{"id":281,"date":"2010-10-05T14:39:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T18:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/?p=281"},"modified":"2012-07-11T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T04:00:22","slug":"oakville-gas-plant-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/2010\/10\/oakville-gas-plant-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakville gas plant under fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the proposed Biogas plant in Elmira is not the only one causing an uproar.  <a href=\"http:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/erin-brockovich-speaks-out-against-gas-fired-plant-in-oakville-the-record-1-october-2010\/\" title=\"Mirrored article - Activist Erin Brockovich speaks out against gas-fired plant in Oakville\">The Record reports<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Erin_Brockovich\" title=\"Wikipedia - Erin Brockovich\">Erin Brockovich<\/a> spoke out against a 975 MegaWatt gas-fired electrical generating station proposed for a residential area in Oakville.<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/news.therecord.com\/printArticle\/785926\"><p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t want a big power plant in my backyard either, on top of my house \u2014 I\u2019d have a fit,\u201d Brockovich said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oakville residents consider the three kilometre distance from their homes and schools to be too close.<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/news.therecord.com\/printArticle\/785926\"><p>\nResidents fear an accidental explosion at the site, located near railway lines and major roads, could be devastating.<\/p>\n<p>A blast at a Connecticut power plant in February killed six workers. That plant was separated from communities by a river and buffer zones.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if Erin Brockovich could be persuaded to speak at our next BFCC meeting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Bob.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the proposed Biogas plant in Elmira is not the only one causing an uproar. The Record reports that Erin Brockovich spoke out against a 975 MegaWatt gas-fired electrical generating station proposed for a residential area in Oakville. \u201cI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/2010\/10\/oakville-gas-plant-under-fire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[46,43,45,47,42,44,41],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news-on-radio-or-tv","tag-electrical","tag-erin-brockovich","tag-gas-fired","tag-generating-station","tag-news","tag-oakville","tag-the-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobac.com\/~stopthestink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}