MORE "BALANCE" REQUIRED IN ELMIRA/LANXESS STORIES

How is a newer reporter to know who the players are without a program? There is a reasonably good story in last Saturday's newspaper (Waterloo Region Record) by Leah Gerber titled "Elmira cleanup slow, but progressing". O.K. fair enough but would a title such as "End of the world is delayed, but progressing" make many people happy? I think not. Last Saturday's article was reporting on a RAC (Remediation Advisory Committee) meeting held on Thursday December 9/21. First off let me say how happy I am that the record are now regularly having reporter Leah Gerber attend RAC and TAG (Technical Advisory Group) meetings. That is a huge improvement ever since the Elmira Independent closed shop in August 2015 and stopped attending and reporting on these public meetings. They had been originally UPAC then CPAC and as of September 2015 RAC and TAG. ...................................................................................................................................... All the guilty parties in Elmira including Woolwich Council, Chemtura/Lanxess, Ministry of Environment (MOE/MECP) etc. have slowly weeded out the knowledgable (historic and current) citizens and replaced them with young, credentialed, technical persons who if they were even born in 1989 were merely chikldren when the Elmira Water Crisis hit. They have literally zero historic knowledge of the promises, lies, deceptions and ongoing manipulations of the politicians, bureaucrats and local polluters. .................................................................................................................................. There is one other older citizen (same age as me) who has been involved since 1989 however she is neither a Canadian citizen nor a local resident any longer. Far worse than that is that she has been in a conflict of interest position literally for decades as she has privately made deals with the guilty parties (MOE/MECP & Uniroyal/Lanxess) without advising UPAC or CPAC at the time. These include gigs of her providing professional editing services to Conestoga Rovers, Uniroyal's long time environmental consultants. This info all went to Woolwich Council back in 2017 regarding both Susan and her buddy Pat McLean who indirectly? profited as Chair of CPAC with expense paid trips around North America. ............................................................................................................................................... Hence I am hoping that either Leah Gerber or the Record will recognize that there is opposition in Elmira to the overdue and underperforming "cleanup" of the Elmira Aquifers, Canagagigue Creek as well as local soils both on and off the Uniroyal/Lanxess site. That real opposition, not the token/pretend opposition needs to be heard from by the public.