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)
- Strong Winds in Cascade Foothills Drop Trees, Cut Power Lines
- Jefferson PUD urged to move quickly on power franchise
- Wenatchee - First Alcoa workers notified of layoffs
- Council Hears Competing Sides In Proposed Alcoa Power Sale
- Seattle P-I Editorial - Northwest needs: Pay attention to us
- Opponents Say Federal Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Would Pollute
- Some City of Tacoma workers underpaid, study says
- PG&E starts Colusa natural gas power plant construction
- Get those ugly chum while you can
- Most of California’s native game fish face extinction
- Changes to Species Act Are Said to Be Near
- Sea lion numbers a mixed bag
- Panel Approves First Rules for Organic Farmed Fish
- ComEd's Lake Michigan Bird-Friendly Efforts Take Flight
- Is the Northwest Running Out of Water?
- Rainwater Turns To Noxious Soup, Flows to Sound
- Crews racing to repair 30 Western Washington levees
- Seattle raises $205 million through water bonds
- Group that backs public artesian well in Olympia to disband
- Clean Energy Confronts Messy Reality
- Ocean water could bring limitless clean energy
- Wal-Mart buys wind energy supply, with a catch
- WAPA buying wind power from Basin
- Car Charging - Nissan drives a deal with Oregon
- California begins crackdown on newly illegal chimney fires
- NY Times Op/Ed - What’s the Point of Daylight Time?
- Measuring the National Carbon Footprint
- Governors Tackle Climate Change
- 'Applause' for British Columbia's carbon tax
- Top companies urge Congress to go green
- Big Green Brother - Wal-Mart tells its workers to live and breathe sustainability
- 400 Million Global Broadband Users
- Coming Soon, Fiber to All of the Netherlands
- Obama’s FCC Transition Team Co-chair
- Intuit lowers forecast for current year
- Cuts loom as Washington State faces $5.1 billion budget shortfall
- Simpson to Shut Down Local Mills for Three Weeks
- North Mason Clinic Closing Leaves Some Patients in Flux
- Christmas tree sales appear to be greening
- A Shocking Stat: 85% of Benton County on Food Stamps
- Napolitano emerges for Homeland Security job
- More Cabinet Talk
- McMorris Rodgers elected to leadership role
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Gravid • \GRAV-id\ • adjective - *1: pregnant 2: distended with or full of eggs
Passersby stopped and stared, astounded at Alice’s exaggerated gravid appearance. “I guess there’s no such thing as being a ‘little pregnant’,” said her awestruck partner. “But you are living proof that there is such a thing as being VERY pregnant.”
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
Strong Winds in Cascade Foothills Drop Trees, Cut Power Lines (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18023820/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Jefferson PUD urged to move quickly on power franchise (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081120/news/311209993
Wenatchee - First Alcoa workers notified of layoffs (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081119/NEWS04/711209939
Council Hears Competing Sides In Proposed Alcoa Power Sale (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/3596-power-council-hears-competing-sides-proposed-alcoa-power-sale/
Seattle P-I Editorial - Northwest needs: Pay attention to us: The region's need for intelligent environmental, energy and climate decisions is urgent
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/388528_nwobamaed.html?source=rss
Opponents Say Federal Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Would Pollute (Northwest Public Radio)
http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4588
Some City of Tacoma workers underpaid, study says - Pay scales for the city and for Tacoma Public Utilities are low for lots of jobs, high for others (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/543502.html
PG&E starts Colusa natural gas power plant construction (San Francisco Business Times)
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/11/17/daily74.html?ana=from_rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Get those ugly chum while you can - Still a few of these fish available to catch in area rivers (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20081120/SPORTS/711209844/1004/SPORTS
Most of California’s native game fish face extinction (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/20/MN3E147V6I.DTL&feed=rss.news
Changes to Species Act Are Said to Be Near (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/19/AR2008111904585.html?nav=rss_nation
Sea lion numbers a mixed bag (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008415015_apaksealions1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
USDA Panel Approves First Rules For Labeling Farmed Fish 'Organic' (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/19/AR2008111903787.html?nav=rss_nation
ComEd's Lake Michigan Bird-Friendly Efforts Take Flight (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/IndustryNews.asp?m=1&id=101144
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Is the Northwest Running Out of Water? (Northwest Public Radio)
http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4590
Rainwater Turns To Noxious Soup, Flows To Sound (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18008323/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_-1_09000111202008&ts=H
Crews racing Mother Nature to repair 30 Western Washington levees (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/34793354.html
Seattle raises $205 million through water bonds (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/388582_bonds20.html?source=rss
Group that backs public artesian well in Olympia to disband (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/667694.html
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
Clean Energy Confronts Messy Reality (Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122714114743842743.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Ocean water could bring limitless clean energy (ChattahBox)
http://chattahbox.com/science/2008/11/20/ocean-water-could-bring-limitless-clean-energy/
Wal-Mart buys wind energy supply - Demands rates with no renewable energy premiums (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008414891_aparwalmartwindenergy.html?syndication=rss
WAPA buying wind power from Basin (Associated Press)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-nd-wapa-wind,0,3655003.story
Car Charging - Nissan drives a deal with Oregon (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/11/17/daily32.html?ana=from_rss
No-No Biomass – California smoke police begin crackdown on newly illegal chimney fires - Barbecue grills and outdoor pizza ovens are exempt (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11025429?source=rss
NY Times Op/Ed - What’s the Point of Daylight Time?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/opinion/20kotchen.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Measuring the National Carbon Footprint - How do you total up the greenhouse-gas emissions for an entire country? (Slate Magazine)
http://www.slate.com/id/2205011/?from=rss
Governors Tackle Climate Change (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97203134
'Applause' for British Columbia's carbon tax at California speech (The Province, BC)
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=b00f5459-b65b-4dd0-81d2-0619f97610e8
Top companies urge Congress to go green - Starbucks, others to lobby for climate legislation (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/388585_green20.html?source=rss
Big Green Brother - When Wal-Mart tells its workers to live and breathe sustainability, is it (a) creepy, (b) innovative, (c) greenwashing, (d) all of the above? (Mother Jones Magazine)
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/11/big-green-brother.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
400 Million Global Broadband Users - 680 million by 2013, with the biggest number in China (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/400-Million-Global-Broadband-Users-99200
Coming Soon, Fiber to All of the Netherlands (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2008/11/19/big-fiber-in-little-netherlands/
Obama’s FCC Transition Team Co-chair a WoW Player – Check it out! He looks like David Byrne from the “Talking Heads!” (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2008/11/18/obamas-fcc-transition-team-co-chair-a-wow-player/
Intuit lowers forecast for current year (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11023850?source=rss
GENERAL NEWS
Cuts loom as state faces $5.1 billion budget shortfall - No special session planned to sort out mess (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/news/story/668120.html
Simpson to Shut Down Local Mills for Three Weeks (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5624/reftab/1632/title/SIMPSON_TO_SHUT_DOWN_FOR_THREE_WEEKS/Default.aspx
North Mason Clinic's Closing Leaves Some Patients in Flux (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/nov/19/nm-clinics-closing-leaves-some-patients-in-flux/?partner=RSS
Christmas tree sales appear to be greening - Growers predict the economy will keep more people home this year, boosting their business (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1227153331223220.xml&coll=7
A Shocking Stat: 85% of Benton County on Food Stamps (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities)
http://www.keprtv.com/news/local/34783929.html
Dems: Napolitano emerges for Homeland Security job (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008412319_apobamacabinet.html?syndication=rss
More Cabinet Talk - Discussions with Clintons as Obama Creates Team (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/us/politics/20obama.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
McMorris Rodgers elected to leadership role (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008411621_apwamcmorrisrodgersleadership.html?syndication=rss
DIVERSIONS
Graham School Hosting Donkey Basketball, PETA Wants It Benched
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18017983/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_-1_09000111202008&ts=H
Mystery Meat Dumped In Town Common - Residents Concerned Meat May Be Poisoned
http://www.kirotv.com/health/18023673/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=irresistible
Retired Librarian Gives $1M Each to Her Colleges
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18016969/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=irresistible
Pot smugglers toss 5 tons of marijuana into sea
http://www.examiner.com/a-1701520~Pot_smugglers_toss_5_tons_of_marijuana_into_sea.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
Gremlin-Like Creatures Rediscovered in Indonesia - “Knew your father, I did!”
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/2008/November/Gremlin-Like-Creatures-Rediscovered-in-Indonesia.html
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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