Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Hurray for Richmond!

At last night's city council meeting, our mayor and councillors adopted The Pesticide Use Control Bylaw that prohibits the use of pesticides on private or city-owned property for enhancing the appearance of a lawn or garden! Hurray for Richmond!

We are thrilled to see Richmond join 23 other municipalities within B.C. that have adopted similar pesticide bylaws. Richmond's bylaw is one of the best in the province by taking a precautionary approach and not allowing unnecessary exemptions.

We look forward to the educational component that the City of Richmond will be rolling out soon.

Please see today's update on Pesticide Free B.C.'s website (scroll to the lower right hand corner for more information):http://www.pesticidefreebc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=52&Itemid=118

We will be continuing to lobby the provincial government to prohibit the sale of pesticides and ask that you do the same by contacting our local Richmond MLAs:
linda.reid.mla@leg.bc.ca
john.yap.mla@leg.bc.ca
rob.howard.mla@leg.bc.ca

Please ask that they work to prohibit the sale of pesticides across B.C. for the health of ourselves, our children, our pets and our planet.

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