Residents, community counsels and environmental groups showed strong opposition to the Wall Street water developer- Poseidon- on Friday, Dec. 6, at the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board workshop at Huntington Beach City Hall.
Poseidon is pursuing its final two tolerates for a proposed desalination plant adjacent to the AES power plant in Huntington Beach.
Orange County Coastkeeper has defended development projects for 19 times, and continues to argue that the desalination recommendation is too expensive, excessive, environmentally damaging and opposed by the majority of the community.
The Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board harboured a workshop to examine Poseidon’s plans for the project and take public note, before it decides on April 3 whether to approve the permits. The programme must also pass through the California Coastal Commission.
Coastkeeper teamed up with other environmental groups, including the Sacramento-based California Coastkeeper Alliance, neighbourhood Surfrider Foundation section and Azul, a nonprofit organization working with Latinxs to protect coasts and oceans, to speak out against Poseidon’s proposal.
A rally was held outside the workshop at Huntington Beach City Hall on Friday morning. Organizer comprised signeds and spoke about how Poseidon’s projection would kill marine life and raise water rates for regional households, among other negatives. They sung in English,” Water is not for sale !” and in Spanish,” Fuera Poseidon !”( Out, Poseidon !).
The purpose of the demonstration was to send a message to the board and the media that the local community doesn’t see a benefit in Poseidon’s fatty wallet interests.
Inside city hall, the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board heard from its staff on details of the proposed desalination plant before turning the microphone over to the public for comments.
More than 47 Orange County residents stood up to tell the board in their own names why they didn’t want a monstrous, polluting water factory is built around their coast and in their community.
At least two board members attracted concern with development projects and grilled their staff on important questions that have still hitherto to reply, such as what the need is for this desalination plant and why it is Orange County’s last resort for clean drinking water.
The deadline for public comment on Poseidon’s proposal is January 21, 2020.
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Media coverage: Find a schedule of articles and radio excerpts below 😛 TAGEND
Los Angeles Times/ Daily Pilot, “Residents voice opposition and support for H.B. desalination flower …,”1 2/6/ 19 Orange County Register, “Huntington Beach desalination plant eyes acceptance, but foes turn out in force, ” 12/6/ 19 Southern California Public Radio( KPCC ), 12/6/ 19 KNX 1070 radio, “Closing polemics in the LA defamation trial of Elon Musk; Protests against a blueprint for a desalination plant in Huntington Beach; New mountain lion sighting in Simi Valley, ” 12/6/ 19 La Opinion, “Residentes de OC temen alza en el costo del agua, ” 12/8/ 19 Orange Juice Blog, “FIGHT POSEIDON TODAY- important Water Board( SARWQCB) in HB !, ” 12/6/ 19 Telemundo , 12/6/ 19 EstrellaTV , 12/6/ 19
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