PEI Green Party critical of pesticide use after thousands of fish killed
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) - As environmental officials in Prince Edward Island continued collecting thousands of dead fish from two rivers thought to be contaminated with pesticides, the provincial government said there was little it could do to prevent what happened.
Environment Minister George Webster said despite regulations that call for creation of grassy berms and 10-metre, pesticide-free buffer zones along P.E.I.’s rivers, an unusually heavy rainfall Friday probably overwhelmed those barriers, flushing high levels of farm chemicals into the Tryon and Dunk rivers over the weekend.
