OLD DOCUMENTS TELL THE TALE - OF COURSE THEY ARE UNDER THE CONTROL OF ALL THE GUILTY PARTIES

Many I have not seen and many I will never see until or unless there is a public inquiry regarding the failures of our municipal, regional, provincial and federal governments in regards to the 1989 Elmira Water Crisis. A crisis totally forseeable and totally mishandled and mismanaged at least from a public interest standpoint. The shame of it all is that the lessons learned regarding (in)effective environmental cleanup will continue to be ignored as our authorities one refuse to admit that their "supervision" of large, corporate polluters is so superficial and two that these government regulatory bodies end up on the liability hook exactly because of their ineffective and incompetent supwevision. Hence why would any level of government ever agree to any kind of public inquiry unless it was not independent and was safely under government control. ....................................................................................................... Most of the old documents I have seen paint a picture of a heartless corporation (Uniroyal) more concerned with appearances (just in case) than with responsible waste management. At the same time, those reports authored by our regulatory bodies are careful not to condemn. In fact sometimes they go out of their way to assist the polluters with comments about "historical" waste practices and how these methods may seem crude by today's standards but they were the standard industrial practice of the time. Sure they were because our politicians and other assorted self-serving hypocrites passed environmental laws that were intentionally either full of holes or totally unenforceable. By the late 1800s in Europe (especially Germany, France, Switzerland) the effects of poor chemical waste disposal were known whether it was dumping on land causing aquifer contamination or dumping in rivers (Rhine, Rhone). The very same chemical discoveries allowing commercialization of products derived from chemicals production also allowed for waste treatment of the wastes produced if the manufacturers felt so inclined. After a few lawsuits and government rumbling European chemical producers either saw fit or they expanded to, at the time, "third world" countries like Canada and the United States with fewer (i.e. zero) waste disposal restrictions. ........................................................................................................ The old documents I am referring to discuss the "state of the art" waste disposal practiced in Elmira, Ontario at the time. Whether Uniroyal, Varnicolor, Nutrite or others it progressed from direct dumping into creeks, storm and sanitary sewers to "storing" wastes on-site in ponds, pits and lagoons. As Dr. Gail Krantzberg advised CPAC in 2012, everything dumped into holes in the ground eventually leaks out and migrates by any of several physical processes. These documents also indicate that Uniroyal Chemical's solid and liquid wastes have flowed off-site but not just west and southwards but also eastwards. This would include both the Stroh and Martin farms not to mention the Stroh Drain and back into the Canagagigue Creek. It is odd but to date, of the reports I've read, all the parties in the know, even with reports after the 1983 construction of the Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm (SDDB) somehow managed to avoid speaking of it. That is weird unless of course they were in on the conspiracy.