Canada as seen through the Eyes of New Brunswick Editorial Cartoonists:
The Insight and Humour of Josh Beutel and Bill Hogan
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Introduction |
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Classroom Activities
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Josh Beutel, Telegraph Journal, 1980-2-13
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Reference number: MC2806-249
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Scope and Content
A play on words with the Minister of the Environment's name, Eric Kipping, and keeping bottles in the air while juggling three different chemicals inside a chemical fumehood, raises the question of on what basis are the chemicals chosen for the budworm spray program.
Title
Kipping it Up
Note
Published in "Cartoons", Saint John, NB: Telegraph-Journal, c1981
Issues
Spruce budworm
The Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) is a destructive insect that lives in Eastern Canada and the United States. There have been periodic spruce budworm outbreaks in these areas for centuries. Spruce budworm larvae feed on the needles and cones of balsam fir and spruce causing defoliation resulting in growth loss and tree death. A particularly devastating outbreak occurred in the Atlantic Provinces and Quebec in the mid 1970s lasting into the 1980s, requiring extensive replanting. The chosen method to mediate the outbreak in New Brunswick at that time was a chemical insecticide (fenitrothion) spraying program which was phased out by a biological insecticide (Bt or Bacillus thurengiensis) beginning in 1979. It has been argued that the damaging effects of the use of chemical pesticides outweighed its merits. By 1998 application of fenitothion was banned altogether.
Persons
Eric Kipping
- Progressive Conservative
- First elected in 1978 in riding of Saint John North , re-elected 1982
- New Brunswick Minister of Environment & Minister responsible for Housing, 1978 to 1982
- Defeated when the Liberals won every seat in the provincial election, 1987
- Joined Reform Party 1991 as advisor