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Cape Cod Towns are not included in the 49 Massachusetts towns identified as locations for chemical spraying to defoliate right of ways in 2012. WHAT does this mean??? Filed in the Environmental Monitor, it’s NSTAR’s state plan to manage vegetation in 2012 pursuant with their five-year vegetation management plan from 2008. It DOES include herbicides as part [...] Interest Grows in Eastham Goat Project EASTHAM — Neil Andres is the boss at the Department of Public works, but when it comes to the enclosed area behind the DPW, where the town’s four alpine goats are kept, Butt Head rules. She’s the boss lady of the [...] of course NSTAR uses licensed pesticide applicators– simply because it would be against the law not to. But the question should be—WHY are licensed applicators even required? –Because all pesticides (including herbicides) are toxic by design and their damaging effects are not limited to the target species. There is cross-over damage to other species, including humans. You and I would not be able to purchase those NSTAR herbicides AND we certainly wouldn’t be able to apply them on land that we don’t even own– as NSTAR does. It is unfortunate, and very telling, that a corporation such as NSTAR, which has made some positive contributions in other communities, is instead attempting to bully Cape communities with their irresponsible and overzealous cutting. Extremes of cutting and chemicals are unnecessary and ill-advised on Rights-of-Way on private property and above the Cape’s drinking water supply. Please direct your disapproval to the NSTAR CEO Tom May at (617) 424-2527 and Investor Relations at (781) 441-8338. In 2012, as part of its five-year Vegetation Management Plan, the electrical utility NSTAR once again plans to spray five herbicides under 150 miles of power lines across Cape Cod. For decades, NSTAR used only non-chemical methods for controlling vegetation along power lines – using mechanical cutting and mowing exclusively. Our strenuous objections and compelling research brought about a moratorium of these questionable practices in the previous 2 years but the moratorium ends Dec. 31, 2011, and NSTAR has still not agreed to revert back to the safer method of cutting and mowing (or animal power) to control weeds, shrubs, and trees under the electrical power lines. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/science/earth/15herbicide.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2 New Herbicide Suspected in Tree Deaths Published: July 14, 2011 A recently approved herbicide called Imprelis, widely used by landscapers because it was thought to be environmentally friendly, has emerged as the leading suspect in the deaths of thousands of Norway spruces, eastern white pines and other trees on lawns and [...] A press conference was held on the banks of the Cape Cod Canal on Wednesday, August 17th. The speakers, including Senator Dan Wolf, were right on target, telling NSTAR that chemicals have no place on the Cape. The huge hand made banners and yellow caution tape drew a physical line in the sand [...] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/roundup-scientists-birth-defects_n_883578.html WASHINGTON — The chemical at the heart of the planet’s most widely used herbicide — Roundup weedkiller, used in farms and gardens across the U.S. — is coming under more intense scrutiny following the release of a new report calling for a heightened regulatory response around its use. Critics have argued for decades that glyphosate, the [...] Please sign this petition and ask everyone you know who cares about the Cape to sign also. NSTAR has extended the spraying moratorium through 2011 and will defoliate by mechanical means. Monitor the cutting! Protect our fragile groundwater by telling NSTAR to PERMANENTLY stop the spray herbicides to defoliate along its right of [...] People are reacting to NSTAR’s determination to spray herbicides along its transmission line right-of-ways beginning this spring. (translation: right-of-ways: in their deeds, public and private landowners gave NSTAR (or Boston Edison or whatever the electric companies were before that) permission to place and maintain the lines. In most cases, easements [...] |
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