Monday, April 30, 2012

BIOGAS EDITORIAL & CPAC INITIATIVES



The Editorial in last Saturday's Woolwich Observer written by Sebastian Seibel-Achenbach is a well written factual account of his concerns with Woolwich Councils' apparent lack of support for the BFCC (BioFuel Citizens Committee). Reading between the lines I believe that Sebastian is hopeful that Council will reconsider and give at least moral support to this group who are willing to put both their time and money where their mouths are. The title of his Editorial is "Council should back biogas fight" (pg. 10).

Sebastian is also a member of our new CPAC (Chemtura Public Advisory Committee). His Editorial should have absolutely zero bearing on our Councils' response to CPAC Chair Dan Holt's presentation to them tomorrow evening at 6 pm.. Chair Dan Holt will be presenting a CPAC Resolution to Woolwich Council (Committee of the Whole) for their approval and ratification. This resolution was passed unanimously by CPAC last Thursday evening, including of course by Council member Mark Bauman. This Resolution is the key to turning around the sham cleanup orchestrated by the two guilty parties over twenty years ago. These two guilty parties are the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Uniroyal/Chemtura. To protect each others' money and credibility they signed a sweetheart deal between themselves allegedly absolving each other of blame/guilt/liability. The corporation kept hundreds of millions of dollars and the M.O.E. avoided further appropriate public condemnation for their gross failures and negligence. The loser in all this as usual were the public who have been paying the freight for the cheapest, least effective "cleanup" possible. Woolwich Township citizens appointed to the new CPAC, both experts and non experts alike, have seen through and cut through the smoke and mirrors presented by Chemtura and the M.O.E. at public CPAC meetings. Tomorrow night Woolwich Council (Committee of the Whole) will have the opportunity to show their ongoing support and confidence in their handpicked CPAC.
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 30, 2012 at 1:10 PM

    Thanks to Sebastian. It is shameful that Council and the Township have done nothing substantive. In the mean time, they continue to do NOTHING! Where is a new odour by-law? Where is a public nuisance by-law that will deal with this BioEn site! Brenneman, Kenalley, Cowan. WAKE UP !!! Guess you guys don't live witin smell range of Martin's Lane.

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  2. AnonymousApril 30, 2012 at 5:12 PM

    I agree the Township has failed us!

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  3. AnonymousMay 17, 2012 at 12:28 PM

    I read in the woolwich observer that CPAC wants MOE to provide them with funding to help their efforts in making sure the cleanup gets completed (legal costs, study costs etc). does that mean MOE has not provided the town with any funding prior to this request? who paid for the pipes to bring drinking water from Waterloo!!?

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 20, 2012 at 10:05 AM

    The BFCC is a joke. They aren't putting their money where their mouths are. As soon as they lost the fight they put out articles asking people to help pay the legal fees. It's easy to tell lie after lie, get people riled up then dump the bill on them after being proven liars!

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  5. AlanSeptember 24, 2012 at 9:03 PM

    First of all a number of BFCC members put money up front while a few others made verbal commitments. As far as easy to dump bills on third parties, I'm pretty skeptical about that. I also wonder what your issue really is, calling people liars, here in a posting that's five months old???

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