But that wasn't successful. More recently, some lakefront homeowners applied to the Ontario Ministry of the Environment for a permit to use a herbicide called Diquat to kill the plants.

The spraying of orchards and vineyards certainly isn't an eco-friendly process, with tractors spewing exhaust as they douse crops in herbicides and pesticides. That's one of the main reasons the ...

As they transformed it into a horse ranch, they toppled trees and stripped the undergrowth with the herbicide paraquat. Through 2012, Platt sprayed the powerful weedkiller for multiple days in a row ...