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 residents won't see rebate for electricity until at least August
- Barbed Wire Doesn't Stop Lewis County Wire Thieves
- In Vermont, a Debate Swirls Around an Aging Nuclear Plant
- Activist group sues to stop Florida Power & Light plant
- State of Vermont releases draft energy plan
- United Kingdom – Blackouts hit hundreds of thousands as generators fail
- Energy Pulse Commentary – Deregulation: 'Oh Captain, My Captain!' Who's Charting the Course?
- Kitsap Salmon Projects Struggle With Delays, Costs
- Canada – The long road home for Fraser River sockeye
- Lawsuit Challenges City And Developer Water Rights
- Woodland looking into repairs to keep Horseshoe Lake at proper levels
- Cantwell, Inslee focus on acidic oceans at Seattle hearing
- Environmentalists Overpowering Developers in Fight to Save Natural Areas
- Portland General Electric launches renewable energy Web site
- Renewable Energy in the U.S.: Sneaking in the Backdoor or Walking Through the Front?
- Putting wind to work on farms
- Hybrids are hot, but some drivers are concerned about the high cost of replacing that gas-saving battery
- Duke Energy to debut 'smart meters' in Indiana
- Illinois – Incentives provide buzz to energy-efficiency effort
- Get used to high food costs, water shortages – Climate report offers a dire look at next 50 years in U.S.
- Seattle Post Intelligencer Editorial – Global Warming: At critical mass
- Study examines underground carbon dioxide storage in northeastern British Columbia
- Seattle Times Guest Columnist – A step in the right direction on national climate policy
- Everett Herald Editorial – Fast Internet service shouldn't be urban-only
- Report: State of Broadband According to Akamai
- Study: Web-video viewers to top 1 billion by 2013
- Wireless Broadband Boosts Economy
- Kansas – Cable system ushers in digital era
- Dell misled customers, judge rules
- AT&T Utility Cabinets in Connecticut Need Landowner Approval
- Agreement may mean end of cable set-top boxes
- Mason County: Family dog found shot 6 times
- State Senator Dan Swecker faces open-heart surgery
- Dow Chemicals: Country in "true energy crisis"; ups prices
- King County’s investing tactics faulted
- Metal jungle gym stolen from Kelso school
- Walla Walla District of Army Corps of Engineers to get new commander
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Heliolatry • \hee-lee-AH-luh-tree\ • noun – Sun worship
“Boy, those ancient religions and their sun worship,” scoffed Tiffani to her deeply tanned companion. “How they would have the gall to worship the sun as a god and arrange their lives around its heavenly path is beyond me,” she sighed as she slathered on another layer of sunscreen to ward off the affects of another four hours spent on sunbathing. Her unwitting heliolatry would be her undoing ten years later.
WEATHER
Forecast for Mason County, Washington
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapClick.php?site=sew&smap=1&textField1=47.21528&textField2=-123.09944
(NOTE: Some readers have noted that the NWS forecast has not been updated regularly. Apparently there is a refresh issue with the weather web site. If you visit and the forecast isn’t updated, press F5 or refresh the web page. That should take care of the issue)
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Richland residents won't see rebate for electricity until at least August (Tri-City Herald)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/901/story/196184.html
BARBED WIRE DOESN'T STOP LEWIS COUNTY WIRE THIEVES – It seems wire thieves will stop at nothing, including stealing thousands of feet of barbed wire to get at the copper wire. Someone took off with 6,000 feet of barb wire fence during the theft off the Fisher Road in the Winlock area. It had been tied to the copper wire belonging to the Lewis County PUD. (KELA Radio, Centralia)
In Vermont, a Debate Swirls Around an Aging Nuclear Plant – After part of a cooling tower collapsed last August, the company that runs it blamed rotting wooden timbers that it had failed to inspect properly (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/business/28nuke.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
Activist group sues to stop Florida Power & Light plant (South Florida Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2008/05/26/daily10.html?ana=from_rss
State of Vermont releases draft energy plan (Burlington Free Press)
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080528/NEWS01/805280314/1009
United Kingdom – Blackouts hit hundreds of thousands as generators fail – Seven power stations shut down. The unscheduled stoppages were regarded as an unprecedented sign of the fragility of Britain’s power infrastructure (The Times Online)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4016552.ece
Energy Pulse Commentary – 'Oh Captain, My Captain!' Who's Charting the Course? “…With the pending expiration of rate caps in states that embarked on restructuring…We are all going to be paying more for electricity. A lot more….”
http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=1752
FISH & WILDLIFE
Kitsap Salmon Projects Struggle With Delays, Costs (The Kitsap Sun, Bremerton)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/may/27/kitsap-salmon-projects-struggle-with-delays/
Canada – The long road home for Fraser River sockeye (Chilliwack Progress)
http://www.bclocalnews.com/opinion/19285674.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Lawsuit Challenges City And Developer Water Rights – Environmentalists and tribes are challenging the water rights of cities and home-builders granted under a 2003 Washington State law (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/2181-lawsuit-challenges-city-and-developer-water-rights/
Woodland looking into repairs to keep Horseshoe Lake at proper levels (The Daily News, Longview)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/05/28//area_news/doc483cc03ff1c5f342166496.txt
Cantwell, Inslee focus on acidic oceans at Seattle hearing (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004442320_pugetsound28m.html?syndication=rss
Environmentalists Overpowering Developers in Fight to Save Natural Areas (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/environment/May-June-08/Environmentalists-Overpowering-Developers-in-Fight-to-Save-Natural-Areas.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Portland General Electric launches renewable energy Web site (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/05/26/daily10.html?ana=from_rss
Renewable Energy in the U.S.: Sneaking in the Backdoor or Walking Through the Front? (Renewable Energy World Online)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/recolumnists/story?id=52490
Putting wind to work on farms – Financing company MMA Renewable Ventures is branching into wind energy, betting places like family farms are underserved (CNET News)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9952638-54.html
Assaulted Batteries – Hybrids are hot, but some drivers are concerned about the high cost of replacing that gas-saving battery (Newsweek Magazine – Wow, the editor had to REALLY reach for that PUN-ishing headline)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/138808?from=rss
CONSERVATION
Duke Energy to debut 'smart meters' in Indiana (Business Courier of Cincinnati)
http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2008/05/26/daily19.html?ana=from_rss
Illinois – Incentives provide buzz to energy-efficiency effort (The Chicago Tribune)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-wed-notebook-comed-ameren-may28,0,6496458.story
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Get used to high food costs, water shortages – Climate report offers a dire look at next 50 years in U.S. (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/364800_climate28.html?source=rss
Seattle Post Intelligencer Editorial – Global Warming: At critical mass
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/364777_g2g8ed.html?source=rss
Study examines underground carbon dioxide storage in northeastern British Columbia
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=28b15589-844e-46f4-9d26-c265c15b5c15
Seattle Times Guest Columnist – A step in the right direction on national climate policy
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2004442764_golden28.html?syndication=rss
TELECOMMUNICATIONS & TECHNOLOGY
Everett Herald Editorial – Fast Internet service shouldn't be urban-only
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080528/OPINION01/489599619/-1/rss05
Report: State of Broadband According to Akamai (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2008/05/27/report-state-of-broadband-according-to-akamai/
Study: Web-video viewers to top 1 billion by 2013 (CNET News)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9952659-7.html
Wireless Broadband Boosts Economy (NY Times)
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/wireless-broadband-boosts-economy/index.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Kansas – Cable system ushers in digital era: Company won’t leave analog TVs behind (Lawrence Journal & World)
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/may/28/cable_system_ushers_digital_era/
Dell misled customers, judge rules – Conduct called 'bait advertising' (The Associated Press, via the Seattle Post Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/364808_dell28.html?source=rss
AT&T Utility Cabinets in Connecticut Need Landowner Approval – CT Attorney General applauds anti 'lawn fridge' ruling (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-VRADs-in-CT-Need-Landowner-Approval-94782
Agreement may mean end of cable set-top boxes (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9394886?source=rss
GENERAL NEWS
Mason County: Family dog found shot 6 times (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/19309024.html
State Senator Dan Swecker faces open-heart surgery (The Olympian)
http://www.theolympian.com/news/story/461598.html
Dow Chemicals: Country in "true energy crisis"; ups prices (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/28/financial/f054806D81.DTL&feed=rss.business
King County’s investing tactics faulted – The County must take "rapid and forceful action" to bring its troubled $4.5 billion investment pool up to industry standards “…Investments totaling $207 million are in default…” (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004442314_investments28m.html?syndication=rss
Metal jungle gym stolen from Kelso school (The Daily News, Longview)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/05/28//area_news/doc483cc8dbba181588482052.txt
Walla Walla District of Army Corps of Engineers to get new commander (The Union Bulletin, Walla Walla)
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/05/27/local_news/080527local03corps.txt
DIVERSIONS
"Flintstones" arrested in car emissions protest
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2737843420080527?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
Pot bust gone awry – Boy, they REALLY make tourists feel welcome here!
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUST16792520080527?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
Hair Patrol: Barber Ticketed For Monday Work
http://www.kirotv.com/irresistible/16403332/detail.html
Car Chase Scenes Race For Title Of Greatest
http://www.kirotv.com/automotive/16332399/detail.html
Lawmakers Are Telling People to Pull Up Their Pants – Saggy pants may be a fashion trend, but lawmakers and school officials around the U.S. say the fad is indecent and want it banned
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/politics/May-June-08/Lawmakers-Are-Telling-People-to-Pull-Up-Their-Pants.html
Car Surfing Lands Man In Hospital, Police Say “…a classic case of what happens with alcohol, a vehicle and stupidity…"
http://www.kirotv.com/news/16408537/detail.html
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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