AGENDA ITEM 5. ON THIS THURSDAY'S TAG AGENDA

Item 5. on the first page of the Agenda is "Discussion on the Status of the Municipal Aquifer Post 2028". This "discussion" takes place on page 19 with six questions being presented presumably to be answered by TAG members, the vast majority of whom were nowhere to be found way back in 1989-1990 as some of them weren't even ten years old at the time. In other words these questions regarding the Elmira Aquifers are at best hypothetical issues for most TAG members including those with technical abilities and talents such as groundwater contamination. .................................................................................................... For example the first question is "Is complete remediation possible?. Dunh what a dumb question thirty-one years after the well shutdowns and after literally decades of every bought and paid for authority, consultant and politician telling Elmira residents that absolutely our drinking wells and aquifers could be restored. This question actually implies that we the public have been scammed and deceived essentially right up until yesterday. ................................................................................................................... For the record the answer is yes to that question however NOT under the process we've gone through for 31 years. In other words if the polluting corporate entity (Lanxess) and their bought and paid for consultants (GHD) are in charge of that cleanup then it won't happen. Furthermore our provincial regulator either needs to be shown the door or some form of public inquiry is required to determine exactly why the "cleanup" has failed to date with the MOE/MECP supposedly regulating the cleanup. .............................................................................................. Proper and complete cleanup requires more money and a ton more honesty. Those parties are incapable of both. The public as well as other professional authorities told Uniroyal Chemical, Conestoga Rovers (CRA), the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Woolwich Township what was needed throughout the early 1990s and they were ignored. Local and provincial politicians backed the polluter and their hired guns and the result three decades plus later is failure. Boo hoo ...who couldn't see that coming?