by The Editors on July 10, 2008
According to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times, “the Agua Hedionda Watershed Management Plan is scheduled to be released in draft form” today.
The management report will pinpoint areas where restoration work might improve creekside conditions and suggest areas that could be purchased for preservation purposes, Ashford said. . . . “What’s really exciting about this plan is that it’s science-based,” Nygaard said.
Science based sounds good. Can someone please read the rest of this story and let us know what it all means.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on July 10, 2008
In their efforts to do anything it takes to turn our lagoon into a desalination plant, Poseidon Resources has submitted to more “plans” to the California Coastal Commission on Wednesday, according to a story in the North County Times.
One plan is to reduce the desalination plant’s effect on ocean life. The second is to reduce the energy needed by the plant, which would in turn reduce generation of greenhouse gases. . . The plans were requested by the commission as a condition of approving the project, said Scott Maloni, a Poseidon vice president. . . . The Coastal Commission plans to meet sometime in early August in Oceanside to vote on the plan.
Nice to see Poseidon moving in the right direction.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on April 19, 2008
We mentioned this earlier this week and then forgot to go grab some photos. Luckily, the North County Times‘ Jamie Scot Lytle was there to photographically document the protest.
“We cannot allow our governor, our state senators or our assemblymen to destroy California schools,” said John Roach, superintendent of the Carlsbad Unified School District. “Our voices are together on this issue.”
According to the story “hundreds of people” were out on the overpasses. In Carlsbadistan people gathered on Los Flores and Poinsettia overpasses. Carlsbadcrawl.com has photos as well. Check them out.
[Link: North County Times and Carlsbadcrawl.com]
by The Editors on April 16, 2008
Elisa Williamson, the President of the Board of Trustees of the Carlsbad Unified School district is encouraging and inviting everyone who supports Carlsbad public education to get out Friday, April 18, 2008 at 4:45 PM to send the message “Enough is Enough…No Cuts to Education!”
The idea is to have people with signs and placards (with slogans like “No Cuts to Education” and “Education Cuts Don’t Heal.”) on main freeway and highway overpasses in Carlsbadistan. Hopefully, this won’t lead to any accidents on the freeways. Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
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by The Editors on April 16, 2008
In the April 16, 2008 edition of the Los Angeles Times, Peter MacLaggan, Senior Vice President of Poseidon Resources Corp., (the company that hopes to put in “the largest and most technologically advanced [desalination plant] in the Western Hemisphere”) in our lagoon has written an Op-ed piece titled From Sea To Tap, as a response to Mindy McIntyre’s Op-Ed of April 10, 2008 titled The SUV of Water.
California’s water supply system is based largely on pumping water from environmentally sensitive watersheds in Northern California and the Colorado River over hundreds of miles to Southern California through an elaborate and costly network of dams, canals and reservoirs. But proven desalination technology now allows us to produce higher-quality water along the coast, where the majority of the state’s population resides, at a comparable cost and without damaging the environmentally sensitive upstream habitats.
No matter what you think about the Carlsbad desalination factory, both of these opinions are good reading.
[Link: LA Times]
by The Editors on April 10, 2008
According to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board has “approved an environmental protection plan for the desalination plant,” by a vote of 5-2.
The board voted 5-2 yesterday to approve Poseidon’s first draft of its proposed plan but required it to return in six months with more detail on the number of fish killed, its method to minimize those deaths and how it plans to make up for them.
It appears that the California Coastal Commission is not exactly happy with this vote.
The coastal commission’s executive director, Peter Douglas, had asked the regional water board to delay a decision, saying Poseidon’s plan “would create a real or perceived conflict between the Board’s action and the requirements imposed by the Commission.”
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on March 16, 2008
As Marty said while posted up on Coast Highway just north of Cafe Elysa: “Sometimes you just have to take things into your own hands.”
by The Editors on March 16, 2008
Robert Hoehn, the co-owner of Carlsbad’s Hoehn Motors, has reportedly donated $25,000 to help support an initiative that would “ban same-sex marriage” in the state of California, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. But he’s not alone in getting behind this issue. San Diego developer Doug Manchester, Mission Valley developer Terry Caster, and La Jolla businessman Roger Benson have also donated a total of more than $300,000.
Damn, buying your way into right-wing California power politics is getting expensive.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on March 3, 2008
More pleasant hurdles for Poseidon Resources and the proposed desalination plant from the North County Times:
In a recent letter, the control board said it wanted more information about how the plant would minimize harm to fish and the environment —- 21 months after the board awarded the plant a discharge permit.
In November, the California Coastal Commission awarded the plant a permit, on the condition that its backers, Poseidon Resources Inc., answer more questions about the same subjects.
Environmental groups last week immediately said the control board’s action proved environmental worries were valid, and that agencies were moving too quickly to conditionally approve the plant.
“It’s absurd to us that any agency could pre-approve a project of this magnitude without having this information already tied down,” said Marco Gonzalez, an environmental lawyer active in the Surfrider Foundation, which has sued to overturn the commission’s permit approval.
Seems like none of the agencies wanted to be the one to put their foot down. They all offered conditional approvals, and now it’s looking like Poseidon is having a rough time meeting the conditions.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on March 3, 2008
The Carlsbad-based trading card company Upper Deck had originally included a Hillary Clinton card in their “presidential deck.” But right before the ship date someone at the company decided that the Hillary card went a little too far and tried to pull them (creating an instant collectors item).
The Hillary Clinton cards — a characterization that matched her with stripper Morganna the Kissing Bandit, notorious for dashing onto baseball fields and planting kisses on unsuspecting players during the 1980s — were to have been manually pulled from the “Presidential Predictors” set, says Kerri Stockholm, director of sports marketing for Carlsbad-based Upper Deck.
Way to wuss out, Upper Deck.
[Link: San Diego Business Journal]
According to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times, “the Agua Hedionda Watershed Management Plan is scheduled to be released in draft form” today.
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