Bayer, the corporate owner of Monsanto, must pay $2.25 billion in damages due to Monsanto’s product called Roundup. The chemical spray kills insects very quickly (which is really bad for the planet) and due to it being permitted to use on residential properties the harm it has caused seems pretty
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Things Are Good: Instead of Pesticides, Use Plants
This is the year nobody should use pesticides, if you’re on the fence about using pesticides I’ll remind you that they do more harm than good. They negatively impact human health, kill unintended species, and even taint groundwater. Many smart gardeners already avoid using the killer chemicals and you too
Continue readingThings Are Good: EU Bans Bee Bashing Pesticides
Neonicotinoids kill bees, specifically their hives, and the EU just expanded their ban on neonicotinoids to help protect the world’s dying bee populations. Back in 2013 the EU banned pesticides with neonicotinoids in them when spraying pesticides on plants and flowers that attracted bees. That meant that the deadly chemicals
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Bugs Give Monbiot the Willies.
A couple of days ago The Guardian reported on a German study that flying insect populations had declined by 75 per cent over the past 25 years. Another report for the Dire Warnings file. Only The Guardian’s enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, says don’t take this lightly.Which of these would you name as
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: David Suzuki: It’s time to nix neonics
David Suzuki on why it’s time for Canada to ban neonics, a class of widely used neuro-active insecticides that harm not only the pests they’re designed to kill, but also bees and other pollinators we rely on for about one-third of food crops. The post David Suzuki: It’s time to
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Lawn care company explains why poor environmental enforcement creates an uneven playing field
Monday, April 11, 2016
Poor enforcement of environmental laws doesn’t just hurt our environm…
Continue readingROAR!: One potato two potato – Pesticides on PEI
We don’t go more than a few months these days, on Prince Edward Island without hearing about our high Cancer rates. And if Islanders are bothered by this, try being someone who has been fighting against big industry, educating people and raising the same questions/concerns over and over and over
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canada’s Lake Winnipeg is “Threatened Lake of the Year 2013″
Canada’s third largest freshwater lake in serious trouble by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 4, 2013: A report by a Germany-based international environmental foundation is reminding Canadians of the consequences of neglecting the responsibility to protect the environment. On World Wetland Day, Feb. 2, the Global Nature Fund (GNF) declared Lake
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Two reports on pesticide risks
Thursday, May 31, 2012 When a politician says that his report is about the science, and not about the politics, it’s probably wise to take that claim with a grain of salt. That’s made crystal clear by two studies released in the last month about the risks of pesticides –
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Pesticide-sprayed tenants bite landlord
Monday, January 4, 2010
A Residential Tenancy Branch decision, released on December 28th, 2009, has ordered a New Westminster landlord to pay $11,950 to the residents of two apartments for illega…
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