Energy News Digest for November 6, 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)

- Counties split on public taking over PSE electric service
- Jefferson County favors independence from Puget Energy
- Jefferson PUD poised for talks on acquiring electric service
- Canada – 'Tape and twine' keep BC Hydro facilities going
- Most of Centralia Impacted by Planned Outage Midnight Friday
- Coos-Curry Electric Coop signs wholesale power agreement with PNGC Power
- Congressional Research Reports – Winter Fuels Markets
- Too much wind power may be bad news for endangered salmon
- Seattle Times Op/Ed – Orcas are a call to action on Puget Sound cleanup
- Net of warring interests surrounds West Coast fishery changes
- Fishermen criticize quota plan for West Coast groundfish
- Shoshone-Bannock Tribes to sign historic fish agreement Friday
- Oregonian Op/Ed – Questions of diversity for humans and fish
- Cowlitz the place for Coho; Skokomish hot for Chum
- Bush hits choppy water over ocean sanctuaries
- Agency to release Puget Sound cleanup plan
- Corps takes measures after inspection finds seepage at Bennington Lake dam
- On this Day: The Barnes Lake Dam Bursts in Toccoa Falls, Ga.
- Wave, Tidal, and In-Stream Energy Projects: Which Agency Has the Lead?
- Mass Megawatts Expands Into Small Wind
- Paying For Heat, Electric in Trying Times
- The Climate Change Trap
- Are Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rising More Rapidly Than Expected?
- Google pulls out of search ad deal with Yahoo
- Tech problems in a phone network in Coeur d'Alene cut service in E. Washington
- US President-Elect Obama Is Plugged In On Technology Issues
- Mason County Flood Watch Remains in Effect
- Simpson Door says workers have company’s “last offer”
- Trucker killed on I-5 at Olympia
- Crisis clinic seeks help with new funding to serve Thurston and Mason counties

WORD OF THE DAY

Panglossian • \pan-GLOSS-ee-un\ • adjective – Marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds: excessively optimistic

Olive’s eyes were positively dewy. “ I just know that by blasting dams out of the Snake River that millions of salmon will magically appear, and all will be well,” she gushed in her best “Earth Mother” voice. Her Panglossian view was barely dented by virtually identical fish survival statistics for dammed and free-running rivers.

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

Counties split on public taking over PSE electric service (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/386581_pse06.html

Jefferson County favors independence from Puget Energy (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008356727_pugetenergy06.html

Jefferson PUD poised for talks on acquiring electric service (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081106/news/311069994

Canada – 'Tape and twine' keep BC Hydro facilities going (The Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=53940f0c-608b-474b-bc09-411a219e186c

Most of Centralia Impacted by Planned Outage Midnight Friday (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
http://www.kelaam.com/pages/localnews/?Most-of-Centralia-Impacted-by-Planned-Ou=1&blockID=17231&feedID=410

Oregon – Coos-Curry Electric Coop signs wholesale power agreement with PNGC Power (Curry County Reporter, Gold Beach, OR)
http://www.currycountyreporter.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=4126

Congressional Research Reports – Winter Fuels Markets
http://opencrs.com/document/RL34714

FISH & WILDLIFE

Too much wind power may be bad news for endangered salmon (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/33970219.html

Seattle Times Op/Ed – Orcas are a call to action on Puget Sound cleanup
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008356333_opin06orca.html?syndication=rss

Net of warring interests surrounds West Coast fishery changes (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008356998_fishvote06.html

Fishermen criticize quota plan for West Coast groundfish (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/fishermen_criticize_quota_plan.html

BPA Media Advisory – Shoshone-Bannock Tribes to sign historic fish agreement Friday (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.bpa.gov/corporate/BPAnews/nreleases.cfm

Oregonian Op/Ed – Questions of diversity -- for humans and fish (Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2008/11/andy_parker_questions_of_diver.html

Cowlitz the place for Coho; Skokomish hot for Chum (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/outdoors/story/651792.html

Bush hits choppy water over ocean sanctuaries (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/05/MNCJ13TPAV.DTL

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Agency to release Puget Sound cleanup plan (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1676558~Agency_to_release_Puget_Sound_cleanup_plan.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines

Corps takes measures after inspection finds seepage at Bennington Lake dam (Walla Walla Union Bulletin, WA)
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/11/06/local_news/081105local09damsafety.txt

On this Day: The Barnes Lake Dam Bursts in Toccoa Falls, Ga. (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/November/The-Barnes-Lake-Dam-Bursts-in-Toccoa-Falls-Ga.html

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Congressional Research Reports – Wave, Tidal, and In-Stream Energy Projects: Which Federal Agency Has the Lead?
http://opencrs.com/document/RS22721

Mass Megawatts Expands Into Small Wind (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=54021&src=rss

CONSERVATION

Paying For Heat, Electric in Trying Times (CBS News)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/06/earlyshow/contributors/raymartin/main4577451.shtml

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

The Climate Change Trap (Forbes Magazine)
http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/11/05/obama-climate-change-biz-energy-cx_wp_1106energy.html

Congressional Research Reports – Are Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rising More Rapidly Than Expected?
http://opencrs.com/document/RS22970

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Google pulls out of search ad deal with Yahoo (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE49U0C620081105?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology

Tech problems in a phone network in Coeur d'Alene cut service in E. Washington (Tri-City Herald)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/915/story/374989.html

US President-Elect Obama Is Plugged In On Technology Issues (CNN Money)
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200811051144DOWJONESDJONLINE000793_FORTUNE5.htm

GENERAL NEWS

Mason County Flood Watch Remains In Effect From Through Late Friday Night (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5486/reftab/1896/title/FLOOD_WATCH_REMAINS_IN_EFFECT_FROM_THROUGH_LATE_FRIDAY_NIGHT/Default.aspx

Simpson Door says workers have company’s “last offer” (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2008/11/05/local_news/05news.txt

Trucker killed on I-5 at Olympia (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008359033_apwaolympiafatal1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss

Crisis clinic seeks help with new funding to serve Thurston and Mason counties (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/651779.html

DIVERSIONS

Alaska man says he accidentally stole a car
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_fe_st/odd_auto_theft;_ylt=At3kSeNMvZV7l9hYqf2QF6btiBIF

Thieves caught in Hungary with 12 pigs in car
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081106/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_hungary_pigs;_ylt=Aror0M7nd9mKHguy48ImrpztiBIF

FBI: Airline passenger restrained with duct tape
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_re_us/odd_passenger_duct_tape;_ylt=AuotdINp4pjAe0xxgk0sC3DtiBIF

Police net Shanghai's cricket fighting king
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081030/od_afp/chinacrimegamblingcricketsoffbeat_081030161730;_ylt=AusZ24Qp8sHpQCp1QSOTxMygOrgF