I know that title above may seem peculiar but here is how it is. Which is worse, benign indifference and complete public ignorance of the serious issues or despite being misinformed the public at least know that the Elmira Water Crisis is far from resolved?
The misinformation swings from minor to major and is overwhelming in its' breadth and scope. For example the on-site pumping to prevent off-site migration began in the Municipal Aquifers on the Uniroyal Chemical site in 1992 not 1993. The actual off-site pumping of the Municipal Aquifers didn't begin until the summer of 1998 thus we are technically still shy of the so called thirty years of groundwater pumping (i.e. 2028) that we were promised literally for decades was a certainty. For the last several years both the company Lanxess Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Environment have conceded that they simply can not do that which they and their predecessors loudly and repeatedly promised Elmira/Woolwich citizens would occur.
It was not 111 truckloads of toxic waste that were sent off site to Corunna, Ontario (near Sarnia). Multiply that by as much as ten times, possibly less, as the "trucks" were not standard dump trucks for example but specialized trucks for carrying toxic waste in special, lined containers. Susan Bryant is a thief who has stolen honour from others efforts without recognizing them properly. The vast majority of Esthur Thur's wonderful work organizing and preparing historical documentation and Archives was done when she was a member of the Elmira Environmental Hazards Team (Richard, Henry & I) not of APTE. Furthermore Susan Bryant was NOT a founding member of APTE as that was the recently departed Susan Rupert, Esthur Thur (deceased) and Sandra Bray.
Susan Bryant claims that she does not believe that Lanxess will voluntarily clean up the Creek. She further claims that at that point she will talking to the Canadian Environmental Law Association. Really? This is the very first time I've heard her say that she doesn't think that the company will do any Creek cleanup. I have long suspected that they would throw Susan a bone by sort of cleaning up a "hot spot" or two in order to solidify her green reputation . They owe her that at least considering her efforts to assist them in the potentially very expensive DNAPL (dense non aqueous phase liquids) cleanup that they did not have to do. Regarding CELA they have had thirty-six years to help out here and have not done so. I expect that yes she will "talk" to CELA and nothing will happen. If for some strange, belated reason CELA are interested then as long as I draw breath I will provide them with facts and documentation.
Nathan Cadeau claims that he decided to run for Council after watching the Documentary "Toxic Time Bomb" that Sebastian, both Susans and I were in. I don't believe that for one second. While I believe that Nathan is a skunk and a polluter's friend he did make one excellent comment in this Record article. He is quoted correctly as saying "The elephant in the room is nothing is going to be done about the pollution embedded in the Lanxess property,". Furthermore "The Lanxess property is going to remain toxic, probably forever." Who made that decision NOT to ever clean up the site? It sure as hell wasn't honest citizens on UPAC or CPAC and it is disgusting .
I'm just getting started with the falsehoods and misinformation in the Record's article. More is coming.
No comments:
Post a Comment