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Environment Southland wants change to Tiwai Point environmental management
Results of the independent monitoring undertaken earlier this year at Tiwai Point, to fill gaps Environment Southland identified in New Zealand Aluminium Smelters’ data, confirmed its initial understanding of numerous legacy and ongoing sources of contamination to the environment. The regional council wants the site to be managed as a whole to meet contemporary expectations […]
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High Court Finds Ashley Bloomfield’s Fluoride Directive Unlawful
A High Court decision issued last Friday in the New Health New Zealand vs the Director General of Health (DG) case, found that the DG acted unlawfully because he had failed to consider the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act (BORA) before he mandated 14 Councils to put fluoride into their communities’ drinking water. He was required by law […]
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Bloomfield’s fluoridation orders unlawful, court rules
Orders to add fluoride to more than a dozen drinking water supplies have been ruled unlawful by the High Court, likely delaying plans for a significant expansion of fluoridation. In July 2022, then Director-General of Health Sir Ashley Bloomfield directed 14 councils to fluoridate some or all of their drinking water supplies. He did so […]
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Fluoridation of the public water supply
Once again the powers that be are seeking to impose fluoridation on the public, regardless of widespread community opposition. The usual misleading propaganda includes the statement that fluoride occurs naturally in the environment. Yes it does — but so does uranium and a whole host of dangerous substances. Would we willingly swallow any of them […]
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2023 study on fluoride & IQ contradicts so-called ‘safe’ levels in drinking water
Professor Philippe Grandjean is a professor of environmental medicine at the University of Southern Denmark and a research professor at the University of Rhode Island. ‘We have to do everything we can to remove toxic exposures to support brain development.’ This study lead by Grandjean brought together 3 cohort studies, from Mexico (ELEMENT study), Canada […]
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Whangarei District Council baulks over government fluoridation mandate
Whang?rei District Council is pushing back against the government’s directive to fluoridate the district’s drinking water. The move comes amid funding concerns, claims of a loss of democracy and a councillor asking about a potential High Court injunction – which the council lawyer quickly dismissed. A fractious council meeting on 28 September decided on a […]
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‘They feed off each other’: Fluoride politics come roaring back with a post-Covid flavour
Fluoridation is an issue that has convulsed local politics in New Zealand for decades. After a quiet spell, a new law and post-Covid mistrust in public health measures have collided, which is likely to bring the issue back to a town or city near you. CHARLIE MITCHELL reports. It was a mild evening in Timaru. […]
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Whangarei’s drinking water fluoridation costs climb as Government mandate kicks in
The cost of compulsory fluoridation for Whangarei’s drinking water has increased by more than 50 per cent to $4.65 million – and ratepayers could end up paying. Whangarei District Council (WDC) politicians will on Thursday vote on awarding the contract for building the plant to fluoridate Whangarei’s water to Northland-based Bellcon Construction, and committing $4.65 […]
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National Party Not Current On Fluoride Science
The National Party is relying on outdated and discredited science in its continued support of adding a hazardous waste (“fluoride”) to the public water supply. The most up-to-date scientific review has been completed by the US National Toxicology Program (NTP), finding that higher fluoride exposure is consistently associated with lower IQ in children (see page […]
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National’s anti-fluoride, anti-mandate MP-in-waiting: Ryan Hamilton
Ryan Hamilton has voiced support for groups that spread misinformation about fluoridation. He refuses to be interviewed but the National Party claims he has changed his mind about the fluoridation of water, after more than two decades of public opposition. In social media posts, Hamilton claimed Covid deaths data had been inflated and once said […]
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