{"id":16144,"date":"2020-08-17T18:31:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T21:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=16144"},"modified":"2020-08-17T18:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T21:31:55","slug":"province-announces-approval-of-pesticide-spraying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=16144","title":{"rendered":"Province announces approval of pesticide spraying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>HALIFAX:<\/strong> The Environment Department has issued three new approvals for pesticide spraying covering 1,498 hectares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The approvals are all for forestry companies, for aerial spraying. The approvals are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/novascotia.ca\/nse\/pesticide-spray\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/novascotia.ca\/nse\/pesticide-spray\/<\/a> .<br \/><br \/>There are also three previously issued multi-year approvals that allow spraying this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Canada&#8217;s Pest Management Regulatory Agency determines whether a product is safe for use. The province only approves pesticide spraying using chemicals that have been approved by this federal agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<br \/><br \/>Quick Facts:<br \/>&#8212; approvals contain specific terms and conditions that must be met, such as maintaining separation distances and notifying the public about spraying times<br \/>&#8212; spraying is done for forestry management and safety along transportation routes<br \/>&#8212; all provinces allow pesticide spraying<br \/>&#8212; there is no aerial spraying taking place on Crown land in 2020<br \/><br \/>Additional Resources:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/health-canada\/services\/consumer-product-safety\/pesticides-pest-management.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/health-canada\/services\/consumer-product-safety\/pesticides-pest-management.html<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;7&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX: The Environment Department has issued three new approvals for pesticide spraying covering 1,498 hectares. The approvals are all for forestry companies, for aerial spraying. The approvals are available at http:\/\/novascotia.ca\/nse\/pesticide-spray\/ . There are also three previously issued multi-year approvals that allow spraying this year. Health Canada&#8217;s Pest Management Regulatory Agency determines whether a product [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[513,50,48,1339],"class_list":["post-16144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-environment","tag-halifax","tag-n-s","tag-pesticides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}