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Kempsey again
rejects fluoridation
Once again N.S.W. Government
attempted to force the Kempsey Shire Council to fluoridate their drinking
water supplies.
The Shire received only one
response supporting fluoridation compared with "over 130 pages of anti-
fluoride information". The response "was strongly opposed" to fluoridation.
The Shire Council reply to the
Area Health Service follows:
"Fluoridation of
Public Wafer Supplies
I refer to your letter of
23rd January 2001 relating to subject health measure and advise that
Council's approach to the community has resulted in a resounding "no" vote
in respect of same. Copies of correspondence received, register of returns
and Council's Water Sections views are attached. Your Service's allusion
to unnecessary levels of pain and suffering in the community and
unacceptably high demand for dental treatment was not reflected in the
returns.
Council has, therefore,
resolved, at its meeting of 12th June 2001 not to fluoridate its town
water supplies (as was the case in 1988). For this position to change all
of the concerns set out in the attached returns and reports would need to
be adequately addressed by the proponents of fluoridation and further
substantiation of the Health Service's views provided.
I trust that Council's
current attitude is evident and that our desire to concentrate limited
resources on other water quality issues is apparent."
Alcoa and Western Australia
The West Australian 4th
August, 2001 reported that:
"People living near
Alcoa's Wagerup refinery are up in arms over plans to lift its aluminium
bauxite-processing capacity from 2.3 million tonnes a year to 3.3 million
tonnes.
"They claim emissions of
toxic chemicals and heavy metals are damaging the health of people and
livestock.
"Dust taken a kilometre
from the refinery, 109 km south of Perth, has shown high levels of heavy
metals and fluoride.
"According to the
National Pollutant Inventory database, Wagerup sent 35,000 kg of sulfur
dioxide, 62 kg of arsenic, 12 kg of cadmium, 390 kg of fluoride, 60 kg of
lead and 300 kg of mercury into the air from its smokestacks in
1999-2000."
What a strange world or
Country in which we live when media, Government and the do-gooders and
bleeding-hearts, spend our money world-wide discussing Global Warming when
in reality they would do a real service to mankind by shouting from the
Parliament roofs - "GLOBAL WARNING" explaining such pollutants.
Any scientist or politician
worth his job would know the health danger of all the above pollution. Who
do they really represent?
"Department of
Environment Protection regional director Peter Skipmore said it was
satisfied with the results of air pollution testing by Alcoa."
So the fox looks after the
chicken pen!
"Bill Hodgen, whose farm
is about a kilometre from the refinery, said he had constant headaches,
sinus problems, nose bleeds and itchy, burning eyes."
Nothing new about that
reaction because history of Aluminium Smelters all over Australia records
the same effects. (Tasmania, Victoria, Australian Fluoridation News).
Bottled Water
The Water Suppliers are in a
dire dilemma because bottled water is now accepted as a premier drink far in
preference to polluted tap water.
The media 22nd July reported
Tasmanian rainwater as the most expensive in the world selling in the U.S.
at $16 a bottle.
Rather a contrast to results
of Tasmanian fluoridated tap water.
The Tasmanian bottled water is
collected off Tasmanian north-west coast where scientists have recognised
the air as the purest in the world, so the collected rainwater is premier
quality commonly known as "natural".
The catchment station is near
Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station jointly run by the Bureau of
Meteorology and the C.S.I.R.O. It is officially the cleanest air in the
world, Tony Stewart, Cape Grim Water.
Brisbane Fluoridation Again
During July the Fluoridation
Spectre once again surfaced via the Australian Dental Association which
never takes NO as an answer.
The Minister of Health, Wendy
Edmond, confirmed the controversial issue of mass medication was under
consideration. Her Department "had commenced a yearlong investigation into
costs and benefits." Yes, it's on again!
Queensland is no friend to the
fluoride lobby. Only 6 towns are fluoridated, Townsville, an Army town so it
must fluoridate by Army Law, Gatton, Dalby, Mareeba, Callide and Moranbah, a
mere 5% of the population.
The Southern Mail
quoted Moranbah dentist Athanassiades saying:
"Children's teeth in
Moranbah would be 80% better than Clermont, where the water is not
fluoridated."
The science of that remark
"would be" leaves the locals wondering what "would be" means.
Health Minister Edmonds said a
study showed Queensland children had the second worst tooth decay in
Australia.
People world wide will smile
when reading that Official Health Department statement.
In every Country, every
city, every community, where ever it may be on this planet, has experienced
the same claim about their people when fluoridation was on the local agenda.
However, if we may be so rude,
we suggest Minister of Health Edmond just read the conclusion of the
Brisbane Task Force into Fluoridation 1998. It will correct her outrageous
statement about Queensland teeth. The Fluoridation Task Force found
fluoridation not necessary.
Health Minister Edmonds stated
Northern Territory people had the worst teeth in Australia.
However, Minister Edmonds did
not add to her statement about N.T. dental problems by explaining that 70%
of N.T. population is fluoridated.
With 70% N.T. population on
fluoridated water and the worst teeth in Australia, there seems a need for a
scientific fact of reckoning which condemns the claims about fluoridation!
The Executive Director of
Local Government Association, Greg Hallam, stated:
"If the State Government
wants to provide water supplies let them take over. But while reticulated
supplies are the responsibility of councils, fluoridation should not be
forced on them."
The fluoridation
merry-go-round machine is a product of dental fluoride lobby
perpetual-motion; it won't stop to let them off.
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