"Carney government passes law allowing authorization of banned pesticides", "even pesticides Health Canada has deemed are unsafe"
"Why are they weakening pesticide regulation in the first place? Who's asking for it? Not the public as far as I know"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c-30-changes-pesticide-use-pest-control-products-act-9.7240832
@atomicker
I’ve personally witnessed this #Liberal government spraying #Roundup herbicide only a few metres from Brunette Creek (a protected waterway) which leads to a local wetlands area here at the #TMX terminus in #Burnaby.
After installing the TMX expansion, they noticed the Japanese Knotweed over growing the area, threatening their new pipeline.
Their “solution” has been to attack the local ecosystem to protect their pipeline at all costs to the environment.
I have no doubt the removal of pesticide regulations is in part connected to #MarkCarney clearing the way for new “National Interest” projects forced through inhospitable areas.
Environmental Regulations aren’t respected as protective guardrails by this Liberal Government, they are only regarded as barriers to success in ramming through environmentally destructive projects.
Removing these regulations only benefits big business interests and offloads the resulting cost on local communities.
@rhtunstall @atomicker Japanese knotweed is an invasive species. Herbicide is the only way to deal with knotweed. This use long predates the present federal government. Burnaby, and the province, allows a licensed professional to apply a pesticide to aid in its removal. Overall, this kind of controlled and monitored application of pesticides seems appropriate, to me.
https://www.burnaby.ca/our-city/programs-and-policies/environment
Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in Canada and plays an important weed management role in agriculture and non-agricultural land management. Health Canada's primary objective in regulating pesticides is to protect the health of Canadians and the environment.
@edwiebe @atomicker to my understanding:
1) japanese knotweed isn't sprayed, it's cut off and the stump is painted or injected, which is the only way to deliver enough glysophate. What @rhtunstall described was glysophate sprayed, which experts have told me might temporarily abate, but won't eradicate, and puts much more into the environment.
2) "controlled and monitored" means nothing without accountability. I promise you they aren't sampling Brunette Creek for leeching. Zero chance.
(Those experts successfully eradicated a patch of it so I'm quite inclined to trust what they said.)
@datum
Thanks for the extra info. It was definitely sprayed, as I watched a team of at least five guys walking around with visabliity vests and spray bottles right beside the creek.
They had marked off the knotweed with pink ribbon and were walking around spraying each one.
They also marked off a much larger area than is pictured. Took a couple mins to walk by the whole signed area.
atomicker
rhtunstall
Ed Wiebe
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