Poseidon Opponents: Delay Term Sheet Pending Committee Investigation
The letter says: if the ad hoc committee is in violation of the Brown Act, the term sheet renegotiation “itself could be considered Null &...
Climate Change Could Swamp Billion-Dollar Desal Deal
Poseidon Resources and the Orange County Water District may have hit another set of self-inflicted hurdles in their quest to build a billion-dollar ocean desalination...
Documents Related to the Proposed Poseidon Huntington Beach Ocean Desalination Plant
The Surf City Voice received thousands of documents from the Orange County Water District’s response to recent Public Record Act requests....
Comments on the Revised Poseidon Resources – OCWD Term Sheet for Proposed Desalination Plant
The Surf City Voice received these comments from local critics of the proposed project....
OCWD: Poseidon’s Role in Hidden Committee Meetings Explained
Kennedy said that there is a reason for Poseidon’s involvement in the meetings—which are closed to the rest of the public—and there’s nothing illegal about...
Water District’s Spurious ‘Ad Hoc’ Committee Pushes Billion-Dollar Desal Project
California law says that the OCWD belongs to the people, but some board members think it's all theirs....
Water District Budget Passed at ‘Worst Public Meeting Ever’
“There was very little information given to the public,” he complained. “That was the worst run public meeting I have ever witnessed.”...
OCWD Rate Increase: ‘Sucking it Up’ Will Lower Ratepayer Costs and Fill the Basin
OCWD continues to cover the costs (nearly $800,000, so far) of investigating a billion-dollar ocean desalination project that would raise the RA by hundreds of...
OCWD Pressured to Hold Back Rate Increase
The RA has increased 72 percent in the past five years. Cities pass the cost to residents, 30 percent of whom “live in disadvantaged communities...
Water Board Pushes Billion-Dollar Desal Plant But Refuses to Consider Cheaper Alternatives
Pro-Poseidon members of the OCWD BOD gave false information to the State Lands Commission....