{"id":499,"date":"2007-07-07T07:43:03","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T14:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2007-07-07T07:43:06","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T14:43:06","slug":"desalination-plant-stalled-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Desalination Plant Stalled Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastal.ca.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">California Coastal Commission<\/a><\/strong> has been on their game lately with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poseidonresources.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poseidon Resources<\/a><\/strong>, the company that wants to put a $300 million<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbaddesal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> desalination plant<\/a><\/strong> in on the lagoon near the <strong>Encina Power Plant<\/strong>. For the fourth time this year they have rejected the plan saying it is sill &#8220;incomplete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Commission staff scientist <strong>Tom Luster<\/strong> rejected Poseidon&#8217;s latest application Tuesday, citing several topics on which he needed more information. Among those were alternative water-intake methods, environmental mitigation measures and the project&#8217;s financial feasibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While we like the idea of stealing less water from Northern California, it just seems like there must be better places for this than the Agua Hedionda Lagoon. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?s=desalination\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for all of Carlsbadistan&#8217;s desalination plant coverage.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20070707-9999-1mi7desal.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Coastal Commission has been on their game lately with Poseidon Resources, the company that wants to put a $300 million desalination plant in on the lagoon near the Encina Power Plant. For the fourth time this year they have rejected the plan saying it is sill &#8220;incomplete.&#8221; Commission staff scientist Tom Luster rejected [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}