DRAFT TAG MINUTES ARE OUT AND ON THE WOOLWICH TOWNSHIP WEBSITE

RAC/TAG - "cringeworthy" This is quoting a truthful Woolwich Councillor who still wishes he hadn't said that.

- "Really Awful Chemtura Truth Avoidance Group" This was my initial take on the names Sandy and Mark gave to the two groups replacing CPAC. A year later after having attended all public RAC and TAG meetings what do I think?

TAG have an incredible Chairman, Dr. Richard (Dick) Jackson who has resigned effective December 31/16. Their membership are a mixed bag including total newbies with little or zero background environmentally or with Uniroyal/Chemtura. David Hofbauer does seem technically oriented and very competent. Sebastian Seibel-Achenbach has nearly five years experience both as a past CPAC member as well as being their vice-chair. Overall less two gross conflict of interest queens, TAG are sincere and trying.

RAC to date have met only five times. They haven't been publicly or blatantly in bed with Chemtura and the M.O.E. except for their reluctance to proceed with a media strategy to poke and prod them into doing the right thing. Their do nothing history and dependance upon talk and communication with entrenched, dogmatic, professional liars while all the time according them respect and courtesy that they respond to with more lies, deceptions and manipulations does not inspire confidence. More of the same is the best we can expect from them. They are all getting paid for their time and are simply going through the motions. All hail the status quo!

Two interesting quotes from the Draft Minutes are as follows:
"The regulators picked a 30 year deadline that was not likely based on scientific analysis."
"Some at the technical experts meeting agree that it will take 50 years or more for the back diffusion to occur before the aquitards can be cleaned up because the NDMA had 50 years during which to infiltrate into the aquitard.".

O.K. the first quote I interpret as the "regulaters" (M.O.E.) being incompetent and or liars. Nothing new here folks.

The second quote was first suggested by Dr. Richard Jackson. He believes that it will be closer to 2048, fifty years after the 1998 start of off-site pumping, before the Elmira Aquifers are fully restored to drinking water standards. Keep in mind folks that this is all moot the day after (O.K. the year after) pumping on the Chemtura site stops and they recontaminate the off-site, Elmira Aquifers.