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.
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- National Electric Reliability Corporation Issues Flu Alert
- Operator of Centralia Power Plant - TransAlta Earnings Decline
- Wenatchee World Editorial – Chelan PUD Surcharge Is Justifiable
- Emerald Peoples’ Utility District Customers to See Higher Bills
- Cannady Named BPA’s Acting VP of Bulk Marketing
- Bird Loses Meal To Power Line: Lights Out In Salem
- Power Industry Sees New Phase In Energy Use
- Obama's Energy Plans Remain Works in Progress
- Utilities and Transmission Managers Try to Head off Congressional Grid Plans
- Power Structures Shape Northwest Landscape
- Energy Solutions Distinguished Awards Go to Tri-Cities Students
- Connecticut Electric Provider Bill Passes House – Rates should go down up to five percent
- News Whiz - Proposal to End Electric Choice is Harmful to Connecticut
- Constellation Energy CEO Gets $5.7M 2008 package
- Landmark Water Sale near Sisters Could Help Steelhead
- Tribes Get $2 Million for Watershed Restoration
- EPA News Release - Washington Tribes receive nearly $2 million
- Oregon - Stimulus Money to Reopen Willamette Falls Locks
- Records Seized in Illinois Town Accused of Water Irregularity
- Who Owns the Wind? An Emerging Public Policy Issue
- Renewable Energy Standards: Much Ado about Not Too Much
- Michigan - Utilities Brace for Renewable Energy Changes
- Energy Sec. Announces $193M for Energy Research
- United Kingdom - Large Wind Farm Project under Way
- The Grid May Be Smart, But Will It Also Be Green?
- Solar Tech: Not Just on the Roof Anymore
- A Clean Energy Machine That Works like the Sun
- Energy Adviser: Smart Meter Can Manage Energy Use
- Smart Meters: A Little Give and Take on Electricity
- Climate Catastrophe: What's The Worst-Case Scenario?
- B.C.'s Carbon Tax Rated Top Climate Policy
- Are Carbon Offsets Too Good to Be True?
- CO2 - From Smokestacks to Your Tank
- Disney to Plant 2.7 Million Trees for `Earth'
- Quincy Port Investigating State Zone Designation
- A Decade Later, FCC's E-Rate Program Still A Mess
- Flickr Hit Hard by Yahoo Layoffs
- Six Probable Swine-Flu Cases In Washington State
- Pig Advocates Call For Swine Flu Name Change
- Gregoire Convinced Special Session Is Needed Soon
- Boeing Jet Makes Emergency Landing at Sea-Tac
- Seattle Snow Response: Worse Than We Thought
- Up to 4 Feet of Snow in Montana Closes Highways
WORD OF THE DAY
Gesundheit • \geh-ZOONT-hite\ • interjection - German, literally, health: from gesund healthy (from Old High German gisunt) + -heit –hood. Used to wish good health especially to one who has just sneezed
Practice this for the current health scare!
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
National Electric Reliability Corporation Issues Flu Alert (NERC)
http://www.nerc.com/news_pr.php?npr=301
Operator of Centralia Power Plant - TransAlta Earnings Decline (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.outdoorslc.com/story.php?subaction=showfull&id=1241025410&archive=&start_from=&ucat=5&
Wenatchee World Editorial – Chelan PUD Surcharge Is Justifiable
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090429/OP02/704299883/-1/OP
Emerald Peoples’ Utility District Customers to See Higher Bills (KMTR-TV, Springfield, OR)
http://www.kmtr.com/news/local/story/EPUD-customers-to-see-higher-bills/qyvOxS3sWk2fHKh3xAzZaw.cspx
Cannady Named BPA’s Acting VP of Bulk Marketing (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1582/270152/
Bird Loses Meal To Power Line: Lights Out In Salem “…outage from an electrically fried fish is rare. Cooked squirrel is much more common…” (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1990283~Bird_loses_meal_to_power_line__Lights_out_in_Salem.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
Power Industry Sees New Phase In Energy Use (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103438965&ft=1&f=3
Obama's Energy Plans Remain Works in Progress (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103615838&ft=1&f=2
Utilities and Transmission Managers Try to Head off Congressional Grid Plans (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/04/29/29climatewire-utilities-and-transmission-managers-try-to-h-12208.html
Power Structures Shape Northwest Landscape (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?verified=true&storyId=103648455#commentBlock
Energy Solutions Distinguished Awards Go to Tri-Cities Students (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10273166
Connecticut Electric Provider Bill Passes House – Rates should go down up to five percent (Connecticut Post)
http://www.connpost.com/ci_12256195?source=most_emailed
News Whiz - Proposal to End Electric Choice is Harmful to Connecticut (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&id=110450
Constellation Energy CEO Gets $5.7M 2008 package (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009146427_apusconstellationenergygroupexecutivecompensation.html?syndication=rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Landmark Water Sale near Sisters Could Help Steelhead (Oregon Public Radio)
http://news.opb.org/article/4893-landmark-water-sale-near-sisters-could-help-steelhead/
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Tribes Get $2 Million for Watershed Restoration (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_042909WAB-skagit-reservation-KS.282d7fb.html?rss
EPA News Release - Washington Tribes receive nearly $2 million for projects to protect Puget Sound (EPA, includes Skokomish & Squaxin Island Tribes)
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/bc9a848b9beae114852575a700696a81?OpenDocument
Oregon - Stimulus Money to Reopen Willamette Falls Locks (Examiner.Com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1990233~Stimulus_money_to_reopen_Willamette_Falls_Locks.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
Records Seized in Illinois Town Accused of Water Irregularity (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/us/30crestwood.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Who Owns the Wind? An Emerging Public Policy Issue (Energy Pulse)
http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=2021
Renewable Energy Standards: Much Ado about Not Too Much (Wall Street Journal)
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/04/30/renewable-energy-standards-much-ado-about-not-too-much/
Michigan - Utilities Brace for Renewable Energy Changes (Michigan Business Review)
http://www.mlive.com/businessreview/oakland/index.ssf/2009/04/utilities_brace_for_renewable.html
Energy Sec. Announces $193M for Energy Research (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009145383_apenergysecretarynrel.html?syndication=rss
United Kingdom - Large Wind Farm Project under Way (THE BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/essex/8026694.stm
The Grid May Be Smart, But Will It Also Be Green? (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103415232&ft=1&f=2
Solar Tech: Not Just on the Roof Anymore (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/business/businessspecial2/30solar.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
A Clean Energy Machine That Works like the Sun (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/business/energy-environment/30fusion.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Clark Public Utilities - Energy Adviser: Smart Meter Can Manage Energy Use (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090430/LIVING/704309976
Smart Meters: A Little Give and Take on Electricity (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/business/energy-environment/30grid.html?ref=garden
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Climate Catastrophe: What's The Worst-Case Scenario? (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2009-04-29-climate-worst-case-scenario_N.htm
B.C.'s Carbon Tax Rated Top Climate Policy (Globe and Mail, Canada)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090429.wbcelxncarbon0429/BNStory/politics/home
Are Carbon Offsets Too Good to Be True? (NY Times)
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/are-carbon-offsets-too-good-to-be-true/
CO2 - From Smokestacks to Your Tank (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/business/energy-environment/30carbon.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Disney to Plant 2.7 Million Trees for `Earth'
http://www.examiner.com/a-1988172~Disney_to_plant_2_7_million_trees_for__Earth_.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Quincy Port Investigating State Zone Designation (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2009/04/29/news/doc49f8b8fca1c08179106075.txt
A Decade Later, FCC's E-Rate Program Still A Mess (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/A-Decade-Later-FCCs-ERate-Program-Still-A-Mess-102201
Flickr Hit Hard by Yahoo Layoffs (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/flickr-hit-hard-by-yahoo-layoffs/
GENERAL NEWS
Six Probable Swine-Flu Cases In Washington State - Seattle school closed until next Wednesday (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009151140_webflutest30m.html?syndication=rss
Pig Advocates Call For Swine Flu Name Change (Associated Press)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=162083
Gregoire Convinced Special Session Is Needed Soon (Oregon Public Radio)
http://news.opb.org/article/4886-gregoire-convinced-special-session-needed-soon/
Boeing Jet Makes Emergency Landing at Sea-Tac (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/725801.html
Seattle Snow Response: Worse Than We Thought (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009147216_websnowresponse29.html?syndication=rss
Up to 4 Feet of Snow in Montana Closes Highways (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/29/national/a114434D74.DTL&feed=rss.business
DIVERSIONS
Woman Accused of Making Bomb Threat to Stop Husband from Gambling
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009145600_webbombthreat29m.html?syndication=rss
One City's Toilets Are another Man's Treasure
http://www.outdoorslc.com/story.php?subaction=showfull&id=1241026101&archive=&start_from=&ucat=5&
Tremendous Tresses Shown Off At Hair Show - International Fantasy Hair Competition Draws Stylists Turned Artists
http://www.kirotv.com/entertainment/19310369/detail.html
Off-Road Commode Has Wackiest Warning Label
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/29/BUIE17BFDN.DTL&feed=rss.business
Girl Fights Off Muggers With Marching Band Baton
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19328026/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
POCO – Rose of Cimarron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KJ50lZA27c
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Energy News Digest for April 29, 2009
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.
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- News Tribune Editorial - Fix Those Bills (Including I-937) Before the Special Session
- Nuclear Solution Comes with a Huge Price Tag
- Companies That Want To Build New Nuclear Reactors
- Poll: Utilities Expect Higher Power Bills
- The Challenge: Constant Current from Fickle Winds
- Oregon - Dangling Power Line Creates Scare
- C/NET News Op/Ed - Where Federal Energy Research Money Should Go
- Tonbridge Power Names Veteran Power Executive to Its Board of Directors
- Environmental Groups Say Idaho Gravel Mine Violates Laws
- Campbell River Coho Survival Rate Worries Scientists
- Canada – BC Indian Band Accepts Payment for Destroyed Village Fishery
- If Sturgeon Could Talk - A short history of Lake Washington
- Puget Sound Gets Bad Grades on Air Quality Report
- Oregon - Plans for New Vestas Headquarters on Hold
- U.S. Wind Industry Installs 2,800 MW in First Quarter
- Texas - Wind Turbine Rules Go Back for Changes
- United Kingdom - Wind Energy: Mainstream Renewable Power
- Intel Tops EPA Green Power List
- Seattle, Nissan Team Up For Electric-Car Charging Network
- Oregon - The wait continues for biomass money
- The Switch: Consumers Want To Conserve, But It's A Challenge
- At Grand Central, a Fluorescent Twist to a Light-Bulb Joke
- Smart Meter Saves Big Bucks for Pennsylvania Family
- A winter’s Tale: My First Season With Micro-Combined Heat and Power
- Climate Bill Has Some on Edge
- Democrats See U.S. Coal As Good Coal, Foreign Coal As Bad Coal
- Another Report - Obama Emissions Plan To Cost $1,400 A Family
- Cold Facts Dispel Theories on Warming
- Qwest Earnings Climb 37% After Cost Cuts
- Qwest Adds 42,000 Broadband Customers
- A Dying Landline Business Sounds a Lot like Static
- Ask.com parent IAC reports Q1 loss
- U.S. Steps Up Effort on Digital Defenses
- Texas Launches Effort to Extend Broadband Statewide
- New Google Search Tool Aimed at Making Sense of Public Data
- What Hath Olympia Wrought?
- Analysis: Scorecard for the 2009 Wash. Legislature
- Feds Offer Checklist for Businesses Preparing for Swine Flu
- Mason General Purchases Health Center
- Spin Meter: The Politics of Counting Stimulus Jobs
- Hood Canal Bridge Closure Nightmare for Some, Dream for Others
- Port Townsend Braces for Hood Canal Bridge Closure
- Walla Walla - Remoteness Hurts Washington Wine Town in Downturn
- Lake Chelan Area Wins Designation as aDistinct Wine Grape-Growing Region
WORD OF THE DAY
Twitter • \TWITT-err \ • noun – 1: a trembling agitation: quiver 2: a small tremulous intermittent sound (as of birds) 3a: a light chattering b: a light silly laugh: giggle 4: A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their computers or cell phones to a group of friends or colleagues.
Twitter • \TWITT-err \ • verb – 1: to utter successive chirping noises 2a: to talk in a chattering fashion b: giggle, titter
The office was all a-twitter over an impending merger with ConHugeCo, the conglomerate that had virtual control over the production of jackstraw games in at least three-quarters of the world’s countries. High-squeaking noises twittered from Penelope’s lips as she updated co-workers via her Twitter account on the impressive procession of the CEO and her minions on their office tour. The stream of narrative kept everyone glued to their cell phone and computer screens. Unfortunately, it would soon be their undoing; the digital distraction prevented eye contact and groveling before the new boss…which marked each employee so engaged as expendable in the looming reorganization.
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
News Tribune Editorial - Fix Those Bills (Including I-937) Before the Special Session
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/724885.html
Nuclear Solution Comes with a Huge Price Tag “…No matter the charges, Americans will need to get used to paying more for electricity…” (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/28/financial/f125017D03.DTL&feed=rss.business
Companies That Want To Build New Nuclear Reactors: A list of companies that have announced their intent to submit applications to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for new plant licenses (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009138250_apuscostlynuclearpowerglance.html?syndication=rss
Poll: Utilities Expect Higher Power Bills - North American utility executives say they expect the Obama presidency to include stricter environmental regulations and higher electricity prices (United Press International)
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/28/Poll-Utilities-expect-higher-power-bills/UPI-23861240938909/
The Challenge: Constant Current from Fickle Winds (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103575144&ft=1&f=3
Oregon - Dangling Power Line Creates Scare (The Umpqua Post, OR)
http://www.theumpquapost.com/articles/2009/04/28/public_records/police_reports/doc49f78163c3b39180998209.txt
C/NET News Op/Ed - Where Federal Energy Research Money Should Go
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10229241-54.html?tag=nl.e703
Tonbridge Power Names Veteran Power Executive to Its Board of Directors - Walter E. Pollock former executive with the Bonneville Power Administration (Marketwire)
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Tonbridge-Power-Inc-TSX-VENTURE-TBZ-981091.html
FISH & WILDLIFE
Environmental Groups Say Idaho Gravel Mine Violates Laws, Threatens Fish (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
http://www.idahostatesman.com/newsupdates/story/749297.html
Campbell River Coho Survival Rate Worries Scientists (Campbell River Mirror, BC)
http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_north/campbellrivermirror/news/43908852.html
Canada – BC Indian Band Accepts Ottawa's Offer to Pay for Destroying Village Fishery in 1959 (The Globe and Mail, Canada)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090429.BCHAGWILGET29ART2124/TPStory/National
If Sturgeon Could Talk - A short history of Lake Washington, as told to our author by one very long fish (Crosscut Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2009/04/29/animals-wildlife/18962/
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Puget Sound Gets Bad Grades on Air Quality Report (Associated Press)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_042909WA-AP-puget-sound-air-quality-LJ.1576499.html?rss
Here’s a link to the Washington State Rundown (Lung Association)
http://www.stateoftheair.org/2009/states/washington/
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Oregon - Plans for New Vestas Headquarters on Hold: Company to lay off 1,900 workers in Denmark and England (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/04/27/daily15.html?ana=from_rss
U.S. Wind Industry Installs 2,800 MW in First Quarter (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/04/u-s-wind-industry-installs-2800-mw-in-first-quarter?src=rss
Texas - Wind Turbine Rules Go Back for Changes: City Council wants to make more homes eligible (The Caller-Times, Corpus Christi, TX)
http://www.caller.com/news/2009/apr/28/council_wind/
United Kingdom - Wind Energy: Mainstream Renewable Power - Wind energy is spearheading Britain’s efforts to generate 35% of our electricity from renewable sources by 2020 (The Telegraph, UK)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/business/businesstruth/5238497/Wind-Energy-Mainstream-Renewable-Power.html
Intel Tops EPA Green Power List (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/4876-intel-tops-epa-green-power-list/
Seattle, Nissan Team Up For Electric-Car Charging Network (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009139766_webelectric28.html?syndication=rss
Oregon - The wait continues for biomass money: No word on the county’s $4.1 million request for federal stimulus dollars (Baker City Herald, OR)
http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/The-wait-continues-for-biomass-money
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
The Switch: Consumers Want To Conserve, But It's A Challenge (Oregon Public Radio)
http://news.opb.org/article/4882-switch-consumers-want-conserve-its-challenge/
At Grand Central, a Fluorescent Twist to a Light-Bulb Joke (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/nyregion/29bulbs.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Smart Meter Saves Big Bucks for Pennsylvania Family (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103437607&ft=1&f=2
A winter’s Tale: My First Season With Micro-Combined Heat and Power (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/a-winters-tale-my-first-season-with-micro-combined-heat-and-power/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Climate Bill Has Some on Edge (Politico)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21828.html
National Post Op/Ed - Democrats see U.S. coal as good coal, foreign coal as bad coal (Canada)
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/04/28/david-frum-democrats-see-u-s-coal-as-good-coal-foreign-coal-as-bad-coal.aspx
Another Report - Obama Emissions Plan To Cost $1,400 A Family (Reuters)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN2832779720090428
Cold Facts Dispel Theories on Warming (The Australian)
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25400914-7583,00.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Qwest Earnings Climb 37% After Cost Cuts (Associated Press)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/29/technology/AP-US-Earns-Qwest.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Qwest Adds 42,000 Broadband Customers - Telco says they're still testing faster speeds (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Qwest-Adds-42000-Broadband-Customers-102177
A Dying Landline Business Sounds a Lot like Static (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/04/28/a-dying-landline-business-sounds-a-lot-like-static/
Ask.com parent IAC reports Q1 loss (San Francisco Business Times)
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/04/27/daily38.html?ana=from_rss
U.S. Steps Up Effort on Digital Defenses (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/us/28cyber.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Texas Launches Effort to Extend Broadband Statewide (San Antonio Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2009/04/27/daily10.html?ana=from_rss
New Google Search Tool Aimed at Making Sense of Public Data (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/28/AR2009042802280.html?nav=rss_email/components
GENERAL NEWS
What Hath Olympia Wrought? In a very tough session, Republicans played no role, Democrats fought but probably avoided divorce court, and the majority party got cold feet about boosting taxes. And we get a mini-encore soon. (Crosscut Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2009/04/29/animals-wildlife/18962/
Analysis: Scorecard for the 2009 Wash. Legislature (Associated Press)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_xgr_analysis_winners__losers.html
Feds Offer Checklist for Businesses Preparing for Swine Flu (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/04/27/daily29.html?ana=from_rss
Mason General Purchases Health Center (Business Examiner)
http://www.businessexaminer.com/blog/mason-general-purchases-health-center/
Spin Meter: The Politics of Counting Stimulus Jobs (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009142055_apusstimuluscountingjobs.html?syndication=rss
Hood Canal Bridge Closure Nightmare for Some, Dream for Others (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_042809WAB-bridge-detour-KS.11db65e39.html?rss
Port Townsend Braces for Hood Canal Bridge Closure (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009141464_bridge29m.html
Walla Walla - Remoteness Hurts Washington Wine Town in Downturn (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/28/financial/f130939D08.DTL&feed=rss.business
Lake Chelan Area Wins Designation as the State's 11th Distinct Wine Grape-Growing Region (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009140125_webwine28.html?syndication=rss
DIVERSIONS
Severe Wind Sends Chihuahua Flying Into Sky - Pet Psychic Helps Owners Find Lost Dog In Woods
http://www.kirotv.com/family/19307489/detail.html
FaceBook Surfing While Sick Costs Woman Job - said she could not work in front of a computer as she needed to lie in the dark
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090424/od_nm/us_facebook_job;_ylt=AkrimzEXeIjtGB4bubHxbXPtiBIF
McCurry Beats McDonald’s In Malaysia Lawsuit
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090429/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_malaysia_courts_mcdonalds;_ylt=AtyRLnDeH_8ChXPN0WtyDintiBIF
Yuck! Winona Police Again Find 'Chicken Skimmings' On Streets
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_on_fe_st/odd_chicken_skimmings_spill;_ylt=AqCEmBPFyDpz3P9SNKVXIontiBIF
SONG OF THE DAY
The Time Warp – Cover by Jack Hicko (PG-13 – couldn’t find a watchable version of the original, but I loved this interpretation; shades of Leon Redbone)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOOdNuoU4G0&feature=PlayList&p=0EBEF02CA82024D1&index=23
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- News Tribune Editorial - Fix Those Bills (Including I-937) Before the Special Session
- Nuclear Solution Comes with a Huge Price Tag
- Companies That Want To Build New Nuclear Reactors
- Poll: Utilities Expect Higher Power Bills
- The Challenge: Constant Current from Fickle Winds
- Oregon - Dangling Power Line Creates Scare
- C/NET News Op/Ed - Where Federal Energy Research Money Should Go
- Tonbridge Power Names Veteran Power Executive to Its Board of Directors
- Environmental Groups Say Idaho Gravel Mine Violates Laws
- Campbell River Coho Survival Rate Worries Scientists
- Canada – BC Indian Band Accepts Payment for Destroyed Village Fishery
- If Sturgeon Could Talk - A short history of Lake Washington
- Puget Sound Gets Bad Grades on Air Quality Report
- Oregon - Plans for New Vestas Headquarters on Hold
- U.S. Wind Industry Installs 2,800 MW in First Quarter
- Texas - Wind Turbine Rules Go Back for Changes
- United Kingdom - Wind Energy: Mainstream Renewable Power
- Intel Tops EPA Green Power List
- Seattle, Nissan Team Up For Electric-Car Charging Network
- Oregon - The wait continues for biomass money
- The Switch: Consumers Want To Conserve, But It's A Challenge
- At Grand Central, a Fluorescent Twist to a Light-Bulb Joke
- Smart Meter Saves Big Bucks for Pennsylvania Family
- A winter’s Tale: My First Season With Micro-Combined Heat and Power
- Climate Bill Has Some on Edge
- Democrats See U.S. Coal As Good Coal, Foreign Coal As Bad Coal
- Another Report - Obama Emissions Plan To Cost $1,400 A Family
- Cold Facts Dispel Theories on Warming
- Qwest Earnings Climb 37% After Cost Cuts
- Qwest Adds 42,000 Broadband Customers
- A Dying Landline Business Sounds a Lot like Static
- Ask.com parent IAC reports Q1 loss
- U.S. Steps Up Effort on Digital Defenses
- Texas Launches Effort to Extend Broadband Statewide
- New Google Search Tool Aimed at Making Sense of Public Data
- What Hath Olympia Wrought?
- Analysis: Scorecard for the 2009 Wash. Legislature
- Feds Offer Checklist for Businesses Preparing for Swine Flu
- Mason General Purchases Health Center
- Spin Meter: The Politics of Counting Stimulus Jobs
- Hood Canal Bridge Closure Nightmare for Some, Dream for Others
- Port Townsend Braces for Hood Canal Bridge Closure
- Walla Walla - Remoteness Hurts Washington Wine Town in Downturn
- Lake Chelan Area Wins Designation as aDistinct Wine Grape-Growing Region
WORD OF THE DAY
Twitter • \TWITT-err \ • noun – 1: a trembling agitation: quiver 2: a small tremulous intermittent sound (as of birds) 3a: a light chattering b: a light silly laugh: giggle 4: A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their computers or cell phones to a group of friends or colleagues.
Twitter • \TWITT-err \ • verb – 1: to utter successive chirping noises 2a: to talk in a chattering fashion b: giggle, titter
The office was all a-twitter over an impending merger with ConHugeCo, the conglomerate that had virtual control over the production of jackstraw games in at least three-quarters of the world’s countries. High-squeaking noises twittered from Penelope’s lips as she updated co-workers via her Twitter account on the impressive procession of the CEO and her minions on their office tour. The stream of narrative kept everyone glued to their cell phone and computer screens. Unfortunately, it would soon be their undoing; the digital distraction prevented eye contact and groveling before the new boss…which marked each employee so engaged as expendable in the looming reorganization.
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
News Tribune Editorial - Fix Those Bills (Including I-937) Before the Special Session
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/724885.html
Nuclear Solution Comes with a Huge Price Tag “…No matter the charges, Americans will need to get used to paying more for electricity…” (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/28/financial/f125017D03.DTL&feed=rss.business
Companies That Want To Build New Nuclear Reactors: A list of companies that have announced their intent to submit applications to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for new plant licenses (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009138250_apuscostlynuclearpowerglance.html?syndication=rss
Poll: Utilities Expect Higher Power Bills - North American utility executives say they expect the Obama presidency to include stricter environmental regulations and higher electricity prices (United Press International)
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/28/Poll-Utilities-expect-higher-power-bills/UPI-23861240938909/
The Challenge: Constant Current from Fickle Winds (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103575144&ft=1&f=3
Oregon - Dangling Power Line Creates Scare (The Umpqua Post, OR)
http://www.theumpquapost.com/articles/2009/04/28/public_records/police_reports/doc49f78163c3b39180998209.txt
C/NET News Op/Ed - Where Federal Energy Research Money Should Go
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10229241-54.html?tag=nl.e703
Tonbridge Power Names Veteran Power Executive to Its Board of Directors - Walter E. Pollock former executive with the Bonneville Power Administration (Marketwire)
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Tonbridge-Power-Inc-TSX-VENTURE-TBZ-981091.html
FISH & WILDLIFE
Environmental Groups Say Idaho Gravel Mine Violates Laws, Threatens Fish (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
http://www.idahostatesman.com/newsupdates/story/749297.html
Campbell River Coho Survival Rate Worries Scientists (Campbell River Mirror, BC)
http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_north/campbellrivermirror/news/43908852.html
Canada – BC Indian Band Accepts Ottawa's Offer to Pay for Destroying Village Fishery in 1959 (The Globe and Mail, Canada)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090429.BCHAGWILGET29ART2124/TPStory/National
If Sturgeon Could Talk - A short history of Lake Washington, as told to our author by one very long fish (Crosscut Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2009/04/29/animals-wildlife/18962/
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Puget Sound Gets Bad Grades on Air Quality Report (Associated Press)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_042909WA-AP-puget-sound-air-quality-LJ.1576499.html?rss
Here’s a link to the Washington State Rundown (Lung Association)
http://www.stateoftheair.org/2009/states/washington/
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Oregon - Plans for New Vestas Headquarters on Hold: Company to lay off 1,900 workers in Denmark and England (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/04/27/daily15.html?ana=from_rss
U.S. Wind Industry Installs 2,800 MW in First Quarter (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/04/u-s-wind-industry-installs-2800-mw-in-first-quarter?src=rss
Texas - Wind Turbine Rules Go Back for Changes: City Council wants to make more homes eligible (The Caller-Times, Corpus Christi, TX)
http://www.caller.com/news/2009/apr/28/council_wind/
United Kingdom - Wind Energy: Mainstream Renewable Power - Wind energy is spearheading Britain’s efforts to generate 35% of our electricity from renewable sources by 2020 (The Telegraph, UK)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/business/businesstruth/5238497/Wind-Energy-Mainstream-Renewable-Power.html
Intel Tops EPA Green Power List (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/4876-intel-tops-epa-green-power-list/
Seattle, Nissan Team Up For Electric-Car Charging Network (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009139766_webelectric28.html?syndication=rss
Oregon - The wait continues for biomass money: No word on the county’s $4.1 million request for federal stimulus dollars (Baker City Herald, OR)
http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/The-wait-continues-for-biomass-money
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
The Switch: Consumers Want To Conserve, But It's A Challenge (Oregon Public Radio)
http://news.opb.org/article/4882-switch-consumers-want-conserve-its-challenge/
At Grand Central, a Fluorescent Twist to a Light-Bulb Joke (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/nyregion/29bulbs.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Smart Meter Saves Big Bucks for Pennsylvania Family (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103437607&ft=1&f=2
A winter’s Tale: My First Season With Micro-Combined Heat and Power (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/a-winters-tale-my-first-season-with-micro-combined-heat-and-power/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Climate Bill Has Some on Edge (Politico)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21828.html
National Post Op/Ed - Democrats see U.S. coal as good coal, foreign coal as bad coal (Canada)
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/04/28/david-frum-democrats-see-u-s-coal-as-good-coal-foreign-coal-as-bad-coal.aspx
Another Report - Obama Emissions Plan To Cost $1,400 A Family (Reuters)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN2832779720090428
Cold Facts Dispel Theories on Warming (The Australian)
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25400914-7583,00.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Qwest Earnings Climb 37% After Cost Cuts (Associated Press)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/29/technology/AP-US-Earns-Qwest.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Qwest Adds 42,000 Broadband Customers - Telco says they're still testing faster speeds (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Qwest-Adds-42000-Broadband-Customers-102177
A Dying Landline Business Sounds a Lot like Static (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/04/28/a-dying-landline-business-sounds-a-lot-like-static/
Ask.com parent IAC reports Q1 loss (San Francisco Business Times)
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/04/27/daily38.html?ana=from_rss
U.S. Steps Up Effort on Digital Defenses (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/us/28cyber.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Texas Launches Effort to Extend Broadband Statewide (San Antonio Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2009/04/27/daily10.html?ana=from_rss
New Google Search Tool Aimed at Making Sense of Public Data (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/28/AR2009042802280.html?nav=rss_email/components
GENERAL NEWS
What Hath Olympia Wrought? In a very tough session, Republicans played no role, Democrats fought but probably avoided divorce court, and the majority party got cold feet about boosting taxes. And we get a mini-encore soon. (Crosscut Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2009/04/29/animals-wildlife/18962/
Analysis: Scorecard for the 2009 Wash. Legislature (Associated Press)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_xgr_analysis_winners__losers.html
Feds Offer Checklist for Businesses Preparing for Swine Flu (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/04/27/daily29.html?ana=from_rss
Mason General Purchases Health Center (Business Examiner)
http://www.businessexaminer.com/blog/mason-general-purchases-health-center/
Spin Meter: The Politics of Counting Stimulus Jobs (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009142055_apusstimuluscountingjobs.html?syndication=rss
Hood Canal Bridge Closure Nightmare for Some, Dream for Others (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_042809WAB-bridge-detour-KS.11db65e39.html?rss
Port Townsend Braces for Hood Canal Bridge Closure (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009141464_bridge29m.html
Walla Walla - Remoteness Hurts Washington Wine Town in Downturn (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/28/financial/f130939D08.DTL&feed=rss.business
Lake Chelan Area Wins Designation as the State's 11th Distinct Wine Grape-Growing Region (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009140125_webwine28.html?syndication=rss
DIVERSIONS
Severe Wind Sends Chihuahua Flying Into Sky - Pet Psychic Helps Owners Find Lost Dog In Woods
http://www.kirotv.com/family/19307489/detail.html
FaceBook Surfing While Sick Costs Woman Job - said she could not work in front of a computer as she needed to lie in the dark
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090424/od_nm/us_facebook_job;_ylt=AkrimzEXeIjtGB4bubHxbXPtiBIF
McCurry Beats McDonald’s In Malaysia Lawsuit
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090429/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_malaysia_courts_mcdonalds;_ylt=AtyRLnDeH_8ChXPN0WtyDintiBIF
Yuck! Winona Police Again Find 'Chicken Skimmings' On Streets
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_on_fe_st/odd_chicken_skimmings_spill;_ylt=AqCEmBPFyDpz3P9SNKVXIontiBIF
SONG OF THE DAY
The Time Warp – Cover by Jack Hicko (PG-13 – couldn’t find a watchable version of the original, but I loved this interpretation; shades of Leon Redbone)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOOdNuoU4G0&feature=PlayList&p=0EBEF02CA82024D1&index=23
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Energy News Digest for April 28, 2009
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.
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Special Session Likely - may include climate change and renewable energy revisions
- Should Utilities Worry About the Swine Flu?
- Swine Flu Q and A: What the CDC Advises
- Power Bills for Chelan County PUD Customers to Go Up By Nine Percent
- Building Power Lines Creates a Web of Problems
- Oregon’s Rogue River Is the West's Bright Spot for Fall Chinook
- State of Oregon State Will Close Butte Falls Fish Hatchery
- Boaters Warned About Chief Joseph Dam Spills
- Whale Watch Boats Often Break Rules, Say Marine Mammal Monitors
- Feds: New Floodplain Rules to Go Unenforced
- Protecting Net Metering: The Civil Rights Movement for Solar Energy
- United Kingdom - Anger at Plans for Nuclear Power Station to Replace Wind Farm
- United Kingdom - Economy Blows Ill Wind for Renewable Energy
- Utility Bills a Ripe Target for Savings
- Crazy Power Companies Want to Help You Pay Them less
- FERC Chairman Sees Himself Leading U.S. March toward Energy Efficiency
- Dingell Democrats Fret about Cap and Trade
- Going Green in Centralia - Expo Pushes Community Involvement, Safety
- Green Agenda May Shift Farm Policy
- Montana - Qwest Phone Rates Going Down
- Washington Legislature –High-Speed Internet Activities
- Verizon, Other Fiber Builders Cautiously Optimistic About Broadband Recovery
- Rural Residents without High-Speed Internet Struggle to Keep Up
- So Much for Dial-Up's Recession-Driven Resurgence
- Powerline Broadband Just Won't Die
- Facebook, Firefox, Twitter Lead App, Web Usage
- Oh Look, another Insane 3G Data Bill
- Mason County Has Tips for Preventing the Spread of Swine Flu
- Wash. Gov: Lawmakers Need Firm Overtime Agreement
- Log Exports from Aberdeen to End
- Legislature Trims 18 State Commissions
- Consumer Confidence Soars in April
- Buzzword Bingo - More Companies Using ‘Alternative’ Workplaces
WORD OF THE DAY
Chirography • \kye-RAH-gruh-fee\ • noun - 1: handwriting, penmanship 2: calligraphy
Ambrose chirography was unmistakable. His smiley-faces as dots over his “i’s,” “j’s,” and periods belied his violent vocation as the supervisor of Torquemada’s brute squad.
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
A special session likely - Governor, Democrats support chance to tie up loose ends (The Olympian, Olympia, WA) “…Besides the budget bills, climate change legislation...(Sen. Lisa Brown) said she is interested in reviving…Senate Bill 5840, which proposes to change the terms of Initiative 937’s requirement that utilities buy a certain percentage of power from new renewable sources starting in 2012….”
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/834252.html
Should Utilities Worry About the Swine Flu? (Utility Automation & Engineering)
http://uaelp.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=22&ARTICLE_ID=360375&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss
Swine Flu Q and A: What the CDC Advises (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12238623
Starting May first, power bills for Chelan County PUD customers will go up by nine percent (KPQ Radio, Wenatchee)
http://www.kpq.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=959
Building Power Lines Creates a Web of Problems (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103537250&ft=1&f=3
FISH & WILDLIFE
Oregon’s Rogue River Is the West's Bright Spot for Fall Chinook (Mail Tribune, Medford, OR)
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090428/NEWS/904280326
State of Oregon State Will Close Butte Falls Fish Hatchery (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/4865-state-will-close-butte-falls-fish-hatchery/
Boaters Warned About Chief Joseph Dam Spills (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090427/NEWS04/704279968/1025/rss1025
Whale Watch Boats Often Break Rules, Say Marine Mammal Monitors (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
http://www.timescolonist.com/Travel/Whale+watch+boats+often+break+rules+marine+mammal+monitors/1539993/story.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Feds: New Floodplain Rules to Go Unenforced (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009134725_fema28m.html?syndication=rss
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Protecting Net Metering: The Civil Rights Movement for Solar Energy (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/04/protecting-net-metering-the-civil-rights-movement-for-solar-energy?src=rss
United Kingdom - Anger at Plans for Nuclear Power Station to Replace Wind Farm (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/28/haverigg-turbines-nuclear-power-plant
United Kingdom - Economy Blows Ill Wind for Renewable Energy - Despite promises of government investment, green energy faces major setbacks as Shell, BP and others halt renewable projects (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/apr/28/economy-ill-wind-green-energy
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Utility Bills a Ripe Target for Savings - Small steps and larger projects can shave a healthy chunk off the power bill, experts say (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
http://union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/04/27/local_news/090427local04powersavings.txt
Crazy Power Companies Want to Help You Pay Them Less (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/723626.html
FERC Chairman Sees Himself Leading U.S. March Toward Energy Efficiency (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/04/27/27greenwire-ferc-chairman-sees-himself-leading-us-march-to-10686.html
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Dingell Democrats Fret about Cap and Trade (Politico.com)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21781.html
Going Green in Centralia - Expo Pushes Community Involvement, Safety (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.outdoorslc.com/story.php?subaction=showfull&id=1240854365&archive=&start_from=&ucat=5&
Green Agenda May Shift Farm Policy - Instead of resisting climate change reforms, agricultural lobby groups are examining ways they can benefit from them (Forbes Magazine)
http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/27/agriculture-green-regulation-business-oxford-analytica.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Montana - Qwest Phone Rates Going Down “…settlement calls for Qwest to bring Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) service to an additional 27 Montana communities…” (Examiner.Com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1977116~Qwest_phone_rates_going_down.html?cid=rss-Montana_Headlines
Washington Legislature – HB 1701: Authorizing the Department of Information Services To Engage In High-Speed Internet Activities (leg.wa.gov, via Baller/Herbst)
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1701&year=2009
Verizon, Other Fiber Builders Cautiously Optimistic About Broadband Recovery (Broadband Census)
http://broadbandcensus.com/2009/04/verizon-other-fiber-builders-cautiously-optimistic-about-broadband-recovery/
Rural Residents without High-Speed Internet Struggle to Keep Up (Wisconsin State Journal, Via Baller/Herbst)
http://www.madison.com/wsj/topstories/448709
So Much for Dial-Up's Recession-Driven Resurgence - A ton of free advertising for Earthlink doesn't seem to help (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/So-Much-For-DialUps-RecessionDriven-Resurgance-102140
Powerline Broadband Just Won't Die - IBM and IBEC fuel BPL interest in Wisconsin (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Powerline-Broadband-Just-Wont-Die-102129
Facebook, Firefox, Twitter Lead App, Web Usage (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/04/28/facebook-firefox-twitter-lead-app-web-usage/
Oh Look, another Insane 3G Data Bill - $62,000 to download Disney's Wall-E via laptop card (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Oh-Look-Another-Insane-3G-Data-Bill-102138
GENERAL NEWS
Mason County Has Tips for Preventing the Spread of Swine Flu (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7098/reftab/1632/t/MASON-COUNTY-HEALTH-DEPARTMENT-HAS-TIPS-FOR-PREVENTING-THE-SPREAD-OF-SWINE-FLU-ALTHOUGH-NO-CASES-HAVE-BEEN-REPORTED-IN-STATE-/Default.aspx
Wash. Gov: Lawmakers Need Firm Overtime Agreement (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_xgr_session_roundup.html?source=pimail
Log Exports from Aberdeen to End (Associated Press)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090427/NEWS/904279993
Legislature Trims 18 State Commissions (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/833209.html
Consumer Confidence Soars in April (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009136927_webconsumerconfidence28.html?syndication=rss
Buzzword Bingo - More Companies Using ‘Alternative’ Workplaces (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/04/27/daily5.html?ana=from_rss
DIVERSIONS
University Of Oregon Board Says No Clothes, No Ultimate Frisbee
http://www.examiner.com/a-1985315~UO_board_says_no_clothes__no_Ultimate_Frisbee.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
Idaho Governor, Coffee Roaster Embroiled In Brew-Ha-Ha
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10259074
Authorities: Stinky Oregon Bank Customer Runs Afoul Of Law
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009132729_webfoulodor27m.html?syndication=rss
SONG OF THE DAY
Listen to the Music - Doobie Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOME9pS97Xk&feature=related
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Special Session Likely - may include climate change and renewable energy revisions
- Should Utilities Worry About the Swine Flu?
- Swine Flu Q and A: What the CDC Advises
- Power Bills for Chelan County PUD Customers to Go Up By Nine Percent
- Building Power Lines Creates a Web of Problems
- Oregon’s Rogue River Is the West's Bright Spot for Fall Chinook
- State of Oregon State Will Close Butte Falls Fish Hatchery
- Boaters Warned About Chief Joseph Dam Spills
- Whale Watch Boats Often Break Rules, Say Marine Mammal Monitors
- Feds: New Floodplain Rules to Go Unenforced
- Protecting Net Metering: The Civil Rights Movement for Solar Energy
- United Kingdom - Anger at Plans for Nuclear Power Station to Replace Wind Farm
- United Kingdom - Economy Blows Ill Wind for Renewable Energy
- Utility Bills a Ripe Target for Savings
- Crazy Power Companies Want to Help You Pay Them less
- FERC Chairman Sees Himself Leading U.S. March toward Energy Efficiency
- Dingell Democrats Fret about Cap and Trade
- Going Green in Centralia - Expo Pushes Community Involvement, Safety
- Green Agenda May Shift Farm Policy
- Montana - Qwest Phone Rates Going Down
- Washington Legislature –High-Speed Internet Activities
- Verizon, Other Fiber Builders Cautiously Optimistic About Broadband Recovery
- Rural Residents without High-Speed Internet Struggle to Keep Up
- So Much for Dial-Up's Recession-Driven Resurgence
- Powerline Broadband Just Won't Die
- Facebook, Firefox, Twitter Lead App, Web Usage
- Oh Look, another Insane 3G Data Bill
- Mason County Has Tips for Preventing the Spread of Swine Flu
- Wash. Gov: Lawmakers Need Firm Overtime Agreement
- Log Exports from Aberdeen to End
- Legislature Trims 18 State Commissions
- Consumer Confidence Soars in April
- Buzzword Bingo - More Companies Using ‘Alternative’ Workplaces
WORD OF THE DAY
Chirography • \kye-RAH-gruh-fee\ • noun - 1: handwriting, penmanship 2: calligraphy
Ambrose chirography was unmistakable. His smiley-faces as dots over his “i’s,” “j’s,” and periods belied his violent vocation as the supervisor of Torquemada’s brute squad.
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
A special session likely - Governor, Democrats support chance to tie up loose ends (The Olympian, Olympia, WA) “…Besides the budget bills, climate change legislation...(Sen. Lisa Brown) said she is interested in reviving…Senate Bill 5840, which proposes to change the terms of Initiative 937’s requirement that utilities buy a certain percentage of power from new renewable sources starting in 2012….”
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/834252.html
Should Utilities Worry About the Swine Flu? (Utility Automation & Engineering)
http://uaelp.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=22&ARTICLE_ID=360375&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss
Swine Flu Q and A: What the CDC Advises (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12238623
Starting May first, power bills for Chelan County PUD customers will go up by nine percent (KPQ Radio, Wenatchee)
http://www.kpq.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=959
Building Power Lines Creates a Web of Problems (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103537250&ft=1&f=3
FISH & WILDLIFE
Oregon’s Rogue River Is the West's Bright Spot for Fall Chinook (Mail Tribune, Medford, OR)
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090428/NEWS/904280326
State of Oregon State Will Close Butte Falls Fish Hatchery (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/4865-state-will-close-butte-falls-fish-hatchery/
Boaters Warned About Chief Joseph Dam Spills (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090427/NEWS04/704279968/1025/rss1025
Whale Watch Boats Often Break Rules, Say Marine Mammal Monitors (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
http://www.timescolonist.com/Travel/Whale+watch+boats+often+break+rules+marine+mammal+monitors/1539993/story.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Feds: New Floodplain Rules to Go Unenforced (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009134725_fema28m.html?syndication=rss
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Protecting Net Metering: The Civil Rights Movement for Solar Energy (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/04/protecting-net-metering-the-civil-rights-movement-for-solar-energy?src=rss
United Kingdom - Anger at Plans for Nuclear Power Station to Replace Wind Farm (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/28/haverigg-turbines-nuclear-power-plant
United Kingdom - Economy Blows Ill Wind for Renewable Energy - Despite promises of government investment, green energy faces major setbacks as Shell, BP and others halt renewable projects (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/apr/28/economy-ill-wind-green-energy
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Utility Bills a Ripe Target for Savings - Small steps and larger projects can shave a healthy chunk off the power bill, experts say (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
http://union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/04/27/local_news/090427local04powersavings.txt
Crazy Power Companies Want to Help You Pay Them Less (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/723626.html
FERC Chairman Sees Himself Leading U.S. March Toward Energy Efficiency (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/04/27/27greenwire-ferc-chairman-sees-himself-leading-us-march-to-10686.html
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Dingell Democrats Fret about Cap and Trade (Politico.com)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21781.html
Going Green in Centralia - Expo Pushes Community Involvement, Safety (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.outdoorslc.com/story.php?subaction=showfull&id=1240854365&archive=&start_from=&ucat=5&
Green Agenda May Shift Farm Policy - Instead of resisting climate change reforms, agricultural lobby groups are examining ways they can benefit from them (Forbes Magazine)
http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/27/agriculture-green-regulation-business-oxford-analytica.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Montana - Qwest Phone Rates Going Down “…settlement calls for Qwest to bring Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) service to an additional 27 Montana communities…” (Examiner.Com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1977116~Qwest_phone_rates_going_down.html?cid=rss-Montana_Headlines
Washington Legislature – HB 1701: Authorizing the Department of Information Services To Engage In High-Speed Internet Activities (leg.wa.gov, via Baller/Herbst)
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1701&year=2009
Verizon, Other Fiber Builders Cautiously Optimistic About Broadband Recovery (Broadband Census)
http://broadbandcensus.com/2009/04/verizon-other-fiber-builders-cautiously-optimistic-about-broadband-recovery/
Rural Residents without High-Speed Internet Struggle to Keep Up (Wisconsin State Journal, Via Baller/Herbst)
http://www.madison.com/wsj/topstories/448709
So Much for Dial-Up's Recession-Driven Resurgence - A ton of free advertising for Earthlink doesn't seem to help (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/So-Much-For-DialUps-RecessionDriven-Resurgance-102140
Powerline Broadband Just Won't Die - IBM and IBEC fuel BPL interest in Wisconsin (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Powerline-Broadband-Just-Wont-Die-102129
Facebook, Firefox, Twitter Lead App, Web Usage (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/04/28/facebook-firefox-twitter-lead-app-web-usage/
Oh Look, another Insane 3G Data Bill - $62,000 to download Disney's Wall-E via laptop card (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Oh-Look-Another-Insane-3G-Data-Bill-102138
GENERAL NEWS
Mason County Has Tips for Preventing the Spread of Swine Flu (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7098/reftab/1632/t/MASON-COUNTY-HEALTH-DEPARTMENT-HAS-TIPS-FOR-PREVENTING-THE-SPREAD-OF-SWINE-FLU-ALTHOUGH-NO-CASES-HAVE-BEEN-REPORTED-IN-STATE-/Default.aspx
Wash. Gov: Lawmakers Need Firm Overtime Agreement (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_xgr_session_roundup.html?source=pimail
Log Exports from Aberdeen to End (Associated Press)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090427/NEWS/904279993
Legislature Trims 18 State Commissions (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/833209.html
Consumer Confidence Soars in April (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009136927_webconsumerconfidence28.html?syndication=rss
Buzzword Bingo - More Companies Using ‘Alternative’ Workplaces (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/04/27/daily5.html?ana=from_rss
DIVERSIONS
University Of Oregon Board Says No Clothes, No Ultimate Frisbee
http://www.examiner.com/a-1985315~UO_board_says_no_clothes__no_Ultimate_Frisbee.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
Idaho Governor, Coffee Roaster Embroiled In Brew-Ha-Ha
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10259074
Authorities: Stinky Oregon Bank Customer Runs Afoul Of Law
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009132729_webfoulodor27m.html?syndication=rss
SONG OF THE DAY
Listen to the Music - Doobie Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOME9pS97Xk&feature=related
Monday, April 27, 2009
Energy News Digest for April 27, 2009
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.
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- An Aged Electric Grid Looks to a Brighter Future
- Engineering a Smart Grid for Energy's Future
- Power, And Pitfalls, Of an Electrical Smart Grid
- Supply Glut Sends Natural Gas Prices Crashing On Nymex
- Battle Lines Drawn Over Clean Coal
- Republicans Push Nuclear Energy to Lower Costs
- Idaho - Hundreds Attend Nuke Hearing
- Southern Company's Miss. IGCC Plant Faces New Challenge
- Missouri - Study to Begin On Possible Tenn-Tom Hydroelectric Plant
- Bill Introduced to Return Yucca Money to Electricity Consumers
- Car hits power pole = big blackout, but how?
- Tree-Planter Breaks Natural Gas Line at His Camas Home
- Agreement Gives Cheney More Control over Power
- Chelan PUD commissioners could approve rate hike Monday
- Sacramento Bee Op/Ed - John Distasio: SMUD's Rate Hike Means Brighter Future
- San Francisco Moves Closer to Selling Power to Residents
- Highway 3 Tree Trimming Postponed Until June
- Walden calls Obama's energy bill 'an Oregon job killer'
- At Constellation Energy, Not a Star Performance
- Salmon Standoff
- And Now a Word about Salmon Fishing
- Fishermen Lose Millions Saving Weakest Fish Stocks
- 'Bad Boy' Orcas Have Arrived Off the Oregon Coast
- Tribe Gathering Small Fish to Save Dwindling Stillaguamish River Run
- Walleye at Low Densities in Lake Pend Oreille
- Shrimp Season Gets Underway May 2
- Environmental group pulls out of Klamath talks
- Oregon's water issues run deep
- Oregon Water Demand Opens Door to Special Interests
- Small Water System near Seabeck to Get Upgrade before the Kitsap PUD Takes over
- Latest Storm Headache: Seattle Sand Clogs Sewer Plant
- No Out of State Renewables under CA Energy Mandates
- Columbian Editorial - Harnessing Currents
- A Green Challenge: Make Renewables Reliable
- Ocean power surges forward
- Plug-In Cars Create Challenges
- St. Petersburg Times Opinion – Trying Not To Tilt At Wind Turbines
- Oregon Company Studying Possible Hawaiian Wind Farm
- New Searchable Map of the Green Energy World
- Business Group Calls for Energy Cuts in Buildings
- In Tough Economic Times, Companies Eager to Conserve
- Democrats May Ease Bill's Emissions Rules
- Gore, Gingrich Face Off On Global Warming Bill
- NY Times Op-Ed - Don’t Waste Time Cutting Emissions
- A Green Trade War?
- Washington Post Op/Ed - Selling the Green Economy
- Carbon Swaps = Big Bucks - Green cash
- Wildfires Add to Speed of Global Warming
- Air Pollution Helps Plants Blunt Climate Change
- Canada - Go Green on Top, Or Face $100,000 Fine
- Tennessee Well-Positioned For Broadband Funding
- One Internet Village, Divided
- Typical Lost Laptop Can Cost $50,000
- US Declares Public Health Emergency for Swine Flu
- Pandemic Alert! What Happens During a "Public Health Emergency"
- Lawmakers Pass Budget - Grim Blueprint
- Budget-Weary Washington Legislature Adjourns
- Wash. Lawmakers May Go To Special Session
- Wash. Lawmakers Delay Family Leave Program
- Cowlitz County Judge Says Tax Increase Should Have Been Considered To Balance County's Budget
- $500 Million for Tribes
- Shot Clock Approved for Boys’ High-School Basketball
WORD OF THE DAY
Inveterate • \in-VET-uh-rut\ • adjective - 1: firmly established by long persistence 2: confirmed in a habit: habitual
“I’m not a video game addict,” huffed the pizza-faced hoodlum to his glowering mother. “I’m an inveterate human-digital interface practicioner.”
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
An Aged Electric Grid Looks to a Brighter Future (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103327321&ft=1&f=3
Engineering a Smart Grid for Energy's Future (NY Times)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/26/AR2009042602628.html?wprss=rss_technology
Power, And Pitfalls, Of an Electrical Smart Grid (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-smartgrid27-2009apr27,0,4261187.story
Supply Glut Sends Natural Gas Prices Crashing On Nymex (Purchasing.Com)
http://www.purchasing.com/article/CA6654186.html?nid=4016
Battle Lines Drawn Over Clean Coal (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/environment/2009/april/Battle-Lines-Drawn-Over-Clean-Coal.html
Republicans Push Nuclear Energy to Lower Costs (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009120717_apusrepublicansenergy.html?syndication=rss
Idaho - Hundreds Attend Nuke Hearing (Mountain Home News, ID)
http://www.mountainhomenews.com/story/1533611.html
Southern Company's Miss. IGCC Plant Faces New Challenge (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2416524420090424
Missouri - Study to Begin On Possible Tenn-Tom Hydroelectric Plant (Commercial Dispatch, Columbus MO)
http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=1178
Bill Introduced to Return Yucca Money to Electricity Consumers (Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV)
http://www.lvrj.com/news/breaking_news/43593592.html
Car hits power pole = big blackout, but how? (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43655242.html
Tree-Planter Breaks Natural Gas Line at His Camas Home – “Call before you dig” isn't just for construction companies (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090425/NEWS02/704259960/
Agreement Gives Cheney More Control over Power (Cheney Free Press, WA)
http://www.cheneyfreepress.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=4356&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2058&hn=cheneyfreepress&he=.com
Chelan PUD commissioners could approve rate hike Monday (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090425/NEWS04/704259950?Chelan-PUD-commissioners-could-approve-rate-hike-Monday
Sacramento Bee Op/Ed - John Distasio: SMUD's Rate Hike Means Brighter Future
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/story/1808350.html
San Francisco Moves Closer to Selling Power to Residents (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=39056
Highway 3 Tree Trimming Postponed Until June (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7078/reftab/1632/t/HIGHWAY-3-TREE-TRIMMING-POSTPONED-UNTIL-JUNE/Default.aspx
Walden calls Obama's energy bill 'an Oregon job killer' - GOP congressman said the bill defines woody biomass as not renewable (Mail Tribune, Medord, OR)http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090426/NEWS/904260335
At Constellation Energy, Not a Star Performance - It's been a rough year for Mayo Shattuck (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/23/AR2009042304509.html?wprss=rss_business
FISH & WILDLIFE
Salmon Standoff - The Columbia's spring Chinook run is one of the river's most endangered, most prized and most unpredictable. That spells trouble for the people who count on the fish (The Oregonian, Portland)
http://www.oregonlive.com/special/index.ssf/2009/04/chinook_salmon.html
And now a word about salmon fishing (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
http://www.idahostatesman.com/idahooutdoors/story/744336.html
Fishermen Lose Millions Saving Weakest Fish Stocks (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/25/financial/f092543D25.DTL&feed=rss.business
'Bad Boy' Orcas Have Arrived Off The Oregon Coast - That's not good news for the gray whales, seals or sea lions that hang out there (The Oregonian, Portland)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/bad_boy_orcas_have_arrived_off.html
Tribe Gathering Small Fish to Save Dwindling Stillaguamish River Run - Effort to restore Chinook run in the Stillaguamish depends on handful of baby fish (The Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090425/NEWS01/704259839/-1/RSS02
Walleye at Low Densities in Lake Pend Oreille (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/831724.html
Shrimp Season Gets Underway May 2 (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2009122662_outn26.html?syndication=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Environmental group pulls out of Klamath talks (The Oregonian, Portland)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/04/environmental_group_pulls_out.html
Oregon's water issues run deep (The Oregonian, Portland)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/oregons_water_issues_run_deep.html
Oregon Water Demand Opens Door to Special Interests (The Oregonian, Portland)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/oregon_water_demand_opens_door.html
Small Water System near Seabeck to Get Upgrade before the Kitsap PUD Takes over Operation of the System (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/apr/24/small-water-system-near-seabeck-to-get-upgrade/
Latest Storm Headache: Seattle Sand Clogs Sewer Plant (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009127486_sand27m.html
RENEWABLE & ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
No Out of State Renewables under CA Energy Mandates (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/stoel-rives-6442/news/article/2009/04/out-of-state-wind-and-solar-generation-could-be-excluded-from-participating-in-californias-renewable-portfolio-standard?src=rss
Columbian Editorial - Harnessing Currents: Tidal energy project in Puget Sound could expand future of alternative forms
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090427/OPINION02/704279992
A Green Challenge: Make Renewables Reliable (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103526574&ft=1&f=2
Ocean power surges forward - Wave power and tidal power are still experimental, but may be little more than five years away from commercial development. (Christian Science Monitor)
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/04/24/ocean-power-surges-forward/
Plug-In Cars Create Challenges (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/business/story/831267.html
St. Petersburg Times Opinion – Trying Not To Tilt At Wind Turbines
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/article994808.ece
Oregon Company Studying Possible Hawaiian Wind Farm (Associated Press)
http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/national-8/124071253964740.xml&storylist=orlocal
New Searchable Map of the Green Energy World (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/reeep-6222/news/article/2009/04/55343?src=rss
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Business Group Calls for Energy Cuts in Buildings (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/26/financial/f150436D40.DTL&feed=rss.business
In Tough Economic Times, Companies Eager to Conserve (Las Vegas Sun, NV)
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/apr/24/tough-economic-times-companies-eager-conserve/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Democrats May Ease Bill's Emissions Rules (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042402148.html?wprss=rss_politics
Gore, Gingrich Face Off On Global Warming Bill - Ex-VP cites environment, security; ex-House speaker focuses on costs (MSNBC)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30386828/
NY Times Op-Ed - Don’t Waste Time Cutting Emissions
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/opinion/25lomborg.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
A Green Trade War? The US coming around on climate change was supposed to be good news. Instead, it's trouble. (Newsweek)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/195096
Washington Post Op/Ed - Selling the Green Economy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/26/AR2009042601515.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
Carbon Swaps = Big Bucks - Green cash: Salt Lake partners broker global credits (Salt Lake Tribune, UT)
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12220540
Wildfires add to speed of global warming (San Francisco Chronicle – Isn’t biomass supposed to be carbon neutral?)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/23/MN6N177UFJ.DTL&feed=rss.news
Air pollution helps plants blunt climate change (Macau Daily Times)
http://www.macaudailytimesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26406&Itemid=33
Canada - Go Green on Top, Or Face $100,000 Fine, City Proposes: Make high-rise bylaw voluntary, developers urge (Canada.Com)
http://www.canada.com/business/fp/green+face+fine+city+proposes/1496803/story.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Tennessee Well-Positioned For Broadband Funding (Memphis Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2009/04/27/story3.html?ana=from_rss
One Internet Village, Divided: In Developing Countries, Web Grows Without Profit (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/start-ups/27global.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Typical Lost Laptop Can Cost $50,000 - A typical lost or stolen laptop costs employers $49,246, mostly from the value of the missing intellectual property (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009127178_btstolenlaptop27.html?syndication=rss
GENERAL NEWS
US Declares Public Health Emergency for Swine Flu (Associated Press)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090426/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_swine_flu_emergency_7
Pandemic Alert! What Happens During A "Public Health Emergency," And What's A "Pandemic Alert Level"? (Slate Magazine)
http://www.slate.com/id/2216999/?from=rss
Lawmakers Pass Budget - Grim Blueprint: Democrats Hold Sway As Session Draws To Close (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/government/story/721575.html
Budget-Weary Washington Legislature Adjourns (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009129082_apwaxgrgregoire.html?syndication=rss
Wash. Lawmakers May Go To Special Session (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009128023_apwaxgradjournment4thldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
Wash. Lawmakers Delay Family Leave Program (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/832555.html
Cowlitz County Judge Says Tax Increase Should Have Been Considered To Balance County's Budget (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/04/26//area_news/doc49f3fcc1d2732375545899.txt
$500 Million for Tribes (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/us/26tribes.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Shot Clock Approved for Boys’ High-School Basketball - Boys games will use a 35-second clock; the girls’ clock will remain at 30 seconds (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2009117541_wiaa25.html?syndication=rss
DIVERSIONS
The Community at Stinky's Corner - In a Sinking Economy, Locals from All Walks Work to Build (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA – very near my old hometown, Onalaska)
http://www.outdoorslc.com/story.php?subaction=showfull&id=1240646626&archive=&start_from=&ucat=5&
Connecticut Man Finds 'Little Polliwogs' In Town's Water - Officials Say Organisms Not Harmful (Just drink it. I ‘double-dog dare you!)
http://www.kirotv.com/health/19264012/detail.html
Man Pretending To Fall Off Bridge Actually Falls
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19266207/detail.html
Swiss Heartland Voters Ban Nude Hiking
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12234131
John King - Famed Ukulele Player - Dies
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/27/BAIA179IF8.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
SONG OF THE DAY
John King plays the Spanish Fandango (RIP)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo5T2JB-Scs
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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- An Aged Electric Grid Looks to a Brighter Future
- Engineering a Smart Grid for Energy's Future
- Power, And Pitfalls, Of an Electrical Smart Grid
- Supply Glut Sends Natural Gas Prices Crashing On Nymex
- Battle Lines Drawn Over Clean Coal
- Republicans Push Nuclear Energy to Lower Costs
- Idaho - Hundreds Attend Nuke Hearing
- Southern Company's Miss. IGCC Plant Faces New Challenge
- Missouri - Study to Begin On Possible Tenn-Tom Hydroelectric Plant
- Bill Introduced to Return Yucca Money to Electricity Consumers
- Car hits power pole = big blackout, but how?
- Tree-Planter Breaks Natural Gas Line at His Camas Home
- Agreement Gives Cheney More Control over Power
- Chelan PUD commissioners could approve rate hike Monday
- Sacramento Bee Op/Ed - John Distasio: SMUD's Rate Hike Means Brighter Future
- San Francisco Moves Closer to Selling Power to Residents
- Highway 3 Tree Trimming Postponed Until June
- Walden calls Obama's energy bill 'an Oregon job killer'
- At Constellation Energy, Not a Star Performance
- Salmon Standoff
- And Now a Word about Salmon Fishing
- Fishermen Lose Millions Saving Weakest Fish Stocks
- 'Bad Boy' Orcas Have Arrived Off the Oregon Coast
- Tribe Gathering Small Fish to Save Dwindling Stillaguamish River Run
- Walleye at Low Densities in Lake Pend Oreille
- Shrimp Season Gets Underway May 2
- Environmental group pulls out of Klamath talks
- Oregon's water issues run deep
- Oregon Water Demand Opens Door to Special Interests
- Small Water System near Seabeck to Get Upgrade before the Kitsap PUD Takes over
- Latest Storm Headache: Seattle Sand Clogs Sewer Plant
- No Out of State Renewables under CA Energy Mandates
- Columbian Editorial - Harnessing Currents
- A Green Challenge: Make Renewables Reliable
- Ocean power surges forward
- Plug-In Cars Create Challenges
- St. Petersburg Times Opinion – Trying Not To Tilt At Wind Turbines
- Oregon Company Studying Possible Hawaiian Wind Farm
- New Searchable Map of the Green Energy World
- Business Group Calls for Energy Cuts in Buildings
- In Tough Economic Times, Companies Eager to Conserve
- Democrats May Ease Bill's Emissions Rules
- Gore, Gingrich Face Off On Global Warming Bill
- NY Times Op-Ed - Don’t Waste Time Cutting Emissions
- A Green Trade War?
- Washington Post Op/Ed - Selling the Green Economy
- Carbon Swaps = Big Bucks - Green cash
- Wildfires Add to Speed of Global Warming
- Air Pollution Helps Plants Blunt Climate Change
- Canada - Go Green on Top, Or Face $100,000 Fine
- Tennessee Well-Positioned For Broadband Funding
- One Internet Village, Divided
- Typical Lost Laptop Can Cost $50,000
- US Declares Public Health Emergency for Swine Flu
- Pandemic Alert! What Happens During a "Public Health Emergency"
- Lawmakers Pass Budget - Grim Blueprint
- Budget-Weary Washington Legislature Adjourns
- Wash. Lawmakers May Go To Special Session
- Wash. Lawmakers Delay Family Leave Program
- Cowlitz County Judge Says Tax Increase Should Have Been Considered To Balance County's Budget
- $500 Million for Tribes
- Shot Clock Approved for Boys’ High-School Basketball
WORD OF THE DAY
Inveterate • \in-VET-uh-rut\ • adjective - 1: firmly established by long persistence 2: confirmed in a habit: habitual
“I’m not a video game addict,” huffed the pizza-faced hoodlum to his glowering mother. “I’m an inveterate human-digital interface practicioner.”
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
An Aged Electric Grid Looks to a Brighter Future (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103327321&ft=1&f=3
Engineering a Smart Grid for Energy's Future (NY Times)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/26/AR2009042602628.html?wprss=rss_technology
Power, And Pitfalls, Of an Electrical Smart Grid (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-smartgrid27-2009apr27,0,4261187.story
Supply Glut Sends Natural Gas Prices Crashing On Nymex (Purchasing.Com)
http://www.purchasing.com/article/CA6654186.html?nid=4016
Battle Lines Drawn Over Clean Coal (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/environment/2009/april/Battle-Lines-Drawn-Over-Clean-Coal.html
Republicans Push Nuclear Energy to Lower Costs (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009120717_apusrepublicansenergy.html?syndication=rss
Idaho - Hundreds Attend Nuke Hearing (Mountain Home News, ID)
http://www.mountainhomenews.com/story/1533611.html
Southern Company's Miss. IGCC Plant Faces New Challenge (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2416524420090424
Missouri - Study to Begin On Possible Tenn-Tom Hydroelectric Plant (Commercial Dispatch, Columbus MO)
http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=1178
Bill Introduced to Return Yucca Money to Electricity Consumers (Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV)
http://www.lvrj.com/news/breaking_news/43593592.html
Car hits power pole = big blackout, but how? (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43655242.html
Tree-Planter Breaks Natural Gas Line at His Camas Home – “Call before you dig” isn't just for construction companies (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090425/NEWS02/704259960/
Agreement Gives Cheney More Control over Power (Cheney Free Press, WA)
http://www.cheneyfreepress.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=4356&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2058&hn=cheneyfreepress&he=.com
Chelan PUD commissioners could approve rate hike Monday (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090425/NEWS04/704259950?Chelan-PUD-commissioners-could-approve-rate-hike-Monday
Sacramento Bee Op/Ed - John Distasio: SMUD's Rate Hike Means Brighter Future
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/story/1808350.html
San Francisco Moves Closer to Selling Power to Residents (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=39056
Highway 3 Tree Trimming Postponed Until June (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7078/reftab/1632/t/HIGHWAY-3-TREE-TRIMMING-POSTPONED-UNTIL-JUNE/Default.aspx
Walden calls Obama's energy bill 'an Oregon job killer' - GOP congressman said the bill defines woody biomass as not renewable (Mail Tribune, Medord, OR)http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090426/NEWS/904260335
At Constellation Energy, Not a Star Performance - It's been a rough year for Mayo Shattuck (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/23/AR2009042304509.html?wprss=rss_business
FISH & WILDLIFE
Salmon Standoff - The Columbia's spring Chinook run is one of the river's most endangered, most prized and most unpredictable. That spells trouble for the people who count on the fish (The Oregonian, Portland)
http://www.oregonlive.com/special/index.ssf/2009/04/chinook_salmon.html
And now a word about salmon fishing (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
http://www.idahostatesman.com/idahooutdoors/story/744336.html
Fishermen Lose Millions Saving Weakest Fish Stocks (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/25/financial/f092543D25.DTL&feed=rss.business
'Bad Boy' Orcas Have Arrived Off The Oregon Coast - That's not good news for the gray whales, seals or sea lions that hang out there (The Oregonian, Portland)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/bad_boy_orcas_have_arrived_off.html
Tribe Gathering Small Fish to Save Dwindling Stillaguamish River Run - Effort to restore Chinook run in the Stillaguamish depends on handful of baby fish (The Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090425/NEWS01/704259839/-1/RSS02
Walleye at Low Densities in Lake Pend Oreille (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/831724.html
Shrimp Season Gets Underway May 2 (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2009122662_outn26.html?syndication=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Environmental group pulls out of Klamath talks (The Oregonian, Portland)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/04/environmental_group_pulls_out.html
Oregon's water issues run deep (The Oregonian, Portland)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/oregons_water_issues_run_deep.html
Oregon Water Demand Opens Door to Special Interests (The Oregonian, Portland)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/oregon_water_demand_opens_door.html
Small Water System near Seabeck to Get Upgrade before the Kitsap PUD Takes over Operation of the System (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/apr/24/small-water-system-near-seabeck-to-get-upgrade/
Latest Storm Headache: Seattle Sand Clogs Sewer Plant (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009127486_sand27m.html
RENEWABLE & ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
No Out of State Renewables under CA Energy Mandates (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/stoel-rives-6442/news/article/2009/04/out-of-state-wind-and-solar-generation-could-be-excluded-from-participating-in-californias-renewable-portfolio-standard?src=rss
Columbian Editorial - Harnessing Currents: Tidal energy project in Puget Sound could expand future of alternative forms
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090427/OPINION02/704279992
A Green Challenge: Make Renewables Reliable (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103526574&ft=1&f=2
Ocean power surges forward - Wave power and tidal power are still experimental, but may be little more than five years away from commercial development. (Christian Science Monitor)
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/04/24/ocean-power-surges-forward/
Plug-In Cars Create Challenges (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/business/story/831267.html
St. Petersburg Times Opinion – Trying Not To Tilt At Wind Turbines
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/article994808.ece
Oregon Company Studying Possible Hawaiian Wind Farm (Associated Press)
http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/national-8/124071253964740.xml&storylist=orlocal
New Searchable Map of the Green Energy World (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/reeep-6222/news/article/2009/04/55343?src=rss
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Business Group Calls for Energy Cuts in Buildings (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/26/financial/f150436D40.DTL&feed=rss.business
In Tough Economic Times, Companies Eager to Conserve (Las Vegas Sun, NV)
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/apr/24/tough-economic-times-companies-eager-conserve/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Democrats May Ease Bill's Emissions Rules (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042402148.html?wprss=rss_politics
Gore, Gingrich Face Off On Global Warming Bill - Ex-VP cites environment, security; ex-House speaker focuses on costs (MSNBC)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30386828/
NY Times Op-Ed - Don’t Waste Time Cutting Emissions
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/opinion/25lomborg.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
A Green Trade War? The US coming around on climate change was supposed to be good news. Instead, it's trouble. (Newsweek)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/195096
Washington Post Op/Ed - Selling the Green Economy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/26/AR2009042601515.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
Carbon Swaps = Big Bucks - Green cash: Salt Lake partners broker global credits (Salt Lake Tribune, UT)
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12220540
Wildfires add to speed of global warming (San Francisco Chronicle – Isn’t biomass supposed to be carbon neutral?)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/23/MN6N177UFJ.DTL&feed=rss.news
Air pollution helps plants blunt climate change (Macau Daily Times)
http://www.macaudailytimesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26406&Itemid=33
Canada - Go Green on Top, Or Face $100,000 Fine, City Proposes: Make high-rise bylaw voluntary, developers urge (Canada.Com)
http://www.canada.com/business/fp/green+face+fine+city+proposes/1496803/story.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Tennessee Well-Positioned For Broadband Funding (Memphis Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2009/04/27/story3.html?ana=from_rss
One Internet Village, Divided: In Developing Countries, Web Grows Without Profit (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/start-ups/27global.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Typical Lost Laptop Can Cost $50,000 - A typical lost or stolen laptop costs employers $49,246, mostly from the value of the missing intellectual property (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009127178_btstolenlaptop27.html?syndication=rss
GENERAL NEWS
US Declares Public Health Emergency for Swine Flu (Associated Press)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090426/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_swine_flu_emergency_7
Pandemic Alert! What Happens During A "Public Health Emergency," And What's A "Pandemic Alert Level"? (Slate Magazine)
http://www.slate.com/id/2216999/?from=rss
Lawmakers Pass Budget - Grim Blueprint: Democrats Hold Sway As Session Draws To Close (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/government/story/721575.html
Budget-Weary Washington Legislature Adjourns (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009129082_apwaxgrgregoire.html?syndication=rss
Wash. Lawmakers May Go To Special Session (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009128023_apwaxgradjournment4thldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
Wash. Lawmakers Delay Family Leave Program (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/832555.html
Cowlitz County Judge Says Tax Increase Should Have Been Considered To Balance County's Budget (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/04/26//area_news/doc49f3fcc1d2732375545899.txt
$500 Million for Tribes (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/us/26tribes.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Shot Clock Approved for Boys’ High-School Basketball - Boys games will use a 35-second clock; the girls’ clock will remain at 30 seconds (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2009117541_wiaa25.html?syndication=rss
DIVERSIONS
The Community at Stinky's Corner - In a Sinking Economy, Locals from All Walks Work to Build (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA – very near my old hometown, Onalaska)
http://www.outdoorslc.com/story.php?subaction=showfull&id=1240646626&archive=&start_from=&ucat=5&
Connecticut Man Finds 'Little Polliwogs' In Town's Water - Officials Say Organisms Not Harmful (Just drink it. I ‘double-dog dare you!)
http://www.kirotv.com/health/19264012/detail.html
Man Pretending To Fall Off Bridge Actually Falls
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19266207/detail.html
Swiss Heartland Voters Ban Nude Hiking
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12234131
John King - Famed Ukulele Player - Dies
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/27/BAIA179IF8.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
SONG OF THE DAY
John King plays the Spanish Fandango (RIP)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo5T2JB-Scs
Friday, April 24, 2009
Energy News Digest for Apri 24, 2009
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.
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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Power Restored In Massive Outage
- Mason County: Kamilche-Area Outage Update: Electricity Restored
- Blame The Balloon For Longview Outage
- U.S. May Raise Cap on Grants for High-Tech Power Grid
- BPA Seeks Stimulus Partners
- New BPA Transmission Product Helps Customers Move Power
- Burns named BPA’s acting deputy
- Okanogan PUD, Tribe Ink Deal On Enloe Dam Project
- Another PUD Joins Energy Northwest
- Fitch Rates Snohomish County PUD Electric System Rev Notes
- Idaho - New Nuke Power Plant Alternately Praised, Panned
- Will the U.S. need to build another coal or nuke plant again?
- Call Before You Dig - Customers Can Avoid Danger, Expense and Frustration
- Seattle Times Op/ed - Scientists Light the Way on Columbia River Hatchery Reform
- To Save The Oyster Or The Salmon?
- Long-Planned Removal of Condit Dam to Wait another Year
- Sewage release prompts health warnings in Budd Inlet
- Group Threatens City Of Vancouver, WA with Stormwater Lawsuit
- Washington Post Editorial - Saving Chesapeake Bay
- Otter signs SE Idaho aquifer management bill
- Cement Plants - EPA Seeks Tighter Lid on Kiln Emissions in Oregon
- Washington Post Op/Ed - Getting Real on Wind and Solar
- Billings looks at power plant idea to burn wood chips and sewage sludge
- News Release - Green, Clean, Sustainable Benefits Flow from Hydropower
- John Deere to Develop 12-MW Wind Farm in Greensburg, Kansas
- San Jose Street Lights Get Smarter
- Holdouts for Humble Light Bulb Defy a Government Phase-Out
- Wall Street Journal Op/Ed - Global Warming Overreach
- Utilities Press House Panel for Free Emission Credits
- Green Ink: Cap-and-Haggle
- Arizona Republic Editorial - If Carbon Has A Price, Someone Has To Pay It
- Will Carbon Capture Work?
- Student Activists Accuse Newt Gingrich of Flip Flopping on Global Warming
- Rural Riddle: Do Jobs Follow Broadband Access?
- Hack Against ISP Hijacks Brazilian Bank, Google Adsense
- Hackers Paying $32K for Old Nokia Phones
- As Verizon Goes, So Goes Metered Billing
- Black-And-White Printing Goes Green with Soy Toner
- 25 Libraries to Cut Back Hours
WORD OF THE DAY
Argosy • \AHR-guh-see\ • noun - 1: a large ship; especially: a large merchant ship 2: a rich supply
“My ship has come in,” exclaimed the gleeful, dancing organic farmer. Unfortunately for his neighbors, his ship was a truck loaded with fresh, steaming chicken manure; a veritable argosy of hot nitrogen and fiber.
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
Power Restored In Massive Outage (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_042409WAB-power-outage-LJ.107460bd5.html?rss
Mason County: Kamilche-Area Outage Update: Electricity Restored (Mason County PUD No. 3)
http://www.masonpud3.org/newsdisplay.aspx?newsid=538
Blame The Balloon For Longview Outage (Associated Press)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10236683
U.S. May Raise Cap on Grants for High-Tech Power Grid (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/23/AR2009042302577.html?wprss=rss_technology
BPA Seeks Stimulus Partners (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/04/20/daily46.html?ana=from_rss
New BPA Transmission Product Helps Customers Move Power, Including Wind Energy - Conditional Firm fills in as customers wait for new infrastructure (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1582/269425/
Burns named BPA’s acting deputy (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1582/269558/
Okanogan PUD, Tribe Ink Deal On Enloe Dam Project (Omak Chronicle, WA) s
http://www.omakchronicle.com/nws/n090423a.shtml
Another PUD Joins Energy Northwest (Seattle Times)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_energy_northwest.html?source=mypi
Fitch Rates Snohomish County PUD $180M Electric System Rev Notes 'F1+' (Businesswire)
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090423006097&newsLang=en
Idaho - New Nuke Power Plant Alternately Praised, Panned (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/4840-new-nuke-power-plant-alternately-praised-panned/
Will the U.S. need to build another coal or nuke plant again? (Electricity Forum)
http://www.electricityforum.com/news/apr09/Wellinghoffquestionsneedformorecoalornuclear.html
Call Before You Dig - Customers Can Avoid Danger, Expense and Frustration (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&id=110106
FISH & WILDLIFE
Seattle Times Op/ed - Scientists Light the Way on Columbia River Hatchery Reform
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009112483_opinb24waldo.html
To Save The Oyster Or The Salmon? (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43605132.html
Long-Planned Removal of Condit Dam to Wait another Year (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090424/NEWS02/704249954
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Sewage release prompts health warnings in Budd Inlet (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/829913.html
Environmental Group Threatens City Of Vancouver, WA with Stormwater Lawsuit (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090424/NEWS02/704249950/
Washington Post Editorial - Saving Chesapeake Bay: Maryland's septic-tank law will help clean the great waterway
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042203463.html?nav=rss_opinions
Otter signs SE Idaho aquifer management bill (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/829519.html
Cement Plants - EPA Seeks Tighter Lid on Kiln Emissions in Oregon, Elsewhere (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/04/rules_would_limit_mercury_from.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Washington Post Op/Ed - Getting Real on Wind and Solar “…At locations without…hydroelectric dams… solar and wind electricity systems must be backed up 100 percent by other forms of generation to ensure against blackouts. In today's world, that backup power can only come from fossil fuels…”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/04/23/ST2009042303815.html
Billings looks at power plant idea to burn wood chips and sewage sludge(Billings Gazette, MT)
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/04/23/news/local/35-megawatt.txt
News Release - Green, Clean, Sustainable Benefits Flow from Hydropower on Earth Day (National Hydropower Association)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/national-hydropower-association/news/article/2009/04/green-clean-sustainable-benefits-flow-from-hydropower-on-earth-day?src=rss
John Deere to Develop 12-MW Wind Farm in Greensburg, Kansas (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/04/john-deere-to-develop-12-mw-wind-farm-in-kansas?src=rss
CONSERVATION
San Jose Street Lights Get Smarter - With expectations of cutting energy costs up to 40 percent, the city unveils plan for a "smart light" system. (Fortune Magazine)
http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/24/technology/street_lights_echelon.fortune/?postversion=2009042410
Holdouts for Humble Light Bulb Defy a Government Phase-Out (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/world/europe/24bulbs.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Wall Street Journal Op/Ed - Global Warming Overreach
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124052841876150301.html
Utilities Press House Panel for Free Emission Credits (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/04/23/23greenwire-utilities-press-house-panel-for-free-allowance-10646.html
Green Ink: Cap-and-Haggle (Wall Street Journal)
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/04/24/green-ink-cap-and-haggle/
Arizona Republic Editorial - If Carbon Has A Price, Someone Has To Pay It
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2009/04/23/20090423robb24.html
Will Carbon Capture Work? (THE BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8015676.stm
Student Activists Accuse Newt Gingrich of Flip Flopping on Global Warming (Washington Examiner)
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/Examiner-Opinion-Zone/Student-Activists-Accuse-Newt-Gingrich-of-Flip-Flopping-on-Global-Warming--43616732.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Rural Riddle: Do Jobs Follow Broadband Access? Two Hamlets That Got High-Speed Lines Show Wildly Different Results (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042203637.html?wprss=rss_business
Hack Against ISP Hijacks Brazilian Bank, Google Adsense (Washington Post)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/04/hack_against_isp_hijacks_bank.html
Hackers Paying $32K for Old Nokia Phones (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/technologybrierdudleysblog/2009109840_hackers_paying_32k_for_old_nok.html?syndication=rss
As Verizon Goes, So Goes Metered Billing - Baby bell holds the key to your wallet in their hands (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/As-Verizon-Goes-So-Goes-Metered-Billing-102097
Black-And-White Printing Goes Green with Soy Toner (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12211889
GENERAL NEWS
25 Libraries to Cut Back Hours - Timberland Regional district looks to trim costs ahead of projected $2.5 million shortfall (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/830168.html
DIVERSIONS
Geocaching: Local Devotee Has Unearthed More Than 10,000 Little Treasures
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2009102905_nwwgeocache230.html?syndication=rss
Students Looking To Make Big Impact By Building, Launching Tiny Satellite
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12209951
'Spunky' Elderly-Man Groin Kicks Carjacker Away
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19265504/detail.html
Scientists Make Super-Strong Metallic Spider Silk
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE53M5OG20090423?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest
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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Power Restored In Massive Outage
- Mason County: Kamilche-Area Outage Update: Electricity Restored
- Blame The Balloon For Longview Outage
- U.S. May Raise Cap on Grants for High-Tech Power Grid
- BPA Seeks Stimulus Partners
- New BPA Transmission Product Helps Customers Move Power
- Burns named BPA’s acting deputy
- Okanogan PUD, Tribe Ink Deal On Enloe Dam Project
- Another PUD Joins Energy Northwest
- Fitch Rates Snohomish County PUD Electric System Rev Notes
- Idaho - New Nuke Power Plant Alternately Praised, Panned
- Will the U.S. need to build another coal or nuke plant again?
- Call Before You Dig - Customers Can Avoid Danger, Expense and Frustration
- Seattle Times Op/ed - Scientists Light the Way on Columbia River Hatchery Reform
- To Save The Oyster Or The Salmon?
- Long-Planned Removal of Condit Dam to Wait another Year
- Sewage release prompts health warnings in Budd Inlet
- Group Threatens City Of Vancouver, WA with Stormwater Lawsuit
- Washington Post Editorial - Saving Chesapeake Bay
- Otter signs SE Idaho aquifer management bill
- Cement Plants - EPA Seeks Tighter Lid on Kiln Emissions in Oregon
- Washington Post Op/Ed - Getting Real on Wind and Solar
- Billings looks at power plant idea to burn wood chips and sewage sludge
- News Release - Green, Clean, Sustainable Benefits Flow from Hydropower
- John Deere to Develop 12-MW Wind Farm in Greensburg, Kansas
- San Jose Street Lights Get Smarter
- Holdouts for Humble Light Bulb Defy a Government Phase-Out
- Wall Street Journal Op/Ed - Global Warming Overreach
- Utilities Press House Panel for Free Emission Credits
- Green Ink: Cap-and-Haggle
- Arizona Republic Editorial - If Carbon Has A Price, Someone Has To Pay It
- Will Carbon Capture Work?
- Student Activists Accuse Newt Gingrich of Flip Flopping on Global Warming
- Rural Riddle: Do Jobs Follow Broadband Access?
- Hack Against ISP Hijacks Brazilian Bank, Google Adsense
- Hackers Paying $32K for Old Nokia Phones
- As Verizon Goes, So Goes Metered Billing
- Black-And-White Printing Goes Green with Soy Toner
- 25 Libraries to Cut Back Hours
WORD OF THE DAY
Argosy • \AHR-guh-see\ • noun - 1: a large ship; especially: a large merchant ship 2: a rich supply
“My ship has come in,” exclaimed the gleeful, dancing organic farmer. Unfortunately for his neighbors, his ship was a truck loaded with fresh, steaming chicken manure; a veritable argosy of hot nitrogen and fiber.
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
Power Restored In Massive Outage (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_042409WAB-power-outage-LJ.107460bd5.html?rss
Mason County: Kamilche-Area Outage Update: Electricity Restored (Mason County PUD No. 3)
http://www.masonpud3.org/newsdisplay.aspx?newsid=538
Blame The Balloon For Longview Outage (Associated Press)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10236683
U.S. May Raise Cap on Grants for High-Tech Power Grid (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/23/AR2009042302577.html?wprss=rss_technology
BPA Seeks Stimulus Partners (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/04/20/daily46.html?ana=from_rss
New BPA Transmission Product Helps Customers Move Power, Including Wind Energy - Conditional Firm fills in as customers wait for new infrastructure (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1582/269425/
Burns named BPA’s acting deputy (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1582/269558/
Okanogan PUD, Tribe Ink Deal On Enloe Dam Project (Omak Chronicle, WA) s
http://www.omakchronicle.com/nws/n090423a.shtml
Another PUD Joins Energy Northwest (Seattle Times)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_energy_northwest.html?source=mypi
Fitch Rates Snohomish County PUD $180M Electric System Rev Notes 'F1+' (Businesswire)
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090423006097&newsLang=en
Idaho - New Nuke Power Plant Alternately Praised, Panned (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/4840-new-nuke-power-plant-alternately-praised-panned/
Will the U.S. need to build another coal or nuke plant again? (Electricity Forum)
http://www.electricityforum.com/news/apr09/Wellinghoffquestionsneedformorecoalornuclear.html
Call Before You Dig - Customers Can Avoid Danger, Expense and Frustration (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&id=110106
FISH & WILDLIFE
Seattle Times Op/ed - Scientists Light the Way on Columbia River Hatchery Reform
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009112483_opinb24waldo.html
To Save The Oyster Or The Salmon? (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43605132.html
Long-Planned Removal of Condit Dam to Wait another Year (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090424/NEWS02/704249954
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Sewage release prompts health warnings in Budd Inlet (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/829913.html
Environmental Group Threatens City Of Vancouver, WA with Stormwater Lawsuit (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090424/NEWS02/704249950/
Washington Post Editorial - Saving Chesapeake Bay: Maryland's septic-tank law will help clean the great waterway
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042203463.html?nav=rss_opinions
Otter signs SE Idaho aquifer management bill (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/829519.html
Cement Plants - EPA Seeks Tighter Lid on Kiln Emissions in Oregon, Elsewhere (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/04/rules_would_limit_mercury_from.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Washington Post Op/Ed - Getting Real on Wind and Solar “…At locations without…hydroelectric dams… solar and wind electricity systems must be backed up 100 percent by other forms of generation to ensure against blackouts. In today's world, that backup power can only come from fossil fuels…”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/04/23/ST2009042303815.html
Billings looks at power plant idea to burn wood chips and sewage sludge(Billings Gazette, MT)
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/04/23/news/local/35-megawatt.txt
News Release - Green, Clean, Sustainable Benefits Flow from Hydropower on Earth Day (National Hydropower Association)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/national-hydropower-association/news/article/2009/04/green-clean-sustainable-benefits-flow-from-hydropower-on-earth-day?src=rss
John Deere to Develop 12-MW Wind Farm in Greensburg, Kansas (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/04/john-deere-to-develop-12-mw-wind-farm-in-kansas?src=rss
CONSERVATION
San Jose Street Lights Get Smarter - With expectations of cutting energy costs up to 40 percent, the city unveils plan for a "smart light" system. (Fortune Magazine)
http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/24/technology/street_lights_echelon.fortune/?postversion=2009042410
Holdouts for Humble Light Bulb Defy a Government Phase-Out (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/world/europe/24bulbs.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Wall Street Journal Op/Ed - Global Warming Overreach
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124052841876150301.html
Utilities Press House Panel for Free Emission Credits (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/04/23/23greenwire-utilities-press-house-panel-for-free-allowance-10646.html
Green Ink: Cap-and-Haggle (Wall Street Journal)
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/04/24/green-ink-cap-and-haggle/
Arizona Republic Editorial - If Carbon Has A Price, Someone Has To Pay It
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2009/04/23/20090423robb24.html
Will Carbon Capture Work? (THE BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8015676.stm
Student Activists Accuse Newt Gingrich of Flip Flopping on Global Warming (Washington Examiner)
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/Examiner-Opinion-Zone/Student-Activists-Accuse-Newt-Gingrich-of-Flip-Flopping-on-Global-Warming--43616732.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Rural Riddle: Do Jobs Follow Broadband Access? Two Hamlets That Got High-Speed Lines Show Wildly Different Results (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042203637.html?wprss=rss_business
Hack Against ISP Hijacks Brazilian Bank, Google Adsense (Washington Post)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/04/hack_against_isp_hijacks_bank.html
Hackers Paying $32K for Old Nokia Phones (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/technologybrierdudleysblog/2009109840_hackers_paying_32k_for_old_nok.html?syndication=rss
As Verizon Goes, So Goes Metered Billing - Baby bell holds the key to your wallet in their hands (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/As-Verizon-Goes-So-Goes-Metered-Billing-102097
Black-And-White Printing Goes Green with Soy Toner (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12211889
GENERAL NEWS
25 Libraries to Cut Back Hours - Timberland Regional district looks to trim costs ahead of projected $2.5 million shortfall (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/830168.html
DIVERSIONS
Geocaching: Local Devotee Has Unearthed More Than 10,000 Little Treasures
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2009102905_nwwgeocache230.html?syndication=rss
Students Looking To Make Big Impact By Building, Launching Tiny Satellite
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12209951
'Spunky' Elderly-Man Groin Kicks Carjacker Away
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19265504/detail.html
Scientists Make Super-Strong Metallic Spider Silk
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE53M5OG20090423?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Energy News Digest for April 23, 2009
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.
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- BPA Transmission Upgrades in Shelton - Delays Possible On Olympic Highway North
- Two Earth-Friendly Bills Headed To Governor
- FERC Chief Says New Coal, Nuclear Plants May Be Unnecessary
- How Smart Can The Grid Get?
- Oregon AG Wants Increased Use of Domestic Natural Gas
- Is the Near-Record Columbia River Spring Chinook Run Late or Just Not Coming
- Alliances Changing In Battle to Save Salmon
- Obama: Good News for Columbia River Salmon
- Thompson Bill Charts Policy for Wild Pacific Salmon
- Puget Sound Rockfish May Get Federal Protection
- Federal Stimulus Money Accelerates Elwha Dam Project
- Washington Lowland Lakes Trout Opener Is Saturday
- Mason County TO Celebrate Completion of Rustlewood Sewer Upgrades
- Major Shift on Tap For Walla Walla River Basin Water Management
- Planting a Garden in That Parking Strip Could Cost You A Bunch of Green
- Tidal Turbines Destined for Admiralty Head
- Offshore Wind Farms Get Green Light
- Help, I’m On Fire! - Do-It-Yourself Biodiesel Trend Brings Fire Risk
- Cowlitz Co. Man Fined For Alleged Water Power Device
- Lower Your Energy Bills With Kill A Watt!
- A Greener Home Could Save Your Money and Your Health
- Seattle Residents Get Break On Energy Evaluation
- West Linn Tidings Op/Ed – An Oregon State Carbon Cap Costly, Not Needed
- Cantwell on Cap and Dividend
- EPA: Greenhouse gas limits would lead to 'modest' electricity price increases
- Who’s going to get the Carbon Pollution Credits?
- US Carbon Giveaways and Spending the Proceeds
- Lisa Jackson: The New Head of the EPA
- Time Warner Cable Cannot Possibly Compete With the Small City of Wilson, NC
- No, Broadband Is Not an Economic Magic Wand
- Earthlink Struggles with Earth Day Outage
- MySpace Co-Founder DeWolfe to Step down
- State Workers’ Four-Day Week Saves A Bit
- Alaska to Charge for First Bag after First Quarter Loss
- Leader in Tribal Fishing, Gaming Issues Dies
WORD OF THE DAY
Eidetic • \eye-DET-ik\ • adjective - Marked by or involving extraordinarily accurate and vivid recall especially of visual images
At once a blessing and a curse, Marco’s eidetic memory was the wonder of the manufacturing floor at Barty’s “Eclectic Tiddlywinks Factory.” Although Marco could recall in intricate detail the texture, color, even the smell of each tiddlywink that he inspected for final shipping…that was the ONLY thing he could recall, which made his talent slightly less impressive to tiddlywind “outsiders.”
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 Transmission Upgrades in Shelton - Delays Possible On Olympic Highway North Today (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7044/reftab/1632/t/DELAYS-POSSIBLE-ON-OLYMPIC-HIGHWAY-NORTH-TODAY-/Default.aspx
Two Earth-Friendly Bills Headed To Governor - Gregoire signs a third aimed at renewable energy (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090423/NEWS02/904229973/
FERC Chief Says New Coal, Nuclear Plants May Be Unnecessary “…renewables like wind, solar and biomass will provide enough energy to meet baseload capacity and future energy demands…” (Baseload demands, huh? NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/04/22/22greenwire-no-need-to-build-new-us-coal-or-nuclear-plants-10630.html
How Smart Can The Grid Get? (MSNBC)
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/22/1903394.aspx
Oregon AG Wants Increased Use of Domestic Natural Gas (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/4830-oregon-ag-wants-increased-use-domestic-natural-gas/
FISH & WILDLIFE
Is The Near-Record Columbia River Spring Chinook Run Late Or Just Not Coming Back Like Expected? (Seattle Times)
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reeltimenorthwest/2009/04/22/is_the_near-record_columbia_ri.html
Alliances Changing In Battle to Save Salmon (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/4828-alliances-changing-battle-save-salmon/
Obama: Good News for Columbia River Salmon (Crosscut Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2009/04/23/federal/18967/
Thompson Bill Charts Policy for Wild Pacific Salmon (The Times-Standard, Eureka, CA)http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_12207596
Puget Sound Rockfish May Get Federal Protection (Associated Press)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43473272.html
Federal Stimulus Money Accelerates Elwha Dam Project (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/apr/22/federal-stimulus-money-accelerates-elwha-dam/?partner=RSS
Washington Lowland Lakes Trout Opener Is Saturday (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2009104003_fish23.html?syndication=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Mason County TO Celebrate Completion of Rustlewood Sewer Upgrades (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7054/reftab/1632/t/COUNTY-TO-CELEBRATE-COMPLETION-OF-RUSTLEWOOD-SEWER-UPGRADES/Default.aspx
Major shift on tap for Walla Walla River basin water management (The Union Bulletin, Walla Walla, WA)
http://union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/04/22/local_news/090422local02watershedbill.txt
In Seattle, Planting A Garden in That Parking Strip Could Cost You A Bunch of Green (Seattle Post-Globe)
http://seattlepostglobe.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=153:it-could-cost-you-to-plant-a-garden-in-that-parking-strip-&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=18
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Tidal Turbines Destined for Admiralty Head (Whidbey Examiner, WA)
http://www.whidbeyexaminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=2468&TM=71812.3
Offshore Wind Farms Get Green Light - The federal government has cleared the way for developers to plant wind farms in offshore waters on the outer continental shelf (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009106951_wind23.html?syndication=rss
Help, I’m On Fire! - Do-It-Yourself Biodiesel Trend Brings Fire Risk (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/718367.html
Cowlitz Co. Man Fined For Alleged Water Power Device (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/828199.html
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Lower Your Energy Bills With Kill A Watt! (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.keprtv.com/news/local/43493107.html
A Greener Home Could Save Your Money and Your Health (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10232616
Seattle Residents Get Break On Energy Evaluation - Seattle is offering 5,000 discounted home energy-use evaluations as part of a new initiative to cut energy use (Seattle Times – Hurray for free PUD energy audits!)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009106644_webenergy23m.html?syndication=rss
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
West Linn Tidings Op/Ed – An Oregon State Carbon Cap Costly, Not Needed
http://www.westlinntidings.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=124043258440292900
Cantwell on Cap and Dividend (Sightline Daily)
http://daily.sightline.org/daily_score/archive/2009/04/22/cantwell-on-cap-and-dividend
EPA: Greenhouse gas limits would lead to 'modest' electricity price increases (Dallas Morning News, TX)http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/042309dnbusgreenhouse.fd9dc04c.html
Who’s going to get the Carbon Pollution Credits? (Christian Science Monitor)
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/04/14/whos-going-to-get-the-carbon-pollution-credits/
US Carbon Giveaways and Spending the Proceeds (Financial Times Of London)
http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2009/04/23/us-carbon-giveaways-and-spending-the-proceeds/
Lisa Jackson: The New Head of the EPA (Time Magazine)
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893155,00.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Time Warner Cable Cannot Possibly Compete With the Small City of Wilson, NC (The Consumerist)
http://consumerist.com/5224578/time-warner-cable-cannot-possibly-compete-with-the-small-city-of-wilson-nc
No, Broadband Is Not an Economic Magic Wand - A tale of two rural Western Virginia towns (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/No-Broadband-Is-Not-An-Economic-Magic-Wand-102078
Earthlink Struggles With Earth Day Outage - Pasadena power outage takes websites, e-mail offline (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Earthlink-Struggles-With-Earth-Day-Outage-102059
MySpace Co-Founder DeWolfe to Step down (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009105401_apnewscorpmyspace.html?syndication=rss
GENERAL NEWS
Four-Day Week Saves A Bit - Six-month test: State workers love it, use fewer sick days, report says (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/829016.html
Alaska to Charge for First Bag after First Quarter Loss (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/829449.html
Leader in Tribal Fishing, Gaming Issues Dies (Wenatchee World)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090422/NEWS04/704229921
DIVERSIONS
Judge Orders Defendant's Mouth Taped Shut - ACLU Refrains From Commenting
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19241894/detail.html
Judge Taking Names, Seeking To Ban Odd Ones
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19245007/detail.html
John Curley: Local TV Host Aiming for a New Life in Politics
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43491772.html
Colbert: Does Bill Gates Ever Talk About Me?
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43492797.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Carly Simon – You’re So Vain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B7bVD_DkM4
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- BPA Transmission Upgrades in Shelton - Delays Possible On Olympic Highway North
- Two Earth-Friendly Bills Headed To Governor
- FERC Chief Says New Coal, Nuclear Plants May Be Unnecessary
- How Smart Can The Grid Get?
- Oregon AG Wants Increased Use of Domestic Natural Gas
- Is the Near-Record Columbia River Spring Chinook Run Late or Just Not Coming
- Alliances Changing In Battle to Save Salmon
- Obama: Good News for Columbia River Salmon
- Thompson Bill Charts Policy for Wild Pacific Salmon
- Puget Sound Rockfish May Get Federal Protection
- Federal Stimulus Money Accelerates Elwha Dam Project
- Washington Lowland Lakes Trout Opener Is Saturday
- Mason County TO Celebrate Completion of Rustlewood Sewer Upgrades
- Major Shift on Tap For Walla Walla River Basin Water Management
- Planting a Garden in That Parking Strip Could Cost You A Bunch of Green
- Tidal Turbines Destined for Admiralty Head
- Offshore Wind Farms Get Green Light
- Help, I’m On Fire! - Do-It-Yourself Biodiesel Trend Brings Fire Risk
- Cowlitz Co. Man Fined For Alleged Water Power Device
- Lower Your Energy Bills With Kill A Watt!
- A Greener Home Could Save Your Money and Your Health
- Seattle Residents Get Break On Energy Evaluation
- West Linn Tidings Op/Ed – An Oregon State Carbon Cap Costly, Not Needed
- Cantwell on Cap and Dividend
- EPA: Greenhouse gas limits would lead to 'modest' electricity price increases
- Who’s going to get the Carbon Pollution Credits?
- US Carbon Giveaways and Spending the Proceeds
- Lisa Jackson: The New Head of the EPA
- Time Warner Cable Cannot Possibly Compete With the Small City of Wilson, NC
- No, Broadband Is Not an Economic Magic Wand
- Earthlink Struggles with Earth Day Outage
- MySpace Co-Founder DeWolfe to Step down
- State Workers’ Four-Day Week Saves A Bit
- Alaska to Charge for First Bag after First Quarter Loss
- Leader in Tribal Fishing, Gaming Issues Dies
WORD OF THE DAY
Eidetic • \eye-DET-ik\ • adjective - Marked by or involving extraordinarily accurate and vivid recall especially of visual images
At once a blessing and a curse, Marco’s eidetic memory was the wonder of the manufacturing floor at Barty’s “Eclectic Tiddlywinks Factory.” Although Marco could recall in intricate detail the texture, color, even the smell of each tiddlywink that he inspected for final shipping…that was the ONLY thing he could recall, which made his talent slightly less impressive to tiddlywind “outsiders.”
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 Transmission Upgrades in Shelton - Delays Possible On Olympic Highway North Today (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7044/reftab/1632/t/DELAYS-POSSIBLE-ON-OLYMPIC-HIGHWAY-NORTH-TODAY-/Default.aspx
Two Earth-Friendly Bills Headed To Governor - Gregoire signs a third aimed at renewable energy (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090423/NEWS02/904229973/
FERC Chief Says New Coal, Nuclear Plants May Be Unnecessary “…renewables like wind, solar and biomass will provide enough energy to meet baseload capacity and future energy demands…” (Baseload demands, huh? NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/04/22/22greenwire-no-need-to-build-new-us-coal-or-nuclear-plants-10630.html
How Smart Can The Grid Get? (MSNBC)
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/22/1903394.aspx
Oregon AG Wants Increased Use of Domestic Natural Gas (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/4830-oregon-ag-wants-increased-use-domestic-natural-gas/
FISH & WILDLIFE
Is The Near-Record Columbia River Spring Chinook Run Late Or Just Not Coming Back Like Expected? (Seattle Times)
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reeltimenorthwest/2009/04/22/is_the_near-record_columbia_ri.html
Alliances Changing In Battle to Save Salmon (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/4828-alliances-changing-battle-save-salmon/
Obama: Good News for Columbia River Salmon (Crosscut Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2009/04/23/federal/18967/
Thompson Bill Charts Policy for Wild Pacific Salmon (The Times-Standard, Eureka, CA)http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_12207596
Puget Sound Rockfish May Get Federal Protection (Associated Press)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43473272.html
Federal Stimulus Money Accelerates Elwha Dam Project (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/apr/22/federal-stimulus-money-accelerates-elwha-dam/?partner=RSS
Washington Lowland Lakes Trout Opener Is Saturday (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2009104003_fish23.html?syndication=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Mason County TO Celebrate Completion of Rustlewood Sewer Upgrades (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7054/reftab/1632/t/COUNTY-TO-CELEBRATE-COMPLETION-OF-RUSTLEWOOD-SEWER-UPGRADES/Default.aspx
Major shift on tap for Walla Walla River basin water management (The Union Bulletin, Walla Walla, WA)
http://union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/04/22/local_news/090422local02watershedbill.txt
In Seattle, Planting A Garden in That Parking Strip Could Cost You A Bunch of Green (Seattle Post-Globe)
http://seattlepostglobe.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=153:it-could-cost-you-to-plant-a-garden-in-that-parking-strip-&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=18
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Tidal Turbines Destined for Admiralty Head (Whidbey Examiner, WA)
http://www.whidbeyexaminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=2468&TM=71812.3
Offshore Wind Farms Get Green Light - The federal government has cleared the way for developers to plant wind farms in offshore waters on the outer continental shelf (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009106951_wind23.html?syndication=rss
Help, I’m On Fire! - Do-It-Yourself Biodiesel Trend Brings Fire Risk (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/718367.html
Cowlitz Co. Man Fined For Alleged Water Power Device (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/828199.html
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Lower Your Energy Bills With Kill A Watt! (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.keprtv.com/news/local/43493107.html
A Greener Home Could Save Your Money and Your Health (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10232616
Seattle Residents Get Break On Energy Evaluation - Seattle is offering 5,000 discounted home energy-use evaluations as part of a new initiative to cut energy use (Seattle Times – Hurray for free PUD energy audits!)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009106644_webenergy23m.html?syndication=rss
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
West Linn Tidings Op/Ed – An Oregon State Carbon Cap Costly, Not Needed
http://www.westlinntidings.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=124043258440292900
Cantwell on Cap and Dividend (Sightline Daily)
http://daily.sightline.org/daily_score/archive/2009/04/22/cantwell-on-cap-and-dividend
EPA: Greenhouse gas limits would lead to 'modest' electricity price increases (Dallas Morning News, TX)http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/042309dnbusgreenhouse.fd9dc04c.html
Who’s going to get the Carbon Pollution Credits? (Christian Science Monitor)
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/04/14/whos-going-to-get-the-carbon-pollution-credits/
US Carbon Giveaways and Spending the Proceeds (Financial Times Of London)
http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2009/04/23/us-carbon-giveaways-and-spending-the-proceeds/
Lisa Jackson: The New Head of the EPA (Time Magazine)
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893155,00.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Time Warner Cable Cannot Possibly Compete With the Small City of Wilson, NC (The Consumerist)
http://consumerist.com/5224578/time-warner-cable-cannot-possibly-compete-with-the-small-city-of-wilson-nc
No, Broadband Is Not an Economic Magic Wand - A tale of two rural Western Virginia towns (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/No-Broadband-Is-Not-An-Economic-Magic-Wand-102078
Earthlink Struggles With Earth Day Outage - Pasadena power outage takes websites, e-mail offline (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Earthlink-Struggles-With-Earth-Day-Outage-102059
MySpace Co-Founder DeWolfe to Step down (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009105401_apnewscorpmyspace.html?syndication=rss
GENERAL NEWS
Four-Day Week Saves A Bit - Six-month test: State workers love it, use fewer sick days, report says (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/829016.html
Alaska to Charge for First Bag after First Quarter Loss (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/829449.html
Leader in Tribal Fishing, Gaming Issues Dies (Wenatchee World)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090422/NEWS04/704229921
DIVERSIONS
Judge Orders Defendant's Mouth Taped Shut - ACLU Refrains From Commenting
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19241894/detail.html
Judge Taking Names, Seeking To Ban Odd Ones
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19245007/detail.html
John Curley: Local TV Host Aiming for a New Life in Politics
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43491772.html
Colbert: Does Bill Gates Ever Talk About Me?
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43492797.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Carly Simon – You’re So Vain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B7bVD_DkM4
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