Category Archives: Renewable Energy

April 12, 2012 – Paul Manning will be be speaking at AWMA’s Hamilton Breakfast Speaker Series on “Municipalities, Schools and Hospitals: Energy Conservation and Demand Management Plans”

AIR & WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION ONTARIO SECTION Hamilton Breakfast Series The premier technical presentation series! The hot issues Member and attendee networking An excellent full breakfast Thursday, April 12, 2012 Municipalities, Schools, and Hospitals: Energy Conservation and Demand Management Plans … Continue reading

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March 22, 2012 – First Review of Ontario’s Feed-in Tariff Program Slashes Cash for Wind and Solar

Ontario’s government announced today that it will implement all of the recommendations of the first review of its Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) Program (Review) As widely anticipated, there are  substantial reductions in the FIT rates payable for solar and wind-powered renewable energy … Continue reading

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March 7, 2012 – Storm Clouds Brew for Wind and Solar in Ontario

Ontario’s ambitious renewable energy program is under attack from all sides.  In December 2011, the Auditor General criticized the province’s Feed-in Tariff (FIT) rates for renewable energy as being too costly (see our post December 5, 2011) . In February … Continue reading

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January 2012 – Municipal World publishes an article by Paul Manning on Renewable Energy in Ontario

Ontario is  the leading jurisdiction in North America to ditch coal-fired electricity generation in favour of renewable energy. It has come at a price and not without controversy. Streamlining has reduced the number of approvals required for renewable energy development … Continue reading

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December 5, 2011 – Ontario’s Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff Attacked by Auditor General

The timing could not be more sensitive. Ontario’s renewable energy feed-in tariff, a centre-piece of the McGuinty government’s green energy initiative, has come under attack in the Auditor General’s 2011 Report. The report, issued today, comes just as the Ontario … Continue reading

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October 17 2011 – Renewable Energy: Approvals and Challenges in Ontario

A paper given by Paul Manning at the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Six Minute Environmental Lawyer October 2011. The streamlining of renewable energy approvals  Ontario into a single Renewable Energy Approval  was designed to assist Ontario’s push for increased … Continue reading

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