The TAG meeting is both in person and virtual next Thursday whichever you want. It is in Woolwich Council Chambers at 6:30 pm. While it is mostly a croc, it is the only game in town and there are at least two or three honest people present at the meeting.
The Letter To The Editor is written by Susan Bryant. It is well written as most of her stuff usually is. She points out risk information and data that we do not have. She suggests that there are common sense questions that need answering. All that is true. What is also true is that Uniroyal/Crompton/Chemtura /Lanxess have thrown their extensive weight, power, money and influence around for over thirty years before they embarked upon this disgusting and self-serving Risk Assessment. The pushback by almost all citizens with little exception was respectful, polite and courteous. As a group the hardest pushback was by the 2011 to September 2015 CPAC. I know this because I have attended all the different variations of UPAC, CPAC and since September 2015, RAC & TAG.
Uniroyal and successors have been treated with kid gloves by municipal politicians and the Ontario Ministry of Environment in particular. It's all been private discussions and negotiations with decisions made there albeit with token discussion in public at UPAC, CPAC, RAC & TAG. Uniroyal and successors have insisted upon major deference and respect that if they behaved differently they might have earned. Instead they have consistently lied, misled, minimized the issues and manipulated public consultation for over thirty years. They have gotten away with that because most citizens are far too polite and respectful automatically even to professional liars. Pat McLean and Susan Bryant have also been way too chummy with Uniroyal including back and forth favours, private meetings and much more. Now we are seeing exactly what Lanxess are made of. Initially they refused to do any downstream cleanup hiding behind their own bought and paid for self-serving Risk Assessment. Now they are asking for just a tiny bit more either begging or as& kissing in exchange for which they will consider some sort of small budget with fixed limits to do a token cleanup at a "hotspot" or two.
And our local politicians and appointed "opposition" will then publicly kiss their ass*s which really is all that Uniroyal Chemical has ever wanted. Free toxic waste disposal followed by a third or fourth rate "cleanup" followed by public adulation and appreciation.
ISN'T MONEY & POWER GRAND?
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