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Revealed: Tories failed to do impact check before approving banned pesticide (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 4 months ago by GreyShuck to c/nature

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The Conservative government did not carry out a legally required assessment of how greenlighting the use of a banned pesticide, described as a “death blow to wildlife”, would affect some of the most important nature sites, documents have revealed.

The previous government gave emergency approval this year for sugar beet farmers to use Cruiser SB for the fourth year in a row.

A single teaspoon of this pesticide is enough to deliver a lethal dose to 1.25 billion bees. In granting approval, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) went against the advice of the Health and Safety Executive and the UK expert committee on pesticides.

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[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I wonder how much the bribe was that Syngenta paid them to approve it's use.

[–] YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Well colour me shocked! Shocked, I say! What's the likelihood of Labour overturning that decision, I wonder?

[–] rah 4 points 4 months ago

emergency

fourth year in a row

LOL

[–] Zombie 3 points 4 months ago

A legally required assessment.

That means there will be repurcussions for the Tories that approved this, right? Right?!

Fines, community service, jail. We'll definitely see these things happen, yeah?