WOOLWICH HAVE APPARENTLY SENT 2-3 OF THE REQUESTED TECHNICAL REPORTS TO TAG MEMBERS

So what could possibly go wrong? Oh let me count the ways! First and foremost you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. In other words, TAG members, other than the Chair, are unpaid local (mostly) volunteers with both families and full time employment. This relative "independence" is both their strength and their weakness. How many of them will read any of the reports and how many will read all that are provided especially at this late date? The next question is even more painful. How many who have read little or none of these reports will choose the Chair's position as their default mode? Do you think that busy volunteers who know that this Delegation by one of their senior members is esssentially an appeal of an already made, unresearched and undebated decision presented to them by their Chair several months ago, will admit that they haven't had time to do their homework? How many of them yet again, on a question that they haven't seriously looked at the facts and evidence, will simply default to the original, made in private decision between Tiffany and Ramin (Lanxess)? ........................................................................................................ The opportunities for truth and obvious facts to fall before credentialed and self-serving and dishonest men and women is great. The basic fact that water flows downhill has been sucessfully ignored for the last six years. The fact that the Topographical contour lines showing ground surface elevation, whether produced by Conestoga Rovers, MOE, GRCA, Chemtura are all consistent, is not helpful if TAG members will not spend the time to study them. The fact that I, a non-TAG member, have handed out colour copies of these maps of the Uniroyal/Lanxess property and topographical contour lines to TAG members also will be of little significance if they choose not to study them. .................................................................................................. TAG are approaching a very high cliff. Any failure on their part as a group to do their duty, responsibility, and due diligence will eventually reflect on all of them personally. Hiding behind authority figures or credentialed experts only goes so far. This is a defining moment for TAG's legacy. Are they independent, intelligent, serious volunteers who have decided to look at the evidence with open minds or are they simply a rubber stamp for the status quo, Woolwich Township pro polluter biases and the Ontario Ministry of Environment?