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.
The news digest is also available at the following web site:
http://www.energynewsdigest.blogspot.com/
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Puget Energy buyers agree to trim debt, raise low-income assistance
- Seattle Times Editorial – Concessions not enough to seal PSE deal
- Whidbey pushes for its own public utility district
- TransAlta Ponders Takeover Response
- Natural gas rates may skyrocket
- MONTANA – Higher Winter Energy Bills
- Port Townsend paper mill lays off 14, cites rising cost of energy, materials
- Alaska Senate considers new pipeline
- 9th Circuit – California Department of Water Resources V. Powerex Corp
- TEXAS – Have power prices hit a peak?
- Tennessee Congressman calls for refunds for customers from electricity cooperatives
- Coal and gas could power Maryland energy complex
- Former Westar officials ask judge to dismiss remaining counts
- CHINA – Final protest as village cleared for China's Three Gorges dam
- Sockeye return to Columbia in record numbers
- Costs shake up salmon bakes
- Seattle cement plants puff out toxic mercury
- News Tribune Editorial – Hands off that rain – it’s state property
- REC Silicon secures $1 billion in contracts for the supply of monosilane gas
- California green energy proposal has thin support
- Buzz up! Plug-in hybrids generate buzz in San Jose
- Save a Buck: Simple changes save power
- Western Climate Initiative – Proposal regulates carbon emissions
- "Greenhouse" bees spread disease to wild bees
- U.S. Has No Idea How Wired For Broadband It Is
- Microsoft exec who led Yahoo buyout team to leave
- Google's Cerf: Baby Bells Act Like Tots Having Tantrums
- Simpson Door workers in McCleary vote to authorize strike
- Credit Unions Claim Stability Amid U.S. Economy Crisis
- Pair with wire raise suspicions
- Jury awards Selah woman $171,000 in eminent domain case
- Goats To Begin Clearing Work For The City of Shelton
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Sub Rosa • \SUB – ROE-zah\ • adverb – In confidence: secretly
Dante thought that he had been receiving sub rosa financial advice via the closed captioning function on his TV while watching Suze Orman on the Teevee. That is, until his neighbor pointed out that the subtitles exactly matched the words coming out of Orman’s mouth.
Etymology: New Latin, literally, under the rose; from the ancient association of the rose with secrecy
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
Puget Energy buyers agree to trim debt, raise low-income assistance (The Seattle Times, WA)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008069600_puget240.html
Seattle Times Editorial – Concessions not enough to seal PSE deal
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2008069361_nopsedealed24.html
Whidbey pushes for its own public utility district – Proponents say a public utility district can provide better electricity rates and service (The Everett Herald, WA)
http://heraldnet.com/article/20080724/NEWS01/510347379
TransAlta Ponders Takeover Response – Power Company Stock Rises After Friday’s $7.8 Billion Acquisition Offer (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/rss/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1216835169&archive=
Natural gas rates may skyrocket (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2008/07/07232008_Natural-gas-rates-may-skyrocket.cfm?newsletter=2
MONTANA – Higher Winter Energy Bills (KECI-TV, Missoula, MT)
http://www.keci.com/montana_news.php?id=ffe259e36b894b74c507d157a6155b86
Port Townsend paper mill lays off 14, cites rising cost of energy, materials (The Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20080724/NEWS/807240308
Alaska Senate considers new pipeline – House approves license to seek permit for 1,715-mile, gas-carrying structure (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/372000_pipeline24.html?source=rss
9th Circuit – California Department of Water Resources V. Powerex Corp (Links to PDF File)
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/D93429B06E2B32288825748D007A2B00/$file/0615285.pdf?openelement
TEXAS – Have power prices hit a peak? Some electric retailers in Texas reduce rates after natural gas cost takes a tumble (The Houston Chronicle, TX)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/5904589.html
Tennessee Congressman Cooper calls for refunds for customers from electricity cooperatives – Urges TVA policy change (The Tennessean, Nashville, TN)http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080722/NEWS02/807220369/1009/NEWS
Coal and gas could power Maryland energy complex (The Associated Press, via the Williamson Daily News, WV)
http://www.williamsondailynews.com/articles/2008/07/23/news/doc48872986ba73a402117943.txt
Former Westar CEO, strategy officer ask federal judge to dismiss remaining counts against them (Canadian Business)
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/market_news/article.jsp?content=D922VLV02
CHINA – Final protest as village cleared for China's Three Gorges dam (Canda.com)
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=ff91aa96-b663-4dfa-8d98-de04c3c46a3e
San Francisco Chronicle Op/Ed – ‘Progressive’ power play – Rather than retrofit Mirant plant to run on cleaner power, four supervisors want to build more fossil fuel plants (SF, CA)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/24/EDED11TSTU.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
FISH & WILDLIFE
Sockeye return to Columbia in record numbers (The Associated Press, via Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1503312~Sockeye_return_to_Columbia_in_record_numbers.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
Costs shake up salmon bakes (The News Tribune, Tacoma)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/soundlife/story/420848.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Seattle cement plants puff out toxic mercury – Two Seattle cement plants puff out as much as 100 pounds of mercury each year, according to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency and the companies (The Seattle Times, WA)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008069635_cement24m0.html
News Tribune Editorial – Hands off that rain – it’s state property – The question wouldn’t have occurred to most of us: Who owns the rain? (Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/422059.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
REC Silicon secures $1 billion in contracts for the supply of monosilane gas to major gas distributors (The Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2008/07/23/news/news03.txt
California green energy proposal has thin support – 63% of those who had a view on it favor a California ballot measure that would require half the state's electricity to come from renewable sources by 2025, BUT 82% of those interviewed said they did not know of the measure. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/environment/2008-07-24-proposition-7-not-recognized_N.htm?csp=34
Buzz up! Plug-in hybrids generate buzz in San Jose (San Francisco Chronicle, CA)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/23/BU6711TF9S.DTL&feed=rss.business
CONSERVATION
Save a Buck: Simple changes save power (The Everett Herald)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/23/BU6711TF9S.DTL&feed=rss.business
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Western Climate Initiative – Proposal regulates carbon emissions (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/07/21/daily34.html?ana=from_rss
"Greenhouse" bees spread disease to wild bees (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2232266420080723?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest
TELECOMMUNICATIONS & TECHNOLOGY
U.S. Has No Idea How Wired For Broadband It Is – Only ten of the nation's fifty states engaged in finding out (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/US-Has-No-Idea-How-Wired-For-Broadband-It-Is-96312
Microsoft exec who led Yahoo buyout team to leave (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/517274.html
Google's Cerf: Baby Bells Act Like Tots Having Tantrums – Neutrality fight leaves bad blood between industry giants (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Googles-Cerf-Baby-Bells-Act-Like-Tots-Having-Tantrums-96305
GENERAL NEWS
Simpson Door workers in McCleary vote to authorize strike (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2008/07/23/local_news/07news.txt
Credit Unions Claim Stability Amid U.S. Economy Crisis (KNDO-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=8723230
Pair with wire raise suspicions (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2008/07/23/local_news/10news.txt
Jury awards Selah woman $171,000 in eminent domain case (The Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
http://www.yakimaherald.com/stories/6079
Goats To Begin Clearing Work For The City of Shelton (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/618/reftab/1896/Default.aspx
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
NZ judge backs girl over 'embarrassing' name: Talula Does the Hula from Hawaii
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/24/odd.names/index.html?eref=ib_topstories
Teacher Lasts 20 Hours On Carnival Ride, Wins $1K
http://www.kirotv.com/irresistible/16965961/detail.html
Police Catch Man Who Lost Weight to Squeeze Out Of Jail
http://www.kirotv.com/health/16963636/detail.html
NY Man Earning $100K Lived In Company Paint Shed
http://www.kirotv.com/irresistible/16966046/detail.html
Underwear chicken dare puts man in hospital
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSSYD22974420080723?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest
Thursday, July 24, 2008
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