MAYOR SHANTZ TAKE YOUR STUPID MEETING & SHOVE IT! CHEMTURA TAKE YOUR STUPID SOIL INVESTIGATION & SHOVE IT!

Well Councillor Bauman certainly undermined Mayor Shantz's position nicely last evening. Or did he? CPAC appropriately will not attend the Mayor's ingenious solution to a non existent problem ie. the "stakeholders" meeting. Sandy and Mark have both claimed that CPAC is the problem because Chemtura and the Ontario M.O.E. are boycotting public meetings. Last evening in a public meeting, Mark Bauman in front of both CPAC & SWAT advised that he is pushing the Mayor to permit all six CPAC members to attend AND to open the meeting to the public.

Until now Mayor Shantz had the public support of a five term Councillor who has been and still is a sitting CPAC member. That most likely will carry significant weight with the three new Councillors. Support that is for the meeting in the first place. That much is still to the shame of Mark Bauman. Apparently however he is smart enough to realize that making the meeting private and exclusionary is setting off alarms. The only reason Chemtura and the M.O.E. want this meeting is to set the stage, for not in the public interest reforms at CPAC. Councillor Bauman and Mayor Shantz are still on board with that.

Chemtura and their consultants, Conestoga Rovers, have a generally pathetic surficial soil sampling investigation plan for the east side of their property. Last evening CPAC's consultant, Peter Gray of MTE Consultants, further elaborated on his concerns with CRA's plan. It is my understanding that these concerns will be presented in detail at the April 30, public CPAC meeting. Some have already been elaborated here in prior postings.

Keep in mind that the above title is my attitude towards both the proposed meeting and the proposed soil investigation, not necessarily CPAC's or SWAT's. Both those groups while honest and informed, still have more patience than I or any other honest person having spent twenty-five non-stop years dealing with professional liars such as Chemtura and the Ministry of the Environment.