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victories, such as Salmon Arm in British Columbia

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The Extended Media History Of
The Tremendous Victories Against
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The Whole Truth About The Tremendous Victories Against
The Conspiracy To Impose Reckless & Arbitrary Prohibitions
& Restrictions Against Pest Control Products That Are, In
Fact, Federally-Approved, Scientifically-Safe, Practically
Non-Toxic, & Will Not Cause Harm To Children, Adults,
Animals, Or The Environment

The Purpose Of This Web-Page Is To Provide Information
That Will Lead To Successful Complaints & Litigation
Against Irrational Pesticide-Hating Extremists

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Background Information

Victories Against Prohibitions

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Pesticide-Hating Doctrine & Science-Denying Fanatжcism

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In the 9|11 era of irrational extremists, the turf industry has faced a pesticide-hating doctrine & science-denying fanatжcism, with terrжr that never ends & carnage that leads to catastrophic prohibition against no-risk conventional pest control products. 

Anti-pesticide prohibition unleashed a catastrophic carnage of unemployment, bankruptcy, & business failure   ―   prohibition destroyed the professional lawn care industry. 

Prohibiting conventional products has inflicted catastrophic ecological carnage of urban landscapes, where playing surfaces become garbage dumps over-run with uncontrolled invasive weeds & destructive insects   ―   pesticide bans have never made our green spaces look so #@!!% ugly.  

Green alternative pesticides are responsible for the catastrophic ecological carnage of urban landscapes   ―   organic pesticide-free maintenance has been a failure because it is medieval & ineffective.

After the imposition of prohibitions, municipalities & residents endure catastrophic financial carnage in the form of stunningly exorbitant costs of maintenance   ―   who can afford this #@!!% ban nonsense ?!?! 

Irrational pesticide-hating extremists have been despicably exploiting children as weapons of coercion in order to manipulate the public on the supposed necessity of prohibition, when, in fact, the use of no-risk conventional products would actually prevent children from falling & hurting themselves on playing surfaces   ―   kids are at high risk because dangerous playing surfaces are created by #@!!% pesticide bans.   

The owners, employees, & families dependent on professional lawn care businesses have been vulnerable to the pure pesticide-hatred of extremists since the 1980s.  

And all others in the turf industry, including golf, are considered just as vulnerable   ―   there are critical issues that must be addressed by the golf industry.  

And now golf courses too are facing pesticide-hating terrжr that never ends. 

Nevertheless, the turf industry has been striking back & taking action against extremists. 

The turf industry has scored tremendous victories against irrational pesticide-hating extremists while establishing real trends against pesticide bans.  

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Victories — Short Version — Part 1 — History Of Victories Against Prohibitions — Post

Victories — Short Version — Part 1 — History Of Victories Against Prohibitions — pdf

Victories — Short Version — Part 2 — History Of Victories Against Prohibitions — Post

Victories — Short Version — Part 2 — History Of Victories Against Prohibitions — pdf

Victories — Short Version — Part 1 & Part 2 Combined — History Of Victories Against Prohibitions — Web-Page

Terrжr Never Ends — Short Version — Library Of Pesticide-Hating Doctrine — Post

Terrжr Never Ends — Long Version — Library Of Pesticide-Hating Doctrine — Web-Page

Carnage Of Catastrophic Prohibition Against Pest Control Products — Main Web-Page

Carnage Of Business Failures — Prohibition Destroyed Professional Lawn Care Industry — Web-Page

Carnage Of Garbage Dumps — Prohibition Destroyed Public & Residential Green Spaces — Web-Page

Carnage Of Stunningly Exorbitant Costs — Who Can Afford This Ban Nonsense ?!?! — Web-Page

Green Alternative Pesticides — Failure Of Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Web-Page

Children & Pesticides — Dangerous Playing Surfaces Are Created By Pesticide Bans — Web-Page

Golf — The Critical Issues That Must Be Addressed By The Golf Industry — Web-Page

Striking Back — Library Of Striking Back & Taking Action Against Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Web-Page

Victories — Extended Version — History Of Victories Against Prohibitions — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Failures Of Pesticide-Hating Bans

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There are continental trends ( i.e. throughout North America ) against the conspiracy to impose harmful-prohibitions against no-risk conventional pest control products needed to protect the urban landscape. 

The failures of pesticide-hating bans are not only part of trends, but they also represent victories against these prohibitions.  

Prohibitions will be failures since it is impossible to keep turfgrass surfaces well-maintained, safe, & attractive without conventional products.  

Without these products, playing surfaces will be destroyed quickly   ―   they become thin & yellow, invaded by weeds & infested with insects.  

As a consequence of the failures of pesticide-hating bans, many jurisdictions have  —

•   Defeated prohibitions   •   Discarded prohibitions   •   Ended prohibitions   •   Rescinded prohibitions   •   Reversed prohibitions   •   or Stopped prohibitions.  

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•   Ashland   •   Boulder   •   Calgary   •   Chicago   •   Edmonton   •   Everett   •   Guelph   •   Guelph-Eramosa   •   Lawrence   •   Lincoln   •   Madison   •   Maine  *   •   Manitoba   •   New Canaan   •   Ottawa   •   Port Alberni   •   Revelstoke   •   Salmon Arm   •   Scarborough   •   Summerside   •   United Kingdom  **  

*    A major study has confirmed the failure of Maine’s pesticide-hating municipal bans

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Failures To Invoke Total Pesticide-Hating Bans

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All prohibitions are pesticide-hating bans that can never be based upon science. 

They are based upon pure pesticide-hatred by irrational pesticide-hating extremists.  

If prohibitions were based upon science, then there would nothing but total bans.  

However, there are nothing but failures when attempts are made to invoke total bans. 

The failures to invoke total pesticide-hating bans represent victories against the conspiracy to impose harmful-prohibitions against no-risk conventional pest control products needed to protect the urban landscape.  

The failures to invoke total bans will inevitably lead to more limited prohibitions.  

Limited prohibitions are viewed as stepping-stones towards total bans.  

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•   British Columbia   •   Burnaby   •   Charlottetown   •   Coquitlam   •   Delta   •   Gibsons   •   Golden   •   Kamloops   •   Montgomery County   •   New Brunswick   •   Newfoundland & Labrador   •   Ontario   •   Portland   •   Prince Edward Island   •   Qualicum Beach   •   Quebec   •   Saanich   •   Saint John’s   •   Stratford   •   Vancouver  

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Overall, there are no successful total bans, only contradictory ones. 

Contradictory prohibitions are contradictory by nature since there is always a failure to justify bans that are based upon pure pesticide-hatred.  

Their imposition implies that that certain pesticide uses are somehow safer than others, a notion that cannot defended by science.  

Nonetheless, even contradictory prohibitions represent victories, of sorts, against the conspiracy to impose harmful-prohibitions.  

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Government officials will always fail to justify pesticide-hating bans because their motivation is pure pesticide-hatred.  

In the long term, these officials will fail to get main-stream support for their pesticide-hating bans.  

The best they can do is impose contradictory prohibitions.  

While imposing their contradictory prohibitions   —   banning some pesticide uses but not others through arbitrary exceptions   —   officials cannot stop the public from realizing that deliberate mis-information & propaganda will be concocted about the imaginary danger of conventional pest control products.  

This explains why officials fail to justify pesticide-hating bans which represent victories, of sorts, against the conspiracy to impose harmful-prohibitions.  

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The simplest contradictory prohibitions are those that are partial & self-imposed on municipal-owned properties only.  

Partial prohibitions will not be imposed on any other type of turfgrass locations, such as home lawns.  

Partial prohibitions will not adversely affect lawn care businesses, & represent victories, of sorts, against the conspiracy to impose harmful-prohibitions.  

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The failure to invoke total bans will inevitably lead to more limited prohibitions, which will be considered as victories, of sorts, against the conspiracy to impose harmful-prohibitions.  

The more complex contradictory prohibitions are those that are limited to one specific type of turfgrass or hard surface & / or one specific type of business   ―   ex :  residential home lawns & / or professional lawn care businesses, which represent less than 2 per cent of all pesticide use.  

Limited prohibitions are discriminatory & unfair since they will rely heavily upon arbitrary exceptions.  

Arbitrary exceptions have represented the best examples of the failures & the ridiculousness of the limited prohibitions against conventional pest control products used to protect the urban landscape. 

A government will allow conventional pest control applications whenever it arbitrarily suits its officials. 

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•   British Columbia   •   Burnaby   •   Charlottetown   •   Coquitlam   •   Delta   •   Gibsons   •   Golden   •   Kamloops   •   Maine  *   •   Montgomery County   •   New Brunswick   •   Newfoundland & Labrador   •   Ontario   •   Portland   •   Prince Edward Island   •   Qualicum Beach   •   Quebec   •   Saanich   •   Saint John’s   •   Stratford   •   Summerside   •   Vancouver

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Arbitrary exceptions have represented the best examples of the failures & the ridiculousness of anti-pesticide prohibition.  

While concocting their arbitrary exceptions   —   prohibiting some uses but not others   —   officials cannot stop the public from realizing that a large quantity of deliberate mis-information & propaganda has been spread about the imaginary danger of conventional pest control products. 

When prohibitions allow arbitrary exceptions, they will be considered as victories, of sorts, against the conspiracy to impose harmful-prohibitions.  

These arbitrary exceptions have been conveniently incorporated into by-laws & regulations in order to allow government officials to circumvent their own prohibitions.  

Most of the time, arbitrary exceptions are necessary for invasive weeds & destructive insects that must be controlled every single year in order to protect the urban environment.  

There should not be any #@!!% arbitrary exceptions whatsoever !  

Exceptions will allow elected-officials to use conventional pest control applications whenever it arbitrarily suits their needs. 

Arbitrary exceptions have allowed thousands & thousands of inconsistent & unfair pesticide applications, for many reasons & excuses, including those examples of arbitrary exceptions listed below  ―

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•   Agriculture operations   •   Certified pesticide applicators   •   Commercial properties   •   Destructive insects   •   Forestry operations   •   Fruit gardens   •   Fruit trees   •   Glyphosate herbicide   •   Golf courses   •   Green alternative pesticides   •   Greenhouses   •   Hard-landscapes  *   •   Industrial properties   •   Institutional properties   •   Invasive weeds   •   Lawn bowling clubs   •   Lawn care businesses   •   Lawns that need to be safe for use   •   Municipal-owned properties   •   New lawns  **   •   Pest infestations   •   Public infra-structures   •   Rose gardens   •   Sports fields   •   Urban forests   •   Vegetable gardens   •   & More  

*     ex : sidewalks & medians  

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In some jurisdictions, these arbitrary exceptions have even allowed the sale of predatory-permits, which will be considered as victories, of sorts, against the conspiracy to impose harmful-prohibitions.  

Predatory-permits grants municipalities the power to legally extort untold thousands of dollars in unjustified profits. 

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Justifying Pesticides & Protecting The Public 

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Health Canada ensures victories against the conspiracy to impose harmful-prohibitions against no-risk conventional pest control products needed to protect the urban landscape.  

Health Canada has stated that it is confident that the pest control products that it approves for use in Canada can be used safely when label directions are followed.

Incident Reports are monitored by Health Canada to identify any potential risks to health or the environment from the use of pest control products & to take corrective actions when necessary.

The more serious individual Incident Reports may lead to an official evaluation & action.

Health Canada helps protect the public by researching, assessing, & collaborating in the management of the health risks & safety hazards associated with the many consumer products that are used every day.

It employs over 350 doctorate-level experts & leading scientific experts on pest control products.

Health Canada, & not the irrational pesticide-hating extremists, has the essential expertise & ultimate credibility on pest control products.

Health Canada approves the instruction & safety precautions that appear on the Approved Pesticide Product Labels, which are designed to protect human health & the environment.  

Human health is not at risk from pest control products because of Re-Entry Intervals established by Health Canada. 

Re-Entry Intervals are necessary to ensure that any pest control product residues on the treated turfgrass surfaces do not pose an unacceptable risk to human health. 

These intervals reflect the amount of time required for no-risk pest control product levels to dissipate to a level that is well below any point of concern.  

Typically, for all pest control products used for lawn care maintenance, the Approved Pesticide Product Labels state   —   « keep people off treated area until foliage is dry ».  

Finally, given that cancer is the number 2 leading cause of death, there is a good chance that you are going to die of cancer no matter what you do.  

By contrast, no-risk pest control products are nowhere near a leading cause of cancer-death, & there is no chance that they will make you die of cancer.  

Pesticides causing cancer is a myth. 

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Health Canada — Pesticide Safety Infographics

Health Canada — Health-Related Video Gallery

Health Canada — Approved Pesticide Product Labels

Health Canada — Approved Pesticides — Listen To Mr Lindsay Hanson

Health Canada — Pesticide Incident Reports — Identifying Potential Risks

Health Canada — Re-Entry Intervals For Turfgrass Applications

Health Canada — Pesticides & Cancer — Contrasts With Alcohol & Other REAL Carcinogens

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Continental Trends & More  –  Short List Of Examples 

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There are continental trends ( i.e. throughout North America ) against the conspiracy to impose prohibitions & regulations against no-risk pest control products that are need to protect the urban landscape.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to keep turfgrass surfaces well-maintained, safe, & attractive without conventional pest control products.

Without these products, playing surfaces will be destroyed quickly   ―   they become thin & yellow, invaded by weeds & infested with insects.  

Since officials will fail to get main-stream support for their pesticide-hating bans, there are continental trends against their conspiracy to impose prohibition. 

There are over 70 jurisdictions that have stopped or rescinded or limited or have begun to repeal their harmful-prohibitions, or have granted commercial businesses with an exception status, or have provided thousands & thousands of exceptions.  

These continental trends may also include contradictory prohibitions, which still represent victories, of sorts, because of their inherent failure to invoke total pesticide-hating bans.  

The victories below demonstrate the continental trends against the conspiracy of pesticide-hating prohibitions.  

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Continental Trends & More  –  Expanded List Of Examples 

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Victories Against Prohibitions — The Complete Media History — Web-Page

Society Must Be Liberated From Anti-Pesticide Occupation — Post

The Public Does Not Want Pesticide Bans — Web-Page

Our Children Are Safe When Pesticide Bans Are Stopped — Post

Communities Are Rescinding Prohibitions — Various Statements — Post

Real Trends Against Anti-Glyphosate Extremism — Post

Health Canada — Pesticides & Incidents — Potential Risks — Post

Health Canada — Pesticides & Health — Video Gallery — Post

British Columbia — The Library Of Municipal Prohibition Failures — Web-Page

British Columbia — The Library Of Prohibition By-Laws — Web-Page

Edmonton, Alberta — The Failure Of Fiesta — Post

Madison, Wisconsin — Violated Its Own Pesticide Policies — Post

Montgomery County — Prohibition Failure — Misinformation By Officials — Post

Ontario — Prohibition Amendment — Destroyers Of The Lawn Care Industry — Post

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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VICTORY   —   Alberta will not ban pesticides.

No provincial prohibition will be imposed against pest control products in Alberta.

Alberta officials stopped a proposed pesticide ban & stated that the province would not create a ban that conflicted with the federal government.

The only people who demand prohibition are a small group of irrational pesticide-hating extremists with vested interests in concocting imaginary danger against pest control products.

These irrational pesticide-hating extremists include   —   Ian Arnold, Nadine Bachand, Warren Bell, Alison Scott Butler, Raquel Feroe, Kim Jarvi, Sheryl McCumsey, Carol Mee, Kim Perrotta, Margaret Sanborn, Meg Sears, Rich Whate, Jean Zigby, & others.

This small group of fanatжcs are wrong on so many levels.

These fanatжcs are pushing for reckless & arbitrary prohibition without any justification.

Albertans need to know that these fanatжcs do not know what they are talking about.

Albertans also need to know that, outside of Alberta, most Canadians do not want prohibition.

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Alberta — Proposed Provincial Prohibition Terminated — pdf

Alberta — Proposed Provincial Prohibition Terminated — Reference — pdf

Alberta — No Prohibition — Mr Art C Drysdale — pdf

Alberta — The Conspiracy To Prohibit Pest Control Products — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Beaumont
Calgary
Edmonton

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Altona, Town of,
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VICTORY   —   Altona will not ban pesticides. 

Altona’s mayor strongly & publicly opposed the  provincial prohibition.  

The municipal mayor strongly & publicly opposed the proposal for a provincial prohibition.

Altona is a predominantly Mennonite town.   

With the mayor’s refusal to support Manitoba’s pesticide-hating ban, any proposed prohibition in Altona itself will most surely fail.  

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Altona — Prohibition Opposed — Post

Altona — Prohibition Opposed — pdf

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Manitoba — Pallister Government To Loosen Ban — Post

Manitoba — Pallister Government To Loosen Ban — pdf

Manitoba — The End Of Prohibition That Has Wreaked Catastrophic Ecological Carnage — Post

Manitoba — The End Of Prohibition That Has Wreaked Catastrophic Ecological Carnage — pdf

Manitoba — The Conspiracy To Prohibit Pest Control Products — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Portage La Prairie
Steinbach
Stuartburn
Winkler

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VICTORY   —   Anne Arundel has resumed using conventional pesticides.

Council rejected legislation that would have prohibited against the use of conventional pest control products on county-owned playgrounds.

Council members voted against Bill 76-16, legislation which sought to self-impose prohibition against the county’s Recreation & Parks Department.

For the control invasive weed pests & destructive insect pests, the proposed prohibition would have only allowed inferior & ineffective green alternative pesticides   ―   conventional & effective pest control products would have been prohibited. 

Anne Arundel will allow conventional pest control applications whenever it arbitrarily suits government officials. 

The harmful-prohibition was proposed after complaints, coercion, & intimidation from irrational pesticide-hating extremist-parents who were mock-concerned about children & pest control applications in parks.  

Should irrational extremist-parents be allowed to raise children ?!?! 

Children are at risk from dangerous pest-infested playing surfaces which are created by #@!!% pesticide bans ! 

No one wants this #@!!% dangerous ban nonsense that places children at risk ! 

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Anne Arundel — Rejects Ban On Playgrounds — Post

Anne Arundel — Rejects Ban On Playgrounds — pdf

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Pesticides & Children — The Complete Media History Of Pesticides & Children — Kids Are At High Risk With Pesticide Bans — Web-Page

United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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See Also  ―  Other Maryland Municipality

Montgomery County

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Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
California
Chicago, Illinois
Durango, Colorado
Everett, Washington
Highland Park, Illinois
Josephine County, Oregon
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lawrence, Kansas
Lincoln City, Oregon
Madison, Wisconsin
Montgomery County, Maryland
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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Victory Against Prohibition

Ashland, City of,
State of Oregon USA

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Victory
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Failure Of Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Existing Municipal Prohibition Rescinded
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Parks Staff Gave Up On Ineffective
& Inferior Alternative Pesticides
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VICTORY   —   Ashland has resumed using conventional pesticides. 

Parks commissioners unanimously rescinded the existing the existing municipal prohibition. 

They also re-authorized no-risk conventional pest control products on baseball & softball infields. 

Commissioners also unanimously rescinded early sign-posting.

Ashland allowed conventional pest control applications whenever it arbitrarily suited these commissioners. 

Parks department staff reported that green alternative pesticides & practices proved largely ineffective & stunningly expensive for controlling weeds.  

Glyphosate had cost just over 300-dollars before its prohibition, but an green alternative was nearly 10,000-dollars.

Parks staff tried to burn weeds along concrete & asphalt with propane torches, but that was also not effective.

And volunteer manual weed-pickers were also ineffective.

Weeds had taken over the dirt areas of the infields, creating an uneven & unsafe surface, presenting a liability issue for the parks department.

Organic pesticide-free maintenance with alternatives was a dismal failure.

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Media Library  
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Ashland — Failure Of Organic Maintenance — pdf

Ashland — Cannot Keep Up With Weed Growth On City Properties — Pesticide Truths Post

Ashland — Residents Invited To Adopt-A-Park With Manual Weed-Picking — Pesticide Truths Post

Ashland — Reduces Park Pesticides By Nearly Half — Pesticide Truths Post

Ashland — Moves To Reduce But Not Eliminate Pesticides In Parks — Pesticide Truths Post

Ashland — Votes To Ban Pesticides From Parks Despite Evidence — Pesticide Truths Post

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Green Alternatives — Bogus & Dismal Failures — Toxicity Comparisons — Web-Page

Manual Weed Picking — The Library Of The Dismal Failures — Web-Page

Green Alternative — Weed-Burning Flame-Throwers — Web-Page

Organic — The Failures Of Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Post

Organic — The Failure Of Medieval & Ineffective Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Web-Page

United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Josephine County
Lincoln City

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Boulder, Colorado
California
Chicago, Illinois
Durango, Colorado
Everett, Washington
Highland Park, Illinois
Josephine County, Oregon
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lawrence, Kansas
Lincoln City, Oregon
Madison, Wisconsin
Montgomery County, Maryland
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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United States

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Boulder, Colorado
Brazil
Canada
European Union
Highland Park, Illinois
Port Alberni, British Columbia

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Victory Against Prohibition

Beaumont, City of,
Province of Alberta

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Key Points   

Victory
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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Proposed Municipal Prohibition Stopped
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VICTORY   —   Beaumont will not ban pesticides. 

Officials voted-off & stopped a proposal for prohibition because they believed that this was a provincial initiative, if not federal. 

A motion to not move forward with prohibition was carried unanimously.

According to city councillor Louise White-Gibbs   —   «  We’ve heard so much discussion on this, & I think it’s time to put an end to this for now.  This must be a provincial initiative, if not federal.  Doing it at the municipal level, there is absolutely no way that we can enforce it  » .

According to Landscape Alberta Nursery Trades Association in a presentation to the Beaumont town council   —    «  There is no justifiable reason to ban or restrict the use of any pest control products in the town of Beaumont  » .  

At the provincial level, the government of Alberta has stated that it strongly supports using science-based evidence, & will not create restrictions or laws that conflict with Health Canada, the federal agency relied upon for health & safety assessments.  

Attempts to subvert the town council were made by hired-guns from Canadian Cancer Society ( CCS ), an anti-pesticide extremist-organization that is subversive, contemptible, & radical.  

According to a CCS-hired-gun   —   «  There is already a growing body of evidence linking pesticides to cancer  » .  [ WRONG ! ]  

There are no hired-guns at Canadian Cancer Society who are scientists or researchers with credentials in the field of pest control products.  

None !  

These hired-guns are not competent to talk about pest control products.  

They are irrational pesticide-hating extremists.  

Moreover, Canadian Cancer Society is a fund-raising organization & not a scientific & not a research organization.  

According to the radical & contemptible Canadian Cancer Society ( CCS ), there is evidence  [ ?!?! ]  of a link between pesticides & several types of cancer.

This contradicts Health Canada scientists who perform thorough science-based risk assessments on all pest control products to ensure that they can be used safely.

This also contradicts Canadian Cancer Society’s own web-sites that have stated repeatedly that scientific research does not provide a conclusive link between pest control products & cancer.

There is not one known cancer death from the proper use of pest control products used in the urban landscape.

Nonetheless, given that cancer is the number 2 leading cause of death, there is a good chance that you are going to die of cancer no matter what you do.

By contrast, pest control products are nowhere near a leading cause of cancer-death, & there is no chance that they will make you die of cancer.

Pesticides causing cancer is a myth.

So chill-out & have a drink, & forget about prohibiting pest control products.

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Beaumont — Ban Off The Council Table — pdf

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Background Information   
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Alberta — The Conspiracy To Prohibit Pest Control Products — Web-Page

Pesticides & Cancer — Contrasts With Alcohol & Other Real Carcinogens — Pesticides Are Nowhere Near A Leading Cause Of Cancer Death — Post

Pesticides & Cancer — Health Canada’s Pesticide Safety Infographics — Post

Pesticides & Cancer — Pesticides Causing Cancer Is A Myth — Web-Page

Pesticides & Cancer — Chemicals Are Evaluated For Carcinogenic Potential By US EPA — Post

Pesticides & Cancer — Chemicals Are Evaluated For Carcinogenic Potential By US EPA — pdf

Pesticides & Cancer — There Is No Direct Proof — Canadian Cancer Society — Web-Page

CCS — COVID-19 Has Hopefully Annihilated CCS Forever — Post

CCS — Reasons To Revoke Charity Tax-Exempt Status — Interference In Partisan Politics — Post

CCS — Self-Enrichment — Pay-Offs To Bell & Burrows — pdf

CCS — Misuses The Millions That It Collects From Golf Canada — Version 1 — pdf

CCS — Misuses The Millions That It Collects From Golf Canada — Version 2 — pdf

CCS — Summary Of Position Statements Against The Golf Industry — WCTA Leaders Allowed Themselves To Be Appeased By The Cancer-Lunatжc Liars — Post

CCS — Summary Of Position Statements Of Canadian Cancer Society Against The Golf Industry — WCTA Leaders Allowed Themselves To Be Appeased By The Cancer-Lunatжc Liars — pdf

CCS — Canadian Cancer Society Meets With AGA-BC & WCTA — Pesticide Truths Post

CCS — Explaining Why The Golf Industry Must Not Cooperate With CCS — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Calgary
Edmonton

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Victory Against Prohibition

Belleville, City of,
Province of Ontario

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Key Points     

Victory
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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Proposed Municipal Prohibition Stopped
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Effective Weed Control Impossible Without
The Use Of Conventional Pest Control Products
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Summary  
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VICTORY   —   Belleville will not ban pesticides. 

A proposed municipal prohibition was stopped because council believed that the provincial & federal governments should be in a much better position to establish more effective & enforceable legislation. 

Every kind of green alternative pesticide had been tried, & they were all ineffective.  

The use of alternatives brought on by prohibition was a dismal failure.  

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Media Library  
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Belleville — Proposed Municipal Ban Stopped — Post

Belleville — Proposed Municipal Pesticide Ban Stopped — pdf

Belleville — Pesticide Ban Failure — Pesticide Truths Post

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Background Information   
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Ontario — Prohibition Amendment — Destroyers Of The Lawn Care Industry — Post

Green Alternatives — Bogus & Dismal Failures — Toxicity Comparisons — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Guelph
Guelph-Eramosa
Hamilton
Ottawa

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Victory Against Prohibition

Boulder, City of,
State of Colorado USA

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Key Points     

Victory
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Failure Of Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Existing Municipal Prohibition Reversed
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Roundup Herbicide Re-Introduced
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VICTORY   —   Boulder has resumed using conventional pesticides. 

Boulder reversed its existing municipal prohibition.  

Because of the failure of prohibition at the city of Boulder, its maintenance program went from a 15,000-dollars per year to a staggering 300,000-dollars+ per year, under Chip-Charles Osborne, the incompetent consultant & pesticide-hating extremist.  

One year later, Boulder re-introduced no-risk herbicides like Roundup.

Boulder would allow conventional pest control applications whenever it arbitrarily suited its government officials. 

In the nearby town of Durango, city councillors had listened to a three-hour debate with irrational pesticide-hating extremists involving fake-science & calls for decisive action to supposedly save the environment.  

They had been persuaded to impose prohibition against the use of pest control products in the urban landscape.  

Cathy Metz, Durango’s director of parks & recreation, noted the abundance of weeds in Boulder parks when relying on so-called organic pesticide-free maintenance.

According to Metz   —    «  I don’t think Boulder is the example we want to follow.  They get complaints every year about dandelions  » .  

Boulder has become internationally-recognized for the poor condition of its urban green spaces   ―   they are garbage dumps.

Fortunately, pest control products are not only effective, but also, they are scientifically-safe, will cause no harm, are no threat to children   ―   & low-cost.   

Because the pesticide-free maintenance of Boulder green spaces was such a dismal failure, municipal government officials tried to encourage the public to somehow appreciate dandelions.  

These officials were not competent to manage Boulder’s green spaces.  

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Media Library  
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Boulder — Prohibition Failure — Roundup Re-Introduced — Pesticide Truths Post

Boulder — Pesticide Free Failure — Parks & Rec Resorting To Fiesta Herbicide — Pesticide Truths Post

Boulder — Maintenance Program Went From A 15,000-Dollars Per Year To A Staggering 300,000-Dollars+ Per Year — YouTube Videos — Pesticide Truths Post

Boulder — Green Spaces Are Garbage Dumps — Other Jurisdictions Like Durango Will Not Make That Mistake — YouTube Videos — Pesticide Truths Post

Boulder — Toxic Pesticides ?!?! — YouTube Video

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Background Information   
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United States — The Complete History Of US Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Durango

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Ashland, Oregon
California
Chicago, Illinois
Durango, Colorado
Everett, Washington
Highland Park, Illinois
Josephine County, Oregon
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lawrence, Kansas
Lincoln City, Oregon
Madison, Wisconsin
Montgomery County, Maryland
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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United States

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See Also  ―  More Jurisdictions That Favour Glyphosate aka Roundup

Ashland, Oregon
Brazil
Canada
European Union
Highland Park, Illinois
Port Alberni, British Columbia

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Victory Against Prohibition

Brazil,
Federative Republic of,
South America

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Key Points     

Victory
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Failure To Justify Glyphosate-Hating Ban
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Brazil’s Health Agency Has Reported That Glyphosate
Does Not Pose A Hazard To The Average Person
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Summary  
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VICTORY   —   Brazil will not ban glyphosate.

Glyphosate has been vindicated in Brazil.

Anvisa, Brazil’s science-based national regulatory agency, stated that glyphosate does not pose a hazard to the average person.  

This is completely in line with the world-wide scientific consensus that glyphosate will cause no harm to human health & the environment.  

Additionally, a Brazilian court over-turned an injunction prohibiting products containing glyphosate.

Clearly, there will be no prohibition against no-risk glyphosate in Brazil.

This country is the world’s fifth-largest country by area & the fifth most populous.

It is the world’s largest exporter of soybeans & relies heavily on glyphosate products.  

Prohibition against glyphosate was not necessary.  

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Media Library  
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Brazil — No Prohibition — Glyphosate Does Not Cause Cancer — Post

Brazil — No Prohibition — Glyphosate Does Not Cause Cancer — pdf

Brazil — Glyphosate Doesn’t Cause Cancer — Activists Go Berserk — Reference — pdf

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Background Information   
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Glyphosate — Vindicated Around The World — Post

Glyphosate — Vindicated Around The World — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Canada
European Union
United Kingdom
United States

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Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
Canada
European Union
Highland Park, Illinois
Port Alberni, British Columbia

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British Columbia,
Province of

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Victories
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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Proposed Provincial Prohibition Stopped
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Prohibition Was Not Recommended By
Special Committee On Cosmetic Pesticides
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Limited Provincial Prohibition Imposed
Against Private Use On Home Lawns Since
Invoking A Total Ban Was Not Possible
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Professional Lawn Care Businesses & Golf
Facilities Granted Exception Status
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VICTORY   —   BC will not ban pesticides. 

VICTORY   —   BC’s Special Committee On Cosmetic Pesticides announced that it would not recommend a prohibition at the provincial level, & the proposal was stopped.  

VICTORY   —   Consequently, British Columbia imposed a limited provincial prohibition   ―   no prohibition for licensed / certified applicators, who have been granted with an exception status, such as those who work on golf courses & at lawn care businesses.  

According to environment minister Terry Lake   —    «  What we think of as cosmetic pesticides will only be used by someone who is certified, who is licensed to be able to use them  » .  

In fact, the rule change does not apply to the agriculture industry, forestry, golf courses, & industrial land.  

Municipalities & First Nations can opt out.  

Nonetheless, prohibitions at the municipal level have continued to be imposed, with the consequence that professional lawn care businesses have been extensively damaged & stagnating.  

As a direct result of harmful-prohibition, these businesses lost over 40 per cent of their customers.  

Prohibitions took away all their gains made in the previous ten years, & made it difficult, if not impossible, to recover.  

Prohibition has led to horrendous & catastrophic carnage, in the form of immense losses of revenues, business failures, bankruptcy, & unemployment.  

Prohibition forced businesses to adopt organic pesticide-free maintenance, which led to catastrophic ecological carnage, with thousands & thousands of ravaged & destroyed lawns because of uncontrolled pests.  

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Media Library  
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British Columbia — Changes For The Use Of Pesticides — pdf

British Columbia — End of Siege Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — pdf

British Columbia — Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides — Ms Jacquie Doherty — pdf

British Columbia — Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides — Slide Presentation — pdf

British Columbia — Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides –Reference — pdf

British Columbia — Prohibitions Rely On False-Facts Regarding The Effectiveness Of Fiesta — Post

British Columbia — Special Committee On Cosmetic Pesticides — Web-Page

British Columbia — The Library Of Municipal Prohibition Failures — Web-Page

British Columbia — Devastating Effects Of Prohibition On Lawn Care Businesses — pdf

British Columbia — Devastating Effects Of Prohibition — Slide Presentation — pdf

British Columbia — Devastating Effects Of Prohibition — Reference — pdf

British Columbia — Businesses Damaged & Stagnating Because Of Prohibition — pdf

British Columbia — Businesses Damaged & Stagnating — Slide Presentation — pdf

British Columbia — Businesses Damaged & Stagnating — Reference — pdf

British Columbia — Tens Of Thousands Of Destroyed & Ravaged Lawns — Post

British Columbia — Tens Of Thousands Of Destroyed Lawns Because Of Prohibition — pdf

British Columbia — The Library Of Prohibition By-Laws — Web-Page

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Catastrophic Business, Ecological, & Financial Carnage — The Complete Media Library Of Prohibition Failures — The Library Of References — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Burnaby
Campbell River
Coquitlam
Delta
Gibsons
Golden
Kamloops
Kelowna
Merritt
Parksville
Port Alberni
Qualicum Beach
Revelstoke
Rossland
Saanich
Salmon Arm
Vancouver
Vernon

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Of British Columbia’s Pesticide-Hating Bans
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Limited Provincial Prohibition Imposed By
Many Of British Columbia’s Municipalities
Since Invoking A Total Ban Was Not Possible
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Municipal Prohibitions Have Been Arbitrarily
Discriminatory Against Professional Lawn
Care Businesses & Residential Home Lawns
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Municipal Prohibitions Have Provided Inconsistent
& Unfair Exceptions For Weed Invasions & Insect
Infestations  ―  For City-Owned Properties Only
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Fiesta Green Alternative Ineffective & Stunningly Expensive
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Municipal Prohibitions Have Led To Catastrophic
Ecological Carnage For Tens Of Thousands Of
Destroyed & Ravaged Properties Every Single Year
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CONCLUSION   —   There should be no prohibitions in BC.

CONCLUSION   —   BC’s prohibitions against conventional pest control products have been reckless, arbitrary, & doomed-to-fail.  

Prohibitions are politically-correct rubbish.  

The public needs to know more about prohibition failures.  

For example, a major study has concluded that BCs municipalities have been circumventing their own limited prohibitions by taking advantage of exception statuses that they have conveniently inserted in their by-laws.  

Municipal prohibitions are limited since they have provided inconsistent & unfair exception statuses for invasive weeds & destructive insects   ―   for city-owned properties only   ―   but certainly not for lawn care businesses & home lawns.  

Without conventional pest control products, home properties have become pest-infested & dangerous garbage dumps because it is impossible to control invasive weeds & destructive insects by using so-called green alternative pesticides like Fiesta.  

In order to be consistent & fair, there should be no exceptions whatsoever, either in British Columbia or anywhere else In North America.  

Additionally, prohibitions have annihilated legitimate & tax-paying businesses that operate in the professional lawn care industry.  

These businesses cannot afford the hardship & the cost of prohibitions.  

In particular, they cannot afford the stunningly exorbitant costs of inferior green alternative pesticides like Fiesta herbicide.  

Once any prohibition is adopted, local lawn care businesses are expected to disappear into oblivion within 2 or 3 years, & vast numbers of professional workers are expected to become unemployed.  

Additionally, for those residents with the same pest problems on their home properties, they may be shжt-outta-luck relying on any exception from prohibition.  

Municipal prohibitions have led to catastrophic ecological carnage for tens of thousands of destroyed & ravaged properties every single year.  

By prohibiting conventional pest control products, playing surfaces will become pest-infested & dangerous garbage dumps because it is impossible to control weed invasions & insect infestations by using pesticide-free ( a.k.a. organic ) maintenance practices that include inferior green alternatives like Fiesta.  

British Columbia’s municipal exceptions represent the best examples of the failures, the ridiculousness, & the destructiveness of their anti-pesticide prohibitions.  

There should be no prohibitions which are simply reckless, arbitrary, & doomed-to-fail.  

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Media Library  
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British Columbia — The Library Of Municipal Prohibition Failures — Web-Page

British Columbia — The Library Of Prohibition By-Laws — Web-Page

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Background Information   
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Catastrophic Business, Ecological, & Financial Carnage — The Complete Media Library Of Prohibition Failures — The Library Of References — Web-Page

Green Alternatives — Bogus & Dismal Failures — Toxicity Comparisons — Web-Page

Fiesta — The Complete Media Library — Fiesta Sucks — Web-Page

Fiesta — Dismal Failure — If Something Sounds Too Good To Be True — Web-Page

Fiesta — Cannot Be Used To Validate Anti-Pesticide Prohibition — Post

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Burnaby
Campbell River
Coquitlam
Delta
Gibsons
Golden
Kamloops
Kelowna
Merritt
Parksville
Port Alberni
Qualicum Beach
Revelstoke
Rossland
Saanich
Salmon Arm
Vancouver
Vernon

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Victory Against Prohibition

Burnaby, City of,
Province of British Columbia

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Victory
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Failure To Invoke Total Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Limited Municipal Prohibition Imposed
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Hard-Landscapes & Vaguely-Defined Pest
Infestations Granted Exception Status
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VICTORY   —   Burnaby has allowed conventional pest control applications.

Burnaby’s municipal prohibition has allowed hundreds of inconsistent & unfair exceptions for the use of conventional insecticides on city-owned green spaces, like sports fields, that are infested with European Chafer insects which must be controlled annually.

These below-ground insects are now implanted in the community, forever, & will destroy lawns year after year, forever. 

Burnaby has also allowed inconsistent & unfair exceptions for hard-landscapes on city-owned properties, such as asphalt, brick pavers, concrete, gravel, rocks, & treated wood.

Burnaby’s councillors have been allowing pest control applications when it arbitrarily suits them.

The use of inconsistent & unfair exceptions brought on by prohibition has been a dismal failure.  

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Media Library  
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Burnaby — Municipal Prohibition Failure — Post

Burnaby — Municipal Prohibition Failure — pdf

Burnaby — European Chafer Problem — Post

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Background Information   
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British Columbia — The Library Of Municipal Prohibition Failures — Web-Page

British Columbia — The Library Of Prohibition By-Laws — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Campbell River
Coquitlam
Delta
Gibsons
Golden
Kamloops
Kelowna
Merritt
Parksville
Port Alberni
Qualicum Beach
Revelstoke
Rossland
Saanich
Salmon Arm
Vancouver
Vernon

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Victory Against Prohibition

Calgary, City of,
Province of Alberta

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Victory
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Failure Of Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Discarded Existing Partial Prohibition
On Municipal-Owned Properties Only
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Manual Weed Picking & Green
Alternatives Ineffective
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VICTORY   —   Calgary has resumed using conventional pesticides. 

City council steered clear of & stopped an outright total prohibition, since it was proven in other jurisdictions that these bans do not work. 

Officials discarded the city’s self-imposed prohibition on its municipal green spaces because of the invasion of uncontrolled noxious weeds that had damaged the urban ecology of local parks & damaged the road infra-structure such as pavement.  

Because of prohibition, the city looked like a weed-infested garbage dump.  

Under the Alberta Weed Control Act & related regulations, the city of Calgary was obligated to control various weed species.

According to city officials, the only solution to get rid of these weeds was conventional products   ―   green alternatives simply did not work.  

It is common knowledge that green alternative products are phony, inferior, ineffective, unaffordable, & will not work.  

More pest control products were used because there were not enough people in Calgary to go out & perform manual weed picking by wandering through wet-lands & rip out the weeds.

Full effective weed control could only be attained with no-risk conventional pest control products, such as 2,4-D & other herbicides, which provided a very high per cent control of invasive weeds.

2,4-D has been used for the control of broad-leaved weeds in the urban landscape since 1946.

2,4-D has the astonishing & unblemished safety record regarding long-term risk to health for over 75-years.

2,4-D, in combination with other ingredients, is the only safe & effective choice for weed management in Calgary.

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Media Library  
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Calgary — Herbicide Ban Discarded — pdf

Calgary — Congrats To The City — Mr Art C Drysdale — pdf

Calgary — Rejection Of Ban — pdf

Calgary — Enviro-Terrжr Stopped — pdf

Calgary — Rampage Ends — pdf

Calgary — Weed-Infested Garbage Dump Green Spaces — Post

Calgary — The Great Dandelion Debate — Reference — pdf

Calgary — The Library Of Reports, Blogs, & References — Web-Page

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Background Information   
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Alberta — The Conspiracy To Prohibit Pest Control Products — Web-Page

Green Alternatives — Bogus & Dismal Failures — Toxicity Comparisons — Web-Page

Manual Weed Picking — The Library Of The Dismal Failures — Web-Page

Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Web-Page

Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Photo Gallery — Web-Page

2,4-D — Evaluations & Assessments — Web-Page

2,4-D — References, Reports, Blogs, & Labels — Web-Page

2,4-D — The Industry Task Force II On 2,4-D Research Data — Post

2,4-D — The Industry Task Force II On 2,4-D Research Data — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Beaumont
Edmonton

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Victory Against Prohibition

California, State of,
United States

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Victory
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Failure To Justify Golf-Hating Attack
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Proposed Sharp Park Golf Course Closure Stopped
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Golf Course Has Been Saved After A
Federal Judge Dismissed A Legal Challenge
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VICTORY   —   A San Francisco, California, golf course will not be closed.  

Sharp Park Golf Course has been allowed to remain a golf course after a federal judge dismissed a legal challenge from organizations of irrational golf-hating extremists.  

This golf facility has been under a siege from irrational golf-hating environmental-extremists under the pretext of somehow protecting obscure & insignificant species like garter snakes & tadpoles.  

Nonetheless, golf-hating organizations will continue to attack the golf industry.  

These organizations   —   what are they for ?!?!  

They exist for one reason & one only   —   & that is to make profit.  

They prosper from cash donations, illicit businesses, unqualified employment, & government grants, quite often without paying a single penny in taxes.  

Sharp Park Golf Course is / was not harming animal species.  

According to US Fish & Wildlife Service, Sharp Park has likely not posed threats to the existence of frogs & snakes on & around the golf course.  

As usual, irrational-extremists hate & despise the game of golf.  

These extremists want to shut down golf facilities like Sharp Park.  

Golf-hating organizations like National Parks Conservation Association & Wild Equity Institute have terrжrized the city of San Francisco for years over the future of Sharp Park Golf Course.  

Sharp Park may still be closed because of their relentless & unceasing lies & mis-information.

The habitat that enviro-extremists are trying to allegedly recover was originally created when the golf course was built along with a sea wall, isolating the Laguna Sal from ocean waves.  

If the golf course had never been built, there would have been no habitat for the endangered species.  

Nevertheless, irrational golf-hating extremists conspire to destroy of the golf industry.  

The golf industry should tell these extremists to get off our grASS & roast in hell.  

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Media Library  
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Sharp Park — Golfers Win In Court — pdf

Sharp Park — Mayor Saves Golf Course — pdf

Sharp Park — No Injunction For Golf Course — pdf

Sharp Park — Environmental Terrжr Under The Pretext Of Protecting Insignificant Species — Web-Page

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Enviro-Profit — Money Squandered On Partisan, Political, & Subversive Activities — Web-Page

United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
Chicago, Illinois
Durango, Colorado
Everett, Washington
Highland Park, Illinois
Josephine County, Oregon
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lawrence, Kansas
Lincoln City, Oregon
Madison, Wisconsin
Montgomery County, Maryland
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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Victory Against Prohibition

Campbell River, City of,
Province of British Columbia

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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Proposed Municipal Prohibition Extinguished
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Exorbitant Cost Of $107,000 For Failed, Futile, &
Ineffective Integrated Pest Management ( IPM ) Doctrine
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VICTORY   —   Campbell River has allowed conventional pest control applications.

City councillors rejected a staff recommendation for prohibition, & the proposal was extinguished.  

Campbell River’s doctrine of Integrated Pest Management ( IPM ) was a failed, futile, & ineffective doctrine for the maintenance of turfgrass.  

Additionally, a news release from Campbell River stated   —    «  …  the city expects to apply herbicide twice this year in problem areas, & aims to reduce frequency of the herbicide application in future years  » .  

Campbell River has still allowed the use of conventional weed control products in order to make its IPM practices appear to be successful.  

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Campbell River — Proposed Pesticide Ban Extinguished — pdf

Campbell River — Municipal Prohibition Failures — Post

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Background Information   
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IPM — Failure Of Integrated Pest Management — Web-Page

British Columbia — The Library Of Municipal Prohibition Failures — Web-Page

British Columbia — The Library Of Prohibition By-Laws — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Burnaby
Coquitlam
Delta
Gibsons
Golden
Kamloops
Kelowna
Merritt
Parksville
Port Alberni
Qualicum Beach
Revelstoke
Rossland
Saanich
Salmon Arm
Vancouver
Vernon

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Victory Against Glyphosate Prohibition

Canada

Country In North America

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Victory
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Failure To Justify Glyphosate-Hating Ban
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Glyphosate Vindicated By Federal Government
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VICTORY   —   Glyphosate will not be banned in Canada.  

The evidence in favour of glyphosate is overwhelming. 

Health Canada has found that glyphosate does not present risks of concern to human health or the environment when used according to label directions.

Products containing glyphosate are unlikely to affect human health.

Dietary risks from food & water are not of concern.

Non-occupational risks from by-stander dermal exposure are not of concern.

Glyphosate products are not expected to pose risks of concern to the environment.

The prohibition of glyphosate was not necessary.  

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Glyphosate — Health Canada Re-Evaluation Decision RVD2017-01 — Post

Glyphosate — Health Canada Re-Evaluation Decision RVD2017-01 — pdf

Glyphosate — Frequently Asked Questions On Health Canada Decision RVD2017-01 — Post

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Manitoba
New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Ontario
Quebec
Prince Edward Island
Saskatchewan

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Brazil
European Union
United Kingdom
United States

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Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
Brazil
European Union
Highland Park, Illinois
Port Alberni, British Columbia

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Charlottetown & Summerside,
Cities On Prince Edward Island

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Failure To Invoke Total Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Limited Municipal Prohibition Imposed
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Professional Lawn Care Businesses
Granted Exception Status
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VICTORIES   —   Charlottetown & Summerside have allowed conventional pest control applications.

They have been selling of predatory-permits that allow the use of conventional pest control applications. 

This may be a victory against prohibition, of sorts, since both municipalities have allowed the applications of lawn care pesticides, but only after extorting the purchase of 50-dollar predatory-permits for every single application.

This is in defiance of the fact that the actual cost of the application may be less than the permit itself.

In essence, these loathsome municipalities have despicably conspired to impose prohibition against conventional pest control products unless they profit from the sale of predatory-permits.  

Who can afford this #@!!% nonsense ?!?!

There should be no #@!!% predatory-permits in Charlottetown & Summerside.  

Extorting profit brought on by prohibition represents a dismal failure.  

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Charlottetown — Pesticide Tax Grab — Post

Charlottetown — Pesticide Tax Grab — pdf

Charlottetown & Summerside — Predatory-Permits By Loathsome Municipalities — Post

Charlottetown & Summerside — Predatory-Permits By Loathsome Municipalities — pdf

PEI — The Media History Of Prince Edward Island Province & Municipalities — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Stratford
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Maine, State of  –  some municipalities
Saanich, British Columbia
Stratford, Prince Edward Island
Summerside, Prince Edward Island

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Victory Against Prohibition

Chicago, City of,
State of Illinois USA

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Victory
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Failure Of Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Existing Municipal Prohibition Rescinded
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Failed, Futile, & Ineffective Integrated Pest
Management ( IPM ) & Pesticide Free Doctrines
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VICTORY   —   Chicago has resumed using conventional pesticides.

The city’s Integrated Pest Management ( IPM ) with pesticide-free doctrine were pronounced as a dismal failures.  

This organic pesticide-free maintenance with IPM contributed to the worst playing field conditions the Chicago district had seen in more than a decade.  

IPM could be considered as a failed, futile, & ineffective doctrine for the maintenance of turfgrass.

After four years, Chicago cancelled the IPM program & rescinded the harmful-prohibition against no-risk pest control products.  

Because of Chicago’s adoption of IPM pesticide-free doctrine, weeds invaded more than 60 per cent of ground coverage.  

In the beginning, the Chicago Park District had conspired with irrational pesticide-hating extremists, as well as truth-challenged bee-keepers, to prohibit the use of pest control products needed to protect the urban landscape.  

Demands for prohibition were part of a misguided fanatжcal conspiracy to make people’s lives miserable by exposing them to more damaging pest attacks on their properties.  

IPM failed & did not control invasive weeds & destructive insects.

Organic pesticide-free maintenance with IPM was a dismal failure. 

Of course, Chicago will allow conventional pest control applications whenever it arbitrarily suits government officials. 

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Media Library  
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Chicago — Prohibition Was A Pesticide-Free Failure — pdf

Chicago — Prohibition Rescinded –Failure Of IPM — pdf

Chicago — Pesticide Ban Lifted For Three Parks — Pesticide Truths Post

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Background Information   
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Green Alternatives — Bogus & Dismal Failures — Toxicity Comparisons — Web-Page

IPM — Failure Of Integrated Pest Management — Web-Page

Organic — The Failures Of Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Post

Organic — The Failure Of Medieval & Ineffective Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Web-Page

Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Web-Page

Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Photo Gallery — Web-Page

United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
California
Durango, Colorado
Everett, Washington
Highland Park, Illinois
Josephine County, Oregon
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lawrence, Kansas
Lincoln City, Oregon
Madison, Wisconsin
Montgomery County, Maryland
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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Victory Against Prohibition

Coquitlam, City of,
Province of British Columbia

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Victory
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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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VICTORY   —   Coquitlam has allowed conventional pest control applications. 

Temporarily, Coquitlam bucked the green trend among British Columbia municipalities by choosing not even to explore a prohibition, or a restriction, against no-risk pest control products needed to protect the urban landscape.  

Later, the cost of prohibition was estimated at one million dollars.  

Who can afford a million-dollar prohibition ?!?!

One million dollars.  

This is the cost of prohibiting conventional products that are Health-Canada-approved, federally-legal, scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, & will cause no harm to human health & the environment.

One million dollars.

This is cost of prohibiting no-risk products to satisfy the lunatжc-cravings of Selina Robinson, an irrational pesticide-hating extremist, elected-official, & therapist.

Was this woman’s coercion, intimidation, screeching, & terrжrizing worth that much money ?!?!

Organic pesticide-free maintenance was a dismal failure.

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Media Library  
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Coquitlam — Council Will Not Debate Banning Pesticides — pdf

Coquitlam — An Environment That Is Unhappy, Ugly, & Unhealthy — Web-Page

Coquitlam — Catastrophic Financial Carnage — $1,000,000 — pdf

Coquitlam — Exception For Golf — Letter to the Editor — pdf

Coquitlam — The Library Of References — Web-Page

Coquitlam — Municipal Prohibition Failures In Coquitlam & More — Post

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Background Information   
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Organic — The Failures Of Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Post

Organic — The Failure Of Medieval & Ineffective Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Web-Page

British Columbia — The Library Of Municipal Prohibition Failures — Web-Page

British Columbia — The Library Of Prohibition By-Laws — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Burnaby
Campbell River
Delta
Gibsons
Golden
Kamloops
Kelowna
Merritt
Parksville
Port Alberni
Qualicum Beach
Revelstoke
Rossland
Saanich
Salmon Arm
Vancouver
Vernon

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Coquitlam, City of,
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VICTORY   —   Coquitlam has allowed conventional pest control applications. 

An exception status for protecting rose garden represents a victory of sorts. 

Evidently, Coquitlam will allow conventional pest control applications whenever it arbitrarily suits its elected-officials. 

In prohibition-stricken jurisdictions, cities like Coquitlam know it is impossible to maintain their rose gardens without the use of no-risk conventional pest control products.

City councillor Bev Welsh had the temerity to ask for an exception status for the Centennial Rose Garden, a local tourist attraction & wedding venue that boasts 800 plants & 60 varieties of roses.

Coquitlam has already imposed a harmful-prohibition against pest control products used in the urban landscape under the pretext that « cosmetic » use of pest control products is not necessary.

Isn’t the maintenance of rose gardens the very definition of « cosmetic » ?

The demise of Coquitlam’s rose gardens will also represent the failure of organic pesticide-free maintenance.

Rose gardens will die, & lawns will be invaded with dandelions.

Coquitlam’s exception has been allowed for city-owned rose gardens, but has not been allowed for any residential rose gardens.

In other words, if diseases or insects are killing roses on private property, residents are shжt-outta-luck !

Moreover, in cities like Windsor, Ontario, where there are no exceptions for protecting roses with pesticides, most of the ornamental rose plantings have been removed, forever.

City workers cannot to take care of roses without conventional pest control products.

Coquitlam’s municipal prohibition has been an unfair & dismal failure.

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Media Library  
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Coquitlam — Roses Should Die — Letter to the Editor — pdf

Coquitlam — Reasons For Prohibition Failure — Post

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Background Information   
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British Columbia — The Library Of Municipal Prohibition Failures — Web-Page

British Columbia — The Library Of Prohibition By-Laws — Web-Page

Windsor — City Of Dandelions With No Roses

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Burnaby
Campbell River
Delta
Gibsons
Golden
Kamloops
Kelowna
Merritt
Parksville
Port Alberni
Qualicum Beach
Revelstoke
Rossland
Saanich
Salmon Arm
Vancouver
Vernon

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Victory Against Prohibition

Deer Lake, Town of,
Newfoundland & Labrador

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Victory
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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Use Of Vegetation Control Products
In The Town’s Lagoon Area Approved
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VICTORY   —   Deer Lake has allowed conventional pest control applications. 

Deer Lake’s town council voted to approve the use of vegetation control products in the town’s lagoon area.

The matter had previously been deferred after irrational pesticide-hating extremist & elected-official Jean Young raised pointless & unscientific fear-mongering about the use of chemicals, in this case herbicides. 

The herbicides to be used by Deer Lake are the same used by the federal Department of Environment for vegetation control.  

According to Mayor Dean Ball   —   «  …  This is approved for the work that we’re going to do with it.  We have one issue in the lagoon with the smell.  This is going to help solve that problem  » .  

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Deer Lake — Approves Pesticide Use — Post

Deer Lake — Approves Pesticide Use — pdf

Newfoundland — The Conspiracy To Prohibit Pest Control Products — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Saint John’s

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Delta, City of,
British Columbia

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Victory
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Failure To Invoke Total Pesticide-Hating Ban
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VICTORY   —   Delta has allowed conventional pest control applications.  

Delta’s municipal prohibition has allowed hundreds of inconsistent & unfair exceptions for vaguely-defined pest infestations ( on city-owned properties only ?!?! ).

Clearly, these exceptions have been designed to allow the use of conventional insecticides on town-owned green spaces, like sports fields that are infested with European Chafer insects which must be controlled annually.

Delta has also allowed inconsistent & unfair exception statuses for hard-landscapes on city-owned properties, such as asphalt, brick pavers, concrete, gravel, rocks, & treated wood.

Delta’s councillors have been allowing pest control applications when it arbitrarily suits them. 

The use of inconsistent & unfair exceptions demonstrates that prohibition was a dismal failure.  

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Delta — Prohibition Failures — Post

Delta — Prohibition Failures — pdf

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British Columbia — The Library Of Municipal Prohibition Failures — Web-Page

British Columbia — The Library Of Prohibition By-Laws — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Burnaby
Campbell River
Coquitlam
Gibsons
Golden
Kamloops
Kelowna
Merritt
Parksville
Port Alberni
Qualicum Beach
Revelstoke
Rossland
Saanich
Salmon Arm
Vancouver
Vernon

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Victory Against Prohibition

Durango, City of,
Colorado USA

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Victory
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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Proposed Municipal Prohibition Stopped
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Council Rejected Prohibition In 5-0 Vote
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Elected Officials Were Warned That Prohibition Led To
Garbage Dump Green Spaces In The City Of Boulder
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VICTORY   —   Durango will no longer ban conventional pesticides. 

City council voted unanimously to reject & stop a proposed prohibition against no-risk pest control products & synthetic fertilizers on city parks & personal property.  

Harmful-prohibition inflicted stunningly exorbitant maintenance costs, which motivated elected-officials to arbitrarily allow safe, effective, & economical conventional pest control applications. 

Additionally, Durango has also suffered catastrophic ecological carnage in the form of garbage dump green spaces.  

Durango’s municipal government officials attempted to appease irrational pesticide-hating extremists with so-called chemical free parks.  

Two city-owned parks, Brookside & Pioneer, were designated as so-called chemical free parks.  

The condition of these parks relied upon so-called organic pesticide-free maintenance & non-organic fertilizer.  

The chemical free parks were abysmal failures.  

These parks were examples of why organic maintenance cannot work on a larger scale without turning the entire city into a gigantic garbage dump.  

The so-called chemical-free parks were / are unsightly due to the broad-leaved plantain weeds growing amidst the grass where the children play.  

It would be preferable to apply pest control products since they are scientifically-safe, will cause no harm, & are no threat to children.  

Organic pesticide-free maintenance is not economically viable without droves of laborers to manually pull unwanted plants.  

Can municipalities, like Durango, afford the hardship & cost of this #@!!% pesticide ban nonsense ?!?!

In Durango, green alternative pesticides were phony, inferior, ineffective, unaffordable, & did not work.  

The question of prohibition revolved less around health & environment concerns, & more around products & services that were sold at stunningly exorbitant costs.

Organic pesticide-free maintenance with green alternatives was a dismal failure.  

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Media Library  
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Durango — City Council Unanimously Rejects Prohibition — Post

Durango — Council Rejects Prohibition In 5-0 Vote — pdf

Durango — Pesticide-Free Parks Are Abysmal Failures — Post

Durango — Weeds In Organic Parks — Pesticide Truths Post

Durango — Pesticide-Free Garbage Dump Green Spaces — Short Version — pdf

Durango — Pesticide-Free Garbage Dump Green Spaces — Long Version — pdf

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Organic — The Failures Of Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Post

Organic — The Failure Of Medieval & Ineffective Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Web-Page

United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Boulder

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
California
Chicago, Illinois
Everett, Washington
Highland Park, Illinois
Josephine County, Oregon
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lawrence, Kansas
Lincoln City, Oregon
Madison, Wisconsin
Montgomery County, Maryland
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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Edmonton, City of,
Province of Alberta

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Victory
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Failure Of Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Existing Municipal Prohibition Stopped
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Edmonton Has Resumed Its Use Of Conventional
Herbicides That Are No-Risk, Safe, & Effective
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Getting Rid Of Inferior Fiesta Green Alternative
Herbicide Proved That Edmonton’s Doomed-To-
Fail Prohibition Against Conventional Weed
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VICTORY   —   Edmonton has resumed using conventional pesticides. 

Edmonton’s city councillors turned down & stopped calls to prohibit no-risk conventional pest control products. 

Edmonton is a city where the vast majority of residents complain about too many mosquitoes or too many dandelions   —   & not about the use of pest control products that will control them.

City councillors turned down & stopped calls to prohibit no-risk conventional pest control products, opting instead for an eventual report outlining any progress in reducing city use of these chemicals.

The city of Edmonton has concluded that its organic pesticide-free parks have been a total & dismal failure.

Its organic pesticide-free parks, treated with Fiesta alternative herbicide, had become heavily infested with weeds, & looked like garbage dumps.

Predictably, mechanical & other non-chemical methods of weed control had been ineffective, including the use of goats for weed suppression.

Among Edmonton home-owners, there was a large increase in the use of green alternative pesticides.

Not surprisingly, Edmonton reported increased weed growth.

All green alternatives were bogus & dismal failures   —   they were phony, inferior, ineffective, unaffordable, & did not work.

Furthermore, Edmonton officials proposed to convert its garbage dump parks into community gardens or naturalized areas.

Finally, the city announced that it has ceased the use of the inferior-Fiesta green alternative herbicide to control dandelions that have invaded, choked, & destroyed community playing surfaces.

It is common knowledge that green alternative products like Fiesta will not work.

Organic pesticide-free maintenance with mechanical & other non-chemical methods of weed control demonstrate the dismal failure of prohibition. 

Observers have concluded that Edmonton will allow conventional pest control applications whenever it arbitrarily suits city councillors. 

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Media Library  
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Edmonton — Councillors Weed Out Total Ban — pdf

Edmonton — The Failure Of Fiesta Green Alternative Herbicide — Post

Edmonton — Majority Complain About Mosquitos & Dandelions & Not Pesticides — Post

Edmonton — Pesticide-Free Parks Infested With Weed Growth — Post

Edmonton — Pesticide-Free Parks Infested With Weed Growth — pdf

Edmonton — Goats For Weed Suppression Not Coming Baaa-ck — Post

Edmonton — Goats For Weed Suppression Not Coming Baaa-ck — pdf

Edmonton — Seeing Dandelion Yellow Over Failed Eco-Schemes — Post

Edmonton — Seeing Dandelion Yellow Over Failed Eco-Schemes — pdf

Edmonton — Library Of Reports, Blogs, & References — Web-Page

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Background Information  
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Green Alternatives — Bogus & Dismal Failures — Toxicity Comparisons — Web-Page

Fiesta — The Complete Media Library — Fiesta Sucks — Web-Page

Fiesta — Dismal Failure — If Something Sounds Too Good To Be True — Web-Page

Fiesta — Cannot Be Used To Validate Anti-Pesticide Prohibition — Post

Organic — The Failures Of Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Post

Organic — The Failure Of Medieval & Ineffective Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Web-Page

Alberta — The Conspiracy To Prohibit Pest Control Products — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Beaumont
Calgary

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European Union ( EU )

Supranational Political & Economic Union of 27 Member States

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VICTORY   —   Glyphosate will not be banned in the EU.

VICTORY   —   The EU has vindicated glyphosate.  

VICTORY   —   The majority of EU nations do not want anti-glyphosate prohibition.  

VICTORY   —   The EU voted to extend its re-approval of glyphosate for a period of 5 years.  

VICTORY   —   Europeans have been rejecting Greenpeace’s fear-mongering, & are indicating that the jig is up   ―   the political tide, boosted by evidence, is starting to turn in favour of no-risk glyphosate.  

Glyphosate was not approved for the typical 10 or 15-years because the EU review process was driven more by politics than science.  

Nonetheless, the EU vindicated glyphosate.  

The prohibition of glyphosate was not necessary.

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Media Library  
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EU — Glyphosate Wins Approval For 5 Years — Post

EU — Glyphosate Wins Approval For 5 Years — pdf

EU — Glyphosate Not Carcinogenic — Post

EU — Glyphosate Not Carcinogenic — pdf

EU — Extends Glyphosate Licence For 18 Months — Post

EU — Extends Glyphosate Licence For 18 Months — pdf

EU — Glyphosate Not Likely Carcinogenic — pdf

EU — Majority Of EU Nations Do Not Want Prohibition — pdf

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Glyphosate — Vindicated Around The World — Post

Glyphosate — Vindicated Around The World — pdf

Glyphosate — The Entire Media History — References — Web-Page

Glyphosate — The Entire Media History — Reports In Pesticide Truths — Web-Page

Glyphosate — The Entire Media History — Reports & Blogs By Force Of Nature — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Brazil
Canada
United Kingdom
United States

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Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
Brazil
Canada
Highland Park, Illinois
Port Alberni, British Columbia

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Glyphosate aka Roundup

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Everett, City of,
State of Washington USA

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Failure Of Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Pesticide Ban Reversed Because Weed
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VICTORY   —   Everett has resumed using conventional pesticides. 

The Lowell Park pesticide-free pilot-project was ended by the city of Everett.

The application of no-risk conventional weed control products was resumed because the city was forced to resort to the back-breaking & agonizing job of manual weed-picking by hand, & could not find enough volunteers.

It was too much work for volunteers to maintain Lowell Park up to city standards.  

Resident weed-picking volunteers were mostly elderly & unemployed.

These volunteers were needed because green alternative pesticides were phony, inferior, ineffective, unaffordable, & did not work. 

There were no viable, no efficacious, no economical, & no low-risk alternatives to replace conventional herbicides.

Ultimately, organic pesticide-free maintenance with manual weed picking demonstrates the dismal failure of prohibition.

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Everett — Pesticide Ban Reversed Because Of Weed Picking — Post

Everett — Spraying Resumed — Cotton-Picking Work — pdf

Everett — Spraying Resumed — Reference — pdf

Everett — Pesticide-Free Parks Take Labor … Lots Of It — Reference — pdf

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Manual Weed Picking — The Library Of The Dismal Failures — Web-Page

Organic — The Failures Of Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Post

Organic — The Failure Of Medieval & Ineffective Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Web-Page

United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
California
Chicago, Illinois
Durango, Colorado
Highland Park, Illinois
Josephine County, Oregon
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lawrence, Kansas
Lincoln City, Oregon
Madison, Wisconsin
Montgomery County, Maryland
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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Gibsons, Town of,
Province of British Columbia

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VICTORY   —   Gibsons has allowed conventional pest control applications.  

Gypsy Moths are uncontrolled insect pests that require an exception status for town-owned properties.  

Without this exception, Gibsons will be inflicted with catastrophic ecological insect carnage.  

The use of inconsistent & unfair exceptions demonstrates the dismal failure of prohibition. 

With exceptions, Gibsons will allow conventional pest control applications when it arbitrarily suits government officials. 

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Gibsons — Prohibition Failures — Post

Gibsons — Prohibition Failures — pdf

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British Columbia — The Library Of Municipal Prohibition Failures — Web-Page

British Columbia — The Library Of Prohibition By-Laws — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Burnaby
Campbell River
Coquitlam
Delta
Golden
Kamloops
Kelowna
Merritt
Parksville
Port Alberni
Qualicum Beach
Revelstoke
Rossland
Saanich
Salmon Arm
Vancouver
Vernon

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Glyphosate aka Roundup

Broad-Spectrum Systemic Herbicide
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VICTORY   —   Glyphosate will not be banned in most western countries. 

National regulatory agencies around the world have vindicated glyphosate.  

These agencies include those within the European Union, the United States, the United Nations, & Canada.  

These agencies reported that glyphosate does not present risks of concern to human health or the environment when used according to directions found on the Approved Pesticide Product Label.

The prohibition of glyphosate is not necessary.  

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Glyphosate — European Union Wins Approval For 5 Years — Post

Glyphosate — European Union Wins Approval For 5 Years — pdf

Glyphosate — Vindication By US National Cancer Institute — Post

Glyphosate — Vindication By US National Cancer Institute — pdf

Glyphosate — Canada Re-Evaluation Decision — Post

Glyphosate — Not Carcinogenic — European Chemicals Agency — Post

Glyphosate — Vindicated Around The World — Post

Glyphosate — Vindicated Around The World — pdf

Glyphosate — US EPA States That Glyphosate Does Not Cause Cancer, Again — Post

Glyphosate — European Union Extends Licence For 18 Months — Post

Glyphosate — UN Experts Find Glyphosate Unlikely To Cause Cancer — Post

Glyphosate — UN Experts Find Glyphosate Unlikely To Cause Cancer — pdf

Glyphosate — US EPA Panel Finds Glyphosate Will Not Cause Cancer — Post

Glyphosate — US EPA Panel Finds Glyphosate Will Not Cause Cancer — pdf

Glyphosate — Not Likely Carcinogenic — European Food Safety Authority — Post

Glyphosate — Not Likely Carcinogenic — European Food Safety Authority — pdf

Glyphosate — The Entire Media History — References — Web-Page

Glyphosate — The Entire Media History — Reports In Pesticide Truths — Web-Page

Glyphosate — The Entire Media History — Reports & Blogs By Force Of Nature — Web-Page

Glyphosate — Roundup Original Liquid Herbicide — Approved Pesticide Product Label

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
Brazil
Canada
European Union
Highland Park, Illinois
Port Alberni, British Columbia

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Golden, Town of,
Province of British Columbia

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VICTORY   —   Golden has allowed conventional pest control applications. 

An exception status has been provided by Golden to   —   «  …  address an economic or environmental threat to urban forests  » .  

This represents a victory, of sorts.  

An exception status has been provided by Golden which demonstrates the elected officials’ contradictions & hypocrisy by implying that pest control products are safe to use on urban forests, & yet, the very same products are somehow deemed unsafe when used on residential properties.

These councillors will allow conventional pest control applications whenever it arbitrarily suits their purposes. 

Clearly, this exception status has been designed to allow the use of conventional insecticides on town-owned green spaces, like trees that are infested with Gypsy Moth insects, which must be controlled annually. 

The use of inconsistent & unfair exceptions brought on by prohibition was a dismal failure. 

Incredibly, more unfair exceptions have been provided to Golden’s town staff for « public infra-structure », which means   —   «  …  built structures and amenities on public land including, but not limited to, roads, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, retaining walls, dykes, foundations, outdoor playing surfaces, parking lots, & gathering areas  » .  

In other words, Golden’s unfair-prohibition   —    «  …  does not apply to the use or application of a pesticide  …  used to protect public infra-structure  » .  

Golden’s municipal prohibition with its exceptions was a dismal failure.

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Media Library  
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Golden — Prohibition Failures — Post

Golden — Prohibition Failures — pdf

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British Columbia — The Library Of Municipal Prohibition Failures — Web-Page

British Columbia — The Library Of Prohibition By-Laws — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Burnaby
Campbell River
Coquitlam
Delta
Gibsons
Kamloops
Kelowna
Merritt
Parksville
Port Alberni
Qualicum Beach
Revelstoke
Rossland
Saanich
Salmon Arm
Vancouver
Vernon

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Golf Industry’s Pesticide
Ban Exception Status

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The Trade Associations Must Adopt The Policy
To Plan For The Inevitable & Total Revocation
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VICTORY   —   Almost universally, the golf industry has been provided with an exception status. 

Harmful-prohibitions continue to be extremely biased & highly prejudicial, especially against the professional lawn care industry.

Nonetheless, an exception status may currently include   —   •   Agriculture   •   Cemeteries   •   Forestry   •   Fruit & vegetable production   •   Golf courses   •   Mosquito control   •   Nursery production   •   Orchards   •   Rose gardens   •   Sod production   •   Sports fields   •   & More.

For example, the government of Ontario has believed that the maintenance standards used by the golf industry require that it be given a pesticide ban exception status.

On the matter of a high performance maintenance standard, the government of Ontario issued the following statement in June 2008   —    «  The MOE  [ Ontario Ministry of the Environment ] recognizes that golf courses require high performance standards for the playing surfaces & require some pesticide use to achieve such standards  » .  

The exception to the prohibition on the use of prescribed pesticides on golf courses is conditional upon complying with certain requirements.

The dangerous, hypocritical, & insatiable David Suzuki Foundation has expressed the following hate-speech about the golf industry’s exception status   —    «  If provincial prohibitions exempt golf courses, as proposed in the discussion paper, municipalities need clear authority to restrict pesticide use on golf courses within their boundaries to better protect public health & the environment  [ ?!?! ]  » .  

Furthermore, government officials, at every level, may become more aggressive at revoking the golf industry’s exception status once they realize the fact that, according to a study in Manitoba, up to 6 per cent of all conventional pest control products are used for golf course maintenance.

The golf industry needs a lobby group that will resist any revocation of the golf industry’s exception status.

This catastrophe is becoming increasingly probable as large scale national-prohibitions.

The golf industry also needs a lobby group that will ensure there will be an exception status for every industry, in order to be consistent & fair to everyone throughout the turf industry.

Interestingly, golf courses often employ the very same no-risk conventional products that are used to control invasive weeds & damaging insects on municipal & residential properties, which are currently prohibited in many jurisdictions.

Mr William H Gathercole was the original creator of the exception status that has allowed the golf industry, throughout North America, to avoid being subjected to prohibitions against pest control products.

In addition, one of the principal reasons why the golf industry was provided with an exception status from Ontario’s Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act is because of Mr Jarrod Barakett at Ontario Golf Superintendents Association ( OGSA ), who organized an impeccable public affairs effort.

Below is a list of ten organizations that have publicly stated, in one form or another, that they do not want any exception status for the golf industry.

They have specifically demanded that the loophole be closed in the province of Ontario   —   •   Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment ( CAPE )   •   Canadian Cancer Society ( CCS )   •   Canadian Environmental Law Association ( CELA )   •   David Suzuki Foundation   •   Green Party of Ontario   •   Liberal Party of Ontario ( LPO )   •   New Democratic Party of Ontario ( NDP )   •   Pesticide Free Ontario ( PFO )   •   Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario ( RNAO )   •   Sierra Club of Canada.

Even with the pesticide ban exception status, since 2013, almost one-third of all existing golf course products were nationally-prohibited, including   —   •   Arrest-75W   •   ProTurf FF II 14-3-3 Turf Fertilizer With 15.4 Per Cent Quintozene   •   ProTurf Granular Fungicide V Containing Chloroneb   •   ProTurf Granular Insecticide 1 With Diazinon   •   Quintozene 75 Per Cent   •   Terraneb SP   •   Tersan 1991.

In addition, chlorpyrifos & diazinon are active ingredients that have also been nationally-prohibited throughout the entire turf industry, which includes, of course, golf courses.

Since 2015, Canada’s further national-prohibitions came as no surprise since the decisions by the Liberal-controlled Health Canada had been mostly implemented within mere months after Liberal Party won in the Canadian General Election on October 19th, 2015.

As expected, once elected to power, Canada’s Trudeau Liberal Government quickly conspired to propose & enact national-prohibitions against more of the turf industry’s desperately-needed pest control product ingredients, such as   —   •   Carbaryl   •   Chlorothalonil   •   Iprodione   •   Neonicotinoids

The golf industry needs a lobby group that will ensure that Health Canada has considered all of the information in a weight-of-the-evidence approach whenever it imposes national-prohibitions against its products.

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Media Library  
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Golf Industry — Policy-Making & Lobbying — Critical Issues To Defend The Golf Industry — Post

Golf Industry — Critical Issues That Must Be Addressed By The Golf Industry — Web-Page

Golf Industry — 2009 Predictions The Golf Industry’s Looming Shipwreck — Post

Golf Industry — Critical Issues For The Golf Industry & The Failed CGSA Trade Association — Post

Golf Industry — Majority Of BC Golf Courses Non-Compliant — Post

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Background Information   
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CCS — Reasons To Revoke Charity Tax-Exempt Status — Interference In Partisan Politics — Post

CCS — Misuses The Millions That It Collects From Golf Canada — Version 1 — pdf

CCS — Misuses The Millions That It Collects From Golf Canada — Version 2 — pdf

CCS — Summary Of Position Statements Against The Golf Industry — WCTA Leaders Allowed Themselves To Be Appeased By The Cancer-Lunatжc Liars — Post

CCS — Summary Of Position Statements Against The Golf Industry — WCTA Leaders Allowed Themselves To Be Appeased By The Cancer-Lunatжc Liars — pdf

CCS — Explaining Why The Golf Industry Must Not Cooperate With CCS — pdf

Guelph Turfgrass Institute — Post

Liberal Party Of Canada — Imbeciles Planning To Vote For Liberals — Post

Liberal Party Of Canada — Health Canada Imposes Prohibitions Instigated By Liberals — Post

Liberal Party Of Canada — Get Ready For The Pain — Post

National-Prohibitions — Golf Industry’s Pesticides — Post

National-Prohibitions — The Media History — Web-Page

National Daconil Prohibition — The Story & Sad End — Post

National Daconil Prohibition — The Complete Media Library — Web-Page

National Daconil Prohibition — Ontario Trade Association Responses — Post

National Rovral Prohibition — Prohibition & More Decisions By Health Canada — Post

The Library Of Striking Back & Taking Action Against Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Web-Page

Trade Association — Media History Of Canadian Golf Superintendents Association — Web-Page

Trade Association — Media History Of Western Canada Turfgrass Association — Web-Page

Trade Association — WCTA-Leaders Must Pull Their Heads Out Of Their Bжtts — Web-Page

Trade Association — The Failure Of Western Canada Turfgrass Association — Post

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California, State of
Golf Industry’s Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance

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Position Statements On Pesticide-Free
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Here is the Canadian golf industry’s official position statements on this form of maintenance  —   

•   Golf courses have not adopted a policy of no-pesticides   

•   Canadian conditions are not conducive for pesticide-free maintenance  

•   Acceptable playing conditions can only be achieved through the use of pest control products   

•   These products are a necessity due to the requirement for professional turfgrasses grown in difficult climate conditions.   

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Golf Industry — Reference — pdf

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Victory Against Organic In Canada

Blackburn Meadows Golf Course
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PUT UP FOR SALE & PLACED UNDER RECEIVERSHIP   —   Blackburn Meadows claimed to be Canada’s #1 Organic Golf Course.  It was not a good example of a successful & lucrative pesticide- & chemical fertilizer-free golf facility.  It provided golfers with low-end playing conditions.  Blackburn Meadows was a nine-hole course that was established at the remote Salt Spring Island in British Columbia.  It fell into bankruptcy, & was placed under receivership.  Blackburn Meadows issued the following statement    —   «  Unfortunately, Blackburn Meadows will not be opening  » .  It is gone, forever.  Blackburn Meadows had the support of irrational pesticide-hating extremists at Pesticide Free BC, an organization that conspires to prohibit against pest control products that are, in fact, federally legal, scientifically safe, & will cause no harm.  Blackburn Meadows was a bogus pesticide-free golf course.   —   See link below.   

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Blackburn Meadows GC — pdf

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Victory Against Organic In Canada

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Brigadoon GC — pdf

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Victory Against Organic In Canada

Fiddler’s Green Golf Course
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Fiddler’s Green GC — Reference 1 — pdf

Fiddler’s Green GC — Reference 2 — pdf

Fiddler’s Green GC — Reference 3 — pdf

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Victory Against Organic In Canada

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Granby River GC — Reference — pdf

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Golf Courses — Failed Doctrines Of Activist-Maintenance — Post

Golf Courses — Failed Doctrines Of Activist-Maintenance — pdf

Golf Courses — Medieval & Ineffective Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Post

Golf Courses — Medieval & Ineffective Pesticide-Free Maintenance — pdf

Organic Failure — The Road So Far — The Failures Of Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Post

Organic Failure — Total & Dismal Failure Of Organic — The Failure Of Medieval & Ineffective Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Web-Page

Organic Failure — Virtually All Organic & Pesticide-Free Golf Courses Are Bogus — pdf

Organic Failure — Bogus Golf Courses — The Library Of Reports — pdf

Organic Failure — Chemical-Free Golf Facilities Are Atypical — pdf

Organic Failure — Carnage Inflicted By Garbage Dump Green Spaces — Pesticide Bans Have Never Made Our Green Spaces Look So #@!!% Ugly — Photo Gallery — pdf

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California, State of
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VICTORIES IN AMERICA   —   There have been a handful of golf courses that have pretended being organic pesticide-free in USA & overseas.   —   See below.  

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Victory Against Organic In America

Bethpage State Park Green Golf Course
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BETHPAGE’S FAILURE   —   Definitely not pesticide-free, merely less reliant on pesticides.  The golf industry must discredit facilities like Bethpage that embraces the costly, failed, medieval, ineffective, & unfeasible doctrines of organic pesticide-free maintenance.  Located in Farmingdale, New York State, USA. 

BETHPAGE’S PESTICIDE-FREE   —   Organic maintenance practices have been a failure at Bethpage State Park Green Golf Course.  There is only one organic golf course in America   ―   & it is not Bethpage.  This is because a pesticide-free program at Bethpage was not feasible for producing acceptable putting green surfaces.  Bethpage is definitely not pesticide-free, but rather, it is merely less reliant on pesticides, which means it still uses pesticides with impunity.  Attempts had been made to adapt Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, into a supposedly more progressive  [ ?!?!?!?! ]  pesticide-free version   —   supposedly bringing Bethpage one step closer to becoming an organic & a pesticide-free golf course.  Predictably, IPM golf courses like Bethpage will never become pesticide-free.  The infamous Vineyard golf club, in Massachusetts, USA, is the only organic golf course in America.  

BETHPAGE’S LARGE-SCALE DEATH   —   Not surprisingly, failed, futile, & ineffective Integrated Pest Management ( IPM ) & pesticide-free doctrines will never control infestations of recurring invasive weeds & destructive insects & harmful diseases.  Consequently, Bethpage suffered disaster with the large-scale-death of annual bluegrass.  One of the most important organic golf maintenance protocols is turf species transition ( i.e. the elimination of annual bluegrass ).  To avoid disaster, all organic golf courses must be expected to transition their putting greens from annual bluegrass to creeping bentgrass.  Improved varieties of creeping bentgrass are more resistant to pests than annual bluegrass, an invasive grass species that is highly susceptible to pests & requires the use of more pest control products.  Annual bluegrass is also more susceptible to abiotic disorders, such as winter injury & summer stress   ―   it must be eliminated before embarking on costly, failed, medieval, ineffective, & unfeasible organic maintenance.  If putting greens contain more than 50 per cent annual bluegrass, then there will be a disaster when implementing organic management plan.  The maintenance practices used at Bethpage are seen as a terrible template for IPM & organic pesticide-free maintenance & turf species transition.

BETHPAGE’S SUCCESS ?   —   Bethpage State Park actually features 5 18-hole regulation golf courses including the world-renowned Black Course which was the site of two US Open championships   ―   if organic at Bethpage Green Course is so successful, then why aren’t the 4 other Bethpage courses practicing organic maintenance as well ?!??  

BETHPAGE’S TERRIBLE ATTACK   —   The golf industry must not readily embrace the false-allegations & propaganda of activist-consultants, especially about Bethpage State Park Green Golf Course.  The golf industry must respond by ending its validation of activist-consultants like Frank Rossi.  Furthermore, the golf industry cannot possibly consider Bethpage as a template that serves as an example for the golf industry.  [ ?!?!?!?! ]  In essence, Bethpage represents a terrible attack against main-stream superintendents & their facilities.  Bethpage is recognized as a failure.  The golf industry does not need this organic nonsense.   —   See links below.   

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Bethpage GC — Definitely Not Pesticide-Free, Only Less Reliant On Pesticides — Post

Bethpage GC — Definitely Not Pesticide-Free, Only Less Reliant On Pesticides — pdf

New York, NY — IPM Funding Cut — pdf

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Victory Against Organic In America

Chambers Bay Links Golf Course
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CHAMBERS BAY’S FAILURE   —   Chambers Bay represents the failure of the go-brown anti-cosmetic golf course doctrine.  Go-brown has been a failure & leads to garbage dump golf courses that look dead.  Chambers Bay is located on Puget Sound in Washington State, USA.   It is a so-called sustainable, all-fescue, Scottish-links-style course that was built on a reclaimed gravel pit.  The course uses almost no irrigation, almost no synthetic fertilizers, & almost no pesticides.  But, it is not pesticide-free, looks like a brown garbage dump, with the look of death, & provides golfers with low-end playing conditions.  It is a twisted & deviant showcase for go-brown becoming the new green.  This course does not look like most of the lush, immaculate courses you see around Houston, Dallas, or San Antonio, or for that matter, any of the tournament courses you see on television.  Not everyone is ready to stand up & cheer for this brown course.  Observers worry that government officials, wo are eager to jump on the go-brown band-wagon, will cause trouble for other golf courses trying to maintain tournament-grade turf.  According to entomologist Dan Potter of University of Kentucky, research has shown that pesticide-free golf does not work in many, perhaps most settings.  Chambers Bay is a bogus pesticide-free golf course.  Who wants to play on a #@!!% pest-infested garbage dump golf course ?!?!

GO-BROWN GOLF COURSES LOOK DEAD   —   Nonetheless, the go-brown anti-cosmetic golf course doctrine has been embraced by so-called activist-superintendents who have also adopted anti-pesticide policies & anti-fertilizer policies.  They have arbitrarily decided to adopt these policies in defiance of maintenance protocols & performance standards that have been scientifically established for generations.  Consequently, go-brown golf courses look dead.  After decades of benefiting from the golf industry’s pesticide ban exception status, activist-superintendents have ridiculously decided to self-impose their own pesticide bans.  They have also arbitrarily decided to adopt the arbitrary reduction of nutrients.  This is not what they are paid to do.  They are not true golf course superintendent.  Golf course superintendents must not forget that paying customers want golf courses with high-quality playing conditions & aesthetics provided by greener, thicker, pest-free, & manicured turf conditions.  The golf industry does not need this go-brown & pesticide-free nonsense.   —   See links below.   

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Chambers Bay GC — Failure With U.S. Open Golf Championship — Go Brown Look Of Death — Post

Chambers Bay GC — Failure With U.S. Open Golf Championship — Go Brown Look Of Death — BLOG

Chambers Bay GC — Organic Golf Courses Do Not Work — pdf

Go Brown — Anti-Cosmetic Golf Maintenance — Web-Page

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Victory Against Organic Outside Of America

EcoLand Golf Course
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ECOLAND’S GREENS DYING   —   EcoLand was a bogus pesticide-free golf course.  False & fraudulent allegations regarding organic maintenance.  Putting greens were dying under pesticide-free doctrine.  EcoLand is a supposed organic golf course that has alleged being pesticide-free only when it is convenient.  The results were low-quality low-end garbage-dump playing conditions.  Nobody wanted to play on a in a garbage dump.  Golf courses can actually beautify & improve the environmental conditions, especially when using pest control products.  Pesticide-free is not agronomically & economically viable. 

ECOLAND’S GARBAGE DUMPS   —   EcoLand Golf Club is a nine-hole golf course with low-end playing conditions located on the island of Jeju, which is the only special autonomous province of South Korea, Southeast-Asia, situated on & co-terminous with the country’s largest island.  Jeju government officials prohibited EcoLand from using so-called agricultural chemicals under the pretext that the land is located within a special type of local forest.  [ ?!?! ]  Irrational pesticide-hating extremists falsely & fraudulently alleged that golf courses are somehow the main cause of ground-water exhaustion & pollution.  EcoLand is yet another example of a pesticide-free golf course that resulted in a golf disaster with garbage dump playing conditions.  Officials at EcoLand had been mis-informed that they could avoid using pest control products by using native grasses which were allegedly more resilient to disease when compared to bentgrass, which was in use at most other nearby golf courses. 

ECOLAND’S GREEN ALTERNATIVE   —   Additionally, EcoLand was mis-managed because of its reliance on a phony, inferior, ineffective, & unaffordable green alternative pesticide, in the form of some utterly useless micro-organism treatment   ―   provided by an unethical lying avaricious for-profit supplier.  Consequently, the putting greens died at EcoLand since they became infested with damaging & fatal pests.  Some putting greens became dirt patches & looked like garbage dumps.  The only defence against the total collapse of the putting greens was the use of conventional pest control products.  The use of these products to protect the putting greens from death was determined to be the totally reasonable course of action.  Who wants to play on a #@!!% pest-infested garbage dump golf course ?!?!   —   See link below.   

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EcoLand GC — So-Called Organic Golf Course In East Asia — pdf

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Victory Against Organic In America

Hyde Park Golf Course
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HYDE PARK’S PESTICIDE-FREE CATASTROPHE   —   Failure of organic pesticide-free conditions. Without pest control products, golf course turf will be damaged & killed by deadly pest outbreaks.  Because no one applied pesticides, Hyde Park, in Niagara Falls, New York State, USA, was almost lost or immeasurably damaged.  Because of employee conflicts & lack of planning, Hyde Park unwittingly became a pesticide-free catastrophe.  It became infested with damaging pests that killed turf.  Officials at Hyde Park appeared to be unable or unwilling to properly maintain their playing conditions.  And, no paying-golfer wanted to play on a #@!!% pest-infested golf course that resembled a garbage dump.  A licensed pesticide applicator was eventually hired, & the golf course was saved by pesticides.  Unfortunately, pesticide-free golf courses, like Hyde Park, become infested with destructive & catastrophic pest problems & disorders.  Pesticide-free putting greens are dead putting greens.  Any trend favouring bogus organic pesticide free golf courses will drive golfers out & will lead to economic hardship & bankruptcy.   —   See links below.   

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Hyde Park GC — Pesticide-Free Catastrophe —  Golf Course Failures — Post

Hyde Park GC — Pesticide-Free Catastrophe — pdf

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Victory Against Organic In America

Laurelwood Golf Course
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LAURELWOOD’S FAILURE   —   Laurelwood is a low-class municipal golf course that cannot possibly afford organic pesticide free.  Laurelwood’s experimentation with alternative inputs is a huge expensive & deadly failure.  

LAURELWOOD’S PESTICIDE-FREE ?   —   Laurelwood is a 9-hole municipal golf course where male-golfers are allowed to go shirtless & where local residents are permitted walk their dogs.  Laurelwood is a small, insignificant, low-class golf course located in Eugene, Oregon, USA.  Laurelwood is not organic   ―   it is merely fake-organic that pretends to be organic.  Organic means that a golf course has self-imposed prohibition against all conventional pest control products, rendering it pesticide-free.  Laurelwood cannot possibly be organic since it neither has the financing nor the capability to be organic.  Besides, there is only one organic golf course in America   ―   & it is not Laurelwood.  Why aren’t there more organic golf courses ?  Unfortunately, organic requires staggering & unlimited amounts of money, which Laurelwood itself cannot afford.  Sadly, only the ultra-wealthy elite golf courses are able to afford organic, which would be financially-impossible for most other main-stream golf courses.  Organic costs millions & millions of dollars.  No main-stream golf course can afford this #@!!% organic nonsense.  Nonetheless, Laurelwood is not organic since it is definitely not pesticide-free, but rather, it practices the hybrid-pesticide-use approach, which means it still uses pesticides with impunity.  Laurelwood is a mere fake-organic & a hybrid-pesticide-use golf course that pretends to be organic.  Incredibly, those who operate Laurelwood are practicing the hybrid-pesticide-use approach which includes the regular use of conventional pest control products, when it suits their purposes.  Laurelwood is operated by hypocrites, liars, frauds, & weaklings.  Using Laurelwood as an example of an organic golf course represents a terrible template for superintendents.  At Laurelwood, organic & pesticide-free practices are huge operational failures.  The infamous Vineyard golf club, in Massachusetts, USA, is the only organic golf course in America.

LAURELWOOD’S DEADLY EXPERIMENTATION   —   Laurelwood uses pesticides whenever the need arises.  Ostensively, conventional products will be applied when paying-golfers are not present on the property, or when the facilities are closed.  The so-called success of the hybrid-pesticide-use approach is promoted by officials at Laurelwood, with unverifiable success stories. There is no industry & no regulatory oversight concerning any Laurelwood allegations.  Without oversight, Laurelwood’s officials can say whatever they want, & they can lie with impunity, especially about any flagrant use of pesticides, or about any large-scale-death of turfgrass.  Without oversight, they can conveniently ignore the disaster at Laurelwood resulting in large-scale-death because of amateurish, non-scientific, & deadly experimentation that hopelessly relied upon trial & error.  Laurelwood’s experimentation is a huge, expensive, & deadly failure.  According to a Laurelwood official   —   «  …  I’ve been experimenting pretty heavily  …  we started killing stuff  …  we got pretty good at killing stuff  » .  [ ?!?!?!?! ]  The golf industry does not need this organic nonsense.   —   See links below.   

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Laurelwood GC — Low-Class Municipal Golf Course That Cannot Possibly Afford Organic Pesticide Free — Post

Laurelwood GC — Low-Class Municipal Golf Course That Cannot Possibly Afford Organic Pesticide Free — pdf

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Victory Against Organic In America

Vineyard Golf Club
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VINEYARD’S MAINTENANCE   —   Financially-impossibly of organic pesticide-free maintenance.  Adopting organic pesticide-free maintenance is financially-impossible for main-stream golf courses.  The golf industry must discredit facilities like Vineyard that can only thrive when staggering & unlimited amounts of money are provided by either government hand-outs & / or ultra-wealthy members.  Located in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA.  

VINEYARD’S PROHIBITION   —   Vineyard Golf Club is the only organic pesticide-free golf course in America.  Vineyard has self-imposed prohibition against so-called synthetic no-harm conventional pesticides.  This prohibition was adopted because of a false-perception about the uncertainty of pesticides.  [ ?!?! ]  This arbitrary prohibition was decreed by an ill-informed & possibly corrupt local county commission.  In fact, there is no uncertainty about pesticides, & no prohibition was ever necessary.  National regulatory agencies, world-wide, have found that pest control products do not present risks of concern to human health or the environment when used according to label directions.

THE VINEYARD EFFECT   —   Only the ultra-wealthy elite golfers at Vineyard are able to afford organic pesticide-free maintenance practices.  These practices have led to what is known as the Vineyard Effect or the Vineyard Syndrome.  This is because maintaining Vineyard costs as much as Augusta National Golf Club, if not more.  Augusta is one of the most expensive golf facilities in the world   ―   & the least typical golf course on the planet   ―   with demands of ultra-high quality playing conditions & aesthetics & perfection.  Vineyard also demands of ultra-high quality playing conditions & aesthetics, but with perfect 100 per cent prohibition, & at a cost of millions & millions of dollars that have been squandered on this organic pesticide-free failure !  Organic golf can only thrive when staggering & unlimited amounts of money are provided by either government hand-outs & / or ultra-wealthy members.  Adopting the Vineyard Effect is financially-impossible for main-stream golf courses.

VINEYARD’S ENVIRO-PROFIT   —   Vineyard is a pesticide-free golf course because of demands from local residents   ―   not for the protection of the environment   ―   but in return for being given staggering amounts of profit.  Vineyard was allowed to be built only after nearby residents were given millions & millions of dollars in membership benefits, for almost free.  Their interference in partisan politics & public policy led to virtually zero-cost membership benefits as a result of the Vineyard Effect.

VINEYARD’S FAILURES   —   Vineyard has suffered failure after failure after failure as it performs amateur & non-scientific experimentation that hopelessly relies upon trial & error.  Vineyard officials allege having more & more success every year.  [ ?!?! ]  In other words, there has been nothing but failure year after year after year, all because of the Vineyard Effect.  Vineyard’s organic pesticide-free practices, like back-breaking manual weed-picking, are medieval & ineffective failures that have never worked, have been totally ineffective, have been staggeringly expensive, & have been discouraging for employees.  The Vineyard Effect has regressed maintenance practices by 100 years.

VINEYARD’S TERRIBLE ATTACK   —   Validating the Vineyard Effect, a.k.a. the Vineyard Syndrome, as a template for imposing pesticide-free maintenance represents a terrible attack against main-stream superintendents & their facilities.  The golf industry must discredit facilities like Vineyard that embrace the medieval & ineffective practices of organic pesticide-free maintenance.  The Vineyard Effect must be stopped, forever.  The golf industry does not need this organic nonsense.   —   See links below.   

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Vineyard GC — Medieval & Ineffective Practices Of Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Post

Vineyard GC — Medieval & Ineffective Practices Of Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — pdf

Vineyard GC — Confessions Of Vineyard Superintendent Jeff Carlson — Audio Recordings — Pesticide Truths Post

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Background Information   
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Golf Courses — Failed Doctrines Of Activist-Maintenance — Post

Golf Courses — Failed Doctrines Of Activist-Maintenance — pdf

Golf Courses — Medieval & Ineffective Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Post

Golf Courses — Medieval & Ineffective Pesticide-Free Maintenance — pdf

Organic Failure — The Road So Far — The Failures Of Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Post

Organic Failure — Total & Dismal Failure Of Organic — The Failure Of Medieval & Ineffective Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Web-Page

Organic Failure — Virtually All Organic & Pesticide-Free Golf Courses Are Bogus — pdf

Organic Failure — Bogus Golf Courses — The Library Of Reports — pdf

Organic Failure — Chemical-Free Golf Facilities Are Atypical — pdf

Organic Failure — Carnage Inflicted By Garbage Dump Green Spaces — Pesticide Bans Have Never Made Our Green Spaces Look So #@!!% Ugly — Photo Gallery — pdf

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California, State of
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Victory Against Organic With Protocols & Performance Standards

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VICTORY   —   High-quality playing conditions & aesthetics can only be achieved when following the golf industry’s protocols & performance standards, & not organic pesticide-free maintenance doctrine.  The golf industry does not need organic.   —   See below.  

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Victory Against Organic

Protocols & Performance Standards
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THE GOLF INDUSTRY DOES NOT NEED ORGANIC   —   The golf industry must not readily embrace the false-allegations & fraudulent failures of so-called organic pesticide-free maintenance.  The golf industry must respond by ending its validation of this doctrine.  Furthermore, the golf industry cannot possibly consider this as a template that serves as an example for the golf industry.  [ ?!?!?!?! ]  In essence, organic pesticide-free golf maintenance represents a terrible attack against main-stream superintendents & their facilities.  The golf industry does not need this organic nonsense.  However, the golf industry does need to satisfy paying-customers who want golf courses with high-quality playing conditions & aesthetics with greener, thicker, pest-free, & manicured turf at an affordable cost.  These playing conditions & aesthetics can be achieved when following the protocols & performance standards that are science-based & time-tested & correct maintenance practices.   —   See links below.  

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Aeration — Planning For Turf Cultivation With Correct Aeration Practices — Post

Budget — Tips To Reduce Golf Course Maintenance Costs — pdf

Creeping Bentgrass — Properties & Maintenance Standards — pdf

Diseases & Disorders ( Including Winter Injury ) — The Library Of References — Web-Page

Disease — Anthracnose Basal Rot In Creeping Bentgrass — Post

Disease — Microdochium Patch — Bayer Microdochium Patch Guide– Post

Fertilization — Conspiracy To Reduce Fertilizer Nutrients In The Golf Industry — Post

Fertilization — Fertilizer-Hating Trade Associations Conspire To Reduce Nutrients — Post

Fertilization — How Much Nitrogen Do Golf Grasses Need ? — Post

Kentucky Bluegrass — Properties & Maintenance Standards — pdf

Mowing — Growing Greener Turf With Correct Mowing Height — pdf

Pesticide Labels — The Library Of Approved Pesticide Product Label Documents — Post

Pesticide Re-Entry Intervals — Label Statements For Applications On Turfgrasses — Post

Posters — Community Benefits Of Golf — Post

References — The Library On Turf, Ornamentals, Maintenance, & Environment — Web-Page

Reports — The Library On Turf, Ornamentals, Maintenance, & Environment — Web-Page

Seeds — The Complete Library Of Jacklin Seed Research — Web-Page

Shade — Vegetation Management — Turfgrass Species Tolerance — pdf

Slide Shows — The Library On Turf, Ornamentals, Maintenance, & Environment — Web-Page

Weeds — The Complete Media Library Of Dow AgroSciences Newsletters — Web-Page

Winter Injury — Are My Greens Still Alive ? — How To Prevent Future Winter Injury — Post

Winter Injury — Preparing Golf Course Turfgrasses For Upcoming Winter — Post

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CRITICAL ISSUES   —   The golf industry’s superintendents must recognize that they are on a collision course with the looming shipwreck of golf-hating & anti-pesticide extremism.  Even though they enjoy exception statuses from municipal or provincial pesticide bans, superintendents face some huge challenges because of their high degree of vulnerability concerning several public affairs issues.  In order to successfully deter the malicious efforts of all mindless attacks against their golf facilities, several critical issues must immediately be addressed in order for the golf industry to survive.   —   See link below.  

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Critical Issues For The Survival Of The Golf Industry — Web-Page

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UNCERTAINTIES ABOUT PESTICIDES ?   —   There are no worries & no uncertainties with pest control products.  National regulatory agencies, world-wide, have found that pest control products do not present risks of concern to human health or the environment when correctly used according to the Approved Pesticide Product Label Documents.   —   See link below.  

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Approved Pesticide Product Label Documents — Web-Page

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Victory Against Prohibition

Guelph, City of,
Province of Ontario

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VICTORY   —   Guelph has resumed using conventional pesticides. 

Three years after it was imposed, Guelph rescinded its harmful-prohibition, & hired a contractor to apply at least three applications of conventional herbicides to eliminate weeds & grasses on city-owned properties.  

This reversal of prohibition was a hypocritical shift on Guelph’s anti-pesticide policy. 

Consequently, Guelph will allow conventional pest control applications because it arbitrarily suits government officials. 

According municipal officials, organic pesticide-free maintenance was a dismal failure since it was not possible to control weeds without no-risk conventional products.  

Manual weed picking was ineffective.  

Because of prohibition, home-owners had to resort to the back-breaking & agonizing job of weed pulling by hand, spending four hours per day plucking dandelions like cotton-pickers.  

Because of the city of Guelph’s municipal prohibition, professional lawn care businesses lost at least 30 per cent of their customers within two years.

Harmful-prohibition led to horrendous & catastrophic financial carnage, in the form of immense losses of revenues, business failures, bankruptcy, & unemployment.

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Guelph — Hypocritical Shift In Policy — pdf

Guelph — Weeds Have The Advantage — pdf

Guelph — Reversal Of Prohibition — Mr Art C Drysdale pdf

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Manual Weed Picking — The Library Of The Dismal Failures — Web-Page

Manual Weed Picking — Cotton-Picking Lawn Maintenance Recommended By University Of Guelph — pdf

Organic — The Failures Of Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Post

Organic — The Failure Of Medieval & Ineffective Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Web-Page

Ontario — Prohibition Amendment — Destroyers Of The Lawn Care Industry — Post

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Belleville
Guelph-Eramosa
Hamilton
Ottawa

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Guelph-Eramosa Township,
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VICTORY   —   Guelph-Eramosa will no longer ban conventional pesticides. 

Council agreed with an impassioned plea from local farmers & weed experts to rescind prohibition, & reinstated & resumed road-side herbicide applications.  

The township had road-sides that looked like garbage dumps which had been over-run with weeds, especially with European Buckthorn, & had been polluting adjoining agricultural fields.  

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Guelph-Eramosa — Prohibition Reversal — Mr Art C Drysdale — pdf

Guelph-Eramosa — Resumes Roadside Spraying — pdf

Ontario — Prohibition Amendment — Destroyers Of The Lawn Care Industry — Post

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Belleville
Guelph
Hamilton
Ottawa

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Hamilton, City of,
Province of Ontario

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VICTORY   —   Municipal officials have strongly & publicly opposed Ontario’s existing provincial prohibition.

In the city of Hamilton, children cannot play on the grass because of the invasion of weeds.  

Both the city of Hamilton & the province of Ontario had imposed harmful-prohibitions against irreplaceable conventional pest control products used, which led to catastrophic ecological carnage in the form of dangerous garbage dump green spaces.

There were no viable, no efficacious, no economical, no practical, & no low-risk green alternatives to replace these products.

Organic pesticide-free maintenance has been a failure because it is medieval & ineffective.

Moreover, no one wanted this #@!!% dangerous ban nonsense that placed their children at risk.

A city councillor complained that children in the area couldn’t play on the grass because of the invasion of weeds.

One official said if more wasn’t done, sports fields were expected to be 98 per cent weeds in the next decade.

Hamilton’s Public Works Committee & Ancaster councillor Lloyd Ferguson attempted to allow pest control products to be used by licensed operators, in defiance of Ontario’s provincial prohibition.

This attempt was negatively-viewed by irrational pesticide-hating extremists as watering down Ontario’s pesticide ban.

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Hamilton — Attempts To Water Down Ontario Ban — Post

Hamilton — Parks Under Siege From Dandelions — Post

Hamilton — Parks Under Siege From Dandelions — pdf

Hamilton — Parks Under Siege From Dandelions — Reference — pdf

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Background Information   
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Organic — The Failures Of Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Post

Organic — The Failure Of Medieval & Ineffective Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Web-Page

Children — Pesticides Are Safe For Kids — Slide Show — Post

Children — Pesticide Bans Actually Hurt Kids — Web-Page

Green Alternatives — Bogus & Dismal Failures — Toxicity Comparisons — Web-Page

Ontario — Prohibition Amendment — Destroyers Of The Lawn Care Industry — Post

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Belleville
Guelph
Guelph-Eramosa
Ottawa

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Highland Park, District of,
State of Illinois USA

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Key Points     

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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Stopped Existing Partial Prohibition
On Municipal-Owned Properties Only
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Garbage-Dump Sports Fields Under The
Anti-Pesticide Ban Needed To Be Rescued
With Conventional Pest Control Products
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Manual Weed Picking Ineffective
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VICTORY   —   Highland Park has resumed using conventional pesticides.

Highland Park concluded that organic pesticide-free maintenance of its sports fields was a dismal failure.  

Highland Park needed to rescue its weed-ridden garbage-dump sports fields from the medieval & ineffective practices of organic pesticide-free maintenance.

After four years, weeds invaded more than 60 per cent of ground coverage at the parks & sports fields.  

Prohibition contributed to the worst conditions the district had seen in more than a decade.  

The manual weed picking program was deemed totally ineffective.  

Highland Park had to resort to the back-breaking & agonizing job of weed pulling by hand.  

The city’s professional labour force, along with volunteers, had been devalued into a group of mere cotton-pickers.  

In order to rid the sports fields of weeds by using manual weed picking, Highland Park observed that you would need an army & concluded that   —   « we don’t think that’s a solution ».  

Highland Park had ignored the failure of prohibition at the city of Boulder, Colorado, with a maintenance program that went from a 15,000-dollars per year to a staggering 300,000-dollars+ per year, under the direction of Chip-Charles Osborne, the incompetent consultant & pesticide-hating extremist.  

One year later, Boulder re-introduced herbicides like no-risk Roundup. 

Boulder allowed conventional pest control applications because it arbitrarily suits government officials. 

The irrational pesticide-hating extremists at Beyond Pesticides, who recommended organic pesticide-free maintenance, knew nothing & were utterly incompetent.  

Pest control products used in the urban landscape are government-approved, federally-legal, scientifically-safe, & practically-non-toxic.  

These products did not need to be prohibited.  

Organic pesticide-free maintenance has been a failure because it is medieval & ineffective.

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Media Library  
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Highland Park — Manual Weed Picking Ineffective — Post

Highland Park — Manual Weed Picking Ineffective — pdf

Highland Park — Think Twice Before Banning Pesticides — Manitoba — Ontario — MacLean’s Magazine — pdf

Highland Park — Cancels Weeding Effort — No Swell Of Volunteers — Pesticide Truths Post

Highland Park — Volunteers Needed For First Community Weed Pull — Pesticide Truths Post

Highland Park — Lifts Pesticide Ban For 3 Parks — Pesticide Truths Post

Highland Park — Activists Are Never Satisfied — Children Not At Risk — Letter to the Editor — Post

Highland Park — Turf Management Program — Lunatжc Chip Osborne Q & A — Go Organic Or Die A Toxic Death — US EPA Failure To Protect ?!?! — YouTube Videos — Pesticide Truths Post

Highland Park — Turf Management Resolution — Hand Weeding Of Sports Fields & Parks — Pesticide Dangers Cited By Activists — YouTube Video — Pesticide Truths Post

Highland Park — US Environmental Extremism — Web-Page

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Background Information   
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Manual Weed Picking — The Library Of The Dismal Failures — Web-Page

Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Web-Page

Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Photo Gallery — Web-Page

United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Chicago

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
California
Chicago, Illinois
Durango, Colorado
Everett, Washington
Josephine County, Oregon
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lawrence, Kansas
Lincoln City, Oregon
Madison, Wisconsin
Montgomery County, Maryland
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
Brazil
Canada
European Union
Port Alberni, British Columbia

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Victory Against Prohibition

Hudson, Town of,
Province of Quebec

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Key Points     

Victory
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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Existing Municipal Prohibition Morally Invalidated
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Several Government Officials Who Were
Responsible For Prohibition Are Now Facing
Charges Of Fraud, Corruption, & Tax-Evasion
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Hudson’s Anti-Pesticide Mayor,
Councillors, & Staff, Were Crooks
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VICTORY   —   Hudson’s existing prohibition has been morally invalidated.  

This is because several of those officials who were responsible for prohibition have faced charges of fraud, corruption, & tax-evasion.  

So far, one government official has been convicted & jailed. 

Consequently, Hudson’s existing prohibition, as well as all those municipal & provincial prohibitions that followed, will be considered morally invalidated.

Additionally, the province of Quebec later officially acknowledged that 2,4-D was safe & did not pose an unacceptable risk to human health & the environment.

Consequently, Quebec’s prohibition became morally invalidated by this acknowledgement.

Eventually, Quebec’s prohibition was further morally invalidated by a lawsuit known as the NAFTA Challenge. 

Dow AgroSciences, the manufacturer of the herbicide 2,4-D, settled the NAFTA challenge case with the Canadian government.

Hudson was / is infested with corrupt crooks & tax-evading criminals who were also, not surprisingly, irrational pesticide-hating extremist-politicians.  

They stated lies like they were truth, & in a way that made people listen to them.

Mayor Michael Elliot, & his co-conspirator councillors & managers, were lunatжc-liars !

They lied about pesticides.  

They lied about their personal income tax.  

They lied about town finances.  

They lied & lied & lied.  

Because of their lies, these lunatжcs annihilated the professional lawn care industry, coast-to-coast.  

Their lies subsequently created a trail of economic destruction with thousands of people out of work.  

Their lies discredited Health Canada in order to prohibit products that had been scientifically-approved by the highest quality experts.  

In fact, Elliott & his co-conspirators were the least qualified to provide any advice about pest control products.  

Or about simply being honest.  

Observers are dismayed that these irrational pesticide-hating extremist-politicians were ever allowed to run for office.  

They should all be sterilized so that their offspring cannot run for office.  

Being pesticide-haters equals being crooks all-round.  

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Hudson — Pesticide Ban Conspirator Sentenced To 30 Months In Jail — Pesticide Truths Post

Hudson — Guilty Plea As Part Of Healing Process — Pesticide Truths Post

Hudson — Pesticide Free Fraudster Nailed For $307,000 In Unpaid Taxes — Pesticide Truths Post

Hudson — Pesticide Free Fraudster Loses Home — Pesticide Truths Post

Hudson — Town Manager Behind First Anti-Pesticide Conspiracy Arrested — Post

Hudson — Woman Behind First Cosmetic Pesticide Ban Finally Arrested — Pesticide Truths Post

Hudson — Hudson Mayor Resigns In Disgrace — Pesticide Truths Post

Hudson — Mayor Suspected Of Fraud May Get Sued By His Own Town — Pesticide Truths Post

Hudson — Anti-Pesticide Mayor, Councillors, & Staff, Were Crжжks — Post

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Background Information   
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Quebec — The Media History Of The Province Of Quebec & Municipalities — Web-Page

Business Failures — Job-Killing & Business-Killing Prohibition Has Been Catastrophic — Web-Page

2,4-D — Evaluations & Assessments — Web-Page

2,4-D — References, Reports, Blogs, & Labels — Web-Page

2,4-D — The Industry Task Force II On 2,4-D Research Data — Post

2,4-D — The Industry Task Force II On 2,4-D Research Data — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Josephine County,
State of Oregon USA

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Key Points     

Victory
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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Proposed County Prohibition Against
Licensed Applicators Rejected By Voters
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VICTORY   —   Josephine County will not ban pesticides.

Voters rejected a proposal to prohibit against pest control products used by licensed applicators.

Despite being defeated by a 2 : 1 margin, supporters of the initiative vowed to regroup & expected that anti-pesticide extremism will never end in this Oregon county.

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Media Library  
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Josephine County — Proposed Pesticide Ban Rejected By Voters — Pesticide Truths Post

Josephine County — Should Josephine County Ban Pesticides ?!?! — Pesticide Truths Post

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Background Information   
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United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Ashland
Lincoln City

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
California
Chicago, Illinois
Durango, Colorado
Everett, Washington
Highland Park, Illinois
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lawrence, Kansas
Lincoln City, Oregon
Madison, Wisconsin
Montgomery County, Maryland
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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Kamloops, City of,
Province of British Columbia

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Key Points     

Victory
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Failure To Invoke Total Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Limited Municipal Prohibition Imposed
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Fruit & Vegetable Production, Golf Facilities, Mosquito
Control, Nursery Production, Orchards, Rose Gardens,
Sod Production, & Sports Fields Granted Exception Status
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VICTORY   —   Kamloops has allowed conventional pest control applications.

Kamloops’ city council has not prohibited all pest control products, & has allowed exceptions for fruit & vegetable production, golf courses, mosquito control, nursery production, orchards, rose gardens, sod production, & sports fields. 

These are victories, of sorts, even though the prohibition specifically discriminates against one specific type of business, professional lawn care.  

Kamloops’ prohibition has been arbitrary & discriminatory.

Kamloops’ prohibition against professional lawn care businesses implies that   —   it is safe for children & adults to walk on pesticide-treated golf courses, & eat pesticide-treated food, but it is seemingly not safe for them to walk & play on pesticide-treated lawns.

Irrational pesticide-hating extremist & elected-official Tina Lange supported a total ban on pesticides for the general public, with good reason   —   «  It’s not necessary to spray chemicals to kill dandelions  ―  dandelions are people, too  [ ?!?!?!?! ]  » .  

In order to be consistent & fair, there should be no arbitrary exceptions for anyone.

The use of inconsistent & unfair exceptions demonstrated that prohibition has been a dismal failure.  

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Media Library  
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Kamloops — Victory Against Anti-Pesticide Rapжsts — Post

Kamloops — No Support For Lunatжc Cavers — Letter to the Editor — pdf

Kamloops — Blow Against Science & Local Businesses — Corruption Among Officials ?!?! — Post

Kamloops — Get Rid Of The Lapdogs Cavers & Singh — The Whole Truth About Kamloops — Post

Kamloops — Using Children As Weapons Of Coercion — Letter to the Editor — Post

Kamloops — Municipal Prohibition Failures — Post

Kamloops — Municipal Prohibition Failures — pdf

Kamloops — The Media History Of Kamloops — Web-Page

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Background Information   
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British Columbia — The Library Of Municipal Prohibition Failures — Web-Page

British Columbia — The Library Of Prohibition By-Laws — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Burnaby
Campbell River
Coquitlam
Delta
Gibsons
Golden
Kelowna
Merritt
Parksville
Port Alberni
Qualicum Beach
Revelstoke
Rossland
Saanich
Salmon Arm
Vancouver
Vernon

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Victory Against Prohibition

Kauaʻi County,
State of Hawaiʻi USA

Central Pacific Island, Hawaiian Archipelago

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Key Points     

Victory
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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Existing County Ordinance / Restriction Struck Down
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VICTORY   —   Kauaʻi County’s ordinance / restriction was struck down. 

A US federal judge rescinded an ordinance / restriction that arbitrarily & illegally forced the agriculture industry to divulge what pest control products were to be used for crop protection.

The judge’s ruling also struck down the creation of arbitrary & unnecessary buffer zones near public places like hospitals, schools, & parks.

Officials at Kauaʻi County have faced the spotlight of scrutiny & the terrжr of the courts.

Their anti-pesticide restriction could not be defended in court.

Kauaʻi County’s ordinance / restriction arbitrarily & illegally forced the agriculture industry to divulge what pest control products were to be used for crop protection.

Kauaʻi County also arbitrarily & illegally forced the agriculture industry to create unnecessary buffer zones near public places like hospitals, schools, & parks.

A federal judge ruled that the Kauaʻi County law arbitrarily & illegally forcing the agriculture industry to divulge its use of pest control products & genetically modified ( GM ) crops was invalid.

Eventually, US federal magistrate judge Barry Kurren ruled in favour of four agricultural businesses seeking to stop Kauaʻi County’s arbitrary & illegal restriction from going into effect.

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Media Library  
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Kauaʻi — Ordinance Struck Down By US Federal Judge — Post

Kauaʻi — Ordinance Struck Down By US Federal Judge — pdf

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Background Information   
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United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
California
Chicago, Illinois
Durango, Colorado
Everett, Washington
Highland Park, Illinois
Josephine County, Oregon
Lawrence, Kansas
Lincoln City, Oregon
Madison, Wisconsin
Montgomery County, Maryland
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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Victory Against Prohibition

Kelowna, City of,
Province of British Columbia

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Key Points  

Victory
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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Proposed Prohibition Stopped, But
Another Partial Prohibition Imposed
On Municipal-Owned Properties Only
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Exception Status Granted For Lawn
Care Businesses & Golf Courses
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VICTORY   —   Kelowna has allowed conventional pest control applications. 

A proposed municipal prohibition was stopped, & an exception status was granted for professional lawn care businesses & golf courses in Kelowna. 

Despite being unable to justify any form of prohibition, Kelowna imposed a partial prohibition against the use of pest control products that were arbitrarily deemed as non-essential, & specifically against home-owners.    

However, professional lawn care businesses & golf courses were allowed to conduct their operations in an unobstructed manner by providing them with an unfair & discriminatory exception status.   

These operations needed the exception status since organic pesticide-free maintenance was a dismal failure & would have otherwise led them into bankruptcy & destitution.

Beginning in 2009, Kelowna regulated the use of pest control products that were arbitrarily deemed as non-essential.

This included the maintenance of outdoor flowers, lawns, trees, shrubs, & other ornamental plants, as well as hard surfaces such as driveways.

Home-owners in Kelowna were coerced into accepting the prohibition against pest control products that are, in fact, Health-Canada-approved, federally-legal, scientifically-safe, & practically-non-toxic.

Nonetheless, the use of inconsistent & unfair exceptions demonstrated that prohibition has been a dismal failure.  

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Media Library  
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Kelowna — Common Sense Prevails — pdf

Kelowna — The Media History — Web-Page

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Background Information   
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British Columbia — The Library Of Municipal Prohibition Failures — Web-Page

British Columbia — The Library Of Prohibition By-Laws — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Burnaby
Campbell River
Coquitlam
Delta
Gibsons
Golden
Kamloops
Merritt
Parksville
Port Alberni
Qualicum Beach
Revelstoke
Rossland
Saanich
Salmon Arm
Vancouver
Vernon

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Victory Against Prohibition

Lawrence, City of,
State of Kansas USA

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Key Points  

Victory
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Failure Of Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Rescinded Partial Prohibition On
Municipal-Owned Properties Only
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Cataclysmic Costs Lead To The Downscale
Of The Pesticide-Free Park Effort
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Manual Weed Picking Ineffective
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VICTORY   —   Lawrence has resumed using conventional pesticides.

Lawrence’s government officials rescinded prohibition against the use of conventional pest control products on city properties.  

Previously, Lawrence had to resort to forcing resident / volunteers to the back-breaking & agonizing job of manual weed picking.

The volunteers, as well as the city’s professional labour force, were devalued into groups of mere cotton-pickers.

Consequently, government officials rescinded prohibition since residents were no longer interested to volunteer their time in a losing battle against weeds.

Manual weed picking was a pesticide-free failure, & no-risk conventional products were reinstated.

Irrational pesticide-hating extremists had lobbied Lawrence’s commissioners to convert all 52 parks to organic pesticide-free maintenance.

Before prohibition, Lawrence spent less than 10,000-dollars per year for conventional pest control products.

However, municipal officials estimated that the cataclysmic cost of a pesticide ban would be 213,000-dollars for equipment, 116,000-dollars annually for staff, & 95,000-dollars annually for materials.

Organic pesticide-free maintenance with manual weed picking was a dismal failure.

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Media Library  
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Lawrence — Municipal Prohibition Rescinded — pdf

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Background Information   
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Manual Weed Picking — The Library Of The Dismal Failures — Web-Page

United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States —  Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
California
Chicago, Illinois
Durango, Colorado
Everett, Washington
Highland Park, Illinois
Josephine County, Oregon
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lincoln City, Oregon
Madison, Wisconsin
Montgomery County, Maryland
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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Lincoln City,
State of Oregon USA

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Victory
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Failure Of Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Rescinded Partial Prohibition On
Municipal-Owned Properties Only
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Vinegar Acid Toxic & Ineffective
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Manual Weed Picking Ineffective
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VICTORY   —   Lincoln City has resumed using conventional pesticides.  

Because of self-imposed prohibition on city-owned properties, parks surged with weed growth & degraded them into pest-infested garbage dumps, resulting in the reinstatement of conventional herbicides.  

City staff had attempted to pull weeds on their hands & knees, but could not keep up with the invasion, even when the city spent 260 staff hours, an exorbitant cost in labour.

Before prohibition, city staff would need to spend only 60 hours annually on weeds.

Green alternative pesticides, like vinegar acid, were unacceptable because they were not only ineffective, but they were also more toxic & more dangerous with burns to the eyes & skin, requiring protective masks & suits.

Three years after prohibition, no-risk conventional pest control products were reinstated for treatment of weed-infested parks. 

In essence, Lincoln City will allow conventional pest control applications because it arbitrarily suits city staff.

Organic pesticide-free maintenance with vinegar acid & manual weed picking was a dismal failure.

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Media Library  
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Lincoln City — Municipal Prohibition Rescinded — pdf

Lincoln City — Pesticide-Free Parks Pose Challenges — Reference — pdf

Lincoln City — Learning From Experiences With Banning — Pesticide Truths Post

Lincoln City — Banning Would Be An Over-Reaction — Pesticide Truths Post

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Background Information   
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Manual Weed Picking — The Library Of The Dismal Failures — Web-Page

Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Web-Page

Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Photo Gallery — Web-Page

United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Ashland
Josephine County

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
California
Chicago, Illinois
Durango, Colorado
Everett, Washington
Highland Park, Illinois
Josephine County, Oregon
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lawrence, Kansas
Madison, Wisconsin
Montgomery County, Maryland
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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Madison, City of,
State of Wisconsin USA

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Victory
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Failure Of Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Existing Municipal Prohibition Ignored
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Failed, Futile, & Ineffective Integrated Pest
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VICTORY   —   Madison has allowed conventional pest control applications.

Schizophrenic city officials violated Madison’s own existing municipal prohibition.  

The city’s anti-pesticide policy / doctrine says   —    «  …  the city shall not use pesticides to control dandelions & other broad-leaved weeds on general parklands, median strips, street terraces, roadsides, general lawn areas, & athletic fields  » .  

This policy has been in line with the failed, futile, & ineffective Integrated Pest Management ( IPM ) doctrine, where all city departments have been expected to give preference to non-pesticide management practices ( which do not work ), & to use the so-called least-risky pesticides only as a last resort ( which is incorrect ).

Nonetheless, Madison’s use of pesticides has been described as schizophrenic since it has violated its own anti-pesticide policy because it arbitrarily suits government officials.  

Madison has continued to use hundreds of gallons of pesticides, such as glyphosate, 2,4-D, & several others, on athletic fields & other city lands   ―   because organic pesticide-free maintenance with green alternatives were dismal failures & did not work.  

Harmful-prohibitions are failures because of phony, inferior, ineffective, & unaffordable green alternative pesticides , including bio-pesticides & non-synthetic pesticides, which cannot replace effective & no-risk conventional products.

Furthermore, Madison’s anti-pesticide doctrine has conflicted with the Wisconsin state pre-emption statute, stating that local governments may not prohibit the use of, or otherwise regulate, pesticides.

Madison’s harmful-prohibition with IPM has been a dismal failure.

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Media Library  
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Madison — Changes & Violates Its Own Anti-Pesticide Policies — Post

Madison — Changes & Violates Its Own Anti-Pesticide Policies — pdf

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Background Information   
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IPM — Failure Of Integrated Pest Management — Web-Page

Green Alternatives — Bogus & Dismal Failures — Toxicity Comparisons — Web-Page

Organic — The Failures Of Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Post

Organic — The Failure Of Medieval & Ineffective Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Web-Page

United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
California
Chicago, Illinois
Durango, Colorado
Everett, Washington
Highland Park, Illinois
Josephine County, Oregon
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lawrence, Kansas
Lincoln City, Oregon
Montgomery County, Maryland
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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Maine, State of, USA

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Victories
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A Major Study Has Confirmed The
Failure Of Maine’s Pesticide-Hating Bans
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Limited Provincial Prohibition Imposed
By Many Of Maine’s Municipalities
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Most Existing Municipal Prohibitions Are Against
Aerial-Spraying & Forestry, Roadside Rights-Of-
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Inconsistent & Unfair Pesticide Ban Exceptions
Have Been Provided By Many Municipalities
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Predatory Administration Fee Extorted For
Every Application By Some Municipalities
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Municipal Prohibition / Ordinances Are
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Tens Of Thousands Of Exceptions
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VICTORIES   —   Maine’s municipalities have allowed conventional pest control applications. 

Municipalities, particularly along the coast, have been developing harmful-prohibitions under the false-pretexts of protecting their residents from the supposed threat of harm of pest control products.

These prohibitions / ordinances specifically cite false-pretexts such as   —   •   Bees   •   Birth defects   •   Cancer   •   Children   •   Fish   •   Health   •   Leukemia   •   Poisons   •   Pollution   •   Safety   •   Toxicity   •   & More

These are absolutely false-pretexts concocted by irrational pesticide-hating extremists.  

Consequently, Maine’s municipal prohibitions became dismal failures.

Overwhelming scientific evidence clearly demonstrated that pest control products are scientifically-safe, & 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 & hypocrisy of Maine’s municipal officials is clearly evident with exceptions that they have conveniently inserted into their prohibitions / ordinances.

In contradiction to the political-precepts & pesticide-hating doctrines of these prohibitions, these municipalities have allowed tens of thousands of inconsistent & unfair exceptions, including   —   •   Agriculture   •   Golf courses   •   Green alternative pesticides   •   Nurseries   •   Repellents   •   Rodenticides   •   Sports fields   •   Timber harvesting   •   & More

Moreover, some municipalities have maliciously prevented residents & businesses from using pest control products without first extorting them to pay for predatory-permits.

There should be no #@!!% exceptions & no #@!!% predatory-permits whatsoever.

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Victory Against Prohibition In Maine

City Of Scarborough
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VICTORY   —   Scarborough, Maine, has allowed conventional pest control applications.

This is because of the failure with organic pesticide-free maintenance.

The best example of the failures & the ridiculousness of exceptions can be seen in the city  of Scarborough.

Because of its harmful-prohibition, Scarborough’s green spaces became pest-infested & dangerous garbage dumps.

Ultimately, ineffective green alternative pesticides & 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 harmful-prohibition is Maine’s biggest dismal failure.

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Victories Against Prohibitions In Maine

Major Study Of Prohibitions / Ordinances
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VICTORIES   —   A major study of Maine’s prohibitions has concluded that they are all dismal failures.

Here is a summary regarding Maine’s prohibitions / ordinances  —  

•   Most ordinances have imposed prohibitions that are dismal failures.

•   Most ordinances have been validated under false-pretexts.

•   Most ordinances have specifically allowed thousands & thousands of inconsistent & unfair exceptions.

•   Some ordinances extort predatory-permits.

•   Unless the state of Maine intervenes, municipalities will use home rule to validate their own local prohibitions.

•   Most ordinances have imposed prohibitions against aerial-spraying & forestry, roadside rights-of-way, & storage   ―   very few impose prohibitions against pest control products used to protect the urban landscape.

•   In some cases, municipal ordinances discriminate against 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 are expected to be stopped by the state government.

Maine’s harmful municipal prohibitions have been dismal failures.

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Media Library  
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Maine — Major Study Concludes That Municipal Prohibitions Are Dismal Failures — Multiple False-Pretexts — Inconsistent & Unfair Exception Statuses — Post

Maine — Major Study Concludes That Municipal Prohibitions Are Dismal Failures — pdf

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Background Information   
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Catastrophic Business, Ecological, & Financial Carnage — The Complete Media Library Of Prohibition Failures — The Library Of References — Web-Page

United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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See Also  ―  More United States Jurisdictions

Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
California
Chicago, Illinois
Durango, Colorado
Everett, Washington
Highland Park, Illinois
Josephine County, Oregon
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lawrence, Kansas
Lincoln City, Oregon
Montgomery County, Maryland
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Saanich, British Columbia
Stratford, Prince Edward Island
Summerside, Prince Edward Island

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Scarborough, Maine
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Victory Against Prohibition

Manitoba, Province of

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Key Points     

Victory
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Failure Of Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Existing Provincial Prohibition Reversed
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Fiesta Green Alternative Ineffective
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VICTORY   —   Manitoba will no longer ban conventional pesticides.  

Manitoba has rescinded its existing provincial prohibition by allowing the use of any pesticide that is approved by Health Canada.

Manitoba has also harmonized its pesticide classification with the federal government’s existing classes.

Namaste, Manitoba   —   Greetings to you, Manitoba.

Anti-pesticide prohibition was a failure   ―   & an entire province, over 1 million Manitobans, have said so.

Manitoba’s provincial prohibition against conventional pest control products was harmful, reckless, arbitrary, & doomed-to-fail.

Provincial politics in Manitoba is dominated by the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, which is the current government-in-power, & the New Democrats ( NDP ), the radical pesticide-hating party that had imposed prohibition.

Prohibition was justified in Manitoba under the false-pretexts that pesticides supposedly caused environmental damage, various cancers, & negative effects on pollinators.

In fact, the public does not require protection from conventional pesticides.

Pesticides will not impact human health, bio-diversity, or ecosystems.

Furthermore, pesticides represent no-actual-risk-of-harm to children.

Pesticides are good for the urban landscape, & they will not harm human health & the environment when used properly.

Well-maintained urban landscapes will contribute to the quality of life of Manitobans & produce enormous environmental benefits.

Prohibition was wrongly justified with exaggerations that a single application of Fiesta herbicide, an inferior green alternative herbicide, would successfully replace conventional products such as Killex & Par III.

Unfortunately, it became impossible to keep Manitoba’s urban environment well-maintained, safe, & attractive by using pesticide-free programs consisting of alternative pesticides & practices only.

Green alternative pesticides will never, ever, work   ―   & an entire province, Manitoba, has said so.

Predictably, Manitoba’s prohibition has forced residents & professionals to rely upon phony, inferior, ineffective, & unaffordable green alternative pesticides like Fiesta herbicide.

The vast majority of Fiesta users overwhelmingly condemn it.

Green alternative pesticides, like Fiesta herbicide, have cost 10 to 15 times more than conventional products, in addition to being so ineffective that undesirable & repetitious applications have been required.

In fact, Manitoba’s harmful-prohibition has wreaked apocalyptic havoc in the form catastrophic ecological carnage & pest disasters, due to urban green spaces becoming weed-infested, insect-damaged, & dangerous garbage dumps because safe & effective conventional pest control products were not allowed.

There are no viable, no efficacious, no economical, & no low-risk alternatives to replace conventional products.

With the reversal of prohibition, Fiesta will inevitably become a bad memory, & all pesticides sold & used in Manitoba will simply be aligned with federal regulations & rigorous Health Canada assessments.

Pesticide-free programs are medieval, ineffective, & doomed-to-fail.

Now that Manitoba’s current Conservative government has rescinded prohibition, it will join the trend with over 70 other jurisdictions that have stopped or rescinded or limited or have begun to repeal harmful-prohibitions, or have granted commercial businesses with exceptions.

Thank you, Manitoba.

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Media Library  
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Manitoba — The End Of Prohibition That Has Wreaked Catastrophic Ecological Carnage — Post

Manitoba — The End Of Prohibition That Has Wreaked Catastrophic Ecological Carnage — pdf

Manitoba — Pallister Government To Loosen Ban — Post

Manitoba — Pallister Government To Loosen Ban — pdf

Manitoba — Think Twice Before Banning Pesticides — Ontario — Highland Park — MacLean’s Magazine — pdf

Manitoba — The Conspiracy To Prohibit Pest Control Products — Web-Page

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Background Information   
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Green Alternatives — Bogus & Dismal Failures — Toxicity Comparisons — Web-Page

Fiesta — The Complete Media Library — Fiesta Sucks — Web-Page

Fiesta — Dismal Failure — If Something Sounds Too Good To Be True — Web-Page

Fiesta — Cannot Be Used To Validate Anti-Pesticide Prohibition — Post

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Altona
Portage La Prairie
Steinbach
Stuartburn
Winkler

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New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Saskatchewan

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Victory Against Prohibition

Merritt, City of,
Province of British Columbia

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Key Points    

Victory
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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Proposed Municipal Prohibition Stopped
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Health Canada Scientists Perform Thorough Science-
Based Risk Assessments On All Pest Control
Products To Ensure That They Can Be Used Safely
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VICTORY   —   Merritt will no longer ban conventional pesticides. 

City council resisted efforts by pesticide-hating extremists, & a proposed municipal prohibition was stopped.  

Nonetheless,  local extremists falsely-alleged that putting clover back into a lawn is one way to boost the nitrogen level in the grass & help fertilize it without using pesticides.  [ ?!?! ]  

According to the radical & contemptible Canadian Cancer Society ( CCS ), there is evidence  [ ?!?! ]  of a link between pesticides & several types of cancer.  

Canadian Cancer Society has demanded that all levels of government to impose prohibition against all so-called garden chemicals.  

Not one pest control product registered in Canada is carcinogenic, despite the fear-mongering of irrational pesticide-hating CCS-extremists.

This contradicts Health Canada scientists who perform thorough science-based risk assessments on all pest control products to ensure that they can be used safely.  

This also contradicts Canadian Cancer Society’s own web-sites that have stated repeatedly that scientific research does not provide a conclusive link between pest control products & cancer.  

CCS prefers to be dishonest about the fact that pest control products are scientifically-safe because imaginary dangers about them continue to attract huge sums of profit in the form of donations.  

There are over thousands of deaths per year from known cancer-causing substances such as cigarette smoke & alcohol.  

There is not one known cancer death from the proper use of pest control products used in the urban landscape.  

Nonetheless, given that cancer is the number 2 leading cause of death, there is a good chance that you are going to die of cancer no matter what you do.  

By contrast, pest control products are nowhere near a leading cause of cancer-death, & there is no chance that they will make you die of cancer.  

Pesticides causing cancer is a myth.  

So chill-out & have a drink, & forget about prohibiting pest control products.  

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Media Library  
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Merritt — No Pesticide Ban — pdf

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Background Information   
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British Columbia — The Library Of Municipal Prohibition Failures — Web-Page

British Columbia — The Library Of Prohibition By-Laws — Web-Page

Pesticides & Cancer — Contrasts With Alcohol & Other Real Carcinogens — Pesticides Are Nowhere Near A Leading Cause Of Cancer Death — Post

Pesticides & Cancer — Health Canada’s Pesticide Safety Infographics — Post

Pesticides & Cancer — Pesticides Causing Cancer Is A Myth — Web-Page

Pesticides & Cancer — Chemicals Are Evaluated For Carcinogenic Potential By US EPA — Post

Pesticides & Cancer — Chemicals Are Evaluated For Carcinogenic Potential By US EPA — pdf

Pesticides & Cancer — There Is No Direct Proof — Canadian Cancer Society — Web-Page

CCS — COVID-19 Has Hopefully Annihilated CCS Forever — Post

CCS — Reasons To Revoke Charity Tax-Exempt Status — Interference In Partisan Politics — Post

CCS — Self-Enrichment — Pay-Offs To Bell & Burrows — pdf

CCS — Misuses The Millions That It Collects From Golf Canada — Version 1 — pdf

CCS — Misuses The Millions That It Collects From Golf Canada — Version 2 — pdf

CCS — Summary Of Position Statements Against The Golf Industry — WCTA Leaders Allowed Themselves To Be Appeased By The Cancer-Lunatжc Liars — Post

CCS — Summary Of Position Statements Against The Golf Industry — WCTA Leaders Allowed Themselves To Be Appeased By The Cancer-Lunatжc Liars — pdf

CCS — Canadian Cancer Society Meets With AGA-BC & WCTA — Pesticide Truths Post

CCS — Explaining Why The Golf Industry Must Not Cooperate With CCS — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Burnaby
Campbell River
Coquitlam
Delta
Gibsons
Golden
Kamloops
Kelowna
Parksville
Port Alberni
Qualicum Beach
Revelstoke
Rossland
Saanich
Salmon Arm
Vancouver
Vernon

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British Columbia, Province of

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Victory Against Prohibition

Montgomery County,
State of Maryland USA

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Key Points  

Victory
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Failure To Invoke Total Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Limited Municipal Prohibition Imposed
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It Is Illegal To Apply Pesticides On Private
Lawns & At Childcare Facilities, But
Not On County-Owned Properties
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Inconsistent & Unfair Exception Status
Granted For County-Owned Properties
To Avoid Pest Disasters
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Officials Cannot Ever Foresee A Day When
All Green Spaces Will Be Pesticide-Free
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Failed, Futile, & Ineffective Integrated Pest
Management ( IPM ) & Pesticide Free Doctrines
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VICTORY   —   Montgomery County has allowed conventional pest control applications. 

Despite having adopted pesticide-free maintenance for its parks, Montgomery County defiantly allows inconsistent & unfair exceptions for county-owned properties in order to avoid catastrophic ecological pest disasters   ―   officials admit the county cannot, ever, be pesticide-free.  

Montgomery County’s harmful-prohibition is a dismal & ridiculous failure. 

Its fanatжcal doctrine of organic pesticide-free maintenance is politically-correct rubbish.

Montgomery County’s green spaces inevitably needed to be treated with safe & effective conventional pest control products, otherwise, they would become pest-infested & dangerous garbage dumps.

Not surprisingly, an unfair & inconsistent exception status by Montgomery County has allowed the use conventional pest control products despite its claims of pesticide-free green spaces.

Officials knew full well that their prohibition could not protect the county-owned properties from invasive weeds & damaging insects.

Montgomery County cannot, ever, be pesticide-free.

Overall, Montgomery County’s use of the failed, futile, & ineffective Integrated Pest Management ( IPM ) doctrine is also rubbish because it cannot control damaging pest populations to an acceptable level in established turf.

IPM relies upon green alternative pesticides that are phony, inferior, ineffective, unaffordable, & will not work.

IPM is #@!!% futile nonsense, & can only lead to garbage dump green spaces.

Montgomery County’s officials arbitrarily ignored that conventional pest control products are scientifically-safe, & will not cause harm to children, adults, & the environment.

Montgomery County’s prohibition against these products is not necessary.

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Media Library  
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Montgomery County — Pesticides Allowed To Avoid Pest Disasters — Post

Montgomery County — Pesticides Allowed To Avoid Pest Disasters — pdf

Montgomery County — Appealing The Court Ruling To Strike Down Prohibition — Post

Montgomery County — Lawn Care Businesses Strike Back Against Prohibition In Maryland — Post

Montgomery County — Sue The #@!!% Pesticide-Hating Sobs’ Brains’ Out — Post

Montgomery County — The Media Library — Web-Page

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Background Information   
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IPM — Failure Of Integrated Pest Management — Web-Page

Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Web-Page

Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Photo Gallery — Web-Page

Organic — The Failures Of Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Post

Organic — The Failure Of Medieval & Ineffective Organic Pesticide-Free Maintenance — Web-Page

United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Anne Arundel County

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See Also  ―  More United States Jurisdictions

Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
California
Chicago, Illinois
Durango, Colorado
Everett, Washington
Highland Park, Illinois
Josephine County, Oregon
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lawrence, Kansas
Lincoln City, Oregon
Madison, Wisconsin
New Canaan, Connecticut
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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New Brunswick,
Province of

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Failure To Invoke Total Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Exception Status Granted For Lawn Care Businesses & Golf Courses
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VICTORY   —   New Brunswick has allowed conventional pest control applications. 

Limited provincial prohibition was imposed, specifically against 2,4-D, allowing thousands of inconsistent & unfair exceptions for the several active ingredients   —   a victory of sorts.

New Brunswick has imposed prohibition against certain uses of commercial grade pesticide products that contain the chemical 2,4-D herbicide.  

Several other active ingredients have continued to remain permitted.  

Prohibition has also been limited against several over-the-counter domestic products containing the ingredient 2,4-D, but home-owners can still spot-treat weeds using pre-mixed over-the-counter products.  

Although 2,4-D for domestic lawn care purposes has been prohibited, an exception status has been granted to professional lawn care businesses, if their employees have the proper training in Integrated Pest Management ( IPM ), & if they do not use pesticides over more than fifty per cent of a lawn in one season. 

Golf courses have also been granted an exception status.  

It is common knowledge that IPM is considered as a failed, futile, & ineffective doctrine for the maintenance of turfgrass.  

New Brunswick’s provincial prohibition has allowed thousands of inconsistent & unfair exceptions for the several active ingredients, but not for 2,4-D.

And thousands more exceptions, actually allowing 2,4-D, have been granted to professional lawn care businesses & golf courses.

The use of these inconsistent & unfair exceptions has demonstrated that prohibition is a dismal failure.  

Of all pest control products, 2,4-D herbicide is the most hated by irrational pesticide-hating extremists, especially with New Brunswick’s government officials.

Actually, 2,4-D is not only among the most stringently tested pest control products, it is among the most thoroughly reviewed & re-evaluated.

In fact, 2,4-D is scientifically safe & will cause no harm when used appropriately.

Extremists falsely allege having some form of « secret evidence » proving that 2,4-D is not safe.

In fact, they have nothing but concocted stories, public paranoia & environmental terrжr   ―   these are the only weapons that extremists have against 2,4-D.

Irrational pesticide-hating extremists conveniently ignore the fact that pest control products like 2,4-D are Health-Canada-approved, federally-legal, scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, & will cause no harm to human health & the environment.

Extremists also conveniently ignore the expertise of any leading authority on matters concerning pest control products.

They even ignore the fact that the Quebec government acknowledged that   —    «  …  products containing 2,4-D do not pose an unacceptable risk to human health or the environment  » .  

It must not be forgotten that Quebec is infamous for its harmful pesticide ban.

However, New Brunswick’s so-called cosmetic pesticide protections are already provided by Health Canada.

New Brunswick’s prohibition was not necessary.

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Media Library  
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New Brunswick — Total Over-the-Counter Prohibition — pdf

New Brunswick — Only 2,4-D For Commercial Lawn Care Prohibited — pdf

New Brunswick — IPM Provisions For Lawn Care Professionals — pdf

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Background Information   
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IPM — Failure Of Integrated Pest Management — Web-Page

2,4-D — Evaluations & Assessments — Web-Page

2,4-D — References, Reports, Blogs, & Labels — Web-Page

2,4-D — The Industry Task Force II On 2,4-D Research Data — Post

2,4-D — The Industry Task Force II On 2,4-D Research Data — pdf

Quebec — The History Of Prohibition — Library Of Reports & Blogs — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Manitoba
Newfoundland
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Saskatchewan

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Quebec

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Victory Against Prohibition

New Canaan, City of,
State of Connecticut USA

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Victory
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Failure Of Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Existing Municipal Prohibition Reversed
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Officials Support The Use Of Conventional
Pesticides On Sports Fields
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Pesticide-Treated Sports Fields Had A Positive
Effect On Their Quality, Playability, & Safety
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Failed, Futile, & Ineffective Integrated Pest
Management ( IPM ) & Pesticide Free Doctrines
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VICTORY   —   New Canaan has resumed using conventional pesticides. 

Officials in New Canaan reversed the existing municipal prohibition, & decided to allow conventional pest control applications because it arbitrarily suited government officials.

These officials had concluded that the use of no-risk conventional pest control products on sports fields had a positive effect on their quality, playability, & safety.

Continuing to use conventional pest control products on sports fields would be healthier & safer for players.

Sports fields that do not receive treatments of conventional pest control products will have harder surfaces, & predictably, they are more likely to cause player injuries like concussions.

By prohibiting conventional pest control products, sports fields in New Canaan had become pest-infested & dangerous garbage dumps because it was impossible to control invasive weeds & destructive insects by using organic pesticide-free maintenance with Integrated Pest Management ( IPM ) doctrines that include green alternatives pesticides.

IPM is considered as a failed, futile, & ineffective doctrine for the maintenance of turfgrass.

Green alternative pesticides are phony, inferior, ineffective, unaffordable, & will not work.

IPM using alternatives will not control infestations of recurring invasive weeds & destructive insects.

New Canaan’s use of IPM was politically-correct rubbish, & its prohibition was a dismal failure.

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Media Library  
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New Canaan — Supports Pesticide Use On Sports Fields –Post

New Canaan — Supports Pesticide Use On Sports Fields — pdf

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Background Information   
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IPM — Failure Of Integrated Pest Management — Web-Page

Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Web-Page

Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Photo Gallery — Web-Page

Green Alternatives — Bogus & Dismal Failures — Toxicity Comparisons — Web-Page

United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
California
Chicago, Illinois
Durango, Colorado
Everett, Washington
Highland Park, Illinois
Josephine County, Oregon
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lawrence, Kansas
Lincoln City, Oregon
Madison, Wisconsin
Montgomery County, Maryland
Ogunquit, Maine
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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Newfoundland & Labrador,
Province of

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Victory
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Failure To Invoke Total Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Limited Provincial Prohibition Imposed
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Several Active Ingredients Have Been Permitted,
Except 2,4-D, Mecoprop, Dicamba, MCPA, & Carbaryl
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Commercial Applicators, Forestry Operations, Golf
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VICTORY   —   Newfoundland & Labrador has allowed conventional pest control applications. 

Limited provincial prohibition was imposed, specifically against 2,4-D, mecoprop, dicamba, MCPA, & carbaryl.  

Thousands of exceptions, actually allowing 2,4-D, have been granted to to commercial applicators, golf courses, & road-side sprayers.

The use of these inconsistent & unfair exceptions has demonstrated that prohibition is a dismal failure.

No one in Newfoundland & Labrador wants prohibitions that, elsewhere, have already created catastrophic ecological carnage of uncontrolled, invasive, & destructive pests.

Without conventional pest control products, green spaces & hard-landscapes become pest-infested & dangerous garbage dumps because it is impossible to control invasive weeds & destructive insects by relying on phony, inferior, ineffective, & unaffordable green alternative pesticides.

However, there is only a very small minority of irrational pesticide-hating extremists who demand prohibition in Newfoundland & Labrador.

Their choice of life-style, with prohibition, is a clear preference to live in an urban environment that looks like a pest-infested garbage dump.

Of all pest control products, 2,4-D herbicide is the most hated by irrational pesticide-hating extremists, especially with Newfoundland & Labrador’s government officials.

They recklessly deny & undermine the expert assessments by Health Canada which demonstrate that pest control products are scientifically-safe & will cause no harm when used properly.

Actually, 2,4-D is not only among the most stringently tested pest control products, it is also among the most thoroughly reviewed & re-evaluated.

Nonetheless, extremists falsely allege having some form of « secret evidence » proving that 2,4-D is not safe.

In fact, they have nothing but concocted stories, public paranoia, & environmental terrжr  ―  these are the only weapons that extremists have against 2,4-D.

Irrational pesticide-hating extremists conveniently ignore the fact that pest control products like 2,4-D are Health-Canada-approved, federally-legal, scientifically-safe, practically-non-toxic, & will cause no harm to human health & the environment.

Extremists also conveniently ignore the expertise of any leading authority on matters concerning pest control products.

They even ignore the fact that the Quebec government acknowledged that   —   «  …  products containing 2,4-D do not pose an unacceptable risk to human health or the environment  » .  

It must not be forgotten that Quebec is infamous for its harmful pesticide ban.

However, Newfoundland & Labrador’s so-called cosmetic pesticide protections are already provided by Health Canada.

Newfoundland & Labrador’s prohibition was not necessary.

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Media Library  
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Newfoundland — Roadside Spraying Resumed — pdf

Newfoundland — The Conspiracy To Impose Prohibition — Web-Page

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Background Information   
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Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Web-Page

Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Photo Gallery — Web-Page

2,4-D — Evaluations & Assessments — Web-Page

2,4-D — References, Reports, Blogs, & Labels — Web-Page

2,4-D — The Industry Task Force II On 2,4-D Research Data — Post

2,4-D — The Industry Task Force II On 2,4-D Research Data — pdf

Quebec — The History Of Prohibition — Library Of Reports & Blogs — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Manitoba
New Brunswick
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Saskatchewan

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Victory Against Prohibition

Ogunquit, Town of,
State of Maine USA

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Key Points  

Victory
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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Proposed Municipal Prohibition Temporarily Stopped
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VICTORY   —   Ogunquit has allowed conventional pest control applications. 

Residents temporarily defeated a proposal to prohibit pest control products used in the urban landscape, signaling a failure of anti-pesticide activists to make the community the first in the state of Maine to arbitrarily impose prohibition.

Do Ogunquit residents want to live in #@!!% dangerous & pest-infested garbage dumps ?!?!

Residents eventually voted in favour of prohibiting against the use of pest control products used in the urban landscape throughout Ogunquit.

However, 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.

The state of Maine deemed this prohibition as illegal.

An Ogunquit pesticide ban would make its green spaces look so #@!!% ugly, just like other prohibition-jurisdictions.

Without conventional pest control products, residents would have to get used to green spaces that became pest-infested & dangerous garbage dumps.

Organic pesticide-free maintenance does not work.

It would be impossible for Ogunquit residents to protect their properties by using green alternative pesticides & practices.

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Media Library  
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Ogunquit — Pesticides Will Not Be Outlawed On Private Property — Pesticide Truths Post

Ogunquit — First Maine Municipality To Ban Pesticide ? — Pesticide Truths Post

Ogunquit — Restrictions Face Committee Approval — Tukey Not Telling Truth — Pesticide Truths Post

Ogunquit — Ordinance That Won Voter Approval May Serve As A Model — Pesticide Truths Post

Ogunquit — Local Conservationist Anti-Pesticide Lunatжc Bob Joyner — Pesticide Truths Post

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Background Information   
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Maine — Municipal Prohibitions Are Dismal Failures — Web-Page

United States — The Complete History Of Anti-Pesticide Terrжrism — Victories & Failures — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — State Pre-Emption Laws — Post

United States — Victories & Failures Against Prohibitions — pdf

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Portland
Scarborough

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Ashland, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
California
Chicago, Illinois
Durango, Colorado
Everett, Washington
Highland Park, Illinois
Josephine County, Oregon
Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi
Lawrence, Kansas
Lincoln City, Oregon
Madison, Wisconsin
Montgomery County, Maryland
New Canaan, Connecticut
Portland, Maine
Scarborough, Maine

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Ontario, Province of

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Failure To Invoke Total Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Limited Provincial Prohibition Imposed
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Exception Status Granted For Golf, Sports Fields,
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Prohibition Wreaked Catastrophic Ecological Carnage For A
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Victory Against Prohibition In Ontario

Prohibition Is Limited
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VICTORY   —   Ontario has allowed conventional pest control applications. 

Ontario’s provincial prohibition is the most radical & the most harmful prohibition ever.

Nonetheless, the province’s limited prohibition has arbitrarily allowed exceptions for pest control products used in   —   •   Agriculture   •   Cemeteries   •   Golf courses   •   Playing fields

These exceptions exist even though these areas are maintained by applying the-very-same ingredients otherwise prohibited on public green spaces & residential properties.

Golf courses have also benefited from an exception status, but must meet certain conditions to minimize the supposed effects on the environment.  

Evidently, Ontario will allow conventional pest control applications whenever it arbitrarily suits government officials. 

Pesticides are also allowed for health & safety reasons, such as controlling mosquitoes that can carry diseases like the West Nile virus.

Ontario eventually amended its pesticide classification to harmonize with the federal government’s existing classes.

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No One Wants This #@!!% Ban Nonsense
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FAILURES   —   Ontario’s prohibition has led to catastrophic carnage.

All prohibitions are known to be failures in all Canadian jurisdictions, including Ontario.

Ontario’s prohibition has led to horrendous & catastrophic ecological carnage, in the form of invasive weeds & destructive insects.

After 10 years of experiencing harmful-prohibitions in Ontario, all urban landscapes have become pest-infested, low-quality, & dangerous playing surfaces that look like garbage dumps.

This is because organic pesticide-free maintenance relies on phony, inferior, ineffective, & unaffordable green alternative pesticides.

The province of Ontario is known as « the dandelion province » since its urban landscape had become invaded with dandelions because the safest & most effective herbicides for controlling this broad-leaved weed were arbitrarily prohibited.  

Dandelions became the dominant ground cover for lawns, parks, schools, & sports fields throughout Ontario.

Every front yard has become uglier, thanks to Ontario’s prohibition.

They look like crжp.

Because of harmful-prohibition in Ontario, the professional lawn care industry lost over 500,000,000-dollars, with over to 12,500 unemployed.

Prohibition led to horrendous & catastrophic financial carnage, in the form of immense losses of revenues, business failures, bankruptcy, & unemployment.

No one in Ontario wants this #@!!% ban nonsense.

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Media Library  
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Ontario — Prohibition Of Pest Control Products — Exceptions On Pages 8 & 9 — pdf

Ontario — Joins Quebec In Banning Across The Province — Exceptions On Page 5 — pdf

Ontario — A Time That Will Live in Environmental Infamy — pdf

Ontario — Keeping Ontario Ugly — Mr Peter Shawn Taylor — pdf

Ontario — Lawns & Roadways Look Like Crжp — Mr Brian Lilley — pdf

Ontario — Think Twice Before Banning Pesticides — MacLean’s Magazine — pdf

Ontario — Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides — Ms Jacquie Doherty — pdf

Ontario — Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides — Doherty — Slide Presentation — pdf

Ontario — Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides — Doherty — Reference — pdf

Ontario — Pesticides Act Amendments — Post

Ontario — Pesticides Act Amendments — pdf

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Background Information   
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Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Web-Page

Garbage Dumps — Prohibitions Have Inflicted Ecological Pest Disasters — Photo Gallery — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Belleville
Guelph
Guelph-Eramosa
Hamilton
Ottawa

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Manitoba
New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Saskatchewan

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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Neonicotinoid Insecticides Temporarily Stopped
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Victory Against Prohibition In Ontario

The Wynne Support For Neonicotinoids
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VICTORY   —   Ontario did not originally ban neonics. 

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne temporarily stopped a proposal for a province-wide prohibition against neonicotinoids because she believed that this was a federal initiative, & not provincial. 

In fact, there is no bee crisis because of insecticides. 

Honeybee colonies & production are actually growing & thriving in Canada, in America, & around the world.

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Victory Against Prohibition In Ontario

Exceptions For Neonicotinoids
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VICTORY   —   Ontario currently restricts neonics, but provides exceptions for agriculture, playing fields, & golf courses.

Ontario maintained restrictions ( i.e. prohibitions ) on the sale & use of neonicotinoid insecticides ( NNI ). 

Ontario will continue to be extremely biased & highly prejudicial since agriculture, playing fields, & golf courses will continue to enjoy pesticide ban exception statuses for neonicotinoids, but not lawn care uses in the urban landscape.

Exceptions are necessary because organic pesticide-free maintenance relies on phony, inferior, ineffective, & unaffordable green alternative pesticides.

For the use of neonicotinoids by the agriculture industry, a pest assessment report would only need to be completed once by a professional pest advisor, as opposed to being required to be completed every one to three years, depending on the type of inspection forming the basis for the report. 

Ontario will allow conventional pest control applications whenever it arbitrarily suits government officials.  

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Failure With Neonicotinoids In Ontario

Ontario’s Pest Advisors
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FAILURE   —   Pest advisors refuse to help the agriculture industry. 

Pest advisors are unmotivated & unwilling to perform neonicotinoid pest assessments that would circumvent anti-neonicotinoid prohibition, & help the agriculture industry. 

They are conspiring with the Liberal Party agenda against neonicotinoid insecticides. 

Pest advisors & their trade association have become propaganda shields in the conspiracy to prohibit against neonicotinoid insecticides that are desperately-needed by the agriculture industry.

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Media Library  
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Ontario — Proposal For Prohibition Against Insecticides Stopped — Post

Ontario — Proposal For Prohibition Against Insecticides Stopped — pdf

Ontario — Pesticides Act Amendments — Post

Ontario — Pesticides Act Amendments — pdf

Ontario — Pest Advisors Unmotivated To Perform Assessments In The Agriculture Industry — Post

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Background Information   
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Bee Conspiracy — The Entire Media History — Re-Direct Links — Web-Page

Pesticide Truths — Web-Site

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Belleville
Guelph
Guelph-Eramosa
Hamilton
Ottawa

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Manitoba
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Newfoundland
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
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Ontario, Province of

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Failure To Justify Pesticide-Hating Ban
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Beginning To Repeal Anti-Pesticide Prohibition ?
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Proposed Chudleigh Amendment To Provincial Pesticide
Ban Began The Process To Repeal Provincial Prohibition
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Ontario Has Harmonized Its Pesticides Classes
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Victory Against Prohibition In Ontario

The Chudleigh Amendments
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VICTORY   —   Proposal for Ontario to stop banning pesticides.

Ted Chudleigh’s Private Member’s Bill 88 would have amended the Ontario provincial prohibition to allow professional lawn care businesses to apply some currently-banned products to lawns & gardens. 

The bill was ill-fated, but led to later amendments.  

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Victory Against Prohibition In Ontario

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VICTORY   —   Ontario pesticide ban will continue, but cemeteries receive exception.

The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation, & Parks ( MECP ) amended the use of pesticides in Ontario, under the Pesticides Act. 

However, the provincial cosmetic pesticides ban ( i.e. prohibition ) would not be amended, would be maintained, & would not be rescinded. 

Ontario retains this prohibition against conventional pest control products used in the urban landscape, with current exceptions, & prescribes a single list of allowable pesticides. 

Nonetheless, in a victory of sorts, cemeteries have been added to the list of current unfair exceptions, which also includes agriculture, playing fields, & golf courses. 

Not surprisingly, Ontario’s harmful-prohibition will continue to be extremely-biased & highly-prejudicial against lawn care businesses & home-owners, under the guise that it prevents an undesirable patch-work of varied municipal bans. 

Ontario will allow conventional pest control applications whenever it arbitrarily s