CPAC GOES PUBLIC

Today's Elmira Independent carrys this Letter To The Editor titled "Meeting with MOECC and Chemtura should be public". The letter is written and signed by Dr. Dan Holt, CPAC Chair. It was written on behalf of and with prior agreement to the contents by all six CPAC members and two SWAT team members. The other three SWAT team members are not as involved on a day to day basis as Dr. Henry Regier and Richard Clausi. Voting Chemtura Public Advisory Committee (CPAC) members consist of Dr. Dan, Sebastian Seibel-Achenbach, Vivienne Delaney, Ron Campbell, Graham Chevreau and Councillor Mark Bauman. Soil, Water, Air, Technical (SWAT) are a sub-committee of CPAC appointed by them hence going around certain Woolwich Council biases and personalities. Chemtura totally despise the acronym SWAT as it signifies to them an emergency situation. They and their pet regulator, the MOE, prefer to pretend that everything is under control.

Councillor Mark Bauman in my opinion is a world class SBS expert. This stands for sucking and blowing simultaneously. He and he alone could have and should have stood up to the new Mayor based upon his five terms on Council and his last three years as a CPAC member. I do not believe for one second that her immediate CPAC crisis promotion was not supported by Mark Bauman. Indeed at the start of the January CPAC meeting he spoke with her making asinine claims that CPAC's disrespectful behaviour was at the root of Chemtura's and the M.O.E.'s non appearance. That was a blatant lie. Yet here he is signing a Letter To The editor which essentially is condemning Mayor Shantz's earlier Elmira Independent interview. What a guy.

Dr. Dan speaks honestly and accurately and dispels many of the misconceptions and intentional misleading in Mayor Shantz's comments. The only reason to have this meeting in private is so that Chemtura and the Ministry of the Environment (M.O.E.) can do what they do best which is lie and preferably without getting caught publicly doing it.