Energy News Digest for December 3, 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)

- Power Line Plan Doesn't Sit Well In Pomona
- High Court Hears Argument on Power Plants
- Grays Harbor - Looking ahead after storm
- Half Full Or Half Empty Is Fine, Just No Styrofoam
- Daily Astorian Editorial - Fish Share Proposal Spells a Slow Death
- The Supreme Court ponders a case of power plants vs. fish
- Canada - Overfishing Pushing Salmon Stocks near Collapse
- Fish - Try Your Luck at Chum This Week
- Virginia - Ask Where Your Fish Came From
- Seattle Times Editorial - Selling Puget Sound Cleanup to Lawmakers
- Utility Rates Going Up In Tacoma
- EPA Offers Public a Chance to Speak Out On Contaminated Yakima-Area Wells
- California Water Board Revokes Permits for Auburn Dam Near Sacramento
- Methane from Landfills to Power Homes
- Colorado - Xcel Seeks Max Rate Pass-Through for Renewable Energy
- UK Government’s Renewable Energy Targets Come under Severe Pressure
- Ohio - AEP Eyeing ‘Transmission Superhighway’ For Wind Energy
- Solar Thermal Projects Gather Steam - And Opposition
- North America's Largest Municipal Utility Proposes Solar Feed-in Tariff
- Hybrid Solar Plant To Reduce Need For Fossil Fuel
- The Energy Debates: Solar Energy at Home
- North Carolina - Progress Energy pushes Energy Star homes
- Truckee PUD Gives Away LED Holiday Lights
- The War on Carbon Heats Up Globally, but Strategies for Change Remain Local
- New Coalition Drawing Up Nationwide Broadband Access Strategy
- Will Obama's FCC Push For Internet Access For All?
- FCC Could Take Free Broadband Nationwide
- Yahoo’s Stock Jumps on Report of Buyout Interest
- Microsoft Puts Data Centers on Wheels
- Ex-Oregon Governor Doubts He'll Get Cabinet Job
- Religious Debate Roils US Capitol Visitor Center
- New Law Keeps Electronic Waste Out Of Landfill
- Weather Bewilders With Rare Fall Colors

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

WORD OF THE DAY

Nota Bene • \note-uh BEEN-ee\ • From the Latin, mark well. Used to call attention to something important (Used as a phrase or the initials: NB)

Alfredo was confused by his employer’s apparent misreading of the new, thick, complex contract with his client. Although he had peppered the document with nota bene references to an extensive appendix, the warnings never got through. Unbeknownst to Fred, his boss has misunderstood the references and had merely thought that the NB notes in the document margins were bizarre doodlings about “New Brunswick, Canada”.

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

Power Line Plan Doesn't Sit Well In Pomona (Yakima Herald-Republic)
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2008/12/02/power-line-plan-doesn-t-sit-well-in-pomona

High Court Hears Argument on Power Plants (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97713926&ft=1&f=2

Grays Harbor - Looking ahead after storm (Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2008/12/02/local_news/01news.txt

Half Full Or Half Empty Is Fine, Just No Styrofoam - The Styrofoam coffee cup has gone the way of the pterodactyl at Chelan County PUD board meetings — extinct (Wenatchee World)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081202/NEWS04/712029973/1005

FISH & WILDLIFE

Daily Astorian Editorial - Fish Share Proposal Spells a Slow Death: Astoria without gillnet boats would be a poorer place
http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=392&ArticleID=56416&TM=63423.4

Washington Post Editorial - The Scales of Justice: The Supreme Court ponders a case of power plants vs. fish
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/02/AR2008120202721.html?nav=rss_opinions

Canada - Overfishing Pushing Salmon Stocks near Collapse, Study Warns (Globe and Mail)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081203.wbcfishery03/BNStory/National/home

Fish - Try Your Luck at Chum This Week (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/adventure/outdoors/story/555997.html

Virginia - Ask Where Your Fish Came From (Daily Press, Newport News, VA)
http://www.dailypress.com/features/dp-life_fishbar_1203dec03,0,3672372.story

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Seattle Times Editorial - Selling Puget Sound Cleanup to Lawmakers
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2008461158_edit03sound.html

Utility Rates Going Up In Tacoma - But Supreme Court decision will save customers from paying even more (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/government/story/555956.html

EPA Offers Public a Chance to Speak Out On Contaminated Yakima-Area Wells (Yakima Herald-Republic)
http://www.yakimaherald.com/stories/2008/12/01/epa-offers-public-a-chance-to-speak-out-on-contaminated-welss

California Water Board Revokes Permits for Auburn Dam Near Sacramento (Associated Press)
http://columbian.com/article/20081202/NEWS06/312029986/-1/NEWS

RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION

Methane from Landfills to Power Homes - Communities around the country are using their landfills as more than a place to store waste (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/2008/December/Methane-From-Landfills-to-Power-Homes-.html

Colorado - Xcel Seeks Max for Renewable Energy: Company wants to raise the amount it collects from customers to pay for renewable energy to the full 2 percent of the bill allowed by state law (Denver Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2008/12/01/daily22.html?ana=from_rss

UK Government’s Renewable Energy Targets Come under Severe Pressure (Financial Advice)
http://financialadvice.co.uk/news/3/householdbills/8763/UK-government%E2%80%99s-renewable-energy-targets-come-under-severe-pressure.html

Ohio - AEP Eyeing ‘Transmission Superhighway’ For Wind Energy (Business First of Columbus)
http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2008/12/01/daily16.html?ana=from_rss

Solar Thermal Projects Gather Steam - And Opposition (Los Angeles Times, CA)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bigsolar3-2008dec03,1,4010333.story

North America's Largest Municipal Utility Proposes Solar Feed-in Tariff (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=54209&src=rss

Hybrid Solar Plant To Reduce Need For Fossil Fuel (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hejptN7NfA6lkBLLzsYQ32x1xlDQD94QPS680

The Energy Debates: Solar Energy at Home (Live Science)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081203/sc_livescience/theenergydebatessolarenergyathome

North Carolina - Progress Energy pushes Energy Star homes (The News Observer, Raleigh, NC)
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1318173.html

Truckee PUD Gives Away LED Holiday Lights (Sierra Sun, Truckee-Tahoe, CA)
http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20081202/NEWS/812029995/-1/rss03

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

The War on Carbon Heats Up Globally, but Strategies for Change Remain Local (Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122817626182370653.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

New Coalition Drawing Up Nationwide Broadband Access Strategy (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/02/AR2008120203164.html?nav=rss_technology

Will Obama's FCC Push For Internet Access For All? (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97692002&ft=1&f=17

Want To Throw Away Your Internet Bill? The FCC Could Take Free Broadband Nationwide (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18187540/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news

Yahoo’s Stock Jumps on Report of Buyout Interest (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/technology/companies/03yahoo.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Microsoft Puts Data Centers on Wheels (C/NET News)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10111198-75.html?tag=nl.e703

GENERAL NEWS

Ex-Oregon Governor Doubts He'll Get Cabinet Job (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1722283~Ex_Oregon_governor_doubts_he_ll_get_Cabinet_job.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines

Religious Debate Roils US Capitol Visitor Center (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008462123_center03.html?syndication=rss

New Law Keeps Electronic Waste Out Of Landfill - Vancouver recycling firm expects its business to boom in January (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081202/NEWS02/712029945/-1/NEWS

Weather Bewilders With Rare Fall Colors (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/weather/2008457905_weather02m.html?syndication=rss

DIVERSIONS

Top 10 Stupid Gifts from Chickens to Toilet Golf
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081202/od_nm/us_stupid;_ylt=AlWbW_XHQV5BdBFXVZIf6XntiBIF

Man Accused of Assaulting His Dad With Christmas Tree
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081203/ap_on_fe_st/odd_christmas_tree_fight;_ylt=Au.eRttlsMRIpOj8oaL7fAftiBIF

Deer Gets Revenge after Hunter Shoots Him
http://www.kansas.com/520/story/616474.html

Cat Lost In Yellowstone Returned To Texas Family
http://www.examiner.com/a-1721934~Cat_lost_in_Yellowstone_returned_to_Texas_family.html?cid=rss-Montana_Headlines