POLLUTER PANIC RISING AT THE CANAGAGIGUE

Well it's official. MTE Consultants and Peter Gray have presented their report to the Chemtura Public Advisory Committee. CPAC have voted to formally accept Peter's report after being briefed and various questions answered. To say that both CPAC and SWAT (soil, water,air & technical) are impressed with Mr. Gray's report is an understatement. The decision has been made by CPAC to have Mr. Peter Gray attend the next CPAC meeting nine days hence (Oct. 30 6:30 pm.) and give a presentation to the public, Chemtura and the Ministry of the Environment. Most likely Chemtura's longtime consultants, Conestoga Rovers, will also be present in order to give a tiny modicum of credibility to their inevitable criticisms. At that time copies will be given to Chemtura and the M.O.E.. The preceding information is of course available at the Township offices to be shared with any members of the public or vested interests. I believe that there will be a nominal photocopying fee charged by Woolwich Township for additional copies beyond CPAC, SWAT, M.O.E. and Chemtura. This I understand is absolutely not to discourage any and all members of the public etc. from receiving this excellent document paid for by Woolwich taxpayers through Woolwich Council. I have been advised that the Township have a standard policy regarding recovering things like photocopying costs.

I have been advised that to date both Chemtura and the M.O.E. have requested copies of the MTE report. I also believe that they would preferably have them yesterday. Apparently both parties are deaf, dumb and blind to their own hypocrisy. Literally over years and decades both of them have been asked to provide technical documents prior to public meetings in order for the dedicated volunteers to have time to read and digest the contents and then be able to intelligently ask questions at the public meeting. These reasonable requests have by far been ignored, avoided and seriously refused. Furthermore relevant and serious questions have been posed to both parties and instead of them replying either prior to the next public meeting or even at the meeting; rather we have repeatedly been put off and delayed often for months. Several of these matters are still outstanding such as specific monitoring well results, aquifer cleanup criteria for 2028 and much more. Despite this I am confident that CPAC as previously stated will provide this game changing document to Chemtura and the M.O.E. on October 30/14.

Two citizens to date I am told have also requested copies of the MTE report. One of them, former Councillor and former CPAC Chair Pat McLean, will of course receive a copy from the Township presumably on October 30th. The irony of course is that a groundbreaking DNAPL document from hydrogeologist Wilf Ruland, dated May 15, 2008 was suppressed, on her watch, until this past spring. Only in 2014 did the public, longterm active stakeholders such as myself and the current CPAC receive this document which was addressed to Pat McLean CPAC Chair, over six years ago. Once again this CPAC unlike past ones will play fair and ensure that all documents and important public interest information will be released in a timely fashion.