An Ontario court has struck down a move by the provincial government to kill the partly-built 29-turbine Nation Rise Wind Farm southeast of Ottawa being developed by EDP Renewables. The decision quashes Environment Minister Jeff Yurek’s decision last year to block the project over his concerns about endangered bats.

The ruling is a rebuke for the Progressive Conservative government of Doug Ford, which has sided with the rural opponents of wind and solar energy and spent at least $230-million to cancel 750 renewable energy projects approved by its Liberal predecessors. The government has said the projects were bad deals that paid artificially high rates for power, and that cancelling them saved consumers money in the long run.

The company behind the 29-turbine Nation Rise project, EDP Renewables Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of Madrid-based EDP Renovaveis SA, took Mr. Yurek’s move to court last year.

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