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  • Will Cameco Bid For Urenco?

    Cameco (CCJ) is a Canadian company best known for mining uranium and accounting for 16% of world uranium production from its operating mines in North America and Kazakhstan. Cameco has a market capitalization of $7.85B and is listed on Yahoo Finance with a forward P/E of 15.51. Trading just below $20.00 at the time of […]

  • 10 Facts About Fluoride

    Watch FAN’s New Video discussing these facts Download the Flyer! Fact #1: Most Developed Countries Do Not Fluoridate Their Water In the United States, health authorities call fluoridation “one of the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th century.” Few other countries share this view. In fact, more people drink artificially fluoridated water in […]

  • Council hears mixed views on fluoride at Au Gres meeting

    Au GRES — Residents and interested parties packed Au Gres City Hall April 9 during the city council’s regular meeting to express their views and concerns on fluoridated water. The city council voted not to fund any fluoride-related expansion of the existing water plant during a special meeting March 12, and many people attended this […]

  • Two Opposing Views on Fluoridating Portland’s Drinking Water

    The first commentary, by Rick North, encourages voters to defeat the ballot measure because of health concerns, lack of effectiveness and higher costs, while the second commentary, by Claudia Colen and Dr. Teran Colen insists the science is clear that fluoride doesn’t have any negative health or environmental impacts and is a safe and effective […]

  • The Universal Consensus on Sulfuryl Fluoride = Keep It Away From Food

    Of the few western nations that allow food facilities to be fumigated with sulfuryl fluoride (trade name = “ProFume”), only the U.S. and Australia allow the fumigation to occur while food is still on the premises. Although the EPA has recently proposed phasing out all food-based uses of sulfuryl fluoride, Dow AgroSciences (the manufacturer of ProFume), is lobbying […]

  • Portland: Fluoridation opponents: ‘We are not in a dental crisis’

    PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portlanders have one month to decide where they stand on adding fluoride to Portland’s municipal water supply. A group against it took over the Last Thursday event, trying to convince voters to vote “no” on a May 2013 ballot measure. Up Northeast Alberta Street they came, in the midst of Thursday […]

  • West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh & Karnataka: SLOW POISON

    Arsenic and fluoride contaminated water has condemned millions to live wasted lives in West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Business Line visited several villages in the affected regions for this special report by A. Srinivas. Sixty-nine-year-old Renubala Ari of Deganga village in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district is counting her last days. But it […]

  • Sonoma City Council to Discuss Water Fluoridation

    The Sonoma City Council holds its regular meeting on Monday, May 6, at the Community Meeting Room, and will take another look at adding fluoride to drinking water to help prevent tooth decay. The issue was before the Council last month, when the City Council heard a presentation by the County Department of Health Services […]

  • Skibb calls for fluoride ban

    A CAMPAIGNING journalist with ‘Hot Press’ has highlighted Ireland’s controversial fluoridation policy with a two-page spread in the popular national magazine. A motion tabled by the Skibbereen-based Fine Gael councillor, Brendan McCarthy, came to the attention of the journalist following the April meeting of the town council. In the May 8th edition of ‘Hot Press’ […]

  • Proposed bill would ban fluoride from Ireland’s water

    A NEW BILL would see people prosecuted for putting fluoride into the water supply in Ireland – and they could serve up to five years in prison. Sinn Féin spokesperson on Environment, Community and Local Government, Brian Stanley TD published the Health Fluoridation of Water Supplies Repeal Bill 2013 today, in an effort to ensure […]