Way, way back in the 1990s I put a large sign on the roof of my car and parked outside the municipal arena on Snyder Ave. The sign read "The Cleanup Is A Scam". At the time I was referring to the current scam that was ongoing at the public UPAC (Uniroyal Public Advisory Committees) meetings. Most likely that would have been what eventually ended up being a decades long coverup of DNAPLS (dense non aqueous phase liquids) on the Uniroyal Chemical site. From time to time over the years I wondered if anybody thought that I was actually calling out the entire process and extensive, complicated coverup as no more than a public relations campaign.
Flash forward thirty years and here we are today. The groundwater is decades or more away from cleanup and the company are spending a small fortune however it's still on public relations, scamming the public, obfuscating everybody and pretending to actually care about the environment and all its' inhabitants. Last month's Monthly Progress Report is out and it's more of the same crap. Both on and off site pumping are way down from even the normal off-site 53 litres/second (all off-site wells) back in 2012. On-site wells (mostly PW5) is also way down and has been for TWO YEARS now! Upper Aquifer on-site wells continue to have very low pumping rates although I believe after years of this they have rebuilt a few of them. Hence January 2024's off-site pumping from all wells is an alarming 37 litres per second. That was grossly inadequate back in 2012 and at that time Chemtura publicly promised to TRIPLE the off-site pumping. Later they lowered that to DOUBLING the pumping rates. It's never happened. Don't hold your breathe expecting RAC, TAG or TRAC to raise a peep about this. Nobody wants to rock the boat and or embarrass the guilty parties. That's un Canadian don't you know!
It seems pretty clear to me that they were simply buying time. The polluter and all their fellow travellors whether governmental or not have enabled this gross deception and environmental failures. It is way past time to kick all the lying bastards out.
YES it is GREENWASHING and our naive little community has been completely usurped by long term bureaucrats who find their resting spots much like NDMA! My opinion is that elections and media and most all politicians have become a farce!
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