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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Cowlitz PUD Officials Approve Rate Increase
• Lock At the Dalles Dam On Columbia River Shut Down
• Avista Reaches Settlement in Oregon Natural Gas Rate Request
• Farmers Protest Idaho Falls Power’s Planned Transmission Line
• Op/Ed - Dialogue Key to Idaho Power Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Project
• Liquefied Natural Gas Opponents Make Their Case for Recall of Clatsop Commissioners
• China Orders Crackdown On Industrial Overcapacity
• Mississippi Steel Offered Low-Cost New York Hydro-Power Deal
• Big Utilities Pull Back on Coal Plant Plans
• Deal Would Remove Klamath River Dams to Aid Salmon
• Utility Agrees To Terms for Removing Klamath Dams
• Utility Agrees To Removal of 4 Klamath River Dams
• Landmark Agreement to Remove 4 Klamath River Dams
• Could Klamath Dam Removal Deal Set Future Precedent?
• Strong Fish Returns Allow Six Eastern Washington Rivers to Open for Hatchery Steelhead
• Elwha River Turns Red for Pre-Dam Removal Test
• Fed Stimulus Money Helping Prep Lower Elwha for Dam Removal
• Shovelnose Sturgeon Proposed For Listing
• House Dust in Washing Machines Might Be Chemically Polluting Puget Sound
• Colorado Governor Says Western Water Policies Must Change
• Canadian Ferries To Stop Dumping Sewage Into Ocean
• Editorial - Cities on Right Path to Deal with Water Issues
• Alternative Energy Projects Stumble on a Need for Water
• Clallam County PUD Sets Annual Solar Tour
• Clean Energy on Display at Saturday's Kitsap Solar Tour
• Chinese company takes over Hoku Scientific
• San Francisco tilts toward wind power
• As Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb Sales Fall, More Incentives Urged
• Contest for Brightest Idea in Light-Bulb Makeover
• Oregon Rep. Wu Introduces Bills to Encourage Energy Efficient Buildings
• Climate Control Debate Heats Up In Senate
• U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Faces Revolt over Its Opposition to Global Warming Legislation
• What Ever Happened to the Ozone Layer? Is there still a hole in it?
• Snohomish County Fleet To Burn Cleaner Fuel
• From Turbines & Straw, Danish Self-Sufficiency
• Some Coffee Shops Crack Down On Free Wi-Fi
• Borders Books to Offer Free WiFi Starting Next Month
• FCC’s Broadband Plan: A Need for (Actual) Speed
• FCC: We're halfway Done with National Broadband Plan
• Verizon: Metered Broadband Is Coming
• Traffic during Belfair Sewer Construction Will Be Horrible
• Driver in Belfair Crash Jailed, Passengers Released from Hospital
• El Niño Should Mean Drier Seattle Winter, But Maybe Not
• Strange Twists in Capture of Alleged Metal Thief
• Alexander to Step Down as WA Chief Justice
WORD OF THE DAY
Pabulum • \PAB-yuh-lum\ • noun – 1: food; especially: a suspension or solution of nutrients in a state suitable for absorption *2: intellectual sustenance 3: something (as writing or speech) that is insipid, simplistic, or bland
As far as literary content is concerned, the scrawling writing efforts of the kindergarten student were considered mere pabulum by her adult relatives. Her parents, on the other hand, custom-framed the alphabetic efforts of the tot and hung the creation next to their Franklin Mint replica of the Declaration of Independence.
WEATHER
Shelton Forecast & 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
Cowlitz PUD Officials Approve Rate Increase (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/09/30/area_news/doc4ac2ae28952f5543394061.txt
Lock At the Dalles Dam On Columbia River Shut Down (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/987598.html
Avista Reaches Settlement in Oregon Natural Gas Rate Request (Yahoo! Finance)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Avista-Reaches-Settlement-in-prnews-141626221.html?x=0&.v=1
Farmers Protest Idaho Falls Power’s Planned Transmission Line (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/986926.html
East Oregonian Op/Ed - Dialogue Key to Idaho Power Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Project
http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=14&SubSectionID=50&ArticleID=98441
Liquefied Natural Gas Opponents Make Their Case For Recall Of Clatsop Commissioners (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/09/lng_opponents_make_their_case.html
China Orders Crackdown On Industrial Overcapacity - new aluminum production projects are banned for three years (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iL02QM067VXDWSLRj1mWOPVeS5LwD9B1JCTO0
Mississippi Steel Offered Low-Cost New York Hydro-Power Deal (Business First of Buffalo)
http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2009/09/28/daily20.html?ana=from_rss
Big Utilities Pull Back on Coal Plant Plans (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/big-utilities-pull-back-on-coal-plant-plans/
FISH & WILDLIFE
Deal Would Remove Klamath River Dams to Aid Salmon (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/deal_would_remove_klamath_rive.html
Utility Agrees To Terms for Removing Klamath Dams (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/62868162.html
Utility Agrees To Removal of 4 Klamath River Dams (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-klamath30-2009sep30,0,3525101.story
Landmark Agreement to Remove 4 Klamath River Dams (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/09/30/30greenwire-landmark-agreement-to-remove-4-klamath-river-d-72992.html
Could Klamath Dam Removal Deal Set Future Precedent? (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5931-could-klamath-dam-removal-deal-set-future-precedent/
Strong Fish Returns Allow Six Eastern Washington Rivers to Open for Hatchery Steelhead (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/reeltimenorthwest/2009967645_strong_fish_returns_allow_six.html?syndication=rss
Elwha River Turns Red for Pre-Dam Removal Test (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090930/news/309309990
Fed Stimulus Money Helping Prep Lower Elwha for Dam Removal (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.konp.com/local/5133
Shovelnose Sturgeon Proposed For Listing (Associated Press)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2241895~Shovelnose_sturgeon_proposed_for_listing.html?cid=rss-Montana_Headlines
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
House Dust in Washing Machines Might Be Chemically Polluting Puget Sound (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/410626_badchemicals29.html?source=rss
Colorado Governor Says Western Water Policies Must Change (Associated Press)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/29/colo-gov-western-water-policies-must-change/
Canadian Ferries To Stop Dumping Sewage Into Ocean – now, if you can just get Victoria to stop it… (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/Ferries+stop+dumping+sewage+into+ocean/2046993/story.html
Olympian Editorial - Cities on Right Path to Deal with Water Issues
http://www.theolympian.com/opinion/story/987556.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Alternative Energy Projects Stumble on a Need for Water (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/business/energy-environment/30water.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Clallam County PUD Sets Annual Solar Tour (Sequim Gazette, WA)
http://www.sequimgazette.com/gazettetop/articleDetail.exm/Index/article/2009-09-30_Clallam_County_PUD_sets_annual_solar_tour/
Clean Energy on Display at Saturday's Kitsap Solar Tour (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/29/clean-energy-on-display-at-saturdays-kitsap-tour/?partner=RSS
Chinese company takes over Hoku Scientific - Takeover gives Hoku money to finish building plant in Pocatello, Idaho (Pacific Business News)
http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2009/09/28/daily21.html?ana=from_rss
San Francisco tilts toward wind power (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/29/MNAO19U159.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
As Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb Sales Fall, More Incentives Urged (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/as-cfl-sales-fall-more-incentives-urged/
Contest for Brightest Idea in Light-Bulb Makeover (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009968878_lightbulbprize30.html
Oregon Rep. Wu Introduces Bills to Encourage Energy Efficient Buildings (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5920-rep-wu-introduces-bills-encourage-energy-efficient-buildings/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Climate Control Debate Heats Up In Senate (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58S5X320090930?feedType=nl&feedName=ustopnewsearly
U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Faces Revolt over Its Opposition to Global Warming Legislation (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13447658
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
What Ever Happened to the Ozone Layer? Is there still a hole in it? (Slate Magazine)
http://www.slate.com/id/2229859/?from=rss
Snohomish County Fleet To Burn Cleaner Fuel - Vehicles will rely more on biodiesel, ethanol & electricity, & electric-vehicle charging stations (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090929/NEWS01/709299872/-1/RSS02
From Turbines & Straw, Danish Self-Sufficiency (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/world/europe/30samso.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Some Coffee Shops Crack Down On Free Wi-Fi (Nat’l Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113134753&ft=1&f=2
Borders Books to Offer Free WiFi Starting Next Month (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009967745_apusborderswifi.html?syndication=rss
FCC’s Broadband Plan: A Need for (Actual) Speed (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/09/29/fccs-broadband-plan-a-need-for-actual-speed/
FCC: We're halfway Done with National Broadband Plan - It could cost between $20 & $350 billion to get job done (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Were-Halfway-Done-With-National-Broadband-Plan-104715
Verizon: Metered Broadband Is Coming - As long as consumers are stupid enough to allow it (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Metered-Broadband-Is-Coming-104713
GENERAL NEWS
Traffic during Belfair Sewer Construction Will Be Horrible (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=276:traffic-during-belfair-sewer-construction-will-be-horrible&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
Driver in Belfair Crash Jailed, Passengers Released from Hospital (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/29/driver-in-belfair-crash-jailed-passengers-from/?partner=RSS
El Niño Should Mean Drier Seattle Winter, But Maybe Not (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009969444_elnino30m.html
Strange Twists in Capture of Alleged Metal Thief (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21153900/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_1_09000109302009&ts=H
Alexander to Step Down as WA Chief Justice (Associated Press)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=218688
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
'First Clown in Space' Has Serious Goals
http://www.kirotv.com/entertainment/20688549/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_1_09000109302009&ts=H
Police: Teen Uses Fork to Brand Friend
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21151688/detail.html
Elephants Find Recession Work Washing Cars - Car Wash Promises Not To Get Cars Clean
http://www.kirotv.com/travelgetaways/21156464/detail.html
Ailing Chicken Leaves Behind Giant Egg
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21136512/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Melanie Safka - Brand New Key
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr9rtQbijR8&feature=related
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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