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If you are an everyday common citizen like me,
trying to understand these various issues you will need a new dictionary to look
up many of the acronyms in an attempt to understand what the professionals are
trying to explain to us.... so I hope this section of the website helps you!
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EERD: Environment & Energy
Resource Department
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CTs: Conversion Technologies
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Conversion technologies refer to a wide array of state of the art technologies
capable of converting unrecyclable solid waste into useful products, such as
green fuels and renewable energy, in an environmentally beneficial way.
Utilizing conversion technologies to recover solid waste from disposal can:
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other criteria pollutants; reduce dependence
on landfilling and imported fossil fuels; enhance recycling efforts and exceed
California's strict environmental standards. For more on CTs, please see
here (pdf file).
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CURB: City Urban
Restriction Boundaries - see also SOAR
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HCAs: Host Community
Agreements - HCAS are contractual agreements between local governments and
project developers that provide public benefits in exchange for the prilege of
doing business in the jurisdiction. HCA benefits may range from the provision of
infrastructure improvements to profit-sharing arrangements to the assessment of
user fees or surcharges on local facilities.
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RECs: Renewable
energy credits help get more clean power online. A REC is created every time a
renewable energy facility adds one MWh of electricity to the national
electricity grid. Every renewable energy developer considers REC sales when
deciding whether or not to build new facilities. RECs allow government and
consumers to price the positive value of renewable energy, making its
generation more competitive financially with electricity generated from fossil
fuels. More than twenty states rely on RECs to track and verify
government renewable energy mandates.
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SOAR: Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources -
The purpose is to
make Ventura County a better place to live by limiting urban sprawl,
protecting open space and agricultural lands, and promoting livable and
sustainable communities in the county and surrounding regions.
In 1998, voters approved "Save Open Space and
Agricultural Resources" (S.O.A.R.) measures countywide (63 percent) and in
Thousand Oaks (71 percent), Simi Valley (70 percent), Oxnard (70 percent) and
Camarillo (66 percent). (see timeline of this initiative
here at this news story)
Keeping it real (always),
Linda
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