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BC Hydro and the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) have recently published pest management plans for the Sunshine Coast that cite the use of glyphosate – the main herbicide in Monsanto’s Roundup – despite classification of the herbicide as “probably carcinogenic to humans” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

In March 2015 the IARC assessed the carcinogenicity of glyphosate and found it to “probably” cause cancer, which resulted in the World Health Organization (WHO) recommending a full re-evaluation of the herbicide late last year.

That evaluation is not yet complete.

In the meantime, BC Hydro and MOTI are gearing up to use the herbicide as part of their 2016 pest management plans, which aim to clear invasive plants and noxious weeds from Crown land and locations where BC Hydro has operational or planned facilities. 

Bob Drinkwater of Drinkwater Environmental Services, the group tasked with responding to input from the public on MOTI’s plan, said that while MOTI is the lead agency, the Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations and the Ministry of Environment will also be using the multi-agency pest management plan (PMP) on the Coast.