{"id":2752,"date":"2011-04-17T17:31:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T21:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2011-04-17T17:31:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T21:31:56","slug":"request-for-ministers-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=2752","title":{"rendered":"Review Request from SaveTheBalaFalls.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 17, 2011 we sent the following to the Minister of the Environment.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Minister Wilkinson,<\/p>\n<p>The Director of the Ministry of the Environment&#8217;s Environmental Assessment and Approvals Branch denied our request that the proposed project to build a hydro-electric generating station at the Bala Falls be elevated to require an individual environmental assessment.<\/p>\n<p>We request that you review this decision, as our reading of the Director&#8217;s response dated March 25, 2011 shows that it was based on incomplete information \u2013 in summary, the science is lacking.<\/p>\n<p>We have detailed our concerns in <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/savethebalafalls-review-request-20110416.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your attention to this issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n Mitchell Shnier, on behalf of SaveTheBalaFalls.com<br \/>\n 25 Lower Links Road<br \/>\n Toronto, ON  M2P 1H5<\/p>\n<p>Telephone: 416 222-1430<br \/>\n E-mail: Mitchell@Shnier.com<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 17, 2011 we sent the following to the Minister of the Environment. Minister Wilkinson, The Director of the Ministry of the Environment&#8217;s Environmental Assessment and Approvals Branch denied our request that the proposed project to build a hydro-electric generating station at the Bala Falls be elevated to require an individual environmental assessment. We <a href='https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=2752' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-2752","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\/2752","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=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}