Wild horses can't keep wind energy away: new twist on anti-wind litigation
In Clarington Wind Concerns v Ontario (Director, Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change), 205 CanLII 51503 (ON ERT), the Environmental Review Tribunal (“ERT”) has dismissed the latest twists in anti-wind litigation. This time, wind opponents raised concerns about spooked …
View the post titled Wild horses can't keep wind energy away: new twist on anti-wind litigationObama’s Clean Power Plan: “There is such a thing as being too late”
In a passionate announcement on Monday, President Barack Obama unveiled the United States’ plan for doing its part to combat climate change: the Clean Power Plan (the “Plan”). The Plan sets out to reduce greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions from power stations, which comprise the single largest …
View the post titled Obama’s Clean Power Plan: “There is such a thing as being too late”Wind appeals starting to settle?
Now that the Divisional Court has upheld Ontario’s renewable energy approval process, and the decisions of the Environmental Review Tribunal on concerns about adverse health effects, wind appeals are starting to settle. The Tribunal has heard appeal after appeal against renewable energ…
View the post titled Wind appeals starting to settle?Ontario’s Climate Change Consultations
We recently blogged about Ontario’s Climate Change Discussion Paper 2015. The paper reveals the province’s current thinking on climate change policy options and seeks public input on the following specific questions: 1. How can Ontario better support scientific research to advance future tec…
View the post titled Ontario’s Climate Change ConsultationsOntario Needs Input on Climate Change Policy
Recently the Ontario government released it’s Climate Change Discussion Paper 2015. The report unveils the province’s current thinking on policy options to address climate change, and asks the public to weigh in on such controversial options as a carbon tax versus other possibilities like a …
View the post titled Ontario Needs Input on Climate Change PolicyOntario’s Halting Progress on Energy Conservation
The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO), Gord Miller, released his 2014 Annual Energy Conservation Progress Report to the Legislature on January 13, 2015. Conclusion: we’re making progress on energy conservation, but there is so much more that could and should be done. Energy c…
View the post titled Ontario’s Halting Progress on Energy ConservationMore on the anti-wind constitutional question
Court confirms the constitutional validity of the Ontario system for approving and regulating wind turbines, Green Energy Act, Environmental Protection
View the post titled More on the anti-wind constitutional questionNew regulations to reduce coal?
Getting rid of coal in electricity generation made Ontario Canada’s leader in reducing GHG emissions. Now that we have a remarkably climate-friendly electrical system, what about other uses of coal in Ontario? The Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) says it will ge…
View the post titled New regulations to reduce coal?Pollution Probe Honours Dokis First Nation Power Project
Chief Denise Restoule of the Dokis First Nation attended the 2014 Pollution Probe Gala to accept Pollution Probe’s 2014 Sustainability Award in connection with the Okikendawt Project—a 10 MW hydroelectric facility being developed by the Dokis First Nation with Hydromega Services Inc. New wat…
View the post titled Pollution Probe Honours Dokis First Nation Power ProjectU.N. Climate Report: Irreversible Change Near Certain
Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, and sea level has risen.
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