CHEMTURA FAILED VERIFICATION AGAIN!

This post is dedicated to my long suffering friends Josef, Jeff and Dwight of Chemtura Canada Inc.(Elmira). It is also dedicated to Bob of the CIAC. The title is exactly what they've been looking for, for the last few days on the Elmira Advocate. This I know because while Chemtura visit my Blog/website on average five days per week, the Chemistry Industry Assoc'n of Canada (CIAC) have only visited three times and the last two were yesterday and the day before. They are watching like hawks and not for particularily noble reasons in my opinion. The decision on *Responsible Care verification has been made, again. Recall it was made back in early December by the verification team which consisted of Dr. Dan Holt, former CPAC Chair Pat McLean and four others. That decision was no, ie. incomplete. Dr. Dan as the current CPAC Chair which is a committee of Woolwich Council, did his duty and reported by means of a Delegation to Woolwich Council on Tuesday December 11, 2012. I was present and reported his words here in the Advocate the next day namely Wednesday December 12, 2012. Chemtura went ballistic and launched their verbal assault on the CPAC Chair at the next Council meeting.

Therefore this latest meeting of the CIAC verification team was for purposes of a Do Over. Can you imagine a Do Over of the Super Bowl? How about a Do Over of the Stanley Cup? You get the idea. This latest result of the (Chemtura) verification is bogus, bogus and more bogus. The current CPAC while not naive have nevertheless been surprised by the level of venom thrown at them by Chemtura and some of the former CPAC members including Pat McLean. The current CPAC Chair and the other five members have gone out of their way to be professional, courteous and respectful to the former CPAC members. Recently Pat McLean has attended a CPAC public meeting for only the second time. Other former CPAC members have attended very occasionally and have always been treated well and the Chair has always recognized them when they had questions or comments to present. This is the nature of the current CPAC. They are nice, honest and strong individuals. They have always gone the extra mile to accomodate all parties and stakeholders and Chemtura have taken advantage. Hence this current Do Over.

Getting back to the "...not for particularily noble reasons..." from my first paragraph; Chemtura are playing a game. They publicly verbally assault Chair Dan Holt and accuse him of lying about the final decision. Gee funny about that. It's now been over two months since Chemtura's public allegation and not one of the other five verification members to date have publicly disputed Dan's statement or supported Chemtura's. Not that I don't have confidence that if it suits their purpose at least one of the five will eventually speak up, however at this point you'd have to ask why so late. What Chemtura are now doing is extracting a seemingly innocuous promise from the six verification team members including Dr. Dan; that they not reveal the Do Over verification decision until Chemtura make the announcement. Dan of course, while completely innocent of any misbehaviour, but with Chemtura's public allegations still stinging, went along with the rest. Chemtura have cleverly now put Dan in a difficult position. Witholding the decision from the public for only a couple of weeks say to the next evening CPAC meeting on Thursday February 28/13 doesn't seem like such a terrible thing. However down the line Chemtura could suggest to Dan that he had held secrets from the public. Secrets don't forget that they asked for just for a very short period of time.

Hence the master manipulaters are watching carefully. Has Dan told? At the past CPAC meeting Dwight of Chemtura blurted out an allegation that I had revealed information in the Advocate that was either confidential or that I shouldn't have had. Balderdash! Any information dealing with the public's air, water and soil is NOT confidential. This is precisely why I'll never be asked to be on Chemtura's *Responsible Care verification team. The good news is that the current CPAC and their Chair, unlike the former, know that their duty and responsibility is to the public as well as to each other. Why does Chemtura want to catch Dr. Dan doing his duty? They desperately want a new CPAC and a new Chair; that is one just like the old one they had. Chemtura as I've mentioned here earlier are looking for an exit strategy. They are desperately trying to paint the current CPAC as the bad guys. If they can pretend that the Chair fibs and breeches confidentiality then they can walk away while pointing fingers at the curent CPAC. Oh just for the record Josef, Jeff, Dwight and Bob: the title above refers to the December 2012 decision. By rights it should also refer to any subsequent ones.