Newsom: $1.4 billion desalination project should be approved by California Coastal Commission
Citing California’s worsening drought conditions, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday made a powerful new push for a controversial $1.4 billion desalination plant on the state’s coastline. The proposed oceanfront facility in Huntington Beach has been under debate for more than 20 years, and its fate could set a course for other desalination plants on the state’s coast. The California Coastal Commission is scheduled to take a final vote on the project in two weeks. … Newsom said a no vote by the full commission to kill the project would be “a big mistake, a big setback.”
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