulations are so important is the former Reynolds Metals Co. site in Longview. Stories by Daily News reporter Amy M.E. Fischer on Sunday showed how […]
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Charleston: No fluoride in your water until ‘09
Charleston Water System won’t be adding trace amounts of fluoride to tap water until June or July 2009, when a storage tank at the Hanahan Water Treatment Plant is scheduled to be replaced. Charleston Water System adds fluoride to treated drinking water at levels recommended by the American Dental Association and the SC Department of […]
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Spokane: Dentists say failure to fluoridate amounts to health discrimination
Excerpt: … Spokane has a record of poor oral health; dentists and medical officials point to the community’s refusal to add fluoride to its drinking water. Most of the country’s major metropolitan centers fluoridate their municipal water supplies. Dentists say the failure to fluoridate amounts to health discrimination against the children of poor families. Those […]
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Southampton: Setback for city’s fluoridation plans
Hampshire County Council is refusing to support proposals to add fluoride to local water supplies. And this could prove a blow to Southampton Primary Care Trust (PCT) whose hopes of adding it to the city’s taps to sort out its poor oral health may be dashed with the move. The County Council will now send […]
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Editorial: What’s up doc?
To fluoridate or not to fluoridate… that appears to be the question. Halton council was to decide last week on whether to end the Region’s practice of fluoridating local water after current supplies have been exhausted. However, councillors were surprised when greeted with a barrage of delegations, many whom were expected to address council on […]
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Hamilton: Tie vote on water fluoridation
The city’s board of health is split over keeping fluoride in the drinking water supply. Councillors peppered presenters with questions at yesterday’s board meeting as they struggled to reconcile advice from public health supporting fluoridation and delegations calling it unsafe. Both sides claim the other is selecting studies that support their own position. After the […]
Canada, Ontario