Latest Anti-Wind Appeal Ends With A Whimper

The Environmental Review Tribunal continues to grind through its list of anti-wind appeals. On December 5, it rejected an appeal against the Renewable Energy Approval for another wind farm, Pattern Energy's South Kent Wind facility, 127 turbines between Tilbury and Ridgetown. In each of the appeals, the opponents have argued that approval of the wind farm will cause serious harm to human health. In each case, they have failed to prove it. In the South Kent Wind case, (Environmental Review Tribunal Decision: 12-071 Chatham-Kent Wind Action Inc. v. Director, Ministry of the Environment) the appellant Chatham Kent Wind Action Group Inc. offered no evidence at all.

Two individuals gave evidence about their opposition to the wind farm. According to the Tribunal, neither proved that approval of the wind farm will cause serious harm to human health. Mr. Erhard, an engineer, testified that the Ministry of the Environment's Renewable Energy Approval regulation misuses ISO