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UCLA report: Poseidon desalination would hurt low-income ratepayers
CONTACT: Marce Gutierrez-Graudins, Executive Director, Azul, info@azul.org, (650) 260-4290 ORANGE COUNTY, CA—Today Azul released a new report conducted by UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation that looked at potential impacts of Poseidon’s proposed desalination project...
Desalination deal raises water affordability concerns
On July 18, Orange County Water District voted 6-2 to approve terms for a new, non-binding agreement with privately-owned Poseidon Water for a Huntington Beach desalination project. If the District decides to move ahead with the deal once the plant is fully permitted,...
Experts identify significant flaws in Poseidon desalination proposal
ORANGE COUNTY, CA—Today California Coastkeeper Alliance released three new expert reports that identify significant flaws with the Huntington Beach desalination plant proposed by privately-owned Poseidon Water. The reports were submitted to the Santa Ana Regional...
Poseidon deal raises concerns about water affordability
ORANGE COUNTY, CA—Today Orange County Water District released the terms of a new agreement with Poseidon Water for a corporate desalination plant proposed for Huntington Beach. The agreement would require Orange County ratepayers to buy Poseidon’s costly desalinated...
Public interest groups challenge desalination vote
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA—Today California Coastkeeper Alliance, Orange County Coastkeeper and California Coastal Protection Network are challenging the State Lands Commission’s decision to green light Poseidon’s for-profit Huntington Beach desalination plant. The...
Experts warn about high cost and energy demands of desal
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA— Water experts in California are weighing in on the drawbacks of seawater desalination plants as the State Lands Commission prepares to hold a hearing on a billion dollar desalination project in Orange County. Scientists, researchers and...
Poseidon’s Carlsbad plant plagued by problems; Huntington Beach plant faces growing opposition
Orange County, CA – Poseidon Water, and its Canadian-owned parent company Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, have spent millions trying lobbying for approval of a new desalination plant in Huntington Beach. The billion dollar facility would be the twin of a Carlsbad...
Environmental Justice leaders urge rejection of billion dollar desal; call for community centric water solutions
Environmental Justice leaders weighed in today against a costly and unnecessary boondoggle in Huntington Beach.
Statewide coalition of community, equity and environmental leaders speak out against Huntington Beach desalination plant
Today, a statewide coalition of more than 25 community, equity and environmental leaders, and local experts submitted comment letters identifying significant problems with the proposed $1 billion Brookfield/Poseidon Water desalination plant in Huntington Beach.
Big Water makes desperate bid to save desal project
Huntington Beach, CA – This morning, news broke that Poseidon Water has hired former Senator Barbara Boxer and former Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez to lobby for approval of its controversial Huntington Beach desalination proposal. The billion dollar private,...