'The Ministry of Environment in fact gets the maps before spraying. They just don’t have to alert the public.'
From Athenian democracy to the Magna Carta, it is a fundamental democratic principle that the taxpayer may scrutinize the public expenses they contribute to.It’s our money private companies are spending to grow dried out, herbicide-contaminated pine farms.
So you’d think, as a basic requirement of democratic transparency, that we’d have a right to see how and where our money is being used. Right? Those spray maps and brushing maps showing the locations where this public money is being spent, which Stop the Spray BC demanded two years ago, are still not published, despite new reporting requirements in forestry.
Worse, there are no reporting requirements for proposed manual brushing. If a cutblock is getting simplified with brush saws, and no herbicides are being used, maps don’t have to be submitted to government after the fact. It’s 100% legal, by the way, to treat an entire cutblock with not a single competing broadleaf on it. It’s also 100% legal to kill above and beyond what is legally necessary to achieve the “free growing” criteria .
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