Ontario's Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT) has
dismissed another anti-wind power appeal: May 14, 2014, Pitt v. MOE ERT Registry Number: 13-121. The Wainfleet
Wind Energy Project can now proceed, despite objections from a
skydiving club. The ERT ruled that the club had not shown that the
turbines were likely to cause even one serious skydiving accident
over their twenty year working life.
Imagine if the same test were applied to other infrastructure.
Maybe no new roads should be built without proof that there would
never be a serious accident on that road? What about coal-fired
power plants? Coal mines?
On October 7, 2013, the Ministry of the Environment
("MOE"), issued Renewable Energy Approval No. 7159-97BQAS
(the "REA") to Wainfleet Wind Energy Inc. (the
"Approval Holder"), under s. 47.5 of the
Environmental Protection Act ("EPA"). The REA grants
approval for the construction, installation, operation, use and
retiring of a Class 4 wind facility consisting of
