Update On Ontario's Renewable Electricity Sector

Copyright 2011, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Originally published in Blakes Bulletin on Energy/CleanTech, March 2011,

There have been a number of developments in Ontario's Renewable Electricity sector over the last few weeks. Although the government's plan to promote renewable generation has run into a few snags, Ontario is moving ahead with the implementation, and even expansion, of its Feed-in Tariff Program (the FIT Program). This Blakes Bulletin will update you on the following recent developments:

• an Ontario court has dismissed a case seeking to strike down the provincial laws governing the location of wind turbines;
• in another case landowners are asking the Environmental Review Tribunal to revoke the Renewable Energy Approval (RE Approval) granted to an eight-turbine wind farm on the grounds that it will cause serious harm to human health;