Wednesday, August 28, 2013

THE OLD BUDD SITE IN KITCHENER



Yesterday's Waterloo Region record carrys this story "Agreement reached on Budd site plan". Basically this is a planning/legal story in which the City of Kitchener has come to an agreement with the new owners (Gary Ball etc.) to avoid a court battle and or an OMB hearing. Of interest to me once again is the following single sentence "Ball demolished older buildings and was cleaning up minor contamination.". Minor contamination. Really says who? Gary Ball? What is interesting is my post here in the Advocate almost exactly three years ago dated August 27, 2010. Apparently at that time the contamination was also allegedly no big deal. This is passing strange when you think of the decades Budd was on site, combined with their massive volumes of steel used in building car frames. Also when you look at the size of the site one has to wonder. There would have been huge use of paints, acids and solvents. Methinks the public may be getting a snow job here. If so eventually the residential neighbours, perhaps years down the road will find out the hard way. Why is it the tax paying public are always the last to find out? Believe me it's not an accident.

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