In fact the consultant on behalf of 39A Holdings somewhat attempted to double down again on his misinformation to Woolwich councillors about "clay caps". He was a little more subtle (and sneaky) as he kept saying look there's a cap there which wasn't the point. The point was his brazen nonsense in initially repeatedly having said that there was a "clay" cap over top of the Bolender Landfill when in fact it is topsoil on top of sand and gravel sitting above the municipal and industrial wastes. Further nonsense continued as he bragged about the lack of methane gas at surface yet he had zero measurements to back that up and all of one gas measurement that he referred to as shallow. In fact that one measurement at GP3S-21 was 1.4% methane by volume in air which exceeded the 20% LEL criteria.
Young and inexperienced councillors were snowed last night by both consultants for the proponent and by their own staff. It is my hope that this morning when they woke up they asked themselves why the hell it was a citizen rather than staff who provided them with the five year old Woolwich Observer article (March 8, 2018) about the previous Woolwich Council endorsing the new recommended methane collection system. recommended by both GHD consultants and by Woolwich's own Director of Engineering & Planning Dan Kennally. I also hope that I noticed a little embarrassment by Woolwich staff as they answered councillor Nathan Cadeau's questions about whether this agreed upon methane collection system was constructed and if not, why not.
All in all a victory for credentialism and obfuscation with as usual the public interest losing in favour of private interests.,
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