DECEMBER 1, 2011 CPAC MEETING

Ahh history isn't it grand? But for language and the written word so much more would be lost than already is and has been on an ongoing basis over the last thirty years. The Elmira Independent carried a story on December 1, 2011 titled "Ministry to add monitoring wells on Varnicolor site". It turns out that twenty-one years after I blew the whistle on Varnicolor Chemical that the Ontario MOE finally got around to partially fulfilling their promise to examine the deeper soils and groundwater on the then 62 Union St. site in Elmira.

Jane Glasssco of the MOE admitted that she did not know why it had taken so long for these deep wells to be ordered. She also admitted that there had been "lulls" in the study and remediation of the site. She stated that all she had was the files because the staff involved had all retired. Ron Campbell among other CPAC members was unimpressed. He said that it was obvious twenty years ago that a deep study should have been done.

Well with the advantages of hindsight I can tell you that the deep wells consisted of two whole deep wells on the site. They have detected a half dozen of Varnicolor's different solvents all the way down to the municipal aquifer. Unbelievably NDMA which had been found in shallow soils and groundwater on the site had been analysed for exactly once by 2016 when the public Risk Assessment was held for the site. This site was and is one of the biggest cover ups organized by the Ontario MOE. That was done as part of the "sweetheart" agreement with Uniroyal Chemical on October 7, 1991. Keep in mind these deep groundwater results were finally made public in May 2016, twenty-six years AFTER MOE incompetence and corruption were first exposed via the Varnicolor Chemical saga.