SHAMEFUL PROGRESS REPORT (NOV. 2020) YET AGAIN

There is one TAG member (Linda) entrusted with reporting on the Lanxess monthly Progress Reports. She has been diligent and perceptive but her efforts are stymied by a lack of followup questions from TAG members and a complete failure by Lanxess, consultants GHD or even the Ontario Ministry of Environment to explain or clarify issues that she has presented for a long while. These issues generally focus on the amount of off-site pumping (& treating) of the Elmira Aquifers. There is also no overall view of the off-site pumping that has been done since the summer of 1998 which would allow comparisons with today's generally pathetic pumping rates. ................................................................................................... The total off-site pumping for November 2020 averaged an incredibly small 38 litres per second. Compare this to the 53 litres per second way back in 2012 when CPAC and Woolwich Council formally advised both the Ministry (MOE/MECP) and the public that the cleanup of the Elmira Aquifers would not be complete by the mandated 2028 deadline. In response, months later, Chemtura and consultants (CRA) promised to TRIPLE the off-site pumping plus do some off-site source removal via In Situ Chemical Oxidation. None of that has occurred and each and every TAG meeting those bastar.. should be roasted alive for that. They aren't because 1) all but two members know nothing about it 2) one who does has been co-opted for decades. 3) the one who isn't co-opted is focused on the east side (Stroh & Martin) contamination. Thirty plus years of professional deceit, deception, manipulation and lying. Well done work by world class corporate polluters.