I am not obsessed with those in positions of authority who feel that lying to the public is the go to solution when either errors have been made or serious consequences have been incurred through poor management, incompetence or whatever. I mean the Region and Cambridge sort of fessed up to the million dollar goof that happened in undercharging Amazon their development fees for their new warehouse in Blair. As far as I know no heads have rolled over that and no one has even called for any kind of punitive action against those who goofed.
What about Regional Chair Karen Redman signing a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with the province of Ontario not to tell her constituents any details about the Wilmot Land Grab. Personally I wonder if anyone has actually seen that NDA . Wouldn't that document be embarrassing or worse to the Premier ? If it exists would it even be legal and binding? Is it possible that the NDA itself is a lie to be able to avoid exposure of other white lies or worse?
Back to Elmira, Ontario. There is documented proof indicating that Uniroyal/Crompton/Chemtura and Lanxess probably have lied about the location of a gravel pit (GP-1) on their site. Yes a lousy gravel pit that we are to believe magically was turned into the final resting place for overflowing east side toxic waste pits and ponds (RPE-1,2,3,4,5). Now most likely Lanxess and fellow travellors believe that it's their business where they determine a stupid gravel pit is located on their property. Not so fast Polluters' Rights groups and far right pro business folks who believe that shareholders' rights trump public health concerns. Once it was proven that Uniroyal Chemical poisoned the water supply for the town of Elmira, everything changed. The company became accountable to their victims, the local citizens and to their authorities. Now of course as all good corporations know it's much cheaper buying off the politicians than buying off the unwashed masses. Hence that is exactly what they did.
It doesn't change the facts. GP-1 has been constantly evolving in size, shape and location as the owners have determined the safest location for it to be situated so as to avoid the appearance of liquid waste runoff eastwards onto the Stroh property not to mention the Martin property mostly south of Stroh. I believe that the alleged "voluntary" partial cleanup of GP-1 in 2013-2014 along with the regrading and partial covering of GP-2 was actually a red herring to deflect attention away from the contaminated Stroh and Martin properties.
Why did the local politicians embrace this charade? It served their development plans for the east side of Elmira including a road by-pass, commercial development and putting cleanup demands to the east side of Uniroyal to rest.
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