WOOLWICH & ELMIRA ARE FAR THE WORSE FOR THE CLOSING OF THE ELMIRA INDEPENDENT

Of course the sins of omission of the Woolwich Observer are hardly theirs alone. Corporate owned and corporate controlled media are not the same media they used to be. Corporate control means everything from pulling advertising revenues to threatening libel suits. Most media have bent to those pressures in an effort to stay afloat.

As indicated here yesterday I was a Delegate to Woolwich Council. The Observer, present at the meeting, were given the same package as the Township and as council received. The appearance is of an intentional, illegal diversion of grossly toxic groundwater with solvents, NDMA, DDT and Dioxins. Not a peep in today's Woolwich Observer. Holy crap! Sorry to have wasted your time and sorry to have wasted my paper and ink.

Residents of Woolwich need to know how much worse things are than they believe. When even Mark Bauman publicly says in council that the non sampling of the Stroh Drain by either the MOE or GHD on behalf of Lanxess is going to fan the flames of suspicion, you know something is very wrong. This issue needs to be investigated properly and independently. That means not by the Ontario Ministry of Environment, Lanxess or GHD (CRA). We, the citizens of Elmira and Woolwich have had thirty years of client driven, junk science investigations that often haven't even come close to looking half way decent. These include DNAPL investigations and intentional avoidance of sampling the "Gap" area along the Lanxess/Stroh property line.

It's all been about maintaining the status quo and keeping people calm. That has occurred by minimizing the reality and perception of detrimental environmental effects, whether air, soil, groundwater or surface water. The Canagagigue Creek is still a mess despite the presence of chubs, shiners, suckers and carp. Uniroyal/Lanxess toxins still continue to leave their site and move downstream to the Grand River. This new pathway has been intentionally ignored and again minimized by the polluter and the MOE appear to be supporting them. Twenty-nine years since the Elmira wells were shut down and the MOE can't seem to fix that on time (2028) either. By the way those drinking wells should have been shut down at least fourty years ago or more.