Wind Farms In Court: Ontario Leads The Pack
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…
Wind Turbines And Property Values
MPAC Turbines And Property Values Study Update
I almost wasn’t going to write about Wind Concerns Ontario’s “refutation” of MPAC’s study re the effects of wind turbines on property values. However, the most interesting bit of it…
MPAC Report: Wind Turbines Have NO Negative Effect On Home Values
MPAC is the Municpal Property Assessment Corporation. They determine what each piece of property in Ontario is worth so that the various local governments can hit you up for taxes.…
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,”…
They Are Appalled
A kind of follow-up to this post. Anti-wind activists out in Adelaide have been asked by the provincial MOE (Ministry of the Environment) to, if they are testifying re the…
Wind Farm Opponents Out Six Figures
A group of landowners who unsuccessfully sued a wind power developer and the farm corporation that leased it land have been ordered to pay legal costs of $107,370.78. The 21…
Property Assessments On Wind Turbines To Rise
Reading between the lines, its been clear that the various players in the green energy energy business haven’t been too happy with the Wynne government’s wind-down of the feed-in tariff…
Wind Energy And Property Values In Ontario, Part Whatever…
An interesting decision came down this week re wind energy and property values in Ontario. Before getting to the actual contents of it, though, lets see how the thing is…
Do Wind Turbines Effect Property Values?
I recently found the decision of the Ontario Assessment Review Board related to this story. From the story:Ed and Gail Kenney are calling it a setback, not a defeat.The Wolfe…