As best as I can determine from 35 years of careful observation, reading, attending and watching UPAC, CPAC, RAC/TAG and finally TRAC as well as written critiques of so called technical documents, the final solution is very simple. Thirty-five years of obfuscation, deception, and delay have gotten our authorities and polluting companies to where we are now which is failure in all aquifers, all connected surface waters and on the former Uniroyal Chemical site itself. The polluters have gleefully watched as the myriad contaminants have leaked, oozed, flowed and migrated by all possible physical and chemical means off their site. They have evaporated into the air, dissolved into the aquifers, bonded with soils and sediments and been uptaken by both the benthic community (midges, chironomids etc.) as well as by fish in the Canagagigue Creek. Native fish eating species predators such as mink, coyotes, racoons, hawks and herons have also likely been impacted. Certainly domestic cattle as well as their human supervisors have also been impacted. Our authorities have refused human health studies as well as serious and honest investigations of local domestic and wild life.
We are now into the second generation of professional liars working on their own behalf and unfortunately against the public interest. I believe that their plan is exceedingly simple as well as stupid. Do not burden the polluters, the economy or the taxpayers with the real cleanup bill. Talk, talk and talk until as much opposition as possible has fallen aside. Literally outliving activist citizens is one of their strategies despite both Min. of Environment and Uniroyal long term apologists retiring and or passing on just as has occurred with citizen activists.
To be clear they are going to say one thing while doing the opposite. It takes special kinds of people to be able to cash their pay cheques and go home to their loved ones while also lying to them about what Mommy or Daddy does for a living. After three and a half decades of nonsense I believe they are ready to pull the plug, publicly proclaim success as well as graciously accept kudos and honours from our dishonourable politicians . They crave externalizing pollution costs upon the public purse while also greenwashing their personal culpability. They are going to eventually, probably sooner than later, stop or reduce pumping even more and just let nature take its' course. It could take one or two hundred years of this to eventually break down and flush much of the Uniroyal pigpen downstream to be inflicted upon both wildlife, human life and the overall environment. As long as share prices are unaffected it's all good with them. My only question is whether they are corporate sociopaths or psychopaths.
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