NO SHAME, NO ETHICS, NO INTEGRITY - LANXESS CANADA FORMALLY JOINS UNIROYAL CHEMICAL, CROMPTON & CHEMTURA

TAG have been formally asked by a fellow member if the colour photograph in last Monday's Waterloo Region Record is of the Stroh Drain. This is the photograph accompanying the article titled "In Elmira, toxic waste remains an issue". He also asked his fellow TAG members and presumably the Chair, Tiffany Svensson, that if so, how long have Lanxess and their consultants GHD been doing work along the Stroh Drain. The obvious answer back from all parties will be no it's not a photograph of the Stroh Drain. That will be a dishonest answer although understandably most TAG members will be readily fooled. ................................................................................................................. Lanxess lost much ground with me and others when they used their financial power to intimidate two local film makers (Michael Heitmann/Bonita Wagler) into not releasing their Documentary titled "Grand Illusions". This was shortly after they, Lanxess, assumed ownership of the former Uniroyal, Crompton and Chemtura site in Elmira, Ontario. They did come upon the scene however after the Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm (SDDB) were public knowledge courtesy not due to Woolwich Township, the GRCA, MOE/MECP, Lanxess or CRA/GHD. No this knowledge only became public after I "discovered" the Stroh Drain in 2014 and immediately called both Dr. Dan Holt, Chair of CPAC, and Vivienne, another CPAC member. Thirty years (1984-2014) of serious examination of the Uniroyal Chemical site and area by numerous citizens' committees (CEAC, UPAC, CPAC) who allegedly were receiving full cooperation from Uniroyal, Crompton, Chemtura and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment never even came close to advising citizens about this environmentally important Drain. In fact with but a couple of exceptions going back to 1991 all the rest of hundreds of maps produced by Conestoga Rovers failed to include this Drain running parallel to the Uniroyal eastern border for about 175 metres. The Drain is parallel and barely twenty-five feet away from the Uniroyal property. This is but one reason why I refer to the listed political or quasi political groups above as the "guilty parties". They have lied to the public and stakeholders consistently for decades either by commission or omission. ........................................................................................................................ Since the May 2014 "discovery" by the public of the Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm, all the guilty parties have yet again joined forces to minimize, delay and deny the importance of this Drain (SDDB). Conestoga Rovers (CRA), GHD, Chemtura, Lanxess, MOE/MECP all to varying degrees have claimed that there is no issue and that little to no toxic wastewaters flowed onto the Stroh property/farm. That of course was untenable hence Chemtura initiated a "timorous" investigation of the soils on the Stroh property along their eastern border which found significant dioxin and DDT contamination even after three decades of farming and tilling of those soils. The guilty parties have flatly refused to do soil testing in and around the further south Stroh Drain including in the low lying land to the immediate east of the SDDB. At least publicly that is. ........................................................................................................ Perhaps lying and hypocrisy are bedfellows in Woolwich Township. Now it turns out Lanxess and GHD have been testing creekbank soils in the Drain as per Monday's picture in the Record. They've actually been testing while simultaneously refusing to do so. Clearly the results are not to their liking. Undoubtedly after thirty years of corruption by so many parties, this lying and hypocrisy barely stands out. But it should. Also any belated attempt after the fact to "voluntarily" provide lab results from samples taken by GHD or any other dishonest parties are suspect in the extreme.