And so inaccurate. I guess that's not too surprising. They took an educated guess and guessed wrong. They've backed the wrong horse and aren't going to admit it now. There was a large article in the Record last November with a number of pretty obvious errors in it. I contacted the Record in writing with specifics and details and basically got nowhere. They weren't interested in having to change any part of the narrative, accurate or inaccurate. I might add that there is a good comment published on yesterday's Blog posting regarding what appears to be Lanxess's intentional leakage and even pumping of contaminated groundwater pulling it off the Uniroyal/Lanxess site into the Elmira drinking water aquifers.
Overall media coverage has been pathetic for years despite ongoing RAC & TAG meetings later followed by TRAC meetings. My initial name for TRAC was "Totally Rotten & Corrupt" but I have softened that to "Too Reticent and Compromising". Either one works for me although the second is politer and acknowledges that there are at least a couple of members whose intentions are good. The rest know what the game is and are fine with going through the motions and providing the Ministry (MECP), Lanxess and Woolwich Township with the cover and credibility they require. Following is the verbatim Comment from yesterday's Blog posting:
AnonymousAugust 19, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Yesterday's Analysis is SHOCKING!!! "By pumping less on-site and more off-site they are intentionally losing on-site hydraulic containment. This means that they are purposefully drawing contaminants off their site where they Lanxess only pay 50% of those cleanup costs versus 100% of all on-site treatment costs." so they drained the surface with ditches and swales and trenches into the river AND the parts of the Aquifer that were most contaminated they are attempting to just flush away downstream as well. Wow that is so environmentally mindboggling.
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