MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORTS ARE RIDICULOUS - EXPLANATIONS REQUIRED

Each month I post about Lanxess's (formerly Chemtura/Crompton/Uniroyal) monthly Progress Reports. I usually indicate anomalies and or just plain silly claims such as "With the exception of W5A, W6A, W6B, W9 and E7 all wells operated at pumping rates greater than their target average pumping rates for April 2019." This dumb statement is akin to suggesting that but for the following list of twenty-five regieme murdered political opponents both Syria and Saudi Arabia have made great strides forward in human rights.

First off a shout out to Lanxess. Exactly six and a half years after Chemtura and CRA promised to triple off-site pumping, then at approximately 53 litres per second, Lanxess for the first time have exceeded the 70 litre per second mark with 73.45 litres per second average pumping rate in May 2019. That is the best ever albeit far short of either a doubling or a tripling as promised.

OH I forgot! Lanxess and the Ontario MOE don't due explanations. In fact we aren't likely to see either one before the rescheduled September 5, 2019 RAC meeting that was initially scheduled for May 16, 2019. It doesn't make much difference because they do not allow questions from the general public (only pre-registered Delegations) and even if a Delegation asks a question, they won't answer it. This is the Sandy Shantz version of public consultation and is coincidentally most preferred by Lanxess and the MOE..

Something is seriously buggered with Table C.2 on each Lanxess monthly Progress Report. For example exactly how likely is it for the arithmetic mean of concentrations of a dozen different chemicals in the Canagagigue Creek to be exact, month after month, to each other? Yes, allegedly these chemical concentrations consist of anywhere from thirteen to thirty-seven different samples all calculated to come up with an arithmetic mean which turns out to be common with a whole bunch of other arithmetic means to four decimal places? Reading over these reports it looks like a computer is generating these numbers and no one including the MOE are paying attention to them.

There is also the wee problem that the water samples are being taken every month and then incorporated into the calculations. Well then how is it that again to four decimal places the same numbers keep being generated month after month? I repeat as per the title EXPLANATIONS REQUIRED and a whole lot sooner than September!