greenLEEP Love your Environment Eliminate Pesticides

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This Petition is intended for B.C City Council Members and Policy Makers

Sponsored by:

Love our Environment - Eliminate Pesticides
A Student Initiative from Kwantlen University Environmental Protection
We are members of LEEP - This petition is drafted for the City of Surrey council members and include signatories from Surrey British Columbia and the surrounding communities.
As the signatories, we have read the full petition and fully support LEEP's initiative asking that councillors draft a by-law to fully ban the sale and use of cosmetic pesticides in Surrey, British Columbia
THEREFORE;
We the undersigned respectfully petition the City of Surrey for a complete ban on the use of cosmetic pesticides on all public and privately owned properties. We are concerned about the adverse effects that pesticides and their by-products have on people's health and the environment. In making this application, we do hereby represent that we are of good moral character and are concerned citizens of Surrey or a neighbouring community.

We, the electorates, request that City councillors use our votes to envoke responsible decisions that protect our communities.

greenLEEP Love our Environment Eliminate Pesticides

The City of Surrey
14245 56 Avenue ,
Surrey , BC
V3X 3A2

June 28, 2008

We, the petion signers, would like to present to you at least 10 good reasons why you should support greenLEEP initiatives and adopt a pesticide free City.

1) Pesticides do not stay in one yard - they contaminate neighboring yards, are washed into storm drains and rivers, and travel as far away as the Arctic.

2) Exposure to pesticides is increasingly linked by medical authorities to several cancers, and especially leukemia and lymphoma. Pesticide exposure has been proven to be responsible for birth defects and death. In children have been linked to autism, impaired brain development, and lowered IQ, shortened attention span and behavioral problems.

3) Chemical pesticides accumulate in biological cells, alter DNA and harm the organism. These poisons are passed on from one tropic level to the next. All plants, herbivores, phytoplankton and zooplankton are consumed by humans in the food chain.

4) Our bodies and especially those of our children are already carrying an unacceptable load of toxic contaminants which are reinforcing each other.

5) Supporters of a pesticide ban include:
The BC Canadian Cancer Society, The BC Medical Association, The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, The BC The Registered Nurses Association of BC, The BC Lung Association, BC Childrens Hospital and several smaller community based groups as well.

6) The Humane Society of Canada supports a ban on the non-essential use of pesticides, because pets are harmed by Canine Malignant Lymphoma (CML), poisonings and some countries including Germany have banned household pesticides to save the honey bees.

7) Across Canada, pesticide bylaws already protect 138 communities, including the entire Province of Quebec; and Ontario.

8) There are healthy, effective and economical lawn and garden care alternatives.

9) Natural lawn care is cost competitive, and studies done in Halifax, Montreal and Toronto show that employment in the lawn care sector has increased following their pesticide bans.

10) Bylaws get everyone%u2019s attention and support education in organic lawn and garden maintenance.

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# 67:

3:21 am PDT, Sep 20, Simos Tarabatzis, Greece

# 66:

9:44 am PDT, Sep 13, Jamie Scott, Texas

# 65:

9:16 pm PDT, Jul 30, Andi Alnwick, New York

# 64:

2:44 pm PDT, Jul 28, Ed Tran, Canada
Pesticides should be BANNED world wide.

# 63:

10:05 am PDT, Jul 20, Nicolas Carbajales, Canada

# 62:

4:09 pm PDT, Jul 18, Karilysa Michaels, Canada
I support the ban on cosmetic pesticides. They cause severe health problems and shouldn't be sold if there are safer alternatives available.

I think Ontario's a good example of how the ban would not having a huge impact on the economy. These are products that make people sick, their damaging our health system by being on the market.

# 61:

10:45 pm PDT, Jul 14, John Hinds, Oklahoma

# 60:

2:07 pm PDT, Jul 14, Darlene Davis, Michigan

# 59:

10:33 pm PDT, Jul 13, Jill Lambert, Missouri

# 58:

9:33 pm PDT, Jul 13, Sandra Williamson, Colorado

# 57:

8:35 pm PDT, Jul 13, Jaclin O'Sullivan, New Zealand

# 56:

1:49 pm PDT, Jul 13, Willy Minnen, Belgium

# 55:

1:40 pm PDT, Jul 13, Name not displayed, Illinois
Pesticides should be BANNED world wide.

WOULD NOT affect the the economy.

# 54:

1:30 pm PDT, Jul 13, Marcy Morgan, California

# 53:

12:34 pm PDT, Jul 13, Alicya Lima, Netherlands

# 52:

8:06 am PDT, Jul 13, Jim Phillips, California

# 51:

6:36 am PDT, Jul 13, JAMES SULLIVAN, Illinois

# 50:

6:06 am PDT, Jul 13, J Steven Reese, Alaska
I cannot imagine that banning pesticides could harm the economy. It will certainly improve health which is beneficial to the economy.

# 49:

12:59 pm PDT, Jul 10, Jodi Middlebrook, Arizona

# 48:

10:30 am PDT, Jul 10, Erin O'Reilly, Canada
I feel you should deeply consider the exact reasons behind why so many people have come together on this. Do the repercussions from banning outweigh the repercussions of not banning? In my view, they do not.

# 47:

10:37 pm PDT, Jul 4, Adam Coles, Canada
As a parent and pet owner I don't want these toxic poisons spread willy-nilly through my neighbourhood.

# 46:

6:06 pm PDT, Jul 1, Neva Lashe, Canada
I am strongly against the use of pesticides for personal property and commercial property use! Medical studies have demonstrated that childhood cancers and pet animal cancers are likely caused by the use of pesticides. Why doesn't the City of Surrey take notice of this information! Stop condoning the poisoning of our planet!

# 45:

6:26 pm PDT, Jun 30, Lorraine Hepting, Canada

# 44:

4:20 pm PDT, Jun 30, Bob Simington, Canada

# 43:

9:54 am PDT, Jun 30, Trena Cheung, Canada

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9:33 am PDT, Jun 30, Heather Newman, Canada

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9:28 am PDT, Jun 30, Name not displayed, Canada

# 40:

4:48 pm PDT, Jun 29, Rhett Trappman, New Mexico

# 39:

4:55 pm PDT, Jun 27, Gabriel Fleischer, Canada
Please ban pesticide, not only it will affect childrens, but also animals that wonders arround and community as a whole

# 38:

6:11 pm PDT, Jun 26, Name not displayed, Canada

# 37:

5:58 pm PDT, Jun 26, Veronica Raquepo, Canada
Please ban pesticide, not only it will affect childrens, but also animals that wonders arround and community as a whole

# 36:

5:57 pm PDT, Jun 26, Name not displayed, Canada

# 35:

11:27 am PDT, Jun 26, Name not displayed, Canada

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9:33 pm PDT, Jun 25, Les Wain, Canada

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7:12 pm PDT, Jun 24, Karen Keay, Canada

# 32:

11:21 am PDT, Jun 24, Grace Lewis, Canada

# 31:

1:16 am PDT, Jun 24, Can Atik, Turkey

# 30:

2:41 pm PDT, Jun 23, Tim Collins, Canada

# 29:

4:31 pm PDT, Jun 21, Anthony Montapert, California

# 28:

2:26 pm PDT, Jun 21, BiLL Fowlie, Maine

# 27:

12:01 pm PDT, Jun 20, Cassandra Kaszas, Canada

# 26:

9:01 am PDT, Jun 20, Shannon Sultan, Wisconsin

# 25:

8:02 pm PDT, Jun 19, Tanya Helfrich, Canada

# 24:

6:04 pm PDT, Jun 19, Sara Dannettel, Maryland

# 23:

2:06 pm PDT, Jun 19, Roxie Schliesman, Wisconsin

# 22:

9:55 am PDT, Jun 18, Rebecca Yanciw, Canada

# 21:

10:53 pm PDT, Jun 17, L Hessels, Canada

# 20:

8:47 am PDT, Jun 17, Name not displayed, Canada

# 19:

6:41 am PDT, Jun 17, Steve Dancho, Canada

# 18:

7:12 pm PDT, Jun 16, Donna Cole, Canada

# 17:

7:08 pm PDT, Jun 16, Dawne Deeley, Canada
A pesticide free Surrey? Having just spent thousands on a water purification system necessary to bring our arsenic down to a safe level (THANKS FOR NOTHING, GVRD!!!), I'm all for it!

# 16:

6:34 pm PDT, Jun 16, Kathleen McCracken, Canada

# 15:

1:38 pm PDT, Jun 16, Wayne Davidson, Canada

# 14:

1:15 pm PDT, Jun 16, Maxine Holloway, United Kingdom

# 13:

11:10 am PDT, Jun 16, Arlene Harmon, Canada

# 11:

10:06 am PDT, Jun 16, Name not displayed, Canada
I strongly endorse the banning of pesticides

# 12:

10:06 am PDT, Jun 16, Name not displayed, Canada
I strongly endorse the banning of pesticides

# 10:

8:58 am PDT, Jun 16, Name not displayed, New York

# 9:

6:30 am PDT, Jun 16, Dave Sennett, Pennsylvania

# 8:

3:20 am PDT, Jun 16, Steve Klein, Canada

# 6:

12:23 am PDT, Jun 16, David Papson, Canada
I totally understand the need to stop using pesticides my wife has COPD and she cannot breathe when they are spraying our field to kill the potato tops and our dogs can absorb that crap in the pads of their feet

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