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Coastal Commission to consider request to revoke Poseidon’s desal permit

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on December 8, 2009 at 8:13 am

From the North County Times:

“The California Coastal Commission is scheduled to consider Thursday a request to revoke a permit for a desalination plant in Carlsbad. It’s the latest effort by environmental groups to block the plant, which they say will hurt coastal wildlife.

Poseidon Resources Corp. which recently began preparing the site next to the Encina Power Station for construction, said the request is groundless.

If the request is granted, Poseidon would have to stop construction and reapply for a new permit. The plant will have a capacity of making 50 million gallons of fresh water a day, enough for 9 percent of the county’s needs.

Marco Gonzalez, an attorney for the Coastal Environmental Rights foundation, said Poseidon Resources, the plant’s builder, intentionally withheld information from the commission about how the plant would “impinge,” or trap fish against its intake. … “

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December 8, 2009 · Filed Under Poseidon's Carlsbad Plant

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