TAG : STRIKE TWO PLEASE DON'T SWING AND MISS AGAIN

MORE PRIVATE MOE/MECP & UNIROYAL/LANXESS DEAL MAKING AS LANXESS ATTEMPTS TO WIMP OUT OF FULL CLEANUP ...................... I have been very supportive of TAG and its members for several years. That is despite STRIKE ONE a couple of years ago when they permitted/accepted an excavation on the Stroh farm beside the border with Lanxess of only fifteen centimetres or 5.9 inches deep. That was idiotic. STRIKE TWO occurred last evening. That was the apparent decision, according to the TAG Chair, of TAG members out of the public eye to not accept the likelihood that overland flow from Uniroyal Chemical's east side pits had crossed the property line not only at the north end but also further south beside the Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm (SDDB). The north end flow eastwards onto the Stroh property has been proven via even pitiful soil and groundwater testing. Lanxess with MOE/MECP corrupt support have studiously aqvoided soil and groundwater testing around the SDDB hence they can continue to bleat that there is no evidence of overland flow of toxic liquid wastes into the Stroh Drain and area some of which at least has flowed southwards into the Canagagigue Creek. ............. The TAG Chair did not even have the courtesy to explain this so called "decision" of TAG. No reasons given and no rationale as to how overland flow can be admitted to have flowed further south into GP-1 and GP-2 while not flowing via gravity into the lower lying ground surface on the Stroh property both at and immediately east of the Stroh Drain. ..................................................................... As with most bull.... promulgated by Lanxess and friends (MECP, GHD, Woolwich Twp.) it has to be dressed up with a fancy name. Let's see "Optimization" has been taken. So has "Rationalization". So let's call this wimping out of Lanxess's legal responsibilities "Flux Based Approach". Essentially it's an attempt to greatly reduce their pumping and treating of the contaminated Elmira Aquifers by pretending that as long as you have reduced the concentrations near the production wells in an aquifer and that the pumping well is pulling cleaner water from the opposite direction of the contamination source, then you might have enough dilution to make the overall concentration less than the Ontario Drinking Water Standards (ODWS). Also other "management" actions can be taken such as combining contaminated water from one well with clean water from wells much further away. Again this is no more then "Dilution is the solution to pollution. This of course is in complete contradiction to the principles of the McConnell Commission which occurred after the Walkertion crisis, massive sickness and some deaths. That commission stated that ALL steps in the water production process had to be protected and independently kept clean. Therefore using contaminated water from a well and then counting on, downstream in the process, treatment to remove either chemical or biological contaminants was unacceptable. The Region of waterloo have set the precedent with their "managing" of contaminated groundwater both in Cambridge and Waterloo for decades. ................................................................................................... Of course this will all be legitimized via our Ministry of Expanded Corporate Pollution (MECP) issuing a new Control Order to replace the one ordering complete cleanup of the Elmira Aquifers. Yes this will require the MOE/MECP to contort themselves and their credibility beyond all belief but they've had lots of practice in so doing.