Panel: Ralph F. Patterson, G.R. Knight, Dr. A.A. Larsen
The appellants appealed pesticide use permits issued to the respondent to apply Vision to forest lands in the Revelstoke region for the control of unwanted plant species. The grounds of appeal were that the herbicide would cause unreasonable effects on man and the environment. The appellants had concerns of the effects on various plant species, the presence of known carcinogens in the herbicides, and will have adverse effects on wildlife and humans.
The Board dismissed all the appeals finding no evidence of any unreasonable adverse effects from the safe application of the herbicide to the sites specified in the permits. The appellants asked for a moratorium on the spraying of the herbicide 65 days before the hunting season, but the Board declined this request.
