As part of its July 8, 2008 resolution to consider providing land for the proposed hydro-electric generating station at the Bala Falls, the Township of Muksoka Lakes is obligated to gather public input.
These questions (156 in total, from the Township and gathered from the public) were sent by the Township to the proponent on March 24, 2011 and the proponent made their responses available to the public in a ridiculously unreadable format (a single 10 Mbyte jpg image of all 42 pages) on July 27, 2011, and later in August, 2011 in a readable format. The proponent’s responses reference many letters they have sent, and they have posted a copy of these on the home page of their web site.
As noted here, the Township is requesting input from the public by August 31, 2011 on whether their submitted questions have been answered. Your input can be e-mailed to the Township at SRELquestions@muskokalakes.ca
SaveTheBalaFalls.com has reviewed the proponent’s responses and sent the letter in this article to the Minister of the Environment.
I understand that the proposed power generating station will produce only two to three Megawatts of power.
Tell the Hydro One engineers to get studying Fluid Mechanics and the Mass Flow Equation to come up with a more efficient set of turbines , generators and Dam design at the existting Power Dam on the Moon River.
Are they still selling power to other electrical utilities because Ontario has an excess of generated power from existing facilities?…Jim Frangakis