KEPT SECRET: REPORT REVEALS BIG ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES ON SITE OF NEW VIRGINIA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

A significant environmental problem is still present, underground, at the site of the new Virginia Park Elementary School. The issue needs to be exposed to the public, and better understood by everyone, before construction continues; that is if the new school should be built on this site at all. 

This Post is intended to "kick-start" that overdue conversation and release the, until now, secret Report.

Here are the salient facts:

The provincial government has been in possession, since April 2015, of a document entitled “DRAFT FINAL REPORT ON SUPERVISION OF CONTAMINATED SOIL REMOVAL DURING SITE PREPARATION WORK”, New Virginia Park Elementary School Site, St. John’s, NL.

As the title suggests, contaminated material has already been removed from the area where the structure is located. But the Report confirms that heavy metals and other dangerous metals are still present in the soil, at least along the north and northeast boundary of the site. The area of contamination remains undefined. The contaminants have the potential to threaten human health.

THIRD COVER-UP EXPOSED: THIS TIME VIRGINIA PARK ELEMENTARY

Politicians can’t seem to figure out, like other people, that public servants, like other people, are offended when the political leadership fails to tell the truth.

No one likes “cover up”.

Some readers may remember the recent assertion, by the Minister of Transportation and Works, that the discovery of the fuselage of an old military airplane was responsible for the increased cost and delay to the new Virginia Park School Elementary School.

The CBC reported: “Brazil said that safely removing the airplane required a lot of time and an additional $6 million….securing the extra funding also held up the process.” Other media gave similar reports.

David Brazil would have us believe he was working hard to expose the former Fort Pepperell army dump site. He was actually trying to bury a significant cost to the public purse, knowledge of which he preferred people stayed ignorant.