Editorial: Desal plant rightly gets the green light
With another drought parching Southern California, we commend the California Coastal Commission for unanimously approving a new desalination plant off the coast of Dana Point. … The action comes just five months after the commission unanimously rejected the Poseidon desalination plant in Huntington Beach. It had been in development for 20 years, would have cost $1.4 billion, was similar to the Carlsbad plant in operation since 2016 and was backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Whereas Poseidon would have produced 50 million gallons a day, enough for about 400,000 people, the Dana Point plant will produce only about 10% of that.