{"id":8607,"date":"2018-01-14T20:45:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T01:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=8607"},"modified":"2018-01-14T23:34:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T04:34:44","slug":"e-newsletter-january-14-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=8607","title":{"rendered":"e-Newsletter \u2013 January 14, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proponent is now risking flooding Lake Muskoka<\/strong>
\n The proponent’s current construction activities include their upstream cofferdam obstructing the flow of water from Lake Muskoka through the Bala north channel. To ensure this would not result in flooding Lake Muskoka, the proponent’s approval from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry requires that the upstream cofferdam can be removed on 24 hours notice.<\/p>\n

The proponent has apparently decided to renege on this commitment and to not comply with this Condition of their approval, as\u00a0they have excavated beside the Bala north channel when they had said they would not at this early stage of work. Therefore, the proponent\u00a0could not now remove their upstream cofferdam, and this risks flooding the thousands of private properties on Lake Muskoka if there was a rain storm or temperatures high enough to melt the ice and snow upstream in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

More detail is in our article entitled: “Proponent\u2019s big lie #8: their non-compliance risks flooding Lake Muskoka<\/strong><\/a>“<\/em>, which you can read here<\/a>.
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Bureaucrats misleading politicians<\/strong>
\n In our democratic society,\u00a0our elected provincial politicians are supposed to make decisions representing our concerns.<\/p>\n

A problem is that while\u00a0we can write letters to\u00a0and e-mail our elected politicians all we want,\u00a0our elected politicians usually do not see or reply to these communications: instead government bureaucrats do\u00a0all the\u00a0communications work\u00a0for the\u00a0elected politicians.<\/p>\n

Government bureaucrats also convey our concerns to the elected politicians, and this is the problem: the bureaucrats are not disclosing to the politicians that:<\/p>\n