RON CAMPBELL

Ron has been involved with both environmental and health & safety issues both professionally and as a local resident and citizen here in Elmira for many decades. He and his company were involved in the removal of 46,000 tonnes of toxic waste from the Envirodome (toxidome/mausoleum) on the Uniroyal Chemical site in 1999 and sending it down to the provincially licensed hazardous waste site in Corruna, Ontario (near Sarnia). Ron also volunteered to be a member of the Chemtura Public Advisory Committee (CPAC) from 2011 until September 2015. To this day he is still a member of the Citizens Public Advisory Committee (CPAC) consisting of nine former members of both CPAC and SWAT (Soil, Water, Air & Technical Sub-Committee). His knowledge and experience were and are extremely helpful in all areas from groundwater, toxic wastes, air emissions etc.

Ron attended the RAC (Remediation Advisory Committee) meeting of last September 5, 2019. Not surprisingly he was displeased with both the process of pretend public consultation as well as some of the self-serving statements and proclamations of fact dispensed by a Lanxess Canada representative. Ron therefore sent off a firm but polite e-mail to the two TAG members whose e-mail addresses he had. As requested his e-mail has since been sent along to the Chair, Tiffany, as well as to the other TAG members.

Ron's e-mail to TAG is available through the TAG and RAC Support person, Lisa Schaefer. It is also appropriately listed on the "Correspondence List" that accompanies the new Agenda (i.e. for tonite October 24/19) as well as the Minutes of the previous TAG meeting on August 1/19. For TAG & RAC business, Lisa can be reached at lschaefer@woolwich.ca .

Ron's e-mail appropriately takes Lanxess to task for an inaccurate date regarding when CPAC, Woolwich Township, and the public first knew that the 2028 cleanup deadline was highly unlikely to be met. Ron also comments upon the intentionally stilted, stifled, awkward and inappropriate excuse for public consultation that has been occurring since September 2015 courtesy of Sandy Shantz and then councillor Mark Bauman.