How to find environmental rules that affect an Ontario property

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1. Name the activity

   Dumping, tanks and development use different Acts.

2. Check Environmental Law then municipal by-laws

   Approvals are documents. A neighbour chat is not an approval.

Official law on this site: environmental-law.

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