WHAT IS OBVIOUS NOW IS THAT THERE NEVER WAS THE INTENTION TO REMEDIATE ELMIRA'S AQUIFERS OR CREEK

 

This would have to have been spelled out verbally, likely also in writing, between Uniroyal Chemical, Woolwich Township, Region of Waterloo and the province of Ontario (MOE/MECP) way back in 1991. Successive Woolwich councillors have been bluffed, threatened and coerced into falling in line as if loyalty to a corporation (Woolwich) is more important than loyalty to your constituents. Some few may have actually relished the idea of pulling the wool over citizens' eyes.

This reality first became obvious to me after the 2012 promises to TRIPLE groundwater pumping never occurred in following years. Then around 2016 Lanxess Canada and GHD began suggesting that well despite twenty-seven years of solemn promises , oh gosh they were mistaken. It was a harder job than they had imagined.  

Nary a whisper to actually up their game. Nary a whisper as professionals to dig in their heels, reassess and then do whatever it took to fulfill their decades long promises to Elmira and Woolwich residents. A few days ago the K-W Record published the following saying from Confuscius:  "WHEN IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE GOALS CANNOT BE REACHED, DON'T ADJUST THE GOALS; ADJUST THE ACTION STEPS."

Plain common sense willfully ignored by all the guilty parties and as well apparently by TRAC our so called citizens' committee. Hand picked to be oh so polite, deferential and friendly. In other words to accomplish nothing but the appearance of doing something. That is exactly what the game has always been. How little can we spend while fooling the public into thinking we are actually going to remediate anything.