Ontario court strikes down move by Ford government to cancel massive wind farm
Ontario Environment Minister Jeff Yurek speaks during a news conference at Queen's Park, in Toronto, on May 9, 2020.An Ontario court has struck down a move by the provincial government to kill the partly-built Nation Rise Wind Farm southeast of Ottawa, quashing Environment Minister Jeff Yurek’s decision last year to block the project over his concerns about endangered bats.
The project was initially approved by the previous Liberal government just before the 2018 election. A local group, Concerned Citizens of North Stormont, then challenged it before the province’s Environmental Review Tribunal, which approved it last year and concluded the project’s risk to bat populations was negligible. That group then asked Mr. Yurek for his last-ditch intervention, prompting him to overrule the ERT in December.
“This delay has resulted in unnecessary expenditures to-date, at a time when governments and businesses should be focused on reducing costs and restarting the economy,” the company said in a statement. The decision also orders the government to pay the company’s $126,500 legal costs -- far less than the up-to $200-million bill critics warned Ontario could face for cancelling the project.
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