AES Plans to modernize plant, vacate OTC pipes
Have you received your AES Package yet?
Mark Bixby, on HB Talk, says:
A major AES remodel is coming.
The envelope contained a two-page summary letter, a response postcard, and a GIANT brochure entitled “A Modern Natural Gas Power Plant to Ensure a Reliable Energy Supply and Enable California’s Renewable Future”. Since this is marketing content it’s chock-full of shiny happy multi-ethnic people smiling because natural gas is their friend (and I’ll fess up that natural gas tends to be my least expensive energy cost).
The brochure can be found in web form at:
http://www.renewaeshuntington.com/
There are before/after depictions that portray reduced aesthetic impacts from the selected view locations. The status is given as pending before the California Energy Commission and SCAQMD.
Thanks, Mark
Monthly Calendar Under Construction
The California Energy Commission staff will hold a workshop for the proposed Huntington Beach Energy Project.
Learn what the rebuilding of the power plant will do to our community. You will have time to ask questions and give input. Noise and pollution will be discussed.
When: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, starting at 3 p.m.
Where: Eader Elementary School, Multipurpose Room, 9291 Banning Avenue, Huntington Beach, California.
Arrangements have been made for people unable to attend the workshop to participate by telephone and/or computer. For details, click the link and scroll to page 4:
http://www.energy.ca.gov/sitingcases/huntington_beach_energy/notices/2012-11-14_Notice_of_Workshop_TN-68291.pdf our test bed Calendar page
David Rosenfeld quickly describes Poseidon Resources’ Lame Strategy
Interested in reading a comprehensive description of Poseidon’s self inflected problems?
Read this May 29, 2012 summary of confused moves by Poseidon Resources
Click the above link:
Support Smart Water Solutions – Not Salt Water Solutions
The California Coastal Commission, California
State Lands Commission, and the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Board are
going to hear the proposal for the construction of an ocean desalination
facility in Huntington Beach, CA. Poseidon Resources, a private water
speculator, is seeking permission to co-locate a 50-million-gallon-per-day
ocean desalination facility with the existing power generating station in
Huntington Beach. This project is expensive, contradicts statewide
energy/climate/marine protection goals, may prolong the use of an antiquated
open seawater intake system that kills marine life, and undermines other smart
water solutions such as increased water conservation and reuse.
Tell decision-makers to oppose Poseidon’s ocean
desalination proposal in Huntington Beach!
Sign the petition so that your
comments will go on public record. Click HERE to go to the OCDC’s Web Site
This project needs to be stopped in Huntington Beach. If this project is approved,
it could set the precedent for the approval of other expensive and environmentally
destructive desalination facilities in California.
OCDC is a growing coalition of: Food & Water Watch, Surfrider
Foundation, Residents for Responsible Desalination (R4RD), Orange County
Coastkeeper, Desal Response Group, and Orange County League of Conservation
Voters.
Published: March 15, 2012 Updated: March 16, 2012 2:43 p.m. The Register
Eco groups appeal Poseidon desalination plant OK
Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board has 120 days to approve or deny appeal.
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By JAIMEE LYNN FLETCHER / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Four local environmental groups have filed an appeal of the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board approval of a permit for the Poseidon Desalination plant in Huntington Beach.
The Surfrider Foundation, Residents for Responsible Desalination, Orange County Coastkeeper and Coast Environmental Rights Foundation are behind the appeal, filed Wednesday, saying the board failed to apply the appropriate law that would “protect marine life from the destructive impacts that would result from the operation of the (facility).”
For details click here
Many concerned residents preparing to expose impacts of brine on sealife at Loma Linda meeting.
See http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/rwqcb8/board_info/agendas/2011/12_09/12-09-11_agenda.pdf agenda item #10
Read more at Nick Gerda’s Voice of OC Post – Click Here
Message from R4RD President
The Coastal Commission will meet in Huntington Beach at City Hall on October 5th, 9 a.m..
We had thought that this would be our turn at bat but with things going
south in San Diego, R4RD, Coastkeeper and the Surfrider, expect at this point
we will take advantage of Public Comment time to simply remind the Commission
that we are here, this is OUR community, and that we remain vigilant to an assault from a company that would
further negatively impact our ocean, our coastline and our community at large.
We would still like for as many of you as possible to show up and be accounted for.
R4RD supports neighbors in Costa Mesa and S.E. Huntington Beach that are fighting
to stop the further development of the Banning Ranch property with the building of 1400 new homes, and a 75 room hotel
on the Banning property. So come and join us. We will keep you updated on our
website, Facebook page, and my e-mail.
It is essential that we have YOUR e-mail address for these updates.
R4RD needs more volunteers to help cover meetings of water agencies in our area. We also need help in contacting and
recruiting membership. Nothing beats a phone call or a card from someone within your group to stay in contact. Whatever you can spare, we will take.
Join us right now. Together we cannot fail. This is YOUR water folks. Take back the tap!
Merle
Moshiri, President
Residents
for Responsible Desalination
Surfrider Legal Action, AES- Poseidon HB Site Future?
Surfrider takes appeal to 4th Appellate Court in San Diego -
Joe Geever summarizes the implications of AES’s Sale of HB Units 3 and 4
Click here for details – 3 page overview
Listen to Redondo Beach Councilman Bill Brand argue that AES is just not needed any longer
Read Redondo Beach 86 page Action Plan against AES
Why is Poseidon-HB Info Overwhelmed?
It is reasonably easy to tell if an organization is overwhelmed by information: slow, incomplete, error-prone, misleading messages are problematic clues. It should be instructive to decision makers and taxpayers to carefully study the messages that Poseidon’s Scott Maloni has provided the CCC over the last 6 years, and CCC’s patient requests for corrected documentation.
Please read:
CCC_PoseidonHBDesal_5.10.11
Milt Dardis has translated these 10 pages of CCC detail into a short list, and calls into question certain past and present HB City Council members ability to frame good sustainable questions about Poseidon’s intentions:
Milt notes that “The California Coastal Commission letter of 10 May 2011 is what the propagandist for the HB Political Machine is questioning. So let us take a gander at the facts that the California Coastal Commission has presented in the form of Questions to Poseidon Resources and the City of HB.
1. As of May 2011 the 2006 Poseidon Resources application to build a desal plant remains incomplete.
2. Poseidon Resources has yet to apply for federal permits and its now 2011.
3. Poseidon Resources has not provided adequate responses for information since 2009
4. Poseidon Resources 2006 responses are now at odds with more current and relevant data
5. Poseidon Resources has yet to identify local discretionary permits and approvals needed to construct and operate the project
6. Poseidon Resources has yet to provide legal interest in properties within the coastal zone the would be used by the project
7. Poseidon Resources has yet to provide water purchase agreements in place for water Poseidon Resources will generate
8. The HB project had a projected construction and operational costs of $300 Million. Yet, an identical facility in Carlsbad is now estimated to cost $700 Million. Where did the $400 Million come from and what is the basis of these costs as the “total fools” will want to know.
There are other issues of effects on Marine Life and Water Quality that the “total fools” should be asking. Intake velocities, marine life studies, expected flows and discharge of salinity levels, wetlands, seismic dangers, noise factors, hazardous materials along the pipeline route and project costs.
—–/ Thanks, Milt -
Jerry Brown’s New Team & Water-Energy Integrated Policy?
Friday, March 4th was a busy day for R4 -
Starting at the Water Advisory Council of Orange County (WACO) at 7:30am, then moving to either the UCI event or the Green Vision event, we heard details of Gov. Brown’s team and budget-policy issues confounding lobbyists on almost all sides of the Water and Energy Integrated Management battlefield.
The semantics of whether California has enough water and energy, OR enough smart ways to manage water and energy conflicting values with leadership will continue: it is our intent to frame the semantics so that the larger picture is clear and a sustainable path can be negotiated.
It is especially encouraging to see new initatives to integrate both water planning and energy planning within Brown’s new team: a Sustainable Growth Council.
Desalination decisions, of course, bridge Water and Energy topics in terms of Economics, Ecology, and Equity.
Dave Rosenfield’s post yesterday about Desal: Boondoggle or Panacea provides a useful summary of issues. Click here to see more.
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Please click here to read more.
Read the SEIR at the City Website - Click here