UK may approve bee-killing pesticide despite election promise to ban it

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/08/uk-may-approve-bee-killing-pesticide-despite-election-promise-to-ban-it

Posted by masterblaster0

3 Comments

  1. True-Abalone-3380 on

    I think this happens most years. What the papers don’t often say is that it’s still incredibly controlled, each potential use has to be applied for and there are a lot of rigid stipulations controlling it. Even in years when it has been approved, I don’t think it’s always used.

    The approval isn’t just carte blanche for everyone to go spraying it around.

  2. I think we established after day one that the election promises were thrown out of the window