Amendment to Renewable Energy Approval for the Beckwith Solar Project

On November 23, 2020, we amended Renewable Energy Approval No. 0112-94VKPR to:

• construct a tractor storage building to house an agricultural tractor with attachments
• construct an associated double-walled fuel storage tank.

Since the Beckwith Solar Project started operating in 2014, Beckwith Solar Inc. now needs a tractor storage building and fuel storage tank that was not considered during the development of the project.

The tractor storage building and fuel tank will facilitate regular onsite operations and maintenance, including:

• snow removal
• vegetation management activities

The storage building will be approximately 9 metres by 15 metres and will sit on concrete footings on an existing gravel building pad (approximately 11 metres by 18 metres). The fuel storage tank will be located on a concrete building pad adjacent to the storage building to permit on-site tractor refueling.

Minimal environmental effects and no new environmental effects are expected to occur beyond those that were previously identified, documented and consulted on through the renewable energy approval process, since the location of the tractor storage building and fuel storage tank is within the limits of the previously approved project location.

Re-confirmation letters from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry and the Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries are not required because the change did not result in relocating any project components beyond the project location that was already assessed.

This Class 3 solar facility, known as the Beckwith Solar Project, is located at Lot 3, Concession 8 in the Municipality of Mississippi Mills, Lanark County.

Third party hearing provisions

Any resident of Ontario may require a hearing by the Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT) within 15 days after the date this decision is loaded to the Environmental Registry by written notice served upon all of the following:

Appellate body

Courier mail should be addressed to:

Environmental Review Tribunal
25 Grosvenor Street, 4th Floor
Toronto, ON M7A 1R1

Mail sent through Canada Post should be addressed to:

Environmental Review Tribunal
655 Bay Street, Suite 1500
Toronto, ON M5G 1E5
Phone: 416-212-6349
Toll free: 1-866-448-2248
TTY: 1-800-855-1155
Email: ERTTribunalsecretary@ontario.ca

Issuing authority

Miroslav Ubovic, P.Eng.
Director, Section 47.5, Environmental Protection Act
Environmental Permissions Branch
135 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 1
Toronto Ontario
M4V 1P5
Phone: (437) 216-7610
Toll Free Phone: (800) 461-6290
enviropermissions@ontario.ca

Proponent

Beckwith Solar Inc
105 Commerce Valley Drive West, Unit 410
Markham, Ontario
L3T 7W3

An applicant for a hearing shall state in the notice requiring the hearing:

1. A description of how engaging in the renewable energy project in accordance with the renewable energy approval will cause either:
   1. serious harm to human health
   2. serious and irreversible harm to plant life, animal life or the natural environment
2. The portion of the renewable energy approval in respect of which the hearing is required; and
3. The relief sought.

Further information is provided on the ERT’s website at:https://olt.gov.on.ca/tribunals/ert/about-the-ert/renewable-energy-appeals/.