Energy News Digest for April 14, 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)

- Coal Mines Leases Could Mean Riches for Montana
- Alcoa May Slash Output, Jobs at Canada Plant – want wage cuts
- Tracking the Results of Salmon Habitat Restoration
- Columbia Basin (Political) Science
- Oregon - Spring Chinook Salmon Runs Are Now Under Way
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Get a Helping Hand from Kamiakin High
- Port Of Seattle May Offer $7M in Rent Breaks To Help Cut Diesel Soot
- City of Shelton City Seeking Stimulus Money for Sewer Plant
- Spokane's Soap Smugglers Make Clean Getaways
- Meeting set on wind projects in Blue Mountains
- Wind Turbine Imports Increase; Can U.S. Factories Catch Up
- Wind-Energy Certificates: Clean Power or Scam
- FactCheck.org - Hot Air on Wind Energy
- Transmission: 'Green Power Express' gains federal rate
- Pacific Gas & Electric Looks To Solar Panels in Space for
- Solar Incentives: Could Ontario Be the Next Germany?
- Unemployed Seek Training for 'Green Collar' Jobs
- California - State wants to pull plug on energy-guzzling
- Project to Save Energy,
- Oregon Electric Utilities Fight Curbs on Carbon Emissions
- Debate on Energy, Climate Bill to Begin Next Week
- Strange Bedfellows - Getting past square one with climate change
- Intel Oregon: Outstanding Achievement in Corporate Greenwashing
- Risk of EPA Move Smooths Way for U.S. Carbon Law
- 114 Arrested before Protest near UK Coal-Fired Power Station
- Internet Bandwidth Hogs May Soon Pay For It
- The Metered Broadband Math
- Twitter Hit by Series of Worm Attacks
- Washington Cities Appear On Organization's Annual Car Theft Rankings
- WSU Stops Accepting Freshman Applicants
- Olympia Fire Department Rolls Out Plans For New Station

WORD OF THE DAY

Vatic • \VAT-ik\ • adjective - Prophetic, oracular

“In about ten seconds you’re gonna be very sorry you sat there,” intoned Derwood’s seemingly vatic classmate. His seeming awe turned to outright shock as a small drip from the ceiling transformed into a roof-rending hole, dropping gallons of trapped rainwater on the unfortunate student’s head.

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

Coal Mines Leases Could Mean Riches for Montana (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009032374_apmontanacoal.html?syndication=rss

Alcoa May Slash Output, Jobs at Canada Plant “…wants employees to agree to a 15 percent pay cut… other large aluminum companies…have also announced cuts in a drive to balance aluminum supply with shrinking demand…” (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/13/financial/f142906D76.DTL&feed=rss.business

FISH & WILDLIFE

Tracking the Results of Salmon Habitat Restoration (The Columbian, via US News & World Report)
http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/04/13/tracking-the-results-of-salmon-habitat-restoration.html

Columbia Basin (Political) Science - An investigation into the Bonneville Power Administration's influence on salmon research (High Country News)
http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.6/columbia-basin-political-science

Oregon - Spring Chinook Salmon Runs Are Now Under Way on Rogue, Several Other Oregon Rivers (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/sports/outdoors/11649022-44/story.csp

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Get a Helping Hand from Kamiakin High (KNDO-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10176975

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Port Of Seattle May Offer $7M in Rent Breaks To Help Cut Diesel Soot (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009028912_porttrucks13m0.html?syndication=rss

City of Shelton City Seeking Stimulus Money for Sewer Plant (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/6975/reftab/1632/t/CITY-SEEKING-STIMULUS-MONEY-FOR-SEWER-PLANT/Default.aspx

Spokane's Soap Smugglers Make Clean Getaways (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009034806_soapsmuggling14.html

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Meeting set on wind projects in Blue Mountains (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, WA)
http://union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/04/13/local_news/090413local05windmeet.txt

Wind Turbine Imports Increase; Can U.S. Factories Catch Up? (The News Observer, NC)
http://www.newsobserver.com/1573/story/1485169.html

Wind-Energy Certificates: Clean Power or Scam? (Baltimore Sun, MD)
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/business/hancock/blog/2009/04/windenergy_certificates_clean.html

FactCheck.org - Hot Air on Wind Energy: Don't expect wind power to replace coal as the nation's main source of electric power, whatever Obama's interior secretary said
http://www.factcheck.org/politics/hot_air_on_wind_energy.html

Transmission: 'Green Power Express' gains federal rate incentives (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/04/13/13greenwire-green-power-express-gains-federal-rate-incenti-10514.html

Pacific Gas & Electric Looks To Solar Panels in Space for Power (Sacramento Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2009/04/13/daily16.html?ana=from_rss

Solar Incentives: Could Ontario Be the Next Germany? (Should Quebec be concerned? – Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/04/solar-incentives-could-ontario-be-the-next-germany?src=rss

Unemployed Seek Training for 'Green Collar' Jobs (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/13/national/a133300D68.DTL&feed=rss.business

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

California - State wants to pull plug on energy-guzzling TVs (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/14/MNT516V87T.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea

Project to Save Energy, Money - Forest Service employees benefit from economic stimulus package funds (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/living/story/819465.html

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Oregon Electric Utilities Fight Curbs on Carbon Emissions (The Oregonian, Portland)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/04/electric_utilities_fight_curbs.html

Debate on Energy, Climate Bill to Begin Next Week (CNET News)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10218083-54.html

Strange Bedfellows - Getting past square one with climate change (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/166299.asp?source=pimail

Intel Oregon: Outstanding Achievement in Corporate Greenwashing (It’s Getting Hot in Here)
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/04/13/intel-oregon-outstanding-achievement-in-corporate-greenwashing/

Risk of EPA Move Smooths Way for U.S. Carbon Law (Reuters)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/behindTheScenes/idUKTRE53C4EG20090413

114 Arrested before Protest near UK Coal-Fired Power Station (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jPxlNseEZs1n3paekE0R_vucrXfgD97HQV9G1

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Internet Bandwidth Hogs May Soon Pay For It (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103041709&ft=1&f=2

The Metered Broadband Math: As Much As $24.59 to Rent “Twilight” (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/04/14/the-metered-broadband-math-as-much-as-2459-to-rent-twilight/

Twitter Hit by Series of Worm Attacks (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/04/13/daily3.html?ana=from_rss

GENERAL NEWS

Washington Cities Appear On Organization's Annual Car Theft Rankings (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/crime/2009/04/13/washington_cities_appear_on_organization

WSU Stops Accepting Freshman Applicants (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/819060.html

Olympia Fire Department Rolls Out Plans For New Station - Assistant fire chief to discuss project at council meeting (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/news/story/819287.html

DIVERSIONS

Spokane Parks to Detonate Squirrels
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/42916587.html

Nurse Called Out Of Surgery and Laid Off
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/42952817.html

Conman Hypnotizes Jeweler, Steals Diamonds
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090413/od_afp/indiacrimeoffbeat_20090413064525;_ylt=AqzRfHWFtMws7jKl_RzHjqKgOrgF

Man lobs $30,000 from cars
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE53C5AF20090413?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews

SONG OF THE DAY

Charlie Parker – Ko-Ko (1947, reportedly the first official bebop recording)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_ZajJd-1kY