Judge OKs plan to kill sea lions - A federal judge ruled the government can kill up to 85 sea lions a year at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, where they gather to eat Chinook salmon (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_112608ORB_sea_lion_ruling_LJ.55988c2.html
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Energy News Digest for November 26, 2008
The News Digest will be giving thanks for all the information it can eat this Thanksgiving weekend. As such, Thursday and Friday will be down days. Please count your blessings also.
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)
- Grays Harbor County PUD Contract Reduces “Slice”
- Snohomish County PUD More Prepared For Winter
- Clark Public Utilities considers water, electric rate hikes
- Mason County PUD No. 3 Gets a Bond Rating Increase
- Reliant Energy Backs Away From Financing
- California woman who couldn't afford power dies from generator fumes
- $70 Million More Going To Salmon Disaster Aid
- Canada - Salmon Prospects Slightly Brighter For 2009
- Washington State Sues Feds Over Hanford Cleanup
- East Jefferson County Water Planning Seeks a Balance
- Mount Baker Offers Little Snow to Be Grateful For
- Hydropower Generator Mimics Fish
- White House Prods Allies to Oppose Limits on Greenhouse Gases
- Climate Crisis Energizes Radical Environmentalists
- San Francisco Chronicle Op/Ed - We Need A Big Green Jobs Machine
- The Great White Way Tries to Turn Green
- Utah's Utopia Tries to Stay Afloat - Decides to focus on small businesses
- Georgia - CityNet Consultant Will ‘Dig Deeper’ on Municipal network
- Final Mason County Election Results
- Economy is a Main Concern of Washington Residents
- State Auditor Dings Mason County over Financial Accounting
- California - Three Poisoned By Carbon Monoxide in Paramount Home
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
hypaethral • \hye-PEETH-rul\ • adjective - *1: having a roofless central space 2: open to the sky
Anastasia was captivated by her host’s Tulsa home. “I love the hypaethral feeling of your courtyard, even down to moving your furniture outside she enthused.” A major faux pas on her part. Seems the fellow lives in tornado alley, and the roof had been violently removed by a recent twister.
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
Grays Harbor County PUD Contract Reduces “Slice” (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2008/11/25/local_news/06news.txt
Snohomish County PUD More Prepared For Winter (Everett Herald)
http://heraldnet.com/article/20081126/NEWS01/711269779
Clark Public Utilities considers water, electric rate hikes - Several options are proposed; effect on bills would be similar (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081126/BIZ01/711269984/-1/BIZ
Mason County PUD No. 3 Gets a Bond Rating Increase (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5671/reftab/1632/Default.aspx?title=P.U.D._3_GETS_A_BOND_RATING_INCREASE
Reliant Energy Backs Away From Financing - Sale of Business Segments Reduced Need for Capital (Associated Press)
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081126/reliant_energy_financing.html?.v=1
California woman who couldn't afford power dies from generator fumes (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11073223?source=rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
$70 Million More Going To Salmon Disaster Aid (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1711159~_70_million_more_going_to_salmon_disaster_aid.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
Canada - Salmon Prospects Slightly Brighter For 2009: Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the salmon returns in 2009 will be no worse than this year (Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=4fa69576-8497-4e50-9feb-259635135d12
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Washington State Sues Feds Over Hanford Cleanup
http://www.examiner.com/a-1711133~Wash__sues_feds_over_Hanford_cleanup.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines
East Jefferson County Water Planning Seeks a Balance (Peninsula Daily News)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081126/news/311269988
Mount Baker Offers Little Snow to Be Grateful For (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/snowsports/2008437414_mtbaker26.html?syndication=rss
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
Hydropower Generator Mimics Fish (EE Times)
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212200403
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
White House Prods Allies to Oppose Limits on Greenhouse Gases (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/25/AR2008112502743.html?nav=rss_nation
Climate Crisis Energizes Radical Environmentalists (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008437722_apclimateradicals.html?syndication=rss
San Francisco Chronicle Op/Ed - We Need A Big Green Jobs Machine
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/26/EDHN14BDV9.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
The Great White Way Tries to Turn Green (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/theater/26gree.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Utah's Utopia Tries to Stay Afloat - Decides to focus on small businesses (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Utahs-Utopia-Tries-To-Stay-Afloat-99301
Georgia - CityNet Consultant Will ‘Dig Deeper’ on Municipal network - A “flawed business plan” presented by the initial consultant as one reason that he needs more time (Tifton Gazette, GA)
http://www.tiftongazette.com/local/local_story_330215939.html
GENERAL NEWS
Final Mason County Election Results (Mason County Auditor)
http://wei.secstate.wa.gov/mason/Elections/ElectionResults/Pages/ElectionResults.aspx
Economy is a Main Concern of Washington Residents (Northwest Public Radio)
http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4629
State Auditor: Mason County Has Inadequate Control over Financial Accounting and Reporting (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5672/reftab/1896/Default.aspx?title=STATE_AUDITOR:_MASON_COUNTY_HAS_INADEQUATE_CONTROL_OVER_FINANCIAL_ACCOUNTING_AND_REPORTING
California - Three Poisoned By Carbon Monoxide in Paramount Home (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1711196~3_poisoned_by_carbon_monoxide_in_Paramount_home.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
DIVERSIONS
Colorado Noise Polluters Sentenced to Annoying Music
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/2008/November/Colorado-Noise-Polluters-Sentenced-to-Annoying-Music.html
On This Day: King Tut’s Tomb Discovered (Well, technically: rediscovered)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/entertainment/On-this-Day--King-Tut-s-Tomb-Discovered.html
Holiday Fun Can Mean Constipation for Kids - Travel, Treats, Playtime Can Break Bathroom Routine
http://www.kirotv.com/health/18151075/detail.html
Court says lukewarm food hot enough for prison
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/25/BA8914CBHP.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
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)
- Grays Harbor County PUD Contract Reduces “Slice”
- Snohomish County PUD More Prepared For Winter
- Clark Public Utilities considers water, electric rate hikes
- Mason County PUD No. 3 Gets a Bond Rating Increase
- Reliant Energy Backs Away From Financing
- California woman who couldn't afford power dies from generator fumes
- $70 Million More Going To Salmon Disaster Aid
- Canada - Salmon Prospects Slightly Brighter For 2009
- Washington State Sues Feds Over Hanford Cleanup
- East Jefferson County Water Planning Seeks a Balance
- Mount Baker Offers Little Snow to Be Grateful For
- Hydropower Generator Mimics Fish
- White House Prods Allies to Oppose Limits on Greenhouse Gases
- Climate Crisis Energizes Radical Environmentalists
- San Francisco Chronicle Op/Ed - We Need A Big Green Jobs Machine
- The Great White Way Tries to Turn Green
- Utah's Utopia Tries to Stay Afloat - Decides to focus on small businesses
- Georgia - CityNet Consultant Will ‘Dig Deeper’ on Municipal network
- Final Mason County Election Results
- Economy is a Main Concern of Washington Residents
- State Auditor Dings Mason County over Financial Accounting
- California - Three Poisoned By Carbon Monoxide in Paramount Home
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
hypaethral • \hye-PEETH-rul\ • adjective - *1: having a roofless central space 2: open to the sky
Anastasia was captivated by her host’s Tulsa home. “I love the hypaethral feeling of your courtyard, even down to moving your furniture outside she enthused.” A major faux pas on her part. Seems the fellow lives in tornado alley, and the roof had been violently removed by a recent twister.
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
Grays Harbor County PUD Contract Reduces “Slice” (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2008/11/25/local_news/06news.txt
Snohomish County PUD More Prepared For Winter (Everett Herald)
http://heraldnet.com/article/20081126/NEWS01/711269779
Clark Public Utilities considers water, electric rate hikes - Several options are proposed; effect on bills would be similar (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081126/BIZ01/711269984/-1/BIZ
Mason County PUD No. 3 Gets a Bond Rating Increase (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5671/reftab/1632/Default.aspx?title=P.U.D._3_GETS_A_BOND_RATING_INCREASE
Reliant Energy Backs Away From Financing - Sale of Business Segments Reduced Need for Capital (Associated Press)
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081126/reliant_energy_financing.html?.v=1
California woman who couldn't afford power dies from generator fumes (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11073223?source=rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
$70 Million More Going To Salmon Disaster Aid (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1711159~_70_million_more_going_to_salmon_disaster_aid.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
Canada - Salmon Prospects Slightly Brighter For 2009: Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the salmon returns in 2009 will be no worse than this year (Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=4fa69576-8497-4e50-9feb-259635135d12
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Washington State Sues Feds Over Hanford Cleanup
http://www.examiner.com/a-1711133~Wash__sues_feds_over_Hanford_cleanup.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines
East Jefferson County Water Planning Seeks a Balance (Peninsula Daily News)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081126/news/311269988
Mount Baker Offers Little Snow to Be Grateful For (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/snowsports/2008437414_mtbaker26.html?syndication=rss
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
Hydropower Generator Mimics Fish (EE Times)
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212200403
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
White House Prods Allies to Oppose Limits on Greenhouse Gases (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/25/AR2008112502743.html?nav=rss_nation
Climate Crisis Energizes Radical Environmentalists (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008437722_apclimateradicals.html?syndication=rss
San Francisco Chronicle Op/Ed - We Need A Big Green Jobs Machine
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/26/EDHN14BDV9.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
The Great White Way Tries to Turn Green (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/theater/26gree.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Utah's Utopia Tries to Stay Afloat - Decides to focus on small businesses (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Utahs-Utopia-Tries-To-Stay-Afloat-99301
Georgia - CityNet Consultant Will ‘Dig Deeper’ on Municipal network - A “flawed business plan” presented by the initial consultant as one reason that he needs more time (Tifton Gazette, GA)
http://www.tiftongazette.com/local/local_story_330215939.html
GENERAL NEWS
Final Mason County Election Results (Mason County Auditor)
http://wei.secstate.wa.gov/mason/Elections/ElectionResults/Pages/ElectionResults.aspx
Economy is a Main Concern of Washington Residents (Northwest Public Radio)
http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4629
State Auditor: Mason County Has Inadequate Control over Financial Accounting and Reporting (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5672/reftab/1896/Default.aspx?title=STATE_AUDITOR:_MASON_COUNTY_HAS_INADEQUATE_CONTROL_OVER_FINANCIAL_ACCOUNTING_AND_REPORTING
California - Three Poisoned By Carbon Monoxide in Paramount Home (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1711196~3_poisoned_by_carbon_monoxide_in_Paramount_home.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
DIVERSIONS
Colorado Noise Polluters Sentenced to Annoying Music
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/2008/November/Colorado-Noise-Polluters-Sentenced-to-Annoying-Music.html
On This Day: King Tut’s Tomb Discovered (Well, technically: rediscovered)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/entertainment/On-this-Day--King-Tut-s-Tomb-Discovered.html
Holiday Fun Can Mean Constipation for Kids - Travel, Treats, Playtime Can Break Bathroom Routine
http://www.kirotv.com/health/18151075/detail.html
Court says lukewarm food hot enough for prison
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/25/BA8914CBHP.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Energy News Digest for November 25, 2008
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)
- Moody’s Investor Service Upgrades Mason County PUD No. 3 Bond Rating
- Tacoma Public Utility’s going to pay you for a change
- For WPUDA Building - Tacoma firms receive Design-Build award
- Texas - Many electric bills still a mess in the wake of Ike
- FERC issues four reliability orders to strengthen grid
- Conservation Groups Challenge Owl Recovery Plan
- Man's Plan Brings Salmon Back To Local Creeks
- Tougher State Law Means More Puget Sound Burn Bans
- Environmental Groups Target Former Alcoa Site’s Landfill
- Yesterday's Reynolds Metals pollution slows today's economy
- Allocating Water in North Idaho
- Tri-Cities in prime position to develop clean energy technologies
- Sun rising on California's power horizon
- Slump May Limit Moves on Clean Energy
- Six Electric cooperatives unite for Iowa wind farm
- Hot Home Wind Turbines You Can Actually Buy
- The Car of the Future - but at What Cost?
- Spain City Sets Up Solar Cemetery
- City Of Olympia Reduces Emissions
- Washington State Mussels Lose Out As Carbon Dioxide Changes Ocean
- Is it always greener to take public transportation?
- Internet access lags in rural areas in Montana
- Telcos Desperately Try To Keep Landlines Relevant
- 80% of Broadband Users Will Be Wireless By 2013
- Cause of Shelton Timber Bowl Fire Likely Electrical
- Operators of scorched Shelton bowling alley vow to rebuild
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Skullduggery • \skull-DUGG-ur-ree\ • noun - Underhanded or unscrupulous behavior; also: a devious device or trick
Unfortunately for the corporate leader, the skullduggery of his support staff had so undermined his credibility with the stockholders that everything he said at the annual meeting was met with loud peals of laughter. Initially he though that they were laughing along with him at some large, inside joke. That is, until his aide whispered in his ear, “Sir, they’re not laughing WITH you, they’re laughing BESIDE you. And that’s a BIG difference.”
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
Moody’s Investor Service Upgrades Mason County PUD No. 3 Bond Rating (Mason County PUD No. 3)
http://www.masonpud3.org/News/display.asp?NewsID=482
Tacoma Public Utility’s going to pay you for a change - It will be Christmas in February for Tacoma Power customers (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/548416.html
For WPUDA Building - Tacoma firms receive National Design-Build award (Tacoma Daily Index)
http://www.tacomadailyindex.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=88&cat=23&id=1427663&more=0
Texas - Many electric bills still a mess in the wake of Ike (Houston Chronicle, TX)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6130962.html
FERC issues four reliability orders to strengthen grid (Utility Automation & Engineering)
http://uaelp.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=22&ARTICLE_ID=346294&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Conservation Groups Challenge Owl Recovery Plan (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/35062724.html
Man's Plan Brings Salmon Back To Local Creeks (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/35049784.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Tougher State Law Means More Puget Sound Burn Bans (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18051645/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Environmental Groups Target Former Alcoa Site’s Landfill (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081125/NEWS02/711259958/-1/NEWS
Daily News Editorial - Yesterday's Reynolds Metals pollution slows today's economy (Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/11/25/editorial/doc492b3f7518cca274029096.txt
Allocating Water in North Idaho (NW Public Radio)
http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4619
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
Sen. Cantwell says Tri-Cities in prime position to develop clean energy technologies (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/395856.html
Sun rising on California's power horizon (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/25/BUVI14B645.DTL&feed=rss.business
Slump May Limit Moves on Clean Energy (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/world/25climate.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Six Electric cooperatives unite in historic support for Iowa wind farm (Lancaster Eagle Gazette)
http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/article/20081124/UPDATES01/81124026
Hot Home Wind Turbines You Can Actually Buy - Plus One You Wish You Could (Treehugger.com)
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/five-home-wind-turbines-you-can-actually-buy.php
The Car of the Future - but at What Cost? Hybrid Vehicles Are Popular, but Making Them Profitable Is a Challenge (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/24/AR2008112403211.html?nav=rss_email/components
Spain City Sets Up Solar Cemetery - Solar panels are carefully angled to make them less obtrusive to families: A Spanish city has found an unusual place to generate renewable energy - the local cemetery (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7745673.stm
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
City Of Olympia Reduces Emissions (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/living/story/673761.html
Washington State Mussels Lose Out As Carbon Dioxide Changes Ocean (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97412198&ft=1&f=1001
Trains vs. Planes vs. Automobiles - Is it always greener to take public transportation? (Slate Magazine)
http://www.slate.com/id/2205330/?from=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Internet access lags in rural areas in Montana (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/25/financial/f072147S44.DTL&feed=rss.business
Telcos Desperately Try To Keep Landlines Relevant (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Telcos-Desperately-Try-To-Keep-Landlines-Relevant-99299
Ericsson: 80% Of Broadband Users Will Be Wireless By 2013 (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Ericsson-80-Of-Broadband-Users-Will-Be-Wireless-By-2013-99286
GENERAL NEWS
Cause of Shelton Timber Bowl Fire Likely Electrical (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5661/reftab/1632/title/CAUSE_OF_TIMBER_BOWL_FIRE_LIKELY_ELECTRICAL/Default.aspx
Operators of scorched Shelton bowling alley vow to rebuild (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/35030059.html
DIVERSIONS
NY Public Toilets Feature TVs, Tuxedoed Attendants
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18050724/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=irresistible
Caught Snapping - That Cell May Be a Steal, but Don't Shoot Yourself in the Face
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/21/AR2008112103612.html?nav=rss_technology
Seuss lawyers stop holiday Who-ville in Louisville
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2008433395_webwhoville25.html?syndication=rss
Man Wins Two Cars In 10 Days - Luck Includes NFL Tickets From Drawing
http://www.kirotv.com/automotive/18143132/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=irresistible
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Moody’s Investor Service Upgrades Mason County PUD No. 3 Bond Rating
- Tacoma Public Utility’s going to pay you for a change
- For WPUDA Building - Tacoma firms receive Design-Build award
- Texas - Many electric bills still a mess in the wake of Ike
- FERC issues four reliability orders to strengthen grid
- Conservation Groups Challenge Owl Recovery Plan
- Man's Plan Brings Salmon Back To Local Creeks
- Tougher State Law Means More Puget Sound Burn Bans
- Environmental Groups Target Former Alcoa Site’s Landfill
- Yesterday's Reynolds Metals pollution slows today's economy
- Allocating Water in North Idaho
- Tri-Cities in prime position to develop clean energy technologies
- Sun rising on California's power horizon
- Slump May Limit Moves on Clean Energy
- Six Electric cooperatives unite for Iowa wind farm
- Hot Home Wind Turbines You Can Actually Buy
- The Car of the Future - but at What Cost?
- Spain City Sets Up Solar Cemetery
- City Of Olympia Reduces Emissions
- Washington State Mussels Lose Out As Carbon Dioxide Changes Ocean
- Is it always greener to take public transportation?
- Internet access lags in rural areas in Montana
- Telcos Desperately Try To Keep Landlines Relevant
- 80% of Broadband Users Will Be Wireless By 2013
- Cause of Shelton Timber Bowl Fire Likely Electrical
- Operators of scorched Shelton bowling alley vow to rebuild
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Skullduggery • \skull-DUGG-ur-ree\ • noun - Underhanded or unscrupulous behavior; also: a devious device or trick
Unfortunately for the corporate leader, the skullduggery of his support staff had so undermined his credibility with the stockholders that everything he said at the annual meeting was met with loud peals of laughter. Initially he though that they were laughing along with him at some large, inside joke. That is, until his aide whispered in his ear, “Sir, they’re not laughing WITH you, they’re laughing BESIDE you. And that’s a BIG difference.”
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
Moody’s Investor Service Upgrades Mason County PUD No. 3 Bond Rating (Mason County PUD No. 3)
http://www.masonpud3.org/News/display.asp?NewsID=482
Tacoma Public Utility’s going to pay you for a change - It will be Christmas in February for Tacoma Power customers (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/548416.html
For WPUDA Building - Tacoma firms receive National Design-Build award (Tacoma Daily Index)
http://www.tacomadailyindex.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=88&cat=23&id=1427663&more=0
Texas - Many electric bills still a mess in the wake of Ike (Houston Chronicle, TX)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6130962.html
FERC issues four reliability orders to strengthen grid (Utility Automation & Engineering)
http://uaelp.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=22&ARTICLE_ID=346294&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Conservation Groups Challenge Owl Recovery Plan (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/35062724.html
Man's Plan Brings Salmon Back To Local Creeks (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/35049784.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Tougher State Law Means More Puget Sound Burn Bans (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18051645/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Environmental Groups Target Former Alcoa Site’s Landfill (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081125/NEWS02/711259958/-1/NEWS
Daily News Editorial - Yesterday's Reynolds Metals pollution slows today's economy (Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/11/25/editorial/doc492b3f7518cca274029096.txt
Allocating Water in North Idaho (NW Public Radio)
http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4619
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
Sen. Cantwell says Tri-Cities in prime position to develop clean energy technologies (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/395856.html
Sun rising on California's power horizon (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/25/BUVI14B645.DTL&feed=rss.business
Slump May Limit Moves on Clean Energy (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/world/25climate.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Six Electric cooperatives unite in historic support for Iowa wind farm (Lancaster Eagle Gazette)
http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/article/20081124/UPDATES01/81124026
Hot Home Wind Turbines You Can Actually Buy - Plus One You Wish You Could (Treehugger.com)
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/five-home-wind-turbines-you-can-actually-buy.php
The Car of the Future - but at What Cost? Hybrid Vehicles Are Popular, but Making Them Profitable Is a Challenge (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/24/AR2008112403211.html?nav=rss_email/components
Spain City Sets Up Solar Cemetery - Solar panels are carefully angled to make them less obtrusive to families: A Spanish city has found an unusual place to generate renewable energy - the local cemetery (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7745673.stm
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
City Of Olympia Reduces Emissions (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/living/story/673761.html
Washington State Mussels Lose Out As Carbon Dioxide Changes Ocean (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97412198&ft=1&f=1001
Trains vs. Planes vs. Automobiles - Is it always greener to take public transportation? (Slate Magazine)
http://www.slate.com/id/2205330/?from=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Internet access lags in rural areas in Montana (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/25/financial/f072147S44.DTL&feed=rss.business
Telcos Desperately Try To Keep Landlines Relevant (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Telcos-Desperately-Try-To-Keep-Landlines-Relevant-99299
Ericsson: 80% Of Broadband Users Will Be Wireless By 2013 (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Ericsson-80-Of-Broadband-Users-Will-Be-Wireless-By-2013-99286
GENERAL NEWS
Cause of Shelton Timber Bowl Fire Likely Electrical (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5661/reftab/1632/title/CAUSE_OF_TIMBER_BOWL_FIRE_LIKELY_ELECTRICAL/Default.aspx
Operators of scorched Shelton bowling alley vow to rebuild (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/35030059.html
DIVERSIONS
NY Public Toilets Feature TVs, Tuxedoed Attendants
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18050724/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=irresistible
Caught Snapping - That Cell May Be a Steal, but Don't Shoot Yourself in the Face
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/21/AR2008112103612.html?nav=rss_technology
Seuss lawyers stop holiday Who-ville in Louisville
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2008433395_webwhoville25.html?syndication=rss
Man Wins Two Cars In 10 Days - Luck Includes NFL Tickets From Drawing
http://www.kirotv.com/automotive/18143132/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=irresistible
Monday, November 24, 2008
Energy News Digest for November 24, 2008
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)
- Latest foe in customer’s anti-tax crusade is the Grays Harbor PUD
- Worker Electrocuted by Power lines Identified
- Yakama Tribe in a power position
- Energy Pulse Commentary - Whipping up Support for Transmission
- Chelan County PUD - Local engineers society names first woman president
- Salmon proposal upsets gillnetters
- Camas man’s methods to restore salmon unconventional, effective
- Salmon, owls might have ally in White House
- Canada - Green groups blast increases in salmon farms
- Salmon farming in Maine mounting a strong comeback
- Oregonian Op/Ed - Farmed fish: Almost organic, and always polluting
- Puget Sound cleanup criticized - Scientists say plan headed for failure
- Lack Of Funding Slows Research, Cleanup Of Sound
- Judge says Yelm must prove it has water
- Workers warn of problems at Brightwater Sewer Plant
- California experts fear 3rd straight dry winter likely
- Cowlitz County Panel mulls wind turbine rules
- Despite obstacles, Pickens is not giving up on wind energy
- Hawaii Reporter Op/Ed - Wind Power: The 'Green' Myth
- Wyoming group points out where to build wind
- Cow power - Digester makes dairy man a believer
- Palm Desert loan program giving contractors seeds to grow business
- Sacramento City manager pushes waste-to-energy proposal
- Rhode Island - Boosting renewable energy
- Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet
- News Release - Light Up the Holidays Safely and Efficiently
- Alcoa encourages energy conservation
- Cheap Green: Energy and Ovens
- No electricity? Connecticut island now energy independent
- Oregonian Op/Ed - Seizing our chance in the midst of crisis
- Obama urged to create 'Green New Deal'
- Port of Quincy Confirms it Has Significant Fiber Optics Capacity
- Remote Wyoming towns home to broadband jobs
- A Quick Peek at the Internet Growth Charts
- AT&T To Pay $17 Million For Universal Service Fund Over-Charges
- Layoffs leave Silicon Forest less populated
- Eight Alarm Fire - Shelton's Bowling Alley Burns Down
- 20% cuts may be ahead for state colleges
- How much does Obama know about the West?
- Senators prepare to tutor Obama on Hanford
- Who from here might serve in Obama administration?
- Washington's new area code delayed until 2012
- Washington cities can add $20 car tab fee
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Non sequitur • \NON SEK-witt-ter\ • noun - 1: an inference that does not follow from the premises *2: a statement (as a response) that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said
For about an hour the conversation about long-term power contracts, direct service industry subsidies, fish and wildlife costs, and residential exchange flowed along about as smoothly as could be expected. Suddenly nearly all persons in the board room suffered whiplash as a burly, oddly-dressed guest (whom no one remembered inviting) started riffing with non sequiturs about minutiae involving Dungeons and Dragons, World of Warcraft, and the latest “Star Trek” convention that was to be held downtown, featuring Malachi Throne, a minor character who played in three 1966 “Trek” episodes.
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
His crusade continues - The latest foe in Stan Trohimovich’s decades-long anti-tax crusade is the Grays Harbor PUD. ..He has withheld payment of taxes, fees and the 13 percent charge for the Bonneville Power Administration’s Residential Exchange (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2008/11/23/local_news/01news.txt
Worker Electrocuted By Power lines Identified (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18027219/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Yakama Tribe in a power position - Local irrigation system could benefit if Yakamas become a player in the Northwest energy game (Yakima Herald Republic, WA)
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2008/11/23/tribe-in-a-power-position
Energy Pulse Commentary - Whipping up Support for Transmission
http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=1877
From Chelan County PUD - Local engineers society names first woman president (Wenatchee World)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081123/NEWS04/711249987
FISH & WILDLIFE
Salmon proposal upsets gillnetters - Low numbers would favor sport anglers (Associated Press)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/389150_salmon24.html?source=rss
Fighting for fish - Camas man’s methods to restore salmon unconventional, effective (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081123/NEWS02/711239994/-1/NEWS
Salmon, owls might have ally in White House (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/government/story/547417.html
Canada - Green groups blast increases in salmon farms (Victoria Times-Colonist)
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=8d74a9a7-764f-4a6c-998f-ddb6789040a6
Salmon farming in Maine mounting a strong comeback (Associated Press)
http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2008/11/23/salmon_farming_in_maine_mounting_a_strong_comeback/
Oregonian Op/Ed - Farmed fish: Almost organic, and always polluting (Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2008/11/farmed_fish_almost_organic_and.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Puget Sound cleanup criticized - Scientists say plan headed for failure (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/388962_sound22.html
Lack Of Funding Slows Research, Cleanup Of Sound (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18034044/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_-1_09000111242008&ts=H
Judge says Yelm must prove it has water - Condition placed by city on subdivisions ruled illegal (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/672384.html
Workers warn of problems at Brightwater Sewer Plant (KOMO-TV., Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/34971969.html
California experts fear 3rd straight dry winter likely (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/22/MNV8149Q32.DTL&feed=rss.news
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
Cowlitz County Panel mulls wind turbine rules (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/11/24//area_news/doc492ac2a7bd7b7397172848.txt
Star Telegram Op/Ed - Despite obstacles, Pickens is not giving up on wind energy (Fort Worth, TX)
http://www.star-telegram.com/business/story/1053439.html
Hawaii Reporter Op/Ed - Wind Power: The 'Green' Myth
http://hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?3fe59302-a0ac-435f-874e-518f40d9b26d
Wyoming group points out where to build wind (Associated Press)
http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/global/story.asp?s=9400896
Cow power - Digester makes dairy man a believer (Yakima Herald Republic, WA)
http://www.yakimaherald.com/stories/2008/11/22/cow-power-digester-makes-dairy-man-a-believer
Solar boom - Palm Desert's loan program giving contractors seeds to grow their businesses (The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, CA)
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20081122/NEWS07/811220318/1013
California - Sacramento City manager pushes waste-to-energy proposal; county cautious (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/1419145.html
Rhode Island - Boosting renewable energy (Providence Journal, RI)
http://www.projo.com/business/content/BZ_Greenstart_24_11-24-08_J7CBI89_v13.3fe6ddb.html
Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet - Most Government-Bought Vehicles Still Use Standard Gas (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/22/AR2008112200886.html?nav=rss_business
News Release - Light Up the Holidays Safely and Efficiently - PSE Donates Energy-Efficient Holiday Light Strands for Customer and Community Displays (MarketWatch)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Light-Up-Holidays-Safely-Efficiently/story.aspx?guid=%7B2A65BB1C-678F-48AF-8295-247FA06CFC7E%7D
Alcoa encourages energy conservation through Web site (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081123/NEWS04/711249990
Cheap Green: Energy and Ovens (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/cheap-green-energy-and-ovens/
No electricity? Connecticut island now energy independent. Three-acre property boasts wind turbine, solar panels and Segways (MSNBC)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27861109/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Oregonian Op/Ed - Seizing our chance in the midst of crisis
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2008/11/seizing_our_chance_in_the_mids.html
Obama urged to create 'Green New Deal' (Boston Globe, MA)
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/11/24/obama_urged_to_create_green_new_deal/
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
News Release - Port of Quincy Confirms That Quincy, WA Has Significant Fiber Optics Capacity and Availability (MarketWatch)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Port-Quincy-Confirms-That-Quincy/story.aspx?guid=%7B896A78A3-A2A8-40E2-9732-22D88835E924%7D
Remote Wyoming towns home to broadband jobs (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008427624_btenglishteach24.html?syndication=rss
A Quick Peek at the Internet Growth Charts (GigaOM)http://gigaom.com/2008/11/24/a-quick-peek-at-the-internet-growth-charts/
AT&T To Pay $17 Million For Universal Service Fund Over-Charges (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-To-Pay-17-Million-For-USF-OverCharging-99263
Layoffs leave Silicon Forest less populated - High-tech companies in Oregon employ 2,000 fewer people than a year ago (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1227239720313090.xml&coll=7
GENERAL NEWS
Eight Alarm Fire - Shelton's Bowling Alley Burns Down (KMAS Radio, Shelton)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5655/reftab/1632/Default.aspx?title=SHELTON'S_BOWLING_ALLEY_BURNS_DOWN
20% cuts may be ahead for state colleges, universities as bottom falls out of budget (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008425188_highered23m0.html?syndication=rss
How much does Obama know about the West? (Tri-City Herald)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/394065.html
Senators prepare to tutor Obama on Hanford (Tri-City Herald)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/394063.html
Who from here might serve in Obama administration? (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/389071_Joel24.html?source=rss
Washington State's new telephone area code delayed until 2012 (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1705693~State_s_new_telephone_area_code_delayed_until_2012.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines
Washington cities can add $20 car tab fee (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1708206~Washington_cities_can_add__20_car_tab_fee.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines
DIVERSIONS
Panda bites student who just wanted a hug
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/670776.html
B.G. proposal riles animal lovers - Complaint about chickens’ smell prompts action, and angry response (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081121/NEWS02/711219955/-1/NEWS
Police Chase Ends With Man Up Tree For Hours
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18049737/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Latest foe in customer’s anti-tax crusade is the Grays Harbor PUD
- Worker Electrocuted by Power lines Identified
- Yakama Tribe in a power position
- Energy Pulse Commentary - Whipping up Support for Transmission
- Chelan County PUD - Local engineers society names first woman president
- Salmon proposal upsets gillnetters
- Camas man’s methods to restore salmon unconventional, effective
- Salmon, owls might have ally in White House
- Canada - Green groups blast increases in salmon farms
- Salmon farming in Maine mounting a strong comeback
- Oregonian Op/Ed - Farmed fish: Almost organic, and always polluting
- Puget Sound cleanup criticized - Scientists say plan headed for failure
- Lack Of Funding Slows Research, Cleanup Of Sound
- Judge says Yelm must prove it has water
- Workers warn of problems at Brightwater Sewer Plant
- California experts fear 3rd straight dry winter likely
- Cowlitz County Panel mulls wind turbine rules
- Despite obstacles, Pickens is not giving up on wind energy
- Hawaii Reporter Op/Ed - Wind Power: The 'Green' Myth
- Wyoming group points out where to build wind
- Cow power - Digester makes dairy man a believer
- Palm Desert loan program giving contractors seeds to grow business
- Sacramento City manager pushes waste-to-energy proposal
- Rhode Island - Boosting renewable energy
- Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet
- News Release - Light Up the Holidays Safely and Efficiently
- Alcoa encourages energy conservation
- Cheap Green: Energy and Ovens
- No electricity? Connecticut island now energy independent
- Oregonian Op/Ed - Seizing our chance in the midst of crisis
- Obama urged to create 'Green New Deal'
- Port of Quincy Confirms it Has Significant Fiber Optics Capacity
- Remote Wyoming towns home to broadband jobs
- A Quick Peek at the Internet Growth Charts
- AT&T To Pay $17 Million For Universal Service Fund Over-Charges
- Layoffs leave Silicon Forest less populated
- Eight Alarm Fire - Shelton's Bowling Alley Burns Down
- 20% cuts may be ahead for state colleges
- How much does Obama know about the West?
- Senators prepare to tutor Obama on Hanford
- Who from here might serve in Obama administration?
- Washington's new area code delayed until 2012
- Washington cities can add $20 car tab fee
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Non sequitur • \NON SEK-witt-ter\ • noun - 1: an inference that does not follow from the premises *2: a statement (as a response) that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said
For about an hour the conversation about long-term power contracts, direct service industry subsidies, fish and wildlife costs, and residential exchange flowed along about as smoothly as could be expected. Suddenly nearly all persons in the board room suffered whiplash as a burly, oddly-dressed guest (whom no one remembered inviting) started riffing with non sequiturs about minutiae involving Dungeons and Dragons, World of Warcraft, and the latest “Star Trek” convention that was to be held downtown, featuring Malachi Throne, a minor character who played in three 1966 “Trek” episodes.
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
His crusade continues - The latest foe in Stan Trohimovich’s decades-long anti-tax crusade is the Grays Harbor PUD. ..He has withheld payment of taxes, fees and the 13 percent charge for the Bonneville Power Administration’s Residential Exchange (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2008/11/23/local_news/01news.txt
Worker Electrocuted By Power lines Identified (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18027219/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Yakama Tribe in a power position - Local irrigation system could benefit if Yakamas become a player in the Northwest energy game (Yakima Herald Republic, WA)
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2008/11/23/tribe-in-a-power-position
Energy Pulse Commentary - Whipping up Support for Transmission
http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=1877
From Chelan County PUD - Local engineers society names first woman president (Wenatchee World)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081123/NEWS04/711249987
FISH & WILDLIFE
Salmon proposal upsets gillnetters - Low numbers would favor sport anglers (Associated Press)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/389150_salmon24.html?source=rss
Fighting for fish - Camas man’s methods to restore salmon unconventional, effective (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081123/NEWS02/711239994/-1/NEWS
Salmon, owls might have ally in White House (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/government/story/547417.html
Canada - Green groups blast increases in salmon farms (Victoria Times-Colonist)
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=8d74a9a7-764f-4a6c-998f-ddb6789040a6
Salmon farming in Maine mounting a strong comeback (Associated Press)
http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2008/11/23/salmon_farming_in_maine_mounting_a_strong_comeback/
Oregonian Op/Ed - Farmed fish: Almost organic, and always polluting (Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2008/11/farmed_fish_almost_organic_and.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Puget Sound cleanup criticized - Scientists say plan headed for failure (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/388962_sound22.html
Lack Of Funding Slows Research, Cleanup Of Sound (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18034044/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_-1_09000111242008&ts=H
Judge says Yelm must prove it has water - Condition placed by city on subdivisions ruled illegal (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/672384.html
Workers warn of problems at Brightwater Sewer Plant (KOMO-TV., Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/34971969.html
California experts fear 3rd straight dry winter likely (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/22/MNV8149Q32.DTL&feed=rss.news
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
Cowlitz County Panel mulls wind turbine rules (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/11/24//area_news/doc492ac2a7bd7b7397172848.txt
Star Telegram Op/Ed - Despite obstacles, Pickens is not giving up on wind energy (Fort Worth, TX)
http://www.star-telegram.com/business/story/1053439.html
Hawaii Reporter Op/Ed - Wind Power: The 'Green' Myth
http://hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?3fe59302-a0ac-435f-874e-518f40d9b26d
Wyoming group points out where to build wind (Associated Press)
http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/global/story.asp?s=9400896
Cow power - Digester makes dairy man a believer (Yakima Herald Republic, WA)
http://www.yakimaherald.com/stories/2008/11/22/cow-power-digester-makes-dairy-man-a-believer
Solar boom - Palm Desert's loan program giving contractors seeds to grow their businesses (The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, CA)
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20081122/NEWS07/811220318/1013
California - Sacramento City manager pushes waste-to-energy proposal; county cautious (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/1419145.html
Rhode Island - Boosting renewable energy (Providence Journal, RI)
http://www.projo.com/business/content/BZ_Greenstart_24_11-24-08_J7CBI89_v13.3fe6ddb.html
Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet - Most Government-Bought Vehicles Still Use Standard Gas (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/22/AR2008112200886.html?nav=rss_business
News Release - Light Up the Holidays Safely and Efficiently - PSE Donates Energy-Efficient Holiday Light Strands for Customer and Community Displays (MarketWatch)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Light-Up-Holidays-Safely-Efficiently/story.aspx?guid=%7B2A65BB1C-678F-48AF-8295-247FA06CFC7E%7D
Alcoa encourages energy conservation through Web site (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081123/NEWS04/711249990
Cheap Green: Energy and Ovens (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/cheap-green-energy-and-ovens/
No electricity? Connecticut island now energy independent. Three-acre property boasts wind turbine, solar panels and Segways (MSNBC)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27861109/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Oregonian Op/Ed - Seizing our chance in the midst of crisis
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2008/11/seizing_our_chance_in_the_mids.html
Obama urged to create 'Green New Deal' (Boston Globe, MA)
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/11/24/obama_urged_to_create_green_new_deal/
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
News Release - Port of Quincy Confirms That Quincy, WA Has Significant Fiber Optics Capacity and Availability (MarketWatch)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Port-Quincy-Confirms-That-Quincy/story.aspx?guid=%7B896A78A3-A2A8-40E2-9732-22D88835E924%7D
Remote Wyoming towns home to broadband jobs (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008427624_btenglishteach24.html?syndication=rss
A Quick Peek at the Internet Growth Charts (GigaOM)http://gigaom.com/2008/11/24/a-quick-peek-at-the-internet-growth-charts/
AT&T To Pay $17 Million For Universal Service Fund Over-Charges (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-To-Pay-17-Million-For-USF-OverCharging-99263
Layoffs leave Silicon Forest less populated - High-tech companies in Oregon employ 2,000 fewer people than a year ago (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1227239720313090.xml&coll=7
GENERAL NEWS
Eight Alarm Fire - Shelton's Bowling Alley Burns Down (KMAS Radio, Shelton)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5655/reftab/1632/Default.aspx?title=SHELTON'S_BOWLING_ALLEY_BURNS_DOWN
20% cuts may be ahead for state colleges, universities as bottom falls out of budget (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008425188_highered23m0.html?syndication=rss
How much does Obama know about the West? (Tri-City Herald)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/394065.html
Senators prepare to tutor Obama on Hanford (Tri-City Herald)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/394063.html
Who from here might serve in Obama administration? (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/389071_Joel24.html?source=rss
Washington State's new telephone area code delayed until 2012 (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1705693~State_s_new_telephone_area_code_delayed_until_2012.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines
Washington cities can add $20 car tab fee (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1708206~Washington_cities_can_add__20_car_tab_fee.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines
DIVERSIONS
Panda bites student who just wanted a hug
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/670776.html
B.G. proposal riles animal lovers - Complaint about chickens’ smell prompts action, and angry response (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081121/NEWS02/711219955/-1/NEWS
Police Chase Ends With Man Up Tree For Hours
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18049737/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Friday, November 21, 2008
Energy News Digest for November 21, 2008
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)
- Worker Electrocuted in Seattle by Power lines
- Route for energy transmission avoids Cascade-Siskiyou monument
- Congress: Waxman win elevates energy, climate change issues
- Surprise Drop in Power Use Delivers Jolt to Utilities
- Grant PUD to fund street improvements
- Russian power sector reform under threat
- Derelict Fishing Nets Kill Sea Life, Clog Sound
- Gold prospecting in Washington State: Salmon beware
- Downer: Steelhead creep into local rivers, memories
- Stepping in when streams dry up
- California Judge won't slash water contracts to help smelt
- Calif. agrees to limit trout stocking
- S.F. Chronicle Op/Ed - The downside of the fish stock market
- Restoring Puget Sound: It's the land use, stupid!
- New Images Show Celilo Falls Still Intact
- Underwater volcano off California Coast now protected
- State Supreme Court approves Kittitas County wind farm
- Kittitas power project gets second wind
- Green building starts up five-fold
- New local website can help you save energy
- General Electric recalls more than 200,000 wall ovens
- Hawaii Governor Signs Ocean Thermal Energy Deal
- Kansas - Energy conservation grants going begging
- Brighten the Holidays with Savings and Safety Advice
- New Rule Would Discount Warming as Risk Factor for Species
- Latest business challenge is climate change
- Death bloom of plankton a warning on warming
- Google, Others Call for New Broadband, Energy Policies
- Telcos Will See a More Activist Congress
- Owning Your Own Fiber - Homes with tails
- Boeing Warns Of Impending Layoffs
- Bad economy won't stop massive road projects
- Brush-Picker Killed by Hunter
- DeFazio Says Rumors of Obama Cabinet Position are Exaggerated
- Will Credit Rating Agencies Be Monitored?
- Fugitive Oregon State Employee Herding Sheep in Iran
- Feds: FAA worker took plane, yachts as perks
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Flummoxed • \FLUM-uxt\ • verb – Confused
Harry was flummoxed by the lime/coconut advice of his doctor, “so, do I put the coconut in the lime, or the other way around?”
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
Worker Electrocuted in Seattle By Power lines (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18027219/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Route for energy transmission avoids Cascade-Siskiyou monument (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1702671~Route_for_energy_transmission_avaoids_monument.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
Congress: Waxman win elevates energy, climate change issues (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081120/pl_nm/us_usa_congress_energy_8
Surprise Drop in Power Use Delivers Jolt to Utilities (Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122722654497346099.html
Grant PUD to fund street improvements (Columbia Basin Herald)
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2008/11/20/news/nw4.11.20.08.txt
Russian power sector reform under threat (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5geGbSWkfCQyYtVams2kDspD2vgzwD94IT4I80
FISH & WILDLIFE
Derelict Fishing Nets Kill Sea Life, Clog Sound (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18025762/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_-1_09000111212008&ts=H
The Evergold State – Salmon beware: Are prospectors crazy to be dredging in Washington's rivers and streams? (Slate Magazine)
http://www.slate.com/id/2205110/?from=rss
Downer: Steelhead creep into local rivers, memories (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/11/21/this_day/doc492602daf00f1915866002.txt
Stepping in when streams dry up (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081120/NEWS02/711209932/-1/NEWS
California - Judge won't slash water contracts to help smelt (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/20/state/n151820S63.DTL&feed=rss.business
Calif. agrees to limit trout stocking (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/20/state/n165518S88.DTL&feed=rss.business
S.F. Chronicle Op/Ed - The downside of the fish stock market
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/20/EDP6147T95.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Restoring Puget Sound: It's the land use, stupid! (Crosscut)
http://crosscut.com/2008/11/21/puget-sound/18650/
New Images Show Celilo Falls Still Intact (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/3599-new-images-show-celilo-falls-still-intact/
Underwater volcano off California's Central Coast given national protection (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11035769?source=rss
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
State Supreme Court approves Kittitas County wind farm (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/388704_windfarm21.html?source=rss
Kittitas power project gets second wind (Yakima Herald Republic)
http://www.yakimaherald.com/stories/2008/11/20/supreme-court-backs-governor-kittitas-wind-power
Green building starts up five-fold (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/11/17/daily46.html?ana=from_rss
New local website can help you save energy (Port Townsend Leader, WA)
http://www.ptleader.com/Main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=22446
General Electric recalls more than 200,000 wall ovens (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=9376988
Hawaii Governor Signs Ocean Thermal Energy Deal (Environmental News Network)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2008/2008-11-20-094.asp
Kansas - Energy conservation grants going begging (Clay Center Dispatch, KS)
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20203603&BRD=1160&PAG=461&dept_id=190958&rfi=6
News Release - Brighten the Holidays with Savings and Safety Advice From the Ameren Illinois Utilities (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/IndustryNews.asp?m=1&id=101223
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
New Rule Would Discount Warming as Risk Factor for Species (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/20/AR2008112003465.html?nav=rss_nation
Latest business challenge is climate change - Everyone from insurers to engineering firms are looking for answers (Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=3579d351-9202-437d-89fc-243a513c765b&k=46757
Death bloom of plankton a warning on warming (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/20/MNV1147VJE.DTL&feed=rss.news
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Google, Others Call for New Broadband, Energy Policies (IDG News Service)
http://www.pcworld.com/article/154262/google_others_call_for_new_broadband_energy_policies.html
Telcos Will See a More Activist Congress (GigOM)
http://gigaom.com/2008/11/21/telcos-will-see-a-more-activist-congress/
Owning Your Own Fiber - Homes with tails (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Owning-Your-Own-Fiber-99230
GENERAL NEWS
Boeing Warns Of Impending Layoffs (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18031941/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Bad economy won't stop massive road projects (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008418429_transpochallenges21m.html?syndication=rss
Brush-Picker Killed by Hunter - Suspect apparently thought he was shooting at an elk (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081121/NEWS02/711219988/-1/NEWS
DeFazio Says Rumors of Obama Cabinet Position are Exaggerated (NW Public Radio)
http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4608
Will Credit Rating Agencies Be Monitored? (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97295902&ft=1&f=3
Fugitive Oregon Corrections Administrator Now Herding Sheep in Iran (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/3605-wanted-corrections-administrator-now-herding-sheep-iran/
Feds: FAA worker took plane, yachts as perks (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1703049~Feds__FAA_worker_took_plane__yachts_as_perks.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines
DIVERSIONS
Stray cats taking over Lewis County town
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_112008WAB_vader_stray_cats_SW.1d1006cef.html
'Sound Of Music' Star Rips Movie - Plummer Calls His Performance 'Most Mediocre'
http://www.kirotv.com/entertainment/18023148/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_4pm&tmi=sea_4pm_-1_06000111202008&ts=H
Cell Phone Over Man's Heart Stops Bullet
http://www.kirotv.com/family/18025267/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=irresistible
Obese have right to two airline seats
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4AJ8G020081120?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest
Witness to three-death crash wins trauma damages - Man who suffered 'nervous shock' wins first case of its kind
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=bdcf28ae-90ce-4fd0-9e34-a54b62450a04
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Worker Electrocuted in Seattle by Power lines
- Route for energy transmission avoids Cascade-Siskiyou monument
- Congress: Waxman win elevates energy, climate change issues
- Surprise Drop in Power Use Delivers Jolt to Utilities
- Grant PUD to fund street improvements
- Russian power sector reform under threat
- Derelict Fishing Nets Kill Sea Life, Clog Sound
- Gold prospecting in Washington State: Salmon beware
- Downer: Steelhead creep into local rivers, memories
- Stepping in when streams dry up
- California Judge won't slash water contracts to help smelt
- Calif. agrees to limit trout stocking
- S.F. Chronicle Op/Ed - The downside of the fish stock market
- Restoring Puget Sound: It's the land use, stupid!
- New Images Show Celilo Falls Still Intact
- Underwater volcano off California Coast now protected
- State Supreme Court approves Kittitas County wind farm
- Kittitas power project gets second wind
- Green building starts up five-fold
- New local website can help you save energy
- General Electric recalls more than 200,000 wall ovens
- Hawaii Governor Signs Ocean Thermal Energy Deal
- Kansas - Energy conservation grants going begging
- Brighten the Holidays with Savings and Safety Advice
- New Rule Would Discount Warming as Risk Factor for Species
- Latest business challenge is climate change
- Death bloom of plankton a warning on warming
- Google, Others Call for New Broadband, Energy Policies
- Telcos Will See a More Activist Congress
- Owning Your Own Fiber - Homes with tails
- Boeing Warns Of Impending Layoffs
- Bad economy won't stop massive road projects
- Brush-Picker Killed by Hunter
- DeFazio Says Rumors of Obama Cabinet Position are Exaggerated
- Will Credit Rating Agencies Be Monitored?
- Fugitive Oregon State Employee Herding Sheep in Iran
- Feds: FAA worker took plane, yachts as perks
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Flummoxed • \FLUM-uxt\ • verb – Confused
Harry was flummoxed by the lime/coconut advice of his doctor, “so, do I put the coconut in the lime, or the other way around?”
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
Worker Electrocuted in Seattle By Power lines (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18027219/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Route for energy transmission avoids Cascade-Siskiyou monument (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1702671~Route_for_energy_transmission_avaoids_monument.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
Congress: Waxman win elevates energy, climate change issues (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081120/pl_nm/us_usa_congress_energy_8
Surprise Drop in Power Use Delivers Jolt to Utilities (Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122722654497346099.html
Grant PUD to fund street improvements (Columbia Basin Herald)
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2008/11/20/news/nw4.11.20.08.txt
Russian power sector reform under threat (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5geGbSWkfCQyYtVams2kDspD2vgzwD94IT4I80
FISH & WILDLIFE
Derelict Fishing Nets Kill Sea Life, Clog Sound (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18025762/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_-1_09000111212008&ts=H
The Evergold State – Salmon beware: Are prospectors crazy to be dredging in Washington's rivers and streams? (Slate Magazine)
http://www.slate.com/id/2205110/?from=rss
Downer: Steelhead creep into local rivers, memories (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/11/21/this_day/doc492602daf00f1915866002.txt
Stepping in when streams dry up (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081120/NEWS02/711209932/-1/NEWS
California - Judge won't slash water contracts to help smelt (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/20/state/n151820S63.DTL&feed=rss.business
Calif. agrees to limit trout stocking (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/20/state/n165518S88.DTL&feed=rss.business
S.F. Chronicle Op/Ed - The downside of the fish stock market
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/20/EDP6147T95.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Restoring Puget Sound: It's the land use, stupid! (Crosscut)
http://crosscut.com/2008/11/21/puget-sound/18650/
New Images Show Celilo Falls Still Intact (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/3599-new-images-show-celilo-falls-still-intact/
Underwater volcano off California's Central Coast given national protection (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11035769?source=rss
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
State Supreme Court approves Kittitas County wind farm (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/388704_windfarm21.html?source=rss
Kittitas power project gets second wind (Yakima Herald Republic)
http://www.yakimaherald.com/stories/2008/11/20/supreme-court-backs-governor-kittitas-wind-power
Green building starts up five-fold (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/11/17/daily46.html?ana=from_rss
New local website can help you save energy (Port Townsend Leader, WA)
http://www.ptleader.com/Main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=22446
General Electric recalls more than 200,000 wall ovens (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=9376988
Hawaii Governor Signs Ocean Thermal Energy Deal (Environmental News Network)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2008/2008-11-20-094.asp
Kansas - Energy conservation grants going begging (Clay Center Dispatch, KS)
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20203603&BRD=1160&PAG=461&dept_id=190958&rfi=6
News Release - Brighten the Holidays with Savings and Safety Advice From the Ameren Illinois Utilities (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/IndustryNews.asp?m=1&id=101223
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
New Rule Would Discount Warming as Risk Factor for Species (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/20/AR2008112003465.html?nav=rss_nation
Latest business challenge is climate change - Everyone from insurers to engineering firms are looking for answers (Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=3579d351-9202-437d-89fc-243a513c765b&k=46757
Death bloom of plankton a warning on warming (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/20/MNV1147VJE.DTL&feed=rss.news
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Google, Others Call for New Broadband, Energy Policies (IDG News Service)
http://www.pcworld.com/article/154262/google_others_call_for_new_broadband_energy_policies.html
Telcos Will See a More Activist Congress (GigOM)
http://gigaom.com/2008/11/21/telcos-will-see-a-more-activist-congress/
Owning Your Own Fiber - Homes with tails (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Owning-Your-Own-Fiber-99230
GENERAL NEWS
Boeing Warns Of Impending Layoffs (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18031941/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Bad economy won't stop massive road projects (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008418429_transpochallenges21m.html?syndication=rss
Brush-Picker Killed by Hunter - Suspect apparently thought he was shooting at an elk (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081121/NEWS02/711219988/-1/NEWS
DeFazio Says Rumors of Obama Cabinet Position are Exaggerated (NW Public Radio)
http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4608
Will Credit Rating Agencies Be Monitored? (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97295902&ft=1&f=3
Fugitive Oregon Corrections Administrator Now Herding Sheep in Iran (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/3605-wanted-corrections-administrator-now-herding-sheep-iran/
Feds: FAA worker took plane, yachts as perks (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1703049~Feds__FAA_worker_took_plane__yachts_as_perks.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines
DIVERSIONS
Stray cats taking over Lewis County town
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_112008WAB_vader_stray_cats_SW.1d1006cef.html
'Sound Of Music' Star Rips Movie - Plummer Calls His Performance 'Most Mediocre'
http://www.kirotv.com/entertainment/18023148/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_4pm&tmi=sea_4pm_-1_06000111202008&ts=H
Cell Phone Over Man's Heart Stops Bullet
http://www.kirotv.com/family/18025267/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=irresistible
Obese have right to two airline seats
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4AJ8G020081120?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest
Witness to three-death crash wins trauma damages - Man who suffered 'nervous shock' wins first case of its kind
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=bdcf28ae-90ce-4fd0-9e34-a54b62450a04
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Energy News Digest for November 20, 2008
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)
- Strong Winds in Cascade Foothills Drop Trees, Cut Power Lines
- Jefferson PUD urged to move quickly on power franchise
- Wenatchee - First Alcoa workers notified of layoffs
- Council Hears Competing Sides In Proposed Alcoa Power Sale
- Seattle P-I Editorial - Northwest needs: Pay attention to us
- Opponents Say Federal Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Would Pollute
- Some City of Tacoma workers underpaid, study says
- PG&E starts Colusa natural gas power plant construction
- Get those ugly chum while you can
- Most of California’s native game fish face extinction
- Changes to Species Act Are Said to Be Near
- Sea lion numbers a mixed bag
- Panel Approves First Rules for Organic Farmed Fish
- ComEd's Lake Michigan Bird-Friendly Efforts Take Flight
- Is the Northwest Running Out of Water?
- Rainwater Turns To Noxious Soup, Flows to Sound
- Crews racing to repair 30 Western Washington levees
- Seattle raises $205 million through water bonds
- Group that backs public artesian well in Olympia to disband
- Clean Energy Confronts Messy Reality
- Ocean water could bring limitless clean energy
- Wal-Mart buys wind energy supply, with a catch
- WAPA buying wind power from Basin
- Car Charging - Nissan drives a deal with Oregon
- California begins crackdown on newly illegal chimney fires
- NY Times Op/Ed - What’s the Point of Daylight Time?
- Measuring the National Carbon Footprint
- Governors Tackle Climate Change
- 'Applause' for British Columbia's carbon tax
- Top companies urge Congress to go green
- Big Green Brother - Wal-Mart tells its workers to live and breathe sustainability
- 400 Million Global Broadband Users
- Coming Soon, Fiber to All of the Netherlands
- Obama’s FCC Transition Team Co-chair
- Intuit lowers forecast for current year
- Cuts loom as Washington State faces $5.1 billion budget shortfall
- Simpson to Shut Down Local Mills for Three Weeks
- North Mason Clinic Closing Leaves Some Patients in Flux
- Christmas tree sales appear to be greening
- A Shocking Stat: 85% of Benton County on Food Stamps
- Napolitano emerges for Homeland Security job
- More Cabinet Talk
- McMorris Rodgers elected to leadership role
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Gravid • \GRAV-id\ • adjective - *1: pregnant 2: distended with or full of eggs
Passersby stopped and stared, astounded at Alice’s exaggerated gravid appearance. “I guess there’s no such thing as being a ‘little pregnant’,” said her awestruck partner. “But you are living proof that there is such a thing as being VERY pregnant.”
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
Strong Winds in Cascade Foothills Drop Trees, Cut Power Lines (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18023820/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Jefferson PUD urged to move quickly on power franchise (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081120/news/311209993
Wenatchee - First Alcoa workers notified of layoffs (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081119/NEWS04/711209939
Council Hears Competing Sides In Proposed Alcoa Power Sale (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/3596-power-council-hears-competing-sides-proposed-alcoa-power-sale/
Seattle P-I Editorial - Northwest needs: Pay attention to us: The region's need for intelligent environmental, energy and climate decisions is urgent
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/388528_nwobamaed.html?source=rss
Opponents Say Federal Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Would Pollute (Northwest Public Radio)
http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4588
Some City of Tacoma workers underpaid, study says - Pay scales for the city and for Tacoma Public Utilities are low for lots of jobs, high for others (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/543502.html
PG&E starts Colusa natural gas power plant construction (San Francisco Business Times)
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/11/17/daily74.html?ana=from_rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Get those ugly chum while you can - Still a few of these fish available to catch in area rivers (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20081120/SPORTS/711209844/1004/SPORTS
Most of California’s native game fish face extinction (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/20/MN3E147V6I.DTL&feed=rss.news
Changes to Species Act Are Said to Be Near (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/19/AR2008111904585.html?nav=rss_nation
Sea lion numbers a mixed bag (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008415015_apaksealions1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
USDA Panel Approves First Rules For Labeling Farmed Fish 'Organic' (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/19/AR2008111903787.html?nav=rss_nation
ComEd's Lake Michigan Bird-Friendly Efforts Take Flight (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/IndustryNews.asp?m=1&id=101144
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Is the Northwest Running Out of Water? (Northwest Public Radio)
http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4590
Rainwater Turns To Noxious Soup, Flows To Sound (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18008323/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_-1_09000111202008&ts=H
Crews racing Mother Nature to repair 30 Western Washington levees (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/34793354.html
Seattle raises $205 million through water bonds (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/388582_bonds20.html?source=rss
Group that backs public artesian well in Olympia to disband (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/667694.html
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
Clean Energy Confronts Messy Reality (Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122714114743842743.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Ocean water could bring limitless clean energy (ChattahBox)
http://chattahbox.com/science/2008/11/20/ocean-water-could-bring-limitless-clean-energy/
Wal-Mart buys wind energy supply - Demands rates with no renewable energy premiums (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008414891_aparwalmartwindenergy.html?syndication=rss
WAPA buying wind power from Basin (Associated Press)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-nd-wapa-wind,0,3655003.story
Car Charging - Nissan drives a deal with Oregon (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/11/17/daily32.html?ana=from_rss
No-No Biomass – California smoke police begin crackdown on newly illegal chimney fires - Barbecue grills and outdoor pizza ovens are exempt (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11025429?source=rss
NY Times Op/Ed - What’s the Point of Daylight Time?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/opinion/20kotchen.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Measuring the National Carbon Footprint - How do you total up the greenhouse-gas emissions for an entire country? (Slate Magazine)
http://www.slate.com/id/2205011/?from=rss
Governors Tackle Climate Change (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97203134
'Applause' for British Columbia's carbon tax at California speech (The Province, BC)
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=b00f5459-b65b-4dd0-81d2-0619f97610e8
Top companies urge Congress to go green - Starbucks, others to lobby for climate legislation (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/388585_green20.html?source=rss
Big Green Brother - When Wal-Mart tells its workers to live and breathe sustainability, is it (a) creepy, (b) innovative, (c) greenwashing, (d) all of the above? (Mother Jones Magazine)
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/11/big-green-brother.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
400 Million Global Broadband Users - 680 million by 2013, with the biggest number in China (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/400-Million-Global-Broadband-Users-99200
Coming Soon, Fiber to All of the Netherlands (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2008/11/19/big-fiber-in-little-netherlands/
Obama’s FCC Transition Team Co-chair a WoW Player – Check it out! He looks like David Byrne from the “Talking Heads!” (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2008/11/18/obamas-fcc-transition-team-co-chair-a-wow-player/
Intuit lowers forecast for current year (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11023850?source=rss
GENERAL NEWS
Cuts loom as state faces $5.1 billion budget shortfall - No special session planned to sort out mess (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/news/story/668120.html
Simpson to Shut Down Local Mills for Three Weeks (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5624/reftab/1632/title/SIMPSON_TO_SHUT_DOWN_FOR_THREE_WEEKS/Default.aspx
North Mason Clinic's Closing Leaves Some Patients in Flux (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/nov/19/nm-clinics-closing-leaves-some-patients-in-flux/?partner=RSS
Christmas tree sales appear to be greening - Growers predict the economy will keep more people home this year, boosting their business (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1227153331223220.xml&coll=7
A Shocking Stat: 85% of Benton County on Food Stamps (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities)
http://www.keprtv.com/news/local/34783929.html
Dems: Napolitano emerges for Homeland Security job (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008412319_apobamacabinet.html?syndication=rss
More Cabinet Talk - Discussions with Clintons as Obama Creates Team (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/us/politics/20obama.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
McMorris Rodgers elected to leadership role (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008411621_apwamcmorrisrodgersleadership.html?syndication=rss
DIVERSIONS
Graham School Hosting Donkey Basketball, PETA Wants It Benched
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18017983/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_-1_09000111202008&ts=H
Mystery Meat Dumped In Town Common - Residents Concerned Meat May Be Poisoned
http://www.kirotv.com/health/18023673/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=irresistible
Retired Librarian Gives $1M Each to Her Colleges
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18016969/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=irresistible
Pot smugglers toss 5 tons of marijuana into sea
http://www.examiner.com/a-1701520~Pot_smugglers_toss_5_tons_of_marijuana_into_sea.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
Gremlin-Like Creatures Rediscovered in Indonesia - “Knew your father, I did!”
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/2008/November/Gremlin-Like-Creatures-Rediscovered-in-Indonesia.html
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Strong Winds in Cascade Foothills Drop Trees, Cut Power Lines
- Jefferson PUD urged to move quickly on power franchise
- Wenatchee - First Alcoa workers notified of layoffs
- Council Hears Competing Sides In Proposed Alcoa Power Sale
- Seattle P-I Editorial - Northwest needs: Pay attention to us
- Opponents Say Federal Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Would Pollute
- Some City of Tacoma workers underpaid, study says
- PG&E starts Colusa natural gas power plant construction
- Get those ugly chum while you can
- Most of California’s native game fish face extinction
- Changes to Species Act Are Said to Be Near
- Sea lion numbers a mixed bag
- Panel Approves First Rules for Organic Farmed Fish
- ComEd's Lake Michigan Bird-Friendly Efforts Take Flight
- Is the Northwest Running Out of Water?
- Rainwater Turns To Noxious Soup, Flows to Sound
- Crews racing to repair 30 Western Washington levees
- Seattle raises $205 million through water bonds
- Group that backs public artesian well in Olympia to disband
- Clean Energy Confronts Messy Reality
- Ocean water could bring limitless clean energy
- Wal-Mart buys wind energy supply, with a catch
- WAPA buying wind power from Basin
- Car Charging - Nissan drives a deal with Oregon
- California begins crackdown on newly illegal chimney fires
- NY Times Op/Ed - What’s the Point of Daylight Time?
- Measuring the National Carbon Footprint
- Governors Tackle Climate Change
- 'Applause' for British Columbia's carbon tax
- Top companies urge Congress to go green
- Big Green Brother - Wal-Mart tells its workers to live and breathe sustainability
- 400 Million Global Broadband Users
- Coming Soon, Fiber to All of the Netherlands
- Obama’s FCC Transition Team Co-chair
- Intuit lowers forecast for current year
- Cuts loom as Washington State faces $5.1 billion budget shortfall
- Simpson to Shut Down Local Mills for Three Weeks
- North Mason Clinic Closing Leaves Some Patients in Flux
- Christmas tree sales appear to be greening
- A Shocking Stat: 85% of Benton County on Food Stamps
- Napolitano emerges for Homeland Security job
- More Cabinet Talk
- McMorris Rodgers elected to leadership role
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Gravid • \GRAV-id\ • adjective - *1: pregnant 2: distended with or full of eggs
Passersby stopped and stared, astounded at Alice’s exaggerated gravid appearance. “I guess there’s no such thing as being a ‘little pregnant’,” said her awestruck partner. “But you are living proof that there is such a thing as being VERY pregnant.”
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
Strong Winds in Cascade Foothills Drop Trees, Cut Power Lines (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18023820/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Jefferson PUD urged to move quickly on power franchise (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081120/news/311209993
Wenatchee - First Alcoa workers notified of layoffs (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081119/NEWS04/711209939
Council Hears Competing Sides In Proposed Alcoa Power Sale (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/3596-power-council-hears-competing-sides-proposed-alcoa-power-sale/
Seattle P-I Editorial - Northwest needs: Pay attention to us: The region's need for intelligent environmental, energy and climate decisions is urgent
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/388528_nwobamaed.html?source=rss
Opponents Say Federal Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Would Pollute (Northwest Public Radio)
http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4588
Some City of Tacoma workers underpaid, study says - Pay scales for the city and for Tacoma Public Utilities are low for lots of jobs, high for others (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/543502.html
PG&E starts Colusa natural gas power plant construction (San Francisco Business Times)
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/11/17/daily74.html?ana=from_rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Get those ugly chum while you can - Still a few of these fish available to catch in area rivers (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20081120/SPORTS/711209844/1004/SPORTS
Most of California’s native game fish face extinction (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/20/MN3E147V6I.DTL&feed=rss.news
Changes to Species Act Are Said to Be Near (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/19/AR2008111904585.html?nav=rss_nation
Sea lion numbers a mixed bag (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008415015_apaksealions1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
USDA Panel Approves First Rules For Labeling Farmed Fish 'Organic' (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/19/AR2008111903787.html?nav=rss_nation
ComEd's Lake Michigan Bird-Friendly Efforts Take Flight (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/IndustryNews.asp?m=1&id=101144
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Is the Northwest Running Out of Water? (Northwest Public Radio)
http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4590
Rainwater Turns To Noxious Soup, Flows To Sound (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18008323/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_-1_09000111202008&ts=H
Crews racing Mother Nature to repair 30 Western Washington levees (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/34793354.html
Seattle raises $205 million through water bonds (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/388582_bonds20.html?source=rss
Group that backs public artesian well in Olympia to disband (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/667694.html
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
Clean Energy Confronts Messy Reality (Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122714114743842743.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Ocean water could bring limitless clean energy (ChattahBox)
http://chattahbox.com/science/2008/11/20/ocean-water-could-bring-limitless-clean-energy/
Wal-Mart buys wind energy supply - Demands rates with no renewable energy premiums (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008414891_aparwalmartwindenergy.html?syndication=rss
WAPA buying wind power from Basin (Associated Press)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-nd-wapa-wind,0,3655003.story
Car Charging - Nissan drives a deal with Oregon (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/11/17/daily32.html?ana=from_rss
No-No Biomass – California smoke police begin crackdown on newly illegal chimney fires - Barbecue grills and outdoor pizza ovens are exempt (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11025429?source=rss
NY Times Op/Ed - What’s the Point of Daylight Time?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/opinion/20kotchen.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Measuring the National Carbon Footprint - How do you total up the greenhouse-gas emissions for an entire country? (Slate Magazine)
http://www.slate.com/id/2205011/?from=rss
Governors Tackle Climate Change (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97203134
'Applause' for British Columbia's carbon tax at California speech (The Province, BC)
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=b00f5459-b65b-4dd0-81d2-0619f97610e8
Top companies urge Congress to go green - Starbucks, others to lobby for climate legislation (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/388585_green20.html?source=rss
Big Green Brother - When Wal-Mart tells its workers to live and breathe sustainability, is it (a) creepy, (b) innovative, (c) greenwashing, (d) all of the above? (Mother Jones Magazine)
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/11/big-green-brother.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
400 Million Global Broadband Users - 680 million by 2013, with the biggest number in China (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/400-Million-Global-Broadband-Users-99200
Coming Soon, Fiber to All of the Netherlands (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2008/11/19/big-fiber-in-little-netherlands/
Obama’s FCC Transition Team Co-chair a WoW Player – Check it out! He looks like David Byrne from the “Talking Heads!” (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2008/11/18/obamas-fcc-transition-team-co-chair-a-wow-player/
Intuit lowers forecast for current year (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11023850?source=rss
GENERAL NEWS
Cuts loom as state faces $5.1 billion budget shortfall - No special session planned to sort out mess (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/news/story/668120.html
Simpson to Shut Down Local Mills for Three Weeks (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5624/reftab/1632/title/SIMPSON_TO_SHUT_DOWN_FOR_THREE_WEEKS/Default.aspx
North Mason Clinic's Closing Leaves Some Patients in Flux (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/nov/19/nm-clinics-closing-leaves-some-patients-in-flux/?partner=RSS
Christmas tree sales appear to be greening - Growers predict the economy will keep more people home this year, boosting their business (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1227153331223220.xml&coll=7
A Shocking Stat: 85% of Benton County on Food Stamps (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities)
http://www.keprtv.com/news/local/34783929.html
Dems: Napolitano emerges for Homeland Security job (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008412319_apobamacabinet.html?syndication=rss
More Cabinet Talk - Discussions with Clintons as Obama Creates Team (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/us/politics/20obama.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
McMorris Rodgers elected to leadership role (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008411621_apwamcmorrisrodgersleadership.html?syndication=rss
DIVERSIONS
Graham School Hosting Donkey Basketball, PETA Wants It Benched
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18017983/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_-1_09000111202008&ts=H
Mystery Meat Dumped In Town Common - Residents Concerned Meat May Be Poisoned
http://www.kirotv.com/health/18023673/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=irresistible
Retired Librarian Gives $1M Each to Her Colleges
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18016969/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=irresistible
Pot smugglers toss 5 tons of marijuana into sea
http://www.examiner.com/a-1701520~Pot_smugglers_toss_5_tons_of_marijuana_into_sea.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
Gremlin-Like Creatures Rediscovered in Indonesia - “Knew your father, I did!”
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/2008/November/Gremlin-Like-Creatures-Rediscovered-in-Indonesia.html
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Energy News Digest for November 19, 2008
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)
- Expert: Idaho nuclear plant unlikely this decade
- Benton PUD: Meetings to detail senior low-income discount program
- New York energy regulators still investigating trades
- Houston mayor shifts energy to electric reliability
- Florida - Goodbye meter man?
- A buffer between fish and pesticides
- Two of nine fishing-free reserves on Oregon Coast win endorsement
- With dog's help, clues to orcas' decline found in whale scat
- Salmon carcass program returns nutrients to streams
- Local fish vendor charged with two felonies
- In the West, Pine Beetles Create Business Opportunities
- Save money with energy efficiency during tough economy
- Energy forum touts simple way to conserve and save
- Tips for Saving Money Through The Winter
- OSU studies how to predict wind energy
- Interest surging in California's cow power
- Juggling the Grid for Plug-in Car
- Trapping carbon dioxide could fight climate change
- Top 10 ways to get more from your data center in 2009
- HP’s Angry E-mails Enter Microsoft Vista Lawsuit
- New forecast: State budget shortfall $4.6B
- Heavy Rain Damages Roads; Mason County Declares Emergency
- Costco shopper finds black widow spider in grapes
- Man treated for burns after fire at suspected pot operation
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Deportment • \dih-PORT-munt\ • noun - The manner in which one conducts oneself: behavior
Alfredo tottered into the board meeting, the stench of his stained sweat shirt and bedraggled jeans preceding his physical arrival by at least two minutes. Although his slovenly deportment was detested by all the nattily-clad salesmen on the tenth floor, none could deny that he was the best high-pressure phone salesman in the company. To a person, however, they all secretly coveted his climate controlled corner office…regardless of the four-day fumigation that would be required to make it habitable for normal humans.
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
Expert: Idaho nuclear plant unlikely this decade (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/667351.html
Benton PUD: Meetings to detail senior low-income discount program (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/388328.html?mi_email=Tri-City%20Herald_PM+%26+Breaking+News
New York energy regulators still investigating trades (Syracuse Post Standard, NY)
http://www.syracuse.com/business/index.ssf?/base/business-14/122708889070210.xml&coll=1
Houston mayor shifts energy to electric reliability - Panel will seek ways to bolster power supply for natural disasters and reduce overall use (Houston Chronicle, TX)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6120085.html
Florida - Goodbye meter man? OEU is installing automated devices read by radio signals, fiber optics (The Star-Banner, Ocala, FL)
http://www.ocala.com/article/20081119/articles/811191005&tc=yahoo
FISH & WILDLIFE
A buffer between fish and pesticides - NOAA Fisheries says more area needed; agriculture industry challenges ruling (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
http://www.yakimaherald.com/stories/2008/11/18/a-buffer-betweenfish-and-pesticides
Just two of nine fishing-free reserves on Oregon Coast win endorsement (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/just_two_of_nine_fishingfree_r.html
With dog's help, clues to orcas' decline found in whale scat (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008408354_orca19m0.html?syndication=rss
Oregon - Salmon carcass program returns nutrients to streams (The Sandy Post)
http://www.sandypost.com/news/story.php?story_id=122706224757163300
Local fish vendor charged with two felonies - False labeling and sale of fish (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/388467_Fish19.html?source=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
In the West, Pine Beetles Create Business Opportunities - dead trees can be turned into wood products — and indeed an industry has emerged over the last few years to make productive use of all that felled timber (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/beetles/?partner=rss&emc=rss
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
News Release - Save money with energy efficiency during tough economy (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1582/241572/
Massachusetts - Energy forum touts simple way to conserve and save (Cape Cod Times, MA)
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081117/NEWS/811170307
Tips for Saving Money Through The Winter (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97138575&ft=1&f=17
OSU studies how to predict wind energy (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/11/17/daily19.html?ana=from_rss
Interest surging in California's cow power (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/19/BUBE147B02.DTL&feed=rss.business
Juggling the Grid for Plug-in Car (Northwest Public Radio)
http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4585
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Trapping carbon dioxide could fight climate change - Scientists plan to test technique in Columbia Basin (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/388399_carbonbury19.html?source=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Top 10 ways to get more from your data center in 2009 (Utility Automation & Engineering)
http://uaelp.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=22&ARTICLE_ID=345783&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss
HP’s Angry E-mails Enter Microsoft Vista Lawsuit (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/business/2008/November/HP-s-Angry-E-mails-Enter-Microsoft-Vista-Lawsuit.html
GENERAL NEWS
New forecast: State budget shortfall $4.6B (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008410721_webstatebudget19m.html
Heavy Rain Damages Roads; Mason County Declares Emergency (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5609/reftab/1632/Default.aspx?title=HEAVY_RAIN_DAMAGES_ROADS;_COUNTY_DECLARES_EMERGENCY
Costco shopper finds black widow spider in grapes (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_111808WAB_costco_grapes_KC.1c81afeab.html?npc
Man treated for burns after fire at suspected pot operation (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/542570.html
DIVERSIONS
City Threatens Blind Woman Over Unpaid 1-Cent Bill
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18007907/detail.html
Down at last: Seattle Cat's weekend on power pole over - It takes two utility crews to bring Kitty to safety
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/388320_cat19.html?source=rss
Driver loses control after sneeze, hits river
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_driving_while_sneezing;_ylt=AvXVNXuQeHyOfrqkMz9aWTXtiBIF
German lawmaker apologizes for blocking Wikipedia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081119/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_germany_lawmaker_wikipedia;_ylt=AkAidJG7TCBFVJ6allVptaftiBIF
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Expert: Idaho nuclear plant unlikely this decade
- Benton PUD: Meetings to detail senior low-income discount program
- New York energy regulators still investigating trades
- Houston mayor shifts energy to electric reliability
- Florida - Goodbye meter man?
- A buffer between fish and pesticides
- Two of nine fishing-free reserves on Oregon Coast win endorsement
- With dog's help, clues to orcas' decline found in whale scat
- Salmon carcass program returns nutrients to streams
- Local fish vendor charged with two felonies
- In the West, Pine Beetles Create Business Opportunities
- Save money with energy efficiency during tough economy
- Energy forum touts simple way to conserve and save
- Tips for Saving Money Through The Winter
- OSU studies how to predict wind energy
- Interest surging in California's cow power
- Juggling the Grid for Plug-in Car
- Trapping carbon dioxide could fight climate change
- Top 10 ways to get more from your data center in 2009
- HP’s Angry E-mails Enter Microsoft Vista Lawsuit
- New forecast: State budget shortfall $4.6B
- Heavy Rain Damages Roads; Mason County Declares Emergency
- Costco shopper finds black widow spider in grapes
- Man treated for burns after fire at suspected pot operation
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Deportment • \dih-PORT-munt\ • noun - The manner in which one conducts oneself: behavior
Alfredo tottered into the board meeting, the stench of his stained sweat shirt and bedraggled jeans preceding his physical arrival by at least two minutes. Although his slovenly deportment was detested by all the nattily-clad salesmen on the tenth floor, none could deny that he was the best high-pressure phone salesman in the company. To a person, however, they all secretly coveted his climate controlled corner office…regardless of the four-day fumigation that would be required to make it habitable for normal humans.
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
Expert: Idaho nuclear plant unlikely this decade (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/667351.html
Benton PUD: Meetings to detail senior low-income discount program (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/388328.html?mi_email=Tri-City%20Herald_PM+%26+Breaking+News
New York energy regulators still investigating trades (Syracuse Post Standard, NY)
http://www.syracuse.com/business/index.ssf?/base/business-14/122708889070210.xml&coll=1
Houston mayor shifts energy to electric reliability - Panel will seek ways to bolster power supply for natural disasters and reduce overall use (Houston Chronicle, TX)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6120085.html
Florida - Goodbye meter man? OEU is installing automated devices read by radio signals, fiber optics (The Star-Banner, Ocala, FL)
http://www.ocala.com/article/20081119/articles/811191005&tc=yahoo
FISH & WILDLIFE
A buffer between fish and pesticides - NOAA Fisheries says more area needed; agriculture industry challenges ruling (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
http://www.yakimaherald.com/stories/2008/11/18/a-buffer-betweenfish-and-pesticides
Just two of nine fishing-free reserves on Oregon Coast win endorsement (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/just_two_of_nine_fishingfree_r.html
With dog's help, clues to orcas' decline found in whale scat (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008408354_orca19m0.html?syndication=rss
Oregon - Salmon carcass program returns nutrients to streams (The Sandy Post)
http://www.sandypost.com/news/story.php?story_id=122706224757163300
Local fish vendor charged with two felonies - False labeling and sale of fish (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/388467_Fish19.html?source=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
In the West, Pine Beetles Create Business Opportunities - dead trees can be turned into wood products — and indeed an industry has emerged over the last few years to make productive use of all that felled timber (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/beetles/?partner=rss&emc=rss
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
News Release - Save money with energy efficiency during tough economy (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1582/241572/
Massachusetts - Energy forum touts simple way to conserve and save (Cape Cod Times, MA)
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081117/NEWS/811170307
Tips for Saving Money Through The Winter (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97138575&ft=1&f=17
OSU studies how to predict wind energy (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/11/17/daily19.html?ana=from_rss
Interest surging in California's cow power (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/19/BUBE147B02.DTL&feed=rss.business
Juggling the Grid for Plug-in Car (Northwest Public Radio)
http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4585
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Trapping carbon dioxide could fight climate change - Scientists plan to test technique in Columbia Basin (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/388399_carbonbury19.html?source=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Top 10 ways to get more from your data center in 2009 (Utility Automation & Engineering)
http://uaelp.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=22&ARTICLE_ID=345783&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss
HP’s Angry E-mails Enter Microsoft Vista Lawsuit (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/business/2008/November/HP-s-Angry-E-mails-Enter-Microsoft-Vista-Lawsuit.html
GENERAL NEWS
New forecast: State budget shortfall $4.6B (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008410721_webstatebudget19m.html
Heavy Rain Damages Roads; Mason County Declares Emergency (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5609/reftab/1632/Default.aspx?title=HEAVY_RAIN_DAMAGES_ROADS;_COUNTY_DECLARES_EMERGENCY
Costco shopper finds black widow spider in grapes (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_111808WAB_costco_grapes_KC.1c81afeab.html?npc
Man treated for burns after fire at suspected pot operation (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/542570.html
DIVERSIONS
City Threatens Blind Woman Over Unpaid 1-Cent Bill
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18007907/detail.html
Down at last: Seattle Cat's weekend on power pole over - It takes two utility crews to bring Kitty to safety
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/388320_cat19.html?source=rss
Driver loses control after sneeze, hits river
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_driving_while_sneezing;_ylt=AvXVNXuQeHyOfrqkMz9aWTXtiBIF
German lawmaker apologizes for blocking Wikipedia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081119/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_germany_lawmaker_wikipedia;_ylt=AkAidJG7TCBFVJ6allVptaftiBIF
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