Business development director Gordon Potts says that opponents may appeal the 26 June decision by Ontario’s environment and climate change ministry to award the project a renewable energy approval.

“If so, it goes to an environmental review tribunal that essentially delays the project for six months,” he says, which would push commercial start to first quarter 2016.

“We wouldn’t do much work during the appeal because it’s possible – although it has never happened before – that an appeal could rule against us and we wouldn’t have a project,” Potts adds.

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