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Windsor: Health unit fights anti-fluoride lobby
The incidence of rotten teeth is 24-per-cent higher in Kingsville and Leamington — where tap water is fluoride-free — than in Windsor, where municipal water has been fluoridated for decades, health authorities told reporters Friday. “We want council to vote to keep the fluoride in our water supply,” said Dr. Frank Charles, a local dentist […]
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Smelter Failed To Supervise Emissions
The Environment Agency of Iceland (UST) believes aluminium company Alcoa failed to properly supervise its own emissions and, as a result, the agency will be asking for new readings from every heavy industry operation in the country. RÚV reports that the UST examined data from the Alcoa smelter in Reyðarfjörður, east Iceland, and found that […]
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Turning ore into profit — for us
AN ALUMINIUM smelter has been operating in Mozambique for the past ten years, taking the country’s electricity to produce metal used in European and Japanese cars and aeroplanes. The profits, however, are benefiting foreign investors far more than anyone in Mozambique. The smelter, known as Mozal, after the company that owns it, is immense. Sited […]
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Windsor fluoride debate comes down to vote Monday
The Windsor Utilities Commission recommends fluoride be removed from the city’s drinking water. Windsor council is to decide whether to do so on Monday. The recommendation also states, however, that, “savings from this action be redirected to oral health and nutrition education in Windsor and Essex County for a period of five years.” Windsor spends […]
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Windsor Star Editorial. Flouride debate: Making the right decision
Expect a long and heated debate Monday night when city council meets to discuss whether to continue fluoridating Windsor’s water supply. On one side will be grassroots groups urging council to stop a practice that has been credited with reducing tooth decay for more than 60 years. On the other will be dentists and health […]
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Health officials want Brooksville to bring back fluoride
BROOKSVILLE — In a last-minute budget decision two years ago, the Brooksville City Council voted 5-0 to stop putting fluoride into the city’s water supply. The vote came without debate and with no publicity. Now, county health officials say they want to appeal to the city to reverse its call and bring back the mineral […]
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Fluoride doubts plague Holmen board members
An attempt by three Holmen Village Board members to coax discussion of another fluoride referendum was unsuccessful, but they did get the board to change the kind of fluoride to be used in the village’s public water. Board members Tony Horvath and Dawn Kulcinski requested the special board meeting Jan. 17 to discuss fluoridation issues. […]
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Hamilton and Thames: Waikato DHB Refuses to Present Fluoridation Case to Public
Despite the DHB being an avid proponent of fluoridation, Craig Climo, Waikato District Health Board CEO, has turned down an opportunity for Principal Dental Officer, Rob Aitken and Dr Felicity Dumble to present the case for fluoridation at two upcoming public information evenings in Hamilton and Thames. Mr Climo has advised Fluoride Action Network NZ […]
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Energy’s Latest Battleground: Fracking For Uranium
This story appears in the February 11, 2013 issue of Forbes. No tour of Uranium Energy Corp.’s processing plant in Hobson, Tex. is complete until CEO Amir Adnani pries the top off a big black steel drum and invites you to peer inside. There, filled nearly to the brim, is an orange-yellow powder that UEC […]
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Portland: Job Announcements for Pro-Fluoridation Group
Note from FAN The jobs described below are designed to get the May 2013 fluoridation referendum passed. Clean Water Portland, without the big money of the fluoridationists, desperately needs residents and volunteers to work for the public interest to block this referendum. The Everyone Deserves Healthy Teeth Coalition supports water fluoridation for the city of […]
United States, Oregon