CPAC MEETING TONITE & PHASING OUT OLD RAIL TANKERS

Tonight at 6 pm. in Woolwich Council Chambers, the Chemtura Public Advisory Committee will hold their monthly meeting. On the Agenda will be a discussion of the next *Responsible Care verification for Chemtura. If you will recall the last one was a nothing short of a travesty with Chemtura getting a "do over" after initially failing. Later in the meeting Conestoga Rovers on behalf of Chemtura will be doing their annual dog and pony show aka presentation of last year's (2013) Annual Monitoring Report. Calling it a dog and pony show is of course disrespectful but after decades of sitting through them I should be excused. I suppose I could more gently refer to them as advanced examples of extreme puffery. Come one, come all this is a public meeting and as Earth Day was only two days ago, do yourselves a favour and learn how corporate polluters pull the wool over the public's eyes.


Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story "Ottawa phasing out old rail tankers". Just in the nick of time you say? Well let's not forget last summer's Lac Megantic disaster. Let's not forget the next several leaks, fires and explosions. Afterall you don't replace aging infrastructure overnight. Experts in the field are actually laughing at Ottawa's three year timeline. These inadequate tankers have been so for decades but when governments are focused on short term goals such as winning the next election; well they can be forgiven for Canadians losing their lives all in the name of the next Conservative majority. Thank God our politicians have their priorities in order.