{"id":8071,"date":"2010-05-11T10:18:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T17:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8071"},"modified":"2010-05-11T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T17:19:10","slug":"encina-power-station-forced-to-stop-killing-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8071","title":{"rendered":"Encina Power Station Forced To Stop Killing Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/low_tide13-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/low_tide13-1.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=750,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\/2010\/05\/low_tide13-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Low Tide13-1\" \/><\/a>Last week the <strong>California State Water Resources Control Board<\/strong> voted to protect sea life by phasing out &#8220;once-through cooling for seaside power plants&#8221; like <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> iconographic <strong>Encina Power Station<\/strong> because the process &#8220;kills more than 2.6 million fish and 19 billion fish larvae annually,&#8221; according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/may\/11\/power-plants-face-closures\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt will have the result of retiring a very high portion of the coastal, once-through cooled power plants,\u201d said Steve Hoffmann, regional president for NRG Energy, which owns the Carlsbad facility. . . \u201cWe have to conform with this new water policy by the end of 2017,\u201d Hoffmann said. \u201cWe either have to put in closed-loop cooling, or we have to have a way of screening marine life from our intake, which is technically very difficult.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe they could just dismantle the entire plant and ship it to Arizona. . . leaving the tower, of course. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/may\/11\/power-plants-face-closures\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the California State Water Resources Control Board voted to protect sea life by phasing out &#8220;once-through cooling for seaside power plants&#8221; like Carlsbadistan&#8217;s iconographic Encina Power Station because the process &#8220;kills more than 2.6 million fish and 19 billion fish larvae annually,&#8221; according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. \u201cIt will [&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":[8,16,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071"}],"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=8071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8072,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions\/8072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}