James Vessey-Miller’s shocking new video (footage taken on 23.11.22) shows Southend Council spraying carcinogenic herbicides on Seafront. A Council worker is seen blanket-spraying the carcinogenic herbicide Glyphosate across the promenade. This area of the seafront by the attractions is very popular with families and dog walkers, and frequently sees young children and pets playing on the sea wall and beach. Many residents are rightly concerned for the devastating ecological impact these substances have on our wildlife and pets, and further the documented cancer-causing health risk it poses to humans. Here we see the video evidence that the council isn’t listening.
James grilled the council in a recent meeting about their continued use of these substances, and shockingly Leigh’s Cllr Mulroney responded by wrongly claiming that these carcinogenic herbicides were “completely safe”. Southend Council has claimed for years that it is pursuing a “phased reduction” of these dangerous chemicals. It insists that it only uses these chemicals when necessary, and does all it can to avoid their use when alternatives are possible. The local Green Party refutes this claim, as they’ve seen them spraying this stuff across whole areas year-round, with no evidence of alternative weed control even being trialled at scale. Shockingly, they’ve even seen the Council spraying in this manner against the fences of primary schools.
Do you have any evidence or stories of the Council using these herbicides? Please email James Vessey-Miller at vessey@outlook.com
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