TONITE'S WOOLWICH COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE 6 PM. PUBLIC MEETING

There are five Delegations at Woolwich Council Chambers this evening. Number three is Dr. Henry Regier and he will be discussing the political history around various Great lakes binational agreements as well as Canada-Ontario agreements dealing with various river basins which empty into Lake Huron, Erie and Ontario. These river basins include the Grand River Basin which runs from Dundalk in the north, southwards towards Dunnville and Lake Erie.

Yours truly is also a Delegate this evening and I will be discussing the lack of clear communication skills by Woolwich Township. They are planning some kind of meeting, packing it with ill informed political appointees as well as Staff persons knowledgable in their narrow fields but uninformed regarding Chemtura contamination issues and Elmira's groundwater remediation. Furthermore I will be putting Chemtura's recent behaviour in perspective as they have abandoned public consultation before when they were under pressure from citizens.

Woolwich Township Councils have a sordid history regarding their willingness to both tolerate grotesque chemical pollution and in fact to come to Uniroyal/Chemtura's defence when called upon. The last Council did not behave in that fashion much to the anguish of both Chemtura and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (M.O.E.). Currently there is a counter revolution underway led by Councillor Mark Bauman and Mayor Sandy Shantz. While Woolwich electors clearly reacted to the excesses of former Mayor Cowan they did not give recently re-elected former Councillors (Sandy Shantz, Bauman and M. Martin) free rein to throw out the best Chemtura Public Advisory Committee (CPAC) they've ever had. Bauman and S. Shantz are doing this through backdoor secret discussions with Chemtura, M.O.E., Grand River Conservation and the Region of Waterloo. The GRCA haven't attended CPAC meetings in close to fifteen years and the Region quit coming maybe eight to ten years ago.

CPAC are a team of six members who have two excellent professionally qualified technical individuals. They combined with their SWAT sub-committee are a technical and historical force to be reckoned with. Precisely because of this they are prohibited from this meeting while CPAC's administrative and organizational Chairman alone is invited to the secret meeting. Chairman Dr. Dan Holt will be outnumbered and intentionally outgunned approximately fourteen to one. Even if he is able to accurately describe this travesty of a meeting, which is set up to let Chemtura and the M.O.E. have their way, his observations can be muted or even blatantly denied by the other fourteen or more individuals.

This folks is precisely how dishonest politicians play the system. They set up the meetings, the location, the time, the agenda and the participants. They abhor both honest debate and transparency. They pervert democracy at every opportunity while always talking motherhood and apple pie. They are professional liars without conscience, in order to get their way.