This post originally was going to be about the $90 million that the Federal government have committed to a wellness/health centre to be built at Grassy Narrows for treatment of mercury victims. Victims of firstly Reed Paper and secondly of decades of both provincial and federal governments. Unfortunately the article that was in the Record's on-line version early this morning never made it to my hard copy paper delivered this morning. After going back to the on-line Record I find the article gone. This is not the first time this has occurred for whatever reason. ........................................................................................................... Reporter Paige Desmond wrote an article for the K-W Record titled "Chemtura boosts water cleanup" that was published on November 2, 2015. The article states that four new wells have been installed and infrastructure for treatment of the groundwater is also under construction. Jeff Merriman of Chemtura is quoted as saying that the company identified the need for additional work back in 2012 in order to achieve their 2028 mandated cleanup of the Elmira Aquifers. Of course Jeff "forgot" to mention that it was the citizens' committee CPAC who first identified the impending cleanup failure and went public with their findings. Both Chemtura and the Ministry of Environment denied CPAC's position for six months until they came up with their enhanced pump and treat plans. In the interim well W9 still isn't up and running and in fact pumping since 2015 (and 2012) only briefly exceeded the 2012 rates and in fact has been either the same or lower for most of the remaining years. The pump and treat system has been all about talk and not about actually pumping and treating more water. It's pretty clear that the new owners Lanxess Canada as well as the Ontario Ministry of Environment feel that they are in the end game and are trying their best to wind down the cleanup efforts. It's primarily been a public relations exercise for the past thirty-two years with lots of noise, talk, meetings, double dealings and little effective results.