Per the MNR website
"Crown Land Site Report
On December 14, 2012 the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) began accepting
Applications under the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) 2.1 Program for Small
Projects >10kW to ≤500kW. In order to align access to provincial
Crown land with the OPA’s FIT 2.1 Program, MNR has developed the Crown
Land Site Report document. As per the
FIT Rules Version 2.1 (PDF
513Kb), FIT 2.1 Applicants with projects proposed for provincial Crown
land must submit a completed Crown Land Site Report to the Ministry of
Natural Resources prior to submitting their FIT 2.1 hard copy
Application to the OPA. This Crown Land Site Report submission
requirement applies to all FIT 2.1 Applicants that have not been
awarded Site Access (e.g. Applicant of Record status) by MNR for their
FIT 2.1 Application site(s). The Crown Land Site Report for Small
Feed-In Tariff 2.1 Projects (>10kW to ≤500kW) document is available
for download
here (PDF 323Kb) .
Site Access Maps
The Ministry of Natural Resources has released a series of maps showing
Crown land renewable energy application sites that are not available to
potential new Crown land applicants for the purposes of applying to FIT
2.1. The application sites shown on these maps are currently held by
existing applicants with Crown land Site Access (e.g. Applicant of
Record status) and/or an energy procurement contract.
The
Water Power Sites (PDF .76Mb) provincial scale map shows the
location and site identification numbers of Crown land water power
application sites held by existing applicants with Site Access. The
Wind Power Sites (PDF 8.9Mb) document includes a provincial scale map
showing application sites held by existing applicants with Site Access,
as well as a series of 33 individual maps which provide the
corresponding grid cell reference number information. A description of
grid cells and a listing of all cells occupied by existing applicants
with Site Access is also available
here (PDF 113Kb).
Note that this page will be periodically updated with additional
information and materials on FIT 2.1 and Crown land access. More
information on the Ontario Power Authority’s Feed-In Tariff Program is
available on the OPA’s
FIT website."
The Water Power and Wind Power site maps are especially interesting to
those of us concerned with the Industrialization of the EasternShore of
Lake Superior and the privitization of Crown Land. Despite
comments by certain developers to the contrary, it is obvious that the
MNR has entered into arrangements with Brookfield and Gilead to reserve
Crown Land between Montreal River Harbour and Batchawana for their use
in developing the Niimassing and Mica Bay Wind Power Generating
Stations. The Heyden Lake Phase 1 & 2 projects being
developed by Renewable Energy Systems Canada (RES Canada) are also
shown on the Wind Power development map, as is Sprott's Goulais project.
The map reveals that the MNR must be aware of the extent of Wind Power
Generating Station developments in the Province, yet still refuses to
consider the overall impact of all these projects on Crown Land use,
Tourism, Natural Heritage, the Environment and Endangered Species.