TAG ARE IN A CRISIS OF THEIR OWN MAKING

Of course as I've often spelled out clearly to Lisa (Support person) and Tiffany (Chair), neither of them are responsible for the behaviour of former councillor Mark Bauman or mayor Sandy Shantz. Yes Lisa was present at the contemptible, by invitation only, April 9, 2015 meeting held in the Woolwich Administration building. This was where the proven guilty parties (Chemtura, CRA, MOE) got together with their fellow travellors (GRCA, Susan B., Pat M., RMOW) to throw stones at the absent CPAC members (who were refused attendance at the meeting). CPAC were appointed by the previous Woolwich Council members yet other than Dr. Dan Holt (chair) they were denied attendance by at that time the illegal mayor. Illegal due to her failures to follow the Municipal Elections Act and her subsequent removal from office. These stones included personal false allegations relating to character and credibility. Pretty funny (not) that the filth present would so characterize their opponents. Also pretty funny (not) that Susan and Pat were in their throwing this filth as well. Lie down with fleas Susan and you'll catch them yourself. ................................................................................................... So what is the crisis? Is it simply my pointing out the obvious that TAG have made an awful decision but worse yet they have to date refused to stand by their decision. By that I mean they have refused to defend it. Surely there must be some logical, technical evidence based reason why they would deny overland flow both to the east side of the Stroh Drain (SDDB) hence further onto the Stroh property AS WELL AS they appear to be denying that the very same DDT and dioxins/furans that ended up in GP-1 and GP-2 had to have flowed across the low lying formerly swampy area west of the SDDB on Lanxess property and immediately north of GP-1 (gravel pit 1). Think carefully about that. The overflowing waste pits (RPE 1-5) are approximately 100 to 400 metres north of GP-1 and GP-2 and the former swampy area is located directly between the waste pits and the gravel pits (GP-1, GP-2). This low lying swampy area used to have standing water in it until it and the neighbouring Stroh farm were drained by the 1983 construction of the Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm (SDDB). ..................................................................................................... I gave my written Delegation (maps & text) to TAG in February 2020. No questions and no comments and no feedback written or verbal, until early July in the Woolwich Observer when I read a comment from Susan Bryant that TAG have decided to test the Stroh Drain only. Well that was nice. Good to see the formal response to my Delegation coming from that @#$%. Then at the TAG meeting on July 30/20 TAG Chair Tiffany Svensson made the same announcement. Well, well. Two sharp e-mails later I had made my displeasure known to the TAG membership. One brief and totally inadequate but polite response came from Tiffany. .................................................................................................................... If that was it, TAG could weather the storm. But it's not. A single TAG member has stepped up and politely but FIRMLY spelled it out for their TAG colleagues. This TAG member's position is exactly what I expect from each and every honest TAG member. No they are not all honest but the majority are. Maybe there will be discussion and debate at tonight's virtual TAG meeting (6:30 pm.). Maybe not. Regardless in the title to this post above I stated that this is a crisis of TAG's own making. Most of the members were too busy, too distracted (family, career, life) or too trusting and loyal when they followed the Chair's lead and O.K.d a self-serving "deal" proposed privately by Ramin Ansari (Lanxess) not to fully sample the southern third of the Stroh property not to mention the Martin farm also. .................................................................................................. TAG are at a crossroads. They can not in my opinion maintain their credibility when they are on the wrong side of a cleanup decision and still refuse to discuss and debate that decision publicly. If those admittedly busy volunteers can dig in and unbiasedly look at the evidence available as well as at the multiple refusals of Chemtura/Lanxess to provide more evidence through honest soil sampling, then the honest majority can win the day for themselves, the environment and the residents in Elmira and downstream of the creek. There will be pushback from Sandy (Woolwich Twp.), Lanxess, GHD, MECP and more. That is to be expected as some of them will be on the financial hook as well as the credibility hook for their resistance to honest investigation. ............................................................................................................... By the way TAG. Don't you think that your investigation of the facts should include actually talking to the single person most responsible for "discovering" the Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm (SDDB) back in 2014 and for doing the most research and investigation since? Otherwise.....???