Poseidon wins key seawater desalination permit Bettina Boxall © (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Poseidon Water plans to build one of the nation s largest seawater desalination plants on the grounds of the AES Huntington Beach Power Station. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Poseidon Water won a key approval Thursday in its long quest to build a seawater desalination plant on the Orange County coastline.
But the permit from the Santa Ana Regional Quality Control Board does not ensure that the $1-billion ocean desalter will rise on the grounds of an old power plant in Huntington Beach.
Poseidon still needs a construction permit from the California Coastal Commission and, most critically, a binding deal with a public agency to buy 50 million gallons a day of purified seawater.
Poseidon wins key seawater desalination permit
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Questions linger about environmental impact of Poseidon plant
Poseidon Water plans to build a seawater desalination plant on the grounds of the AES Huntington Beach Generating Station, which will close in the next few years.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
April 28, 2021 3 PM PT
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Every year that it converts a bit of the Pacific Ocean into drinking water, the proposed Huntington Beach desalination plant would kill tiny marine life crucial to the sea’s food web.
Questions of how and when to offset that environmental harm remain unresolved in regulators’ ongoing review of Poseidon Water’s plans to build a $1-billion desalting plant on the Orange County coastline.
It has installed LED lighting, refrigeration doors and voltage optimisation units
The Chelmsford Star Co-op has hit its target to reduce energy consumption by over 25% by 2021.
The Essex-based society set the goal five years ago.
It has been achieved through a combination of colleague engagement and investment in new technologies, it said.
This included the installation of LED lighting, refrigeration doors and voltage optimisation units.
“The key focus has been to reduce the consumption of electricity, which accounts for most of the society’s energy consumption,” said Chelmsford Star Co-op secretary & head of management services Ellen Tredwin.
Since January this year, the society began sourcing 100% of its electricity from renewable sources. These have been backed by the Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGO) scheme.
Questions linger about environmental impact of Poseidon plant Bettina Boxall © (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Poseidon Water plans to build a seawater desalination plant on the grounds of the AES Huntington Beach Generating Station, which will close in the next few years. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Every year that it converts a bit of the Pacific Ocean into drinking water, the proposed Huntington Beach desalination plant would kill tiny marine life crucial to the sea’s food web.
Questions of how and when to offset that environmental harm remain unresolved in regulators’ ongoing review of Poseidon Water’s plans to build a $1-billion desalting plant on the Orange County coastline.
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