German renewables developer Wpd appears on a legal collision course with Ontario’s new government, after the White Pines Wind Project Termination Act was introduced this week to the Canadian province’s legislature with momentum behind it.

Ontario’s new centre-right government, led by the obstreperous Doug Ford, has made killing off Wpd’s under-construction White Pines wind project one of its most urgent priorities, apparently because the 18MW wind farm is close to completion along the northern shore of Lake Ontario.