"A FRAUD BEING PERPETRATED UPON THE CITIZENS OF ELMIRA"

The full quote of the above title is "This report is a fraud being perpetrated upon the citizens of Elmira with the complicity of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment.". It is on page six of my August 26, 2007 "Response and Critique of CRA's Aug. 2007 DNAPL Investigation Report". My August 26, 2007 Response and Critique are the real reason that CPAC Chair Pat McLean and Susan Bryant embarked upon their campaign to remove me from CPAC. With or without full approval/authorization from Chemtura, Susan desperately did not want the DNAPL coverup by Chemtura/M.O.E./CRA to be exposed. Afterall Susan had not properly advised APTE back in 1991 about the Indemnity for known contamination (ie. DNAPLS) aspect of the "sweetheart deal"/Settlement Agreement signed between Uniroyal and the M.O.E. on October 7, 1991. She received a copy of it; the media, public and APTE membership and co-ordinators did not. This was Susan's first taste of insider knowledge and intrigue. The direct result was Esther Thur, Richard Clausi and myself leaving APTE in January 1994 over Sylvia Berg's refusal to confront the M.O.E.'s December 10, 1993 acceptance and approval of Uniroyal's 1993 DNAPL report and remediation. Sylvia was APTE's second in command at the time and Susan and Darrol were on sabbatical in India.
Not only did the M.O.E.'s position make no sense but Sylvia Berg's flip flop and rollover was stunning. None of us knew at that time about the Indemnity and sweetheart deal and believe me neither Sylvia nor Susan shared that information. That deception has haunted the cleanup, APTE and the honest Elmira activists ever since. This is one of the reasons I am so adamant that there be no private "technical" meetings, negotiations or under the table deals. Even one or two reps from CPAC are not sufficient as Susan, Pat and Wilf sold the farm again during the approximate 2005-2008 DNAPL technical meetings.

Further comments in my August 26/07 Critique include a discussion of Chemtura's main tank farm (MTF). There was a Borehole (BH-701) on the north-east corner of the MTF as well as a monitoring well and borehole on the south end of the MTF. Both of these yielded astoundly high concentrations of soil, groundwater and even soil vapour readings. There are references to "black staining, sheen, strong odours and trace NAPL". Astoundingly to this day Chemtura maintain the fiction that they don't know if it is LNAPL (light, floating NAPL or dense, sinking NAPL). What a crock!

All kinds of relevant investigations and reporting were prematurely aborted during this "investigation". Whether further Effective Solubilitiy calculations for more chemicals in more wells or more plume maps for all the other DNAPL chemicals; this "investigation" was nothing more than one more step in the DNAPL coverup on the Uniroyal/Chemtura site. The Ontario Ministry of the Environment sold the farm with their October 7, 1991 "sweetheart deal" but it also took two co-opted local citizens to enable it's success. Currently a book is being written about Uniroyal Chemical and the Elmira "crisis". I doubt that the author is aware of or would believe the truth as he too, just like myself, was taken in by a manipulater and deceiver.