{"id":1842,"date":"2010-09-06T17:08:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T21:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2011-07-20T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T21:46:00","slug":"chain-link-fencing-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"Chain-link Fencing Happens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There has been a power station on the Mill Stream (also called Burgess Creek) in Bala since 1917. As you see in the photograph above, it is a simple structure. Recently, this power station has been operated by Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Without any community consultation or incident, last year they decided to install a fence.<\/p>\n

So as you see below, after almost a hundred years of peaceful operation, in just a few days, an ugly\u00a0chain-link fence has been installed, complete with sharp wire tops.<\/p>\n

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This is one of the many concerns we have for the proposed power station at the Bala falls.<\/p>\n

The simple natural beauty of the area could be completely ruined if some safety or insurance requirement resulted in a fence being required.<\/p>\n

Not only has the proponent not provided any effort to show a correct rendering of the structure, we have no assurance of what fencing would be required, both on or around the structure, as well as along the north channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There has been a power station on the Mill Stream (also called Burgess Creek) in Bala since 1917. As you see in the photograph above, it is a simple structure. Recently, this power station has been operated by Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. Without any community consultation or incident, last year they decided to install […]<\/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-1842","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\/1842","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=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}