CHEMTURA/M.O.E. EXIT STRATEGY DELAYED BY CPAC'S MOVES TWENTY MONTHS AGO

In war there are two things you can count on. Firstly it's always better to be on the offensive and secondly you can count on your adversaries making mistakes. Both have occured here in Elmira. In spades.

The Ministry of Environment's major blunder was in reopening the can of worms known as the Canagagigue Creek. Thank You George Karlos, formerly a senior M.O.E. bureaucrat. His statement was that they were testing soils and sediments to reassure citizens that everything was fine. What an idiot. Thank You again Gorgeous George.

Sandy and Mark can backstab and undermine individuals both privately and publicly who are in their way. They too however have overeached with their attacks upon CPAC members appointed by the previous Council. Each and every member on CPAC have more integrity in their little fingers than Mark and Sandy combined, ever have, or ever will. The knowledge base on CPAC (now Citizens Public Advisory Committee) puts all previous CPACs to shame even when they had two excellent air emissions persons.

Then we have Sandy and Mark's strange one year contract with Dr. Richard (Dick) Jackson of Geofirma. Dr. Jackson has turned out to be the real deal in spades plus he's no wallflower or pushover. He has clearly and concisely set out his case for major chamges and improvements necessary to get the cleanup of the aquifers on track as well as to investigate the Stroh farm soils and groundwater. In no uncertain terms he's also advised as to what needs to be done in the Canagagigue Creek downstream of Chemtura.

A common strategy among politicians wishing to rid themselves of either volunteers or employees doing too good of a job is to disrespect them either privately or publicly. This disrespect can be either tacit or explicit. This was similar to Mark and Sandy's strategy with CPAC. They probably hope that they can get Dr. Jackson to refuse to have his contract as TAG Chair renewed, one way or the other. His experience, presence, credentials and ethical professionalism make Chemtura, their consultants and the M.O.E. all look barely third rate.

Back in the late summer and fall of 2014 CPAC took some major moves that have borne fruit. Two years earlier they had hired Dr. Gail Krantzberg (McMaster) as a consultant and she did a fabulous job in putting Chemtura/CRA's inadequate pump and treat strategy for remediating the Elmira Aquifers, into proper prespective. In 2014 they hired MTE Consultants to examine the off-site properties on Chemtura's eastern and southern borders. The results were extraordinary and Chemtura, M.O.E. and their fellow travellors have been on the defensive ever since.

It is my belief that but for CPAC's efforts and moves that the partners in pollution combined with their political pets would have essentially shut down all public consultation whatsoever, even their perverted interpretation of it. Chemtura and the M.O.E. desperately want a way out, preferably with at least a pyrric victory. They are looking for a face saving exit strategy even one as desperate as paving over and covering up the contaminated east side lands. Next they'll want to encapsulate the Canagagigue Creek in a corrugated steel culvert the whole five miles down to the Grand River. What they will never do is admit their lies to the public from the early 1980s to the present day.