MOE/MECP: PRIDE COMES BEFORE A FALL

Yes they play the game. Yes they pretend to consult with the public on public interest issues such as both the remediation of the drinking water aquifers in Elmira and the alleged future remediation of the Canagagigue Creek after the Human Health Risk Assessment is completed perhaps by the end of the year. It is phony consultation however with the guilty parties in full control of what passes for public consultation. Woolwich Township in deference to the MOE and Chemtura/Lanxess demands, rid the public consultation process of the members appointed by the previous council. This group included honest, educated and informed citizens who did an excellent job as proven by the reaction of the now proven incompetent guilty parties who messed up the Elmira Aquifers remediation. It was that group (CPAC) who publicly blew the whistle on the upcoming (2028) failure of the aquifer cleanup, years before the guilty parties finally admitted it, as they finally did. ...................................................................................................................... Public consultation my butkiss! Yes TAG now have some extremely technically competent members including Dustin Martin, Wilson Lau, Katerina Richter, and for some time David Hofbauer. Other very knowledgable members include Linda Dickson (land use/development? experience) and sebastian Seibel-Achenbach. But as is typical, the last TAG meeting (June 24/21) had no representatives from either the MOE/MECP or Lanxess. What the bloody hell kind of consultation is that? The MOE/MECP and Chemtura/Lanxess participated in an undeclared boycott of CPAC after they knew that the Todd Cowan Woolwich council had been ousted in the 2014 municipal election. That got Sandy Shantz and Mark Bauman to attack the best CPAC there had ever been and replace them with a convoluted Mickey Mouse system whereby TAG (real citizens) reported to RAC (bunch of bureaucrats and government toadies) who then made reccommendations to the MOE/MECP and Lanxess. What a hopeless farce guaranteed to give the company and their corrupted regulator free rein to spend both as little as possible of corporate money as well as taxpayers' money via phony and ridiculous environmental reports and conclusions. Errors, fabrications and shortcuts all to minimize the extent of contamination and hence the cleanup costs for which the MOE/MECP are also on the financial hook. ........................................................................................................................... Beware MOE/MECP. You too can end up with the ever growing black eyes of the Catholic Church, police forces and the government of Canada. Eventually no institution is safe from the truth of their past/current corruption. Your turn is coming again.