Posted on 04/30/2022 12:32:07 PM PDT by Libloather
A proposed California desalination plant that would produce 50 million gallons of drinking water per day failed a crucial regulatory hurdle on Monday, possibly dooming a project that had been promoted as a partial solution for sustained drought.
The staff of the California Coastal Commission recommended denying approval of the Huntington Beach plant proposed by Poseidon Water, controlled by the infrastructure arm of Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management.
The commission’s staff said the project was more susceptible to sea-level rise than was understood when it was first proposed more than two decades ago. The plant is expected to produce 50 million gallons of drinking water per day, enough for 16% of the homes in the Orange County Water District, where 2.5 million people live.
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The Coastal Commission, which is scheduled to consider the matter on May 12, could defy the staff recommendation and vote to approve the project.
The 12-member commission is made up of six local elected officials and six members of the public who are appointed by the governor, a senate committee, and the assembly speaker.
“When Poseidon first proposed its facility at this location nearly 25 years ago, sea level rise projections were much lower and adaptation planning was in its infancy,” the staff report said. “Since that time, our understanding of the severity and consequences of climate change and sea level rise have grown exponentially.”
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You can't win against the Cally leftist RAT. Progressives - always going backwards.
LOL - and this commission’s alternative? Everyone, including their precious poor people, can just go without water?
Let them drink beer.
Well then, build it on stilts.
5.56mm
No need to rush things!
Need to replace the staff.
Fine by me.
Then either 1) move it inland or 2) build a seawall around it. For crying out loud, what a red herring excuse.
And it is PURE BS that our "understanding" of climate change and sea level rise is any better than it was.
The same people who won't build any water infrastructure or desalination plants are importing millions of Mexicans every year. California has 40 million people. Where will they get the water for the next 10 million or 20 million?
No ya can’t. Once it occurred to me things would only get worse in CA I bailed out. I once had hope of the state turning around...But in the past 6 years or so, it became quite apparent that would likely never happen. It’s why they flooded the state with millions of illegals and foreign nationals of every description. That changed everything.
Their understanding is based on climate models that have never been right. Never mind the fact tide gauges show that the rate of sea level rise is not increasing. So this project is being cancelled based on crystal ball prognostications and lies.
The coastal commission is basically insane. They have mandated that the state prepare their infrastructure for a minimum 3.5 foot sea level rise in the next 30 years. The long-standing rate of sea level rise in average 2mm per year, with numerous sites where the sea level is in fact dropping. Maniacs stewing in their own ignorance, running the most populous state in the union. Ludicrous.
The Coastal Commission is 100% anti-development. No parks, no desalination, no power, no oil rigs and if they had their way, no people. CA needs at least a dozen desalination plants and several new reservoirs, but these idiots will fight every single one. For the price of CA’s stupid “train to nowhere” rail project, we could build 20 and a bunch of reservoirs.
840 miles of coastline parked next to the biggest ocean in the Milky Way - and RATS still can’t find water.
I HOPE THEY ALL THIRST TO DEATH. They deserve no less. “Sea level rise”, nonsense...
Well the obvious question is "How much has the sea level actually risen in that 25 years", and how does that match against the projection?
The fish, birds, low-income (minorities?). They forgot the women and children and the LGBTQrxyz fringe.
The communists depend on shortages of anything to use as a reason for constantly expanding their control of their serfs...
Naturally they will stop any process or plan that would result in eliminating a shortage of something as important as water...
We have a desalination plant here in Carlsbad, built and operated by the same company. It is located right on the coast at a site very similar to the one proposed for Huntington Beach. Reverse osmosis is not a dangerous process, so there is no appreciable risk to the public even if it should flood. Ignore the staff and build the plant. The term “exponentially” is a giveaway that the staff is comprised of a bunch of poorly educated lefty kids. Tell us, boys and girls, exactly what is that exponent and how was it derived?
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Desalination plants would be a huge plus for the environment and an economic plus for the poor and middle class.
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