Evidence of Land Access Rights

You must provide evidence either of ownership of the property in question, or of leasehold or other access rights needed to complete your project. This could be, for example, a copy of a deed or a lease agreement.

You also must provide evidence that you have the necessary access rights for your project. These include rights relating to:

  • provincial Crown lands (i.e., applicant of record)
  • federal Crown lands (i.e., priority permit)
  • permissions from Band councils with respect to reserve land or special reserves as defined by the Indian Act (Canada), where applicable.

Access rights relating to a project are defined as follows:

either title to or rights of access to the location of a project, sufficient to build, operate and maintain the project, enforceable for the term of the FIT contract. The contractual rights may include a lease, option, letter of intent, memorandum or understanding or other grant conditional only on:

(i) the applicant entering into the FIT contract, and

(ii) the supplier under the FIT contract being issue a notice to proceed.