CORRUPTION: corrupt, rotten, decaying...also riddled with errors
Corruption does not have to be brown paper bags full of cash aka Brian Mulroney and Karl Heinz Schreiber and the Airbus scandal Yes Sandy corruption and collusion are absolutely commonplace in politics including at the municipal level.
The last two days I have focused on the inaugural TRAC meeting. TRAC stands for Totally Rotten & Corrupt in my opinion despite a few misguided but presumably honest individuals on the committee. There have been many good people up and leave it's predecessor TAG in the past including Joe Kelly, Katarina Richter, Dustin Martin and possibly Bill Barr.
Ramin's latest flurry of comments regarding excess chlorobenzene in the Elmira Aquifers is very odd. Perhaps just as his sudden retirement announcement he is laying the groundwork for his "legacy" here in Elmira by deflecting more blame away from Uniroyal/Lanxess Canada. Regardless our Ontario Ministry of Environment despite whatever it's name is at the moment failed to stop chlorobenzene discharges into the natural environment from multiple sources back in the day. They also failed to properly investigate and give those results to the public in the early stages of the Elmira Water Crisis. This included them desperately covering up the extent of contamination and dumping going on at Varnicolor Chemical both on Union St. and at Lot 91 on the extreme east end of Oriole Parkway.
Chlorobenzene in the form of DNAPL (Dense Non Aqueous Phase Liquids) was found near the Howard St. Elmira Water Tower in approximately 2007 and publicly and uselessly expressed by me to CPAC under the control of Susan B. and Pat Mc. at that time. Currently we know that BOTH NDMA at a drinking water standard of .009 parts per billion (ppb.) AND chlorobenzene at a much higher drinking water standard of 80 ppb. will not achieve these standards by either 2028 or likely even 2058 if ever. These data are included in the 2023 Annual Monitoring Report recently "discussed" at the inaugural TRAC meeting a week ago today.
If the chlorobenzene in the form of DNAPL is not from Uniroyal Chemical, and based upon their credibility that is a big IF , then it is most likely from either or both Borg Textiles and Varnicolor Chemical. I do not believe that an honest MOE/MECP could possibly have unintentionally not discovered this in the early stages of the investigation here. Jim Bradley, Minister of the Environment , allegedly sent a five man team to Elmira shortly after the November 1989 well field shutdown to find the source(s). That Mickey Mouse investigation couldn't even find Varnicolor as gross as their contamination was. Furthermore shallow groundwater sampling later on at Varnicolor turned up zero chlorobenzene which was bizarre for a "recycler" of solvents. Is it possible that the MOE/MECP fudged those lab results intentionally to put Uniroyal Chemical solely on the hook for the Elmira mess?
This is why an honest public inquiry is required.
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