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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: Salman

This is another example of why government should not be running the economy. Socialism doesn’t work in a democracy.


41 posted on 05/14/2022 8:48:14 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: cuban leaf

Quick glance at this does raise a legitimate question, why are they not using or recycling that brine? Dumping it back into the ocean, will create some level of pollution or concentration. It is wasteful anyway.


42 posted on 05/14/2022 8:49:37 AM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: LastDayz

“Should of built several of them years ago.”

They would have shut them down like the nuclear power plants


43 posted on 05/14/2022 8:51:35 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Reno89519

I used to wonder how much gold there was in the brine...


44 posted on 05/14/2022 8:51:58 AM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: Gaffer

“where there are mosquitos the size of birds, brackish swamp water, nothing but muck and mire.....”

Komodo dragons.
There MUST be komodo dragons.


45 posted on 05/14/2022 8:53:09 AM PDT by oldvirginian (The CCP is the world's largest and deadliest criminal organization.)
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To: LastDayz

They did and dismantle it and I believe was send to the Mideast


46 posted on 05/14/2022 8:54:00 AM PDT by keving (We the government )
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To: Salman

Southern California will die from drought this summer as the natural climate condition of desert resumes.

The relatively wet last hundred years are climate anomaly


47 posted on 05/14/2022 8:55:16 AM PDT by bert ( (KW?E. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: Salman

The real reason is because no one wanted to see the ugly plant from their backyard swimming pool deck. THIS is how they really think...


48 posted on 05/14/2022 8:55:26 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Salman

I don’t have words to describe the level of disgust I feel over this.


49 posted on 05/14/2022 8:59:37 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Salman

The Coastal Commission and the Calif Air Resources Board (CARB) have almost single handed crippled the state beyond repair.

Bought anything lately that did not have that Calif Prop 65 warning on it? Hell, stuff sold in Bangladesh likely has those Calif warnings on labels.


50 posted on 05/14/2022 9:00:58 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Salman
California should fund research into figuring out how non-binary residents could use salt water and consume all of the by-product, such as brine. That way, none of the salty parts of salt water would be returned to the ocean. And the non-binarys could have another way to virtue-signal their non-binaryness to the world.

Until the salt water oceans run out of salty parts. then the next generation of non-binarys could have a new problem to solve. Circle of Liberal Life, Simba.

51 posted on 05/14/2022 9:01:24 AM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: Lurker

Lotta desalters on here.


52 posted on 05/14/2022 9:05:16 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: Salman

Too much water in California

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-02-23-mn-5077-story.html


53 posted on 05/14/2022 9:06:49 AM PDT by keving (We the government )
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Same stupid reasoning that killed gold dredging in California!

Water, sand and gravel in river bottom is sucked up by dredge, water sand and gravel is returned to river, minus heavy metals (including polluting mercury) which are kept in dredge!

Some really STUPID PEOPLE IN CHARGE IN CALIFORNIA!!!!


54 posted on 05/14/2022 9:08:10 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Same stupid reasoning that killed gold dredging in California!

Water, sand and gravel in river bottom is sucked up by dredge, water sand and gravel is returned to river, minus heavy metals (including polluting mercury) which are kept in dredge!

Some really STUPID PEOPLE IN CHARGE IN CALIFORNIA!!!!


55 posted on 05/14/2022 9:08:10 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Salman

Giving power to the satanic left brings results like this every time.


56 posted on 05/14/2022 9:09:49 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
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To: Dilbert San Diego

We don’t want to pollute the ocean with all that dihydrogen monoxide now do we?


57 posted on 05/14/2022 9:14:29 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Salman

What a bunch of morons


58 posted on 05/14/2022 9:16:12 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Gaffer

“Not even a hint of scoping out what the Israelis do with their desalinization plants.”

Yep.... they got it down pat.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the-desalination-era-is-here/


59 posted on 05/14/2022 9:19:52 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Salman
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.

They're waiting until it costs a trillion...

60 posted on 05/14/2022 9:22:52 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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