Energy News Digest for November 14, 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)

- Richland nuclear plant to go off-line
- Benton PUD passing on settlement to customers
- California Public Utilities Commission to investigate 2007 fires
- Tennessee Valley Authority decreasing fuel cost adjustment
- Idaho Statesman Columnist – Election could alter salmon debate
- S.F Chronicle Editorial – A plan to unleash the Klamath River
- NOAA investigating sockeye salmon run ‘disaster’
- State Supreme Court Approves Sanctions Limiting Tribal Fishing
- Fish Food Fight- Can Salmon Be Organic?
- Irrigation districts deserve kudos for conservation efforts
- Storm takes out Mill Creek Dam in Cosmopolis
- The Oregonian – Keeping the lights on when the wind doesn't blow
- Renewable energy may end up scarred, stronger
- Wave energy has to benefit more than the developers
- New Mexico – Regulators drop PNM’s wind energy premium
- Virginia group wants financial incentives for energy conservation
- U.N.: Clouds of pollution threaten glaciers, health
- Climate change threatens more than half of California's real estate
- Keeping capital-intensive “green” programs going during tough times
- Lawmaker plans bill on Web neutrality
- AT&T Thinks Network Neutrality Fight Is Over
- Vista lawsuit spotlights ties between Microsoft, Intel
- Shelton Police Arrest Woman For Breaking Windows
- Kitzhaber mentioned as cabinet member
- Port Orchard man found guilty of multi-million dollar fraud
- KIRO-AM/710 to go all-sports

These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest

WORD OF THE DAY

Capriccio • \kuh-PREACH-ee-oh\ • noun – 1: fancy, whimsy 2: caper, prank 3: an instrumental piece in free form usually lively in tempo and brilliant in style

To those unfamiliar to the music of Malcolm John Rebennack Jr., they may categorize his regional music stylings nothing more than capriccio. However, things really picked up for him when he changed took on a stage name in the 1970’s.

Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. (Wickipedia)

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

Richland nuclear plant to go off-line (Tri City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/383242.html

Benton PUD passing on settlement to customers (Tri City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/383506.html

California Public Utilities Commission to investigate 2007 fires – Want so see if utility companies violated safety regulations (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/IndustryNews.asp?m=1&id=100831

Tennessee Valley Authority decreasing fuel cost adjustment (Memphis Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2008/11/10/daily29.html?ana=from_rss

FISH & WILDLIFE

Idaho Statesman Columnist – Election could alter salmon debate: New senators in Idaho and Oregon may help get all sides to the table to break the deadlock over recovery
http://www.idahostatesman.com/102/story/570437.html

S.F Chronicle Editorial – A plan to unleash the Klamath River
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/14/EDKK14409E.DTL&feed=rss.opinion

NOAA investigating sockeye salmon run ‘disaster’ (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2008/11/10/daily35.html?ana=from_rss

State Supreme Court Approves Sanctions Limiting Tribal Fishing (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
http://www.kelaam.com/pages/localnews/?State-Supreme-Court-Approves-Sanctions-L=1&blockID=17863&feedID=410

Fish Food Fight- Can Salmon Be Organic? (Injury Board)
http://www.injuryboard.com/national-news/fish-food-fight--can-salmon-be-organic.aspx?googleid=251504

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Editorial: Yakima Herald Republic – Irrigation districts deserve kudos for conservation efforts
http://www.yakimaherald.com/stories/2008/11/13/irrigation-districts-deserve-kudos-for-conservation-efforts

Storm takes out Mill Creek Dam in Cosmopolis (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2008/11/13/local_news/01news.txt

RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION

Editorial: The Oregonian – Keeping the lights on when the wind doesn't blow
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2008/11/keeping_the_lights_on_when_the.html

Renewable energy may end up scarred, stronger (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/14/BUQG1442NU.DTL&feed=rss.business

Coos Bay World Editorial – Wave energy has to benefit more than the developers
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2008/11/13/opinion/editorial/doc491c9e56149f9189591846.txt

New Mexico – Regulators drop PNM’s wind energy premium (Associated Press)
http://kob.com/article/stories/S661895.shtml?cat=504

Virginia climate change group wants financial incentives for energy conservation (Richmond Times-Dispatch, VA)
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-11-13-0208.html

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

U.N.: Clouds of pollution threaten glaciers, health (Associated Press)
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_10979751?source=rss

Report: Climate change threatens more than half of California's real estate (Sacramento Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2008/11/10/daily37.html?ana=from_rss

Energy Pulse Commentary – Forestalling the Green Chill: keeping capital-intensive “green” programs going during tough times
http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=1876

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Lawmaker plans bill on Web neutrality (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE4AC7SU20081114?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest

AT&T Thinks Network Neutrality Fight Is Over – Unfortunately for them, the neutrality circus was just napping (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Thinks-Network-Neutrality-Fight-Is-Over-99061

Vista lawsuit spotlights ties between Microsoft, Intel (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2008389236_microsoft14.html?syndication=rss

GENERAL NEWS

Shelton Police Arrest Woman For Breaking Windows On Railroad (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5574/reftab/1896/title/POLICE_ARREST_WOMAN_FOR_BREAKING_WINDOWS_ON_RAILROAD/Default.aspx

Kitzhaber mentioned as cabinet member (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/11/10/daily43.html?ana=from_rss

Ben Settle in the news – Port Orchard man found guilty of multi-million dollar fraud (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/othercities/seattle/stories/2008/11/10/daily31.html

KIRO-AM/710 to go all-sports (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/387779_kiro14.html

DIVERSIONS

Judge: riding in the buff in Portland is 'tradition,' man cleared
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/34445764.html

NY Pet Cemetery Ranked Among Taj Mahal, Pyramids
http://www.kirotv.com/news/17981665/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=irresistible

Hopes dim on Soap Lake's Lava Lamp
http://www.yakimaherald.com/stories/2008/11/13/hopes-dim-on-soap-lake-s-lava-lamp