RAC MEETING NEXT THURSDAY AT 5 PM.

The Remediation Advisory Committee meets on a quarterly basis hence September, December, March and June. This is entirely inadequate and exactly what Chemtura/Lanxess and the Ministry of Environment want. What they want they get in spades here in Woolwich Township. What they don't want is a monthly grilling by informed and upset citizens tired of their bluster, delay and horse manure.

Item 4.1 on the Agenda is Off-Site Contaminant Removal. Unfortunately it appears as written that they are only referring to dissolved contaminant removal in the Elmira Aquifers. The east side (Stroh farm) investigation appears in Agenda Item 4.2.1 and states "East side work awaiting access via MOECC means". All credit goes to Chemtura/Lanxess and the Ontario M.O.E. in once again achieving incredible delay by not having arranged this access either by negotiation or legal means a year ago. Likely this means sampling will have to wait for better weather next spring and summer rather than being completed this season.

The latest round of monitoring of the Canagagigue Creek sediments and soils in the floodplain has yet to start also as we await the latest revisions and the presentation of them next Thursday. Apparently literally five years of sediments, soils and even fish tissue residues is not yet adequate to convince the brain trusts at the M.O.E. as to how much removal of contaminated sediments and soils is necessary. Oops reality check here. They have known for decades what needs doing. They and their "client" Chemtura/Lanxess just don't want to do it. A million dollars delayed is a whole lot saved.

How wonderfully munificent it is of the M.O.E. and Chemtura/lanxess to deign to meet with the unwashed masses aka stakeholders and or the public four whole times a year. Shame on every last politician who's been involved in this public relations exercise and ongoing thirty year delaying scheme.