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The Ontario Ministry of the Environment said Wednesday it will not investigate a Peterborough woman’s complaint that her environmental rights were violated by a basketball-bouncing teenage neighbour.

Spokeswoman Kate Jordan said the ministry reviewed Anne Langdon’s request for an Environmental Bill of Rights investigation and determined one is “not warranted” because her situation doesn’t meet provincial standards.

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Ms. Langdon had complained that her neighbour — a promising basketball player — would shoot hoops for long periods of time in the narrow driveway by her bedroom window, causing an “echo chamber effect” of noise. She also said a makeshift wood panel her neighbours had used to shield her window was deliberately blocking her sunlight. As a “last resort” in the protracted neighbourhood battle, she appealed to the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario to assess whether this constituted environmental pollution.