{"id":1707,"date":"2007-12-18T02:20:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T09:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2007-12-18T02:20:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T09:20:41","slug":"power-plant-hearing-draws-a-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1707","title":{"rendered":"Power Plant Hearing Draws A Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20071217-2230-bn17power.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong> the hearing and site tour that we <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1704\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned on Sunday<\/a><\/strong> was a hit with <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> residents. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A standing-room only crowd of more than 200 people turned out at a public hearing Monday night to comment on a proposal to replace the 53-year-old Encina Power Station with a more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly electricity-generating plant. . . . Carlsbad resident <strong>Ted Viola<\/strong> referred to the 95-acre site owned by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrgenergy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NRG Energy<\/a><\/strong> as \u201ca profit center\u201d and said he was concerned there is no absolute requirement for the company to retire and dismantle the Encina Power Station and its towering 400-foot smokestack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While we think the smoke stack is the icon of <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em>, it&#8217;s obvious that NRG should be restricted in how many power plants it builds and be held to a plan regarding the old plant if they are allowed to build a new one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20071217-2230-bn17power.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune the hearing and site tour that we mentioned on Sunday was a hit with Carlsbadistan residents. A standing-room only crowd of more than 200 people turned out at a public hearing Monday night to comment on a proposal to replace the 53-year-old Encina Power Station with [&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":[15,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707"}],"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=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}