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)
- Supplier Poll: Texas voters favor electricity competition
- Massachusetts – Utility offers a 3-year lock on electricity rate
- Massachusetts Electricity offer slammed
- Benton PUD offering low-income discounts
- South Africa – 'No electricity, No vote’
- Union-Bulletin Editorial – New study finds fish do as well on dammed rivers
- Coho flooding to Cowlitz salmon hatchery at record pace
- 'We're getting down to the last fish in the barrel'
- Oregon – Commercial fishermen question salmon plan
- Taylor Shellfish May Face Fines from Washington State
- Dusky tree vole may be in need of federal protection
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial – Puget Sound: Troubled waters
- Camas, state tout ‘win-win’ water rights
- Pateros businesses lament Douglas County PUD’s plan to lower river
- West Montana tribal water compact negotiations rolling along
- Feds to check for contaminants in Columbia River
- Wastewater concerns slowing N. Idaho developers
- Renewable energy debuts on ballots
- Pickens delays world's biggest wind farm project
- California rejects Pacific Gas & Electric contract for wave energy
- Michigan – Stranded oil spurs an electric America with more renewables
- California City to Turn Waste into Energy
- Turning Waste Olive Stones Into Bioethanol
- Energy-efficient fridge actually costs less
- North Carolina – Energy Star goods have tax holiday
- Pointers to help you avoid ‘greenwashing’
- Comcast: The New Broadband King
- Cable Subscribers Increase Before Digital Transition
- State Releases Audit of City of Shelton
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Internecine • \inter-NESS-seen\ • \adjective – 1: marked by slaughter: deadly; especially: mutually destructive 2: of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group
The manufacturing employees and design staff continued their internecine battles over color choices for the new product line throughout the year. The designers demanded that the assembly line use dark brown and hot pink in new throw-pillow designs. The workers rebelled, when after one week, the color combination had sent hundreds of them home with headaches and nausea.
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
Poll: Texas voters favor electricity competition – Industry to use findings in battle against efforts to regulate prices “…poll commissioned by a power industry trade group…” (Houston Chronicle, TX)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6084989.html
Massachusetts – Utility offers a 3-year lock on electricity rate: Dominion's deal would cut average bill by a few dollars (Boston Globe, MA)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6084989.html
Massachusetts Electricity offer slammed (Boston Herald)
http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1128762&srvc=rss
Benton PUD offering low-income discounts (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/367432.html
South Africa – 'No electricity, No vote’ (Independent Online)
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_South%20Africa&set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20081030152202533C743404
FISH & WILDLIFE
Union-Bulletin Editorial – New study finds fish do as well on dammed rivers: Yet, environmental groups quickly dismissed the merits of the study. Any study that doesn't denigrate dams is automatically unscientific, horrible or both (Walla Walla, WA)
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/10/29/opinion/daily_editorial/081029%20editorial%20dams.txt
Coho flooding to Cowlitz salmon hatchery at record pace (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/704/story/641985.html
'We're getting down to the last fish in the barrel' (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/33560749.html
Oregon – Commercial fishermen question salmon plan (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2008/10/andy_parker_commercial_fisherm.html
Taylor Shellfish May Face Fines from Washington State (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5427/reftab/1632/title/TAYLOR_SHELLFISH_MAY_FACE_FINES_FROM_THE_STATE/Default.aspx
Dusky tree vole may be in need of federal protection (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008328905_treevole30.html?syndication=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial – Puget Sound: Troubled waters
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/385542_pugeted.html?source=rss
Camas, state tout ‘win-win’ water rights (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081030/NEWS02/710309968/-1/NEWS
Pateros businesses lament Douglas County PUD’s plan to lower river (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081030/NEWS04/710301306
West Montana tribal water compact negotiations rolling along (Char-Koosta, Pablo, MT)
http://www.charkoosta.com/2008/2008_10_30/CSKT_water_compacts_roll_along.html
Feds to check for contaminants in Columbia River (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/366999.html
Wastewater concerns slowing N. Idaho developers (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1658956~Wastewater_concerns_slowing_N__Idaho_developers.html?cid=rss-Idaho_Headlines
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Renewable energy debuts on ballots (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-29-ballot-proposals_N.htm?csp=34
Pickens delays world's biggest wind farm project – Texas oilman's wind farm project hit by financial crisis and drop in price of natural gas (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/30/windpower-energy
California rejects Pacific Gas & Electric contract for wave energy (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10830160?source=rss
Michigan – Stranded oil spurs an electric America with more renewables (Tri-Cities Business Review, MI)
http://www.mlive.com/businessreview/tricities/index.ssf/2008/10/stranded_oil_spurs_an_electric.html
California City to Turn Waste into Energy (Facility Blog)
http://todaysfacilitymanager.com/facilityblog/2008/10/california-city-to-turn-waste-into-energy.html
Turning Waste Olive Stones Into Bioethanol ([Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53974&src=rss
CONSERVATION
Energy-efficient fridge actually costs less (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1224712526166670.xml&coll=7
North Carolina – Energy Star goods have tax holiday (The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area)
http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2008/10/27/daily28.html?ana=from_rss
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Pointers to help you avoid ‘greenwashing’ (Wenatchee World)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081030/HOM/710301323/1025/rss1025
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Comcast: The New Broadband King – Poised to surpass AT&T as nation's largest provider (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-The-New-Broadband-King-98748
Cable Subscribers Increase Before Digital Transition (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96311177&ft=1&f=3
GENERAL NEWS
State Releases Audit of City of Shelton (KMAS Radio, Shelton)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5425/reftab/1632/title/STATE_RELEASES_AUDIT_OF_CITY/Default.aspx
DIVERSIONS
Police kill wild turkeys in Philomath
http://www.examiner.com/a-1663998~Police_kill_wild_turkeys_in_Philomath.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
On this Day: ‘The War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Causes Panic
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/September-October-08/On-this-Day---The-War-of-the-Worlds--Broadcast-Causes-Panic.html
Leave Your Ear Wax Alone, Experts Say
http://www.kirotv.com/health/17846271/detail.html
Sticky-Fingered Campus Cop Charged In Pastry Theft
http://www.kirotv.com/irresistible/17848981/detail.html
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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