THIS DOESN"T LOOK GOOD

A year ago we had a new Council here in Woolwich and I'd received a ton of attention from one of them and a ton of promises. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. A couple of friends outside of Woolwich Township as well as one nearby close relative warned me not to get my hopes up so high. It turns out they were right.

It is difficult to be certain without the decency and courtesy of a straight answer from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment but I believe they have betrayed Elmira residents again. By betraying I mean lying. By lying I mean leading residents to believe that there is an honest process of consultation with regards to the proposed Bio-En plant for Martin's Lane in Elmira. Here in Elmira we have had "public consultation" as suggested and promoted by the Ministry of the Environment for over two decades. This "consultation" whether called UPAC or CPAC has been an intended sham from the beginning. Uniroyal/Chemtura have been aided and abetted by the M.O.E. ever since their immoral and unethical private sweetheart deal consumated over the summer of 1991, which permanently ended the then temporarily adjourned Environmental Appeal Board hearings. Local citizens are fighting through the system to relocate Bio-En out of Elmira. Despite their best efforts it won't work, not because the system is broken but precisely because the system does work for the benefit of existing government priorities and for the benefit of the friends of that government. ATTENTION ORGANIZED CITIZENS OPPOSED TO BIO-EN OPERATING IN ELMIRA : The standard operating practice is for the authorities to tell you that you've won. They will tell you that your organized, respectful opposition has forced concessions from the proponent and the Ministry of the Environment. These will be lies intended to let you save face while they do exactly what they've wanted from the beginning which is to put their facility in your community for their profit and your inconvenience and sufferring.