INTERESTING UNANSWERED MECP QUESTIONS TO LANXESS

The Min. of Environment sent a letter dated November 8, 2024 to Lanxess regarding their 2023 Annual Monitoring Report. Now overall the MECP are Lanxess's biggest boosters and biggest defenders. This of course is prima facia evidence of corruption as this is NOT the MECP's core duty. Their core duty is to prevent pollution and when they have grossly failed at that such as with the Elmira Uniroyal Chemical case they are then supposed to be in charge of CLEANUP. They are not supposed to be in charge of the appearance of cleanup nor the chief cheerleaders of wishful thinking cleanup.

Nevertheless the MECP apparently have a problem with alleged residual DNAPL still in existence in the former on-site M-2 Landfill. Apparently decades after DNAPL was not surprisingly found in the M-2 area,  it's type and location has not been clarified to the Ministry's satisfaction. They have asked on page 5 of their Comments where it is located, why these alleged residual sources are not contributing to off-site groundwater contamination and what are the existing sources of dissolved NDMA and chlorobenzene in groundwater off and on the site.

Firstly more than likely free phase DNAPL is still in the M-2 area. Secondly what has taken the MECP so long to demand answers to questions that should have been honestly and properly answered decades ago? Is this the MECP simply going through the motions and pretending to be an honest to God regulator of polluters?

The MECP comments while addressed to Lanxess were also sent to mayor Shantz plus Tiffany Svensson. Presumably also to TRAC (totally rotten and corrupt). This should all ensure little to no pressure  for any kind of timely response and good Lord certainly no kind of timely action. Thirty-five years after the start of the November 1989 Elmira Water Crisis the biggest winners have been delay, obfuscation and deception. Obviously no urgency has ever been shown or demonstrated and to do so now would be terribly inconvenient and disrespectful to the polluters, the politicians and all their fellow travellors.