By Chip Martin, The London Free Press August 18 2013 Enough. Dozens of Ontario municipalities say they don’t want wind turbines.Heavily pushed by the provincial Liberal government, the electricity they produce deeply subsidized by taxpayers, giant wind energy projects have sprouted across rural Ontar...
By Jenny Uechi Vancouver Observer Aug 13th, 2013ForestEthics Advocacy and Donna Sinclair filed a lawsuit today against the federal government over new rules that severely restrict the ability of Canadians to have a say about proposed energy projects. ...
By Chris Winter Toronto Star August 14 2013On August 14th, 2003, conservation was on every politician’s lips. They spoke the word more times in two days than they had in ten years. But it was conservation by crisis. ...
Ontario’s Environment ministry and Gilead Power are appealing a decision to overturn the approval for the Ostrander Point project By Rachel Mendleson Toronto Star Aug 06 2013 There may be yet another round in the battle over an endangered turtle habitat in Prince Edward County.Gilead Power and the En...
Clean Air Alliance Bulletin July 16 2013 Today Ontario’s Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli announced that the Government of Ontario will pursue all cost-effective energy conservation and efficiency measures before investing in new higher-cost power plants. This is a victory for consumers and common sense...
By MORGAN IAN ADAMS, QMI Agency CLEARVIEW TWP. — A judge has awarded a wind developer costs, while also delivering a stern rebuke to one side’s lawyer for misinterpreting her ruling to the media. On Wednesday, Madam Justice S.E. Healey awarded wpd Canada and the Beattie family businesses nearly $110,...
Countylive.ca July 3 2013 The endangered Blanding’s turtle has helped the Prince Edward County Field Naturalists take down turbines. The Environmental Review Tribunal has allowed the appeal of the Ostrander Point Project by PECFN on grounds of serious and irreversible harm to the natural environment,...
By KEITH LESLIE The Canadian Press May. 30 2013TORONTO — Ontario’s Liberal government is changing the rules on green energy projects to give municipalities a greater say over the location of new wind and solar farms, and a chance to get a slice of the revenue. ...
Lake Ontario Waterkeeper March 19 2013 Late last week, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission gave the go-ahead to Ontario Power Generation to refurbish the existing nuclear power plant located about an hour east of Toronto on Lake Ontario. This is the same site where Ontario plans to build up to fou...
Wind Energy and the Planning Actby DIANNE SAXE on FEBRUARY 22, 2013 The new Premier has lost no time filling her promise to give municipalities back control over renewable energy projects. Bill 2, the very first new proposed law in the Wynne mandate, eliminates the exemption from Planning Act control...
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