[All] Air Boss Pollution & Core Intensification

[Robert Milligan]

Hi Lulu,

Thank you for your interest in this important & complex type of  
industry-caused air quality environmental issue that GREN has not yet  
considered. What might come closest is the issue of the fluoride toxic  
waste (sometimes radioactive) from extracting phosphorous for  
fertilizer which is discharged into the drinking water that Maude  
Barlow want us all to drink,  This is good of course because it saves  
money on expensive waste disposal while creating new customers for Big  
Pharma.  Passive & naive citizens as so necessary to create excessive  
profits for the smart & evil ones of our species -- so keep scaring  
them & dumbing them down. And
remember that business ethics are great for PR (= BS for "mushrooms")  
but not for profits determined by NOT-Full cost accounting.

You said,
"Call the MNR to report the air pollution. It's their legal  
jurisdiction."

Prior to that I had said, " I also just had a brief talk with the MOE  
field officer."

Allow me to elaborate;

The MOE field officer accepted industrial air quality complaints as  
his jurisdiction. He indicated that Air Boss has a certificate of  
compliance. If I want to see what information that they have on Air  
Boss, then I have to make an FOI request. At this point in time I will  
not make a complaint because I know from past experience (Wilmot EAC)  
that MOE will do nothing unless the municipality (Kitchener) wants  
action. To eventually get action I will approach the W-K-C core  
corridor issue from the point of view that highly educated people in  
the periphery -- or similar outsiders or developers -- cannot be  
attracted into a polluted  W-K-C core corridor. So polluting  
industries must be replaced by clean ones because no matter what we  
do, a chemical industry will never clean up adequately except for the  
uncomplaining (and always fearful) lower-middle class.

Keep in mind that I was a member of Wilmot Township's EAC for 5 years,  
then with Wilmot Environmental Advocates for another 6 years. (During  
this period Susan B. & I talked a number of times about local  
environmental pollution issues, including the idea of forming a  
Regional Environmental Group.) I also have been dealing  toxic  
chemical problems in various ways since 1967 in Quebec initially but  
mostly in Ontario. Besides doing a lot of pro bono work on toxic  
chemicals, especially with toxic chemicals in sewers (excesssive H2S  
sewer gas, Safety Clean VOC discharges, ... ) that cause problems in  
homes and schools. Before my retirement my company, Enviro-Health  
Systems, specialized in low levels (below the inadequate regulatory  
standards) of toxic chemical combinations in buildings that caused  
disabling health symptoms.

I would suggest that GREN consider having a committee on chemical  
pollution especially in the W-K-C core corridor (e.g. did your know  
that Maple Leaf Food's J. M. Schneider plant in a residential area on  
Courtland St. has large quantities of the very dangerous chemical  
Anhydrous Ammonia? How adequate are JMS's safety procedures & has the  
community been informed of the potential danger [destroys your lungs]  
lurking next store & what to do in a major release?) So I would like  
to place it on the Agenda for the Jan meeting.

We just cannot depend on regulatory agencies doing their job as we  
might expect them to do it!  Concerned & informed members of the  
public must convince the municipal (& often Provincial) political  
masters (thru regulation) of local business that action is necessary  
for valid ECONOMIC reasons -- just like I want to do with Air Boss.


All the best,
Robert

PS: Until we have high quality drinking water, don't drink it!



On 26-Nov-09, at 10:20 PM, Louisette Lanteigne wrote:

> Call the MNR to report the air pollution. It's their legal  
> jurisdiction.
>
> Lulu :0)
>
> --- On Thu, 11/26/09, Robert Milligan <mill at continuum.org> wrote:
>
> From: Robert Milligan <mill at continuum.org>
> Subject: [All] Air Boss Pollution & Core Intensification
> To: "* GREN" <all at gren.ca>
> Date: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 2:09 PM
>
> Hi All,
>
> This company, Air Boss in the former Uniroyal Tire plant (located on  
> Glascow &  Strange Sts. in K) is polluting the air significantly  
> down wind from the plant with
> chemicals from at least the vulcanizing process.  This air quality  
> degradation over a significant area contributes very negatively to  
> core area intensification
> efforts. Yes they provide some jobs but at what cost to community  
> health & the environment. Perhaps we need to initiate a dialogue  
> with them &/or ?
>
> Robert M
>
> PS: I discovered these environmental health "sinners" while doing  
> Rapid Transit Initiative fieldwork. I also just had a brief talk  
> with the MOE field officer.
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