Energy News Digest for April 15, 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)

- HANFORD: Obama Nominates DOE Deputy Secretary
- United Kingdom - Experts Warn Of 'Energy Shortfall'
- Oregon - Engineering Failure at $100M Fish Facility
- Bountiful Oregon Salmon Season Expected
- An Ancient Art: Dowser Works on Whidbey Island
- New Survey Urges Buyers of Green Products to Beware
- 'Energetic Site' Chosen for Snohomish PUD's Tidal Power
- Irish Tidal Energy Company Secures Contract with Snohomish
- Imperium Grays Harbor Biodiesel Plant Not Producing
- PROMISES, PROMISES: Plug-In Cars Goal Hard To Hit
- Palo Alto Eyes Solar Financing Plan
- First Solar To Build Nevada Photovoltaic Plant
- Reviving the Energy-From-Trash Concept
- NREL Highlights Utility Green Power Leaders
- Does Green Building Make Cents?
- Deciphering California’s Efficiency Successes
- State House Approves Limits on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Boxer Seeks Silicon Valley's Help in Clean-Technology Push
- Global Carbon Market to Achieve $669 Billion In 2013
- UK Biofuels Target Creating More Emissions
- Now the Greens Want Your Cat
- Palo Alto Presses On With Citywide Fiber
- Democrats Take Nap on Network
- The Whys and Hows of Measuring Power in Your Data Center
- Study: Spammers Scourge To Inbox and Environment
- One Teen Dies, Another Seriously Injured In Hwy 3 Crash
- Mason County to Cut Deputies
- 9.2% Unemployment "Troubling" For State
- Bremerton-Based Hospital Eliminating 91 Jobs
- State Senator: State Income Tax 'Inevitable'
- Former P-I Staffers Launch Online Newspaper

WORD OF THE DAY

Slake • \SLAYK\ • verb - *1: satisfy, quench 2: to cause (as lime) to heat and crumble by treatment with water: hydrate

Thunderous cataracts of water flowed over the jagged cliffs, garbed in emerald green moss and ferns. The weary travelers, parched from a long trek were warned not to slake their thirst from the tempting stream due to the location of a large dairy stream located just upstream.

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

HANFORD: Obama Nominates DOE Deputy Secretary (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/544016.html

United Kingdom - Experts Warn Of 'Energy Shortfall' As Nuclear Sites Revealed (Times of London)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6099637.ece

FISH & WILDLIFE

Oregon - Engineering Failure at $100M Fish Facility (Bend Bulletin)
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090415/NEWS0107/904150374/1009/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01

Bountiful Oregon Salmon Season Expected (Eugene Register-Guard)
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/sports/outdoors/11620180-41/story.csp

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

An Ancient Art: Dowser Works on Whidbey Island (Whidbey News Times)
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/whidbey/wnt/news/42998887.html

New Survey Urges Buyers of Green Products to Beware (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1780849.html

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

'Energetic Site' Chosen For Snohomish PUD's Tidal Power Test - The PUD settles on Admiralty Inlet off Whidbey Island as the site to test energy-producing turbines (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090415/NEWS01/704159882/-1/RSS02

Irish Tidal Energy Company Secures Contract with Snohomish PUD (Edie Net)
http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=16281&channel=0&title=Irish+company+wins+US+tidal+power+contract

Imperium Grays Harbor Biodiesel Plant Not Producing (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2009/04/14/local_news/doc49e4cd664a0c7962960356.txt

PROMISES, PROMISES: Plug-In Cars Goal Hard To Hit (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009056993_apobamaplugins.html?syndication=rss

Palo Alto Eyes Solar Financing Plan (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12144945

First Solar To Build Nevada Photovoltaic (Plant San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/15/financial/f063121D21.DTL&feed=rss.business

Reviving the Energy-From-Trash Concept (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/reviving-the-energy-from-trash-concept/

NREL Highlights Utility Green Power Leaders (Utility Automation & Engineering)
http://uaelp.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=22&ARTICLE_ID=359286&C=ENVIR&dcmp=rss

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Does Green Building Make Cents? It depends - Two new studies offer conflicting views (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/405135_green15.html?source=rss

Deciphering California’s Efficiency Successes (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/deciphering-californias-efficiency-successes/

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

State House Approves Limits on Greenhouse Gas Emissions (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43035637.html

Boxer Seeks Silicon Valley's Help in Clean-Technology Push (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12142720

Global Carbon Market to Achieve $669 Billion In 2013 (Earth Times)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/global-carbon-market-to-achieve-669-billion-in-2013,784851.shtml

UK Biofuels Target Creating More Emissions, Environmentalists Claim (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/15/biofuels-carbon-emissions

Now The Greens Want Your Cat - Bruce Ramsey replies to an argument that cats are bad for the environment (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009052021_opina15ramsey.html?syndication=rss

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Palo Alto Presses On With Citywide Fiber Network - Council says the technology is key to competitiveness, despite setback (Palo Alto Times, CA)
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=11958

Democrats Take Nap on Network Neutrality - Meet the new boss, same as the old boss (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Democrats-Take-Nap-On-Network-Neutrality-101903

The Whys and Hows of Measuring Power in your Data Center (Greener Computing)
http://greenercomputing.com/feature/2009/04/15/why-how-measure-data-center-power

Study: Spammers Scourge to Inbox and Environment (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/14/financial/f210641D12.DTL&type=health

GENERAL NEWS

One Teen Dies, Another Seriously Injured In Crash on Highway 3 South Of Allyn (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/6987/reftab/1632/t/ONE-TEEN-DIES-ANOTHER-SERIOUSLY-INJURED-IN-CRASH-ON-HIGHWAY-3-SOUTH-OF-ALLYN-/Default.aspx

Mason County to Cut Deputies (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.nwcn.com/topstories/stories/NW_041409WAB-mason-county-deputy-cuts-TP.d52b38d5.html

9.2% Unemployment "Troubling" For State (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009054985_jobless15.html?syndication=rss

Bremerton-Based Hospital Eliminating 91 Jobs (The Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/apr/14/bremerton-based-hospital-eliminating-91-jobs/?partner=RSS

State Senator: State Income Tax 'Inevitable' (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/politics/19178983/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_4pm&tmi=sea_4pm_1_06000104142009&ts=H

Former P-I Staffers Launch Online Newspaper (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_041509BUB-AP_p-i-staffers-online-paper-JM.d92d348b.html?rss

DIVERSIONS

NASA names treadmill after Colbert
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12146985

Humane Society Blasts Squirrel Slaughter
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10187989

On This Day: “Unsinkable” Titanic Lost After Hitting Iceberg
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/April/Unsinkable-Titanic-Lost-After-Hitting-Iceberg.html

Methuen Man Sells Mold of Tiny Tim's Teeth Online For $1,500
http://www.eagletribune.com/punews/local_story_103013921.html

SONG OF THE DAY

Cripple Creek - The Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4LD-7enIMs