HOW TO INJECT SPINE INTO THE ONTARIO MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT (i.e. MECP)

The lesson we learned in 1990-1992 was simple and straightforward. The "we" refers to myself, Rich Clausi, Ted Oldfield and Susan Rupert, all APTE members at the time. The lesson was that to get less talk and more action out of the MOE/MECP required us to publicly humiliate and embarass them. Unfortunately some other APTE members in positions of leadership such as Sylvia Berg and Susan Bryant were not of the same mindset. In hindsight they were looking ahead to their own political futures (Sylvia later ran for Mayor) and Susan ingratiated herself with Uniroyal Chemical and future owners as well as with Woolwich Township and the Region of Waterloo. ..................................................................................................................... The public humiliation consisted of over and over again publicly exposing the incompetence, deceit and blatant lies of the MOE/MECP. This was not difficult as we had not only access to both Lot 91 and the Union St. property of Varnicolor Chemical but we also had an "inside man". Sorry Severin but it was not your long time office manager, Jeanette. Each and every reassuring and calming lie that the MOE/MECP publicly told about Varnicolor, we garnered contrary evidence and exposed them in the media. ................................................................................................................................ While I've been doing my best to expose the lies and manipulations of Uniroyal/CRA/MOE for the last thirty years, they have been primarily paperwork lies. In other words fudged reports and investigations that the vast majority of citizens have neither the time, interest nor ability to get into as deeply as I have. Actual physical evidence has been difficult to obtain although the discovery of the Stroh Drain in 2014 certainly has thrown a monkey wrench into the guilty parties plans. Now we are beginning to obtain independent, physical evidence of the extent of contamination on the Stroh and Martin farms that has flowed from Uniroyal Chemical and their east side pits and ponds. Some of it has now been publicly released and more is on the way. Of course all the guilty parties have been again publicly stating that their are no more issues and that they have remediated the north-west narrow strip of land next to the Uniroyal/Lanxess border. Of course having found NDMA contaminated groundwater 240 metres to the east has been problematic. Of course finding three out of four TEQ (dioxin) exceedances of criteria in the sediments at the bottom of the Stroh Drain has been awkward. ..................................................................................................................... To date there has been no water testing of the Stroh Drain flowing ground and surface water. There has also not been any soil samples publicly released from in and around the Stroh Drain. I expect that some are available and Lanxess and co-conspirators simply haven't released them as they are too damaging to their credibility. Imagine the potential embarassment to all the guilty parties if currently private soil testing results became public.