THE TRUTH HAS ALWAYS PROVOKED THEM

The Elmira Independent published my Letter To The Editor back on December 3, 2008. The title was "Ministry should lay charges". This was in reference to my posting here last Wednesday about Chemtura's failure to maintain on-site hydraulic containment of the Municipal Aquifer during their construction of the new and enhanced Ammonia Treatment System. My Letter to The Editor rather bluntly advised that the M.O.E. had ample evidence including their own report on the matter in order to lay charges against Chemtura. Their Investigation and Enforcement Branch decided not to.

On March 13, 2009 the K-W Record carried an article titled "Chemtura struggling to avoid default". This large article detailed Chemtura's financial problems in servicing their debts and was somewhat blamed upon the recent and ongoing economic recession at the time. Both the Elmira Independent and the K-W Record had additional articles on the matter later in March (March 20/09 for the Record) which differentiated between the troubles of Chemtura U.S. versus how the Canadian affiliate was doing. The Elmira plant had steady production and they were stating that their U.S.'s parent company's troubles would not affect their ongoing clean up here in Elmira, Ontario.

At the CPAC meeting of June 29, 2009, CPAC were advised that Chemtura were planning on eliminating 36 current wells from their monitoring program despite M.O.E. disagreement with five of the proposed wells and the fact that CPAC had not received advice from Wilf Ruland yet on the matter. The Elmira Independent article of July 8, 2009 also mentioned that yours truly as a long term involved citizen and environmentalist had not even received a list of the proposed wells to date. The Independent also decided to mention the rather embarrassing fact that CPAC members attendance was so bad that they didn't even have a quorum. This of course should have been doubly embarrassing to them as yours truly, politically removed from CPAC the previous year, was right there as always in the gallery attending CPAC meetings.

A number of my comments and questions whether at the CPAC meetings or in Letters To The Editor have long provoked Chemtura and the M.O.E.. They have this funny idea that just because they hide behind credentialed experts (CRA) that we the citizens are supposed to blindly believe whatever Chemtura serving nonsense they spew forth.