TRAC IS SLOWLY & INTENTIONALLY BECOMING REDUNDANT

 

The last meeting was in April the next one in six days on June 19/25. The scheduled one after that is for September 18/25. This committee as UPAC or CPAC met once a month for years and could have met more often. Since Sandy and 2015 RAC & TAG met less often and now we are down to about four times a year which is what Chemtura wanted way back in 2015.  The door is slowly being closed and all legitimate goals are being abandoned but through political manipulation and lack of citizen will dissent has been stifled. 

Agenda Item 7. for next Thursday's meeting is "Updated Conceptual Site Model Presentation with Q & A. "  It seems to me that Dr. Neil Thompson's (U. of Waterloo) made Lanxess and the MECP uneasy. They surely didn't want to hear about a second source of chlorobenzene to the Elmira Aquifers as that could get people thinking that there was also a second source of NDMA which is quite likely as well.  

Agenda Item 8.4 is "Updated Screening of Enhanced Technologies for Offsite Groundwater Remediation of the Elmira Drinking Water Aquifer". I have two comments for this. 1) Way too little way too late and  2) This is the magic bullet bulls*it (i.e. "poo poo del toro") that Dr. Dick Jackson referred to. There have been lots of acceptable technologies for decades that Uniroyal/MOE/MECP and political friends simply refused to consider.

Agenda Item 11. is "TRAC Update to Council- Tentaive August 26, 2025". This will be a feel good, glass half full pile of pus and more poo poo del toro.as always.  

Agenda Item 14. is "TRAC Meeting Schedule & Agendas Review; Next Meeting - September 18, 2025". As stated earlier there is lots that needs to be discussed/DEBATED & ARGUED but holy gosh we wouldn't want to upset Sandy's wee bit of equilibrium and complacency now would we? What should be discussed is a new, unbiased person/group that Lanxess or the Ministry (MECP) can't buy who sincerely want to clean our aquifers, Creek and former Uniroyal property. Whomever this is they need to be independent of the corruption that has ruled this "cleanup" since November 1989.