SUCH LIARS, WILFUL IGNORANCE & PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY

You can not talk reasonably with corrupt people who have some authority. If their agendas include covering up sins and stupidity of the past even to the point of continuing the stupidity while putting others at risk, so be it. Woolwich Council are such an example. While I have vacillated in my opinions as to whether they are totally corrupt or merely totally stupid, at the moment totally corrupt is winning. Keep in mind I deem blatant lying as corruption. Naturally enough most politicians do not.

There is zero doubt that Woolwich Council hired GHD (formerly CRA) to produce a dishonest and misleading report for the purpose of covering up their and Woolwich's abysmal failures in monitoring and collecting methane gas from the Bolender Park landfill. My Delegation last evening was backed up by individual pages and quotes from past CRA Bolender Landfill reports which proved the lies in GHD's September 14/17 report to Council last evening. The most obvious and blatant was the lie that the gas collection system has been "operating" from 1983 until 2015. CRA's reports categorically stated that the system was not working in 1994, 1996 and that it should be abandoned in their 1998 report. They repeated that recommendation (for abandonment) in their 2007 report. Despite this GHD repeatedly claimed that the gas collection system operated throughout the period of either 1983 or 1984 until it was decommissioned in 2015. Such liars you are.

Woolwich Council are shameless. Mark Bauman did his schtick with a Woolwich staffer by asking obviously pre-arranged softball questions allowing the staffer to respond with what superficially appeared to be reasonable, additional precautions for the landfill. They amounted to no more than shooting a water pistol at a forest fire. The staffer's comments on the "organics" and "organic materials" found in Bolender Park coming from a load of fill are not reasonable. These "organics" were found in six different, spaced apart boreholes. Fill does not contain foodstuffs. Municipal garbage does.

Last evening I watched the third episode in the recent PBS documentary on the Vietnam war. A former soldier stated that failed American policies in South-East Asia were one thing but sending young Americans to die there years after the military and politicians knew that the war was unwinnable was something different. It was termed as "killing people for your own egos". Will we have our own mini version right here in Elmira? No, Woolwich Township, your positions and decisions on the Bolender Landfill are not "evidence based". They are politically and ego based. They are face saving based. They are to avoid the public humiliation of poring money into a former hole in the ground and fixing nothing. They are to avoid admitting fault at any cost and that cost just might mean innocent human life. That you and the Woolwich mafia are willing to go to such lengths speaks volumes, about all of you.