That is, compared to their previous Option 2 proposal (which was presented in 2009 in their 620-page Environmental Screening Report), the proponent says the “Net Effect of Alternative 1A”<\/em> would be a “Positive impact to portage”<\/em>.<\/p>\n However, as shown here<\/a>, while the proponent’s Option 2 would not have obstructed the Bala Portage, the proponent’s current Alternative 1A would obstruct the Bala Portage. So the proponent’s statement in their Addendum that there would be a net positive impact to the portage is incorrect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The proponent presented their current proposal, which they refer to as Alternative 1A, in their 2012 Addendum. Table 6.1 of this 147-page document is a “Comparison of Potential Effects between Alternative 2D and Alternative 1A During Operations Phase”. That is, in this table they detail the changes that their current proposal would have from their […]<\/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-5140","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\/5140","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=5140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\".\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2012-06-28AddendumMainReport,Table6.1Portage775.png\")
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