LANXESS SUCKERS WOOLWICH TOWNSHIP YET AGAIN

 

You know it's almost funny the number of times some  lapdog in the community advises me that either Lanxess promised this or that or the MOE/MECP promised this or that. It's a lot like Premier Doug Ford advising Wilmot citizens that only "willing" communities will face expropriation or other legal attacks/tactics to force development down their throats. Of course this alleged development always has winners and losers and the Greenbelt scandal really showed that the winners are friends and colleagues of Doug Ford and the losers as always are the bulk of the citizens and residents living nearby. In less than gentle and polite language it's class warfare and the middle and lower classes are the usual losers whereas the financially "upper" classes are the usual winners often at the expense of the rest of us.

Lanxess just like Chemtura, Crompton and Uniroyal makes private deals with Woolwich mayors that are not in the public interest. In 2015 the deal was that Sandy Shantz would get rid of the pesky, informed and serious CPAC in exchange for Chemtura (& the MOE/MECP) returning to regular, public meetings with a gentler, smoother, less serious and aggressive public advisory committee.  In 2024 Sandy again promised a shakeup and all she did was put lipstick on a pig (RAC & TAG) and rename the pig TRAC. Just like after 2016 the public meetings are getting fewer and fewer. TRAC has met all of twice in eight months with the third "public" meeting scheduled for September 2024. That will make all of three meetings in nine months. 

It's so sad when after 35 years of unrepentant lying and bullsh*t we don't have a single shovel full of contamination removed from the downstream (below Uniroyal/Lanxess)  Canagagigue Creek. It's also so sad that the average concentrations of NDMA and chlorobenzene are still so many times higher than the drinking water criteria in our Elmira Aquifers.

But what is worse is the whining, crying and self-pity of all the local apologists, lickspittles and toadies still defending the indefensible and intentional failure to clean up Elmira and area. These twits cry for more courtesy and respect towards those responsible for how many local cancers and premature deaths? As if courtesy and respect towards Uniroyal Chemical and successors has bought the public anything at all. Our politicians sold out for the cheapest, least effective remediation possible and totally unsurprisingly it has failed and will continue to fail.