WATER: Desalination financing gets extension Poseidon says funding should be in place before end of June
By: Bradley J. Fikes CARLSBAD ---- Months after preliminary construction began on its desalination plant, Poseidon Resources Corp. said it expects to borrow the money necessary to complete the project before the end of June. Stamford, Conn.-based Poseidon says it expects to get the plant operating by the original projected date, the end of 2012. Located next to the Encina Power Station, the plant will have the capacity to make 50 million gallons of drinking water a day, 9 percent of San Diego County's consumption.
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State Board rejects opponents’ petition for third time; project construction continues
San Diego, CA – Poseidon Resources today announced the State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) has dismissed the permit appeal filed by Surfrider Foundation and San Diego Coastkeeper that challenged the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board's (Regional Board) May 13, 2009 unanimous approval of Poseidon’s Marine Life Mitigation Plan for the Carlsbad Desalination Project. The Marine Life Mitigation Plan is a condition to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit issued to the project by the Regional Board in 2006. North County Times: By Ted Owen
As 2009 ended, the latest attempt to derail the Carlsbad Desalination Plant was rejected by the Coastal Commission. The celebration was short-lived, as two fringe environmental groups, undaunted by yet another defeat, kept up their assault on the project by filing yet another request that the Commission revoke the permit granted to Poseidon Resources in 2007. |
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