LETTER TO THE EDITOR ADVISES CHEMTURA TO REMOVE ALL CONTAMINANTS

Last Saturday's Woolwich Observer had a Letter to the Editor titled "Chemtura should completely remove all contaminants". It was written by Sebastian Seibel-Achenbach, a CPAC member for the last three years. I give Sebastian credit both for his accurate opinion that all the Dioxins and DDT should have been removed, not just a thin scraping, but also because he is complimenting an earlier Letter to the Editor by Susan Bryant. While I too agree with the contents of the earlier letter nevertheless the author has behaved rudely and badly to a number of the current CPAC members as well as to myself. It takes a big person like Sebastian to overlook that and focus on the issue at hand namely "source removal" and I give him credit for so doing.

Sebastian also analyses Chemtura's motives for doing this approximately $2.5 million cleanup. He does not buy their neverending truth spinning that there were not off-site impacts and that the cleanup was "voluntary". This has been no more than another behind the scenes sweetheart deal with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment.