TAG MEETING NEXT WEEK

First of all the information (what there is to date) is in today's Woolwich Observer newspaper. It is a virtual meeting and will be held at 6:30 pm. on Thursday, October 22, 2020. TAG of course stands for Technical Advisory Committee and in order to "attend" one must register through the Support Specialist, Lisa Schaefer via either lschaefer@woolwich.ca or 519 6691647 Ext. 6112 before 12 noon on Tuesday, October 20th. .......................................................................................................... Following are the issues: 1) The Minutes of the last meeting (Sept. 10/20) are not yet out although soon will be. 2) Sebastian Seibel-Achenbach, a TAG member, requested an important item go on the Agenda at the last meeting and was advised that it would not be heard at this meeting but hopefully the next one. The item he wishes to speak to is sampling of soils in and around the Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm (SDDB). Extremely informed and intellgent citizens such as CPAC (Citizens Public Advisory Committee) members are disgusted and appalled with both Lanxess Canada's refusal to do this testing as well as TAG's apparent to date willingness to go along with that. ........................................................................................................ There is in my opinion one other relevant issue. While TAG have a number of honest, intelligent, citizen members; they are impotent by intent of Woolwich Township, Ontario Ministry of Environment and Lanxess Canada. Their process around public consultation stinks beyond belief and they themselves have no authority whatsoever. They report to the RAC committee (bunch of status quo bureaucrats & politicians) who then ostensibly report to Woolwich Township Council. It is a bunch of know little, friendly folks who are there NOT to ever rock the boat. Lanxess and the Ontario MOE/MECP do exactly as they want and everybody is smiling, friendly and of no use whatsoever in promoting the public interest. Lanxess and the Ontario MOE thank you for your service to them and their long ago sweetheart deal.