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Why no rose? Seems clear: Oceanside’s Sanchez desal vote indicative of misplaced values, says editorial

Posted by: Maven on February 15, 2010 at 6:22 am

From the North County Times, this editorial:

“Oceanside City Councilwoman Esther Sanchez’s vote Wednesday on the California Coastal Commission was a good example of why we weren’t exactly thrilled when she was named to the commission late last year.

The California Coastal Commission was in town with an agenda that included a request by the Coast Law Group to revoke the Poseidon Resources Corp.’s previously granted permit to build the Carlsbad water desalination project. The environmental group accused the company of hiding some relevant data on the operation’s greenhouse gas emissions —- a charge the company disputed.

We happen to think it is worth pursuing the desal plant, which when fully operational will produce 50 million gallons of water each day for our thirsty region. And the company’s sin, if there was one, didn’t change most people’s opinion of the project, including the California Air Resources Board.

Desalination is an important piece of solving Southern California’s water problem.

Apparently, Sanchez doesn’t agree, as she declared Poseidon guilty of “an intentional lack of disclosure on a material issue” and voted on the losing side of the issue. … “

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February 15, 2010 · Filed Under Desalination

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One Response to “Why no rose? Seems clear: Oceanside’s Sanchez desal vote indicative of misplaced values, says editorial”

  1. Fran Gibson on February 15th, 2010 9:18 am

    Ms. Sanchez is to be highly commended for her vote — she gets a rose from me! She is unwilling to compromise what she believes is the law under the California Coastal Act in the Poseidon matter. Ms. Sanchez is very intelligent and insightful, does all her preparatory homework and is not I believe theoretically opposed to responsible desalinization. She believed likely Poseidon submitted false and misleading information and knew even so it would not make a significant difference to a majority of sitting Coastal Commissioners. The real public policy question for our state: if the Commission knew Poseidon was not going to back out the water WHY on earth did they vote to allow a greenhouse gas emission credit initially?

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