{"id":1136,"date":"2009-08-19T23:16:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T03:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2011-07-20T17:50:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T21:50:02","slug":"srels-meeting-with-the-mla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"SREL’s meeting with the MLA"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 12, 2009, Swift River Energy Limited (SREL) met with the Muskoka Lakes Association (MLA) to respond to questions concerning SREL’s plans to build a hydro-electric generating station at the Bala Falls. The MLA has posted these notes from the meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We would like to respond to several of the points, as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. We do not want the hydro-electric generating station built in the south channel. But, given SREL’s current plans that the generating station be built on public property and that there are serious public safety and economic concerns, there needs to be a fair, detailed, and transparent comparison of the possible alternatives, such as building the generating station in the south channel.<\/li>\n
  2. SREL continues to claim that their Option 2 would be underground – yet all information from SREL indicates that the generating station will be 18′ above the Moon River.<\/li>\n
  3. Anticipating that the Province of Ontario may insist that a generating station be built at Bala, months ago, we provided SREL with sketches describing a possible Option 4<\/a> which would be built at the north end of the Precambrian Shield parking lot. This truly would be a buried option, but SREL has not provided any response to this.<\/li>\n
  4. We have declined to be involved with any landscaping decisions for SREL’s Option 2 as we first need to know what has been done to address our concerns about the proposed location for the power station. For example, the water intake to the power station would be a significant new danger, and alternatives such as locating the power station in the south channel could address this. We will not provide the appearance of community support for SREL’s Option 2 as SREL has not provided a detailed and fair evaluation of alternatives.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    On June 12, 2009, Swift River Energy Limited (SREL) met with the Muskoka Lakes Association (MLA) to respond to questions concerning SREL’s plans to build a hydro-electric generating station at the Bala Falls. The MLA has posted these notes from the meeting. We would like to respond to several of the points, as follows: We […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}