SYLVIA, SUSAN B., PAT Mc. - THREE LADIES WHO ENSURED UNIROYAL'S (DISHONEST) NARRATIVE PREVAILED

 

By far and away Susan paved the way for the world class polluter to keep on making money here in Elmira while going through the cleanup motions. The other two were her wingmen if you will. Susan was often out of her depth and neither of those two were any help technically however Susan also relied upon hydrogeologist Wilf Ruland as well as myself for technical assistance. My embarrassment at being manipulated by her is only alleviated somewhat if you will by the number of people inside and outside Elmira who still think that she is an activist and an environmentalist. She is a very slick talker who has stabbed friends and colleagues in the back always promoting herself along the way. Her relationships with Uniroyal/Crompton/Chemtura and Lanxess have been miles beyond what they should be including working with the company's consultants, CRA,  on their E-Dat program. Of course Susan's input was editing the text not anything mathematical or scientific. Basically when Susan Rupert, one of the three real founders of APTE (Sandra Bray & Esther Thur), moved out of Elmira and Susan Bryant and Sylvia took over the leadership, it was the beginning of the end for any successful cleanups. No Susan Bryant was NOT a founder of APTE.

Also Susan B. appropriated Esther Thur's work and Uniroyal collection at the Elmira Library and claimed it as an APTE creation. Esther started it as an APTE member but quit APTE in disgust and joined Richard Clausi and I as Elmira Environmental Hazard Team members. Later Dr. Henry Regier joined the EH-Team as well. Esther spent far more years building the Uniroyal document collection as an EH-Team member than as an APTE member and she was an EH member until her passing on. 

Susan B.s greatest gift was that of self-promotion which included awards from now obviously pro Uniroyal/Lanxess groups such as the GRCA,  Woolwich Twn. and the Region. She played ball with them and allowed them to look good while in return they tossed her environmental bones of little to no significance. These and other other parties were always making future promises which rarely were even reviewed down the road much less actually kept.  Susan's early presence at meetings with them gave them credibility for which she was rewarded privately as mentioned above as well as by one promise Uniroyal and corporate tards did keep. She was always invited to meetings whether or not she was even a member of CPAC such as from early 2012 until September 2015. Yes she and Pat McLean were meeting privately on the Uniroyal/Chemtura site behind both CPAC's back and Woolwich Township's back as well as the public's back. That was how Susan always operated and it was NOT in the public interest. 

Eventually Susan B. will likely receive some corporate award (sponsered by Lanxess). Eventually after that all her supporters will be shocked to find out the truth. I think hydrogeologist Wilf Ruland will feel betrayed as well unless he too was in on the scam with the company from the beginning. I and others found his alleged "independent hydrogeologist" status to be an ironic joke. He and other hydrogeologists were afraid of CRA (Conestoga Rovers) and their influence and refused to push even when the facts were all backing their position.  

Also surreptitiously Pat Mclean while Chair of CPAC was receiving all expense paid trips around North America to attend get togethers after being sponsered by Uniroyal/Chemtura to the chemical industries public relations body. Names have changed and it may currently be the CIAC (Chemical Industry Assoc'n of Canada). These bodies had occasional environmentalists on them but mostly co-optees and corporate types polishing their resumes. Remember that Pat's chemical knowledge was such that she barely knew the difference between a DNAPL and a horse apple. 

All of this guaranteed the non-cleanup we have today in mid 2025 and for decades more.