{"id":4198,"date":"2013-04-09T15:18:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T19:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2013-04-10T01:59:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T05:59:09","slug":"public-consultation-is-a-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=4198","title":{"rendered":"Public consultation is a requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public has not been informed of the risks presented by the proponent&#8217;s new &#8220;Alternative 1A&#8221; proposal, or how these would be mitigated.<\/p>\n<p>And we note that the Ministry of Natural Resources&#8217; Lakes and Rivers Improvement Act <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/stdprod_088408LakesAndRiversImprovementAct,AdministrativeGuide201108.pdf#page=26\" target=\"_blank\">Administrative Guide<\/a> specifies in Section 3.2 notes that &#8220;effective public consultation&#8221; is required for the Location Approval.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, we have sent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Ministry-of-Natural-Resources-public-consultation-requirement-20130325.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this letter<\/a> to the Minister of Natural Resources<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public has not been informed of the risks presented by the proponent&#8217;s new &#8220;Alternative 1A&#8221; proposal, or how these would be mitigated. And we note that the Ministry of Natural Resources&#8217; Lakes and Rivers Improvement Act Administrative Guide specifies in Section 3.2 notes that &#8220;effective public consultation&#8221; is required for the Location Approval. Accordingly, <a href='https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=4198' 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-4198","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\/4198","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=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}