{"id":795,"date":"2008-11-27T19:18:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T00:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2011-07-20T17:53:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T21:53:04","slug":"about-savethebalafallscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"About SaveTheBalaFalls.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><strong>What is the position of SaveTheBalaFalls.com?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SaveTheBalaFalls.com is totally opposed to a new generating station located anywhere in Bala.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>What are we saving the Bala Falls from?<\/strong><br \/>\n\tA host of maladies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are saving the falls from being ruined by the construction of a new hydroelectric generating station, which would cause irreparable damage to Bala from environmental, social, cultural and economic standpoints.<\/li>\n<li>We are saving both the north and south falls from becoming tiny trickles &ndash; only 1 cubic metre of water per second would go down each, compared to the current 85 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/s.<\/li>\n<li>We are saving the historic portage that has linked Lake Muskoka and Moon River, possibly as far back as the 1600s.<\/li>\n<li>We are saving the primary tourist attraction for the town of Bala.<\/li>\n<li>We are saving our children\u2019s heritage \u2013 Bala as a functioning town and economy blessed by the two Bala Falls, and safe public access to Lake Muskoka and the Moon River.<\/li>\n<li>We are saving the reason for the parks at the Bala Falls.<\/li>\n<li>We are saving Purks Place and the stone Burgess Memorial Church, both listed as historic buildings by the Township of Muskoka Lakes Council.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why do we need to raise money?  How will it be spent?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Money will be spent when services are needed and volunteer or pro bono help is not available. A great deal of work is being done by volunteers &ndash; from school kids, to local anglers, local businesses, professionals (accountants, lawyers, engineers, media &#8230;), and residents both seasonal and year &#8217;round.<\/li>\n<li>Resources will be needed for publicity, and to fight the proponent\u2019s screening assessment, which is expected to be completed either in December 2008 or early next year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the position of SaveTheBalaFalls.com? SaveTheBalaFalls.com is totally opposed to a new generating station located anywhere in Bala. What are we saving the Bala Falls from? A host of maladies: We are saving the falls from being ruined by the construction of a new hydroelectric generating station, which would cause irreparable damage to Bala <a href='https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=795' 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","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\/795","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=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}