Wednesday, June 22, 2022

VIRTUAL TAG MEETING TOMORROW

 The on-line meeting can be accessed via e-mailing Lisa Schaefer at lschaefer@woolwich.ca  . TAG of course refers to the Technical Advisory Group and the meeting starts at 6:30 pm. The Agenda consists of four items although I would suggest that the two most important are 5.2 Stantec response to TAG comments on the HHERA (Risk Assessment) and 5.3 Revised Eastside Groundwater Report. Both of these are relevant to the Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment of the downstream Canagagigue Creek ..........................................................................................................                                                                I've been watching and listening to TAG meetings for almost seven years now.  While I have over the years heard considerable criticism from various TAG members I have rarely if ever heard any anger, disgust or contempt. The one exception was Dr. Richard Jackson (Sept. 2015-Dec. 2016).  He had no use whatsoever for wimps, bullsh.t artists, prevaricators or anyone on the public dime cheerfully deceiving the public.                                                                                                                                                                ............................................................................                                                                                                Which if either methodology has worked best? I would suggest neither although Dr. Jackson's  blunt honesty only had a sixteen month run. I would also suggest that if TAG do not get hard nosed and aggressive that they will get little or nothing from Lanxess and the MECP. Finally I would also suggest that Dr. Jackson's blunt truth to politicians, bureaucrats, CRA, Chemtura and the Ministry of Environment is worth a thousand polite, deferential, credentialed experts demurely asking for more porridge please. Even in the unlikely scenario that they received anything at all, they have reinforced the false and self-serving narrative that the polluter should control their own cleanup along with pathetic "oversight" from the Ministry of Environment (MECP). 


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