Two Scots and a Mark have cut and run. Other local politicians have also passed the torch and safely (they hope) cut and run. Poor old Sandy screwed up big time. She had an heir apparent but let her biases and dislike cloud her judgement by staying in the last mayoral race. Let me put this bluntly. There will be no hiding for Sandy. In September 2015 she destroyed the very last chance for local, honest citizens to take control of the Elmira cleanup. Her actions along with Mark Bauman on council sealed the deal for the decades long political conspiracy to do the absolute minimum cleanup while hoping for natural attenuation, inconsistent pump & treat and ongoing off-site leakage and discharge to eventually clean the aquifers and the downstream Canagagigue Creek. It has been a classic case of coddle the polluter while deceiving and lying to the public.
Sandy and most Woolwich Councils have bought into the conspiracy which fundamentally and falsely states that little to no source removal combined with long term below Target Rate pump & treat can remediate one of the worst, most toxic sites in Canada. While source removal of contamination in a myriad of various forms has long been available, it has only gotten better and less expensive over time. Despite this, municipal, regional and provincial politicians have securely covered their eyes and ears and along with the Ontario Ministry of Environment (MECP) and Uniroyal/Lanxess pretended otherwise. An entire remediation industry as well as many University groundwater research labs and departments know for a fact what has been going on here in Elmira for decades. Yes the local political conspiracy may have snowed local citizens and media but a much larger world knows full well what kind of crap has flourished here. Multiple Documentaries have been produced and none of them have been kind to the ongoing lying and deception.
Keep it up Sandy. Infamy awaits you and likely your council acolytes!
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