Lanxess are talking, discussing and maybe negotiating with the downstream Old Order Mennonites living and working the land along the Canagagigue Creek. What exactly are they talking about? My suspicion is that want something from this community and are willing to pay an enormous sum for it although they won't weaken their negotiating position prematurely. Potentially cleaning the Creek sediments and creekbank soils along with some floodplain soils could cost a hundred million dollars and take years to accomplish. Think about it. There is more than five miles of Creek winding it's way downhill towards the Grand River just south of West Montrose. Think about dredging a couple of feet or more of the bottom sediments for that distance. Think about removing large areas of soils above the Creek waterline for that distance. Think about the floodplains themselves and how much contaminated fields there might be.
Or the alternative and totally irrelevant to the biased and phony HHERA (Risk Assessment), perhaps the 22 downstream families might accept say a million dollars per family to sign off on the whole mess. Just call it all an act of God while ignoring all the executives, bureaucrats and politicians who clearly had neither respect nor caring for the men, women and children affected by their self-serving decisions since 1942. Heck if necessary I'm sure some of the guilty parties would cheerfully throw some taxpayers money at these Old Order Mennonite families if they will sign a release indicating that they will never sue for damages.
If many of these families have either young or old members requiring serious health care whether directly, indirectly or not at all from Uniroyal Chemical toxins; they would certainly have an incentive to mitigate their health expenses especially as they generally are not covered by OHIP. I expect some families would be relieved, others maybe not. There might even be a holdout or two. Regardless Lanxess would not be talking to them out of the goodness of their hearts. Lanxess are a corporation not a charity and it's all about the bottom line and what is best for Lanxess Canada.
ironically it is the low elevation spots et al that they do not want to test, so why would they clean up the creek first. the poisonous pockets, if not tested/cleaned up would just leach into the creek all over again. From another angle, the floodplain is absolutely huge just to the east of the plant. The GRCA and the woke crowd (and the fake environmentalists) have got themselves wrapped/trapped in this mess. Are they really going to bring fill in to develop this valley area for a road and industrial land? dig out even lower in the low contaminated spots first? Obviously they have all fallen into their own self-destructing trap - hence "nothing to see here" and we are all just waiting for their next move(s) They are so screwed either way...
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