Greens Ride Bug Fog Flap
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Greens Ride Bug Fog Flap
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Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:15:19 -0400
From:
Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide
Regulation
CC: "Brian J. Foster" <bfoster@swlaw.com>
cc: Christine Whitman
whitman.christine@epa.gov
August 3, 2002
Winnipeg Sun
Greens Ride Bug Fog Flap
By ROSS ROMANIUK -- City Hall Reporter
The Green Party of Manitoba is using an anti-fogging poster campaign to clear voters' minds on the bug-spray issue before the next civic and provincial elections.
Noting the anger among hundreds of Wolseley residents toward last week's night-time insecticide sweep, Green Leader Markus Buchart says his is the only Manitoba political party opposed to "indiscriminate and useless" fogging operations to kill mosquitoes with the chemical malathion.
Guilt of NDP
"They're going up all over the place," said Buchart, whose posters can be seen throughout Wolseley, River Heights, West Broadway and at the Legislative grounds.
"We want to focus attention on the culpability and guilt that the NDP government has in passing laws that allow the city to fog without warning."
The new notices say, "We fog you with your windows open," and include photographs of Premier Gary Doer, Health Minister Dave Chomiak and Wolseley MLA Jean Friesen.
After days of wrangling between pro-sprayers and environmentalists, the city surprised Wolseley residents by making an unannounced malathion sweep through the area overnight July 24.
"The city, on strict legal grounds, is correct -- even though it was a horrible thing they did," Buchart said.
http://www.canoe.ca/WinnipegNews/06n2.htm
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