Minister of Environment having identity crisis...

He thinks he's the Minister of Industry!

Hey Clyde - Here's the latest from The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.

"Although Health Canada last month said 2,4-D is
safe to use on lawns and turf "when label directions are followed," the association warned pesticides have been linked to childhood cancer, birth defects and neurological disease."

Now that's compared to the advice from pesticide industry reps here in Newfoundland and Labrador - one of which said I was getting blood tests for years and nothing got into me.


Then there is this Clyde -

Michel Gaudet, president of the Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, said that Quebec law is now in line with 2,4-D prohibitions in effect in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

"Sweden prohibited 2,4-D in 1977 and 12 years later they noted the increase in some of their cancers started to go down," he said.

Here's the complete story from the Montreal Gazette...

Quebec now has some of the toughest laws in North America - we should be "green" with envy not "green" like we were on Hydro when Quebec cleaned up and we swabbed their decks. A local nursery merchandiser added - "To have a healthy lawn, you need good soil, add lots of grass seed, and use fertilizer to put nutrients in your soil." Back to the basics Minister - and we are certainly not short of fertilizer.




Now for the Minister in case he does not know or has secret ambitions here is the Minister who yaps on behalf of industry and us "of course".

Update:
The Minister was commenting today on all the containers that remain unrecycled in the province. You know what he said? The quicker we get that done the better for us all. Wow now that's amazing Minister. You think?