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everywhere, but nothing to drink! But if sea water could be "desalinated" -- removal of the complex chemicals that make it unique and life giving -- that would be an endless supply of fresh water, and we could grow even more dense and put off the inevitable reckoning with common sense. Poseidon's Huntington Beach plant has the intent of being a water wholesaler -- they can sell to SMWD, but not directly to the developers of Saddlecreek, Saddleback meadows, RMV, etc. There are significant problems, in practice, that make desalination, in the opinion of some, a bogus scheme to bypass EIR protections. The desal plants in Santa Barbara and Catalina sit idle, despite the need for water, perhaps because of high operational cost. Other problems, such as the intake of basic ("phytoplankton") sea life and the output of "dead zones" that kill baby fish and the indigenous habitat, render it a seemingly obvious disaster and mistake. Yet if the HB desal plant can get its "entitlements", or permits, BEFORE people notice it, they can claim that it will supply necessary "new" water to these vast new tracts. Whether or not desalination actually produces a drop of water here, or whether the plants would go bust and need Taxpayer rescue (reputedly the fate of the Florida plant) would be irrelevant -- the tracts would go in, the developers would sell out and move on to the next scheme.
So stopping the DESAL plant dead in its tracks here in Huntington Beach
is IMPORTANT. The issue is up before the HB Planning Commission tomorrow,
Tues, June 3, in an extraordinary meeting. They already held the "public
hearing", so you will probably NOT be allowed to speak on the issue;
but you can LOBBY THE PLANNING COMMISSIONERS, and hold up TACTFUL OCEAN
OUTFALL GROUP SIGNS saying http://www.ci.huntington-beach.ca.us/citydepartments/planning/PJB/pc1/
Directions: From Trabuco, go North on the 405 to Beach Blvd., go toward
the Ocean to Main St. and make a right on to Main. Follow to 2000 Main
St., SE corner of Main and Yorktown, the City Hall is to the left, across
from the High School. Plenty of parking, the meeting is in the Council
chamber outside down the steps from the police station entrance. From
the Ocean, to up Main St. in HB to 2000 Main on the right. ---------------------------------------------------------------- "...Fishing
will be banned from about one third of Australia's Great Barrier Reef
under a draft rescue plan to save the world's largest living structure
from human impact...record high temperatures, over-fishing and pollution..."But
the expanded protection area only just meets scientists' estimates and
environmentalists' demands that 30-50 percent of the...reef be declared
a sanctuary..."The commercial fishing industry warned the plan could
devastate fishing firms and small communities. 'More fishermen will be
competing over fewer fish...'" ----------------------------------------------------------------
Adelman, unlike thin spirits such as David Geffen and Barbra Streisand,
actually backs his beliefs with actions to protect the Coast. Sure, Streisand,
like Geffen, may write a check, but when it comes to their own privileges,
they seem to think their transgressions are exempt "...Streisand has given hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years to help protect the environment. So, isn?t a suit like this just a bit hypocritical? The message of the lawsuit seems to be that protecting celebrities is a lot more important than protecting the environment. A lot of Hollywood stars would probably secretly agree to that, but in their image-conscious universe in which it's important to appear both beautiful and virtuous, no one except maybe Charlton Heston or Arnold Schwarzenegger would let themselves be caught implying that their interests come before the public...".
Contact Streisand through:
Adelman: "Our goal is to create a complete record of the California
coastline...It is not possible...without the photographs of the coast
that happen to include Ms Streisand's estate. We do not believe in...special
treatment to wealthy coastal land owners." ------------------------------------------------------------------ Chrysler, now captured by Muckity Benz, can't even GIVE it away! "...Chrysler...[is]
extending interest-free financing deals on most of its vehicles through
Sept. 2, a move designed to halt a decline in its U.S. market share. "The
zero-percent loans, for up to 60 months...[are part of] its single largest
national sales program ever...dubbed the 'Summer Sales Drive'...".
TAKE THE PLEDGE: UNTIL EVIL CAR COMPANIES OFFER ELECTRIC CARS AGAIN, "TAKE
YER DINO CAR AN' SHOVE IT!". GM is confiscating and destroying our
EV1 autos, refusing to let us release them or buy them, and will break
them up for junk to hide the evidence that clean EVs are great cars --
and use such little energy you can power them from a solar rooftop system.
Our EV1 goes 80 miles on the energy equivalent of a half gallon of gas
-- and with NO OIL, NO SMOG CHECKS, NO GASO! And no wonder why the Oilies
want to kill the idea. /Doug Back to T.O.C. 3
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