Another appeal of a Renewable Energy Approval ("REA")
for a wind turbine project has made its way to, and been refused
by, the Environmental Review Tribunal ("ERT").
The appeal in
SR Opposition Corp v Director, Ministry of the Environment and
Climate Change, 2015 CanLII 86926 (ON ERT) concerned the
construction and operation of a Class 4 wind facility in Kawartha
Lakes. The project is one of several to have been proposed and
appealed in the area. A portion of the site for the proposed
project is located in the Oak Ridges Moraine ("ORM").
The group claimed the project would cause serious harm to human
health through water contamination, noise and cumulative effects,
harm to community health (by putting a nearby archeological site at
risk), and public safety from the threat of fires (as the area in
which the wind farm was to be located was serviced solely by
volunteer firefighters).
