MY UPCOMING TALK WILL FOCUS ON GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL FAILURES, REFUSALS & DECEPTION

 Phony scoping of the issues, contaminants and geographical spread of the contamination is part of the Deception listed above in the title. Failures and Refusals in the title speak more to government's inherent dishonesty with the public. Government are a successful wall between polluters harming and killing citizens and those citizens taking the law into their own hands. Basically governments and their police forces are there to protect corporate profits obtained illegally via disobeying environmental laws. The problem arises when the corporate polluters break the laws and our authorities use their discretion to go easy on them, even those who have caused deaths whether by short term exposures to toxins or longer term exposures resulting in fatal cancers. Can you imagine here in Elmira back in 1989 if the Ontario Ministry of Environment wasn't present to absorb much of the anger and disgust of local citizens who had been lied to for decades regarding the safety of their drinking water?

Our governments have always spoken out of both sides of their mouths. They like to walk a thin line whereby they speak glowingly to business and industry about how they are the drivers of the economy and then reverse themselves when speaking to groups of citizens about how industry must comply with society's expectations and environmental demands and laws. The reality is when push comes to shove all governments roll over to business concerns. 

Delay is both government's and industries' best friend.  Uniroyal Chemical have literally saved hundreds of millions of dollars in needed cleanup cost both on and off their site in Elmira, Ontario.  But for governments and their police forces Uniroyal may very well have been run out of town on a rail.  Eventually they and their successors will depart leaving the mess behind for future generations. The same thing happened in Guelph with IMICO (International Malleable Iron  Company) and the current and future generations are and will  pay the health price of exposure to unremediated heavy metals, PCBs, VOCs and Petroleum Hydrocarbons. 

Shame on all our lying politicians and fellow travellors.