Wednesday February 21, 2024 at 8 pm. at Rural Roots restaurant off of Industrial Dr. in Elmira is the date, time and location. There will be introductions followed by a Documentary (Toxic Time Bomb) then followed by two speakers (15 minutes each only). Questions from the audience will then be directed to the two speakers and hopefully all attendees will eventually depart with much more understanding of Elmira's environmental difficulties then when they arrived.
My expectation is that topics covered will include the ongoing Risk Assessment of the Canagagigue Creek as well as the failure to achieve drinking water standards in the clean up of the Elmira Aquifers. There may very well be other environmental topics covered depending upon the questions. I can certainly understand the possibility of questions regarding air emissions as well as of buried toxic wastes still on and off the site. It is also possible that there will be follow up questions to some of my comments suggesting that the cleanup has been less than professional, less than well communicated, less than successful.
Communications regarding clean up since 1989 have been stilted, often inaccurate and less than regular or ongoing. A large part of this is all the guilty parties trying to sell the idea that all is well, all is under control and that your authorities are on top of all issues. None of that is true. It's been as much of a public relations campaign as a cleanup campaign. In fact the reality is that the corporation and the Ontario Ministry of Environment have long simply wanted this problem to continue flowing downstream (surface & groundwater) and allowing the old adage of "Dilution is the Solution to Pollution" to eventually in decades or centuries to clean up the mess.
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