REMEDIATION FAILURES & A PROPOSED LAKE ERIE PIPELINE

 

I am referring back to both my Saturday Blog post as well as to the article in the K-W Record that day by Terry Pender. One of the questions I have is exactly how hard have efforts been across North America to actually, fully and properly remediate contaminated sites? I know that Conestoga Rovers did work at both the Love Canal in New York State as well as up here in Elmira, Ontario. My understanding is that problems with oozing contamination still exist at the Love Canal. Sure as hell little on-site source removal of toxic wastes has occurred here in Elmira. It's all about off-site, to date unsuccessful attempts to remediate the Elmira Aquifers to drinking water standards. Therefore are remediation failures based upon mediocre to poor efforts being used to justify taxpayers' costs of multiple billions of dollars for water pipelines here and or perhaps south of the border as well? Is this just one more boondoggle or legacy project for our corrupt politicians to get their names in the history books at our expense? 

Secondly I did not mention last Saturday another error besides the two incorrect dates given namely 1989 and 2030. Susan Bryant mentioned that "millions of gallons" of treated ground water were being dumped into the Canagagigue Creek every day. By my calculations the number is shy of a million gallons and certainly not "millions of gallons".  

These three errors may be an attempt to to intentionally mislead the public by Susan however I am not convinced of that. It is quite possible that karma has reared her head and decided to bestow some justice on Susan.  Over the past year there have been several incidents of mistakes and errors by Susan that may simply be no more than fairly normal ageing.  Despite relatively modest but problematic benefits being received by her over decades for assistance to Uniroyal and successors she has been the go to person for information, facts and opinions by the media and others. Maybe her current memory failures are both to discourage further media reliance upon her or even for them to realize that her grasp of  all the facts and history has deteriorated significantly over time. This is not a bad thing.