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Agency unanimously rejects California desalination project
AP (on their own site) ^ | 05-13-2022 | AMY TAXIN

Posted on 05/14/2022 8:07:54 AM PDT by Salman

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A California coastal panel on Thursday rejected a long-standing proposal to build a $1.4 billion seawater desalination plant to turn Pacific Ocean water into drinking water as the state grapples with persistent drought that is expected to worsen in coming years with climate change.

The state’s Coastal Commission voted unanimously to deny a permit for Poseidon Water to build a plant to produce 50 million gallons of water a day in Huntington Beach, southeast of Los Angeles.

Poseidon said it was disappointed in the decision.

“California continues to face a punishing drought, with no end in sight,” a company statement said. “Every day, we see new calls for conservation as reservoir levels drop to dangerous lows. We firmly believe that this desalination project would have created a sustainable, drought-tolerant source of water.”

The vote came after a heated meeting before the commission attended by dozens of supporters and critics of the plan. It was considered a crucial decision on the future of the plant after years of other hearings and delays.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; californiacoast; desalinization; environment; gavinnewsom; huntingtonbeach; losangeles; nimby; pacific; pacificocean; poseidonwater
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To: qwerty1234

Should the rivers not empty into the ocean? Save it for the farmers? Salmon are sexy- delta smelt no. Too much salt in SF bay?


21 posted on 05/14/2022 8:19:59 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The Salton Sea had potential. What happened? It sure stinks down there.


22 posted on 05/14/2022 8:20:52 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Salman

Well I guess that adventure sunk like the Poseidon in 1972.


23 posted on 05/14/2022 8:25:46 AM PDT by dblshot
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To: Huskrrrr
Idiots.

Just doing what they were bribed to do.

24 posted on 05/14/2022 8:26:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Affirmative action is systemic/institutional racism/sexism targeting straight, white males.)
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To: plain talk

Yup. They could have used it for sea salt like up around SF.

I think its cargil? that has about a 20 thousand acre sea salt plant up there.

Eff em. Reduce their take from the Colorado river that much.


25 posted on 05/14/2022 8:26:28 AM PDT by crz
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To: Salman

on the one hand the drought and on the other the disproportionate increase in the population and consequently greater spending on water for daily consumption and the need for agricultural production to feed the inhabitants of the state.


26 posted on 05/14/2022 8:28:05 AM PDT by californian by choice
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To: rktman

“Guess theyre skerred there wouldn’t be any salt left in the o’shun.”

Just the opposite. After they take the salt out of the water to be used, the salt goes back to the ocean raising the salt content. That is the objection. It actually says so in the article.


27 posted on 05/14/2022 8:28:32 AM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: Salman

In 1996 B1 Bob Dornan had his election stolen and nothing was done about it . This cancer has metastasized to where we are today. It’s so bad in California who knows if Larry Elder actually won or not? The bad guys sure made it look like a truncing. I actually believe no Republican can win in that state unless he is compromised in some way. Short of revolution or being over ruled by Federal Law I can’t see any way for California to vote its way out of its entrenched tyranny.


28 posted on 05/14/2022 8:28:36 AM PDT by Nateman (Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy Americans has ever had. 🍊)
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To: cuban leaf

When our one of our kids were at the toddler age, they wanted my wife to buy them an expensive electric riding toy they saw at the store. My wife said “I don’t have enough money to buy that.” Their reply was “But you just go to the money machine (ATM) and get the money.”

I think of that event anytime rats want to spend crazy money. No concept of where the money really comes from.


29 posted on 05/14/2022 8:28:55 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Salman

Insanity.


30 posted on 05/14/2022 8:29:07 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a newl Socialist America.)
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To: Salman

Yep, stare with huge population, largest coastline and no water and in a long term drought… desalinating ocean water can’t be allowed…


31 posted on 05/14/2022 8:29:55 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: cgbg

They are literally insane. Their governor just announced something like a $75 billion dollar surplus....you can’t build a desalinization plant for that? And spend the money on how to disperse the returned unused saltwater constituents back into the sea efficiently? Not even a hint of scoping out what the Israelis do with their desalinization plants.

Instead, their governor wants use that found money to explore ways to provide more largess for useless segments of their society with absolutely no hope of return on their investment?

I say take every stinking one of these ‘panels’ and force the members to undergo a South Pacific island survival regime......you know, where there are mosquitos the size of birds, brackish swamp water, nothing but muck and mire.....like the kind of environment our grandfathers experienced at Guadalcanal, in Burma and elsewhere during WWII......


32 posted on 05/14/2022 8:33:50 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Neverlift

Fish likely affected? I did “sea” that in the article but with these crazies you can never be sure.


33 posted on 05/14/2022 8:34:46 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: plain talk

THEY want us to RECYCLE darn near EVERYTHING ELSE-—

Why cannot someone come up with a use for the byproducts???


34 posted on 05/14/2022 8:34:53 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Desalination ‘waste’ can be made into sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid, which are in demand as industrial chemicals.


35 posted on 05/14/2022 8:38:54 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Gaffer

That $75 billion “surplus” is actually federal stimulus money. They certainly aren’t making ends meet themselves, let alone rolling in excess, and this despite having so many gigacap Big Tech companies in their borders: Google, Tesla, Apple, Facebook, etc.


36 posted on 05/14/2022 8:40:06 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: plain talk
... drawing in large amounts of ocean water and releasing salty discharge back into the ocean.

Damned right! Better turn off the sun too because it's doing the same thing! Imagine all that freshwater it took from the sea! It's turning that stolen water into clouds! The resulting rain then gets tossed all over the Earth without any sort of Government oversight!

37 posted on 05/14/2022 8:40:45 AM PDT by Nateman (Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy Americans has ever had. 🍊)
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To: Salman

California floats on a sea of oil they can’t tap. They bring in water from a parched west so they can let it flow into the sea to keep littoral sea life at an even keel while their farms turn into desert. There are so many other things wrong I can’t list them all. When I was desperate for a job there were only three places I wouldn’t move. Chicago, New York and California. I’m sure there are a few others, but they didn’t have my type of employment.


38 posted on 05/14/2022 8:41:22 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry.)
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To: Salman

But Solyndra was just fine. Idiots


39 posted on 05/14/2022 8:43:02 AM PDT by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: Salman
It was considered a crucial decision on the future of the plant after years of other hearings and delays.

The tool of the anti is delay and review which is what this is doing. No enterprise other than government can afford to continue when their antagonists block their efforts like this. The difference between this and the "High Speed Rail" in CA is that the latter is backed by the government.

40 posted on 05/14/2022 8:45:44 AM PDT by SES1066 (More & more it looks like Brandon's best decision was Kamala! UGH!)
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