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Shut Nanticoke and other coal-fired generators, group urges
The coal-burning Nanticoke power station is Canada’s largest industrial source of tiny toxic air-pollution particles. Jack Gibbons, chair of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, says newly available 2002 numbers “just emphasize how serious the air pollution from Nanticoke is.” The data reported by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to Environment Canada’s National Pollutant Release Inventory show […]
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Commentary on fluoride in The Times
WE ALL want that ring of confidence, but at what price? Celebrities spend fortunes on straighter, whiter teeth. Now our Government wants to improve everyone’s molars by fluoridating the water supply. If public health officials think aesthetics are now as important as health, they may find that human rights lawyers disagree. The drive to fluoridate […]
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Latest from the “Yellow Card” Campaign
CAMPAIGNERS fighting water fluoridation are coming to Huddersfield on Saturday . Members of the West Yorkshire Campaign Against Fluoridation (WYCAF) will be supporting the `Yellow Card’ campaign at The Piazza Shopping Centre all day, giving out information leaflets and asking people to sign a petition against fluoridation. Yellow Card is a campaign run by the […]
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The road less traveled — natural dentistry
First Do No Harm is an essential part of one of the oldest binding documents in history, The Hippocratic Oath. Attributed to Hippocrates, the father of medicine, its principles are still held sacred by doctors to this day and by the American Medical Association’s Code of Medical Ethics as an expression of ideal conduct for […]
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Contamination Might Make Coronet Property Unusable
PLANT CITY – Part of the Coronet Industries site might be so contaminated that it might not be safe for future use, the county’s top environmental regulator said. Testing will determine whether the holding ponds and the phosphate processing factory can be cleaned up enough, said Rick Garrity, director of Hillsborough County’s Environmental Protection Commission. […]
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It’s the vote that counts
CONCORD – Residents of communities purchasing water service from the city of Manchester should be able to vote on whether the city should add fluoride to its water supply, argued opponents of a N.H. House bill that would allow only the supplying community a vote. The bill, HB 449 introduced by Sen. Lou D’Allesandro, D-Manchester, […]
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Mountain Cooking: Teflon coated cookware is not a good choice
Bakers planning to whip up a batch of cookies for Valentine treats using Teflon coated cookies sheets might want to reconsider. Utensils that are used to cook food often do more than just “hold” the food. Molecules of substances can leach from the utensil to the food that is being cooked in that utensil. Three […]
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Fluoridation-promotion bill passes
Local health department officials can’t use taxpayer dollars to promote fluoridation and other ballot issues under a bill passed by the House this past week. SB85 now goes to Gov. Olene Walker’s desk for consideration. Rep. Roger Barrus, R-Centerville, read from a Davis County Health Department brochure produced at taxpayer expense that quoted the anticipated […]
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Coronet Throws In Towel But Promises A Clean Site
Coronet Industries Inc. executives vow they will do the “right thing” and clean up pollution problems as they close the animal food supplement plant, which some neighbors believe is making them sick. We hope they mean it. Much is at stake. State Department of Environmental Protection officials say it could cost as much as $45 […]
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Three states to get fluoride mitigation centres
Ahmedabad, India (IANS): Fluoride mitigation centres are to be set up in three states to increase the availability of potable water in villages, Rural Development Minister Kashiram Rana announced here Saturday. Rana, who inaugurated a handicrafts exhibition here, said that 110,000 villages in India suffer from scarcity of potable water due to the fall in […]
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