ANOTHER TAG MEETING NEXT THURSDAY (Nov. 16) IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS AT 6:30 PM.

 There are two significant items on the Agenda namely Item 4.2 and 4.3 which are MECP Comments on the Revised Draft Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment (HHERA) for the Canagagigue Creek and Creek Hotspot Removal Update (Lanxess). 

With the first Item 4.2 the Min. of Environment may or may not have substantive comments or criticisms on the HHERA. In reality their comments are essentially irrelevant as the poor data, mistakes, omissions, bad assumptions, and falsehoods of the HHERA are all long in the rearview mirror. Whatever stuff the MECP produces in their latest comments won't even nudge the forward progress of the HHERA, not even a little bit. It's been a done deal for years with Lanxess/Stantec/GHD and the MECP simply going through the motions which was essentially predicted by Dr. Jackson and aven other TAG members years ago. Oh and by the way these MECP comments aren't even completed yet for distribution hence aren't included in the Agenda package sent out today.

Item 4.3 is Creek Hotspot Removal Update by Lanxess. When exactly did Polluter Pays get replaced with Polluter Controls? Now we are advised that this HHERA is voluntary and that the Ont. Min. of Environment, in their infinite incompetence and impotence, can't even order cleanup of a Creek devastated by decades of unethical, immoral and ILLEGAL pollution from Uniroyal Chemical and successors. When exactly did Ontario citizens give up their rights to a clean environment? When exactly did large corporations rewrite both the laws and their enforcement to suit themselves? Lanxess will haughtily advise that out of the goodness of their hearts that they will voluntarily spend at least a tiny fraction of the amount required to undue the damage, which liability they bought along with the property and business. Unless of course all our local political authorities as well as the province gave them a free pass, a legal release if you will from the liability attached to the Elmira property. If this was done apparently all our authorities/politicians etc. "forgot" to tell us citizens about it. That folks would be corruption especially if certain hands got greased along the way.