CPAC DISCUSS LANXESS, TIFFANY, TAG, DIOXIN RESULTS IN SEDIMENTS & SOILS IN AND AROUND ELMIRA

CPAC (Citizens Public Advisory Committee) met last evening and while actions and direction to be taken varied amongst speakers, there was solid concensus regarding the numerous failures of politicians and other fellow travellors bound to the Uniroyal/Lanxess wagon train. I was particularly pleased to hear the concensus regarding Tiffany Svensson of TAG as well as of our pretend mayor Sandy Shantz. Oh my but her intellectual capacities do seem to be on vacation much to often although that can to a certain degree be mitigated if moral values abound. I repeat if they abound. ................................................................................................................ We also discussed at length the significance of the recent sediment results in the Stroh Drain. Three out of four samples analysed exceeded the federal criteria (ISQG) of .85 ppt. One sample was taken at the north end of the Stroh Drain and the other at the south end not to far from the discharge into the Canagagigue Creek. Very, very bad news for Woolwich Township, Region of Waterloo, Lanxess, GHD, Tiffany, TAG, MECP and any others whether supporters of honesty or otherwise. ........................................................................................................................ There was also discussion regarding the need for (more?) soil samples to be taken in the appropriate areas of the SDDB (Stroh Drain, Ditch & Berm). To date Lanxess have absolutely refused to do so although I have not heard or seen their reaction to the recent sediment results from the 2020 Canagagigue Creek Sediment and Soil Investigation produced by GHD on behalf of Lanxess. It is always amusing listening to their convoluted rebuttals, denials and imaginative interpretations of their own data when it doesn't suit them. Their failure to give intelligent rationales for some of their decisions may well be based upon an understanding of their almost impregnable financial, legal and public relations positions. That said perhaps they should recall the Ontario Ministry of Environment's strong support of Varnicolor Chemical until that support threatened to expose them to a public inquiry into their behaviour. Then the MOE threw the company to the wolves. Yes Lanxess have much more resources to fight than Varnicolor did but the public can be fickle. If the public understand what the company have done and the consequences of it they could push the MOE/MECP into doing their jobs properly.