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)
- Residential Exchange – Puget Sound Energy trying to lower electric rates
- Rate cut possible for Puget Sound Energy customers
- CALIFORNIA – Electricity from Pacific Gas & Electric to cost 6% more
- Jefferson County Public Power – New cash, new vote proposal in campaign
- Policy group's report backs Jefferson County power by PSE over PUDs
- Public Power Week Next Week
- MONTANA – Flathead Co-op puts $3.5 mil in rebates for customers
- IDAHO – Salmon River Electric Cooperative membership tops 2,000
- Enron creditors to receive $900 million distribution
- Energy Pulse Commentary – Another Inconvenient Truth: The Need for Coal
- FISHING: Portion of Yakima River closed to salmon fishing
- Cowlitz River is the place to go for Coho
- Orcas Move South Into Kitsap Waters
- Documentary looks at effects of Snake River dam removal
- Feds will review protected status of seabirds
- Puget Sound agency considers array of taxes to restore Puget Sound's environmental health
- Regulating Interstate Water Pollution
- Columbian Editorial – Septic Assistance: Poorly functioning septic tanks pose a major threat to the quality of groundwater and underground aquifers
- Solar tour showcases renewable energy resources in Clark County
- Seattle Steam Building Biomass Facility
- Great Lakes show great promise for wind energy, researchers find
- UNITED KINGDOM – Study eases fear about wind farm threat to birds
- CFLs: Are We Trading Energy Conservation For Toxic Mercury Emissions?
- Everett Home Show Goes Green!
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District rates customers on energy consumption
- High mountain meadows at Rainier melt away
- British Columbia’s glaciers steadily disappearing
- Report: 4.2 million new 'green' jobs possible
- Google unveils $4.4 trillion plan to reduce fossil-fuel dependence
- The 'Clean Coal' Myth
- Costco's data center future uncertain in Grant County
- Google Data Centers More Efficient Than the Industry Average
- Powell, Wyoming: Population 5,500, Fiber Fed
- Outsourcing aids many data thefts, Verizon says
- Winter May Bring Heavy Rain, Strong Winds, Lowland Snow
- Huh? Forecasters see chance of warmer, drier winter
- This winter, expect ... absolutely anything
- Indian Tribes’ Sales of Untaxed Cigarettes Getting More Scrutiny
- Tacoma City Council explores user-fee system for streets
- Spokane, Wash., paper makes cuts, editor resigns
- Political vandals tearing up campaign signs in Western Washington
- WaMu CEO Fishman won't accept any severance pay
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Bilious • \BILL-yus\ • adjective – 1a: of or relating to bile b : marked by or suffering from liver dysfunction and especially excessive secretion of bile *2: of or indicative of a peevish ill-natured disposition 3: sickeningly unpleasant
Barty instinctively shrank away from the close-talking energy trader at the party celebrating his new wind farm. “Your little pinwheels won’t ever compete with my nuke plant,” growled his bilious guest.
WEATHER
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
Residential Exchange – Puget Sound Energy trying to lower electric rates (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/business/stories/NW_100108BUB_pse_rate_reduction_TP.cf072fc5.html
Rate cut possible for Puget Sound Energy customers (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Public power preference customer are still waiting for their thank you note….)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/497429.html
CALIFORNIA – Electricity from Pacific Gas & Electric to cost 6% more (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/02/BUEC139ONR.DTL&feed=rss.business
Jefferson County Public Power Measure – New cash, new vote proposal in Prop. 1 campaign (Port Townsend Leader, WA)
http://www.ptleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=36&SubSectionID=55&ArticleID=21956&TM=51790.86
Policy group's report backs Jefferson County power by PSE over PUDs (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081002/NEWS/810020309
Public Power Week Next Week (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5185/reftab/1896/Default.aspx
MONTANA – Flathead Co-op puts $3.5 mil in rebates for customers (KAJ-TV, Kalispell, MT)http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=9109349
IDAHO – Salmon River Electric Cooperative membership tops 2,000 (The Challis Messenger, ID)
http://www.challismessenger.com/index.php?accnum=story-11-20081002
Enron creditors to receive $900 million distribution (Portland Business Journal, OR)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/09/29/daily38.html?ana=from_rss
Energy Pulse Commentary – Another Inconvenient Truth: The Need for Coal
http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=1839
FISH & WILDLIFE
FISHING: Portion of Yakima River closed to salmon fishing (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/337015.html
Cowlitz River is the place to go for Coho (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/sports/story/604526.html
Orcas Move South Into Kitsap Waters (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/oct/01/orcas-move-south-into-kitsap-waters/?partner=RSS
Documentary looks at effects of Snake River dams removal (Tri-City Herald)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/337357.html
Feds will review protected status of seabirds (Associated Press)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1616640~Feds_will_review_protected_status_of_seabirds.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Puget Sound agency considers array of taxes to restore Puget Sound's environmental health (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/30073154.html
Regulating Interstate Water Pollution (KUOW Radio, Seattle)
http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=15954
Columbian Editorial – Septic Assistance: Poorly functioning septic tanks pose a major threat to the quality of groundwater and underground aquifers (Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081002/OPINION02/810019941/-1/opinion
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Energy Adviser: Solar tour showcases renewable energy resources in Clark County (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20081002/LIVING/810019956
Seattle Steam Building Biomass Facility (Renewable Energy World Online)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53731&src=rss
Great Lakes show great promise for wind energy, researchers find (Detroit Free Press, MI)
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081001/BUSINESS06/81001057
UNITED KINGDOM – Study eases fear about wind farm threat to birds (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4900A120081001?sp=true
CONSERVATION
Compact Fluorescent Lighting: Are We Trading Energy Conservation For Toxic Mercury Emissions? (Science Daily)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081001093454.htm
Everett Home Show Goes Green! (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/greenhuman/archives/150173.asp
CALIFORNIA – Sacramento Municipal Utility District rates customers on energy consumption (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sacbee.com/378/story/1267187.html
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
High mountain meadows at Rainier melt away (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/603990.html
British Columbia’s glaciers steadily disappearing (Straight.com, Vancouver, BC)
http://www.straight.com/article-164354/bc-glaciers-steadily-disappearing
Report: 4.2 million new 'green' jobs possible (Associated Press)
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ipuPwK5YeRDA9nnfxKFH15moXmSgD93HTSM02
Google unveils $4.4 trillion plan to reduce fossil-fuel dependence (Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/09/29/daily64.html?ana=from_rss
The 'Clean Coal' Myth (Newsweek/Washington Post)
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/energywire/2008/10/the_clean_coal_myth.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Costco's data center future uncertain in Grant County – Dark fiber halt impacted decisions by Amazon, Oracle (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2008/10/01/news/news02.txt
Google Data Centers More Efficient Than the Industry Average (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2008/10/01/google-data-centers-more-efficient-than-the-industry-average/
Powell, Wyoming: Population 5,500, Fiber Fed – Municipal broadband project getting lit (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Powell-Wyoming-Population-5500-Fiber-Fed-98110?nocomment=1
Outsourcing aids many data thefts, Verizon says (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10616778?source=rss
GENERAL NEWS
Winter May Bring Heavy Rain, Strong Winds, Lowland Snow (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/weather/17599914/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Huh? Forecasters see chance of warmer, drier winter (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/604343.html
This winter, expect ... absolutely anything (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/381402_weather02.html?source=rss
Indian Tribes’ Sales of Untaxed Cigarettes Getting More Scrutiny (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/nyregion/02smoke.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
Tacoma City Council explores user-fee system for streets – A new utility might be what it takes to transform Tacoma’s streets from a mess to a source of pride. (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/government/story/490383.html
Spokane, Wash., paper makes cuts, editor resigns (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008221002_apwaspokesmancuts1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
Political vandals tearing up campaign signs in Western Washington (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_100108WAB_political_vandals_LJ.ce8cc18f.html
WaMu CEO Fishman won't accept any severance pay (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008221171_fishman02.html
DIVERSIONS
Lost Dog Finds Fla. Travel Agency, And A Way Home
http://www.kirotv.com/irresistible/17599000/detail.html
Woman In Cow Suit Moo-ves Police To Arrest
http://www.kirotv.com/irresistible/17598558/detail.html
Chicken droppings cheap fertilizer for U.S. wheat
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081002/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_usa_fertilizer_poultry;_ylt=AsBAh1BGNvm9cnjb7c9hX7rtiBIF
Bangkok governor hopeful punches TV host - Claims he was provoked by tough questions during a live interview.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081002/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_thailand_election_fight;_ylt=Asib9oC.IK9RXYLUVHqEy_XtiBIF
Thursday, October 2, 2008
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