{"id":667,"date":"2008-10-26T20:02:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T00:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2008-10-26T20:02:03","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T00:02:03","slug":"but-wasnt-there-a-power-station-there-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"But wasn&#8217;t there a power station there before?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there was, but that was before the highway was built (click on the image for a larger view). It used the same amount of water as the Mill Stream power plant does today and generated 245 Kilowatts.\u00a0 The new one would\u00a0 be 20 times bigger and require 20 times as much water making it incompatible with the surrounding community.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_1937a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-668\" title=\"Click for a larger image\" src=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_1937a-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The highway is ugly enough (the Stone Church used to have a beautiful view of the Moon River).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProgress\u201d and cars used to be the most imporant thing \u2013 now we want to protect what natural beauty is left (apparently more than the Ministry of Natural Resources does!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there was, but that was before the highway was built (click on the image for a larger view). It used the same amount of water as the Mill Stream power plant does today and generated 245 Kilowatts.\u00a0 The new one would\u00a0 be 20 times bigger and require 20 times as much water making it <a href='https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=667' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","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=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}