I mean apparently they are so far down the road of dishonesty they likely feel that there is only one direction to go. I would suggest that that sole, remaining dishonest direction has them hot on the footsteps of "Thelma and Louise" and we all know how that ended (mighty crash etc.). Maybe their goal is simply to pass on before their behaviour is fully exposed to the world. Maybe their goal is even more modest such as simply getting out of politics or various bureaucracies prior to the public recognition of their self-serving, anti public interest . Icons such as Peter Nygard (still pending?), Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein and a trove of others likely will exceed the size of their disgrace and public exposure but it will be seen and enjoyed nevertheless by the very few who have honestly opposed them.
The Agenda is out for next Monday's TRAC meeting and hoo boy are TRAC ever getting their hands even dirtier by participating in the entire sham of a process. Sebastian and a couple of others can honestly claim that they spoke up on a few significant issues but they are being used as window dressing by the really bad ones. In hindsight does anyone remember the name of a moderate or two within Adolph Hitler's Cabinet? O.K. if you feel that that comparison is too strong or stark how about moderates within any group who refuse to resign for self-serving reasons despite knowing that the group have either lost their way or never had found it.
The Agenda for next Monday is full of attempts to bolster the impression that Lanxess and the MECP are seriously on the hunt for better remediation methods. They are merely ten, fifteen to thirty years behind the timeline necessary to actually have the Elmira Aquifers remediated. Even now they are admitting on page 7 of their Minutes of the last meeting (Nov. 14/24) that even with a new initiative towards cleanup that NDMA for certain will require decades more time to occur.
Now keep in mind that it is the exact same organizations (Lanxess, CRA/GHD, MOE/MECP) who swore to Elmira citizens from 1990 through to almost 2017 that YES they would clean up the aquifers by 2028. That's over twenty-five years that they kept INSISTING that everything was under control when numerous citizens, professionals and amateurs knew it couldn't be done. Then around 2016 sometime we heard the first peeps of "...oh gosh this is harder than we thought. Maybe we won't get it done by 2028." That is now a crescendo of voices with predictions of the Elmira Aquifers achieving drinking water standards by 2050 or 2060.
I no longer believe a word they say. Why would I? They have lied, lied and then lied some more. DNAPL coverups continue to this day. They still admit on page 16 that there is approximately 2,000 kg. of "excess" chlorobenzene been discharged to the natural environment. That is most likely via free phase DNAPL discharge of raw chlorobenzene and that is why despite NDMA being difficult to achieve it's very low drinking water standard (9 ppt.); we still have lots of chlorobenzene in our Elmira Aquifers well above drinking water standards. If I know exactly where this free phase DNAPL migrated to off-site then why allegedly doesn't Lanxess, GHD and the MECP?
Hence Elmira citizens feel free to believe whatever rubbish these parties tell you. It's always self-serving and intended to save them cleanup expenditures.
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