There’s no way you are going to initiate a legal action without having been told what the costs might be if you lose. And if your case is a constitutional challenge based on a “novel reading of the law”, you have almost certainly been told in addition that the chances
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Strange Goings On In Ontario Anti-Wind Movement
A number of Ontario ERT (Environmental Review Tribunal) decisions were released just before Xmas; they can be found here. The results should no longer be surprising; forces opposing the development of wind farms in the province challenged several projects on grounds that they were dangerous to human health, and
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Condensed from Mike Barnard’s report: Interestingly, Canada is by far the most litigious, and Ontario had almost 30% of the cases by itself. Belief in health impacts varies substantially by geography; where anti-wind groups are strongly pushing the idea, people get afraid and try to prevent wind farms based on
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Wind Turbines And Groundwater Contamination In Ontario
Last week this warning appeared on Reddit Ontario, and later got picked up at Ontario Wind Resistance: You notice that it names one G.W. Tomlinson, who’s Senior Environmental Officer in the Guelph district office of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change. I emailed him, and he was kind enough to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Why Ontario Anti-Wind Forces Keep Losing Their ERT (Environmental Review Tribunal) Appeals
They want the Tribunal to take their word at face value: “There is no reliable evidence to demonstrate that the project will cause serious physical or any other serious harm,” [the tribunal] ruled.A number of witnesses who live close to existing wind farms testified that the turbines had damaged their
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Wind And Health: A New Study?
From Garth Manning, Chairman of the County Coalition for Safe and Appropriate Green Energy (CCSAGE), Prince Edward County, Ontario, writing in the T.O. Sun: Toronto human rights lawyer Julian Falconer argues that the GEA and the government’s approval of wind projects “implicates their right to security of the person” as guaranteed by
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