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‘We are sleepwalking towards disaster’ on Lake Erie, environmental group says

‘We are sleepwalking towards disaster’ on Lake Erie, environmental group says

In 2018, faced with a rise in toxic algal blooms that threatened the health of Lake Erie, Ottawa and Queen’s Park released the Canada-Ontario Lake Erie Action Plan, pledging to reduce levels of phosphorus in the lake by 40 per cent within seven years. Since then, says Michelle Woodhouse, water program manager with Environmental Defence, little has happened.