The sentence below was on my latest e-mail in the Subject column sent yesterday to Woolwich Council, Waterloo Region Council, MECP, Lanxess, K-W Record, Woolwich Observer and TRAC .
"Don't you wish you'd listened recently and decades ago to Esther, Richard, Henry, Viv, Ron, Graham, Dan, Sebastian & myself about Elmira's water ?"
There are and were other honourable mentions such as Sadi, Barb, Mary, Randy, Shannon, Kenneth, Pat, Chuck, Susan R., Steve and others who stepped up over the years and decades.
The point of the quote above is that if the guilty parties (councils, MECP, Uniroyal/Lanxess ) had done their duty, both moral and legal, then we would have Elmira folks drinking Elmira water and not taking water from the three cities via a pipeline. Unfortunately the guilty parties instead of looking ahead to the obvious time when our finite water supplies became stretched were more concerned with coddling a chemical company who provided some jobs and some tax money.
Yes I could agree that Lanxess Canada are less culpable than Uniroyal Chemical who both buried toxic wastes, lied about them, lied about remediation options, lied about DNAPLS, lied about Dioxins and just about everything else involved. Uniroyal and Chemtura also participated in pressuring Woolwich Council into who they wanted on UPAC, CPAC, TAG etc. as well as who they wanted off. None of the successor companies to Uniroyal have shown any interest in properly cleaning up Canagagigue Creek to their utmost shame.
Citizens stepped up and informed themselves. They spent countless hours attending mostly dog and pony shows orchestrated by the polluter and Woolwich Council. Citizens read reports and made good suggestions the vast majority of which were either ignored or laughed at and treated with disrespect. Well you sh**heads congratulations!
We have neither our groundwater restored nor the Creek properly cleaned up. That's all on you as you've run the show from day one.
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