CHEMTURA & ONTARIO MIN. OF ENVIRONMENT HAVE NO SHAME

Since the early 1990s Chemtura (Uniroyal) and the Ontario M.O.E. have been claiming that yes they would restore the Elmira aquifers to drinking water standards by 2028. These claims have continued despite my publicly long, long ago referring to the Elmira cleanup as a sham. They have continued despite CPAC in May 2012 publicly stating that Chemtura could not possibly cleanup the aquifers by 2028 using their current methods. Six months later Chemtura and their consultants Conestoga Rovers stated that they were going to triple the volume of groundwater pumping AND do off-site source removal via In Situ Chemical Oxidation (ISCO) in order to achive drinking water standards by 2028. These guys really have no shame whatsoever.

Last week at the public Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meeting we were informed by their Chair, Dr. Dick Jackson, that Chemtura and their consultants GHD (formerly CRA) had admitted in a private "technical experts" meeting that they probably could not clean up the aquifers adequately by 2028. The entirely incompetent and stupid M.O.E. were stunned. CPAC members including myself have known this for years. Are Conestogo Rovers grossly incompetent or are they corrupt? Or is there a third option? Regardless with the able assistance of municipal, regional, provincial and federal governments Uniroyal/Chemtura have misled and lied to the public from the beginning. Exactly as I've been saying and vilified for so doing by co-opted citizens, politicians, industry apologists and other assorted fools and liars.