A NAFTA tribunal last week awarded $28-million in damages to Windstream Energy, whose $5.2-billion, 300-megawatt offshore wind contract was put in limbo by the 2011 moratorium. "We do have a lot of data on on-shore wind, but we don't have enough yet on offshore wind." 'We do have a lot of data on on-shore wind, but we don't have enough yet on offshore wind.' The Liberal government is also under criminal investigation and is being sued over another offshore wind project. Trillium Power Wind Corp. has alleged in a lawsuit that government officials destroyed documents after the company sued over the government's cancellation of a Lake Ontario wind project.

Source: CBC News October 21, 2016 01:28 UTC