{"id":887,"date":"2008-12-18T20:34:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T00:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=887"},"modified":"2008-12-18T20:34:50","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T00:34:50","slug":"issue-liability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=887","title":{"rendered":"Issue: Liability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By providing land for the power station, the district is exposing itself to the risks taken by the proponent &ndash; which is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A for-profit company, which would be guided by maximizing profit &#8211; with an &#8220;acceptable level&#8221; of risk &#8211; and this may well be different from the District&#8217;s level of acceptable risk.<\/li>\n<li>No doubt a limited company with only the power station as an asset;\n<ul>\n<li>Which wouldn&#8217;t be worth much if it had to be shut down &#8211; it could even be left to the District as an expensive liability if the company went bankrupt, due to an accident, the economy or other problem.<\/li>\n<li>Leaving the district with potentially unlimited liability if there was a fatal accident.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By providing land for the power station, the district is exposing itself to the risks taken by the proponent &ndash; which is: A for-profit company, which would be guided by maximizing profit &#8211; with an &#8220;acceptable level&#8221; of risk &#8211; and this may well be different from the District&#8217;s level of acceptable risk. No doubt <a href='https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=887' 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-887","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\/887","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=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}