A wind turbine company has been awarded $25 million after Ontario shelved its offshore energy plans. MARCUS OLENIUK / TORONTO STAR ) Order this photoAn American firm fighting Ontario’s halt on offshore wind power has won a landmark $25-million claim for a energy project in Lake Ontario that was put on hold. As such, the $25 million would be the latest cost to taxpayers for power that was not built in Ontario. Six months later, in February 2011, then-energy minister Brad Duguid ordered the offshore wind moratorium as the government prepared for an election in October. “There isn’t a lot of science on freshwater offshore wind,” Duguid, now economic development minister, said at the time.

Source: thestar October 13, 2016 21:36 UTC