Should Rossland ban pesticides? - Bylaw comes before council this week

I thought this was an interesting and timely article, found via a blog I regularly read. http://www.safelawns.org/blog/index.php/2010/02/canada-to-ban-all-weed-n-feed-nationwide/

I love it when an industry group tries to discredit groups and individuals by attributing to them all sorts of disreputable actions that they themselves are guilty of. It's like a conman calling the judge a thief and a liar in court. Let's all show our support Monday, to send a message that we won't stand for outside industry groups and representatives telling us we must continue poisoning our local environment. And even though we can't pass laws banning their sale, let's tell our local gardening stores we don't want to see those products on local shelves. And for William H. Gathercole and Norah G (not a real person), if you really believe your pesticides are so inoffensive, I invite you to eat and drink any leftover stock local suppliers still have.

So tell me, what exactly IS the "Green Space Industry"?? Oh yes, and the other day I looked up summaries of studies on the effects of Roundup, widely believed to be a "safe" pesticide ... a neighbour of ours in Courtenay used to spay it on his corn crops ... and studies indicate that, if the spray drifts into local ditches or streams, any amphibians living there will be harmed by it ... no wonder the cheery sound of frogs has nearly vanished from the landscape in recent years. There are known to be other causes, but it's hard to say what Roundup might contribute to the vulnerability of frogs to those other causes.

Letter to the Editor. Response to : Should Rossland ban pesticides ? The Rossland Telegraph. Rossland, British Columbia. The issue before Rossland Town Council is NOT the importance of « a sparkling green lawn ». The issue before Council is NOT the worth using chemicals to get that result ? The issue before Rossland Town Council is the INTIMIDATION, and perhaps COERCION, created by a few dozen, or so, Environmental–Maniac–Activists. Several of these activists claim to represent Health–Care–Worker and Environmental organizations that seek to prohibit FEDERALLY LEGAL, SCIENTIFICALLY SAFE, and TOTALLY IRREPLACEABLE conventional pest control products. These activists claim to represent Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, Canadian Cancer Society, David Suzuki Foundation, Prevent Cancer Now, Toxic Free Canada; and West Coast Environmental Law. These activist present themselves as a so–called Enviro–Alliance of these organizations to give everyone the impression that the Environmental–Terror–Movement has considerable size and power, when in fact, it does not. Enviro–Alliances are often ONE–IN–THE–SAME GROUP. For example, Canadian–Cancer–Society is operated by SOME OF THE SAME PEOPLE that operate Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and Toxic Free Canada. Moreover, Prevent Cancer Now and Toxic Free Canada are PUBLIC AFFAIRS SHIELDS for Canadian Cancer Society. Many are ONE–IN–THE–SAME GROUP with the intent to IMPRESS, INTIMIDATE and COERCE Government Officials. In fact, the Environmental–Terror–Movement in British Columbia is composed of a MERE DOZEN, or so, Enviro–Maniac–Activists that often seek to impose their CLOWNISH LIFE–STYLE CHOICES on Government Officials by the concoction of LIES, FEAR–MONGERING, MISCONCEPTIONS, COERCION, THREATS, DECEPTIONS, TERROR, and PARANOID CONSPIRACIES. NOT ONE PERSON within these organizations has ANY recognized expertise, training, or background, in matters concerning PEST CONTROL PRODUCTS, TURF MAINTENANCE, or the GREEN SPACE INDUSTRY ! And yet, these activists will INTIMIDATE and COERCE Government Officials by concocting FRAUDULENT and NON–EXISTENT issues. Additionally, Enviro–Maniac–Activists will DECEIVE Government Officials by blurting out HOLLOW and DESPICABLY–ALARMIST expressions like « cancer » and « serious illness » and « reproductive problems » and « neurological diseases » and « children at risk » ! Enviro–Maniac–Activists will give Government Officials the impression that children and adults are being exposed to cancer–causing agents whenever a pest control product is used. Enviro–Maniac–Activists will COERCE, INTIMIDATE, and ALARM Government Officials by concocting the idea that they need to get rid of so–called unnecessary poisons that pose alleged unnecessary risk to our health, our children's health, and the health of the environment. Enviro–Maniac–Activists will despicably use examples of terminally–ill children, or children in general, as « weapons of mass destruction » in order to convince Government Officials that pest control products need to be prohibited. The issue before Rossland Town Council is the MOTIVATION of these activists. Many Enviro–Maniac–Activists and their avaricious organizations have become MILLIONAIRES ! Their pretentious prohibitionist rants have been rewarded with MILLIONS OF DOLLARS from government and private donations ! The more these Enviro–Maniacs concoct LIES, FEAR–MONGERING, MISCONCEPTIONS, COERCION, THREATS, and TERROR about conventional pest control products, the more they become RICH ! Moreover, Enviro–Maniac–Activists and their organizations have a responsibility to their donors and investors, just like any other business. It should be noted that many Enviro–Maniac–Activists are simply GREEDY SALESMEN that represent their own line of products and services before an unsuspecting Government Officials ! When conventional pest control products are prohibited in a community, the Enviro–Vermin friends of these activists move in with their own STUNNINGLY EXPENSIVE and HIGHLY PROFITABLE but BOGUS Green Alternatives ! Several Environmental–Terror–Organizations operate VAST ORGANIC LAWN MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS ! Again, the issue before Rossland Town Council is the MOTIVATION of these activists. Enviro–Maniac–Activists are simply GREEDY and AVARICIOUS. They concoct programs and presentations that reward them with SAFE, SECURE, GUARANTEED, and WELL–PAYING ENVIRO–TERROR–JOBS. For example, Millionaire Canadian–Cancer–Society uses the millions that it collects from donations to pay a substantial amount of money for activists to work as « HIRED GUNS » to INTIMIDATE and COERCE Government Officials into prohibiting FEDERALLY LEGAL, SCIENTIFICALLY SAFE, and TOTALLY IRREPLACEABLE conventional pest control products. And yet, not one of these Cancer–Maniac–Activists has ANY expertise in matters pertaining to pest control products. Cancer–Maniacs are truly DESPICABLE ! What is the MOTIVATION of these activists ? Enviro–Maniac–Activists are paid TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS by Canadian–Cancer–Society FOR EVERY FORUM ORGANIZED in British Columbia. Enviro–Maniac–Activists are paid ONE THOUSAND OF DOLLAR by Canadian–Cancer–Society FOR EVERY PRESENTATION MADE TO EACH MUNICIPAL TOWN COUNCIL. Enviro–Maniac–Activists are rewarded to COERCE, INTIMIDATE, and ALARM Government Officials by concocting the idea that they need to get rid of so–called unnecessary poisons that pose alleged unnecessary risk to our health, our children's health, and the health of the environment. The Enviro–Maniac–Activists that are making a presentation to the Government Officials in the Town of Rossland, British Columbia, are being paid ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, plus expenses, by Canadian Cancer Society. The Enviro–Maniac–Activists that are making a presentation to the Government Officials in the Town of Rossland will be given a BOUNTY of FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS by Canadian–Cancer–Society upon the successful legislation of prohibition by Rossland. The Cancer–Maniac–Activists that are making a presentation to Rossland are also being paid a salary of OVER FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR, plus expenses, by Canadian–Cancer–Society, to COERCE, INTIMIDATE, and ALARM Government Officials. Cancer-Maniac-Activists have SAFE, SECURE, GUARANTEED, and WELL–PAYING ENVIRO–TERROR–JOBS as long as they continue to COERCE, INTIMIDATE, and ALARM Government Officials. The issue before Rossland Town Council is the SEEKING THE TRUTH. Enviro–Maniac Organizations like Millionaire Canadian–Cancer–Society are RADICAL MILITANT ENVIRONMENTAL FUND–RAISING ORGANIZATION. Canadian–Cancer–Society is NOT a scientific body ... it is a vast money–making business operated by a few dozen, or so, well–paid Enviro–Maniac–Activists used as « HIRED GUNS » to COERCE and INTIMIDATE Government Officials. Cancer–Maniac–Activists have compensated for their lack of expertise by frequently relying upon LIES, FEAR–MONGERING, MISCONCEPTIONS, COERCION, THREATS, DECEPTIONS, TERROR, and PARANOID CONSPIRA–CIES about pest control products. Perhaps the health of the public may be better served if all the resources of the Cancer–Maniac–Activists, currently focused on the prohibition of FEDERALLY LEGAL, SCIENTIFICALLY SAFE, and TOTALLY IRREPLACEABLE pest control products, were redirected towards improving the lifestyle choices of the population, such as diet and exercise. Prohibitionist Cancer–Enviro–Maniacs consider the hundreds of qualified scientists of the Pest Management Regulatory Agency of Health Canada to be incompetent and/or incapable of arriving at correct scientific findings concerning conventional pest control products. Prohibitionist Cancer–Enviro–Maniacs constantly discredit the work of Health Canada, and yet, this federal agency has determined that the pest control products used for producing their beloved and lucrative DAFFODILS are SCIENTIFICALLY SAFE. Prohibitionist Cancer–Enviro–Maniacs have ABSOLUTELY NO SCRUPLES using pest control products when it suits THEM, since Pesticide–Treated–Daffodils are as source of MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in donations ! Cancer–Maniacs are truly DESPICABLE ! The issue before Rossland Town Council is the SEEKING THE TRUTH. For many years, Millionaire Canadian–Cancer–Society HAS SOLD FOR PROFIT so–called « PESTICIDE–TREATED–TOXIC–CANCER–DAFFODILS ». Contract–Daffodil–Growers for Canadian–Cancer–Society use conventional pest control products on a regular and continuous basis, and have done so for decades. The GREEDY and AVARICIOUS Canadian–Cancer–Society and its growers have ABSOLUTELY NO SCRUPLES using pest control products when it suits THEM, since Pesticide–Treated–Daffodils are as source of MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in donations ! The issue before Rossland Town Council is the SEEKING THE TRUTH. Cancer–Enviro–Maniacs ask Government Officials to prohibit the same pest control products that are used for Daffodil production. The issue before Council is the CONSEQUENCE OF PROHIBITION. Municipal Government Officials are clearly NOT knowledgeable enough to enact prohibitive legislation. This is NOT their field of expertise. A local government has an onus of responsibility to verify the JUNK SCIENCE information that has been concocted by Cancer–Enviro–Maniacs. In several jurisdictions, Government Officials have failed to base prohibition decisions on SOUND SCIENCE. In Ontario, municipalities have consequently been stripped of their prohibitionist powers. The ONLY Government Officials that truly have ANY recognized expertise, training, or background, in matters concerning pest control products are the HUNDREDS of expert scientists at Health Canada ! NO pest control product can be sold or used until Health Canada’s scientists have evaluated ALL the existing evidence to determine whether the product meets stringent health and safety requirements. Conventional pest control products are SCIENTIFICALLY SAFE since they have been scrutinized and approved by the HUNDREDS of expert scientists at Health Canada ! Ironically, conventional pest control products used to produce PESTICIDE–TREATED–CANCER–DAFFODILS are SCIENTIFICALLY SAFE since they have been scrutinized and approved by the HUNDREDS of expert scientists at Health Canada ! For this reason, PESTICIDE–TREATED–CANCER–DAFFODILS sold by Millionaire Canadian–Cancer–Society are NOT TOXIC. Consequently, lawns treated with pest control products are NOT TOXIC either. Finally, the issue before Rossland Town Council is the CONSEQUENCE OF PROHIBITION. In January 2010, the Green Space Industry outlined the list of charges against the Government of Ontario and Enviro–Maniac–Government–Officials working in the Ministry of the Environment. Additionally, individual Enviro–Maniac–Activist–Members of known Environmental–Terror–Organizations are also facing charges of FRAUD under the Canadian Criminal Code. These Enviro–Maniacs conspired with Government Officials by using DISGRACEFULLY FALSE and MISLEADING information in order to impede access to Health–Canada–Approved products through FRAUDULENT MEANS. The reputations of several of these alleged culprits is in doubt, since they have conspired to seek the NEEDLESS, SENSELESS, and MALICIOUS prohibition of FEDERALLY LEGAL, SCIENTIFICALLY SAFE, and TOTALLY IRREPLACEABLE conventional pest control products. Prohibition was achieved by DECEITFUL Enviro–Maniac–Government–Officials who concocted a classification of pest control products based on a methodology that FRAUDULENTLY AVOIDED SOUND REGULATORY SCIENCE. NOT A SINGLE ONE of the alleged Enviro–Maniac–Government–Officials and Enviro–Maniac–Activists in Ontario can be recognized as an expert, scientist, or researcher with credentials in the field of pest control products. These Enviro–Maniacs have routinely compensated for their lack of expertise by frequently relying upon LIES, FEAR–MONGERING, MISCONCEPTIONS, COERCION, THREATS, DECEPTIONS, TERROR, and PARANOID CONSPIRACIES about pest control products. The prohibition of pest control products in several jurisdictions is TERRORIZING and ANNIHILATING the entire Modern Green Space Industry, leading to LOSS OF REVENUES, BUSINESS FAILURES, BANKRUPTCY, and UNEMPLOYMENT, inflicting TERROR, DESPAIR, and DESTITUTION on THOUSANDS of hapless victims throughout the Green Space Industry. These alleged culprits have done GREAT HARM to the Green Space Industry. Enviro–Maniacs and their Environmental–Terror–Organizations are WRONG about conventional pest control products ! Conventional pest control products are SCIENTIFICALLY SAFE ! Overall, when they are used properly, there are NO harmful irreversible effects to health and the environment ! There something HORRIBLY WRONG with a system where Enviro–Maniac–Government–Officials conspire with Enviro–Maniac–Activist–Members of known Environmental–Terror–Organizations to dictate public policy based upon LIES, FEAR–MONGERING, MISCONCEPTIONS, COERCION, THREATS, and TERROR. William H. Gathercole and Norah G National Organization Responding Against Huje that harm the Green Space Industry (NORAHG) Montreal, Quebec

Cosmetic and non-cosmetic pesticides do not exit. However, the same pesticides, of which herbicides were invented for use on the battlefield, may be used for cosmetic or non-cosmetic purposes. By the way, I have had a sparkling green lawn without the use of any pesticides for many years. It is a myth that pesticides are necessary to obtain a good looking lawn. In fact, pesticides kill the beneficial organisms in the soil, so a lawn obtained without the employment of toxic poisons, and not crippled by being cut too short, is truly healthy. The higher turf keeps the weeds out the natural way! On the other hand, there are those with so-called "independent perspective", notorious for calling medical doctors and other independent and impartial experts "basterds" and "enviro-terrorists", etc. Their claim that pesticides are entirely safe is self-serving and misleading. They have a vested interest in the continued use of pesticides for cosmetic purposes and they refuse to acknowledge that their products may cause irreparable harm, especially to young children. Reliable studies show that pesticides play a significant role in promoting cancer and endocrine system disruption (adversely affecting glands), and cause the neurological and immune systems damage. In addition, they seriously aggravate asthma and are responsible for children's behavioural problems and learning disabilities. Skin contact and inhalation of chemicals are especially harmful to children as these residues bypass the liver, which is the cleansing organ.