White Pines update

ERT stops another wind project in Prince Edward County

Dear APPEC supporters and friends,
We are pleased to announce that APPEC’s appeal of wpd’s White Pines Wind Project has been upheld in part. In the decision, which was issued late Friday afternoon, the Tribunal found that the White Pines project will cause serious and irreversible harm to Little Brown Bats and to the Blanding’s turtle.

The Tribunal did not find serious and irreversible harm to human health, to hydrology or to migratory birds. However in regards to the latter the Tribunal did note that this wind project presents a significant risk of serious harm to migrating birds and that the project site was poorly chosen from a migratory bird perspective.
We are cautiously elated! The Tribunal acknowledges that engaging in this wind project in accordance with the REA (Renewable Energy Approval) will cause serious and irreversible harm to animal life. Therefore wpd no longer has an REA to stand behind.

The ERT has ordered a hearing of submissions with respect to potential remedies.

The board will be studying the decision over the weekend and following consultation with our legal counsel Eric Gillespie, will have more information to give you next week.

Orville Walsh
President, APPEC