Today saw the packing up of several familiar “new” landmarks at Rattlechain lagoon. The yellow Klaar container was on the back of a truck by dinnertime. I arrived just in time to see Willemena being hoisted onto the back of another.
Optimus Grime
We are supposed to believe that the sediment has now been dredged in both the large and smaller lagoons. It is garbage, but yet the Environment agency will no doubt accept this as gospel because Rhodia/ERM have told them so. If they believe that there is no longer any contamination of white phosphorus or anything else in the smaller lagoon, confirmed in the HPA human health risk assessment, then they really are dimmer than I know they are already.
Disconnecting “the bed” from the bed.
The whole exercise is a joke and a pantomime show, which is why this blog has lampooned the new found altruistic intentions of Solvay as they now appear to call themselves,and the progressing “work” right from the start, and will continue to do so. Indeed you have difficulty establishing WHO you are actually seeing or dealing with in connection to this site if you view the rival website to this one (reactive not proactive again), until you look at the contact us page- Rhodia still apparently.
Works on the North embankment were never discussed at the drop in session in January. They have now been slipped into the narrative (note that the embankment works are not in the glossy photoshop images of how the site will look in a few months/years time). These works together with the cheap burying exercise are in the restoration options of Rhodia’s closure plan for the site submitted to the Environment Agency which is the real purpose of these works. The Heyrman de roeck website even mentions “restoring the dyke” as part of their subcontracted task- nothing about bloody birds. So why are they trying to push it as “protecting birds” or even anything else, – they look ridiculous and will only appear to continue to look ridiculous to their international peers until they admit to the real purpose of these works. WHO are they trying to fool- the local residents who could not give a toss about the birds on the lake? What is the problem- a face saving exercise, or is it late in the day guilt?
Rhodia/Solvay management- many of them EX Albright and Wilson have never admitted that white phosphorus is poisoning birds on this site, some of them would still try to blame it on just about anything else. Indeed they appear to still be in denial and you would think that they have just arrived on this hazardous waste site as though they knew nothing about its history and are now tasked with “clearing it up”.
Throughout the time when we were asking questions, writing letters, making phonecalls- nothing but denial- and we are presenting this on this website as irrefutable evidence of this apathy and denial- as well as that of their regulator. They would like everyone to forget this or pretend it had never have happened- but it did, and we won’t forget that or let them forget it either.
They have never said “sorry”, have never shown any remorse that their company poisoned wildfowl on this site, never admitted anything that they did was responsible. It’s a small word, but also a fairly meaningless one to corporate entities like Rhodia/Solvay.
Indeed they have now started to use the wildfowl as pawns in their newsletters- and will no doubt do so when any return to this wretched hole when they have finished with their carpet weave deception.
The boreholes, newly installed are for “long term monitoring” of the closure plan- nothing to do with “protecting wildfowl.”
As for ERM, we have not really gone there yet with them fellas, but their monitoring of this site will form the eventual babystep to the sites sell off, when “protecting wildfowl” will be dropped and we will then be expected to believe that established fundamentals of chemistry and science have not appeared in this case and that no phosphine gas is being emitted from the site heavily contaminated with white phosphorus, so that more houses can be built on contaminated land in Sandwell.
And where will Solvay be then- “anonymously” blending back into the corridors of Trinity Street with the holy ghost that they left behind down the road.