Because it would privatize some water. Big brains in Orange County.
Link: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-05-12/poseidon-desalination-project
Forget it, Jake, it's only Chinatown.
Link: https://slate.com/business/2015/04/almonds-in-california-they-use-up-a-lot-of-water-but-they-deserve-a-place-in-californias-future.html
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from your linked article...note that CA as a whole is not rejecting desalinization plants....
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"A similar plant 60 miles to the south in Carlsbad, the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, has been churning out drinking water since 2015. Water from the desalination plant, the nation’s largest, is sold to the San Diego County Water Authority under a 30-year contract. The water accounts for about 10% of what’s used by the area’s 3.3 million people, and the Water Authority says the typical monthly cost is about $5 per household.
Santa Barbara also has an operating desalination plant. And in Dana Point, the South Coast Water District is moving forward with plans to build the Doheny Ocean Desalination Project, a smaller plant that would prevent tiny marine life from being sucked in and killed by drawing seawater through slant wells beneath the ocean floor."'
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Other CA communities are stepping up to the water shortage issue with Desalinization projects...I haven't followed the controversy, but when I hear that OC is rejecting the project when nearby San Diego county is already drinking water from its Desal plant, it gives me pause...i.e. OC is staunchly conservative and therefore not a location that has "warmed up" to Gavin Newsom...or the issue of Climate Change...but that is admittedly pure supposition on my part.
many drawbacks that the people of California didn't like. There seems to have been deception by the corporation
heading the Poseidon project and that didn't go over well with people. The proposed building site is in an environmentally
sensitive area and along a fault line (but isn't everything in Cali built on a fault line?).
I don't believe the people of California disagree with having a desalinization plant for water as there are several
water facilities doing so all ready in California, they just don't want to
have their costs go up. It is cited that citizens costs would go up 3 - 6 $ a month but that cost is likely the low end of what
they will be charged. Also, it is a foreign company wanting to build the plant - somewhat of a red-herring but why not
the State build it and run it? Kinda keep it in the family. (It's China-town, Jake)
The biggest take-away was this ...
"But building this plant in Huntington Beach, he said, would be “the wrong project in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
I don't know why it would be the wrong time as it is well known, LA and Cali are in for a dry future for (probably) ever
with Climate Change doing its worst.
It reminds of Trump's hate for wind turbines and his bogus reasoning for his hate although the arguments are
almost reasonable. It sounds like the company didn't have any other ideas for locations in mind either.
Bitch all day about climate change, and then don’t do the things that would help.
I want breast milk but I need the milk from only a certain type of woman.
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County (Rep) rejects one (Huntington Beach)...also, Santa Barbara County (Dem) operates a Desal plant...it would appear to me that the 'Lib' voters are "Walking the Talk" on Climate Change, while the nearby 'Con' voters continue to deny reality.
The issue is likely more nuanced than that, but you wouldn't want to go there, as it isn't 'Political" enough.
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Leonardo private jetting for Climate awards doesn’t convince me of his claims for concern of a global crisis.
Alito 5 are political activists, yes?
we have to get around...btw, highway transportation represents nearly 10x the use of FFs as does Jet transportation...and that mode is definitely being changed (electrified)...i.e. "Walking the Talk".