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AEP is spraying Roundup herbicide OVER OUR HOMES while we stand right outside! This is dangerous and toxic. We pay sky-high utility rates every month so AEP Kentucky Power can spray us like weeds with cancer-causing glyphosate pesticides. No consent, no warning just toxic drift landing on our yards, kids, pets, lungs… and now devastating our bees. A close friend and multiple of her neighbors watched their hives collapse after the latest spraying. Bees were dying by the hundreds right at the hive entrances crawling, twitching, and gone within days. Entire colonies wiped out: strong, productive hives that had survived winter, producing honey and pollinating local gardens. Beekeeping isn’t cheap or easy, it costs thousands in equipment, woodenware, feed, mite treatments, and protective gear, plus hundreds of hours of hands-on work every single season tending, inspecting, and harvesting. All that investment and labor destroyed overnight by AEP’s chemical drift. If we let this continue, we’re killing off the pollinators that make our food and flowers possible gardens fail, fruit trees don’t produce, crops suffer, and the whole local ecosystem takes a hit. This is exactly why we must hold AEP and the companies producing these poisons fully accountable. They do NOT deserve immunity. These are costly, cancer-causing chemicals with zero regard for our health or livelihoods. Side effects they don’t want you talking about: • Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma & other cancers in humans • Respiratory damage, headaches, nausea, and neurological issues • Skin/eye irritation that lingers • Hormone disruption & reproductive harm • Mass bee deaths, foragers poisoned in the field, hives collapsing with dead bees piled at entrances, queens failing, entire colonies lost, threatening pollination, honey production, gardens, and our food supply We’re funding our own poisoning and the destruction of local beekeeping while AEP gets a free pass. Demand accountability NOW… no more spraying over homes, no more bee killing drift, no more hiding behind immunity, and no more jacking up our rates for toxic “vegetation management.” Who else in Pikeville or AEP areas is losing hives and seeing dead bees?