MORE DOUBLEDEALING & HYPOCRISY OR A SIMPLE MEDIA MISTAKE?

 

Today's front page K-W Record story has the following title ""50 YEARS after the Vietnam War".  Now I am going to include the e-mail that I sent Mr. Pender this morning:

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  Alan Marshall 

  From:agmarshall@rogers.com

  To:tpender@therecord.com

  Thu, May 1 at 9:25 a.m.

Mr. Pender: I suspect that you have received some inaccurate advice. Today's Record article "50 Years after the Vietnam War" appears to have a major error in it. If so that would certainly be the result of not contacting me for Agent Orange information as you had indicated that you would. On page A3 you state "When workers, companies and the provincial government were fighting about compensation for workers who developed cancer after being exposed to Agent Orange in the chemical plants in Elmira, Tran got angry."

First of all yes there has been decades of public fighting over air, ground and surface water (Canagagigue Ck.) contamination but there has NOT been any public fighting over compensation to Uniroyal Chemical workers (or others) for cancer impacts from Agent Orange.

Now if somehow you have stumbled into an accurate but hidden story regarding workers' compensation it could blow the lid off current delays and refusals to clean up Agent Orange (dioxins) in the downstream Canagagigue Creek.  

I am however skeptical of that because while Mr. Tran could have "got angry" about public environmental cleanup efforts I don't know how he could get angry about private, behind closed doors alleged worker compensation efforts.

Alan Marshall  Feel free to rectify your probable mistake with a phone call or e-mail. (519 6692801)         

   If indeed Record reporter Terry Pender has let slip some super secret negotiations regarding health effects upon Uniroyal Chemical workers from Agent Orange then this could be a game changer regarding the necessity of much greater cleanups on and off site as well as in the downstream Canagagigue Creek.  Or on the contrary if Mr. Pender simply received bad advice from his colleagues or from Lanxess Canada, Ministry of Environment etc. then he has learned who has been less than honest with the public for decades.