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. San Diego, CA – The California Coastal Commission today voted to dismiss a request filed by opponents of seawater desalination to revoke the Carlsbad Desalination Project’s Coastal Development Permit (CDP). The vote marked the second time in as many months that the Commission rejected an attempt by a handful of opponents to revoke the permit issued to the project in November 2007. The Commission has now voted five times since 2007 to affirm its support for the Carlsbad Desalination Project.
Coastal Commission Staff Recommends Denial of Request to Revoke Carlsbad Desalination Project2/8/2010 California Air Resources Board Opposes Efforts to Revisit Project’s GHG Plan
San Diego – Poseidon Resources today announced that California Coastal Commission staff has recommended that the Commission deny the request made by opponents of seawater desalination to revoke the Coastal Development Permit for the Carlsbad Desalination Project. The Commission is scheduled to hear the revocation request when it meets in Oceanside, CA on Wednesday, February 10th. California Environmental Rights Foundation Violating Coastal Act Regulations
San Diego – Poseidon Resources today announced they have petitioned the state Attorney General and the California Coastal Commission challenging the legal standing of the Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation (CERF), an opponent of seawater desalination that has twice initiated proceedings to revoke the Coastal Development Permit issued to the Carlsbad Desalination Project. |
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