THE BRASS & NERVE OF THESE PACKS OF EVIL

 

So lets tune out the noise for a minute. I don't care how many kilograms of chlorobenzene these filth have removed from the Elmira Aquifers to date. I sure as hell never gave them permission to piss in my drinking water in the first place. Did You? I don't care how many fewer hectares of Elmira's aquifers are contaminated above drinking water standards. I didn't ever tell those scum that they could contaminate any of my and fellow citizens public aquifers. I don't care that they have reduced concentrations of NDMA by two orders of magnitude. It is still toxic and will be for many more decades. I never told them that they could discharge their wastes into groundwater on their site that would quickly migrate into my drinking water aquifers as well as the public Creek. Who the hell cares that they discharge less toxic garbage into the air after I and my neighbours are diagnosed with various cancers?

I don't care that Lanxess Canada are the fourth corporation to own the Elmira site since 1942. I don't care that the federal government asked them to produce explosive stabilizers to aid the Second World War effort. I don't care that fricking idiots thought that DDT sprayed everywhere around the world was a great idea to kill mosquitoes and reduce malaria. The fact that NDMA and dioxins were an unintended result of  producing other profitable products for Uniroyal and corporate successors is irrelevant to me. These so called experts produce profitable toxins and then weasel out of their responsibilities when inadequate research and testing ends up in disaster. I don't care how many green washing Risk Assessments Lanxess produces, the site that they bought with full knowledge of it's toxicity is their moral and legal responsibility to clean up. That their bought and paid for staff and consultants claim that there is no unacceptable risk to downstream humans and wildlife, after deaths of cattle, polluted milk from these cows has been put on the market, fish are loaded with DDT and dioxins and more, women have had multiple stillbirths and the Creek still has numerous areas of high concentrations of Uniroyal toxins in their sediments and creekbank soils means that they are liars. Tell me do you think that three generations of Old Order Mennonites living in these conditions have been "toughened up" by them? Does cancer for example work that way? Can you build up your immune systems after three generations of toxic exposures  or in the alternative are you now more susceptible than before to these toxins? Is it O.K for Hadley Stamm, Luis Almeida and many others to make these claims of "no unacceptable risks" when neither they nor the science have a goddamn clue?  

Lanxess Canada plus any future corporate owners: Shut your goddamn mouths and quit making excuses and cutting corners to save your shareholders money.  Either commit to a successful groundwater and soil cleanup in a timely fashion and remove the bulk of DDT, dioxins and PCBs from the Canagagigue Creek quickly or else get the hell out of Elmira. Sell the site and I don't care if you lose money on the sale but whomever buys the site needs to be read the riot act and not by our lily livered, gutless wonder politicians who along with a co-opted citizen have long ago sold the farm. New management needs to run a real cleanup and it can not be corporate or political. Both have lied to citizens for decades and through sheer negligence and greed have allowed this mess to fester. Shame on them both!