Sample letter in support of a Pesticide Bylaw

Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 14:05:20 -0400
From: Helen Jones <hjones@chebucto.ns.ca>
Organization: Chebucto Community Net
To: Sustainable Maritimes <sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca>
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Halifax Regional Council is delaying any action on a pesticide bylaw
because they do not yet have enough requests for regulatory changes to
protect our community.

Here is a sample letter that you could use:



 Mayor Walter R. Fitzgerald
 All Members of Halifax Regional Council
 3rd floor
 P.O.Box 1749
 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3A5

 fitzgew@region.halifax.ns.ca

 Dear Mayor and All Municipal Councillors,

 I have waited over a year since the municipality received jurisdiction
 to pass a pesticide bylaw, and have been patient long enough.  The
 Council can and should act immediately to provide this crucial
 protection for our children and our entire community before  April 1,
2000, when  involuntary lawn pesticide exposures will resume. Children
walking to and from  school are exposed to landscape pesticides six
months of the year: April, May, June,  and September, October, November.

 This is a health issue of primary importance.  I strongly urge you to
 protect the health of the entire community by acting now on the
 recommendations of the Majority Report of your own Pesticide Bylaw
Advisory     Committee and totally phase-out the use landscape
pesticides from the Halifax    Regional Municipality.

 Please reply with Council's intentions on this matter and indicate a
 specific time frame for action.

 Respectfully,



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IF YOU WANT A PESTICIDE BYLAW that will PHASE OUT THE USE OF
LAWN PESTICIDES  - PLEASE write, phone or email your municipal
councillor NOW. The name of your councillor and contact information on
how to reach him/her is available at 490-4050, and e-mails for
individual councillors are available at this site:
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/RATE/Email_Councillors.html



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