DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/ 08 August) – Environment group Interface Development Interventions (IDIS) on Monday said it will ask the city council to impose stricter regulations on the use of aerial spray two years after the Supreme Court upheld the 2009 decision of the Court of Appeals declaring the ordinance banning aerial spraying as unconstitutional.

But IDIS executive director Chinkie Pelino-Golle admitted in an interview that it would be difficult to find a councilor who will sponsor such an ordinance.[]/a> with |||

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He added they will just wait for any development if it reaches the council.

Golle said they are planning to map out the communities that have plantations, and ask the companies to limit their aerial spraying activities there.

She said they want companies to refrain from using aerial spray in the city’s watersheds because such method might cause the degradation of these areas.

She said another reason why the High Court struck down the ordinance was that the grace period of three months was inadequate for banana companies to convert from aerial to ground spray or manual spray.

“It seems that it wasn’t true because many companies had already converted except for one company,” she said. (Antonio L. Colina IV/MindaNews)