THE
Second Annual Nozzlehead Award
by Ad Hoc Coalition for Willapa Bay
This is the second year in which the Nozzlehead
Aw ard of the Year Award is bestowed on the people
w ho appear to do the most to further pollute our
environment by pushing toxic chemical agendas.
The Second Annual Nozzlehead Award goes
specifically to the entrenched bureaucracies ol
W ashington State. These range from the state senate
leadership to government employees, including state
departments of Agriculture, Ecology, Fish and
W ildlife and Natural Resources, the US Fish and
Wildlife Sen ice, and the commercial oystermen on
their pesticide fix. The get the aw ard for fostering an
escalation of the use of agricultural chemicals in the
Willapa Estuary while brandishing phony ecological
sentiments. These are the lead agencies and
industries promoting the use ol agrichemicals in the
estuary. This is chemical warfare against Mother
Nature. They know w ho they are and they should be
ashamed and embarrassed. The provide a
prospective, Willapa Bay’s ‘plight’ is itself a picture
of larger phenomenon affecting the US in w hich the
public is increasingly the target ol the chemieal-
industnal complex to sell aquatic pesticides.
In 1995, the herbicide, Rodeo by Monsanto, was
limited by agreement between the Slate and Ad Hoc
Coalition the Shoal water Indian Tribe, and Friends
of the Earth. In a broad-reaching settlement
chemicals could only be used in extremely limited
circumstances for scientific inquiry. Chemicals were
deemed to be the least desirable way of managing the
Spartina cord grass.
As the State Legislature was herded like sheep to
vote for total eradication of Spartina, undercutting
any further research on Rodeo, the chemical
proponents went full blast for Rodeo and new
surfactants and completely circumvented the
Settlement. Pacific County viewed the Settlement
seriously, but itself is coopted by the institutional
interests much stronger and more pow erful than
itself. So Pacific County has been dragged into
“waging total war on Spartina” by every means.
Spartina was introduced into this Bax bclore any
of the award winners w ere ever near this estuary.
For over a hundred years, she has naturalized in
response to natural and manmade activities, including
rapacious practices of the timber industries that
spewed mud and debris into the streams and rivers
feeding the Willapa Bay; the dredging of oysters,
which sets off plumes of mud and silt into the tidal
currents, and other developments. Spartina is merely
a facet of everything else that’s going on around us.
The likelihood of eradicating the grass is remote.
To kill Spartina with chemicals-the still-favored
approach—can ultimately only bring more harm to
W illapa Bay. Chemicals cannot solve perceived
ecological problems.
It must be mentioned that the winners of this
award are paid for their work; their of lice expense,
telephones, conferencing, travel, printing and
publishing; computer solt and hardware; laboratory
space, and utilities. The hard-earned money ol
taxpayers is routinely mixed with corporate
marketing money and tax exempt money, making the
nexus that allows chemical agriculture to flourish,
assaulting the environment in new, deadly ways.
Scientists and bureaucrats are unleashed w ho then
purchase the aquatic sprays and douse the Willapa
estuarv by every means they can imagine, including
spraying Rodeo from helicopters. The public
deserves better than this system that repeats and
grows upon itself with each new season and builds
the inventories of propaganda and fear tactics and
invents ev er new future strategics that diminish
nature.
The First Annual Nozzlehead Award in 1995
went to The Nature Conservancy lor actively
promoting the use of chemicals in Willapa Bay; and
was shared with Governor Lowery , who knew
better.
Hopefully, our next governor will not be a
candidate for the Third Annual Nozzlehead Award.
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