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ARTICLE · 22 APRIL 2016

Dry Cleaner Sentenced To House Arrest For Improper Storage Of Tetrachloroethylene

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An Edmonton businessman and owner of a dry cleaning operation, First Class Cleaners, was given an four-month conditional sentence on that is to be served in the community.

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Paula Lombardi
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An Edmonton businessman and owner of a dry cleaning operation, First Class Cleaners, was given an four-month conditional sentence on that is to be served in the community.  The owner of First Class Cleaners plead guilty to five Canadian Environmental Protection Act offences relating to the use of tetrachloroethylene (also known as perchloroethylene or PERC).

First Class Cleaners was issued warnings in 2005 and 2007 that the dry cleaning operation was not in compliance with the PERC Regulation.  First Class Cleaners was charged and plead guilty to two offences in 2009 and 2010.  In 2013 the regulator, Alberta Environment and Climate Change, found that First Class Cleaners, stored tetrachloroethylene in open containers, did not provide a secondary containment system for the dry cleaning machine, and failed to dispose of the tetrachloroethylene waste every 12 months all in contravention of the PERC Regulation.

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