Pesticide ban urged in Banff

December 26, 2002
Source: Rocky Mountain Outlook
Original story - link not found on January 1, 2003

Banff council is being urged to ban the cosmetic use of toxic pesticides in light of high readings in Whiskey Creek, a once thriving stream that meanders through the national park townsite. But despite the high levels of Captan recently detected in the contaminated creek, renewed calls for local politicians to implement a bylaw have fallen on deaf ears.

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