PET FOOD PLANT IN ELMIRA STINKS

Everytime I think of the smell of dogfood I think of Diacetyl at Chemtura. Diacetyl is an artificial butter flavouring and folks in Elmira used to smile when they smelled that. In comparison to solvents and worse coming from Uniroyal or Chemtura; that seemed both pleasant and harmless. Turns out it was toxic, causing "popcorn lung" both among heavy users and employees, particularily in the U.S.. Who'd have known? Well obviously the company should have known and probably did know.

Today's Woolwich Observer has a Letter to the Editor from Dr. Dan Holt, resident of Elmira and Chair of the Chemtura Public Advisory Committee (CPAC). Dr. Dan is fed up with both the ongoing odours and secondly with the ongoing do nothing, lack of action coming from the Ontario Ministry of Excuses and Corporate Collusion (MOECC) also known as the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. Dr. Dan is right in that the only way to get the MOECC off their butts is by constant and ongoing pressure from the public, the media or both. Otherwise the MOECC simply run interference for the offending polluter. This lack of confidence in the Ministry's willingness to fulfill their mandate probably is a major reason why Elmira citizens were so upset a few years back in regards to the then proposed Woolwich Bio-En. Bio gas is currently being produced by Bio-En and as far as I know they are being good corporate neighbours, unlike the Elmira Pet Food Plant.