"TOXIC TIME BOMB" IS CREATING SOME BUZZ

The Waterloo Region Record last Monday carried a photograph of the old Uniroyal Chemical site in Elmira as well as a detailed article about the production of Agent Orange and its use and misuse in Vietnam. In today's Record there is an Opinion piece by Susan Koswan accurately describing the Documentary film as well as mentioning comments by Susan Rupert, Sebastian Seibel-Achenbach (i.e. "funny" tasting water), and by yours truly. Oh and I've forgotten the name of one other but as today's Woolwich Observer seemed unable to remember the names of any of the other local activists (Sebastian and I) or the now out of town activist Susan Rupert then turn around is fair play. The Observer show a nice picture of the here unamed activist albeit nobody mentions that she also no longer lives in Elmira. Strange. Now who helped fund the startup of the Observer again way back in 1995 possibly in order to get better coverage for local industrialists? ................................................................................................ Susan Koswan quotes my comments about it being cheaper for Uniroyal and successors' to hire lawyers than to clean up their mess both on and off their property. She also mentions that the delay, delay and more delay is partially at least to wait for local activists to die off. Fuch em I'm going to live to be a hundred soley to spite the buggers. ................................................................................................. The Observer article is titled "New film documents Elmira contamination issue". There are several very flattering quotes from the film's producer Ron Harpelle. He advises that we the public should be proud of the local activists and that we should be celebrated. Very nice and thank you. Unfortunately the unamed activist once again plays into Uniroyal/Lanxess's game plan by repeating the nonsense that there are two or three "hot spots" in the creek. Bullfritters! Every place they tested had major exceedances of DDT and dioxin/furan criteria and they would have had even more exceedances if they'd done proper testing with appropriate lab Method Detection Limits and if they used proper sample testing of sediments procedures. They did not by using shovel sampling instead of the proper core sampling. Lastly they should have tested far more for many other toxic chemicals discharged by Uniroyal over the decades. ........................................................................................................... All in all these two articles are very helpful and I can advise that there has been feedback and requests for information across North America.