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)
- BPA energy deal for struggling aluminum companies sparks strong objections
- Mason County Residents Urged To Prepare For Storms
- Scientist says fraudulent science hides hydro project's damage to B.C. creek
- Obama's Energy Department – Let the speculating begin
- Electric markets are broken, Pennsylvania officials told
- U.S. Decides One Nuclear Dump Is Enough
- Extreme Makeover: Nuclear Power Plant Edition
- State OKs part of Puget Sound for geoduck harvest
- Montana – On the brink of extinction: The Kootenai River white sturgeon
- 2020 vision to clean up Puget Sound unveiled
- EPA targets Columbia’s 4 key pollutants
- Lower Yakima Valley – EPA targets groundwater contamination
- Walla Walla – Corps lays plans to boost Mill Creek dam safety
- Walla Walla – Mill Creek project spurred by 1931 flood
- Pickens Plan: Boon or Boondoggle?
- Minnesota – Residents tilt at windmill and lose
- Duke Energy Sees Rooftops as Future Power Plants
- Ameren Illinois Utilities Encourage Customers to Control Energy Bills
- Carbon Trading: States & Utilities Unite to Rob Energy Consumer
- Clearwire Creatively Renamed 'New Clearwire'
- Report: Microsoft luring Verizon away from Google
- Heavy Rain Brings Rivers to Banks, Floods Roadways
- Flood Warning in Effect for Skokomish River
- Officer Fires Shot at Man in Mason County
- Ex-fire official admits stealing half a million dollars
- Kitsap Sun Plans Company-Wide Cuts
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Licentious • \lie-SENN-chus\ • adjective – 1: lacking legal or moral restraints; especially: disregarding sexual restraints 2: marked by disregard for strict rules of correctness
Alberto was on a rampage in the corridors of the company’s headquarters. His licentious romp was punctuated with handfuls of confetti from his shredded annual report. It wasn’t until he blasted the head accountant with a handful of the shredded paper that he was subdued by a blow to the side of his head from a hefty Swingline stapler.
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
BPA energy deal for struggling aluminum companies sparks strong objections “…it couldn’t come at a worse time, local economic leaders said Thursday…” (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/11/07/area_news/doc4913f146cc1aa162010610.txt
Mason County Residents Urged To Prepare For Storms (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5493/reftab/1632/title/RESIDENTS_URGED_TO_PREPARE_FOR_STORMS/Default.aspx
Canada – Scientist says fraudulent science used to hide hydro project's damage to B.C. creek (CBC News)
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/11/06/bc-miller-creek.html?ref=rss
Obama's Energy Department – Let the speculating begin. Not oil speculation, but job speculation for the new Obama administration (Washington Post)
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/energywire/2008/11/obamas_energy_department.html
Electric markets are broken, Pennsylvania officials told (Associated Press)
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/11/07/ap5664817.html
U.S. Decides One Nuclear Dump Is Enough (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/washington/07yucca.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
Extreme Makeover: Nuclear Power Plant Edition (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/extreme-makeover-nuclear-power-plant-edition/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
State OKs part of Puget Sound for geoduck harvest (KIRO-Radio, Seattle)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=102915
Montana – On the brink of extinction: The Kootenai River white sturgeon is one of the most intriguing, and some would say bizarre, fish in North America (Helena Independent-Record, MT)
http://www.helenair.com/articles/2008/11/07/state/80st_081107_sturgeon.txt
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
2020 vision to clean up Puget Sound unveiled – Partnership shares environmental objectives for next 12 years (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/653143.html
EPA targets Columbia’s 4 key pollutants – Report gives officials, concerned parties basis to pursue action (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081106/NEWS02/711079954/-1/NEWS
Lower Yakima Valley – EPA targets groundwater contamination: Agencies will meet to see what can be done (Yakima Herald Republic)
http://www.yakimaherald.com/stories/2008/11/06/epa-targets-groundwater-contamination
Walla Walla – Corps lays plans to boost Mill Creek dam safety – The Corps of Engineers plans steps to ward off potential failure of the dam at the lake
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/11/06/local_news/081106local03millcreekdam.txt
Walla Walla – Mill Creek project spurred by 1931 flood (The Union-Bulletin)
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/11/06/local_news/081106local04flood.txt
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Pickens Plan: Boon or Boondoggle? (OpEd News)
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Pickens-Plan-Boon-or-Boon-by-Barry-Krusch-081106-305.html
Minnesota – Residents tilt at windmill, but Medina Council approves it (Minneapolis Star, MN)
http://www.startribune.com/local/west/34061499.html?elr=KArksc8P:Pc:UHDaaDyiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
Duke Energy Sees Rooftops as Future Power Plants (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96392743&ft=1&f=1025
CONSERVATION
Ameren Illinois Utilities Encourage Customers to Control Energy Bills Through Budget Billing and Conservation (PRNewswire)
http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/prnewswire/press_releases/national/Illinois/2008/11/06/AQTH543
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Energy Pulse Commentary – Carbon Trading: States & Utilities Unite to Rob Energy Consumers
http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=1870
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Clearwire Creatively Renamed 'New Clearwire' – Branding department apparently didn't work much overtime (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Clearwire-Creatively-Renamed-New-Clearwire-98938
Report: Microsoft luring Verizon away from Google (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2008/11/03/daily96.html?ana=from_rss
GENERAL NEWS
Heavy Rain Brings Rivers to Banks, Floods Roadways (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/17930567/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Flood Warning in Effect for Skokomish River (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5495/reftab/1632/title/FLOOD_WARNING_IN_EFFECT_FOR_SKOKOMISH_RIVER/Default.aspx
Officer Fires Shot at Man in Mason County (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/17931299/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Ex-fire official admits stealing – Likely prison term, restitution to follow plea by former South King CFO (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/531012.html
Kitsap Sun Plans Company-Wide Cuts (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/nov/06/sun-plans-company-wide-cuts/?partner=RSS
DIVERSIONS
Squirrels Too Licentious For Calif. Campus – UC Davis Squirrels to Get Birth Control Injections
http://www.kirotv.com/education/17929038/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=irresistible
Mushroom foragers love thrill of the hunt – As autumn rains rinse the Pacific Northwest, it is wild mushroom time
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/traveloutdoors/2008362133_shrooms07m.html
Snoring Australian judge's verdicts overturned
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081106/od_afp/australiajusticeoffbeat_081106172200;_ylt=AqJ7jAjhifwVFC10uk8G9UagOrgF
On a roll: Golfer records 5 holes-in-one in a week
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081107/ap_on_fe_st/odd5_holes_in_one;_ylt=AlihcPr2Y4zxhN5K0ZYyCePtiBIF
Friday, November 7, 2008
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