{"id":14269,"date":"2012-11-27T19:11:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T02:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=14269"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:31:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:31:19","slug":"telus-defacing-beautiful-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=14269","title":{"rendered":"Telus defacing Beautiful BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/godenearsway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14270\" src=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/godenearsway.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/godenearsway.jpg 989w, https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/godenearsway-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/godenearsway-768x338.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\">Put cell tower on district land<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">Telus obviously believes it is OK to deface the most publicly accessible iconic view of the Golden Ears mountains.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"author-meta\">\n<li>Nov. 27, 2012 2:00 p.m.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"byline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mapleridgenews.com\/opinion\/\">OPINION<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Editor, The News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Re: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapleridgenews.com\/news\/177555481.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cellphone tower rattling residents<\/a> (<em>The News<\/em>, Nov. 7).<\/p>\n<p>As reported over the last \u00a0couple of weeks, our oh so friendly telecom giant Telus is once again conspiring with a land owner to place a cell tower on private property.<\/p>\n<p>Telus obviously believes it is OK to deface the most publicly accessible iconic view of the Golden Ears mountains.<\/p>\n<p>This tower is not an emergency. There are other options.<\/p>\n<p>Towers currently at Dewdney Trunk Road and 240th Street are underutilized and municipal land is also available.<\/p>\n<p>As the land use authority, our municipal council is actively developing its own policy.<\/p>\n<p>Telus has not even fulfilled the requirements of Industry Canada\u2019s Default Policy.<\/p>\n<p>For these and other reasons, this tower should not be located in that field.<\/p>\n<p>It needs to be on hold until another more suitable site is found.<\/p>\n<p>The first choice being municipal land so that our municipality will reap the benefits financially.<\/p>\n<p>Protect our community from this back door approach to changes to our landscape and culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Janet Foster<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maple Ridge<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>https:\/\/www.mapleridgenews.com\/opinion\/put-cell-tower-on-district-land\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Related Article :<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"IGxqlvvn85\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=1637\">Farm Cell Tower, Homes closest to tower not contacted<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Farm Cell Tower, Homes closest to tower not contacted&#8221; &#8212; EMR Health Alliance of BC\" src=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=1637&#038;embed=true#?secret=iLSYZxMIuv#?secret=IGxqlvvn85\" data-secret=\"IGxqlvvn85\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put cell tower on district land Telus obviously believes it is OK to deface the most publicly accessible iconic view of the Golden Ears mountains. Nov. 27, 2012 2:00 p.m. OPINION Editor, The News: Re: Cellphone tower rattling residents (The News, Nov. 7). As reported over the last \u00a0couple of weeks, our oh so friendly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,127,454,17,28,530,3,54,722,720,721],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal","category-antenna","category-antenna-removal","category-bc","category-cell-tower","category-cows","category-health_and_safety","category-maple-ridge","category-websters-corners","category-whonnock","category-whonnock-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14276,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14269\/revisions\/14276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}