Energy News Digest for February 9, 2009

All the links in today’s news digest lead to current stories. Please note that some media organizations update their web sites regularly, which may result in broken links in the future.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)

- Puget Energy's $7.4 Billion Sale Completed
- Anderson Island Residents Urged To Go Easy On Power
- Everett Herald Editorial - Snohomish PUD Plots a Prudent Course on Power Rates
- Oregon Energy Council to Hold First Meeting
- Report Says Texas Electricity Rate Soar
- Hurdles (Not Financial Ones) Await Electric Grid Update
- Maine - Power Grid Expansion in Northern Maine for Big Wind Farm Put On Ice
- Congressional Research Reports - Energy Policy Act of 2005
- Second Natural-Gas Pipeline Sought Along Columbia River
- New York City - How Long to Fix a Streetlight? 12 Months, if you’re Persistent
- Early Portion of Chinook Season Could Be Adopted
- Post-Dam Analysis – Oregon’s Coal Creek Rebirth: Just Add Explosives
- Skokomish Projects to be Discussed This Week
- Gauging Health of Puget Sound
- Skagit County PUD Water Fluoridation May Not Happen At All
- Study Pinpoints West's Windy, Sunny Resource Areas
- Engineers from Ireland Tapped For Oregon Wave Study
- The Promise and Peril of the 'Clean-Energy Economy'
- Feed-In Tariffs Contemplated in the U.S.
- Turning Livestock Waste Into Energy Can Save The Farm And Save The Planet
- Why Obama’s Energy Savings Estimate May Be Skewed
- Energy Efficient Decorative Lights OK'd For New Narrows Bridge
- Is Your Clothesline Illegal?
- How to Stash Carbon Dioxide: Turn It into Stone
- Grays Harbor County: Impacts Of Warming Will Hit Here
- Microsoft Wants to Help Companies Gauge Their Greenness
- Calling All Cherry Pickers: Internet Tax Credit Boost Proposed By Senator
- Broadband Stimulus Bill Gets Smaller
- Not Everyone Is Cheering as Wi-Fi Takes to the Air
- North Carolina - City’s Wi-Fi Network Grows with Business Investment
- Pulling the Plug on Wi-Fi Bandits
- Billions in Stimulus Funds Sought For Washington's Needs
- Library System with Branch in Belfair Considering Its Options
- When Storms Strike Home, Preparedness Really Pays Off
- Shelton Fifth At State Bowling Tournament
- Be Heard By Improving E-Mail Communication

These And Links to More Stories in Today’s Energy News Digest

WORD OF THE DAY

Kinesics • \kuh-NEE-siks\ • noun - A systematic study of the relationship between nonlinguistic body motions (as blushes, shrugs, or eye movement) and communication

The dumbstruck kinesiologist was at a loss to interpret the complex mating dance of the love struck office workers on the second floor of the newly built finance center. At first it appeared that they were dancing 1965 craze “The Freddie”, but upon further review, she came to the conclusion that the copy repairman had a crush on one of the pool stenographers.

Do the Freddie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGxDS10VAbg

WEATHER

Shelton Forecast and Weather Alerts
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/mapclick.php?textfield1=47.213805&textfield2=-123.113412&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=shelton%2c%20wa%2c%20usa

ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES

Puget Energy's $7.4 Billion Sale Completed (Examiner.Com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1838203~Puget_Energy_s__7_4_billion_sale_completed.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines

Anderson Island Residents Urged To Go Easy On Power (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/619440.html

Everett Herald Editorial - Snohomish PUD Plots a Prudent Course on Power Rates
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090208/OPINION01/702089965

Oregon Energy Council to Hold First Meeting (Examiner.Com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1840482~Oregon_energy_council_to_hold_first_meeting.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines

Report Says Texas Electricity Rate Soar (Houston Chronicle, TX)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/6253890.html

Hurdles (Not Financial Ones) Await Electric Grid Update (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/science/earth/07grid.html

Maine - Power Grid Expansion in Northern Maine for Big Wind Farm Put On Ice (MSNBC)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29037946/

Congressional Research Reports - Energy Policy Act of 2005
http://opencrs.com/document/RL33302

Second Natural-Gas Pipeline Sought Along Columbia River (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008722910_pipeline09m.html?syndication=rss

New York City - How Long to Fix a Streetlight? 12 Months, if you’re Persistent (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/nyregion/07light.html

FISH & WILDLIFE

Early Portion of Chinook Season Could Be Adopted (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090207/SPORTS04/702089976

Post-Dam Analysis – Oregon’s Coal Creek Rebirth: Just Add Explosives (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/02/coal_creek_rebirth_just_add_ex.html

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Skokomish Projects to be Discussed This Week (The Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/feb/08/skokomish-projects-to-be-discussed-this-week/?partner=RSS

Gauging Health of Puget Sound (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008722914_tour09m.html

Skagit County PUD Water Fluoridation May Not Happen At All (KAPS Radio, Mount Vernon, WA)
http://www.kapsradio.com/2009/02/06/water-fluoridation-may-not-happen-at-all/

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Study Pinpoints West's Windy, Sunny Resource Areas (Associated Press)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=9805964

Engineers from Ireland Tapped For Oregon Wave Study (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008722916_waveenergy09m.html?syndication=rss

The Promise and Peril of the 'Clean-Energy Economy' (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-na-clean-energy9-2009feb09,0,6542292.story

Feed-In Tariffs Contemplated in the U.S. (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/feed-in-tariffs-contemplated-in-the-us/

Turning Livestock Waste Into Energy Can Save The Farm And Save The Planet (The Kansas City Star. MO)
http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/1023258.html

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Why Obama’s Energy Savings Estimate May Be Skewed (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/washington/07energy.html?ref=politics

Energy Efficient Decorative Lights OK'd For New Narrows Bridge - Supporters to cover $3,000 in maintenance with money the Bonneville Power Administration offers for energy-efficient projects: also want to put Tacoma Power & PenLight on the hook (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/331/story/619398.html

Is Your Clothesline Illegal? (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/home/la-hm-clothesline7-2009feb07,0,4104849.story

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

How to Stash Carbon Dioxide: Turn It into Stone - Dissolved in water and pumped underground, CO2 becomes limestone (Christian Science Monitor)
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/02/05/how-to-stash-carbon-dioxide-turn-it-into-stone/

Grays Harbor County: Impacts Of Warming Will Hit Here (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2009/02/08/local_news/01news.txt

Microsoft Wants to Help Companies Gauge Their Greenness (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/399300_msftdynamics09.html

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Calling All Cherry Pickers: Internet Tax Credit Boost Proposed By Senator (Reuters)
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090206/wr_nm/us_usa_stimulus_internet_1

Broadband Stimulus Bill Gets Smaller - $1.5 Billion Less In Funding, Tax Credit Language Redefined (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Broadband-Stimulus-Bill-Gets-Smaller-100754

Not Everyone Is Cheering as Wi-Fi Takes to the Air (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/business/07plane.html

North Carolina - City’s Wi-Fi Network Grows with Business Investment (Charlotte Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2009/02/09/focus4.html?ana=from_rss

Pulling the Plug on Wi-Fi Bandits (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/09/BUC115O83U.DTL&feed=rss.business

GENERAL NEWS

Billions in Stimulus Funds Sought For Washington's Needs (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008720259_stimulus08m.html

Library System with Branch in Belfair Considering Its Options (The Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/feb/06/library-system-with-branch-in-belfair-its/?partner=RSS

When Storms Strike Home, Preparedness Really Pays Off (The Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090208/BIZ/702089941/-1/RSS03

Shelton Fifth At State Bowling Tournament (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/143/story/752145.html

Be Heard By Improving E-Mail Communication (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008719926_skube08.html?syndication=rss

DIVERSIONS

Garfield Player Punched During Redmond Basketball Game
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_020809WAB-garfield-redmond-basketball-brawl-sw.3076a942.html

Software Glitch Leads To 5-Cent Gas in Dutch Town
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090209/ap_on_fe_st/eu_odd_netherlands_cheap_gas;_ylt=AmCK4ilvCJkpTcPeH7eG9HLtiBIF

Escaped Prisoner Turns Up In Michigan Judge's Trunk
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090207/ap_on_fe_st/odd_judge_s_trunk_prisoner;_ylt=AseqPt84nu0d8IYOSeN1p6XtiBIF

Florida Man Issued 50 Traffic Citations In One Day
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090207/ap_on_fe_st/odd_bad_driver;_ylt=AlwfSsoEW7vwlsIN9GjIEKbtiBIF

SONG OF THE DAY

I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMD7Ezp3gWc

'I Wanna Be Sedated' (NPR top 100 music review)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1114972&ps=bb4