{"id":3223,"date":"2011-07-24T20:53:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T00:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2011-07-24T20:58:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T00:58:20","slug":"3223","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=3223","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s the balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3224\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/032.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3224\" title=\"032\" src=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/032.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/032.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/032-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The environmental assessment process has no obligation to find the best solution for all stakeholders<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The environmental assessment process is a &#8220;greedy grab&#8221; where the proponent throws consultants and paid experts into the process to see how much they can get away with.<\/p>\n<p>The public is left to be on stand-by for years to respond within days when a document or report (which has been in development for months or years) is released.<\/p>\n<p>There is no requirement for the process to find the best solution for a community, or even to look for some measure of balance between the needs of the community versus the developer doing as they please (that is, spending the least while taking the most).<\/p>\n<p>The water and the land are public resources, yet the public has no say in how they are used. The proponent&#8217;s &#8220;public consultation&#8221; has only been them telling us what they are planning on doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The environmental assessment process is a &#8220;greedy grab&#8221; where the proponent throws consultants and paid experts into the process to see how much they can get away with. The public is left to be on stand-by for years to respond within days when a document or report (which has been in development for months or <a href='https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=3223' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-twitter","category-3-id","category-8-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","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=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}