{"id":1691,"date":"2007-12-11T09:24:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T16:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2007-12-12T01:24:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T08:24:22","slug":"city-to-spend-200000-on-consultants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"City To Spend $200,000 On Consultants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We like the Encina Power Station Smoke stack. But <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrgenergy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NRG<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s new plans for the location do not require water-cooling or a 400 foot tall stack. But they do require approval from the City of Carlsbad. So what should the City of Carlsbad do about these new plans? According to a <strong>Barbara Henry<\/strong> story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/12\/12\/news\/coastal\/02_31_2712_11_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, they&#8217;ve decided to spend money on consultants.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . the City Council agreed to spend $200,000 on outside consultants to investigate a new Encina power plant proposal that&#8217;s been submitted to the state Energy Commission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is some free consultation: we for one are not interested in any NRG plans that call for 100 foot tall smoke stacks. Seriously, who is that going to impress?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/12\/12\/news\/coastal\/02_31_2712_11_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We like the Encina Power Station Smoke stack. But NRG&#8216;s new plans for the location do not require water-cooling or a 400 foot tall stack. But they do require approval from the City of Carlsbad. So what should the City of Carlsbad do about these new plans? According to a Barbara Henry story in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}