I noticed earlier this week the Phoslock blog posted an update on that Lake Bromont meeting at the end of February, with a link to that report from Quebec that was mentioned here earlier.
A few days after that initial French-language report, a different Quebec news site also featured a second report on that meeting. Initially I didn't pay much attention to this second report as I assumed it was likely just a rehash of the first report. However, in contrast to what frequently seems to be the norm in journalism these days, this reporter has actually made an effort to provide an independent view of the proceedings, and provides details that weren't mentioned in the earlier report.
One detail that I thought was interesting in this second report was the mention of the enthusiastic reaction of some visitors to the lake after the results of the Phoslock treatment had become apparent:
...Another promising sign: For the first time in many years, the municipal beach was not closed to citizens last summer. "We had good comments all beach-goers who told us how beautiful the lake was. [...] A summer without closure, it had not happened for ten years. It's amazing! "Exclaims the representative of the ACBVLB.
But perhaps the most interesting detail included in this other report was that it noted that interested parties from Ontario, Canada's most populist state, have been keeping a close eye on the progress of the Bromont treatment.
The relevant paragraph is below, following on from a heading which roughly translates as 'All eyes on Bromont':
...Various players from Quebec and even from outside have their eyes on Bromont, whose lake is the first in the province to have experienced Phoslock treatment. "Our results are expected, some associations would like the same for their lake," says Groulx-Tellier. There is even an association of lakes in Ontario who wrote to us to know if it had worked. Many, many people are looking for a solution.
You might recall back in December, Ontario's Environment, Conservation and Parks Minister, Rod Phillips, announced an action plan to tackle water pollution, with a major focus on problematic blue-green algae. So the mention there of an Ontario lakes association is intriguing.
With a population of around 14 million, some 250,000 fresh water lakes, and significant problems with blue-green algae in many of these, Ontario represents promising territory for Phoslock.
That post on the company blog about Bromont a few days back is hopefully a sign that the company is now actively targeting Canada, taking advantage of the goodwill that has been created towards Phoslock as a result of the success at Bromont.
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