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Bill 29, Think Twice Before You Choose Natural Gas Act (Ontario Energy Board Amendment), 2022

Hsu, Ted

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EXPLANATORY

NOTE

The

Bill amends the Ontario Energy Board Act, 1998 with

respect to municipal by-laws regarding residential natural gas connections.

Section

42 of the Act is amended to provide that the duty of gas distributors to

provide gas distribution services along the line of their distribution pipe

lines does not restrict municipalities from imposing conditions on any new

residential connection in accordance with a municipal by-law establishing

limits on greenhouse gas emissions attributable to residential consumers in the

municipality.

Bill 29 2022

Act to amend the Ontario Energy Board Act, 1998 with respect to

municipal conditions on residential natural gas connections

His

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Section 3 of the Ontario Energy Board Act, 1998 is

amended by adding the following definition:

“greenhouse

gas” has the same meaning as in the Environmental Bill of

Rights, 1993 ; (“gaz à effet de serre”)

Section 42 of the Act is amended by adding the following subsection:

Interaction

with municipal by-law restricting greenhouse gas emissions

(2.1) Subsection

(2) does not restrict a municipality from imposing conditions on any new

residential connection in accordance with a municipal by-law establishing

limits on greenhouse gas emissions attributable to residential consumers in the

municipality.

Commencement

This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Think Twice Before You Choose Natural Gas Act (Ontario Energy

Board Amendment), 2022 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

December 7, 2022

Second Reading

Vote

Lost on division

December 6, 2022

Second Reading

Question put

Vote deferred

December 6, 2022

Second Reading

Question put

Vote deferred

December 6, 2022

Second Reading

Debated

November 1, 2022

First Reading

Ordered for Second Reading

November 1, 2022

First Reading

Vote

Carried

First Reading

November 1, 2022

Carried

Second Reading

December 6, 2022

Bowman, Stephanie

Don Valley West

Dixon, Jess

Kitchener South—Hespeler

Hsu, Ted

Kingston and the Islands

McMahon, Mary-Margaret

Beaches—East York

Sattler, Peggy

London West

Schreiner, Mike

Guelph

Question put

December 7, 2022

Lost on division