Hmm ! Is it hypocritical after a title like the one above to suggest that there are some decent human beings on TRAC? First of all I truly expect that there are some decent human beings on TRAC (a matter of percentages) albeit I would suggest that they aren't very smart. Educated yes, smart no. Most of the smart ones have abandoned that particular ship and TAG a along time ago. Even the Region of Waterloo had walked away for a while from UPAC, CPAC etc. when they had had enough. They did it low key but they gave warning that it was coming as it did.
Perhaps "Totally Rotten and Corrupt" could be replaced with a gentler moniker. How about "Too Reasonable About Corruption"? Maybe better would be "Too Relaxed About Corruption". Ahh a rose by any other name would smell as sweet or in my jargon ...corruption by any other name is just as putrid.
TRAC just like RAC & TAG was introduced by Sandy Shantz both to mollify Chemtura/MECP as well as to deceive the public. None of them were ever intended to actually promote proper remediation of the Elmira Aquifers, the Canagagigue Creek or heaven forbid the cesspool beneath the former Uniroyal Chemical. They were intended to give the appearance of honest publlc consultation which they aren't and to give some credibility to the Ministry (MECP) and Lanxess's worse than Mickey Mouse pump & treat alleged remediation.
Remediation which can not help to fail (as they agree) although their excuses and blame runs the gamut from legitimate and accurate public criticism to "asymptotic behaviour" as well as "back diffusion". The company (Uniroyal, Crompton, Chemtura & Lanxess) have been in full control of the cleanup since 1989 with only token criticism from the Ministry of Environment (MOE/MECP). Despite full control including mostly refusing Source Removal they have not cleaned up (or even close) the Elmira Aquifers nor have they removed even a shovel full of the downstream DDT and dioxins they are responsible for. Polluter Pays is nothing but a Ministry slogan. not a reality.
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