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Issue of fluoride in city’s water may go before voters
Faced with a very passionate decision, Elgin city council members will be deciding at their Nov. 20 meeting whether to put the issue of fluoridating Elgin’s water supply to voters or decide themselves. Council members held a workshop on the issue Oct. 16 and had a number of residents and specialists speak as well as […]
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Call for fluoridated water referendum in Ballarat
An academic from an American university is calling for residents of Ballarat to ask for a referendum to decide if the city’s water supply should be fluoridated. The Victorian State Government is pushing to add fluoride to the region’s water supply. Professor Paul Connett told a meeting of about 150 residents last night, that scientists […]
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Ballarat Fluoride Debate
FLUORIDE should never be added to Ballarat’s water supply, a public meeting was told last night. The meeting was addressed by New York’s St Lawrence University Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett and former South Australia Dental Association president Dr Andrew Harms. Both men are against fluoride being added to water supplies, saying the chemical had […]
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Fluoride leaves a bitter taste with prominent New Yorker
“In public meetings I always end up persuading the audience, but politicians and bureaucrats just won’t debate the issue with me,” said Paul Connett, a committed opponent of adding fluoride to drinking supplies. Prof Connett, who was in Kempsey last week as part of a speaking tour taking in Victoria, NSW and Queensland, retired last […]
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Newport requests fluoride delay
Newport Beach City Council voted unanimously Tuesday evening to send a letter requesting the water district delay the start of water fluoridation so they can evaluate resident’s concerns. “This is 2007. Nobody dies of a cavity,” said Newport Beach resident Dolores Otting in protest of the plan. “It’s a barbaric form of medicine to force […]
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Corning: Anti-fluoridation referendum could appear on 2008 election ballot
Assuming the petition seeking to prevent the fluoridation of the City of Corning’s public water supply contains the minimum number of valid signatures and satisfies other legal requirements, the referendum on the issue could appear on the ballot of the 2008 general election, according to an written opinion from the city’s attorney. The memo also […]
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Dental costs vs. fluoride
Hamilton councillors want to know the cost of expanding dental care to rid the city’s water system of fluoride. For nearly three hours yesterday, the board of health debated the merits of fluoridated water — a public health measure many cities are reconsidering. Dr. Peter Wiebe, who monitors the city’s dental programs, cautioned against removing […]
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Mount Gambier: Meeting to vote on fluoride issue
A new group has called a community meeting to vote on whether the water supply in Mount Gambier, in the south-east of South Australia, should be fluoridated. Choice Mount Gambier will hold the meeting in the middle of November and has invited speakers both for and against adding fluoride. The State Government says fluoridation will […]
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Warrnambool: Fluoride snub threat
WARRNAMBOOL’S doctors and dentists look set to snub tomorrow night’s fluoride forum. Organisers have not received any responses from the health professionals about the think-tank with international anti-fluoride expert Dr Paul Connett. “It is quite troubling and concerning…It is pretty ordinary, given it is the doctors’ and dentists’ job to look after residents’ health,” co-organiser […]
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Water Wars: The Fluoride Debate
ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — When you think of fluoride you probably think of toothpaste, or even those trays filled with sticky “goo” the dentist stuck in your mouth when you were a kid. But when was the last time you thought about fluoride in your drinking water? Chances are, you don’t think about it […]
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