I have sent a copy of my Blog posting dated yesterday and titled "Hadley, Luis & Joe Spreading Bull**it At TRAC Last Thursday" to various disreputable persons around the Region. This includes Woolwich Council, some on Regional Council, Ministry of Environment (MECP) and Lanxess Canada. Now I have also sent a copy to various reputable persons which include local citizens, and possibly even a few local politicians. Dang I forgot the local media which kind of speaks volumes as to their interest generally over the last few years. O.K. yes occasionally the Woolwich Observer publish something on the still contaminated aquifers, Creek and Uniroyal site.
I believe that both history and research will one day look carefully at my Blog postings and realize exactly what they have as a written record of the triumph of corruption, deceit and citizen betrayal by both our local polluter and by pretty much all our local politicians. Once again a few powerful interests including our governments have sat down and privately and secretly negotiated deals that are not in the public interest. If they were in the public interest all discussions and negotiations would be public. Alleged public consultation has been exactly that: alleged. Whether UPAC, CPAC, RAC/TAG or TRAC they've all been for show. Perhaps most of the TRAC members recognize that which is why nobody gets particularly excited about the nonsense, lies, drivel and gilded lilies presented at public TRAC meetings.
For me it is about much more than unremediated environmental harm . It is about sacrificing some people for the so called benefit of others. Why should Uniroyal/Lanxess shareholders be more important than Old Order Mennonites farming the lands downstream beside the Canagagigue Creek? Why should Elmira citizens die of cancers related to air and water discharges from Uniroyal Chemical when they could have been stopped, reduced and or mitigated decades earlier?
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