{"id":6880,"date":"2009-11-26T00:52:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T08:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6880"},"modified":"2009-11-26T00:52:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T08:52:41","slug":"should-taxpayers-subsidize-poseidon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6880","title":{"rendered":"Should Taxpayers Subsidize Poseidon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/poseidon_dollars.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/poseidon_dollars.jpg','popup','width=585,height=187,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/poseidon_dollars-tm1.jpg\" height=\"63\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Poseidon Dollars\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s the question <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfbg.com\/entry.php?entry_id=9461&amp;catid=&amp;volume_id=452&amp;issue_id=460&amp;volume_num=44&amp;issue_num=08\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Bay Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/strong> writer <strong>Rebecca Bowe<\/strong> asks in one of the best stories we&#8217;ve read about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poseidonresources.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poseidon Resources<\/a><\/strong> plans for their <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?s=%22desalination+plant%22\" target=\"_blank\">desalination plant<\/a><\/strong> on the <strong>Aqua Hedionda Lagoon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Aside from doing nothing about conservation and continuing to require huge amounts of energy for transmission, these plants also have no real community benefit, minimal job creation, and, most importantly, a questionable success and effectiveness,&#8221; members of Service Employees International Union Local 721 wrote in a letter to the Metropolitan Water District, Southern California&#8217;s water wholesaler. &#8220;We believe we can conserve more water by installing waterless urinals across L.A. County than we would obtain from the proposed desalination plant.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those who think they know what this desalination plant is all about should click the link to read the rest of this story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfbg.com\/entry.php?entry_id=9461&amp;catid=&amp;volume_id=452&amp;issue_id=460&amp;volume_num=44&amp;issue_num=08\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Bay Guardian<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the question San Francisco Bay Guardian writer Rebecca Bowe asks in one of the best stories we&#8217;ve read about Poseidon Resources plans for their desalination plant on the Aqua Hedionda Lagoon. &#8220;Aside from doing nothing about conservation and continuing to require huge amounts of energy for transmission, these plants also have no real community [&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":[8,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880"}],"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=6880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6881,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions\/6881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}