"ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP" ON & OFF THE UNIROYAL SITE IS ALL A MINDGAME

I wondered initially what the purpose was of putting highly educated citiens in various environmental fields onto TAG. To me that seemed counterproductive to the goal of the Ontario Ministry of Environment (MECP) and Lanxess Canada which is simply to put the 1989 Elmira Crisis to bed and be done with it. Be done with public meetings, expensive monitoring and far more expensive remediation. Be done with even occasional media stories. Just to be clear no Woolwich Council do not have free rein to appoint whom they please to TAG although the Todd Cowan version of Woolwich Council tried. They were partly sucessful although Todd, ever the opportunist, looked frantically for some excuse to get me off the committee to please Chemtura after I'd already been appointed. What an ass.ole. ................................................................................................................... Now it seems that young, upcoming professionals are eager to please. They do not want to assume early in their careers that some (many) of their colleagues are corrupt. They do not want to believe that credentialed consultants routinely prostitute their opinions for the unholy dollar. If there is any doubt whatsoever than the wise consultant interprets facts and data in the most promising light of their client. At least if they want future work down the road from that client and maybe others. .................................................................................................................................... So the objectives are easy. Eliminate over time honest and sincere citizen activists by any and all methods. Elevate those that you can make private deals with that will not have to pass the test of public scrutiny and comment. Whenever necessary fudge soil, water, and sediment samples by using composite samples (i.e. average the high concentrations with others that you are confident are much lower). You can also fudge samples by using very high Method Detection Limits (MDL) as well as by ensuring that you take lots of samples in low or non-contaminated areas and as much as possible stay clear of sampling really problematic areas. Profess at all times, professionalism and a search for the truth in order to get either new or naive public consultation members on board. Lie to your advantage whenever you believe that you can either sell the lie or that evidence is lacking to prove the lie. ....................................................................................... In other words claim victory no matter how pathetic the failure and defeat are. Here in Elmira, Ontario, after lying to us for nearly thirty years, the guilty parties are now admitting that they can't restore the Elmira Aquifers to drinking water standards. They will sell that failure as a brilliant saving of electrical, money and other resources by diverting them away from forever pumping and treating the groundwater. They will also attempt to sell a pathetic Risk Assessment of the Canagagigue Creek. Among other reasons that it is pathetic is that the data from both the 2017 and 2020 investigations are marred by a plethora of Non-Detections based upon extravagently high Method Detection Limits which being far (sometimes) in excess of the criteria return Non-Detections. ..................................................................................................................... The complete refusal of MECP and Lanxess to sample soils in and around the Stroh Drain I believe proves that they are in bed together and corrupt. They are saving each other, time, money and face. TAG are holding back on their final comments on that refusal to sample soils until they formally see the sediment samples recently released (> than criteria for dioxins). That should do it but never underestinmate the lying, politics and manoevering of corporate polluters.