DOWNSTREAM MONITORING IN THE CANAGAGIGUE CREEK

Last fall DDT was found at Station 21 downstream at 13 parts per million greatly exceeding rsults found about sixteen years earlier. What has gone downstream in the interim is anyone's guess because no one was looking. I view this as simply part and parcel of the M.O.E./Chemtura long range plan which I refer to as the Talk/Stall/Dilute plan. Essentially everything subsurface on the Chemtura site is leaking and moving off-site. If they do nothing it could take a thousand years to clean up and if they continue their hydraulic containment perhaps only a few hundred. This is what we are leaving next generations to deal with.

Gail Martin has an Editorial in this week's Independent titled "Making progress". I suspect Gail is of the glass half full attitude on this matter. If I thought pursuing more of the M.O.E.'s amateurish "studies" would actually lead to more source removal of DDT (& so much more) on the Chemtura site I would be thrilled. History has shown otherwise. This is all part of the Talk & Stall long term plan and the M.O.E. have been hand in hand with Uniroyal/chemtura from the start and continue to be their very best friends. There is no subtle or diplomatic way to put it. Twenty years ago journalists, a few brave politicians and the public were demanding an inquiry into alleged M.O.E. corruption. I see no real improvements in them since that time. Feel free to have any amount of confidence you want in the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. I have none and that is based on their track record over the last twenty-four years plus.