SMOKE & MIRRORS
Think of the old style mafia. You have a problem you remove it. Bomb, gun, knife or baseball bat as long as the result is the removal of the problem then you can move on. Our neighbour Hamilton I have recently learned was once nicknamed "bomb city" for that very reason. Powerful people always want to get their way. Historically as well as recently in China, Russia, Africa and other locales that meant by forceful removal of one's opposition. Allegedly more civilized countries have found smoother and easier ways namely by economic control. It's easier to bribe someone into submission than to have to stickhandle around the law and authorities after the fact. It's even easier to bribe a whole lot of people including entire systems set up to supposedly enforce the law. Past that if one is really smart they lobby (bribe via political "donations") as per the U.S. Congress. Hell that's mostly legal and hence reduces the risk in forcing one's wishes and will upon an ungrateful public. ................................................... We have lots of environmental laws of which few are actually rigorously enforced. Loopholes and minimal penalties are all part of the lobbying process. Afterall politicians want to get votes from everybody so they do their darnedest to get support from both sides of an issue. If the public are demanding cleaner air and water then give it to them via flowery legislation with hard sounding phrases but avoid business/industry opposition by limiting its' scope and certainly emforcement penalties. Afterall many industries view environmental penalties as simply the cost of doing business profitably. ...................................................................................................... GHD suggest in their "Revised East Side Groundwater Report" that "The contamination beneath the Property (Stroh) has been fully delineated and no receptors are being impacted." They also suggest that because the 2021 round of sampling of all of two parameters (NDMA, 2,4 DCP) produced only Non-Detects that "Therefore no further sampling or delineation is needed." Lastly GHD recommends the remaining monitoring wells installed on the Property (Stroh) since 2017 be properly sealed and abandoned." WOW talk about brass balls! Their facts are wrong and in order to avoid proving that they want permission to remove the evidence i.e. the monitoring wells which in some sampling rounds have been allegedly non-detect and in others, detections of toxic contaminants have exceeded the Ontario Drinking Water Standards (ODWS). ........................................... GHD/Lanxess have successfully deflected the issues on the Stroh property. Those issues are longterm sources in the soil of DDT, dioxin/furans and more to the Canagagigue Creek. The whole groundwater fiasco and phony conclusions are simply more of the mask hiding the real environmental issues and costs involved.
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