Water Authority to consider direct water purchase agreement with Poseidon
San Diego – Poseidon Resources today announced the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) Board of Directors voted unanimously to direct its staff to work with Poseidon on a contract to purchase drinking water from Poseidon’s Carlsbad Desalination Project (“Project”). Read more.

EDITORIAL: North County Times: Roses and raspberries
The 'Enough Already' award
By: Opinion staff A raspberry to the Surfrider Foundation for filing yet another lawsuit in an attempt to stop the construction of a desalination plant in Carlsbad. Read more.

California owns four slots in our ranking of the 10 cities with the biggest water problems. Can the Pacific provide an answer?
By Christopher Helman
Just north of San Diego, on a site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Poseidon Resources is building the biggest water desalination plant in the United States. When completed in 2012, the $350 million plant will suck in salty ocean water and pipe out fresh drinking water--50 million gallons of it each day--enough to slake the thirsts and fill the pools of 300,000 households. Read more.

WATER: Desalination financing gets extension Poseidon says funding should be in place before end of June
By: Bradley J. Fikes
CARLSBAD - Months after preliminary construction began on its desalination plant, Poseidon Resources Corp. said it expects to borrow the money necessary to complete the project before the end of June. Read more.

State Board rejects opponents’ petition for third time; project construction continues
San Diego, CA – Poseidon Resources today announced the State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) has dismissed the permit appeal filed by Surfrider Foundation and San Diego Coastkeeper that challenged the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board's (Regional Board) May 13, 2009 unanimous approval of Poseidon’s Marine Life Mitigation Plan for the Carlsbad Desalination Project. Read more.

San Diego, CA – The California Coastal Commission today voted to dismiss a request filed by opponents of seawater desalination to revoke the Carlsbad Desalination Project’s Coastal Development Permit (CDP). The vote marked the second time in as many months that the Commission rejected an attempt by a handful of opponents to revoke the permit issued to the project in November 2007. Read more.

California Air Resources Board Opposes Efforts to Revisit Project’s GHG Plan San Diego
Poseidon Resources today announced that California Coastal Commission staff has recommended that the Commission deny the request made by opponents of seawater desalination to revoke the Coastal Development Permit for the Carlsbad Desalination Project. Read more.

California Environmental Rights Foundation Violating Coastal Act Regulations
San Diego – Poseidon Resources today announced they have petitioned the state Attorney General and the California Coastal Commission challenging the legal standing of the Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation (CERF), an opponent of seawater desalination that has twice initiated proceedings to revoke the Coastal Development Permit issued to the Carlsbad Desalination Project. Read more.

San Diego - Poseidon Resources today announced the California Debt Limitation Allocation Committee (“CDLAC”) has voted unanimously (3-0) to allocate $530 million in Private Activity Bonds (“PABs”) to the Carlsbad Desalination Project. CDLAC administers and allocates the state’s annual allocation of federal tax-exempt PABs for the financing of certain private development projects that benefit the public. Read more.

North County Times: By Ted Owen
As 2009 ended, the latest attempt to derail the Carlsbad Desalination Plant was rejected by the Coastal Commission. The celebration was short-lived, as two fringe environmental groups, undaunted by yet another defeat, kept up their assault on the project by filing yet another request that the Commission revoke the permit granted to Poseidon Resources in 2007. Read more.