{"id":6460,"date":"2015-04-12T00:03:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T04:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=6460"},"modified":"2017-06-28T14:11:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:11:37","slug":"you-can-help-expose-what-the-proponent-is-trying-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=6460","title":{"rendered":"You can help <b>expose what the proponent is trying to do<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What you can do:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Send an e-mail to the Honourable Glen Murray, Minister of the Environment at <a href=\"mailto:GMurray.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org\">GMurray.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org<\/a> and let him know that:\n<ul>\n<li>Swift River Energy Limited&#8217;s current plan for their proposed hydro-electric generating station at the Bala falls <strong>does not conform to the environmental approval they received<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>You are therefore making a <strong>Part II Order request<\/strong>, as the proponent does not have approval; to triple the area of the aquatic habitat destroyed during construction, to build a gravel road across the base of the Bala north falls, to increase the footprint of their proposed building by 48%, to block all the flow down the Bala north falls in contravention of the Muskoka River Water Management Plan, to excavate the proposed site before doing the re-testing required by their 2013 Environmental Site Assessment which found groundwater Zinc levels above the Ministry of the Environment&#8217;s guidelines, to start in-water construction before July 15, or to install a silt curtain infringing on the Type 1 Walleye habitat at the base of the Bala north falls.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Send an e-mail to The Honourable Bill Mauro, Minister of Natural Resources at <a href=\"mailto:BMauro.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org\">BMauro.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org<\/a> and ask that he either:\n<ul>\n<li>Require the proponent for the proposed hydro-electric generating station to <strong>honour the commitments they made in their proposal<\/strong>, such as; the roof of their building being below the level of Muskoka Road 169 (the proponent repeated this commitment in their 2012 Addendum), that their building would have a rooftop viewing platform \u2013 without cutting down over 100 trees on the Township&#8217;s heritage-designated Portage Landing, that the development would:<em>&#8220;enhance the natural landscape&#8221;<\/em> rather than filling the entire Crown land site with concrete, and that the proposed project would:\u00a0<em>&#8220;not generally diminish the public\u2019s enjoyment of the area for swimming, boating &#8230;&#8221;<\/em> rather than making it far too dangerous for both. <strong>OR<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cancel the proposed project<\/strong>, with the proponent making <strong>no claims for their costs<\/strong> as the MNR&#8217;s 2005 Request for Proposals specified if the <em>&#8220;proponent made a misrepresentation or provided any inaccurate, misleading or incomplete information in its proposal or during contract negotiations&#8221;<\/em> \u2013 as we are just now learning indeed they have.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Send an e-mail to The Honourable Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario at <a href=\"mailto:KWynne.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org\">KWynne.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org<\/a> and ask that either:\n<ul>\n<li>The Ministry of Natural Resources require the proponent for the proposed hydro-electric generating station at the Bala falls to honour their proposal commitments and the Ministry of the Environment to require an individual environmental assessment be provided for their <strong>current plans<\/strong> to ensure that the environmentally-significant changes they have made are assessed. <strong>OR<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The MNR cancel this project, knowing that the proponent cannot claim for any\u00a0 costs as it was the <strong>proponent&#8217;s decision to both renege on their proposal commitments and to change their construction plans from what they submitted for environmental approval<\/strong>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\">Your letters can be as brief as you&#8217;d like (as we have already sent the detail in <a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=6467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our letters here<\/a>), but send something \u2013 you can <strong>send to all three by <a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"mailto:KWynne.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org,BMauro.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org,GMurray.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org?subject=Proposed hydro-electric generating station at the Bala falls\">clicking here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>For all letters, <strong>include your name and mailing address, and ask for a reply<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you can do: Send an e-mail to the Honourable Glen Murray, Minister of the Environment at GMurray.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org and let him know that: Swift River Energy Limited&#8217;s current plan for their proposed hydro-electric generating station at the Bala falls does not conform to the environmental approval they received. You are therefore making a Part II <a href='https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=6460' 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-6460","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\/6460","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=6460"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8223,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions\/8223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}