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		<title>Mesa Water District: Vanity Leads to Questionable Media Consulting Fees at Ratepayers&#8217; Expense</title>
		<link>http://www.surfcityvoice.org/2013/05/mesa-water-district-vanity-leads-to-questionable-media-consulting-fees-at-ratepayers-expense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 00:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The invoices are only four from a total of 30 received by Mesa Water from the consulting firm of Laer Pearce Associates between October, 2008 and December, 2012 for “branding” and general public relations and marketing assistance. But they help show the District’s obsession with its public image ever since Paul Shoenberger became its general manager in 2009 and hired Stacy Taylor as its communications manager in 2010. That obsession became a costly exercise in vanity paid for by Mesa Water’s ratepayers.]]></description>
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		<title>Retraction and Correction: Mesa Water Spent Public Money on Private Event, But GM Did Not Exceed His Authority</title>
		<link>http://www.surfcityvoice.org/2013/03/retraction-and-correction-mesa-water-spent-public-money-on-private-event-but-gm-did-not-exceed-his-authority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 05:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My story published yesterday (Mesa Water’s Celebration: Misuse of Public Funds?), about Mesa Water’s plan for a private celebration utilizing public money, contained one very important error: it strongly implied that the Mesa Water board had not approved of $49,650 in labor and materials costs for the event. In fact, the event was listed is listed in the official minutes of the Nov. 27 board meeting as a “VIP event” and the board did vote to fund it 3-1-1, with Director James Atkinson voting no and Director Trudy Ohlig-Hall absent.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Nowaterdeal&#8217;: Desal Plant Opponents Will Reach Out to Thousands of Orange County Voters</title>
		<link>http://www.surfcityvoice.org/2013/02/nowaterdeal-desal-plant-opponents-will-reach-out-to-thousands-of-orange-county-voters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opposition group, heralding online as www.nowaterdeal.com, plans to spend tens-of- thousands of dollars to inform other ratepayers in high propensity voting areas of the county about Poseidon's proposed "take or pay" contract, asking them to urge their local elected officials not to sign it. Nowaterdeal  is a coalition of members of Residents for Responsible Desal and other local ratepayers who previously had been fighting an uphill battle against Poseidon’s well financed lobbying efforts and a marketing campaign (mostly unquestioned in the county's major daily newspaper) that depicts its desalination plant as a future fallback point in case of prolonged drought or a natural disaster that would disrupt the flow of water to the public.]]></description>
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		<title>Triple Toxic Whammy Threatens Food Web, Ocean Study Shows</title>
		<link>http://www.surfcityvoice.org/2013/01/triple-toxic-whammy-threatens-food-web-ocean-study-shows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While plastic refuse on land is a familiar eyesore as litter and a burden on our landfills, in the marine environment it can be lethal to sea creatures by way of ingestion or entanglement. Now, an important new study1 adds to a growing body of evidence that ocean plastic debris is also a threat to humans because plastics are vehicles for introducing toxic chemicals of three sources into the ocean food web.]]></description>
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		<title>Water Flash: Poseidon Carlsbad Vote Passes</title>
		<link>http://www.surfcityvoice.org/2012/11/poseidon-desal-hearing-underway-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public comments have wrapped up and at the San Diego County Water Authority special board meeting to consider a 30-year water purchase agreement with Poseidon Resources Inc. to supply up to (but as yet unknown) 56,000 acre feet of water for San Diego County by desalinating up to 100 million gallons of ocean water to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mesa Water Directors Fail to Censure Trudy Ohlig-Hall</title>
		<link>http://www.surfcityvoice.org/2012/11/mesa-water-directors-fail-to-censure-trudy-ohlig-hall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nov. 13 episode of the Mesa Consolidated Water District Board of Directors should make the public citizen wonder if that body is capable to handle the challenges of water management in the 21st Century when it barely knows how to run a board meeting. Censuring another board member would be “unprecedented in California water politics history,” President Bockmiller emphasized, “And there have been directors’ behaviors far more ludicrous than Director Ohlig-Hall’s behaviors.”]]></description>
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		<title>Get Desal Permits Quickly by Coordinating Early &amp; Designing a Good Project, State Panelists Say</title>
		<link>http://www.surfcityvoice.org/2012/11/get-desal-permits-quickly-by-coordinating-early-designing-a-good-project-state-panelists-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to get more ocean desalination plants built in California despite pesky environmental regulations was the topic of a workshop on Oct. 29 at the 1st Annual Desalination Conference held by CalDesal at the Hyatt hotel in Irvine. The overriding message was clear: follow the proper procedures from the start; if your project is worthy, it will be approved in a matter of months. But if you don’t follow the proper procedures, expect delays.]]></description>
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		<title>Bioplastics: Can They Save the Marine Environment?</title>
		<link>http://www.surfcityvoice.org/2012/11/bioplastics-can-they-save-the-marine-environment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SMosko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike glass and aluminum which can be recycled in a closed loop, most plastics recycling is considered “down-cycling” into lower quality, hybrid-plastic end-products, like lumber or clothing, which aren’t recycled again. This means that, except for the fraction of plastic that is combusted for energy production, all plastics eventually end up as trash, either in landfills or as litter. Petroleum and natural gas are actually organic substances, but why plastics synthesized from them do not biodegrade is straightforward. The exceptionally strong carbon-carbon bonds created to form the backbone of plastic polymers do not occur naturally in nature so are foreign to microorganisms which readily eat up other organic materials.]]></description>
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		<title>Viginia Albrecht: Undermining the Clean Water Act Drop by Drop</title>
		<link>http://www.surfcityvoice.org/2012/11/viginia-albrecht-undermining-the-clean-water-act-drop-by-drop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before the conference begins, Albrecht, 69, leans into the woman next to her as though she is consoling her. Fifteen minutes later, “Ginna,” as her friends call her, seems surprised when she is called on to talk, as though she does not think it is her turn yet. But she breezes through her lecture, in a plainspoken, this-really-isn’t-as-complicated-as-it-seems manner. Albrecht has represented scores of corporate clients, including developers, coal mining corporations and electric utilities. The latter two groups released 711 million pounds of toxic chemicals in 2010, according to reports industry is required to file with the Environmental Protection Agency. The companies are permitted to release some toxins as a cost of doing business.
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		<title>Election Changes: Poseidon Desalination Plan Isn&#8217;t Popular With New Huntington Beach City Council</title>
		<link>http://www.surfcityvoice.org/2012/11/election-changes-poseidon-desalination-plan-isnt-popular-with-new-huntington-beach-city-council/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poseidon, the God of the Sea, might have suffered a tsunami headache after seeing the results of the Nov. 6 election for the Huntington Beach City Council. That’s because in December, when three newly elected city council members are sworn into office, the current 5 – 2 majority of the faithful will become a solid 5-2 majority of non-believers in Poseidon Resources Inc.’s nearly $1 billion ocean desalination plant proposed for the southeast corner of Huntington Beach.]]></description>
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