{"id":8224,"date":"2017-06-29T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T12:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=8224"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:30:19","slug":"a-sad-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=8224","title":{"rendered":"A sad anniversary and the Liberal’s Fair Drowning Plan<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has now been more than 12 years<\/a> that the proponent has been pursuing constructing a hydro-electric generating station at the Bala falls. In those 12 years all they’ve been able to do is cut down some trees and put up a chain-link fence. The proponent still does not have the construction approvals needed from; the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, and the District Municipality of Muskoka.<\/p>\n

The proponent has not replied to the last ten letters we’ve sent to them, the MNRF has not replied to our letters concerning risk to private property and public safety and infrastructure, and the Premier’s office has not replied to the hundreds of letters we all sent to them in January 2017 concerning public safety. Clearly all are too embarrassed that they have no acceptable answers to the many unaddressed public safety concerns.<\/p>\n

This mess continues to be a shameful waste of everyone’s time, and is yet another example that the provincial Liberal government’s political direction is misguided and makes no sense. The provincial election will be within the next year, and the provincial Liberals are desperately rolling out changes they tell us are “fair” \u2013 their Fair Housing Plan<\/em>, their Fair Hydro Plan<\/em>, and the\u00a0Fair Workplaces and Better Jobs Plan<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So the Liberal’s Fair Drowning Plan for Unsuspecting Tourists<\/em> seems to be that the politicians …<\/p>\n