Campaign to Ban Chemical Lawn Pesticides

Campaign underway to ban the use and sale of cosmetic chemical lawn pesticides

Hi

Please consider emailing B.C. Environment Minister Terry Lake at: Env.Minister@gov.bc.ca with the subject line:

I support an immediate ban on the use and sale of cosmetic chemical lawn and garden pesticides

and please BCC: bkarlstrom@bc.cancer.ca

The Canadian Cancer Society, BC & Yukon Division is working to ban the use and sale of cosmetic chemical lawn and garden pesticides to protect all British Columbians, especially children and pets, and the campaign is gaining momentum! 

By asking our Legislative Assembly to take immediate action to implement cosmetic chemical pesticide legislation, all British Columbians province wide will be better protected from needless exposure to lawn and garden pesticides. 

In my North Vancouver neighborhood a resident routinely used toxic lawn weeding chemicals commercially sprayed by a local company who wore protective breathing apparatus while on the job!  Dogs and cats living on either side of this unknowing neighbor died of lymphoma, seizures, and other causes - many prematurely. I can't help but think there may have been a correlation in some cases...

Thanks for your support! Deborah

For more info please contact:

Britt Karlstrom, Public Outreach Specialist, Canadian Cancer Society,
BC & Yukon Division  bkarlstrom@bc.cancer.ca