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U.S. Chemical Company Challenges Pesticide Ban

By Luke Eric Peterson

Published October 22, 2008

1 Comment

The issue of free trade was largely a non-issue during our recent federal election.

However, the North American Free Trade Agreement might have garnered a few headlines if the Feds had disclosed that U.S. chemical giant Dow signalled in late August that it is gearing up to sue Canada.

Dow Agrosciences insists Quebec's province-wide ban on the residential use of weed-killing chemicals breaches legal protections owed by...

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Story Comments (1)

02/06/09 at 01:02 pm

Although it is a semantic argument and therefore of no major importance, herbicides are a kind of pesticide that target plant pests (weeds), just as a fungicide is a pesticide that target mushrooms and molds, insecticides are pesticides that target insects etc. There are many kinds of pests in agriculture, forestry, public health and domestically... and likewise there are just as many kinds of pesticides.