Using PFBC Website

For info, click on topics
across the top of each page
(using Explorer works best).

"about pesticides"
explains why all BCers
need to be concerned
about non-essential
cosmetic pesticide use.

Click on about pesticides
header. Topics are listed
in the top left sidebar . . .
the green lawn box.

You will be at
Pesticides are Killers info.
Click on listed topics
for more info, including
the Precautionary Approach,
Risk of Exposure and
Risk to Human Health.

bc needs ban
explains why BC lags
behind other provinces and
why BC needs a
sale and use ban.

For bylaw info, click on
bylaw communities topic.

Click on BC Bylaws Don't Protect to find out
why bylaws don't
really protect BCers.
Click on BC Bylaws &
Education Programs
for BC's 39 bylaws.
To find specifc topics, use
the bottom left search
sidebar on each page.

Type in the topic you want
. . . children, IPM, ban.
Hit your "enter" key and
click on linked items
listed on your screen.
Throughout the website,
links to sources
and more info are
grey and underlined.

BC is IPM Leader

"BC is seen
as a leader by
other jurisdictions
in that legislation
requires the use of IPM."

Ministry of Environment
Information Note on
Consultation Results
March 29, 2010.

No IPM - Cancer Society

"Integrated Pest Management
(IPM),
or the use of pesticides
‘as a last resort’
to deal with
weeds and insects,
should not be included
in cosmetic
pesticide legislation."

Canadian Cancer Society
BC and Yukon.

Help BC go Pesticide Free!

The Canadian Cancer Society
is leading 
BC's health and 
environmental groups in
advocating for a BC ban 
on 
the sale and use of 
cosmetic chemical pesticides
in 2011.

Join their  
"Pesticide Free BC"
Facebook discussions.

Watch the "Make BC 
Pesticide Free!" video.

Review the proposed
ban legislation given to 
BC's Environment Minister
in 2010.

Take action!

Print "Pesticide Free" Poster

poster
Click on the image
to print this poster.

Put it up at your school, library, store, golf course  . . .

Spread the word that
BC needs to be Pesticide Free!

Contact PFBC

Please contact
Pesticide Free BC at
info@pesticidefreebc.org.
        
* * * BC's Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides

public consultation ended Dec 16, 2011.

The Committee's report is expected in February 2012.

For current Committee info, click here.


Website info, including links,

will be updated in January 2012. * * *


Welcome! to the Pesticide Free BC website.


The good news is . . .  British Columbia's Premier Christy Clark

and Environment Minister Terry Lake support a provincial ban.


The other good news . . .

the bi-partisan Special Legislative Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides

considering the scope of a pesticide ban for BC

has  the New Democrat's May 5, 2011 ban legislation 

 and a May 2011 comparative analysis on 

Canada's 6 provincial approaches to guide them.


See right sidebars . . . "Premier Clark Supports Ban",  "Mayor Lake Wanted Ban",
"Will Leg Cttee Listen?","Govt has Ban Legislation" and "Time for BC Ban".


However, BCers must continue to tell the Clark Government 

we want a strong, effective ban 

on the sale and use

of non-essential "cosmetic" 

lawn and garden pesticides for BC.


We need to remember that, in December 2009,

our Ministry of Environment

initiated public consultations on

"new statutory provisions to further safeguard

the environment from cosmetic chemical pesticides."


Summarized comments were posted

almost two years ago on April 15, 2010,

with no introduction of ban legislation,  

even though 88% of respondents supported a ban!


We also need to be aware that

our Ministry of Environment supports Health Canada

Ministry staff will likely recommend IPM "ban" legislation

like New Brunswick 2009 and Prince Edward Island 2009.


Cosmetic pesticide use continues under these "bans" 

by IPM applicators, with many exemptions 

including play grounds, sports fields and schools yards!


BC needs to follow three provinces with effective bans . . . 

Nova Scotia 2010,  Ontario 2008 and Quebec 2003. 
 

See left sidebars . . . "BC is IPM Leader" and "No IPM - Cancer Society" 
and right sidebars . . . "Ont Ban Reduces Risk" and "No IPM in Nova Scotia".
 

For more on why BC needs a strong, effective "no IPM" ban

like Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec, click here.



For why BC's health and environmental groups,

led by the Canadian Cancer Society - BC and Yukon Division,

want strong, province-wide cosmetic pesticide legislation

that prohibits the use, sale and retail display

of synthetic, chemical pesticides

for lawns, gardens and non- agricultural landscaping

to be passed and fully implemented in 2011, 

see "Help BC go Pesticide Free!" left sidebar or click here.


For why cosmetic pesticides cannot be "properly" or "safely" applied,

and why pesticide use is about public health (not plant health),

particularly for children and young women, click here.


For why the environment and our pets are at risk, click here.


For why Health Canada's "rubber stamp" registration of pesticides

does not protect any Canadian, click here.


For the chemical "plant health" industry opposition to a BC ban, click here.


For why BC's 39 pesticide bylaws don't really protect BCers, click here.


For the more than 50 groups/organizations that support

Pesticide Free initiatives throughout BC, click here.


To go Pesticide Free and get your lawn and garden off drugs

by using sustainable organic land care practices, click here.


To tell Premier Clark and Environment Minister Lake you want an effective

"no IPM" ban like Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec, click here.


See "Using PFBC Website" top left sidebar for more website info.


This website is maintained by a BC family as an information source for British Columbians who want "no IPM" ban legislation passed and implemented in 2011.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 December 2011 10:59
 
Together, let's make BC pesticide free.  Take Action! now.
 


Premier Clark Supports Ban

In a May 4, 2011 news scrum
Premier Clark said she has
supported a ban
"for years now."

A provincial ban was
one of her Liberal leader 
campaign commitments:

"I don't want to see
anyone's child
playing on a lawn
with toxic pesticides."

See Feb 2011 leadership statement and the
Canadian Cancer Society's
May 6, 2011 news release.

Mayor Lake Wanted Ban

"THEREFORE
BE IT RESOLVED
that the Province
of British Columbia
enact provincial legislation
that will ban
the sale and use of
cosmetic pesticides
province-wide."

Union of BC Municipalities
2008 Resolution B81.

Resolution championed
by Kamloops Mayor
Dr. Terry Lake, BC's new
Environment Minister.

Will Leg Cttee Listen?

On June 2, 2011
a bi-partisan
Special Legislative Committee
on Cosmetic Pesticides
was established to consider
"the scope 
of any ban 
on the sale and 
use of pesticides."

Will this Committee 
listen to BCers,
follow exemplary  
Nova Scotia and Ontario,
focus on public health
(not plant health)
and recommend a "no IPM"
sale and use ban?

 

Tell the Clark Government
you want strong,
"no IPM" ban legislation.

Govt has Ban Legislation

"Today marks the third time
New Democrats
have introduced 
legislation banning
the frivolous use of 
toxic cosmetic pesticides
across the province."

NDP Leader Adrian Dix
May 5, 2011 News Release 
on Bill M203,
The Cosmetic Pesticide and
Carcinogen Control Act, 2011.

Time for 2011 BC Ban

"It's time for B.C. to join
Ontario and Nova Scotia
as the best
at protecting citizens
from harmful
cosmetic pesticides. . .

The B.C. Government
should pass legislation
by the end of this year,
drawing on
the experience
of Ontario and Nova Scotia,
which have already
test-driven the strongest
bans in the country."

Peter Robinson CEO
David Suzuki Foundation
May 17, 2011 News Release.

For analysis of 6 provincial approaches, see
Pesticide Free? Qui! May 2011.

Ont Ban Reduces Risk

"We are reducing
the risk to our health
and to the environment,
and protecting
the most vulnerable
of our citizens, our children."

Minister of the Environment's
April 21, 2010 News Release
on ban's first anniversary.

No IPM in Nova Scotia

In Nova Scotia,
IPM companies 
must use the same 
"allowable" products 
as everyone else 
on residential, commercial, 
government and
institutional properties
effective April 1, 2011. 

See Dept of Environment's
March 22, 2011 
news release.