Ontario Liberals working hard t get it right Canadian taxpayers are facing a $475-million free-trade claim from an American company that alleges the Ontario government invented scientific pretexts to stop wind farms in the Great Lakes.
That’s on top of a $500-million lawsuit against the province by Ontario-based Trillium Power Wind Corp. over the same “temporary” ban (now five years old and counting), and an Ontario Provincial Police investigation into whether government officials destroyed emails and documents that should have been kept as evidence.
It all stems from a decision the government made in 2011 to cancel numerous proposals for “offshore” wind farms in the lakes, ostensibly so it could commission more scientific research into how to build them properly.
Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner won’t investigate a wind-farm company’s allegations that government officials deleted important documents about cancelling its project because that could duplicate a police investigation
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The trade claim is under the North American Free Trade Agreement, and it comes from an American company called Windstream Energy.