Prince Edward County remains in a state of emergency today following an accident in which a barge being used to transport materials to the Windlectric wind power project on Amherst Island sank, polluting…
Judge says OMB offers limited justice—is the same true for the ERT? Recently, lawyer and retired Ontario judge Peter Howden published a book on the Ontario Municipal Board, titled, The Ontario Municipal Board:…
A common response to objections to industrial-scale wind power development in southern Ontario is, Why not put them up North then? Nobody lives there. The members of Save Ontario’s Algoma Region* know the…
Public declaration demands cancellation of wind power procurement, and re-focus of energy policy by the Wynne government January 9, 2017 The Ontario Multi Municipal Group has issued a public declaration stating it wants…
November 1, 2016 Comments filed on Renewable Energy Approval process “The litany of failures is astounding,” says president of community group coalition Wind Concerns Ontario filed comments with Ontario’s EBR yesterday, with recommendations…
In January 2014, John Terry, the lawyer for the well-funded wind power development lobbyist the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) told the panel of judges in an Ontario court at the appeal of a…
August 29, 2016 The Windlectric wind power project on tiny Amherst Island has no hope of meeting its “drop-dead” Commercial Operation date, so Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) can cancel the Feed…
Independent newspaper publisher Rick Conroy of The Times reviews the decisions by the Environmental Review Tribunal to uphold the approval of the wind power project on little Amherst Island. The facts when laid…
London Free Press, July 28, 2016 By John Miner A last-ditch attempt to stop an Oxford County wind farm, based on damage it will do to an endangered species, has run into a…
London Free Press, July 20, 2016 By John Miner Wind turbines are killing bats, including ones on the endangered species list, at nearly double the rate set as acceptable by the Ontario…
“If a sports team went out week after week for the better part of a decade and lost every single game, you would have to question what is going on,” says environmental lawyer…