Tuesday, October 19, 2021
POLITICAL COLLUSION & PRIVATE CONSULTATION THRIVE - PUBLIC CONSULTATION DOES NOT
GRCA, RMOW & GHD CONSULTANTS HAVE FAILED TO RESPOND TO DATE - GHD HAVE HAD LEAST AMOUNT OF TIME
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Well it's getting down to the end of guilty parties to send my question to. The question of course is "Would you like to receive the complete copy of the recent soil analyses?" Now I should also add that I have never referred to the owner of the Stroh farm as a "guilty party". Firstly he is not a party but an individual. Secondly while there is literally decades of data and facts condemning the behaviour of Uniroyal/Crompton/Chemtura/Laxness; their dealings with their east side neighbour have been much less public. Nevertheless I may yet send my question to Lanxess and possibly one more. We will see.
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Maybe the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) are just smarter than the other listed parties. Maybe not but they sure are keeping their heads down. So far so too the Region of Waterloo. I do expect some response from GHD but maybe they too are beginning to understand that it could be a no win question. Let me explain. Possibly as many as fifteen local citizens have been in possession of this seven page lab report for many weeks. Not one of those honest souls demanded conditions prior to their receiving the complete report. Yes there have been some questions AFTER RECEIVING it that I have answered as best as possible.
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This is the nub of the exercise. Would any of the parties involved with the "cleanup" process, step up and flatly state that yes they would like to see soil sample results allegedly taken from a dioxin/DDT contaminated area being ignored by Lanxess/GHD and the Ministry of Environment? Being ignored I might add after years of requests and evidence being presented. This includes formal appeals to TAG from their TAG colleague Sebastian Seibel-Achenbach as well as by me to RAC. While my experiment is still ongoing I believe that I have flushed out the last vestiges of credibility from the likes of RAC and TAG. Not so much as a whisper from any of their individual members even asking me for clarification. Nope nothing but a litany of conditions and hoops and loops from their Chairs that they allegedly want satisfied BEFORE they even dirty their little hands by touching a professional lab report analyzing and finding dioxins/furans in said soil samples.
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I fully expect that any positive response now received will be a lie. Hell that's what's been done for decades. Why would they change now? Collusion between municpal councils and the polluter, whether tacit or explicit, whether primarily with the Mayor or privately with a group of councillors has been the norm. No one can possibly police private council meetings outside the council chambers. Or private telephone or e-mail conversations. To even suggest transparency is utter bullsh.t. Collusion between Uniroyal Chemical and the Ontario Ministry of Environment was rampant in the 1980s. Private meetings on private property kept the public in the dark as the two parties responsible for the destruction of the Elmira water supply and poisoning of Elmira citizens colluded to avoid condemnation and censure. That has never stopped. Public consultation via UPAC and the early CPAC was a sham with Uniroyal friends and willing deal makers always in charge.
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Fifteen soil samples were properly taken and stored. Two (one composite sample) have been analyzed. There are lots more soil samples to be analyzed and I expect that just like the soil samples taken in the 2017 and 2020 Canagagigue Creek Sediment & Soil Investigations; that the dioxin/furan and DDT results will be all over the map with many well above any and all health based criteria. Lanxess are you ready for that? The east side coverup is but one more blatant public lie designed to benefit guilty private and public parties who shamelessly have caused public health damages whether for face saving purposes or money saving purposes.
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Dirty Little Hands indeed. In addition many of us do not expect GRCA to do much as they are UN agenda puppets who suck up to the big developers and corporations and stick it to the little guys doing the small projects. The next couple of moves regarding the Stroh Farm and the drainage and your samples will be very very interesting to follow. Nobody can beat real samples and the mere fact that what was found in them is actual chemical contamination! Is it remotely possible that when the pressure mounts that any so called experts could/would claim the farmer had somehow caused the chemicals to be placed on the farmland? If so something tells me that would bring this whole matter to a head in a formal legal (discovery) sort of way.
ReplyDeleteTesting for DDT, and other pesticides/herbicides on agricultural land could be tricky and results misinterpreted. However testing for dioxins/furans is different. Farmers were never permitted to put for example Agent Orange (containing dioxins) on agricultural property.
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