CPAC TERMS OF REFERENCE UP FOR DISCUSSION

Chemtura want changes at the Chemtura Public Advisory Committee (CPAC) as basically they are finding the ground beneath themselves being chipped away by CPAC. One of the items they want are for CPAC to be exempt from the Municipal Act requirements concerning open and public meetings. I have long advised CPAC and Woolwich Township that no public good will occur if Chemtura can speak privately with CPAC. Past experiences around this matter have indicated that Chemtura have their own interests and they do not coincide with those of the public.

Chemtura would like to see CPAC's Terms of Reference changed including item #13 dealing with open and public meetings. Yours truly submitted extensive written comments to Woolwich Township over two years ago in regards to the rewriting of CPAC's Terms of Reference. My comments were essentially ignored and only extremely modest changes occurred to the Terms of Reference. I therefore am understandably reluctant to waste my time again. If however there is an open process around this matter I would reconsider. Items # 5, 8, 9, and 12 are all problematic and need to be revisited.

I have stated it before and will repeat it here. Woolwich Township have in the past and currently continue to violate these Terms of Reference. I am somewhat loathe to jump on the renew and revise bandwagon while the Township ignore at will Terms of Reference that they "rewrote" two years ago. If they are merely guidelines with certain items being cherrypicked by the township to be followed and others ignored at will; then everybody just save your time and energy and move on to other matters.