AND THIS IS HOW THEY CONTINUE TO PULL THE WOOL OVER THE PUBLIC'S EYES - LAST NIGHT'S TAG MEETING

No institutional memory. No corporate memory. No honest, able to speak up, citizen memory. New citizen appointees no matter how smart and honest. New faces representing the MOE/MECP as well as representing Uniroyal/Lanxess. That is how the partners in pollution do it. Oh and of course with help from their friends and fellow travellors i.e. local politicians. Bring in competent individuals (regularly) while weeding out those who don't follow the program. It's all about constant lying, constant fact manipulation, and human nature to trust credentialed new faces who despite their employers' history believe that they deserve trust and respect.

Last night we had two new (to us) Ministry of Environment individuals who looked good, spoke confidently, were polite and courteous, and yet who mostly spouted platitudes about risk assessments bringing forth facts and data which will enable us to make scientific decisions regarding either remediation or management methods to mitigate risk. In theory it might actually work. The major hurdle is in trusting those who are in charge of the process. In trusting those who assemble the raw data, weigh it appropriately, and then allegedly interpret it honestly.

My first paragraph regarding no institutional memory is exemplified by Ron Campbell's e-mail to TAG as posted here yesterday. Lanxess made an inaccurate statement at the public RAC meeting and no one allowed to speak, disputed it. Dwight Este of Lanxess, among others, knew it was horse manure. He and others said nothing. Ron spoke up via e-mail the next day. Meanwhile any public attending totally missed the attempt to rewrite history.

TAG membership is improving. Pat McLean is gone and Katharina Richter is a strong new member. Sebastian and David Hofbauer are excellent. Joe Kelly continues to call a spade a spade, albeit far more humourously than I ever could. Linda Dickson does her homework and reports well to TAG regarding monthly Progress Reports and more. TAG Chair Tiffany Svensson runs a good meeting and listens to all present and encourages questions and comments from appointed members and formal guests such as last evening's MOE folks. New member Dustin Martin could not attend last evening. Susan Bryant did clarify a few points.

Maybe MOE horse manure regarding Risk Assessments is like religion. With faith you can accept almost anything. Resurrection, eternal life, walking on water, it's all possible if you have faith. Dr. Henry Regier investigated, asked questions, and researched Risk Assessments diligently the last time they came to Elmira regarding the Chemtura (Uniroyal) site. As per my book ("Elmira Water Woes: The Triumph of Corruption, Deceit, and Citizen Betrayal" - Chapter 7) he concluded that Risk Assessments done by the Ontario MOE and Chemtura in Elmira, Ontario were primarily nothing more than greenwashing.

So tell me exactly why I should believe a single word coming out of the mouths of politicians and government employees, especially those from the MOE/MECP? They have utterly destroyed my faith in their competence and honesty. They can trot out as many good and smart folks they want, the decision making is inherently corrupted and not in the public's interest. Perhaps tomorrow I may expound on last evening's meeting with Ministry specifics and TAG questions and comments.