Zombie Poseidon Desalination Plant From Beyond the Grave!
Twelve years ago, the Weekly published an article titled “The Poseidon Misadventure,” a list of 10 reasons why the Poseidon Resources-lead desalination project in Huntington Beach should be killed off.
It seemed so obvious then. Who would want to build an energy-intensive desalination plant that would create 50 million gallons of fresh water per day just years after a power shortage and a giant El Niño? And whoever bought the water would be on the hook, whether or not it was needed. Plus, the water the plant would produce was much more expensive than then-current prices, it would be horrible for the environment, and it’d be another industrial project right on one of Orange County’s beaches. It just didn’t make any sense. We put 10 bullets in the abomination and let it be.
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