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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, ====================================== 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 -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on Sustainable Maritimes (sust-mar) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- A word from our lawyers ... Don't forget ... COPYRIGHT material, such as newspaper/magazine articles cannot be posted on sust-mar without the owner's permission. It's against the law. CROSS-POSTINGS (messages from other lists) are also discouraged. In either case, why not tell us something about the issue in your own words? Or ... send a clipping along with the URL where the original can be found, or directions how to join the list it came from? Takes a few more minutes, but makes for a more interesting sust-mar ... :)
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