INCREDIBLE DELAYING SKILLS - Part Two

Back on Friday December 1, I posted here with the title "Incredible Delaying Skills". Those skills are only increasing. We were originally advised that the October TAG meeting was being postponed until December in order for TAG (Technical Advisory Group) to be able to receive the preliminary east side soil tests as well as the downstream Canagagigue Creek sediment results. It was all bullshit once again. Worse yet between poorly answered inquiries and a poorly written Agenda we did not know until literally the last second that those important items had been "delayed".

Not just delayed for a month either. Another quarter of a year thank you very much. The next TAG meeting is scheduled for March 15, 2018 with a RAC (Remediation Advisory Committee) a week later. CPAC all know what is coming. Regardless of the results of the soil tests on the Stroh property and or the sediment and floodplain results downstream in the Canagagigue Creek; rest assured the Site Specific Risk Assessment done by CRA/GHD and Chemtura/Lanxess will be the same old cover up. It will be the same mathematical and logical contortions of the last one that stated that only shrews and trespassers on the Chemtura property had any increased risks due to the plethora of toxic chemicals on site. These parties are in a gross Conflict of Interest position and only idiots and politicians would pretend otherwise.

We are just over a year away from the thirty year anniversary (1989-2019) of the Elmira Water Crisis. Thirty years to "hydraulically contain" the Uniroyal site. That by the way never happened. Thirty years to allegedly pump and treat the Elmira aquifers. Well they kept moving the date back so that thirty years remediation is now supposedly in 2028 (not 2019) and even that all parties now admit isn't going to happen. Extremely limited on-site source removal has taken place since 1989 and even that was simply transferred back into the ground over in the Sarnia area. Kudos go to all levels of government for their talents at delaying, denying and minimizing while people and the environment all suffer.