diff --git a/lib/index.js b/lib/index.js
index dbb38692d97..d873039d2bf 100644
--- a/lib/index.js
+++ b/lib/index.js
@@ -44,13 +44,6 @@ module.exports = {
   init() {
     this._super.init && this._super.init.apply(this, arguments);
 
-    if ('ember' in this.project.bowerDependencies()) {
-      // TODO: move this to a throw soon.
-      this.ui.writeWarnLine(
-        'Ember.js is now provided by node_module `ember-source`, please remove it from bower'
-      );
-    }
-
     // resets `this.root` to the correct location by default ember-cli
     // considers `__dirname` here to be the root, but since our main entry
     // point is within a subfolder we need to correct that