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