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)
- Counties split on public taking over PSE electric service
- Jefferson County favors independence from Puget Energy
- Jefferson PUD poised for talks on acquiring electric service
- Canada – 'Tape and twine' keep BC Hydro facilities going
- Most of Centralia Impacted by Planned Outage Midnight Friday
- Coos-Curry Electric Coop signs wholesale power agreement with PNGC Power
- Congressional Research Reports – Winter Fuels Markets
- Too much wind power may be bad news for endangered salmon
- Seattle Times Op/Ed – Orcas are a call to action on Puget Sound cleanup
- Net of warring interests surrounds West Coast fishery changes
- Fishermen criticize quota plan for West Coast groundfish
- Shoshone-Bannock Tribes to sign historic fish agreement Friday
- Oregonian Op/Ed – Questions of diversity for humans and fish
- Cowlitz the place for Coho; Skokomish hot for Chum
- Bush hits choppy water over ocean sanctuaries
- Agency to release Puget Sound cleanup plan
- Corps takes measures after inspection finds seepage at Bennington Lake dam
- On this Day: The Barnes Lake Dam Bursts in Toccoa Falls, Ga.
- Wave, Tidal, and In-Stream Energy Projects: Which Agency Has the Lead?
- Mass Megawatts Expands Into Small Wind
- Paying For Heat, Electric in Trying Times
- The Climate Change Trap
- Are Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rising More Rapidly Than Expected?
- Google pulls out of search ad deal with Yahoo
- Tech problems in a phone network in Coeur d'Alene cut service in E. Washington
- US President-Elect Obama Is Plugged In On Technology Issues
- Mason County Flood Watch Remains in Effect
- Simpson Door says workers have company’s “last offer”
- Trucker killed on I-5 at Olympia
- Crisis clinic seeks help with new funding to serve Thurston and Mason counties
WORD OF THE DAY
Panglossian • \pan-GLOSS-ee-un\ • adjective – Marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds: excessively optimistic
Olive’s eyes were positively dewy. “ I just know that by blasting dams out of the Snake River that millions of salmon will magically appear, and all will be well,” she gushed in her best “Earth Mother” voice. Her Panglossian view was barely dented by virtually identical fish survival statistics for dammed and free-running rivers.
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
Counties split on public taking over PSE electric service (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/386581_pse06.html
Jefferson County favors independence from Puget Energy (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008356727_pugetenergy06.html
Jefferson PUD poised for talks on acquiring electric service (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081106/news/311069994
Canada – 'Tape and twine' keep BC Hydro facilities going (The Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=53940f0c-608b-474b-bc09-411a219e186c
Most of Centralia Impacted by Planned Outage Midnight Friday (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
http://www.kelaam.com/pages/localnews/?Most-of-Centralia-Impacted-by-Planned-Ou=1&blockID=17231&feedID=410
Oregon – Coos-Curry Electric Coop signs wholesale power agreement with PNGC Power (Curry County Reporter, Gold Beach, OR)
http://www.currycountyreporter.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=4126
Congressional Research Reports – Winter Fuels Markets
http://opencrs.com/document/RL34714
FISH & WILDLIFE
Too much wind power may be bad news for endangered salmon (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/33970219.html
Seattle Times Op/Ed – Orcas are a call to action on Puget Sound cleanup
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008356333_opin06orca.html?syndication=rss
Net of warring interests surrounds West Coast fishery changes (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008356998_fishvote06.html
Fishermen criticize quota plan for West Coast groundfish (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/fishermen_criticize_quota_plan.html
BPA Media Advisory – Shoshone-Bannock Tribes to sign historic fish agreement Friday (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.bpa.gov/corporate/BPAnews/nreleases.cfm
Oregonian Op/Ed – Questions of diversity -- for humans and fish (Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2008/11/andy_parker_questions_of_diver.html
Cowlitz the place for Coho; Skokomish hot for Chum (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/outdoors/story/651792.html
Bush hits choppy water over ocean sanctuaries (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/05/MNCJ13TPAV.DTL
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Agency to release Puget Sound cleanup plan (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1676558~Agency_to_release_Puget_Sound_cleanup_plan.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines
Corps takes measures after inspection finds seepage at Bennington Lake dam (Walla Walla Union Bulletin, WA)
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/11/06/local_news/081105local09damsafety.txt
On this Day: The Barnes Lake Dam Bursts in Toccoa Falls, Ga. (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/November/The-Barnes-Lake-Dam-Bursts-in-Toccoa-Falls-Ga.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Congressional Research Reports – Wave, Tidal, and In-Stream Energy Projects: Which Federal Agency Has the Lead?
http://opencrs.com/document/RS22721
Mass Megawatts Expands Into Small Wind (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=54021&src=rss
CONSERVATION
Paying For Heat, Electric in Trying Times (CBS News)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/06/earlyshow/contributors/raymartin/main4577451.shtml
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
The Climate Change Trap (Forbes Magazine)
http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/11/05/obama-climate-change-biz-energy-cx_wp_1106energy.html
Congressional Research Reports – Are Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rising More Rapidly Than Expected?
http://opencrs.com/document/RS22970
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Google pulls out of search ad deal with Yahoo (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE49U0C620081105?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology
Tech problems in a phone network in Coeur d'Alene cut service in E. Washington (Tri-City Herald)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/915/story/374989.html
US President-Elect Obama Is Plugged In On Technology Issues (CNN Money)
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200811051144DOWJONESDJONLINE000793_FORTUNE5.htm
GENERAL NEWS
Mason County Flood Watch Remains In Effect From Through Late Friday Night (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5486/reftab/1896/title/FLOOD_WATCH_REMAINS_IN_EFFECT_FROM_THROUGH_LATE_FRIDAY_NIGHT/Default.aspx
Simpson Door says workers have company’s “last offer” (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2008/11/05/local_news/05news.txt
Trucker killed on I-5 at Olympia (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008359033_apwaolympiafatal1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
Crisis clinic seeks help with new funding to serve Thurston and Mason counties (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/651779.html
DIVERSIONS
Alaska man says he accidentally stole a car
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_fe_st/odd_auto_theft;_ylt=At3kSeNMvZV7l9hYqf2QF6btiBIF
Thieves caught in Hungary with 12 pigs in car
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081106/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_hungary_pigs;_ylt=Aror0M7nd9mKHguy48ImrpztiBIF
FBI: Airline passenger restrained with duct tape
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_re_us/odd_passenger_duct_tape;_ylt=AuotdINp4pjAe0xxgk0sC3DtiBIF
Police net Shanghai's cricket fighting king
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081030/od_afp/chinacrimegamblingcricketsoffbeat_081030161730;_ylt=AusZ24Qp8sHpQCp1QSOTxMygOrgF
Thursday, November 6, 2008
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