{"id":3473,"date":"2011-11-19T11:32:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T16:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2011-11-24T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T18:18:11","slug":"the-insanity-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=3473","title":{"rendered":"The insanity continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/WUM_BB_GRV_NOV16_2011-pages-7-and-11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">opinion piece<\/a> published in the November 16, 2011 edition of What&#8217;s Up Muskoka, the proponent continues to repeat their self-serving mis-information, apparently in the hope that we&#8217;ve all gone stupid and will somehow start believing it because we keep hearing it so often.<\/p>\n<p>We are apparently to believe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Water-level fluctuations would be reduced even though they now would be cycling the plant off and on daily, at least during the summer.<\/li>\n<li>That the <em>&#8220;Key to Muskoka&#8217;s history and future is waterpower&#8221;<\/em>, even though they would ruin the falls (as 94% of the water would instead go through their proposed power station), make over 500&#8242; of the only publically-accessible shoreline in the area too dangerous to access, and make in-water recreational activities that have been going on for over 100 years too dangerous to continue.<\/li>\n<li>That they would <em>&#8220;work with the community&#8221;<\/em>, when we have seen that they completely ignored the work done by the scenic flow committee \u2013 this being a committe which they required and had complete control over the membership, mandate, and agenda.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read it for yourself below, or click <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/WhatUpMuskoka20111116Comments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here for a higher-resolution version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/WhatUpMuskoka20111116Comments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"WhatUpMuskoka20111116Comments\" src=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/WhatUpMuskoka20111116Comments.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an opinion piece published in the November 16, 2011 edition of What&#8217;s Up Muskoka, the proponent continues to repeat their self-serving mis-information, apparently in the hope that we&#8217;ve all gone stupid and will somehow start believing it because we keep hearing it so often. We are apparently to believe: Water-level fluctuations would be reduced <a href='https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=3473' 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3473","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\/3473","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=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}