CALLING OUT GHD FOR THEIR REFUSAL TO ACCEPT THE PACIFIC RIM LAB REPORTS

I have long been disabused of any mistaken belief that technical consultants owe any kind of duty to the general public. They are hired by polluters (& others) for advice on how to spend the minimum amount of money to achieve the bare minimum cleanup acceptable to the Ontario Ministry of Environment (MOE/MECP). This bare minimum of course is negotiable and I believe that Uniroyal/Crompton/Chemtura/Lanxess have leveraged the past failures and incompetence of the MOE/MECP to the their maximum benefit. This benefit to corporate polluters also simultaneously corresponds to right wing ideological thinking especially by the Progressive Conservatives albeit also by the Liberals when in power provincially. ............................................................................................................................. I have very little positive regard for Conestoga Rovers and Assoc. who were bought out by GHD several years back. CRA were far too sucessful in constantly doing "...the cheapest, least effective..." cleanups according to a hydrogeologist from CH2MHILL (on behalf of the Region of Waterloo) decades ago. GHD have also not impressed me although that is of course from their work here in Elmira over the last approximately five years including their fine work in ignoring the obvious problems in and around the Stroh Drain. ........................................................................................................................... ................................................. .................................................. ................................................. Plausible Deniability Does Not Equal Due Diligence2 Yahoo / Sent ........................................ ........................................ .............................. Alan Marshall To: lou.almeida@ghd.com , ramin.ansari@lanxess.com ................................ Tue., Nov. 30 at 8:51 a.m. .....................................Nov. 30/21 .................................. .NOTICE OF FAILURE (#5) TO RESPOND APPROPRIATELY .............................................................. Party:.............GHD Consultants ........................................... Issue:.............July 23, 2021 Pacific Rim Lab report on dioxin/furans in soil ........................................................................................... Time:............. September 2021 - present ........................................................................................... Details:...........Ongoing self-serving support for Uniroyal Chemical/Lanxess Canada and their inadequate and unsucessful "cleanup" efforts in Elmira, Ontario. ..................................................................................................................... ...................................... GHD were provided the opportunity to receive this professional seven page lab report showing dioxin contamination east of the Lanxess property in an area disputed by Lanxess Canada. This lab report is but one piece of evidence of five showing Uniroyal Chemical specific contamination (DDT, dioxins, NDMA) on the Stroh property which has been provided to both RAC and TAG members. GHD flatly refused to receive this lab report from myself. That behaviour is worse than dereliction of duty and lack of due diligence and may cross into blatant neglect. ............................................................................. Despite GHD's and other parties failures to request their own personal copies, this lab report has been on-line in its' entirety for nearly three weeks. Again not so much as a request for clarification, discussion or significance of this document. ............................................................................................... News flash for GHD Consultants. You are wedded to Elmira's biggest polluter and eventually may pay the public relations price for everybody's failures Your job is to protect the interest of a multi-national, multi-billion dollar corporation who have externalized their toxic waste disposal costs onto the environment (air, soils, groundwater, surface water), wildlife, and both Elmira and Canagagigue downstream residents. ................................................................................................ Along with this Notice I will be sending GHD an electronic copy of the Pacific Rim Lab report. I will also be posting this Notice on my Blog, the Elmira Advocate. .............................................................................................................................. Alan Marshall CPAC & EH-Team member