Energy News Digest for October 12, 2010

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.

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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES

Deepwater Energy Transmission - Google to Invest in Offshore Wind Power Project (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2013136786_apusgoogleoffshorewind.html

Oregon – Offshore Wind Turbines: This Could be on the Horizon (Tillamook Headlight-Herald, OR)

http://tillamookheadlightherald.com/news/article_6ee9eb7e-d0d6-11df-8a7b-001cc4c03286.html

Port Angeles – Washington State House Candidates Support Biomass Project (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20101012/news/310129992/state-house-candidates-support-biomass-project

Op/Ed - Not the Time for Another Seattle City Light Rate Increase (Seattle Times)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2013134881_guest12cohen.html

Washington Secretary of State Predicts 66 Percent Turnout (Olympian, WA)

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/10/11/1400344/wa-secretary-of-state-predicts.html

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)

·         Op/Ed - Not the Time for Another Seattle City Light Rate Increase

·         Constellation Pullout from Maryland Nuclear Venture Leaves Industry Future Uncertain

·         Michigan - Black Substance on Saginaw Bay Homes Raising Questions about Nearby Power Plant

·         Deepwater Energy Transmission - Google to Invest in Offshore Wind Power Project

·         Three Top Officials Leaving in US Department of Energy Management Exodus

·         Entergy Cooperating With Government Probe in Four States

·         California - Pilot Snags Glider in Placer County Power Lines

·         United Kingdom - Rogue Engineer Supplied Dodgy Power to 1,500 Homes

·         Port Angeles – Washington State House Candidates Support Biomass Project

·         University Of Montana Plans Biomass-Fired Steam Boiler to Heat Campus

·         Oregon – Offshore Wind Turbines: This Could be on the Horizon

·         Snohomish County Experiments With Tidal Energy

·         PacifiCorp the Customer - Duke Energy completes Wyoming wind project

·         Pennsylvania Man Dies at South Dakota Wind Farm Construction Site

·         Offshore Wind Power Line Wins Praise, and Backing

·         AREVA Launches Offshore Wind Venture

·         US Wind Developers See Price of Output Easing

·         Minnesota – Waste to Energy Incinerator Could Be Latest Service Cut In Red Wing

·         Use of Poultry Waste for Electricity Derailed

·         Researchers Use Drilling Data to Find a Geothermal Hot Spot in West Virginia

·         United Kingdom - Firm Scraps Plan for Biomass Power Station in Hull

·         Bonneville Power Administration Tests Out Heat Pump Water Heaters in Pacific Northwest

·         Billions and Billions Served: How Population Affects Climate Change

·         In Europe, Companies Work the Angles on the Carbon Trade

·         California's Green-Jobs Numbers Paint a Mixed Picture

·         California’s Green Nightmare

·         Minnesota Ethanol Plants' Price is Pollution

·         Portland Fashion Week Brings Megawatt Style; With a Solar-Powered Twist

·         FCC Chairman: Why We Need More Wireless Spectrum

·         Comcast Cuts the Cable, Rolls Out 2,000 Xfinity Wi-Fi Hotspots

·         Washington Secretary of State Predicts 66 Percent Turnout

·         Many Northwest Counties Struggle to Provide Basic Services

·         Seattle City Workers Agree to Take Pay Cut

·         Report Warns of Coming Wave of Municipal Pension Shortfalls

·         Including Shelton Store Employee - Puget Sound-Area Store Clerks Convicted of Lottery Felonies

·         North Mason Chamber Selects New President/CEO

·         Downstream from Howard Hansen Damn (Sic), Residents Prepare for Floods

·         Western Vintners Hope Late Harvest Makes Fine Wine

·         Corn Crunch Means Costliest Beef Since 1980s

·         Seattle Would Fine for Unwelcome Yellow Pages Book

·         Study Says 71% of Tweets Are Ignored

WORD OF THE DAY

Gimcrack• \JIM-crack\ • noun - A showy object of little use or value

“Here comes another prize locust,” fumed the utility staffer at the county fair. “It never ceases to amaze me how the cheapest gimcrack attracts people to my booth.”

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

Op/Ed - Not the Time for Another Seattle City Light Rate Increase (Seattle Times)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2013134881_guest12cohen.html

Constellation Pullout from Maryland Nuclear Venture Leaves Industry Future Uncertain (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/10/11/11climatewire-constellation-pullout-from-md-nuclear-ventur-82774.html

Michigan - Black Substance on Saginaw Bay Homes Raising Questions about Nearby Power Plant (Bay City Times, MI)

http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2010/10/post_36.html

Deepwater Energy Transmission - Google to Invest in Offshore Wind Power Project (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2013136786_apusgoogleoffshorewind.html

Three Top Officials Leaving in US Department of Energy Management Exodus (Energy Daily)

http://www.theenergydaily.com/publications/er/Three-Top-Officials-Leaving-In-DOE-Management-Exodus_5164.html

Entergy Cooperating With Government Probe in Four States (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2013138355_apusentergyjusticeprobe.html

California - Pilot Snags Glider in Placer County Power Lines (Associated Press)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/10/11/state/n091406D67.DTL

United Kingdom - Rogue Engineer Supplied Dodgy Power to 1,500 Homes (The Register, UK)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/12/dodgy_electricity/

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Port Angeles – Washington State House Candidates Support Biomass Project (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20101012/news/310129992/state-house-candidates-support-biomass-project

University Of Montana Plans Biomass-Fired Steam Boiler to Heat Campus (Clark Fork Chronicle, MT)

http://www.clarkforkchronicle.com/article.php/20101011110501421

Oregon – Offshore Wind Turbines: This Could be on the Horizon (Tillamook Headlight-Herald, OR)

http://tillamookheadlightherald.com/news/article_6ee9eb7e-d0d6-11df-8a7b-001cc4c03286.html

Snohomish County Experiments With Tidal Energy (KIRO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=376507

PacifiCorp the Customer - Duke Energy completes Wyoming wind project (Charlotte Business Journal)

http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2010/10/11/daily4.html

Pennsylvania Man Dies at South Dakota Wind Farm Construction Site (KSFY, Sioux Falls, SD)

http://www.ksfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=13306273

Offshore Wind Power Line Wins Praise, and Backing (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/science/earth/12wind.html

AREVA Launches Offshore Wind Venture (Renewable Energy World)

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/10/areva-launches-offshore-wind-venture

US Wind Developers See Price of Output Easing (Reuters)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69A3V320101012

Minnesota – Waste to Energy Incinerator Could Be Latest Service Cut In Red Wing (Minnesota Public Radio)

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/10/12/ground-level-cities-in-crisis-red-wing/

Use of Poultry Waste for Electricity Derailed (Raleigh News & Observer, NC)

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/12/735461/use-of-poultry-waste-derailed.html

Researchers Use Drilling Data to Find a Geothermal Hot Spot in West Virginia (Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/11/AR2010101104508.html

United Kingdom - Firm Scraps Plan for Biomass Power Station in Hull (British Broadcasting Corporation)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-11522820

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Bonneville Power Administration Tests Out Heat Pump Water Heaters in Pacific Northwest (Brighter Energy)

http://www.brighterenergy.org/17448/news/heat-efficiency/bpa-tests-out-heat-pump-water-heaters-in-pacific-northwest/

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Billions and Billions Served: How Population Affects Climate Change (USA Today)

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/10/population-growth-urbanization-climate-change-carbon-emissions-global-warming-/1?csp=34tech

In Europe, Companies Work the Angles on the Carbon Trade (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/business/energy-environment/11green.html

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

California's Green-Jobs Numbers Paint a Mixed Picture (Sacramento Bee, CA)

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/10/12/3097036/californias-green-jobs-numbers.html

California’s Green Nightmare (American Spectator)

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/10/11/californias-green-nightmare

Minnesota Ethanol Plants' Price is Pollution (Minneapolis Star-Tribune, MN)

http://www.startribune.com/local/104746614.html

Portland Fashion Week Brings Megawatt Style; With a Solar-Powered Twist (Oregonian, Portland)

http://www.oregonlive.com/living/index.ssf/2010/10/portland_fashion_week_brings_m.html

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

FCC Chairman: Why We Need More Wireless Spectrum (GigaOM)

http://gigaom.com/2010/10/11/fcc-chairman-whitespaces/

Comcast Cuts the Cable, Rolls Out 2,000 Xfinity Wi-Fi Hotspots (GigaOM)

http://gigaom.com/2010/10/11/comcast-cuts-the-cable-rolls-out-2000-xfinity-wi-fi-hotspots/

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE

Washington Secretary of State Predicts 66 Percent Turnout (Olympian, WA)

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/10/11/1400344/wa-secretary-of-state-predicts.html

Many Northwest Counties Struggle to Provide Basic Services (Northwest Public Radio)

http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=7895

Seattle City Workers Agree to Take Pay Cut - Well, actually a cut in cost of living increases (KING-TV, Seattle)

http://www.king5.com/news/local/City-Workers-Take-Pay-Cut-104729839.html

Report Warns of Coming Wave of Municipal Pension Shortfalls (Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/12/AR2010101200044.html

GENERAL NEWS

Including Shelton Store Employee - Puget Sound-Area Store Clerks Convicted of Lottery Felonies (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/10/12/1378503/store-clerks-convicted-of-lottery.html

North Mason Chamber Selects New President/CEO (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/3505-north-mason-chamber-selects-new-presidentceo

Downstream from Howard Hansen Damn (Sic), Residents Prepare for Floods (KIRO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=376526

Western Vintners Hope Late Harvest Makes Fine Wine (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013131873_apusfoodandfarmlategrapes2ndldwritethru.html

Corn Crunch Means Costliest Beef Since 1980s (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2013135360_foodprices12.html

Seattle Would Fine for Unwelcome Yellow Pages Book (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013138383_apwayellowpagesoption.html

Study Says 71% of Tweets Are Ignored (Time Magazine)

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/10/12/study-71-percent-of-tweets-are-ignored/

DIVERSIONS

Name of Town's Sewage Boat? Not Poop Sloop

http://www.kirotv.com/news/25355047/detail.html

Washington Surrogate Mom Opens Business in Oregon

http://www.kndu.com/Global/story.asp?S=13308881

Kitsap County Inmate Fixes Jail 'Good Time' Calculations

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/10/12/1401087/kitsap-inmate-fixes-jail-good.html

Study Abroad Likely to Increase College Drinking

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_study_abroad_alcohol.html

SONG OF THE DAY

Beach Boys – Sloop John B.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdov2UIjUpY

Energy News Digest for October 11, 2010

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.

To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org

Follow the news digest on Twitter for breaking news & notices: https://twitter.com/energydigest

HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES

Law Blows Clark PUD into Wind Energy Business - Utility currently reselling such power at a loss (Vancouver Columbian, WA)

http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/oct/11/law-blows-clark-pud-into-wind-energy-business/

Transmission Lines Key to BPA Wind Power Plans (Vancouver Columbian, WA)

http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/oct/11/transmission-lines-key-to-bpa-wind-power-plans/

Maryland - Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Project Is Dead (Baltimore Sun, MD)

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-10-09/business/bs-bz-hancock-ceg-analysis-20101009_1_calvert-cliffs-henri-proglio-constellation-and-edf

Qwest Merger Has Telecoms on Edge - Vancouver-Area Providers Concerned About Effects on Customers (Vancouver Columbian, WA)

http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/oct/08/qwest-merger-has-telecoms-on-edge-vancouver-area-p/

North Mason School District Receives Second Energy Grant (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, Wa)

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/oct/09/nm-school-district-receives-second-energy-grant/

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)

·         Maryland - Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Project Is Dead

·         Economy Sandbags Plans for Nuclear Reactors

·         Transmission Lines Key to BPA Wind Power Plans

·         Western Area Power Administration Agrees to Transmit from Two South Dakota Wind Farms

·         Oregon - New Transmission Lines ‘On Time, Under Budget’

·         Report: No Fines on Pacific Gas & Electric over Six-Year Period

·         Colorado - Boulder Willing to Let Xcel Franchise Lapse While it Studies Future Energy Options

·         Connecticut - State Electricity Prices Will Go Up if Vermont Shuts Down Power Plant in 2012

·         Kimberly Harris, President of Puget Sound Energy Included on List of Washington’s Top Influential Women

·         Op/Ed - Meet the Environmental Movement’s Newest BFF: Wyoming

·         Op/Ed - Smart Meters Are Here. Get over It

·         Unusual Late Spike of Fall Chinook Crossing Bonneville

·         Sockeye Return to Cle Elum River

·         Scientists Enlist Seals in Hunt for Steelhead Ocean Hideout

·         Volunteers Watch over Vaux’s Swifts Migratory Birds

·         Skokomish Watershed - A River Will Re-Run Through It, This Winter

·         Dioxin Hunt at Olympia’s Priest Point

·         Mason County PUD No. 1 Holding Hearing Tuesday on Hood Canal Water Systems

·         Corps Announces Delay in Columbia & Willamette River Dredging Project

·         Port of Lewiston in Business Slump

·         FEMA Delay in Chehalis River Basin Pleases Officials

·         Water as the New Oil

·         Law Blows Clark PUD into Wind Energy Business

·         Washington’s Wind Power Windfall

·         Oregon - Feds Backing Big Wind Farm near Arlington

·         Nevada - Golden Eagles Could Stop Pah Rah Range Wind Farm

·         Martha Wyrsch: The Vortex inside Wind Turbine Maker Vestas

·         Montana - Mineral Community Hospital Wins Grant for Biomass Energy Plant

·         The Energy Efficient Path to 100% Renewables

·         North Mason School District Receives Second Energy Grant

·         Enviros Claim Feds Pulled Clean-Energy Plug on Property Assessed Clean Energy Programs

·         Carbon Curbs by EPA Land in Court Again

·         EPA’s Impending Greenhouse Gas Regulations May Decrease Coal Market

·         Ocean Carbon Sequestration: The World’s Best Bad Idea

·         Op/Ed - What Will it Take to Tax Carbon?

·         Poll: Buyers Confused, Wary about Electric Cars

·         Chevy Volt Gets Rave Reviews at Debut in Tacoma

·         Study Says Biofuels Demand Won’t be Met by Supplies

·         Qwest Merger Has Telecoms on Edge

·         Department of Ecology Looks at Quincy Area Data Center Generators

·         Ask.Com Rearms With New App, Growth Hopes

·         Experts: Look Before You Leap into Cloud Computing

·         New Web Code Draws Concern over Privacy Risks

·         Wider Streets for Internet Traffic

·         AT&T Launching Three Microsoft-Powered Phones

·         Apple Plans to Offer iPhone on Verizon

·         Washington State Employees on Unpaid Furlough Today

·         Lightning Knocks Out Power at Large Ballard Lock

·         Port Angeles to Allow Medical Marijuana Dispensary

·         Everyone Should Test for the Invisible Natural Gas, Radon, in Their Homes

WORD OF THE DAY

Tendentious • \ten-DEN-shus\ • adjective - Marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view: biased

Yankees, Lakers, Cowboys – the big sports media seem to have a tendentious fascination with the foibles and successes of each of these franchises. Franchises which funnel tons o’ bucks into the gaping maw of the marketing machine and its beneficiaries.

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

Maryland - Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Project Is Dead (Baltimore Sun, MD)

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-10-09/business/bs-bz-hancock-ceg-analysis-20101009_1_calvert-cliffs-henri-proglio-constellation-and-edf

Economy Sandbags Plans for Nuclear Reactors (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/business/energy-environment/11power.html

Transmission Lines Key to BPA Wind Power Plans (Vancouver Columbian, WA)

http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/oct/11/transmission-lines-key-to-bpa-wind-power-plans/

Western Area Power Administration Agrees to Transmit from Two South Dakota Wind Farms (Associated Press)

http://www.kcautv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13299203

Oregon - New Transmission Lines ‘On Time, Under Budget’ (Curry County Reporter, OR)

http://www.currycountyreporter.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=6519

Report: No Fines on Pacific Gas & Electric over Six-Year Period (Seattle Times)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2013127940_apuspipelineexplosionregulators.html

Colorado - Boulder Willing to Let Xcel Franchise Lapse While it Studies Future Energy Options (Denver Post, CO)

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_16294228

Connecticut - State Electricity Prices Will Go Up if Vermont Shuts Down Power Plant in 2012 (Waterbury Republican American CT)

http://www.rep-am.com/Business/512951.txt

Kimberly Harris, President of Puget Sound Energy Included on List of Washington’s Top Influential Women (Puget Sound Business Journal)

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2010/10/04/daily28.html

Op/Ed - Meet the Environmental Movement’s Newest BFF: Wyoming (Seattle Times)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2013112859_sirota11.html

Op/Ed - Smart Meters Are Here. Get over It (Toronto Star, Ontario)

http://www.thestar.com/article/872272--hamilton-smart-meters-are-here-get-over-it

FISH & WILDLIFE

Unusual Late Spike of Fall Chinook Crossing Bonneville Has Run Numbers Back to Expectations (Columbia Basin Bulletin)

http://www.cbbulletin.com/399881.aspx

Sockeye Return to Cle Elum River (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)

http://dailyrecordnews.com/uppercounty/article_34ffb75e-d31f-11df-8a5b-001cc4c002e0.html

Scientists Enlist Seals in Hunt for Steelhead Ocean Hideout (Northwest Public Radio)

http://nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=7890

Volunteers Watch over Vaux’s Swifts Migratory Birds Due to Fears of Becoming an Endangered Species – Who, the volunteers or the birds? (Oregonian, Portland)

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/10/volunteers_watch_over_vauxs_sw.html

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Skokomish Watershed - A River Will Re-Run Through It, This Winter (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/oct/10/skokomish-river-nearly-ready-to-get-back-to-its/

Dioxin Hunt at Olympia’s Priest Point - Officials want to be sure popular beach isn’t health risk (Olympian, WA)

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/10/11/1399648/dioxin-hunt-at-priest-point.html

Mason County PUD No. 1 Holding Hearing Tuesday on Hood Canal Water Systems (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/3493-pud-1-holding-hearing-tuesday-on-hood-canal-water-systems

Corps Announces Delay in Columbia & Willamette River Dredging Project (Oregon Pubic Broadcasting)

http://news.opb.org/article/15187-corps-announces-delay-dredging-project/

Port of Lewiston in Business Slump “...chief critics are environmental groups which have been fighting to have four Snake River dams that make the port possible breached because they contend the dams kill wild salmon...” (Associated Press)

http://www.kndu.com/Global/story.asp?S=13298712

FEMA Delay in Chehalis River Basin Pleases Officials - Leaders happy for opportunity to discuss plan with agency (Olympian, WA)

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/10/10/1398847/fema-delay-pleases-officials.html

Water as the New Oil - Should private companies control our most precious natural resource? (Newsweek Magazine)

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/08/the-race-to-buy-up-the-world-s-water.html

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Law Blows Clark PUD into Wind Energy Business - Utility currently reselling such power at a loss (Vancouver Columbian, WA)

http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/oct/11/law-blows-clark-pud-into-wind-energy-business/

Washington’s Wind Power Windfall - The harnessing of Columbia Gorge winds has transformed the landscape & the lives of rural residents (Vancouver Columbian, WA)

http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/oct/10/washingtons-wind-power-windfall-the-harnessing-of/

Oregon - Feds Backing Big Wind Farm near Arlington (Associated Press)

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/10/08/1202111/oregon-feds-backing-big-wind-farm.html

Nevada - Golden Eagles Could Stop Pah Rah Range Wind Farm (Reno Gazette Journal, NV)

http://www.rgj.com/article/20101010/NEWS/10100369/1321/NEWS

Martha Wyrsch: The Vortex inside Wind Turbine Maker Vestas (Oregonian, Portland)

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/10/martha_wyrsch_the_vortex_insid.html

Montana - Mineral Community Hospital Wins Grant for Biomass Energy Plant (Clark Fork Chronicle, MT)

http://www.clarkforkchronicle.com/article.php/2010101012154088

The Energy Efficient Path to 100% Renewables (Reuters)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS229428517720101008

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

North Mason School District Receives Second Energy Grant (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, Wa)

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/oct/09/nm-school-district-receives-second-energy-grant/

Enviros Claim Feds Pulled Clean-Energy Plug on Property Assessed Clean Energy Programs (Courthouse News Service)

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/10/08/30939.htm

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Carbon Curbs by EPA Land in Court Again (Wall Street Journal)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657304575540360309731070.html

EPA’s Impending Greenhouse Gas Regulations May Decrease Coal Market (Casper Tribune, WY)

http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_1b173580-b0b7-5a8b-ab0d-98f3c9196297.html

Ocean Carbon Sequestration: The World’s Best Bad Idea (Miller McCune)

http://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/ocean-carbon-sequestration-the-worlds-best-bad-idea-23521/

Op/Ed - What Will it Take to Tax Carbon? (Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Donald-Marron/2010/1011/What-will-it-take-to-tax-carbon

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

Poll: Buyers Confused, Wary about Electric Cars (Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal)

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2010/10/04/daily84.html

Chevy Volt Gets Rave Reviews at Debut in Tacoma (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/10/10/1376420/rave-reviews-for-electric-car.html

Study Says Biofuels Demand Won’t be Met by Supplies, (Houston Business Journal) http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2010/10/11/focus4.html

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Qwest Merger Has Telecoms on Edge - Vancouver-Area Providers Concerned About Effects on Customers (Vancouver Columbian, WA)

http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/oct/08/qwest-merger-has-telecoms-on-edge-vancouver-area-p/

Department of Ecology Looks at Quincy Area Data Center Generators (Wenatchee World, WA)

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/oct/09/dept-of-ecology-looks-at-area-data-centers/

Ask.Com Rearms With New App, Growth Hopes (San Francisco Business Times)

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/10/11/story1.html

Experts: Look Before You Leap into Cloud Computing (Washington Business Journal)

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2010/10/11/story16.html

New Web Code Draws Concern over Privacy Risks (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/business/media/11privacy.html

Wider Streets for Internet Traffic (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/business/10novel.html

AT&T Launching Three Microsoft-Powered Phones (Seattle Times)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013131390_apustecmicrosoftphones1stldwritethru.html

Apple Plans to Offer iPhone on Verizon (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/technology/09phone.html?th&emc=th

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE

Washington State Employees on Unpaid Furlough Today (KING-TV, Seattle)

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Washington-state-employees-on-unpaid-furlough-today-104705219.html

GENERAL NEWS

Lightning Knocks Out Power at Large Ballard Lock (KING-TV, Seattle)

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Lightning-knocks-out-power-at-large-Seattle-lock-104708514.html

Port Angeles to Allow Medical Marijuana Dispensary (KING-TV, Seattle)

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Port-Angeles-to-allow-medical-marijuana-dispensary--104673599.html

Everyone Should Test for the Invisible Natural Gas, Radon, in Their Homes (Oregonian, Portland)

http://blog.oregonlive.com/pdxgreen/2010/10/everyone_should_test_for_the_i.html

DIVERSIONS

Armless Toe Pianist Wins ‘China’s Got Talent’

http://www.kirotv.com/entertainment/25351024/detail.html

Over 52? Then you’re probably grumpy

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6974KG20101008

Ohio Baby Arrives at 10:10 A.M. on 10/10/10

http://www.kirotv.com/news/25353142/detail.html

Woman Hits Funeral Home Robber With Urn

http://www.kirotv.com/news/25330445/detail.html

SONG OF THE DAY

The Beatles - When I’m Sixty-Four (will I be grumpy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCss0kZXeyE