Wednesday morning prior to the appearance of the three elected Woolwich folks and of Mark I met a gentleman at Donuts & Deli by the name of Paul. He was from Heidelberg and after asking if he could sit with me and being told yes, however I was expecting four more shortly including two councillors and the mayor, he somewhat jokingly asked if he could listen in. Now he had already pointed out that mayor Shantz was his mayor as well because part of Heidelberg is part of Woolwich Township. Therefore I immediately said "Heck yes" .
Yesterday Mark followed through and sent Nathan, Eric, Sandy and myself on-line links to a lot of information regarding specific remediation companies and their products. He also included some financial information comparing costs with pump & treat technology. A number of these companies are located in Kitchener possibly including Cascade and Vertex. I hope I've spelled that last one correctly.
I would suggest that with Mark's assistance and serious and sincere interest by Woolwich Township that the potential for progress to the slow, tedious, excuse ridden pump & treat efforts to remediate our aquifers is possible. I do however forsee possible roadblocks namely the Ontario Ministry of Environment (MECP), Lanxess, and GHD. Vested interests and face saving in regards to a thirty-five year failure to remediate our aquifers may be impossible to overcome. Afterall when the other parties and stakeholders abdicate responsibility and hand ALL decision making to the polluters (Uniroyal/Lanxess & the MECP) while at the same time removing ALL transparency and accountability; public interest success becomes nearly impossible.
It has been suggested to me that Lanxess however are a corporation interested in making money and that includes not spending it frivolously. Hence if Mark is correct that these technologies are both superior to pump & treat AND less expensive then maybe, just maybe Lanxess might actually step up.
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