LANXESS CANADA PROGRESS REPORT - FEBRUARY 2021

Progress Report is a misnomer. I prefer Pretend Progress Report. Both on and off-site pumping wells are failing to perform up to the requirements necessary to achieve remediation of the Elmira Aquifers by 2028. This scenario, particularly the off-site pumping failures has been ongoing for decades. Each month we are given a list of "reasons', excuses and various mechanical breakdowns and failures. A skeptic might suggest that the company has a wheel of excuses which they rotate each month to try and provide some variety in those excuses. ................................................................................................................ This month (February) the total off-site pumping rates did not even achieve the old 53 litres per second (Target Rate) way back in 2012. In November of that year. the lying pieces of crap known as Chemtura promised that their off-site pumping rates would be TRIPLED AND they would use a form of source removal in the off-site aquifers known as In Situ Chemical Oxidation (ISCO). Neither has occurred or even come close to occurring. And now Lanxess apparently can't even keep the off-site pumping rates up to the old, discredited Target pumping rates much less the needed higher rates. Put simply, they and the Ontario MOE/MECP (Ministry of Environment) are just going through the motions. ....................................................................................................................... MISA (Municipal Industrial Strategy for Abatement) outlets continue to discharge low levels of solvents and pesticides to the Canagagigue Creek. Trend analysis shows some outlets have some decreases yet many show no trend at all when one might expect after all these decades that infiltrating groundwater into the MISA outlets might have significantly lower concentrations than during the heyday of the company's discharges to ground, ground and surface water. ............................................................................................................................. Interestingly there was no surface water testing done in the creek on the Lanxess site. The excuse was unsafe ice conditions. Oddly I do not recall that excuse ever having been used before. Perhaps it is truthful but when one is dealing with professional liars of long standing, skepticism is to be expected.