M.O.E. MISDIRECTION: HIDING THE FOREST WITH MORE TREES

M.O.E.: Purveyers and Apologists of Human Misery


There was sampling in the creek during the summer of 2015. That has not been released to us the public as yet. I am also doubtful that it has gone to TAG yet. RAC which includes the M.O.E. and Chemtura obviously have had it for a long while.

The Ontario M.O.E.C.C. (M.O.E. plus Climate Change) have ordered/requested/begged Chemtura to do more sampling of sediments and floodplain soils this fall. The M.O.E. then want that data used to produce a Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA). If they really want to punish us and waste more taxpayers money they'll bring back their pony-tailed, number crunching/manipulating contaminant risk specialist who believes that a detonated atomic bomb is not a hazard unless human beings are within range of it.

We have creek data from 1995-96, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 although the latter is being kept hidden from us. The data we have indicate that sediments are exceeded for DDT dramatically and also by Dioxins/Furans. Mercury and P.C.B. data strangely have not been made available to us. Fish residues have also been tested in 2014 along with a May 2016 report advising us as to the process behind the testing. That report indicates that fish in the Canagagigue which are available for consumption by both humans and wildlife (mink, muskrat, raccoon, coyote, blue heron, hawk etc.), are contaminated with Dioxins/Furans, P.C.B.s, DDT and Mercury. Again the Dioxin and DDT contamination alone far exceeds the CCME (Cnd. Council of Ministers of the Environment) Guidelines. Mercury and P.C.B.s exceed the Guidelines in some of the fish. These Guidelines are referred to as Tissue Residue Guidelines (TRG).

So with recent data proving that the sediments are highly contaminated and unsurprisingly so are the fish then why are we doing more studies and why are we doing a HHRA (Human Health Risk Assessment)? There is but one reason. Doing those studies and mathematically and statistically "proving" a low risk is much cheaper for Chemtura than actually remediating the Canagagigue Creek from their plant all the way down (5 miles) to the Grand River. And afterall, money is more important to a corporation than human life and health and especially more important than a few dead, malformed or sterile "critters" in and around the creek.