[All] Humber River Update & interesting article

[Ginny Quinn]

LULU     you are a marvel  to be so active in reporting  this type of  thing  and following up on it.  Thank heavens  you still have your energy  and devotion to the environment.   Hugs   Ginny

 

From: All [mailto:all-bounces at gren.ca] On Behalf Of Louisette Lanteigne
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 11:15 AM
To: GREN2
Subject: [All] Humber River Update & interesting article

 

Hi folks

 

I witnessed a potential oil spill in Toronto's Humber River and I've been in dialogue with the NEB, the MOE and others about this. I filed official reports with the NEB and the Ontario Spills Action Hotline. The theory from Fire Fighters and the MOE is that the solvent was from a person who dumped chemicals in a sewer about a mile upstream and the case was closed in spite of the fact no chemical was ever identified and it strongly conflicts with the the video I took that clearly shows the solvent is coming from underground.  The water shows a high concentration of the chemical at point of entry like smoking coming from a smokestack and you can see how it disburses.  If this solvent came a mile away from upstream you would never see this sort of concentrated leak pattern.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFCQZ06Yw3o <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFCQZ06Yw3o&list=UU9kP8MXPxsOQ8BFIbkuL7Ig> &list=UU9kP8MXPxsOQ8BFIbkuL7Ig

 

Line 9 and other pipelines lines are directly underneath the ground at this same location. I've exhausted proper protocols, reported all my concerns properly and have demanded retests of this area because the chemical is still there. I have the evidence in sediment and water samples I took on August  17 when I filed a second report to all the agencies but I'm being stonewalled. Everyone is still trying to spin this as a sewer dumping incident. 

 

Now for the good part: Trout Unlimited Toronto's Vice President is joining me in asking for a proper investigation on this solvent spill. I've been working closely with them on this for a bit. Also a reporter from Now magazine is covering this story and the article may be published as soon as next week. We'll try the media approach first and see if we can pressure the various agencies to do proper testing.  If not I have Council of Canadians offering to fund an independent study of the area to identify what this solvent is and from there we can determine if the chemical matches the contents of any of the pipelines in the area. Should be interesting.  I'll keep you updated.

 

Now for that interesting article: Just today the Toronto Star did an article on how the Canadian Conservative government is telling public servants to delete emails with no “business value,” possibly opening the door to the destruction of potentially valuable or embarrassing records. 

 

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/08/27/harper_government_asks_public_servants_to_delete_emails.html

 

Talk to you later

 

Lulu 

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