Media responds to announcement about class action

Beekeepers in Ontario have launched a lawsuit against two big chemical companies, alleging their pesticides have caused widespread bee deaths that have driven up costs and reduced honey production. The honey makers allege Syngenta AG and Bayer ...

Increasing frustration among beekeepers over widespread deaths of bees led to a class-action lawsuit against the makers of neonicotinoids, a pesticide used to treat grains such as corn and soybeans, says the lawyer leading the case. The proposed ...

Canadian beekeepers are suing the makers of popular crop pesticides for more than $400 million in damages, alleging that their use is causing the deaths of bee colonies. The proposed class action lawsuit was filed Tuesday in the Ontario Superior Court on ...

A $450-million proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed against the producers of neonicotinoid pesticides on behalf of two large family-owned Ontario honey producers. Siskinds LLP filed the suit to "recover damages suffered bybeekeepers due to the ...

"When the sun doesn't shine, the bees don't fly as much," said Dan Davidson, who keeps bees in Lambton County and is also the president of the Ontario Beekeepers Association. Davidson explained bees prefer hot and dry weather, and it has been anything ...

A proposed class-action lawsuit is targeting Canadian beekeepers' growing concerns that neonicotinoids, a preventative pesticide, have been killing bees in record numbers. Two family-owned Ontario honey producers are seeking $450 million in damages ...

Canadian beekeepers are suing the makers of neonicotinoid pesticides for CAD$400m (£222m) in damages, claiming they are responsible for a decline in bee health. Two of Ontario's biggest honey producers, Sun Parlor Honey and Munro Honey, submitted ...

Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--September 4, 2014.l Beekeepers in Ontario, Canada are tired of losing bees and have decided to take matters into their own hands by filing a class action lawsuit against two makers of neonicotinoids. According to The Globe ...

Ontario beekeepers moved to sue two pesticide manufacturers this week for $450 million, saying the chemicals have decimated their honey bee populations. According to CBC News, Sun Parlor Honey and Munro Honey — two of the province's largest honey ...

The $450 million dollar suit was launched by Munro Honey in Alvinston, and Sun Parlour Honey in the Essex area. They're looking to recover significant losses suffered by Canadian beekeepers due to the widespread use of neonicotinoid since 2006.

The OBA is not directly involved with the lawsuit but is supporting the effort, hoping that it will help local beekeepers by placing the blame where they think it belongs—on the chemical companies responsible for the pesticides. A ban of the neonics, as they are ...

"The chronic effects of the use of the neonicotinoids are felt by Canada's beekeepers annually, and include: bee deaths; impaired reproduction; immune suppression; behavioral abnormalities resulting in hive loss; reduced honey production; impacts on the ...

Growers coat soybean and corn seeds with the pesticide, causing an “enormous impact,” said Julie White of the Ontario Beekeepers' Association. “When things get planted, the dust goes into the air, it's systemic as well growing in to the plants and it gets into ...