SEE HERE'S THE THING: WHO TRUSTS REPEAT PROVEN LIARS OTHER THAN SYCOPHANTS, IDIOTS & SELF-SERVING FELLOW TRAVELLORS ?

 

So now we are told by our latest corporate entity running the former Uniroyal Chemical site in Elmira, Ontario that they must study steady state groundwater concentrations in the Elmira Aquifers. By steady state they mean without pumping wells going. Hence they have shut down extraction/pumping wells W3R, W5A, W5B, W6A, W6B, W8 and W9. They will remain shut down for approximately eight weeks. These wells generally together pump around fourty litres per second of contaminated groundwater for treatment (partial) and discharge to the Canagagigue Creek. Who do you think pockets these no longer being done treatment costs? Bingo : Lanxess Canada.

But it gets better. Yes there is a relationship between how much on-site pumping is required to maintain on-site hydraulic containment versus how much off-site (downgradient) pumping is drawing/pulling on-site (i.e. Lanxess) groundwater downgradient and off the site. Hence by reducing the off-site pumping one could expect a reduction in on-site pumping as Lanxess aren't ever going to spend a penny more than they have to. The problem is of course that the twits (??$$$??) slowed down on-site pumping BEFORE they slowed down off-site pumping. Gotta give them credit. These boys and girls know two things really well. 1) How to bull**it and 2) How not to spend money on cleanup.

On-site pumping reductions have been going on for some time now as in long before any off-site reductions. So how does this affect Lanxess financially? Basically the taxpayers are on the hook for 50% of the off-site cleanup. Isn't that a stinker. Personally I don't recall ever dumping any, much less millions of litres of toxic liquid and solid wastes on that site. Oh I forgot : the justification has something to do with the Ontario M.O.E. approving various idiot in ground burying of said toxic wastes hence they have some culpability. 

What is going on is simple. The more on-site wastes that can be allowed to leak, flow and migrate off their site the less that they have to pay 100% to remediate. Every litre pulled off their site by off-site pumping saves Lanxess money in the long run. The MECP know this perfectly well and as always are willing to sacrifice the public interest on the alter of public confidence in their government institutions such as themselves.

Maybe there is a case for what Lanxess are currently doing. TRAC are way too over their heads to even have a clue as to the decades long history of pumping levels on the site. It takes time and effort to keep up and to back up and do research into past pumping levels which TRAC members neither have the time nor inclination to do. As usual they are in the dark as to what came before they showed up. This is exactly what all the guilty parties want and have.