YOUNG CHILDREN MOST AT RISK FROM UNIROYAL/LANXESS DIOXIN

 Young children above in the title particularly includes children in the womb followed by breast fed babies. Good Lord imagine mothers being on call for babies feeding times believing that their efforts are giving their children the very best possible start in life only to learn later that they may have poisoned their own children. Such is the insidious nature of both dioxins and the profit/share price motivated industrial polluters among us.  In the case of Elmira, Ontario we are referring to Uniroyal Chemical and their corporate successors namely Crompton, Chemtura and now Lanxess Canada. 

Can you believe that today more than thirty years after we learned that dioxins were unintentionally produced here in Elmira and then distributed throughout the site in the north-east corner of Elmira plus released into the air, groundwater and surface water (Canagagigue Creek); to date there has been barely minimal attempts to remove them from soils as well as sediments on at least the downstream five miles of Creek prior to its' discharge into the Grand River. 

Today the world are expressing their horror and disgust relative to children being injured and killed both in the Ukraine as well as in Gaza. The hypocrisy is not lost on me that we can be outraged by harm to innocent children overseas yet blind to the harm that has been caused right here in Elmira, Ontario. Dioxins are the worst of the worst including NDMA which was described by one scientist as the most carcinogenic compound known to mankind. Dioxins do so much more harm than just causing cancer. They can cause birth defects minor and major, developmental problems physical, mental and emotional, contribute to diabetes, reproductive problems and the list goes on and on. These health and mortality effects have occurred here in Elmira including along the downstream five miles of Canagagigue Creek. Our authorities have been very careful to refuse health studies either thirty plus years ago or now. They have been very careful to keep health data of both adults and children quiet.