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California Coastal Commission to Consider Staff Recommendation to Reject Proposed Harmful Ocean Water Desalination Facility
A Poseidon Adventure We Don't Need
By Gary A. Patton
Executive Director
Planning and Conservation League
Kermit the Frog famously lamented, "it's not easy being green." Poseidon Resources, a company proposing to build an environmentally-destructive ocean water desalination facility on the California coast, would love to have his problem.
Next week in San Diego, Poseidon Resources will try to explain to the California Coastal Commission why they should be granted a permit to build and operate a desalination facility in Carlsbad after the Commission's own staff report recommends denying their request.
The staff report, released last Friday, is spot on in its description of the potential negative effects of the desalination facility proposed by Poseidon. As we noted here last week, the project would cause serious environmental impacts, sucking in marine organisms through an open water intake and increasing stress on marine communities at the site of the facility's brine discharge. In addition, there are significant concerns about the project's contribution to global warming; while Poseidon Resources has recently claimed that the facility's greenhouse emissions will be offset, no detailed plan has yet been made available.
Please help us protect California's coastal environment by attending the upcoming California Coastal Commission hearing in San Diego to ask the Commissioners to follow their own staff's recommendation and reject the Poseidon proposal.
Poseidon's permit application is currently Item 7a on the Commission's three-day agenda and should be heard on Thursday, November 15th. A webcast of the hearing will be available through the Coastal Commission website.
If you can't make it, written comments are due by the morning of Tuesday, November 13th and may be e-mailed to: PoseidonDesalComments@coastal.ca.gov.
Gary Patton is the Executive Director of the Planning and Conservation League, a statewide, nonprofit lobbying organization. For more than thirty years, PCL has fought to develop a body of environmental laws in California that is the best in the United States. PCL staff review virtually every environmental bill that comes before the California Legislature each year. It has testified in support or opposition of thousands of bills to strengthen California's environmental laws and fight off rollbacks of environmental protections.
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I can't believe that you are so short sighted in regards to desalinization. Don't you know that we live in a desert ? There has to be new sources for clean water if we just want to maintain our style of living. What do you want to do... send 59-10 mm people to other areas to presereve SOCAL our be responsible people and solve the water problem.
One minor earthquake will stop 70-80% of all water to SD Would you approve a desalinazation plant after the tap is empty ?
Get real !
Posted by: Will Dawson at December 8, 2007 11:30 AM
Desalinazation is clearly a more reliable source and much less harmful to the california environment than the current practice of sucking the Colorado River completely dry before it reaches the border with Mexico. Other places in California - like Owens Valley or the Sacramento delta - where SoCal currently steals it's water from - have significant problems due to the this unfair 500+ mile long transfer of resources. Take responsibility for yourselves - build desalinazation - and give me my river and my fishes back!
Posted by: Paul at December 20, 2007 03:58 PM
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