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)
- Lewis County PUD Building Suffers Collapsed Roof in Morton
- What To Keep On Hand In Case Of An Outage
- Tips For Staying Warm And Safe Without Power
- Carbon monoxide: State Urges Safety As Storm Looms
- New Whidbey Island Group To Pursue Public Electric Power
- Federal Energy Policy Shift Likely To Be Seismic
- Oregon Governor Names New Energy Planning Council
- Seattle Public Utilities' Director To Leave Next Month
- Chelan County PUD John Janney For Executive Manager Of Finance And Risk
- Salem Utility Set To Cut Its Electric Rates By 5 Percent
- Romanian aluminum plant plans 1,200 layoffs
- Texas Can Take Lessons From Finland's Nuclear Power Plant Delays
- Duke Energy to Freeze Salaries
- Obama taps Oregon professor Jane Lubchenco to run NOAA
- Pacific Ocean Conditions Optimal For Fish Survival In 2008
- Salmon surviving dammed rivers
- Willamette Spring Chinook Fishery On Horizon
- Fish and Wildlife looks to slash $30.5 million in wake of deficit
- Omak Hatchery Would Close Under Gregoire Plan
- Big Money Jolt For Fish Recovery On Wenatchee, Entiat And Methow Rivers
- Washington State budget plan has money for South Sound projects
- Scientists Look For Clues To Orcas Decline
- Cowlitz Tribe Obtains $580,000 Salmon Grant
- Can you believe it? Northwest Snowpack Lags
- On Seattle Mayor’s Stimulus Wish List: Solar Panels Atop Qwest Field Hall
- Utilities seek stimulus money to improve energy efficiency
- Idaho energy czar aims to harness cow pie power
- California - Public Vote Needed On Marin Clean Energy Plan
- At Siemens, Bribery Was Just a Line Item
- Michigan Press Offers Online Read Of Its Santa Book About Global Warming
- California's Global Warming Gambit: The Golden State risks ruining its economy to save the planet
- Bid For U.S. Broadband Expansion Fuels Lobbying
- Undersea Cable Cutting BogeyMan Returns
- Mother Nature's snow machine gives it a rest
- Pierce County Gas Debit Thieves Still On the Loose
- Pierce County 911 Provider Strapped For Cash
- Times Tells 500 Workers To Take Week Off Unpaid
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Wisenheimer • \WYE-zun-hye-mer\ • noun - Smart aleck
“Y’know, if y’all remove those dams, the fishies will tell all their friends, and they’ll come a’flockin back to the river in droves,” droned the out of town wisenheimer.
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
Lewis County PUD Building Suffers Collapsed Roof in Morton (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
http://www.kelaam.com/pages/localnews/?PUD-Building-Suffers-Collapsed-Roof-in-M=1&blockID=33802&feedID=410
What To Keep On Hand In Case Of An Outage - A little preparation and common sense are key to getting through a storm safely (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008544388_powertipbox21.html?syndication=rss
Tips For Staying Warm And Safe Without Power (The Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20081219/NEWS01/812199980
Carbon monoxide: State Urges Safety As Storm Looms - Deadly toll from 2 years ago a grim warning (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/393024_safety20.html?source=rss
New Whidbey Island Group To Pursue Public Electric Power (Whidbey Examiner, Coupeville, WA)
http://www.whidbeyexaminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=2023&TM=71409.63
Federal Energy Policy Shift Likely To Be Seismic (Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/6174810.html
Oregon Governor Names New Energy Planning Council (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/12/kulongoski_names_new_energy_pl.html
Seattle Public Utilities' Director To Leave Next Month (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008542364_webutilities20m.html?syndication=rss
Chelan County PUD John Janney For Executive Manager Of Finance And Risk (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20081219/NEWS04/712209988/1001/rss1001
Salem Utility Set To Cut Its Electric Rates By 5 Percent - Salem Electric's residential users will benefit from BPA credit (Statesman Journal, Salem, OR)
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20081219/NEWS/812190336/1001
Romanian aluminum plant plans 1,200 layoffs - blamed a 50 percent drop in world aluminum prices (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008542633_apeuromanialayoffs.html?syndication=rss
Texas Can Take Lessons From Finland's Nuclear Power Plant Delays (Dallas Morning News, TX)
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-finnuclear_21bus.ART0.State.Edition1.4a5e710.html
Duke Energy to Freeze Salaries (Chicago Tribune)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-nc-dukeenergysalarie,0,3393209.story
FISH & WILDLIFE
Obama taps Oregon professor Jane Lubchenco to run NOAA (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008543057_webobamafish.html?syndication=rss
Oregonian Editorial - Obama gets it right on choice of Oregon Resident to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2008/12/obama_gets_it_right_in_lubchen.html
Pacific Ocean Conditions Optimal For Fish Survival In 2008 (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/3848-pacific-ocean-conditions-optimal-fish-survival-2008/
Salmon surviving dammed rivers “…fish that go through dammed rivers actually have a higher survival rate than those that travel in rivers without dams…” (The Canadian Press)
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1355376
Willamette Spring Chinook Fishery On Horizon (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/bill_monroe/index.ssf/2008/12/the_early_christmas_present_co.html
Fish and Wildlife looks to slash $30.5 million in wake of deficit - Cuts could include 157 full-time jobs (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/outdoors/story/705489.html
Omak Hatchery Would Close Under Gregoire Plan (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20081220/NEWS04/712209912/1001/rss1001
Big Money Jolt For Fish Recovery On Wenatchee, Entiat And Methow Rivers (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20081219/OUT/712199924/1003/rss1003
Washington State budget plan has money for South Sound projects "...$3.7 million to renovate the Skookumchuck hatchery…”
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/705414.html
Scientists Look For Clues To Orcas Decline (Associated Press)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_122008WAB_orca_decline_KS.8059a171.html?npc
Cowlitz Tribe Obtains $580,000 Salmon Grant (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/rss/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1229757011&archive=
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Can you believe it? Northwest Snowpack Lags (Northwest Public Radio)
http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4752
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
On Seattle Mayor’s Stimulus Wish List: Solar Panels Atop Qwest Field Hall (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008542047_qwestmoney20m.html
Utilities seek stimulus money to improve energy efficiency (McClatchy Business News)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20081219/sc_mcclatchy/3127321_1
Idaho energy czar aims to harness cow pie power (Associated Press)
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081220/science/science_wst__dung_power_1
Marin Independent Editorial - Public Vote Needed On Marin Clean Energy Plan (Novato, CA)
http://www.marinij.com/opinion/ci_11282045
At Siemens, Bribery Was Just a Line Item (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/business/worldbusiness/21siemens.html?th&emc=th
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Michigan Press Offers Online Read Of Its Santa Book About Global Warming (Detroit Free Press)
http://www.freep.com/article/20081221/FEATURES01/812210317/1026/FEATURES01
Augusta Chronicle Editorial - California's Global Warming Gambit: The Golden State risks ruining its economy to save the planet (Augusta, GA)
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/12/22/edi_504936.shtml
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Bid For U.S. Broadband Expansion Fuels Lobbying (Information Week)
http://www.informationweek.com/news/telecom/business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212501409&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
Undersea Cable Cutting BogeyMan Returns - Three lines cut in the Mediterranean Sea (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Undersea-Cable-Cutting-BogeyMan-Returns-99765
GENERAL NEWS
Mother Nature's snow machine gives it a rest (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/36567674.html
Pierce County Gas Debit Thieves Still On the Loose (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/574788.html
Pierce County 911 Provider Strapped For Cash - Law Enforcement Support Agency can’t afford to pay Tacoma for services (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/government/story/573259.html
Times Tells 500 Workers To Take Week Off Unpaid (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/392960_times20.html?source=rss
DIVERSIONS
Grumpy Miracle Pig Voted China's Most Popular Animal
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081222/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_china_pig;_ylt=AvKK3stEDCVotPG.g3la4CXtiBIF
Man Eats Seven Pounds Of Latkes To Win Contest http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081222/ap_on_fe_st/odd_latke_eating_contest;_ylt=AqTKYkvdq7ScCNKi9Hz2nyrtiBIF
Politician Tries To Protect NYC's Pesky Parrots - Nests Have Caused Power Outages
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081222/ap_on_fe_st/odd_pesky_parrots;_ylt=ArJAg7TTwSDOua.SIYT5FuvtiBIF
Diamond In The Rough: Museum Finds Vacuumed Gem
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081221/ap_on_fe_st/odd_ring_recovered;_ylt=AhvBZ_HXFpdPmmTTNHps7kntiBIF
Monday, December 22, 2008
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