{"id":6026,"date":"2015-01-27T19:18:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T00:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=6026"},"modified":"2015-01-27T19:41:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T00:41:01","slug":"portaging-must-be-accomodated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=6026","title":{"rendered":"Portaging must be accommodated"},"content":{"rendered":"

As shown below, portaging has been included in the plans and designs for other hydro-electric generating stations in Muskoka. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Ontario Power Generation’s South Falls generating station is near Highway 11, between Gravenhurst and Bracebridge. As shown below, there is a path down to the generating station. Even though there is a “No Trespassing” sign and a gate …<\/p>\n

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… there is this sign.<\/p>\n

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Clearly, it is accepted that portages must be maintained.<\/p>\n

As another example, Wasdell Falls is between Orillia and Gravenhurst, and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry site there is currently being rebuilt with a hydro-electric generating station (this photograph was taken in January 2015).<\/p>\n

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And even while it is still a construction site, this sign has been installed.<\/p>\n

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Clearly, it is accepted that maintaining the ability to portage is required.<\/p>\n

The proponent’s plans for the proposed hydro-electric generating station at the Bala Falls would permanently obstruct and eliminate the historic Bala Portage. The Bala proponent has suggested two alternate portage routes, but as presented\u00a0here<\/a> (additional detail here<\/a>), both are unacceptable as they would be dangerous or trespass over private property.<\/p>\n

It is therefore unprecedented that the Bala proponent’s plans would not allow the existing portage route and would not provide a safe alternate route over public property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As shown below, portaging has been included in the plans and designs for other hydro-electric generating stations in Muskoka. \u00a0 Ontario Power Generation’s South Falls generating station is near Highway 11, between Gravenhurst and Bracebridge. As shown below, there is a path down to the generating station. Even though there is a “No Trespassing” sign […]<\/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-6026","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\/6026","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=6026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}