Ontario will reportedly maintain its controversial moratorium on offshore wind development following the conclusion of two government-sponsored studies, deepening the legal drama surrounding Windstream’s long-idled 300MW Wolfe Island Shoals project.
It appears the province will support a strategy of paying the developer off rather than allowing the project to get built.
In 2010 Ontario awarded Windstream a feed-in tariff contract for its Wolfe Island project, in the northeastern corner of Lake Ontario, but the following year the province declared a moratorium on offshore wind development, citing the need for environmental studies.
