{"id":4302,"date":"2013-08-24T00:26:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T04:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2013-08-24T09:44:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T13:44:50","slug":"an-automated-drowning-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=4302","title":{"rendered":"An Automated Drowning Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, before Ministry of Natural Resources staff remove stop-logs from the Bala dams they first look to see that the resulting increased flow will not endanger people playing in or beside the water below.<\/p>\n<p>But the proposed hydro-electric generating station would be <strong>automatically operated, with nobody checking<\/strong> for scuba divers or others that would be in the path of the suddenly and treacherously turbulent water exiting the tailrace.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that the proposed hydro-electric generating station&#8217;s cycling operation would <strong>begin at about noon<\/strong> most days of the summer, just when people would be in the <strong>seemingly safe water<\/strong> at the tailrace.\u00a0 The <strong>suddenly treacherously turbulent water<\/strong> would be almost impossible to swim out of and would push people out to the middle of the Moon River.<\/p>\n<p>Seems to be an <strong>automated drowning machine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that the MNR and proponent are nonetheless proceding with this insanity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/NorthFallsFlowSimulation.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3873\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/NorthFallsFlowSimulation699x699.jpg\" width=\"699\" height=\"699\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, before Ministry of Natural Resources staff remove stop-logs from the Bala dams they first look to see that the resulting increased flow will not endanger people playing in or beside the water below. But the proposed hydro-electric generating station would be automatically operated, with nobody checking for scuba divers or others that would be <a href='https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=4302' 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-4302","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\/4302","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=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}