PUBLIC RELATIONS PUSH IS IN HIGH GEAR AT LANXESS CANADA, ELMIRA

 

Well why wouldn't it be? They sure as hell don't want to spend the appropriate amount of money to either 1) clean up the Elmira Aquifers to drinking water standards 2) clean up the embedded Uniroyal toxins (DDT, dioxins etc.) in the Canagagigue Creek sediments and soils 3) clean up the sub-surface pig pen that is their site. After a tour of their east side property  Luis and Hadley bulls*itted Sebastian and others stating that nothing flows eastwards off their site. This is despite topographical contours showing off-site eastwards flow from their property onto the Stroh property which Lanxess and GHD have refused to discuss intelligently or honestly.

So the most recent PR crap from Lanxess is a light meal and a plant tour for selected individuals. Some of the individuals invited are woefully out of their depths for the very obvious reasons that they've never seriously applied themselves to studying the issues in depth. Many have known for decades that their bread is buttered by Woolwich Township blind loyalty hence what need is there for them to actually know and understand the facts? Others such as Pat Mclean no longer even live in Elmira or Woolwich Township but continue to attend more to socialize than anything else. Seriously though she never did have a serious grasp on the details as she left the reading of technical reports to others such as myself.

Others are attending and sucking up mostly to get appointed to TRAC or whatever the next iteration of a tame, deferential "citizens'" committee will turn out to be. All in all more of the same as talk is so much cheaper than cleanup and always has been. 

Thankfully I was not invited to their dog and pony show so I don't need to formally tell them to p** off. If and when they are dragged kicking and screaming to real discussions/negotiations then maybe, just maybe depending on all the circumstances and conditions I might have an interest. Until then just like Vladimir Putin they are merely liars and obfuscators wasting everybody's time and resources for their own purposes.