OOPS I LEFT SOMETHING OUT OF YESTERDAY'S POST

In the second paragraph of yesterday's post I suggested in the second e-mail I sent the TAG Chair (Ms. Svensson) that there were a couple of new facts. I then proceeded to describe one, lost my train of thought regarding the second and continued on with the post. Here is the second "new" fact although frankly I discovered it a few years back and did present it publicly at that time. As with the vast majority of new facts discovered however that present either new challenges, require attention including money or that do not support the polluter and his bought and paid for consultants narrative, they are dropped like hot potatoes. They are ignored, they are not responded to if at all possible and they are buried hopefully never to be seen or heard from again. This behaviour can only succeed if you are a polluter in Canada with lots of money, brass and chutzpah. It also helps incredibly if you have your regulator wrapped around your fingers. ...................................................................................................................................... The second fact is that the position of GP-1 (gravel pit one) is in dispute. Now this point I have not vigorously persued within the incredibly stifling process that passes for public consultation here in Woolwich Township. I have not persued it because even though it probably was not an accidental slip up, I felt that the narrative presented by the "professionals" and the "experts" was flimsy at best anyways. That said I should know by now never to count out the power of credentialism and the power of men in suits, no matter how odourous the story they are selling. I mean simply look around at our politicians. There is hardly a government, provincial or federal that hasn't been caught red handed lying, trying to lie and then covering up those very same lies. Scandals, big and small are the norm. Lying is the norm. ................................................................................................................ The two maps, prior to Conestoga Rovers & Assoc. (CRA) current location, which show GP-1 east of its current location were produced initially by the Ontario Ministry of Environment (MOE) and the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) in 1985 and finally by CH2MHILL, engineering consultants on behalf of the Region of Waterloo (approx 1992). My suspicion is that CRA felt that by shifting the location of GP-1 slightly westwards and away from the Stroh farm that they could sell their narrative to less diligent stakeholders. In fact as most of their "stakeholders" would better be called "fellow travellors", it really didn't require much of a sales pitch. If in fact GP-1 is located on the east side of the high ridge of ground that runs diagonally from north-west to south-east in Uniroyal/Lanxess's south-east corner; then in fact it is a harder sell to honest stakeholders that the overflowing east side pits (RPE 1-5) did not run directly over to the Stroh farm prior to the construction of the Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm (SDDB) in 1983. For the dishonest stakeholders, any story at all will suffice.