Ontario has elected a new Provincial Government and what lies ahead for the energy sector is sure to be an interesting play of policy decisions based on election promises and market realities. Many opinions are being expressed as to what if will mean for contracts for renewable energy projects , including those powered by wind.
The link below outlines an analysis of what may lay ahead.
What the new Doug Ford Government means for the Energy Sector – A detailed analysis, July 2018
PC Party Election Platform on Energy
Premier Doug Ford ran and won on a platform labeled For the People: A Plan for Ontario. The platform set out Ford’s energy plan, in its entirety, as follows:
We will:
- Clean up the Hydro Mess and fire the board of Hydro One and its $6-million-dollar CEO. Our first act will be to end the Liberal practice of making millionaires from your hydro bills!
- Stop sweetheart deals by scrapping the Green Energy Act.
- Cut hydro rates by 12% for families, farmers, and small businesses by:
- Returning Hydro One dividend payments to families.
- Stopping the Liberal practice of burying the price tag for conservation programs in your hydro bills and instead pay for these programs out of general government revenue.
- Cancel energy contracts that are in the pre-construction phase and re-negotiate other energy contracts.
- Declare a moratorium on new energy contracts.
- Eliminate enormous salaries at Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One.
- Stabilize industrial hydro rates through a package of aggressive reforms.
What this will cost:
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Hydro One Dividend – $300-$400 million per year.
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Moving Conservation Programs to Tax Base – $433 million per year.
Mothers Against Wind Turbines Inc. 
The Liberal government gave new meaning to the phrase ‘pay it forward’ as they downloaded billions of dollars of debt onto my children and grandchildren. The cost of not cancelling the rentseeking contracts will be billions of dollars paid for unreliable wind, duplication, curtailment, and bad deals. We pay Quebec for hydro while we run water over Niagara Falls – That was the Liberal solution.
Take a look at this article:
https://www.mccarthy.ca/en/insights/blogs/canadian-era-perspectives/uncertain-ground-owners-may-be-liable-unforeseeable-environmental-effects
With the ‘takeaways’ from this case, what could this mean for leaseholders if under a new government, regulations come into effect regarding environmental harm to innocent men, women and children forced against their will to have to deal with the impacts of trespassing noise, low frequency noise modulations and infrasound radiation, strobe effect, as well as emissions from related infrastructure?