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Renewable-power contracts from Boralex Inc. and Invenergy LLC are among those targeted for cancellation by Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who’s working to terminate or wind down more than 750 contracts in a revamp of the province’s energy policies.

The list of contracts in Ford’s crosshairs, released on Friday, includes one with the 50-megawatt Otter Creek Wind Farm in western Ontario, which is being developed in a partnership between Montreal-based Boralex and RES Canada. Also targeted is the proposed Strong Breeze Wind Project near Lake Erie, a 57.5-megawatt wind farm being developed by Invenergy, a closely held firm based in Chicago.

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Ford’s move to make good on a campaign promise to terminate the projects — which his energy minister says will save customers in the Canadian province $790 million (US$600 million) — sent shares of clean-energy companies tumbling on Friday. Some analysts and executives, however, have raised doubts about whether courts would allow the government to break the contracts, signalling the possibility of a protracted conflict over the issue.