O.K. so the next TRAC meeting has been moved up to Monday December 9/24 at 6 pm. No I do not recommend anyone attend without an extensive background in Elmira politics as well as environmental matters. The reason is because of the volume and extent of bulls**t that will be thrown around at the meeting as if it came straight from above. Which it doesn't . In fact it comes from straight below and gives the devil much amusement. Keep in mind one can attend virtually as even some of the TRAC members who don't live in Elmira or Woolwich like to do to avoid winter car travel. Don't ever get confused and think that all TRAC members are either locals or for that matter even Canadian citizens. They are not with Susan B. being the most egregious. Finally the in person meeting video seems to appear on the Woolwich Township website about five days after it's completion.
Yesterday's Woolwich Observer carries the ad for this upcoming TRAC meeting. It also states "Delegations must be submitted a minimum of eight (8) days prior to the Technical Remediation Advisory Committee meeting date to be included on the agenda." That raises a number of issues such as why do the contents of Delegations have to be submitted in advance at all? Asking to be on the Agenda with a title of one's submission relevant to TRAC's mandate and the Elmira water issues should be sufficient. Secondly submitting one's Delegation eight days prior when at most the Minutes from the previous meeting as well as the proposed new Agenda do not get released until six or seven days prior is weird. Afterall you may well decide to present as a Delegation only after you see what is already planned to be discussed at TRAC. Lastly of course is the usual failure of TRAC (TAG) members to ask any intelligent or otherwise questions of Delegates of whom they have been advised not to ask questions of at all.
All of this is typical Woolwich hunker down behaviour. They give lip service to openness and transparency while weeding out disparate voices and opinions, especially those of citizens far more knowledgeable on the subject matter than they or their bought and paid for Qualified Pe****s are. Both Luis and Allan D. are second stringers for GHD which indicates how little concern Lanxess have for the reduced local opposition and critics ability to be heard in Woolwich and by Woolwich.
that the previous meeting minutes (and especially the Agenda for the new meeting) are not released PRIOR to the deadline for new delegations to register is downright shocking, a deadly flaw and an obvious red flag! I have noticed for many years that the bureaucrat's (including planners) will spend months or even years coming up with a surprise or a plan or staff report then expect the public to be able to understand and react properly in an extremely short period of time. It is damning from both perspectives.
ReplyDeleteWoolwich is very good at keeping secrets. They will allow/cause the public to divide over all sorts of issues to occupy their time and effort but the real key secrets From the benefit of hindsight over 2 generations of Woolwich politics there are only half a dozen people or so around town that clearly found out secret information before key public meetings were announced by Notice Rules and were able to act on it in advance (and they DID) This proves that Woolwich is extremely good at keeping secrets, except in a very few cases where very key developers at the time were privy somehow to the secret plan that the bureaucrats DID not share with the public or even the main existing stakeholders till official notice of Public Meeting was announced and the general public and yes also some of the elected officials were sprung with all sorts of options, but the fix was already in (for just a selected few) as the end results clearly showed. Woolwich is a cringeworthy 2-faced system that has great difficulty with facts. Strauss and Bauman were key players during these fiasco's where coercion and manipulation and bullshit became the mainstream other face of Woolwich. To make it even worst the Liberal-Woke-socialist types have given the Conservative types reasoning to expose their lack of common sense and lack of responsibility in economic and business matters. To top it all off weak and naïve politicians have allowed biased socialist agenda parties (often not from Woolwich) to usurp long periods of public consultations and flip everything on its face to favor their extreme and bias agendas. We must have transparent blunt honest leadership to fix the problems!