Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change (NSECC) has once again issued permits for the aerial spraying of woodlands in Nova Scotia with herbicides laced with glyphosate, identified by the World Health Organization as “probably carcinogenic to humans. This year’s permits, issued to New Brunswick-based J.D. Irving and ARF Enterprises Ltd of Tatamagouche, allow for the aerial spraying of 1,837 hectares of private woodlands in six counties – Cumberland, Colchester, Hants, Queens, Annapolis, and Kings. This is an increase of 422 hectares (1,043 acres) over spray approvals for 2023. The NSECC press release says the proposed time frame for the spraying is between August 15 and October 31, 2024. …The NSECC approvals for the aerial spraying of glyphosate over Nova Scotia come just one day after the NY Times published an in-depth investigation into the mysterious degenerative neurological disease that has affected dozens of people in New Brunswick and may be linked with glyphosate.”