CORRUPTION EXPLODES IN WOOLWICH

Yesterday afternoon in Woolwich Council Chambers yet again democracy was perverted and our local world class polluter lied and manipulated to avoid having to investigate and clean up the Stroh Drain. It's also all about hit and run public meetings now with RAC and TAG. No longer are TAG meetings every month or two. The last RAC meetings were in March and April of this year preceded by last September (2017) with the next one scheduled for this September (2018). TAG's next meeting is tentatively scheduled for next October unless bodies can be convinced to come out in the summer (July or August). This is a contemptible disgrace. This is on Sandy Shantz and Mark Bauman and their attack on and removal of CPAC members in 2015 to be replaced by their "cringeworthy" creations of RAC and TAG. Even with many good members on TAG, reducing their meetings like this will kill their ability to even attempt to hold Lanxess accountable through RAC which is a complete joke. Again no sign of the Region of Waterloo's presence at yesterday's RAC meeting. They know a phony committee when they see one.

Two local attendees spoke out against Lanxess running and hiding from testing the Stroh Drain area. That was Mark Bauman privately at the end of the meeting to me and Sebastian and Susan Bryant publicly asking Ramin Ansari of Lanxess whether Lanxess would test the Stroh Drain sediments or soils. Ramin said no they would not. His excuse was the Mickey Mouse surficial (15 cm/6 inches) soil testing up along the Lanxess/Stroh border which allegedly had its' concentrations decrease sharply as the sampling moved a few metres eastwards. Furthermore the grand total of two samples again allegedly were below the criteria for DDT and Dioxins in the "Gap" area. A liar is a liar and a manipulator/deceiver will always find a way to do just that. A lack of ethics and honesty as demonstrated for decades by the partners in pollution has made me no longer even have faith in the honesty of their sampling. Afterall when another immoral and unethical party is the "witness" to their sampling, what does that prove?

Speaking of an immoral and unethical party, the Ontario Ministry of Environment rolled over yet again. We were advised by Sebastian that the Ontario M.O.E. sent out a letter earlier this month telling Lanxess that they needed to do soil sampling around the Stroh Drain. Yesterday afternoon Jason Rice of the M.O.E. reversed that position. Yes he said the M.O.E. would accept Lanxess's non testing. Keep in mind that at the last RAC meeting Mark Bauman did publicly tell Lanxess that he the RAC co-chair felt that this testing was necessary to put concerns to rest that this Drain could be transporting DDT and Dioxins into the Canagagigue Creek. While his logic is suspect it could possibly be interpreted as being a diplomatic way of getting Lanxess to do the right thing.

We have had three and a half years of intentional delay after the devastating exposure of Uniroyal/CRA/M.O.E. lying about the east side of the site and the flow of toxic contaminants onto the Stroh farm. The foxes in charge of the henhouse designed a Work Plan that suited their intention never to find out the truth about the Stroh Drain. They manipulated and orchestrated the removal of CPAC from their positions of Woolwich representatives in the cleanup. This was achieved through the efforts of Sandy Shantz and Mark Bauman. Allegedly Mark is retiring and not running again for council. Thank God as he is a manipulator of the first order. We at CPAC call him Mr. Flip Flop. Maybe he's for real regarding his expressed desire for Stroh Drain testing but more likely he is posturing simply to insulate his environmental credentials and his reputation after he leaves council. Good riddance to bad rubbish. The same goes for Susan Bryant. Hot and cold. Yesterday she seemed interested in testing the Stroh Drain. Previous meetings she wanted to get on with the superficial cleanup along the Stroh property line. Superficial cleanups are the specialty of this company and their fellow travellors.