Trillium files appeal after Ontario offshore wind case knock-back

Canadian developer Trillium Power has filed an appeal against a ruling last month by an Ontario court that struck out its C$2.25bn ($2.26bn) lawsuit against the provincial government over a moratorium on Great Lakes offshore wind development.

Trillium’s appeal cites “errors in points of law and evidence” in the ruling by Justice Robert Goldstein, who decreed that former Premier Dalton McGuinty’s government did not act illegaly in taking its decision.

It was, Goldstein wrote, “empowered to set or alter policy with regard to wind power".

Trillium in its lawsuit had argued that the February 2011 decision to freeze offshore development in the lakes was based on political considerations tied to McGuinty’s ultimately successful reelection campaign of October last year. McGuinty stepped down last month, although the Log in to read complete article.

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