The news digest will be sneaking around the grocery store tomorrow shaking up as many bottles of “sparkling” wine as possible. To avoid repercussions, it will be taking the day off. Prepare for a new onslaught beginning January 2. A safe and happy New Year to all!
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)
- Mason County PUD No. 3 Receives Fourth Consecutive National Financial Reporting Award
- Top TVA executive gets $2 million in salary
- High Arsenic Levels Found in Water Near TVA’s Tennessee Ash Spill
- Portland General Electric Rates Going Up
- Portland General Electric Announces New Chief Financial Officer
- California - Trapped By 300,000 Volts; Couple Lucky To Be Alive
- Illinois - Watching the Pot Boil: Buying Electricity Hourly Can Cut Costs
- Sacramento fall-run Chinook Salmon meet egg collection quotas
- New Hampshire - Atlantic salmon returns increase in 2008
- Liberating A River - A project is under way in Maine, U.S., to revive the salmon run on the Penobscot River
- Californians Shape Up as Force on Environmental Policy
- Washington State's e-cycling law takes effect Thursday
- Indonesia - Wind Turbines Fail to Generate Power
- Colorado - Dark Clouds over Solar Energy Economy
- Focus on Weatherization Is Shift on Energy Costs
- Will Energy Savings Jump-Start The Economy?
- Irish Wind Energy Company Looking At Montana
- Examiner.com Op/Ed - Electrical Grid Upgrades and the Implementation of Renewable Energy Sources
- Green Goal of 'Carbon Neutrality' Hits Limit
- Montana - Helena sees significant drop in energy usage, emissions
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Op/Ed - Obama Should Increase Federal Gas Tax Or Impose Carbon Tax
- Dark Fiber - Grant PUD Responds To Moses Lake Chamber
- Moses Lake - Titan Building Uses Other Dark Fiber Carriers
- Give Us More Bandwidth - Internet Use Grows at Meetings, as Do Challenges
- Martin Pulls Smut Filters from Free Wireless Internet Plan
- Universal Broadband: The Begging Begins
- When Bandwidth Is Free - Internet Bandwidth Is Essential Infrastructure
- Pole Attachment Shenanigans - Push Paperwork, Not Pipes, for Universal Broadband
- One Storm Down, Two to Go
- Congressman Hastings' New Assignment Will Benefit Mid-Columbia
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Trepid • \TREP-id\ • adjective - Timorous, fearful
As we approach the end of a tumultuous 2008, the gray and aged father time looks back on the year with a deep sigh, wondering about “what might have been”. For the New Year’s baby of 2009 there is no such trepid thought as he looks forward: his only thought, “what might be.”
Merriam-Webster Word Origins: Don't be afraid to use "trepid." After all, it has been in the English language for more than 350 years -- longer, by 30 years, than its antonym "intrepid." "Trepid" (from Latin "trepidus," meaning "alarmed" or "agitated") isn't used as much as "intrepid," but it can be a good word at times. Bill Kaufman, for example, found a use for it in a May 7, 2000 Newsday article, in which an aquarium volunteer is "asked if she is perhaps a little trepid about swimming with sharks in a 12-foot deep, 120,000 gallon tank." (Her fearless reply: "Not really.") The more intrepid among you might even consider using "trepidate" for "to tremble with fear" and "trepidant," meaning "timid" or "trembling."
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
Mason County PUD No. 3 Receives Fourth Consecutive National Financial Reporting Award (Mason County PUD No. 3)
http://www.masonpud3.org/News/display.asp?NewsID=491
Top TVA executive gets $2 million in salary - Consultants say package is below industry average (The Tennessean, Nashville, TN)
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20081218/BUSINESS01/812180323
High Arsenic Levels Found in Water Near TVA’s Tennessee Ash Spill (Associated Press)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122902511.html?wprss=rss_nation
Portland General Electric Rates Going Up (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1767975~Portland_General_Electric_rates_going_up.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
Portland General Electric Announces New Chief Financial Officer (Utility Automation & Engineering)
http://uaelp.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=22&ARTICLE_ID=349002&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss
California - Trapped By 300,000 Volts; Couple Lucky To Be Alive (KTVU-TV, Oakland, CA)
http://www.ktvu.com/news/18353615/detail.html
Illinois - Watching the Pot Boil: Buying Electricity Hourly Can Cut Costs (Register-Mail, Galesburg, IL)http://www.galesburg.com/news/x946494075/Buying-electricity-hourly-can-cut-costs
FISH & WILDLIFE
Sacramento fall-run Chinook Salmon meet egg collection quotas (Fish & Fly Magazine)
http://www.fishandfly.com/articles/20081230
New Hampshire - Atlantic salmon returns increase in 2008 (Hampton Union, NH)
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20081224-SPORTS-812240306
Liberating A River - A project is under way in Maine, U.S., to revive the salmon run on the Penobscot River by decommissioning two dams built across it (Frontline, India)
http://www.frontline.in/stories/20090116260109200.htm
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Californians Shape Up as Force on Environmental Policy (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801704.html?wprss=rss_business
Washington State's e-cycling law takes effect Thursday - Some fear it will discourage refurbishing (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/394077_ewaste30.html?source=rss
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
Indonesia - Wind Turbines Fail to Generate Power (Jakarta Post – The utility spokesman should win an award for the effort to put a shine on this ****)
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/12/20/wind-turbines-fail-generate-power.html
Colorado - Dark Clouds over Solar Energy Economy (Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO)
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/dec/30/clouds-over-new-energy-economy/
Focus on Weatherization Is Shift on Energy Costs (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/us/30weatherize.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Will Energy Savings Jump-Start The Economy? (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/29/eco.economy/index.html?section=cnn_latest
Irish Wind Energy Company Looking At Montana (Associated Press)
http://www.helenair.com/articles/2008/12/30/state/80st_081230_irishwind.txt
Examiner.com Op/Ed - Electrical Grid Upgrades and the Implementation of Renewable Energy Sources
http://www.examiner.com/x-243-Progressive-Politics-Examiner~y2008m12d29-electrical-grid
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Green Goal of 'Carbon Neutrality' Hits Limit (Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123059880241541259.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Montana - Helena sees significant drop in energy usage, emissions (The Missoulian, MT)http://missoulian.com/articles/2008/12/30/news/mtregional/znews09.txt
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Op/Ed - Obama Should Increase Federal Gas Tax Or Impose Carbon Tax
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/394007_friedmanonline30.html?source=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Dark Fiber - Grant PUD Responds To Moses Lake Chamber (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2008/12/29/news/doc4959084e5ae6f619270617.txt
Moses Lake - Titan Building Uses Other Dark Fiber Carriers (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2008/12/29/news/doc4959079ecc317900085197.txt
Give Us More Bandwidth - Internet Use Grows at Meetings, as Do Challenges (Blue Ridge Times-News, Hendersonville, NC)
http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20081230/znyt05/812303014&tc=yahoo
Martin Pulls Smut Filters from Free Wireless Internet Plan - May have FCC vote again in January (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Martin-Pulls-Smut-Filters-From-Wireless-Plan-99917
Universal Broadband: The Begging Begins (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2008/12/30/universal-broadband-the-begging-begins/
When Bandwidth Is Free - Internet Bandwidth Is Essential Infrastructure (ZDnet.com, via Baller/Herbst)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3226
Push Paperwork, Not Pipes, for Universal Broadband - Lowering the cost and making prices uniform for attaching equipment and stringing cables from utility poles would increase broadband deployments (GigaOM, via Baller/Herbst)http://gigaom.com/2008/12/26/push-paperwork-not-pipes-for-universal-broadband/
GENERAL NEWS
One Storm Down, Two to Go (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/36878519.html
Tri-City Herald Editorial - Hastings' New Assignment Will Benefit Mid-Columbia
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/962/story/429558.html
DIVERSIONS
Oops! Pay Stub Used As Bank Robbery Note
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28427847/?gt1=43001
Happy Ascension Day - Federal Way Officials Approve Copter Pad For Mega-Church
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/394145_churchhelicopter31.html?source=rss
Portland Car Wash Attendant Hoses Down Would-Be Robber
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/36878034.html
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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