Trillium Power Wind 1 (TPW1) was a proposed 450 to 500 megawatt (MW) far-offshore wind farm in the Canadian waters of northeastern Lake Ontario at least from the nearest mainland. This renewable energy project was being developed by Trillium Power Wind Corporation, a privately, Canadian-owned company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The project was cancelled by the Ontario government on February 11, 2011. Had it not been cancelled TPW1 would have been among the first offshore wind farms built in the Great Lakes. Trillium's subsequent lawsuit was struck down almost in its entirety by the Ontario Court of Appeal which ruled that it could proceed with a claim for misfeasance in public office. Project description Following the cancellation of the project, on May 19, 2011, Trillium Power Wind Corporation gave notice to the McGuinty Government that if its action against Trillium Power was not corrected it would initiate an action suing the Government of Ontario for CDN$2.25 billion. No correction was made as requested. Therefore, on September 28, 2011, Trillium Power Wind Corporation filed its claim in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and was assigned the court file CV-11-436012. While the legal claim was initiated against the government of Dalton McGuinty, Trillium Power has continuously stated in the media that it does not hold Premier Wynne responsible for creating the cause of the litigation. Instead, Trillium Power has stated that litigation was the last option and was only taken when the McGuinty government would not even meet or discuss options to correct their targeted action to harm Trillium Power. The TPW1 far-offshore wind site is acknowledged as the premier site in North America and especially The Great Lakes. The TPW1 site was to be located in northeastern Lake Ontario, approximately southwest of Kingston, Ontario on the shoals of Main Duck Island. The project was to consist of approximately 90 to 100 either 5.0 MW or 6.0 far-offshore turbines and two offshore substations linked to the Lennox Transmission Station by way of an underwater cable. The total project cost was estimated at $1.5 billion of private capital with no cost to taxpayers for the proposed construction. The wind farm was to produce between 450 and 500 megawatts (MW) of electricity with a net capacity factor of 43%, which is equivalent to the amount of power consumed by a minimum of 130,000 typical Ontario households. TPW1 would have offset at least 1.5