{"id":1956,"date":"2008-02-05T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2008-02-05T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T18:42:19","slug":"sierra-club-tells-why-desal-is-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1956","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Club Tells Why Desal Is A Bad Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mark Massara<\/strong>, the director of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraclub.org\/ca\/coasts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sierra Club&#8217;s coastal programs<\/a><\/strong> has written an editorial for the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/05\/opinion\/commentary\/20_24_432_4_08.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in which he outlines exactly why <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poseidonresources.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poseidon Resources<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; proposal to construct the largest private <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?s=desalination\" target=\"_blank\">desalination project <\/a><\/strong>is one of the worst things that could happen to our lagoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Poseidon intends to draw more than 300 million gallons a day of ocean water in an attempt to make 50 million gallons a day of fresh water for sale and profit. Limited analysis by Poseidon indicates they&#8217;ll destroy 11 billion marine organisms a year. That&#8217;s 16 million fish larvae a day!<\/p>\n<p>Poseidon&#8217;s own self-serving disingenuous analysis admits they will kill approximately 1 million garibaldi fish per day! The brightly colored, much adored garibaldi is the California state fish, and any killing of garibaldi, even one, is strictly prohibited by California law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is more at stake than fish. Follow the link for the rest of Massara&#8217;s article.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/05\/opinion\/commentary\/20_24_432_4_08.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Massara, the director of the Sierra Club&#8217;s coastal programs has written an editorial for the North County Times in which he outlines exactly why Poseidon Resources&#8216; proposal to construct the largest private desalination project is one of the worst things that could happen to our lagoon. Poseidon intends to draw more than 300 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956"}],"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=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}