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Estevan voters approve fluoride
For Estevan City Councillor Dennis Moore, residents have sent a clear message about the idea of a casino in the community and whether to continue adding fluoride to drinking water. On Wednesday night, residents overwhelmingly rejected the development of a $30-million casino but approved the continuation of fluoride. … Moore also supports the plan to […]
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Estevan: Water fluoride issue sparks strong opinions
When Estevan voters go to the polls next Wednesday, not only will they fill the vacant seat on city council, they will also help decide whether fluoride will continue to be added to our drinking water. In making the decision to seek the public’s opinion, the City cited inconvenience and employee safety issues while adding […]
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Casino, fluoride on Estevan ballot later this month
… Mayor Roy Ludwig said city council in the booming southeastern city decided to use a byelection for a council seat April 23 to also seek voters’ thoughts on the two subjects. … Complicating things is the fact Estevan’s water comes from the Boundary Dam reservoir. Because of that, “we’ve already got very close to […]
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Saskatoon Editorial: Campaign avoids science
It’s understandable that those who want to end the fluoridation of Saskatoon’s drinking water are trying to distance themselves from a poster attacking the city’s utilities manager. The fluoridation of Saskatoon’s water began well before Jeff Jorgenson took on his position. Saskatoon’s leaders have long accepted the wisdom of policy experts who consider this practice […]
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Saskatoon: Anti-Fluoride posters target manager
Saskatoon’s latest anti-fluoride campaign is taking aim at one of the city’s top officials. Posters up downtown Saskatoon lay the blame for city’s water fluoridation squarely at the feet of the city’s utility services manager Jeff Jorgenson. The posters quote Jorgenson speaking a city council meeting back in December 2012 where he said that the […]
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Prince Albert: Fluoride approved by city council following debate
Despite an impassioned plea from a Prince Albert resident backed by a Canadian medical scholar, the city is cleared to resume the fluoridation of its drinking water. Local health advocate Maureen Logue first brought the issue to city council about a year ago, around the same time the city stopped injecting fluoride into its drinking […]
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Prince Albert: Fluoride, attendance and more taken on by council
City council ran the gambit of discussion during Monday’s executive committee meeting. In addition to tentatively agreeing that voluntary snow removal is the way to go and that a handful of committees they deem as redundant will be dissolved, as reported in Tuesday’s Daily Herald, council discussed the following items. Since Monday’s meeting was an […]
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Estevan City Council awards fluoride contract
Excerpt from Council Notes *Several chemical tenders for the water treatment plant were award. Border Chemical was awarded the aluminum sulphate tender for $63,210. Clear Tech was awarded the chlorine tender for $16,666.16, the potassium permanganate tender for $16,509 and the fluoride contract for $10,759.70. Brenntag Canada received the ammonium sulphate tender for $8,242.50 and […]
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Prince Albert: Local dentists support water fluoridation
With the city’s water fluoridation program offline since 2010, a local anti-fluoride advocate is saying “good riddance.” “I’m relieved, because I wouldn’t consider drinking the water otherwise, because you can’t even get it out with a Brita filter,” Maureen Logue said. “It violates sound medical ethics and denies freedom of choice.” The city’s water fluoridation […]
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Rosetown stops artificially fluoridating the town’s drinking water
The community of approximately 2300 people will no longer receive artificially fluoridated water. After the town’s fluoridation feed-pump broke down, a decision was made that there is already a sufficient amount of fluoride in the town’s well water. Background levels of natural fluoride throughout the town wells is said to be at approximately 0.5 ppm […]
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