Tuesday, August 20, 2019

RAC MEETING SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 - A PREDICTION



Actually I have two predictions for the 3 pm. September 5/19 Remediation Advisory Committee (RAC) meeting to be held in Woolwich Council Chambers. I sincerely hope that I am wrong with both of them. They are that there will be no questions whatsoever from RAC members after my Delegation to them and secondly that there will be no mention of Cynthia Doughty's (MOE) letter of June 20/19 to Jason Rice (MOE) indicating the failure of the Upper Aquifer Containment System (UACS), essentially since its inception.

I posted here on July 31/19, the day before the last TAG meeting, about Ms. Doughty's very interesting letter. She has flat out stated what I have long suspected and in years past have raised at CPAC meetings. Unfortunately as always in subjective matters, the polluter's well paid consultants have interpreted the data favourably at all times to their client, whether Uniroyal Chemical, Crompton Co., Chemtura or Lanxess as they will always do.

Regarding my prediction that there will be no questions from RAC members, that is almost a given. I believe that the parameters and results for the upcoming threatened Risk Assessment for the Canagagigue Creek have long been settled privately among all the parties. This would include Lanxess, the Ontario Ministry of Environment (MOE), GHD, Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA), Woolwich Township, Region of Waterloo etc. The Risk Assessment and lead up work to it are merely window dressing, or as Dr. Henry Regier said about the last one on the Chemtura site years ago... "green washing". Hence the window dressing is for the media, local citizens and the general public. Therefore my Delegation is unlikely to be well received or appreciated as I discuss the Stroh property contribution to the dioxins/furans and DDT in the creek.

If there were any well informed members on the RAC committee, they might decide to ask me difficult questions in an attempt to lessen my impact or credibility. Perhaps the MOE or even Lanxess reps might do so but likely they too are scared of opening a can of worms that they can't close.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 21, 2019 at 10:39 AM

    Based on 1. Original source of contaminants and chemicals and 2. directions of flows and 3. elevations and 4. low spots ; where do you think the most contaminants/chemicals are still sitting (after all these years of contaminants and chemicals being ditched and pumped and flooded into the Canagagigue Creek and into the Grand and out into the Lake ?

    TO someone personally familiar with the grading/elevations/neighborhood of Chemtura : Would they know? Is it true? that the most obvious spots (with the highest potential) of contaminants have no known testing or public test results?

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  2. AlanAugust 21, 2019 at 4:59 PM

    The largest quantities of toxic waste are still sitting in and below the former waste ponds and pits on the Lanxess site. They are not required to remove it or nuetralize it, only contain them on site.

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  3. AlanAugust 21, 2019 at 5:05 PM

    Both the Ontario MOE and Lanxess (Uniroyal) know full well where most of the toxic waste is and the less they dig for it or sample it the better it is for them. It's the old "Plausible deniability" as in we have no information that there are more free phase DNAPLS either on site or off.

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