STRATEGY TIME FOR CPAC MEMBERS

Is a shift occurring at TAG since the release of the 2020 Canagagigue Creek Sediment and Soil Investigation two months ago? If indeed it is then it's about time as far as I'm concerned. As mentioned previously, criticism and opposition to Sebastian's position that soil sampling needs to be done in and around the Stroh Drain was extremely muted at last Thursday's TAG meeting, as former critics perhaps understood that their continued opposition in the face of empirical evidence supporting Sebastians', my and CPAC's position could rebound on them. Regardless again as previously mentioned here both Wilson and Susan inaccurately portrayed the 24.4 parts per trillion (pg/g, ppt.) dioxin/furans in the Stroh Drain sediments as being a relatively low or innocuous concentration. .......................................................................................................... I pointed out the significance of 24.4 ppt dioxins/furans in Sediments in my August 10/21 post here. Further refinement has indicated that that concentration exceeds 92% of all Sediment concentration results from the recently received (2 months ago) 2020 Canagagigue Creek Sediment and Soil Investigation and a whopping 94% of all Sediment concentration results in the larger 2017 Canagagigue Creek Sediment and Soil Investigation report. What is even more significant is that compared to the dozens and in fact hundreds of samples taken on and around the Uniroyal/Lanxess facility in Elmira, that out of only two locations and four sediment samples taken in the Stroh Drain, all four had positive detections for dioxins/furans with three of the four exceeding the criteria (ISQG). .............................................................................................................. To date Lanxess representatives have vehemently, and dare I say even sneakily refused to take any soil samples in and around the Stroh Drain. The sneakily refers to a private conversation in 2020 relayed months later by Tiffany Svensson, TAG Chair, regarding my February 2020 written Delegation to TAG. The conversation was between Ramin Ansari of Lanxess and Tiffany in which he rejected my Delegation in its entirety and she decided not to so advise me the Delegate promptly. She may have advised TAG privately but certainly did not do so at a public meeting that I and members of the public could attend. There has since been a public statement in the TAG Minutes advising that Lanxess refuse any soil testing in and around the Stroh Drain. ...................................................................................................... CPAC (Citizens Public Advisory Committee) will be meeting this week to determine our future course of action. While logic, common sense and reasonableness have always escaped financially and politically powerful polluters, in this case Uniroyal/Crompton/Chemtura/Lanxess seem to have a stranglehold on brass and chutzpah. With the Ontario MOE/MECP in conjunction with Woolwich Township running interference for them they have managed to continually evade proper cleanup and remediation, both on and off their polluted site in Elmira. In hindsight local citizens have strongly promoted better cleanup strategies that the company have continually rejected in favour of cheaper, less effective methods. THis is why the 2028 cleanup promises of the Elmira Aquifers are now admittedly not going to happen. This is why the Canagagigue Creek is still full of toxic materials including PCBs, mercury, dioxins/furans, DDT, PAHs and more. ..................................................................................................... CPAC have already taken action unknown to our corrupt authorities. More is coming. Citizens of Elmira no longer owe a duty of courtesy to filthy polluters backed up by local and provincial political corruption.