A North Stormont community group has gone to the Environmental Review Board to stop the wind project due to spring up in their community. Spokesperson for the Concerned Citizens of North Stormont, Berwick resident Margaret Benke, said that the appeal filed in late May was an effort to at least dial the project back if it can’t be stopped.
The Nation Rise wind project, a 33-turbine wind farm in North Stormont, 45 minutes southeast of Ottawa, was approved just days before the provincial parliament was dissolved before the election. Most of the turbines, 31, will sit on the area’s highly vulnerable aquifer, so designated by the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change.
Premier-elect Doug Ford pledged on the campaign trail to declare a moratorium on new wind projects and scrap the Green Energy Act, whose highly lucrative contracts have been often blamed for Ontario’s rising hydro prices. The Nation Rise project, however, has already been approved, leaving the government with limited options if it’s even willing to intervene.
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