{"id":8771,"date":"2018-05-22T13:29:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=8771"},"modified":"2018-05-22T13:29:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T17:29:12","slug":"holding-the-government-to-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=8771","title":{"rendered":"Holding the government to account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Letter to the Editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muskokaregion.com\/opinion-story\/8601592-letter-holding-the-government-to-account-over-muskoka-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published by MuskokaRegion.com<\/a> on May 15, 2018:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Holding the government to account over\u00a0Muskoka issues<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I loved your strongly-worded article <em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.muskokaregion.com\/opinion-story\/8597987-provincial-candidates-making-lots-of-promises-in-parry-sound-muskoka-riding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Provincial candidates making lots of promises in Parry Sound\u00a0Muskoka riding<\/a>,&#8221;<\/em> it is refreshing to see.<\/p>\n<p>But I think you make it sound too challenging that the proposed\u00a0hydroelectric generating station at the Bala Falls be stopped. As we have often noted on our website, for\u00a0example at <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=8670\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=8670<\/a> under &#8220;the costs of cancellation,&#8221; all we&#8217;re asking is for\u00a0the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change to do its job and protect human life, and hold the\u00a0proponent to the commitments they made for their current approvals.<\/p>\n<p>If this requires a new government\u00a0that does not interfere with the environmental assessment process, then we look forward to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Letter to the Editor, published by MuskokaRegion.com on May 15, 2018: Holding the government to account over\u00a0Muskoka issues I loved your strongly-worded article &#8220;Provincial candidates making lots of promises in Parry Sound\u00a0Muskoka riding,&#8221; it is refreshing to see. But I think you make it sound too challenging that the proposed\u00a0hydroelectric generating station at the <a href='https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=8771' 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-8771","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\/8771","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=8771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8772,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8771\/revisions\/8772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}