O.M.GOSH WILL THE PUBLIC LEARN ABOUT THE MTE REPORT BEFORE CHEMTURA?

Karma is absolutely a bitch! The masters of delay and suppression of game changing documents, namely Chemtura and their closest ally the Ontario M.O.E., are now complaining that they haven't received the report produced by MTE Consultants and Mr. Peter Gray. Mr. Gray's Draft Report is a bombshell from which Chemtura, their consultants and M.O.E. allies may never recover. Back in May 2008 (2nd & 15th respectively) two huge DNAPL reports were produced by Jaimie Connolly of the M.O.E. and by Wilf Ruland on behalf of CPAC. These two reports were sucessfully suppressed by these three parties from the public and other stakeholders and only became public knowledge this year after I and CPAC shamed Chemtura into grudingly releasing them. Today's Elmira Independent has the following front page story "Council pushes for action on Chemtura cleanup". Gail Martin accurately describes the MTE report as suggesting that "...there is a good possibility that liquid waste found its way off the Chemtura site from former waste pits, onto neighbouring sites.".

Editor Gail Martin also goes into greater detail concerning the manmade drain that runs parallel and at points within twenty feet of the Chemtura property line south and east before discharging into the Canagagigue Creek. She mentions that it also runs by a nearby Mennonite family's swimming pond. In fact there is a diversion built expressly to divert water (& more) into the swimming pond when its' level drops. While Gail specifically mentions high levels of DDT found in the sediments of the creek, the fact is that Dioxins including the most toxic 2,3,7,8 TCDD are also present at disturbing levels.

Gail also has an Editorial in today's Independent titled "The saga continues". She refers to the "glacial pace" of the cleanup and that "...both ministry officials and Chemtura representatives did all they could to slow things down.". Further she refers to their complaints as follows "...given both the ministry and Chemtura's history of stalling on matters like this one..." they would have stalled and objected regardless of how much more time they were given to study the Resolution and the MTE Report. As my friend and colleague Richard Clausi is fond of saying you will never solve a problem until after you admit that it exists. To date Chemtura and the M.O.E. are unwilling to admit that they are and always have been the problem and that they refuse to admit their goal is both to delay and to misrepresent the facts.