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Ontario Clothesline Ban
Status: In Progress
Ecojustice complaint highlights need to remove ban on clothesline use in Ontario
On September 26, 2007 we filed an application under the Ontario's Environmental BIll of Rights to the provincial Minister of Environment for a review of Ont. Reg. 73/94 to determine, in collaboration with the Minister of Energy, whether the Energy Conservation Leadership Act, 2006 should be added as a law subject to the Environmental Bill of Rights.
As a particular example of the need to add this act under the EBR, we pointed to restrictive covenants under residential housing development agreements wherein clotheslines are sometimes banned. This leads to unnecessary power usage for clothes dryers. We estimate that household clothes dryers produce about 700,000 tonnes of GHGs in the province annually. Under the ECL Act the province could pass a regulation to prohibit such restrictive covenants.
Staff:
Albert Koehl, Staff Lawyer, Toronto
Clients:
Andrew Moeser
Nalin Sahni
