CHEMTURA CANADA ACHIEVES MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH

Despite recent bad news coming from our Elmira, Ontario industrial neighbour, they continue to soldier on. Their persistence and tenacity in the face of adversity fills us all with awe and wonder. Recently they have been the subject of gossip, rumour and frankly nasty, snide humour. This of course is in relation to the sweetheart deal they received twenty-one years ago from their partners in pollution, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (M.O.E). The other bad news would be their repeat failures over the years to sucessfully achieve verification or reverification under *Responsible Care. This is a program of their chemical peers namely the Chemical Idustry Association of Canada (CIAC) formerly known as the CCPA.

To the best of my knowledge Chemtura have achieved for the very first time 100% failure in both their on-site and off-site pumping regimens, simultaneously. This is a very difficult and remarkable feat. There are two municipal aquifer on-site wells and five municipal aquifer off-site wells. All seven simultaneously for the month of February (2012) failed to achieve their target pumping rates. The enormity of this accomplishment can not be overstated. Allegedly this pumping is going to clean up the Elmira Aquifers to drinking water standards by 2028. This of course is bullshit anyways but their ongoing longterm pumping failures merely put the ribbon around this unholy corporate/government alliance. The PR flacks and spin doctors are going to have to have their fees jacked up enormously to make them willing to step between the amateur government and corporate liars and the appropriately skeptical public.