CONSTANT REVIEW IS VERY HELPFUL

Sometimes the review consists of rereading Blog postings, TAG Agendas and Minutes, recent important newspaper articles and coorespondence with CPAC members, media and or Lisa (Woolwich Twn.), literally all of which are only days to recent weeks old. Other times review can encompass looking at reports that are decades old, newspaper articles that are years to decades old and even my Blog posts going back years. I have worked very hard to record the Minutes of CPAC and TAG public meetings even when the Elmira Independent and Gail Martin were doing a good job at it. Obviously this last five years plus my recording of TAG and RAC Minutes has been crucial as the only other effort has been that of Lisa Schaefer usually weeks to months AFTER the meeting. My efforts are 99% of the time from my notes and memory, literally the morning after the previous late afternoon or evening meeting. Obviously of course during the research stage of my book "Elmira Water Woes: The Triumph of Corruption, Deceit and Citizen Betrayal", available on-line both at the Cambridge Advocate (www.cambridgeadvocate.com) and the Waterloo Region Advocate (www.waterlooregionadvocate.blogspot.com), I spent well over a year reviewing everything from before 1989 to the then present (2019). .................................................................................................................... Constant review is helpful if not absolutely mandatory one due to just the astounding bulk of data, facts, meetings, individuals involved etc. over the past almost 32 years. The other reason is in order to counter what I refer to as the "Trump effect". This is the willingness of various guilty parties in Elmira to make up facts to suit themselves and their position and or their newest initiative. It is just too easy when you have constantly new members on public advisory committees for the unscrupulous to draw upon proven past "facts" to be able to sell those members on your latest direction, reversal or issue that you wish to promote. ..................................................................................................... One example of this is the committee that TAG Chair Tiffany Svensson has suggested in order to determine allegedly what the Elmira community would like to see going forward in regards to new efforts and goals to remediate the Elmira Aquifers. It has been said about history that those who choose to ignore it are condemned to repeat it endlessly. In other words if you don't know about and learn from the past you will inevitably just keep on making the same mistakes over and over again. That is exactly what will happen with this plan if honest and knowledgable of the past indiviuals are not on this proposed committee. That by the way is exactly what Lanxess, GHD and the Ontario Ministry of Conservation & Parks (MECP) would like. The last thing they want is knowledgable citizens saying something like "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result this time.". Here are the errors you've made over the last thirty years plus. Let's not repeat them!