Ostrander Point Wind Project Gets Green Light From Ontario Divisional Court

On February 20, 2014 the Divisional Court released its decision in Ostrander Point GP Inc. v. Prince Edward County Field Naturalists. The case concerned three appeals from a decision of the Environmental Review Tribunal (Tribunal). The Tribunal's decision addressed an appeal of the Ministry of the Environment's (MOE) decision to grant a Renewable Energy Approval (REA) to Ostrander Point GP Inc. (Ostrander) to construct nine wind turbines (the Project) on a site known as Ostrander Point, about fifteen kilometres south of Picton, Ontario. The Tribunal allowed the appeal and decided to revoke the REA, agreeing with the Prince Edward County Field of Naturalists' (PECFN) position that the Project would seriously and irreversibly harm a species of turtle called the Blanding's turtle.