Canadian taxpayers are facing a $475-million free-trade claim from an American company that alleges the Ontario government invented scientific pretexts to stop wind farms in the Great Lakes. But unlike Trillium, Windstream has an enormous amount of evidence, hundreds of pages’ worth, in the public record, filed with a tribunal in The Hague. Like Trillium, Windstream alleges it was wronged by that 2011 decision, which scrapped every project then in development and froze applications for new ones, and deserves to be compensated. They do not deal in detail with Windstream’s version of all the wrangling over how to stop wind farms that had become a political problem. Then in January 2011, the Ontario government decided to impose a total moratorium on the grounds that the government didn’t know enough to approve any wind farms in lakes at all.

Source: National Post May 12, 2016 06:38 UTC