Overview From An Independent Perspective
Maine’s Failed Municipal Prohibitions
Against Conventional Pesticides !
The state of Maine’s municipal prohibitions against conventional pest control products have become DISMAL FAILURES.
Municipalities, particularly along the coast, have been developing fanatжcal-prohibitions under the FALSE-PRETEXTS of protecting their residents from the supposed threat of harm of pest control products. These prohibition-legislations specifically cite FALSE-PRETEXTS such as ― • bees • birth defects • cancer • children • fish • health • leukemia • poisons • pollution • safety • toxicity, and more. These are absolutely FALSE-PRETEXTS ! Consequently, their fanatжcal-prohibitions are DISMAL FAILURES !
Overwhelming scientific evidence clearly demonstrates that pest control products are scientifically-safe, and will NOT cause harm to children, adults, animals, or the environment. Maine’s municipalities have shown that they are incapable of processing overwhelming scientific evidence. Should we trust municipal officials who conveniently ignore scientific evidence ?!?! NO !
The audacity and hypocrisy of Maine’s municipal officials is clearly evident with EXCEPTION STATUSES that they have conveniently inserted into their fanatжcal-prohibitions. In contradiction to the political-precepts and pesticide-hating doctrines of these prohibitions, these municipalities have allowed tens of thousands of INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES, including ― • agriculture • golf courses • inferior green alternative pesticides • nurseries • repellents • rodenticides • sports fields • timber harvesting, and more.
Moreover, some municipalities have maliciously prevented residents and businesses from using pest control products without first extorting them to pay for PREDATORY-PERMITS. There should be NO #@!!% EXCEPTION STATUSES and NO #@!!% PREDATORY-PERMITS whatsoever.
The best example of the failures and the ridiculousness of EXCEPTION STATUSES can be seen in Scarborough. Because of its fanatжcal-prohibition, Scarborough’s green spaces became pest-infested and dangerous garbage dumps. Ultimately, ineffective green alternative pesaticides and practices were abandoned in favour of a more effective conventional insecticide called Dylox. This was one of many examples proving that organic pesticide-free maintenance DOES NOT WORK ! Consequently, Scarborough’s fanatжcal-prohibition is among Maine’s biggest DISMAL FAILURES !
A major study of Maine’s fanatжcal-prohibitions has concluded that they are DISMAL FAILURES. Here are the key points regarding Maine’s prohibition-ordinances ―
• Most ordinances have imposed prohibitions that are DISMAL FAILURES.
• Most ordinances are DISMAL FAILURES because they have been validated under FALSE-PRETEXTS.
• Most ordinances are DISMAL FAILURES because they have specifically allowed thousands and thousands of INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES.
• Some ordinances are DISMAL FAILURES because they extort PREDATORY-PERMITS.
• Unless the state of Maine intervenes, municipalities will use HOME RULE to validate their own local fanatжcal-prohibitions.
• Most ordinances have imposed prohibitions against aerial-spraying and forestry, roadside rights-of-way, and storage ― very few impose prohibitions against pest control products in the urban landscape.
• In some cases, municipal ordinances only really PROHIBIT AND HARM businesses operating in the Professional Lawn Care Industry.
• Municipal ordinances will literally PUT PEOPLE OUT OF BUSINESS in the Professional Lawn Care Industry.
• Not surprisingly, the Agriculture Industry is being PROTECTED from prohibitions by the state of Maine.
• Municipal ordinances will eventually be STOPPED by the state of Maine.
Consequently, Maine’s municipal prohibitions are DISMAL FAILURES !
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April 1st, 2018
Portland Press Herald
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State Of Maine – Failed Ordinances Against Pest Control Products
Municipal Anti-Pesticide Prohibitions
KEY POINT
MOST Ordinances Have Imposed
Prohibitions That Are Dismal Failures
EXPLANATION
It is a recognized fact that fanatжcal-prohibitions are UNNECESSARY since pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause NO harm.
Consequently, Maine’s municipal prohibitions are DISMAL FAILURES !
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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Municipal Anti-Pesticide Prohibitions With Exceptions
7 municipalities have legislated failed-prohibitions, since they specifically include thousands and thousands of EXCEPTION STATUSES.
1. Cranberry Isles ( for land use in island communities , except timber harvesting )
2. Harpswell ( except agriculture, golf courses, & nurseries )
3. Ogunquit ( except agriculture )
4. Portland ( except sports fields & golf course )
5. Rockland ( except inferior green alternative pesticides )
6. Scarborough ( organic maintenance was abandoned for conventional insecticide )
7. South Portland ( except agriculture, golf courses, & inferior green alternative pesticides )
Total Anti-Pesticide Prohibitions With NO Exceptions
These are the ONLY 2 municipalities that have actually imposed TOTAL fanatжcal-prohibition against ALL pest control products, with NO EXCEPTION STATUSES.
1. Coplin Plantation
2. Southport
Partial Prohibitions
6 municipalities have legislated PARTIAL or LIMITED prohibitions.
1. Amherst ( for land use in shoreland areas )
2. Arrowsic ( self-imposed on town-owned properties )
3. Brunswick ( in aquifer protection zones )
4. Manchester ( self-imposed on town-owned properties )
5. Rangeley ( on areas larger than 2 acres )
6. Wells ( in protected resource area )
NO Actual Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Has Been Imposed
2 municipalities have legislated ordinances, but NO prohibitions have actually been imposed.
1. New Gloucester
2. Waterboro
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State Of Maine – Failed Ordinances Against Pest Control Products
Fake-News About Municipal Prohibitions
KEY POINT
MOST Ordinances Have Imposed
Prohibitions Against Aerial-Spraying &
Forestry, Roadside Rights-Of-Way, & Storage
EXPLANATION
It has been reported that, since 1970, 30 municipalities in Maine ― a mere 6 per cent of the state’s 488 municipalities ― have imposed fanatжcal-prohibitions against the use of pest control products.
Fake-news has been DECEIVING the public ( and government officials ) into believing that MOST ordinances have imposed prohibitions against pest control products used in the urban landscape.
This is FALSE !
MOST ordinances have imposed prohibitions against aerial-spraying & forestry, roadside rights-of-way, and storage.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Municipal Prohibitions Imposed For Specific Uses
1. Aerial-Spraying & Forestry – 7 municipalities
2. Roadside Rights-Of-Way – 5 municipalities
3. Storage – 4 municipalities
Municipal Prohibitions Imposed
Against Aerial-Spraying & Forestry
1. Allagash ( anti-forestry prohibition )
2. Brighton Plantation ( anti-forestry prohibition )
3. Brunswick
4. Coplin Plantation
5. Lebanon ( non-agricultural uses )
6. Limestone
7. New Sweden
Municipal Prohibitions Imposed
Against Roadside Rights-Of-Way
1. Limerick
2. Montville
3. Newburgh
4. Owls Head
5. Porter
Municipal Prohibitions Imposed For
Storage Of Pesticides In Specific Areas
1. Brunswick ( aquifer protection zones )
2. Castine ( aquifer protection zones )
3. Standish ( shoreland areas )
4. Wayne ( shoreland areas )
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State Of Maine – Failed Ordinances Against Pest Control Products
False-Pretexts For Imposing Municipal Prohibitions
KEY POINT
MOST Ordinances Are Dismal Failures Because
They Have Been Validated Under False-Pretexts
EXPLANATION
Maine’s municipal prohibitions vary widely and are spread across 13 of 16 counties.
Some of these fanatжcal-prohibitions are nearly 50 years old.
Municipalities, particularly along the coast, have validated fanatжcal-prohibitions under the FALSE-PRETEXTS of protecting their residents from the supposed threat of harm of pest control products.
The prohibition-legislations specifically cite FALSE-PRETEXTS such as bees, birth defects, cancer, children, fish, health, leukemia, poisons, pollution, safety, toxicity, and more.
These are FALSE-PRETEXTS !
Overwhelming scientific evidence clearly demonstrates that pest control products are scientifically-safe, and will NOT cause harm to children, adults, animals, or the environment.
Maine’s municipalities have shown that they are incapable of processing overwhelming scientific evidence.
Should we trust municipal officials who conveniently ignore scientific evidence ?!?!
Should we trust municipal officials who attempt to impose their twisted life-style choices and politicized-doctrines against their communities based upon FALSE-PRETEXTS ?!?!
It is a recognized fact that fanatжcal-prohibitions are UNNECESSARY since pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause NO harm.
Consequently, their fanatжcal-prohibitions are DISMAL FAILURES !
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Municipal Prohibitions Imposed Under False-Pretexts
A major study of Maine’s fanatжcal-prohibitions has concluded that they are DISMAL FAILURES since overwhelming scientific evidence clearly demonstrates that pest control products are scientifically-safe, and will NOT cause harm to children, adults, animals, or the environment.
1. Allagash ( herbicide safety ? )
2. Brunswick ( toxicity )
3. Cranberry Isles ( safety & health ? )
4. Harpswell ( fish & bees ? )
5. Limerick ( children & leukemia ? )
6. Limestone ( pollution ? )
7. Manchester ( safety & health ? )
8. Montville ( cancer ? )
9. Owls Head ( poisons ? )
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State Of Maine – Failed Ordinances Against Pest Control Products
Exception Statuses Allowed By Municipal Prohibitions
KEY POINT
MOST Ordinances Are Dismal Failures Because
They Have Specifically Allowed Thousands &
Thousands Of Inconsistent & Unfair Exception Statuses
EXPLANATION
Several municipalities have been circumventing their own prohibitions by taking advantage of EXCEPTION STATUSES that they have conveniently inserted into their ordinances.
These EXCEPTION STATUSES have represented the best examples of the FAILURES and the RIDICULOUSNESS of fanatжcal-prohibitions !
While imposing their arbitrary fanatжcal-prohibitions — prohibiting some uses but NOT others through EXCEPTION STATUSES — municipalities CANNOT stop the public from realizing that a large quantity of deliberate mis-information and propaganda has been spread about the imaginary danger of conventional pest control products.
In contradiction to the POLITICIZED-DOCTRINES of their prohibitions, these municipalities have allowed TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES, including agriculture, golf courses, inferior green alternative pesticides, nurseries, repellents, rodenticides, sports fields, timber harvesting, and more.
These EXCEPTION STATUSES have been conveniently incorporated into ordinances in order to allow municipal staff to circumvent their fanatжcal-prohibitions, to arbitrarily suit the needs of elected officials, and to falsely maintain alignment of these officials with their political-precepts and pesticide-hating doctrines.
Some by-laws have even allowed the selling of EXCEPTION STATUS PERMITS, hence becoming a PREDATORY PROFIT CENTER for the municipality. ( See next segment.)
There should be NO #@!!% EXCEPTION STATUSES whatsoever !
Otherwise, these fanatжcal-prohibitions are DISMAL FAILURES !
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Municipal Prohibitions Allowing Exception Statuses
A major study of Maine’s fanatжcal-prohibitions has concluded that they are DISMAL FAILURES because the audacity and hypocrisy of Maine’s municipal officials is clearly evident with EXCEPTION STATUSES that they have been conveniently inserted into their fanatжcal-prohibitions.
1. Cranberry Isles ( timber harvesting )
2. Harpswell ( agriculture, golf courses, & nurseries )
3. Lebanon ( exceptions approved by town council )
4. Limestone ( golf courses )
5. Manchester ( repellents, rodenticides, & inferior green alternative pesticides )
6. Ogunquit ( agriculture )
7. Portland ( sports field & golf course )
8. Rockland ( inferior green alternative pesticides )
9. Scarborough ( organic maintenance was abandoned for conventional insecticide )
10. South Portland ( agriculture, golf courses ( until May 2019 ), & inferior green alternative pesticides )
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State Of Maine – Failed Ordinances Against Pest Control Products
Exception Statuses Allowed For Agriculture
KEY POINT
The Agriculture Industry Is Being
Protected By The State Of Maine
EXPLANATION
Among the farmers who spoke in favor of Governor LePage’s 2018 State Bill LD 1853, that would strip the municipal ordinances, was Penny Jordan of Jordan Farm in Cape Elizabeth, who is also the President of Maine Farm Bureau ―
If this bill does not pass, it is going to PUT FARMS AT RISK.
But many, if not most, municipal pesticide ordinances specifically provide the agriculture industry with an EXCEPTION STATUS.
In addition, the state of Maine passed a Right to Farm Law in 2007 that EXEMPTS agricultural and composting operations from municipal ordinances, and prevents them from being considered a « nuisance ».
Doesn’t that mean the agriculture industry is being protected by the state of Maine ?!?!
According to Mr John Bott, a spokes-man for Maine’s Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Conservation ―
The operating assumption has been that municipal ordinances DON’T apply to agriculture.
[ ?!?! ]
Mr Bott added that it is unclear whether the applicability of local ordinances has been tested in court.
Reminded of the Right to Farm Act, Ms Penny Jordan of Jordan Farm said she still worried that the municipal ordinances could have an negative impact on farms.
From her perspective, these ordinances, should they reach Cape Elizabeth ( she bets they will ), will put her and other farmers in a position of having …
… to constantly go and prove that what they are knowledgeable about and responsible in what they do on a daily basis.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Municipal Prohibitions Specifically
Allowing Exception Statuses For Agriculture
3 municipalities have announced through the media that their fanatжcal-prohibitions allow EXCEPTION STATUSES for the agriculture industry. Are there any more ?!?!
1. Harpswell
2. Ogunquit
3. South Portland
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State Of Maine – Failed Ordinances Against Pest Control Products
Predatory-Permits Extorted By Municipal Prohibitions
KEY POINT
Some Ordinances Are Dismal Failures
Because They Extort Predatory-Permits
EXPLANATION
Some municipalities have maliciously prevented residents and businesses from using pest control products without first extorting them to pay for PREDATORY-PERMITS.
With their ordinances, these municipalities have granted themselves the power to legally extort untold thousands of dollars in unjustified profits from the sale of PREDATORY-PERMITS.
In essence, these loathsome municipalities have despicably conspired to impose fanatжcal-prohibitions against conventional pest control products with the intention of profiting from the sale of PREDATORY-PERMITS.
Who can afford this #@!!% nonsense ?!?!
There should be NO #@!!% PREDATORY-PERMITS.
These fanatжcal-prohibitions are DISMAL FAILURES !
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Municipal Prohibitions Allowing The Sale
Of Predatory-Permits For Pesticide Use
A major study of Maine’s fanatжcal-prohibitions has concluded that they are DISMAL FAILURES because some municipalities have maliciously prevented residents and businesses from using pest control products without first extorting them to pay for PREDATORY-PERMITS.
1. Amherst ( issued by planning board )
2. Castine ( for non-residential uses )
3. Cranberry Isles ( for forestry uses )
4. Sweden ( agriculture & residential properties )
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State Of Maine – Failed Ordinances Against Pest Control Products
Maine’s State Bill To Stop Municipal Prohibitions
KEY POINT
Municipal Ordinances Will Eventually
Be Stopped By The State Of Maine
EXPLANATION
2018 State Bill LD 1853
Maine’s Republican Governor Paul LePage is backing a State Bill that would strip the anti-pesticide regulations of dozens of cities and towns and prevent them from enacting new rules.
This State Bill, LD 1853, is called ―
An Act To Ensure the Safe and Consistent Regulation of Pesticides throughout the State by Providing Exemptions to Municipal Ordinances That Regulate Pesticides ( Governor’s Bill ).
In summary, the 2018 State Bill LD 1853 would STOP a municipality from …
… adopting or continuing to enforce any ordinance or rule regarding the sale or use of pesticides.
This is the third time Republican-led legislation to STOP the ordinances has been introduced in as many years ( in 2016, Republican Representative Jeff Timberlake introduced similar legislation, which didn’t make it out of committee ).
Here is additional text from 2018 State Bill LD 1853 ―
Ordinance applicability. A municipal ordinance specifically regulating the use of pesticides may not apply to :
A person licensed or certified under section 1471-D.
A person licensed or certified under section 1471-D shall maintain accurate records on product use and applications to property, which must be available at any time for audit or inspection by the board; or
A private applicator applying a pesticide, subject to restrictions under a municipal ordinance, when that private applicator is producing an agricultural or horticultural commodity on property owned, leased or rented by the private applicator in accordance with board rules.
2017 State Bill LD 1505
The second time Republican-led legislation attempted legislation that would strip the anti-pesticide regulations was in 2017.
This State Bill, LD 1505, was called ―
An Act To Create Consistency in the Regulation of Pesticides.
Here is text from 2017 State Bill LD 1505 ―
Restrictions on pesticide ordinances.
A municipality may not adopt or enforce any ordinance or rule regulating the sale or use of pesticides, including without limitation ordinances relating to pesticide use limitations, registration, use notification, advertising and marketing, distribution, applicator training and certification, storage, transportation, disposal or product composition or the disclosure of confidential information related to pesticides.
An ordinance regulating the sale or use of pesticides adopted prior to the effective date of this subsection is void.
As used in this subsection, « pesticide » has the same meaning as in Title 22, section 1471-C, subsection 19.
LINK
MAINE — BILL WOULD OUTLAW LOCAL PESTICIDE BAN LAWS ( Report With Official Document, Scribd )
https://pesticidetruths.com/2017/05/05/maine-bill-would-outlaw-local-pesticide-ban-laws/
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State Of Maine – Failed Ordinances Against Pest Control Products
Necessity Of 2018 State Bill LD 1853
KEY POINT
Unintended Consequence :
Municipal Ordinances Only Really Prohibit
& Harm Businesses Operating In The
Professional Lawn Care Industry
EXPLANATION
Governor LePage’s argument against the ordinances is that they create confusing complications to the current system, whereby licensed, trained applicators apply pesticides.
Governor LePage’s spokes-person Julie Rabinowitz said ―
These ordinances ONLY REALLY PROHIBIT the commercial companies from operating in certain towns.
However, the commercial operators are specifically trained in the safe use and hazards of these chemicals and apply them properly and in the minimum amount needed.
But with commercial operators [ a.k.a. professional lawn care businesses ] no longer allowed to use pest control products in some municipalities with ordinances, Ms Rabinowitz theorizes that home-owners ― who aren’t trained in applications ― will ending up using pesticides themselves, increasing the chances of chemicals being used or stored improperly.
According to Governor LePage’s spokes-person Julie Rabinowitz ―
In this instance, a well-intentioned local ordinance may actually cause exactly the UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE it was trying to prohibit or discourage.
This is another case where a state-wide, cohesive policy best serves the public interest.
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State Of Maine – Failed Ordinances Against Pest Control Products
Supporters Of 2018 State Bill LD 1853
KEY POINT
Municipal Ordinances Will Literally Put People Out
Of Business In The Professional Lawn Care Industry
EXPLANATION
Among those speaking in support of Governor LePage’s 2018 State Bill LD 1853 were commercial pesticide applicators [ a.k.a. professional lawn care businesses ], including the National Association of Landscape Professionals.
Jacob Harvey is the general manager for a franchise of TruGreen lawn care based in Westbrook.
Harvey said his company has about 50 employees at peak season.
According to Jacob Harvey of TruGreen ―
This issue will literally PUT PEOPLE OUT OF BUSINESS.
[ Harvey pleaded against being ] lumped together with any bad actors.
We have zero financial incentive to over-apply pesticides.
We pass exams set by the state.
We know what we are doing.
Another supporter has been Samoset Golf Course, which has raised concerns over maintaining the resort’s golf facility if Rockland ever banned all pesticides ( in 2014, Rockland voted to restrict pesticide use on town-owned, leased, or managed lands ).
The Farm Bureau has also spoken in support, as well as several anxious vegetable farmers and an apple farmer who use pest control products and want to be sure they can continue to do so.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
In All Cases, Prohibitions Have Led To
Catastrophic Business & Financial Carnage !
It is a fact that the wide-spread and systematic practice of assault by anti-pesticide fanatжcs leads to carnage in the form of business destruction and business failures. These fanatжcs have inflicted apocalypse by assaulting businesses operating in the professional lawn care industry. http://wp.me/P1jq40-43B http://wp.me/P1jq40-238 Because of these pesticide-hating assaults, the owners, employees, and families dependent on safe and effective pest control products face terrжr, despair, and destitution. In essence, anti-pesticide fanatжcs conspire to destroy their businesses, their assets, their customers, their homes, their lifestyles, their job security, their families, their children, their loved-ones, and their future. These fanatжcs want to hurl them all into squalor and despair, forcing them to burn-in-hell.
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State Of Maine – Failed Ordinances Against Pest Control Products
Home Rule Versus 2018 State Bill LD 1853
KEY POINT
Unless The State Of Maine Intervenes,
Municipalities Will Use HOME RULE To Validate
Their Own Local Fanatжcal-Prohibitions
EXPLANATION
The thrust of Governor LePage’s proposed 2018 State Bill LD 1853, offering commercial operators [ a.k.a. professional lawn care businesses ] EXCEPTIONS to those local ordinances, seems to stand in direct opposition to one of the defining characteristics of the Maine constitution : the principle of HOME RULE, whereby municipalities have the right to establish their own ordinances.
The authority of HOME RULE was cited in a law that Governor LePage unexpectedly signed in 2017 allowing municipalities to declare themselves food sovereign, that is, able to establish their own rules about selling local foods to each other.
Governor LePage’s spokes-person Ms Julie Rabinowitz said ―
The governor believes in HOME RULE as a general principle but recognizes that it is not the best policy in every instance.
Governor LePage has argued against local changes to the minimum wage, for instance, Ms Rabinowitz said, on the grounds they would cause confusion and enforcement issues.
In the end, the majority of committee members who voted « ought not to pass » on Governor LePage’s 2018 State Bill LD 1853 cited their belief in and support of HOME RULE as the reason.
If this version of the 2018 State Bill LD 1853 dies, will it come back again before Governor LePage hands over the gubernatorial reins to someone else in 2019 ?!?!
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Portland Press Herald
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Reference — USA — Maine — 2018 04 01 — Places In Maine That Control Pesticide Use
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Allagash, Town of
Population App 200 – Aroostook County
KEY POINTS
Prohibition Imposed Against
Aerial-Spraying & Forestry
Prohibition Imposed Under
False-Pretexts Of Mock-Concerns
SUMMARY
In 2004, Maine’s LARGEST town ( size-wise, it’s spread out over 135 square miles ) arbitrarily imposed ANTI-FORESTRY prohibitions against the use of herbicides.
This fanatжcal-prohibition includes AERIAL SPRAYING.
Fanatжcal-prohibitions was imposed under the FALSE-PRETEXT of MOCK-CONCERNS over herbicides sprayed by the J D Irving Company on its forest holdings in the area.
Fanatжcal-prohibitions sprang from a FALSE-SENSE that something wrong was going on in the woods in the 135-square-mile municipality, where the J D Irving company used AERIAL SPRAYING on its clear cuts to suppress sprouting hardwoods it didn’t want in favor of spruce.
« There were so many cancer patients, » remembers Patricia Pelletier, whose son Louis Pelletier led the movement to PROHIBIT herbicides. « You couldn’t pick the berries around town. » [ ?!?! ]
Allagash still allows residents to put herbicide on say, a stump they are trying to get rid of, Louis Pelletier said.
But the ordinance altered the way J D Irving conducts its forestry, he said.
The herbicides the foresters were using were legal, Pelletier said, and supposedly safe. « But I had done some research at the time, » he said. « And it depends on what scientists you ask. The chemicals they were using were basically safe on their own, but there was no testing done when you mixed them. » [ ?!?! ]
Allagash wanted, he said, to « err on the side of caution », and the ordinance passed overwhelmingly. [ ?!?! ]
« The Irving boys didn’t like it too much, » Pelletier said. « But they are still making money, and we’re not getting sprayed. »
Pest control products DO NOT cause cancer !
Overwhelming scientific evidence clearly demonstrates that pest control products are scientifically-safe, and will NOT cause harm to children, adults, animals, or the environment.
Should we trust municipal officials, who conveniently defy overwhelming scientific evidence, and attempt to impose their twisted life-style choices against their communities based upon FALSE-PRETEXTS ?!?!
Pesticide-hating municipal officials have shown that they are incapable of processing overwhelming scientific evidence.
It is a recognized fact that this fanatжcal-prohibition is unnecessary since pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause NO harm.
Consequently, their fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Amherst, Town of
Population App 200 – Hancock County
KEY POINTS
Partial Anti-Pesticide Prohibition
For Land Use In Shoreland Areas
Prohibition Allowing The Sale Of
Predatory-Permits For Pesticide
Use From The Planning Board
SUMMARY
The town, which is bisected by the Union River, imposed a LAND USE prohibition in 1991, establishing resource protection districts and limiting chemical applications in SHORELAND AREAS only.
Applications in those areas require the SELLING OF PREDATORY-PERMITS from the planning board.
Who can afford this #@!!% nonsense ?!?!
There should be NO #@!!% PREDATORY-PERMITS.
Consequently, this fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Arrowsic, Town of
Population App 500 – Sagadahoc County
KEY POINT
Partial Self-Imposed Prohibition Regarding
Foliar Applications On Town-Owned Properties
SUMMARY
In 1984, the town voted to arbitrarily SELF-IMPOSE fanatжcal-prohibition against herbicide use by its public works department on TOWN-OWNED PROPERTIES, but only as it was applied to leaves [ i.e. FOLIAR APPLICATIONS ].
Using herbicide on stumps is still allowed.
It is a recognized fact that this fanatжcal-prohibition is unnecessary since pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause NO harm.
This fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Brighton Plantation
Population App 70 – Somerset County
KEY POINT
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Imposed
Against Aerial-Spraying & Forestry
SUMMARY
Brighton Plantation voted to impose arbitrary ANTI-FORESTRY prohibition against use of pesticides in woodlands within the town in 1996.
This fanatжcal-prohibition includes AERIAL SPRAYING.
The vote was 19-1 in favour of fanatжcal-prohibition.
It is a recognized fact that this fanatжcal-prohibition is unnecessary since pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause NO harm.
This fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Brunswick, Town of
Population App 20,000 – Cumberland County
KEY POINTS
Partial Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Against
Use & Storage In Aquifer Protection Zones
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Imposed
Against Aerial-Spraying & Forestry
Prohibition Imposed Under False-Pretexts
SUMMARY
In 2005 Brunswick’s Town Council imposed prohibition against the USE and the STORAGE of most pesticides within AQUIFER PROTECTION ZONES.
Fanatжcal-prohibition has also been imposed against AERIAL SPRAYING other than for public health applications.
Citing language from the Environmental Protection Agency [ EPA ] that …
… all pesticides are toxic to some degree …
[ See below. ]
… the council agreed that the FALSE-PRETEXT for imposing fanatжcal-prohibition was to …
… safeguard the health and welfare …
… of residents and protect the town’s …
… good water and other natural resources.
Pest control products DO NOT harm health and welfare !
They DO NOT harm natural resources !
Overwhelming scientific evidence clearly demonstrates that pest control products are scientifically-safe, and will NOT cause harm to children, adults, animals, or the environment.
Should we trust municipal officials, who conveniently defy overwhelming scientific evidence, and attempt to impose their twisted life-style choices against their communities based upon FALSE-PRETEXTS ?!?!
Pesticide-hating municipal officials have shown that they are incapable of processing overwhelming scientific evidence.
It is a recognized fact that this fanatжcal-prohibition is unnecessary since pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause NO harm.
This fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Pesticides Are Scientifically-Safe !
EPA, Health Canada, and other science-based national regulatory agencies have clearly demonstrated that pest control products used in the urban landscape are less toxic than aspirin, baking soda, caffeine, cannabis, nicotine, table salt, and Tylenol. Additionally, these products are NO more toxic than ethanol ( an edible beverage constituent in beer, wine, and other intoxicating beverages ), mouthwash ( Listerine ), and vitamin C. These pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically non-toxic, will cause NO harm, WILL NOT cause cancer, and WILL NOT cause irreversible damage if consumed orally. The probable lethal dose for a person ingesting the concentrated form of many of these products is one litre, the volume of an entire milk carton. By comparison, drinking six litres of water, a fluid that is seemingly harmless, can lead to water poisoning or dilutional hyponatremia, which is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain functions. In essence, water is only five times safer than many of these products. Pest control products are scientifically-safe, and WILL NOT cause harm to people, animals, or the environment.
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Castine, Town of
Population App 1300 – Hancock County
KEY POINTS
Prohibition Imposed For Pesticide
Storage In Aquifer Protection Zones
Prohibition Allowing The Sale Of
Predatory-Permits For Pesticide Use
SUMMARY
The town imposed fanatжcal-prohibition in 2008 against PESTICIDE STORAGE within AQUIFER PROTECTION ZONES and SELLING OF PREDATORY-PERMITS for any NON-RESIDENTIAL use of pesticides.
Who can afford this #@!!% nonsense ?!?!
There should be NO #@!!% PREDATORY-PERMITS.
Consequently, this fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Coplin Plantation
Population App 135 – Franklin County
KEY POINTS
Total Anti-Pesticide Prohibition With NO
Exceptions Against Mechanical Spraying
Prohibition Imposed Against
Aerial-Spraying & Forestry
SUMMARY
The town voted in 2001 to impose fanatжcal-prohibition against all AERIAL AND MECHANICAL spraying of pesticides.
Twenty-six voters were present at the meeting.
All voted in favour of fanatжcal-prohibition against conventional pest control products.
Coplin Plantation is almost the ONLY municipality to imposed TOTAL fanatжcal-prohibition against ALL pest control products.
It is a recognized fact that this fanatжcal-prohibition is unnecessary since pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause NO harm.
This fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Cranberry Isles
Island Communities
Population App 140 – Hancock County
KEY POINTS
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition
For Land Use With Exceptions
Inconsistent & Unfair Exception
Statuses For Timber Harvesting
Prohibition Imposed Under False-Pretexts
Prohibition Allowing The Sale Of
Predatory-Permits For Forestry Use
SUMMARY
In 1992 the ISLAND COMMUNITIES voted on a LAND USE prohibition under the FALSE-PRETEXTS …
… to further the maintenance of safe and healthful conditions …
… as well as the protection of natural resources.
Pest control products DO NOT harm natural resources !
Overwhelming scientific evidence clearly demonstrates that pest control products are scientifically-safe, and will NOT cause harm to children, adults, animals, or the environment.
Should we trust municipal officials, who conveniently defy overwhelming scientific evidence, and attempt to impose their twisted life-style choices against their communities based upon FALSE-PRETEXTS ?!?!
Pesticide-hating municipal officials have shown that they are incapable of processing overwhelming scientific evidence.
TIMBER HARVESTING has been provided with INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES.
There should be NO #@!!% EXCEPTION STATUSES whatsoever !
Otherwise, fanatжcal-prohibitions will continue to be DISMAL FAILURES for municipalities in the state of Maine !
Prohibition legislation allowed the SELLING OF PREDATORY-PERMITS for pesticide and herbicide use in FORESTRY management.
Who can afford this #@!!% nonsense ?!?!
There should be NO #@!!% PREDATORY-PERMITS.
Consequently, this fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Harpswell, Town of
Population App 4700 – Cumberland County
KEY POINTS
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition With Exceptions
Prohibition Imposed Under False-Pretexts
Inconsistent & Unfair Exception Statuses
For Agriculture, Golf Courses, & Nurseries
SUMMARY
This coastal community ( 216 miles of shoreline ) established fanatжcal-prohibition against conventional pest control products in 2004, which was updated in 2016.
Fanatжcal-prohibition was based upon the FALSE-PRETEXT to protect and maintain the health of …
… shellfish resources, marine environment, and pollinators.
Pest control products DO NOT harm the environment !
Overwhelming scientific evidence clearly demonstrates that pest control products are scientifically-safe, and will NOT cause harm to children, adults, animals, or the environment.
Should we trust municipal officials, who conveniently defy overwhelming scientific evidence, and attempt to impose their twisted life-style choices against their communities based upon FALSE-PRETEXTS ?!?!
Pesticide-hating municipal officials have shown that they are incapable of processing overwhelming scientific evidence.
Prohibition includes the use of « insect growth regulators ». or IGRs, which act on insect hormones to limit the insects’ life cycle, as well as insecticides that contain neonicotinoids.
It explicitly provides INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES for commercial AGRICULTURE, NURSERIES, and GOLF COURSES.
There should be NO #@!!% EXCEPTION STATUSES whatsoever !
Otherwise, fanatжcal-prohibitions will continue to be DISMAL FAILURES for municipalities in the state of Maine !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Lebanon, Town of
Population App 6000 – York County
KEY POINTS
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Imposed With
Exceptions Against Aerial-Spraying & Forestry
Inconsistent & Unfair Exception
Statuses Approved By Town Council
SUMMARY
Lebanon voted to impose arbitrary ANTI-AERIAL prohibition against all aerial pesticide application at a town meeting in 1980.
In 1983, Lebanon revisited its fanatжcal-prohibition to limit it to non-agricultural use, and to allow INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES IF APPROVED AT A TOWN MEETING.
There should be NO #@!!% EXCEPTION STATUSES whatsoever !
Otherwise, fanatжcal-prohibitions will continue to be DISMAL FAILURES for municipalities in the state of Maine !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Limerick, Town of
Population App 2800 – York County
KEY POINTS
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Imposed
Against Roadside Rights-Of-Way
Prohibition Imposed Under False-Pretexts
Exploiting Children As Weapons
Of Terrжr To Promote Prohibition
SUMMARY
At a town meeting in 1988, the town imposed fanatжcal-prohibition against herbicide application on RIGHTS-OF-WAY.
Town clerk Judy LePage said the issue was raised by a local mother who mock-believed roadside spraying may have contributed to her daughter developing leukemia. [ ?!?! ]
Pest control products DO NOT cause leukemia !
Overwhelming scientific evidence clearly demonstrates that pest control products are scientifically-safe, and will NOT cause harm to children, adults, animals, or the environment.
Should we trust municipal officials, who conveniently defy overwhelming scientific evidence, and attempt to impose their twisted life-style choices against their communities based upon FALSE-PRETEXTS ?!?!
Pesticide-hating municipal officials have shown that they are incapable of processing overwhelming scientific evidence.
This served as the FALSE-PRETEXT for imposing fanatжcal-prohibition.
This fanatжcal mother was despicable since she outrageously exploited her sick child as a weapon of coercion and ultimate environmental terrжr in order to merely promote fanatжcal-prohibition.
Pest control products DO NOT harm children !
Nonetheless, the vote was 252-206 in favour of fanatжcal-prohibition.
It is a recognized fact that this fanatжcal-prohibition is unnecessary since pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause NO harm.
This fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Limestone, Town of
Population App 2300 – Aroostook County
KEY POINTS
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Imposed
Against Aerial-Spraying & Forestry
Prohibition Imposed Under False-Pretexts
Inconsistent & Unfair Exception
Statuses For Golf Course
SUMMARY
This town PROHIBITED AERIAL SPRAYING of insecticides, pesticides and herbicides in 1970 under the FALSE-PRETEXT of health hazards from air and water pollution. [ ?!?! ]
Pest control products DO NOT cause pollution !
Overwhelming scientific evidence clearly demonstrates that pest control products are scientifically-safe, and will NOT cause harm to children, adults, animals, or the environment.
Should we trust municipal officials, who conveniently defy overwhelming scientific evidence, and attempt to impose their twisted life-style choices against their communities based upon FALSE-PRETEXTS ?!?!
Pesticide-hating municipal officials have shown that they are incapable of processing overwhelming scientific evidence.
However, GOLF COURSE fungicides were allowed INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES.
There should be NO #@!!% EXCEPTION STATUSES whatsoever !
Otherwise, fanatжcal-prohibitions will continue to be DISMAL FAILURES for municipalities in the state of Maine !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Manchester, Town of
Population App 2500 – Kennebec County
KEY POINTS
Partial Anti-Pesticide Prohibition With
Exceptions On Town-Owned Properties
Inconsistent & Unfair Exception Statuses
For Repellents, Rodenticides, & Inferior
Green Alternative Pesticides
Prohibition Imposed Under False-Pretexts
SUMMARY
Manchester voted in June 2017 to PROHIBIT against the use of pesticides on all TOWN-OWNED PROPERTIES.
Fanatжcal-prohibition was imposed under the FALSE-PRETEXT to …
… safeguard the health and welfare of residents …
… and to protect and conserve natural resources.
Pest control products DO NOT health and welfare !
They DO NOT harm natural resources.
Overwhelming scientific evidence clearly demonstrates that pest control products are scientifically-safe, and will NOT cause harm to children, adults, animals, or the environment.
Should we trust municipal officials, who conveniently defy overwhelming scientific evidence, and attempt to impose their twisted life-style choices against their communities based upon FALSE-PRETEXTS ?!?!
Pesticide-hating municipal officials have shown that they are incapable of processing overwhelming scientific evidence.
It includes specific INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES for outdoor animal REPELLENTS, indoor use of RODENT control, and ORGANIC PESTICIDES.
There should be NO #@!!% EXCEPTION STATUSES whatsoever !
Otherwise, fanatжcal-prohibitions will continue to be DISMAL FAILURES for municipalities in the state of Maine !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Montville, Town of
Population App 1000 – Waldo County
KEY POINTS
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Imposed Against
Roadside Rights-Of-Way ( Bush Control )
Prohibition Imposed Under False-Pretexts
SUMMARY
Montville imposed fanatжcal-prohibition at its annual town meeting in 1980 without specifying pesticides.
Fanatжcal-prohibition was imposed under FALSE-PRETEXTS …
… based on the increasing evidence that the types of sprays most commonly used for BUSH CONTROL CAN CAUSE CANCER [ ?!?! ] and birth defects in humans [ ?!?! ] .
Pest control products DO NOT cause cancer !
Overwhelming scientific evidence clearly demonstrates that pest control products are scientifically-safe, and will NOT cause harm to children, adults, animals, or the environment.
Should we trust municipal officials, who conveniently defy overwhelming scientific evidence, and attempt to impose their twisted life-style choices against their communities based upon FALSE-PRETEXTS ?!?!
Pesticide-hating municipal officials have shown that they are incapable of processing overwhelming scientific evidence.
It is a recognized fact that this fanatжcal-prohibition is unnecessary since pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause NO harm.
This fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Pesticides DO NOT Cause Cancer !
The fanatжcal-prohibition against pesticides, and other consumer products, has been somehow validated by enviro-lunatжcs who concoct myths like « cancer rates are increasing ». [ ?!?! ] THIS IS FALSE. Cancer rates are NOT rising. Allegations by enviro-lunatжcs about cancer increases, and the imaginary danger of pest control products, are totally false, and are untrue mis-representations designed to alarm and enrage the public into believing that fanatжcal-prohibition is somehow necessary. Why does anyone even bother to listen these non-expert enviro-lunatжcs ?!?! According to a REAL EXPERT, Dr Leonard Ritter … just because there has been a 30 per cent increase in deaths from cancer in Canada DOES NOT mean there is any need for concern. The reason for that increase is due to an AGING POPULATION and an INCREASING POPULATION. When you allow for that, there’s NO INCREASE AT ALL. Dr Leonard Ritter is Chair Professor Emeritus of Toxicology, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, and Executive Director, Canadian Network of Toxicology Centres, with 35 years of experience in the field of toxicology and pesticide safety.
There is NO health risk associated with the proper application of pest control products. Scientific research shows that, as reported through EPA’s and Health Canada’s vast toxicology database, NO harm will occur when pest control products are applied properly in the urban landscape. The risk assessment of pest control products indicates that they are practically-non-toxic. Consequently, it is a fact that pest control products will cause NO harm, including chronic effects such as cancer. There are NO pest control products that are known or probable carcinogens. All pesticides have been evaluated for their carcinogenic potential. Canadian Cancer Society’s own web-sites state repeatedly, over and over again, that scientific research DOES NOT provide a conclusive link between pest control products and cancer. There is NOT ONE known cancer death from the proper use of pest control products used in the urban landscape. And yet, there are thousands of known deaths per year from known cancer-causing substances such as unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, excess body weight, alcohol consumption, and over-exposure to the sun. Pest control products are SCIENTIFICALLY-SAFE, and WILL NOT cause harm to people, animals, or the environment.
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Newburgh, Town of
Population App 1500 – Penobscot County
KEY POINTS
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Imposed Against
Roadside Rights-Of-Way With NO Exceptions
SUMMARY
The town voted at its annual meeting in 1980 to arbitrarily prohibit the use of herbicides along the ROADSIDE RIGHTS-OF-WAY.
It is a recognized fact that this fanatжcal-prohibition is unnecessary since pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause NO harm.
This fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
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Ordinance
New Gloucester, Town of
Population App 5500 – Cumberland County
KEY POINT
NO Actual Anti-Pesticide
Prohibition Has Been Imposed
SUMMARY
In 1982, the town passed an ordinance that said the spraying or spreading of chemical fertilizers or pesticides had to be consistent with the standards of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
New Sweden, Town of
Population App 600 – Aroostook County
KEY POINT
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Imposed Against
Aerial-Spraying & Forestry With NO Exceptions
SUMMARY
The town voted in 1990 to impose fanatжcal-prohibition against AERIAL SPRAYING of pest control products within town limits.
It is a recognized fact that this fanatжcal-prohibition is unnecessary since pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause NO harm.
This fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Ogunquit, Town of
Population App 900 – York County
KEY POINTS
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition With Exceptions
Inconsistent & Unfair Exception
Statuses For Agriculture
SUMMARY
Fanatжcal-prohibition was FIRST imposed in June 2014, but had to be voted on again at a special town meeting in November 2014 because the town failed to give proper notice to the state Board of Pesticide Control.
Ogunquit’s fanatжcal-prohibition restricts the use or applications of synthetic pesticides on private property ― the FIRST fanatжcal-prohibition in Maine to do so ― but allows INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES for some uses, including on invasive species and on venomous or disease-carrying insects.
It specifically allows INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES for AGRICULTURE.
There should be NO #@!!% EXCEPTION STATUSES whatsoever !
Otherwise, fanatжcal-prohibitions will continue to be DISMAL FAILURES for municipalities in the state of Maine !
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Do Ogunquit Residents Want
To Live In #@!!% Dangerous &
Pest-Infested Garbage Dumps ?!?!
On June 12th, 2014, residents voted in favour of prohibiting against the use of pest control products used in the urban landscape throughout Ogunquit.
… that vote was voided because town officials forgot to check with the Maine Board of Pesticides Control prior to the vote, as required by law.
This result is in direct contradiction to the vote held on June 11th, 2013, when Ogunquit residents defeated a proposal to prohibit against pest control products. Now the state of Maine has deemed this fanatжcal-prohibition as illegal. The state of Maine deserves congratulations.
An Ogunquit pesticide ban will make its green spaces look so #@!!% ugly, just like other jurisdictions. Without conventional pest control products, residents will now have to get used to green spaces that will become pest-infested and dangerous garbage dumps. Ogunquit residents seem to want to live in #@!!% dangerous and pest-infested urban landscapes that look like garbage dumps. Without conventional pest control products, playing surfaces become thin and yellow, and over-run with weeds and infested with insects, resulting in the dismal destruction of safe turf playing surfaces. Organic pesticide-free maintenance DOES NOT work. It will be impossible for Ogunquit residents to keep their properties beautiful by using so-called green alternative pesticides and practices. Nonetheless, throughout the nation, anti-pesticide prohibitions have clearly demonstrated that green alternative pesticides and practices are dismal failures. Organic pesticide-free maintenance is NOT only a dismal failure, it is also stunningly expensive. Ogunquit WILL NOT be able to afford the stunningly exorbitant costs of this #@!!% nonsense. Outside of Ogunquit, there are dozens of jurisdictions that have stopped or rescinded or limited anti-pesticide prohibitions, or by granting professional lawn care businesses with an exception status. Ogunquit is ignoring the trends against pesticide bans that are relentless and unceasing.
LINKS
OGUNQUIT — WON’T OUTLAW PESTICIDES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY ( Report )
OGUNQUIT — COULD BE FIRST MAINE MUNICIPALITY TO BAN PESTICIDE ( Report )
OGUNQUIT — RESTRICTIONS STILL FACE COMMITTEE APPROVAL ( Report )
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Owls Head, Town of
Population App 1500 – Knox County
KEY POINTS
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Imposed Against
Roadside Rights-Of-Way With NO Exceptions
Prohibition Imposed Under False-Pretexts
SUMMARY
At its March 1970 annual meeting, Owls Head voted …
… to outlaw the use of defoliants and stop all ROADSIDE spraying with POISONS [ in the town ].
[ ?!?! ]
Pest control products ARE NOT indiscriminant poisons !
Overwhelming scientific evidence clearly demonstrates that pest control products are scientifically-safe, and will NOT cause harm to children, adults, animals, or the environment.
Should we trust municipal officials, who conveniently defy overwhelming scientific evidence, and attempt to impose their twisted life-style choices against their communities based upon FALSE-PRETEXTS ?!?!
Pesticide-hating municipal officials have shown that they are incapable of processing overwhelming scientific evidence.
The vote was the FIRST of its kind in Maine.
Limestone voted later in the same month on its own fanatжcal-prohibition.
It is a recognized fact that this fanatжcal-prohibition is unnecessary since pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause NO harm.
This fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Porter, Town of
Population App 1500 – Oxford County
KEY POINT
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Imposed Against
Roadside Rights-Of-Way With NO Exceptions
SUMMARY
This fanatжcal-prohibition in Maine was imposed in March 2018 by OVER-REACTING to a utility crew spraying ROADSIDES without permission.
It is a recognized fact that this fanatжcal-prohibition is unnecessary since pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause NO harm.
This fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Portland, City of
Population App 67,000 – Cumberland County
KEY POINTS
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition With Exceptions
Inconsistent & Unfair Exception Statuses
For Sports Fields & Golf Course
SUMMARY
Portland imposed one of the STRONGEST fanatжcal-prohibitions in the country in January 2018. [ Big deal ! ]
Regulations that arbitrarily PROHIBIT against synthetic pesticides apply to city-owned and residential properties.
Portland’s fanatжcal-prohibition includes INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES for Hadlock Field and Riverside Golf Course.
Five city-owned playing fields also receive INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES until 2021.
There should be NO #@!!% EXCEPTION STATUSES whatsoever !
Otherwise, fanatжcal-prohibitions will continue to be DISMAL FAILURES for municipalities in the state of Maine !
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Portland’s Ban Is #@!!% Nonsense !
On January 3rd, 2018, in the state of Maine, Portland’s city council approved a reckless and arbitrary prohibition against the use of conventional pest control products used in the urban landscape. This municipal prohibition against will inevitably become a dismal failure in every way possible since it is extremely biased and highly prejudicial. Elected officials voted in favour of fanatжcal-prohibition under the false-assumption that inferior green alternatives can somehow replace conventional pest control products. They will quickly recognize that these alternatives are dismal failures NOT only because of their stunning costs, but also because of their lack of effectiveness. Portland’s fanatжcal-prohibition, and its reliance on inferior green alternatives, will cause uncontrollable pest problems that will lead to the imminent demise of green spaces which will degrade to dangerous pest-infested garbage dumps. Additionally, Portland’s fanatжcal-prohibition has allowed hundreds of exception statuses. Over the course of years, Portland’s prohibition will allow inconsistent and unfair exception statuses, including hundreds of pesticide applications on Hadlock Field, Riverside Golf Course, and five athletic fields on Fox Street, at Deering High School, Deering Oaks Park, and Payson Park. Unfortunately, Portland’s fanatжcal-prohibition has been disgustingly arbitrary in its flagrant discrimination against professional lawn care businesses that have been provided with NO exception status whatsoever, and that face assured destruction. There should be NO #@!!% exception statuses whatsoever. On city-owned properties, Portland’s fanatжcal-prohibition will cost an exorbitant $700,000 for pesticide-free maintenance, to replace the sports field turf because of uncontrollable and destructive pest infestations, and $30,000 per year for additional staff time for manual weed picking and expensive green alternative pesticides that do NOT work. Portland has imposed fanatжcal-prohibition under the false-pretext that residents and the environment are somehow being protected. Portland’s pesticide-hating elected officials will be managing a failed prohibition because it is extremely biased, highly prejudicial, inconsistent, unfair, subversive, and stunningly expensive ― and neither residents nor the environment will be better protected. NO ONE wants this #@!!% ban nonsense.
LINKS
PORTLAND — STUNNINGLY EXORBITANT $700,000 COSTS OF PROHIBITION ( Blog )
PORTLAND — STATE BOARD MAY RELAX PESTICIDE NOTIFICATION ( Report )
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Rangeley, Town of
Population App 1200 – Franklin County
KEY POINT
Partial Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Against Mechanical
Spraying With Exceptions For Areas Larger Than 2 Acres
SUMMARY
Rangeley’s fanatжcal-prohibition limits the MECHANICAL application of pest control products on AREAS LARGER THAN TWO ACRES.
It was submitted to the Board of Pesticide Control in 1989, but may predate that.
This fanatжcal-prohibition is NOT NECESSARY !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Rockland, Town of
Population App 7200 – Knox County
KEY POINTS
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition With Exceptions
Inconsistent & Unfair Exception Statuses
For Inferior Green Alternative Pesticides
SUMMARY
Rockland’s fanatжcal-prohibition took effect in 2014.
It restricts the application of pesticides and herbicides on town owned, leased or managed land, but inferior GREEN ALTERNATIVE [ i.e. ORGANIC ] PESTICIDES are provided INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES.
There should be NO #@!!% EXCEPTION STATUSES whatsoever !
Otherwise, fanatжcal-prohibitions will continue to be DISMAL FAILURES for municipalities in the state of Maine !
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Scarborough, Town of
Population App 19,000 – Cumberland County
KEY POINTS
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition With Exceptions
Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance Was
Abandoned For Conventional Insecticide
Exorbitant Costs Inflicted By Prohibition
SUMMARY
Scarborough’s fanatжcal-prohibition is Maine’s BIGGEST DISMAL FAILURE !
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Scarborough’s Prohibition Failures !
Since the imposition of anti-pesticide prohibition, Scarborough green spaces have become pest-infested and dangerous garbage dumps. Ultimately, ineffective green alternative pesticides and practices were abandoned in favour of a more effective conventional insecticide called Dylox in 2013. This was one of many examples proving that organic pesticide-free maintenance DOES NOT WORK !
Scarborough’s elected officials included EXCEPTION STATUSES that have conveniently allowed municipal staff to circumvent the fanatжcal-prohibition. There should be NO #@!!% EXCEPTION STATUSES whatsoever ! Otherwise, fanatжcal-prohibitions will continue to be DISMAL FAILURES for municipalities in the state of Maine !
Government officials had said $91,000 had been budgeted for athletic fields maintenance, including $75,000 for turf management. As of early 2012, $91,400 had been spent. Government officials expected spending an ADDITIONAL $12,000 for the spring application of Dylox Insecticide for the control of White Grubs, rendering its green spaces no longer pesticide-free. A number of UNEXPECTED COSTS, such as $8,800 for ADDITIONAL White Grub treatments with Dylox at Wiley Recreation Facility and Scarborough Middle School fields, also drove up the costs.
Chip-Charles Osborne was the incompetent consultant and anti-pesticide lunatжc hired by Scarborough to implement organic pesticide-free maintenance that DOES NOT WORK. Osborne’s usual fee for concocting his usual worthless organic strategy is $36,000.
In Scarborough, Maine, the stunningly exorbitant costs continue to rise and rise and rise. In 2012, the first full fiscal year with the organics approach, the town spent $121,578 for turf management. In fiscal year 2013, the figure rose to $137,920 and by 2015 was $159,207.
Who can afford this #@!!% ban nonsense ?!?!
LINKS
SCARBOROUGH, MAINE — STUNNINGLY EXORBITANT COSTS RISE & RISE & RISE ( Blog )
SCARBOROUGH, MAINE — ANOTHER ORGANIC LAWN FAILURE — DYLOX FOR GRUBS — LUNATЖCS CHIP OSBORNE, PAUL TUKEY, & TOM KELLY — DURANGO, COLORADO ( Report )
SCARBOROUGH, MAINE — TOWN HALL MEETING — FAILED PESTICIDE FREE PROGRAM UNVEILED — LUNATЖC CHIP OSBORNE DAZZLES AUDIENCE WITH BULL CRЖP FOR $36,000 ( Report & Video Recordings )
SCARBOROUGH, MAINE — CONTRADICTIONS OF TRUTH — ORGANICALLY MANAGED PARKS — LUNATЖC CHIP OSBORNE ( Report & Video Recording )
SCARBOROUGH, MAINE — VIOLATING STATE LAW — FRAUDULENT ORGANIC BUSINESS ( Report )
SCARBOROUGH, MAINE — VICTORY — REPEAL OF ANTI-PESTICIDES POLICY ( Report )
SCARBOROUGH, MAINE — BAN COSTS — $12,000 — PESTICIDE TRANSITION CONTINUES — LUNATЖC CHIP OSBORNE ( Report )
SCARBOROUGH, MAINE — BAN COSTS — $12,000 — PESTICIDE TRANSITION CONTINUES ( Reference )
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
South Portland, City of
Population App 25,600 – Cumberland County
KEY POINTS
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition With Exceptions
Inconsistent & Unfair Exception Statuses For
Inferior Green Alternative Pesticides & Agriculture
Exception Statuses For Golf Courses Until May 2019
SUMMARY
South Portland developed its fanatжcal-prohibition over the course of more than a year.
When it was imposed in September 2016, it marked the FIRST TIME a city of this size in Maine had imposed fanatжcal-prohibition.
It is one of the TOUGHEST fanatжcal-prohibitions, placing limits on both city-owned and residential properties.
It allows INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES of only pesticides allowed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and classified as « minimum risk » [ i.e. inferior GREEN ALTERNATIVE PESTICIDES ] by the Environmental Protection Agency [ EPA ].
INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES also include commercial AGRICULTURE and GOLF COURSES [ until May 2019 ].
There should be NO #@!!% EXCEPTION STATUSES whatsoever !
Otherwise, fanatжcal-prohibitions will continue to be DISMAL FAILURES for municipalities in the state of Maine !
MEDIA REPORT
South Portland Pesticides Ban
Extends To Residents May 1st, 2018
April 25th, 2018 – The Forecaster – Selected And Adapted Excerpts
South Portland made history in 2016 by becoming the LARGEST community in Maine to enact [ fanatжcal-prohibition against conventional and ] synthetic pesticides.
The [ fanatжcal-prohibition ] goes into effect for residents May 1.
City-owned properties have NOT used synthetic pesticides for a year.
The city’s sustainability director, Julie Rosenbach, said Tuesday that South Portland has been developing [ pesticide-hating propaganda ] education and outreach about how to comply with the ordinance and how to transition to organic land care [ which DOES NOT WORK ] .
She said the [ pesticide-hating propaganda ] outreach includes materials, informational events, workshops, and demonstrations.
The ordinance prohibits ALL turf, landscape, and outdoor pest management pesticides, except those listed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as « allowed substances » [ with inferior green alternative pesticides that DO NOT WORK ] .
It [ arbitrarily ] bans most synthetic pesticides [ that are conventional & effective ] , and [ arbitrarily ] allows most organics.
While imposing its arbitrary fanatжcal-prohibition — prohibiting some products but NOT others through EXCEPTION STATUSES — South Portland CANNOT stop the public from realizing that a large quantity of deliberate mis-information and propaganda has been spread about the imaginary danger of conventional pest control products.
Despite imposing its fanatжcal-prohibition, South Portland has allowed THOUSANDS OF INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR EXCEPTION STATUSES for ineffective green alternative pesticides that are NOT safer and NOT better than conventional pest control products. http://wp.me/P1jq40-24g
Non-synthetic, organic or natural pesticides [ i.e. inferior green alternative pesticides ] are defined as substances derived from mineral, plant or animal matter that does not go through a synthetic process, according to the ordinance.
The [ fanatжcal-prohibition ] also allows chemicals classified as « minimum risk » by the Environmental Protection Agency [ EPA ] under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act [ i.e. inferior green alternative pesticides that DO NOT WORK ] .
Consequences for violators WILL NOT be punitive. Violations will be corrected through educational outreach.
The [ fanatжcal-prohibition ] is being phased-in over three years.
City-owned properties had to comply with the law first. Now residents must make the transition. Next to be included in the change will be the GOLF COURSES, South Portland’s municipal and the privately-owned Sable Oaks Golf Club, starting in May 2019.
A WAIVER [ predatory-permits ?!?! ] process will be available for residents and business owners who must apply a pesticide that isn’t allowed under the ordinance. But the WAIVER will only be granted for « situations that pose a threat to public health and safety, or for the control of invasive species that pose a threat to the environment, » according to Rosenbach’s memo.
In April 2018, WAIVER requests from five oil companies, including Sprague, Portland Pipeline, and Gulf Oil, were DENIED by the council. They asked for a WAIVER to use synthetic pesticides [ that are conventional & effective ] until [ ineffective ] organic products can be proven to be as effective. [ ?!?! ]
Vegetation and flammable materials must be kept away from their tanks, they said, and have been routinely cleared using [ conventional & effective herbicides ] that are not allowed under the ordinance. Councillors urged the companies to try [ ineffective ] alternative methods before coming back to the council.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
NO ONE In South Portland Wants To Live
In #@!!% Dangerous & Pest-Infested Urban
Landscapes That Look Like Garbage Dumps !
In South Portland, Maine, observers have NO objection to government officials’ choice of life-style, which, in this case, is a clear preference to live in an environment that looks like a pest-infested garbage dump ( a.k.a. naturalized lawns or pesticide-free gardens ). However, observers DO object to the imposition of this life-style choice on the majority of the community that DOES NOT want to live in this manner.
All fanatжcal-prohibitions have created catastrophic ecological carnage of uncontrolled, invasive, and destructive pests. Without conventional pest control products, green spaces & hard-landscapes have become pest-infested and dangerous garbage dumps because it is impossible to control invasive weeds and destructive insects by using so-called green alternative pesticides & practices.
Outside of South Portland, in Ontario, the reckless and arbitrary imposition of fanatжcal-prohibition since 2009 has proven NOT in the best interest of health and environment. Sadly, Ontario’s failed prohibition has created catastrophic ecological pest carnage. NO one, either in Ontario or in South Portland, wants to live in #@!!% dangerous and pest-infested urban landscapes that look like garbage dumps.
Observers can now predict with certainty that fanatжcal-prohibition in South Portland will inflict catastrophic ecological pest carnage. Here is what the residents of South Portland can expect … • municipal & residential properties will be ruined by uncontrolled weed invasion & insect destruction • weeds will invade lawns, and dandelions have become the dominant ground cover • lawns will be decimated by destructive insects like White Grubs • playing surfaces will become hazardous to children who are at high risk of tripping and becoming seriously hurt • infra-structures will be damaged by invasive noxious plants like Japanese Knotweed & Giant Hogweed • mature street trees will perish • rose plantations will die.
It is a recognized fact that fanatжcal-prohibition is unnecessary since pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause NO harm.
LINKS
SOUTH PORTLAND — PESTICIDES BAN — GOLF EXCEPTION ( Blog )
SOUTH PORTLAND — PESTICIDES BAN WOULD BE FINE-FREE ( Blog )
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Southport, Town of
Population App 600 – Lincoln County
KEY POINT
Total Anti-Pesticide Prohibition With NO Exceptions
SUMMARY
Southport was one of the FIRST towns to impose fanatжcal-prohibition against pest control products in Maine, voting in 1972 to …
… PROHIBIT all state and commercial of pesticides and herbicides in the town of Southport.
Southport is almost the ONLY municipality to imposed TOTAL fanatжcal-prohibition against ALL pest control products.
It is a recognized fact that this fanatжcal-prohibition is unnecessary since pest control products are scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, and will cause NO harm.
This fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
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Ordinance
Standish, Town of
Population App 9300 – Cumberland County
KEY POINT
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Imposed
For Storage In Shoreland Areas
SUMMARY
Adopted in 2002, Standish’s prohibition limits the STORAGE of pesticides and herbicides in SHORELAND AREAS …
… other than amounts normally associated with individual households or farms.
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Failed Ordinance Against Pest Control Products
Sweden, Town of
Population App 400 – Oxford County
KEY POINTS
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Imposed Against Aerial-
Spraying & Forestry In Aquifer Protection Zone
Prohibition Allowing The Sale Of
Predatory-Permits For Pesticide Use
SUMMARY
Sweden’s pesticide policy was last amended in 1991 and lays down restrictions on pesticides within the AQUIFER PROTECTION ZONE.
AERIAL SPRAYING of herbicides and pesticides is entirely PROHIBITED within the zone.
But, agricultural and residential use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicide use beyond that …
… use reasonably associated with home lawn and garden care …
… require the PURCHASE OF PREDATORY-PERMITS.
Who can afford this #@!!% nonsense ?!?!
There should be NO #@!!% PREDATORY-PERMITS.
Consequently, this fanatжcal-prohibition is a DISMAL FAILURE !
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Ordinance
Waterboro, Town of
Population App 7700 – York County
KEY POINT
NO Actual Anti-Pesticide
Prohibition Has Been Imposed
SUMMARY
Waterboro calls its 1986 regulation a Hazardous Waste Ordinance, and it covers much more than pesticides.
In fact, the word « pesticide » is not even used in the ordinance ( « toxics » is, though ).
It’s really about STORING toxics and intended to make sure anyone STORING HAZARDOUS WASTE requires the PURCHASE OF PERMITS.
It provides EXCEPTION STATUSES for AGRICULTURAL and HOUSEHOLD WASTE, as well as GASOLINE STATIONS.
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Ordinance
Wayne, Town of
Population App 1200 – Kennebec County
KEY POINT
Anti-Pesticide Prohibition Imposed
For Storage In Shoreland Areas
SUMMARY
Wayne restricts only the STORAGE of pesticides and fertilizers ( and NOT the use ), and only in SHORELAND AREAS.
This fanatжcal-prohibition includes an EXCEPTION STATUS for amounts …
… normally associated with individual households or farms.
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Ordinance
Wells, Town of
Population App 9500 – York County
KEY POINT
Partial Anti-Pesticide Prohibition
For Protected Resource Area
SUMMARY
In 1990 Wells voted to restrict pesticide use within a PROTECTED RESOURCE AREA around Branch Brook and the Branch Brook aquifer.
Permission for pesticide use in those areas may be granted by a codes enforcement officer with at least 60 days’ notice.
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Explore the following links …
√ FACT — Overwhelming Scientific Evidence Clearly Demonstrates That Pest Control Products Are Scientifically-Safe, & Will Not Cause Harm To Children, Adults, Animals, Or The Environment
√ FACT — Pesticides Are Less Lethal To Humans Than Caffeine — LINK
√ FACT — Yes, You Are Definitely Ingesting Pesticides, But Here’s Why It’s Not A Problem — LINK
√ FACT — Children Are Not At Risk From Pesticides — Dangerous Playing Surfaces Are Created By #@!!% Pesticide Bans — LINK
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/children-are-not-at-risk/
√ FACT — Pest Control Products Are Safe For Kids — Slide Show — LINK
√ FACT — Chemicals Are Evaluated For Carcinogenic Potential By Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) — LINKS
√ FACT — Pesticides Are Evaluated As Acceptable For Continued Registration By Health Canada — LINK
√ FACT — Our Children Are Safe When Pesticide Bans Are Stopped — There Are Real Trends AGAINST Pesticide Bans — LINK
√ FACT — Pest Control Products Have Been Tested In More Ways Than Virtually Any Other Set Of Substances — The Industry Task Force II On 2,4-D Research Data — LINKS
√ FACT — Pesticides Are Safe — LINKS
https://pesticidetruths.com/toc/children-are-not-at-risk/
√ FACT — Pesticides Are Health Canada Approved — Listen To Mr Lindsay Hanson From The Pest Management Regulatory Agency — LINK
https://pesticidetruths.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/dirtybit//LHansonPMRAottawaPesticideSafety.mp3
√ FACT — There Is No Direct Proof Pesticides Cause Cancer — Canadian Cancer Society — LINK
√ FACT — REAL Experts Speak Out Against The Conspiracy To Impose Reckless & Arbitrary Prohibition Against Conventional Pest Control Products — LINK
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We Speak The Whole Truth About Maine’s Municipal Prohibitions From An Independent Perspective
We are the National Organization Responding Against HUJE that conspire to destroy the Green space and other industries ( NORAHG ). As a non-profit and independent organization, we are environmentalists who are dedicated to reporting about truth-challenged pesticide-hating fanatжcs ( HUJE ), like those found in Maine, who conspire to destroy businesses that are dependent on the use of safe and effective conventional pest control products. We also report on the work of several highly-rated leading experts who have recognized expertise, training, and background in matters concerning pest control products, and who promote environmental realism and pesticide truths.
Not surprisingly, enviro-fanatжcs have demonstrated that they are incapable of processing overwhelming scientific evidence. Should we trust these fanatжcs, who conveniently ignore scientific evidence, and attempt to impose their politicized-doctrines and twisted life-style choices against our society ?!?!
NORAHG was the brain-child of Mr William H Gathercole and his colleagues in 1991. Mr Gathercole is now retired, although his name continues to appear as founder. We dare to defy the pesticide-hating fanatжcs, like those found in Maine, by exploring the whole truth from an independent perspective on The Pesticide Truths Web-Site … https://pesticidetruths.com/ If you wish to receive free reports on issues that concern you, please contact us at … force.of.de.nature@gmail.com WILLIAM H GATHERCOLE AND NORAH G
Explore the following links …
√ FACT — With A Scheer Conservative Victory In The 2019 Canadian Federal Election, There Will Be NO National Prohibition Against Pest Control Products — LINK
√ FACT — The Fanatжcal Trudeau Liberal Government Is Bat-Shжt Crazy — LINK
√ FACT — The Trump Administration Ends The US EPA’s Reigns Of Terrжr — LINK
√ FACT — If You Do Not Vote Conservative, Then You Are A Pitiful Fool & An Imbecile
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