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…
CBC News June 20, 2016 Seventy-five municipalities across Ontario are calling on the provincial government to give them more say on future wind farm projects. Some eastern Ontario communities have declared themselves…
The Whig-Standard, June 7, 2016 By Elliot Ferguson The public waits for the Amherst Island hearing to begin June 7th. Photo: Elliot Ferguson/Whig-Standard STELLA — The two sides in the legal battle over…
More than one ‘tough guy’ needed to restore democracy in Ontario, Wind Concerns Ontario president says. We all need to be in this fight. Responding to an opinion by farmer Ian Cummings in the…
May 4, 2016 Wind Concerns Ontario submitted a series of recommendations to the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) as part of the “engagement” process on the Large Renewable Procurement (LRP) process on May 3rd.…
Statement from the Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County (APPEC) after the Environmental Review Tribunal decision yesterday, April 25. Today the Environmental Review Tribunal issued a decision on APPEC’s motion for a stay on WPD’s…
April 8, 2016 Community group the Manitoulin Coalition for Safe Energy Alternatives (MCSEA) has learned that the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) has not laid charges against a wind…