Newspaper L’Acadie Nouvelle reported on the Conservation Council’s call for the provincial government to end the spraying of glyphosates on the Crown forest after an arm of the World Health Organization classified the widely-used herbicide as a probable cancer-causing chemical. Read the article here. On Wednesday, March 25, the Conservation Council issued a press release […]
A herbicide sprayed yearly and in large quantities on New Brunswick forests was recently classified as a probable cancer-causing chemical by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization. The decision was published in the journal, Lancet Oncology. Glyphosate, sold under various trade names including Roundup, Vision, and
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Conservation Council of New Brunswick forest program director, Tracy Glynn, was featured in a Radio Canada International (RCI) story published on August 21st, on renewed calls to end the herbicide spraying in public forests in New Brunswick. “When we look around at our neighbours, Quebec banned herbicide spraying of its public forests in 2001, and it’s well
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Fredericton – Citing scientific evidence and public opposition, CCNB is renewing calls for the provincial government to cease herbicide spraying of the province’s public forest with the return of the 2013 spray season. Glyphosate-based herbicides are sprayed on 12,000 to 14,000 hectares of softwood plantations and cutover areas on public land in New Brunswick every year.
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