PROXY WARS

  Proxy wars is an old term which suggests that various wars over the decades (centuries?) were fought between world powers who did not want to actually get involved in a head to head war with each other. Hence proxy wars. Suggested examples are North Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Ukraine etc. Rather than the U.S. getting into it with China or Russia they support one side in some kind of regional conflict while China or Russia support the other side with weapons and other war material.

Hence to Woolwich Township. CAO Brenneman likely wants to keep his hands clean as does the mayor. In the past I've engaged with Mr. Brenneman and found him to be slippery, sly and deceptive. Not at all interested in straight forward discussion or attempts to actually resolve a disagreement. I have had significant disagreements with Nathan Cadeau and at one time Lisa Schaefer when she was the CPAC and then TAG Support person. I am very pleased to state that at least the last few years of her tenure in that job that we got along very well. I appreciated her above and beyond efforts to answer questions or clarify some issues and I told her that. Now recently out of the blue (it seems to me), the new Support person is on the warpath regarding my usual, normal, strong criticism especially of Lanxess, GHD and the Ministry of Expanded Corporate Pollution (MECP). Yes my writing often has editorial content as well as factual content such as my changing acronyms like MECP or even TRAC.

I attempted a compromise and a softer tone in my first response after the Support person made the frankly idiotic and totally unacceptable demand that I no longer engage in accusations of either incompetence or dishonesty, essentially with everybody. That got me nowhere so back to the blunt approach. How exactly does she think that I am supposed to write that Luis or Alan Deal seem to be at 100% odds with proven facts that everybody has? Mr. Deal misrepresented  the 1% Rule by suggesting out loud and publicly at TRAC that 1% of the Aqueous Solubility (approx. 5,000 parts per billion) was at least a yellow flag that DNAPL could be present. That is bulls**t . It is 1% of the EFFECTIVE SOLUBILITY not of the AQUEOUS SOLUBILITY and the difference could be as dramatic as only 50 or 500 parts per billion of chlorobenzene may very well indicate the presence of free phase DNAPL nearby.

Let me see maybe I could refer to public, blatant, misrepresentation or lies as boo boos. Now of course this would all be moot if Mr. Deal, GHD or Lanxess were willing to admit to their gross errors and publicly rectify them. Hell those twits won't even admit to failing to clean up the Elmura Aquifers for which they have been in total control since day one. Hmm maybe I could refer to their written and spoken disinformation as TYPOS. That's it, typos could be my new code word to replace professional bullsh** artists etc.  Let's see how this goes.