THIS AFTERNOON'S RAC MEETING

RAC meeting at 3 pm. in Woolwich Council Chambers. Be there or be square. Oh my, I guess that last comment may be giving away my age. Overall I believe that TAG are doing a much better job than RAC. This unfortunately is not going to get much accomplished as TAG were intentionally set up to play second, third, or fourth fiddle to RAC. RAC consist of the old "stakeholders" i.e. bureaucrats and politicians who had drifted away from active involvement from about 1999 until September 2015 when Sandy Shantz sweet talked them into coming back, at the very least, for appearances sake. This includes the GRCA and the Region of Waterloo who noticeably and coincidentally (?) were both absent at the last RAC meeting in April of this year.

Lanxess and the MOE were present and do not be fooled, they do not have to lift a finger to follow the advice given to them by RAC. Yes if RAC were as proactive and as reasonably opinionated as TAG it would put pressure on the company and the MOE/MECP to at least move a little in the direction that a combined RAC and TAG insisted upon. As it is now however RAC don't even give TAG or the attending public a hint of where they stand. They don't have to as other than verbal Delegations from the public (i.e. me occasionally) there are absolutely no questions from the public accepted. That is just like TAG and a disgrace that may eventually bite all the guilty parties including Woolwich Township who set it up.

TAG are represented on RAC and as such they are able to publicly express the concerns that they have both discussed at TAG meetings as well as provided RAC in writing. At the last meeting Lanxess staff provided considerable information on the Creek Investigation, Contaminants of Potential Concern, and the Conceptual Site Model for the Canagagigue Creek. Tiffany Svensson responded with a few good questions but overall I suggest that there is no serious debate, discussion, or argument to Lanxess's position which is exactly what they, the MOE/MECP, and Woolwich wanted when they removed CPAC and the public from flawed but vastly superior public consultation back in June 2015.