DO ALL THE ELMIRA GUILTY PARTIES REALLY BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE GOING TO AVOID PUBLIC CONDEMNATION & EVENTUAL FORMAL CONDEMNATION FOR THEIR CLEANUP FAILURES & COVERUPS ?

 

Indeed politics makes strange bedfellows. Just look at how Pat McLean treated new councillor Sandy Shantz way back in 2006 after Sandy beat out Pat McLean for a Council seat. Pat was kept on as CPAC Chair by her buddy Mayor Bill Strauss. She then treated Sandy poorly at CPAC meetings by failing to share dates and event times with her. Typical Pat behaviour as I found out later. I also have to wonder if Susan Bryant will eventually be outed/scapegoated/blamed for DNAPLS being dropped like a hot potatoe at UPAC. These "friends" of hers have no honour and no ethics so especially after she passes on and is more susceptible to desperate mud flinging by local politicians and polluters, it likely will occur.  Think about it for a minute. If you are the current, ongoing owner for eleven years prior to the 2028 cleanup deadline failure, who are you going to blame? Local politicians will likely be long gone trying to avoid blame. Your consultants (CRA/GHD) are exactly that "yours". You kept them on when you bought Uniroyal/Chemtura in 2017. You kept on paying them for over a decade. 

Local "activists" are the best target as they've always been. Oddly of course except for Susan Bryant. How strange is that? She received a life time invitation to attend and participate in all public meetings.  Myself I've been on the "outs" since at least 2015 courtesy of mayor Shantz and former councillor Mark Bauman.(Mr. Flip Flop). I, like the rest of the unwashed masses in Elmira, haven't even been permitted to speak at public TAG or TRAC meetings. The filth have even refused my written Delegations to TRAC hence I simply send them directly by e-mail to TRAC members who however never seem interested in either responding or commenting on them. That reflects on them not me.

There are written records of what has been done for cleanup as well as what has not been done and should have been. An honest focus on DNAPL should have occurred immediately in late 1989. The same thing with Dioxins and DDT. Did not happen. All Uniroyal and successor companies did was claim that DDT and Dioxins are hydrophobic i.e. afraid of water hence they preferentially bind with soil particles, fine sediments etc. Those in charge did not even want to discuss how all the discharged solvents at Uniroyal Chemical increased the mobility of DDT and Dioxins. They certainly did not want to discuss how free phase DNAPL both on and off the Uniroyal site also vastly increased the mobility of so many contaminants including DDT and Dioxins. 

Their own DNAPL silence and disgusting public consultation being limited to only vetted citizens approved by the polluter and his fellow travellors (mayor etc.) has condemned them. TRAC just like TAG are and were a bunch of deferential individuals lacking the confidence to dig in their heels and demand timely and honest answers from the company and their consultants. A current TAG and TRAC member has actually admitted this in writing and submitted it to them.