OUR NEW WOOLWICH COUNCIL HAVE GIVEN CHEMTURA & THE M.O.E. A SIX MONTH REPRIEVE

Well done Sandy and Mark. There won't be any coal in your Christmas stockings this year. Your "leadership" in promoting Chemtura and the Ontario M.O.E.'s interests with the new Council members has allowed them to boycott public consultation and public meetings since the end of last October. Your stated plans for a pretend stakeholders, by invitation only, private and secret discussion in early April will give Chemtura/M.O.E. about a six month reprieve while you trot out your already written conclusions that you will present to the rest of Council.

The alleged results of discussions by woefully uninformed and or biased individuals and groups on behalf of Chemtura will be massaged if necessary including simply ignoring any statements or comments that don't suit Chemtura/M.O.E. purposes. This is the joy of being able to hide from honest, informed public scrutiny. The reality is that the most informed are being intentionally avoided and discriminated against. Or as per Dr. Henry Regier if the participants have explicitly denied CPAC their most technical members including SWAT, even being in attendance in the gallery as public participants, then the process is co-opted. Shame on you Mayor Shantz.