CHEMTURA PUSHBACK IS BEGINNING

Yours truly has been receiving e-mail invitations to private technical meetings to be held at Conestoga Rovers offices in Waterloo. These private meetings are by invitation only and are similar to the former DNAPL technical meetings held at CRA's offices years ago. CPAC at the last public meeting (March 28) indicated that they had reservations about this idea. Since then there has been a new development and or a new twist. It appears as if Chemtura have been doing a little checking into the Municipal Act and have come up with an interesting twist. It appears according to Dwight Este that as CPAC have only one councillor on their committee that by section 238 (1) they are not technically a committee of council. This therefore according to Dwight exempts CPAC from section 239 of the Municipal Act which deals with closed meetings. What Dwight and Chemtura are trying to do is draw CPAC out of their public meeting only formats and get them into private meetings. This makes sense from Chemtura's position as their credibility is being destroyed in the public meetings.