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)
- Puget Sound Energy Lowers Natural Gas Bill
- Avista Natural Gas Customers Will See Rate Reduction
- NW Natural Gas to Refund Washington Customers
- NW Natural Gas Tightens Security at Shareholders Meeting
- Clean-Energy Stimulus - “It’s about to be raining money.”
- Keep Mylar Balloons Indoors and Away from Power Lines
- Tri-City Herald Editorial - Salmon Aren't Helped By Revival of Dam Debate
- Idaho Lt. Gov. Little Urges Obama Administration to Back Salmon Collaboration
- Geoduck Harvest near Blake Island Nets State $1.4M
- Environmentalists Sue to Protect Sea Turtles off US Coasts
- Washington's Chelan River to Get Some of Toughest Rapids
- Obama Moves to Curb Road-Building in Forests
- 'Rock Snot' Algae Confirmed In SW Idaho River
- Small American Town (Olympia) Fights to Save Artesian Well
- California – San Jose Water Plant Could Become Regional Tourist Attraction
- Mmm...Raw Sewage? Leaks Blamed On Krispy Kreme
- Pennsylvania PUC Issues Wood, Water Alternative Energy Guidelines
- British Columbia - Ocean wind project moves ahead
- Wind Energy--Too Much of a Good Thing
- Massachusetts - Cape Wind Secures Permits to Begin Construction
- Hawaii Utilities among Top Solar Producers in US
- A Solar Plant That's Worth Its Salt
- States, Nonprofits Jockey for 'Weatherizing' Funds
- DTE Energy Offers Tips to Stay Cool This Summer
- Olympian Editorial - Did The Governor Overreach To Boost Climate Policy?
- Governor Signs Order to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Greenhouse Gas Reporting Topic of Debate
- Think Tank Report: Climate Change Causes 300,000 Deaths a Year
- Copenhagen Must Create More Buyers For Carbon Markets
- Stop Burning Trees and Coal
- NY Times Editorial - Forests and the Planet
- Sabey Preps to Break Ground for New Data Center in Quincy
- Microsoft’s Search for a Name Ends with a Bing
- Google Wants To Change Online Communication
- Muni Wi-Fi Firms Find New Life in Smart Grid
- Shelton: Inmate Found Dead At Corrections Center
- State Will Give 3-Day Notice When Ready To Reopen Hood Canal Bridge
- Washington State Economist: Signs of Recession's End
- New Poll: Half of Washington Voters Expect Economy to Get Worse
- Chehalis: Loss from Business Fire Put At $15 Million
- Newspaper Execs Meet To Discuss Internet Options
WORD OF THE DAY
Laodicean • \lay-ahh-duh-SEE-un\ • adjective – lukewarm or indifferent in religion or politics
Ilene backed away from her desk to partake in a forceful yawn, followed by a stretch to the sky. She’d been reading the news digest, skimming past the controversy over fish, climate change, and “raining money” with a laodicean intensity. All for the tasty bits in the diversions and song of the day at the bottom of the page.
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
Puget Sound Energy Lowers Natural Gas Bill (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
http://www.kelaam.com/pages/localnews?PSE-Lowers-Natural-Gas-Bill=1&blockID=56215&feedID=410
Avista Natural Gas Customers Will See Rate Reduction (Associated Press)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10439167
NW Natural Gas to Refund Washington Customers (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/05/25/daily26.html?ana=from_rss
NW Natural Gas Tightens Security at Shareholders Meeting (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/05/nw_natural_tightens_security_a.html
Clean-Energy Stimulus - “It’s about to be raining money.” That’s how Terry Oliver of the Bonneville Power Administration described the federal economic stimulus’ clean-energy provisions. (Sightline Daly)
http://daily.sightline.org/daily_score/archive/2009/05/28/clean-energy-stimulus
PECO Reminds Graduates to Keep Mylar Balloons Indoors and Away from Power Lines (Electric Energy Online – I think Cowlitz and Mason PUD 3 agree with this sentiment)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&id=112586
FISH & WILDLIFE
Tri-City Herald Editorial - Salmon Aren't Helped By Revival of Dam Debate
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/962/story/594452.html
Idaho Lt. Gov. Little Urges Obama Administration to Back Salmon Collaboration (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
http://www.idahostatesman.com/mobile_channels/story/782488.html
Geoduck Harvest near Blake Island Nets State $1.4M (KIRO Radio, Seattle)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=172633
Environmentalists Sue to Protect Sea Turtles off US Coasts (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12471694
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Chelan PUD Water Release - Washington's Chelan River to Get Some of Toughest Rapids (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009273328_apwaoutchelanrapids.html?syndication=rss
Obama Moves to Curb Road-Building in Forests (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009272856_apusroadlessforests.html?syndication=rss
'Rock Snot' Algae Confirmed In SW Idaho River (The Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/865295.html
Small American Town (Olympia) Fights to Save Artesian Well (Epoch Times)
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/17449/
California – San Jose Water Plant Could Become Regional Tourist Attraction (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12470759
Mmm...Raw Sewage? Leaks Blamed On Krispy Kreme (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12476982
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Pennsylvania PUC Issues Wood, Water Alternative Energy Guidelines - It’s official. Wood and water are just as good as the sun, when it comes to alternative energy. (Pittsburgh Business Times)
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2009/05/25/daily35.html?ana=from_rss
British Columbia - Ocean wind project moves ahead (BC Local News)
http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/46396177.html
Wind Energy--Too Much of a Good Thing (Gerson-Lehman Group)
http://www.glgroup.com/News/Wind-Energy--Too-Much-of-a-Good-Thing-39717.html
Massachusetts - Cape Wind Secures Permits to Begin Construction (Boston Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2009/05/25/daily52.html?ana=from_rss
Hawaii Utilities among Top Solar Producers in US (Pacific Business News)
http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2009/05/25/daily40.html?ana=from_rss
A Solar Plant That's Worth Its Salt (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-rocketdyne-solar29-2009may29,1,4661220.story
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
States, Nonprofits Jockey for 'Weatherizing' Funds (Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124346403073960129.html#mod=rss_whats_news_us
DTE Energy Offers Tips to Stay Cool This Summer (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&id=112588
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Olympian Editorial - Did The Governor Overreach To Boost Climate Policy?
http://www.theolympian.com/editorials/story/864923.html
Governor Signs Order to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Transit Sponsor Rips Her for Transit Veto (Seattle Weekly)
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2009/05/transit_measure_sponsor_sounds.php
Greenhouse Gas Reporting Topic of Debate - Ecology denies it will seek verification by a third party (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090529/NEWS02/705299976/Greenhouse+gas+reporting+topic+of+debate
Think Tank Report: Climate Change Causes 300,000 Deaths a Year (Associated Press: dogs and cats…living together: MASS HYSTERIA!)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12476629
Copenhagen Must Create More Buyers For Carbon Markets - Demand for emissions-reducing projects is shrinking (The Guardian, UK)http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/29/copenhagen-carbon-market-buyer
Stop Burning Trees and Coal (Times of London, UK)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6382124.ece
NY Times Editorial - Forests and the Planet
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/opinion/29fri2.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Sabey Preps to Break Ground for New Data Center in Quincy - Wants to construct a 525,000 square-foot data center called “Intergate.Quincy.” (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2009/05/28/news/doc4a1ead6c49919491239969.txt
Microsoft’s Search for a Name Ends with a Bing (NY Times – What? Bing Crosby? Bing Cherries? Dave Bing, the NBA star who averaged 20 points per game for the Pistons and Bullets; and is listed as one of the top 50 players of all time?)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/technology/internet/29bing.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Google Wants To Change Online Communication (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/29/BU1P17SSVP.DTL&feed=rss.business
Muni Wi-Fi Firms Find New Life in Smart Grid (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/05/28/muni-wi-fi-firms-find-new-life-in-smart-grid/
GENERAL NEWS
Shelton: Inmate Found Dead At Corrections Center (The Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/864883.html
State Will Give 3-Day Notice When Ready To Reopen Hood Canal Bridge (Peninsula Daily News)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090529/NEWS/305299991
Washington State Economist: Signs of Recession's End (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009214801_apwastateeconomy.html?syndication=rss
New Poll: Half of Washington Voters Expect Economy to Get Worse (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/soundeconomywithjontalton/2009273621_new_poll_half_of_washington_vo.html?syndication=rss
Chehalis: Loss from Business Fire Put At $15 Million (Associated Press)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/759916.html
Newspaper Execs Meet To Discuss Internet Options (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/28/financial/f150308D57.DTL&feed=rss.business
DIVERSIONS
Little Dogs Show Cougar Big Attitude in Philomath
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/05/philomath_ore_a_big.html
Pink Dolphin a Standout in Louisiana Shipping Channel
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/909/story/592328.html?mi_email=Tri-City%20Herald_Weird+Wide+World
Australian Belatedly Wins $10 Million Lottery
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_fe_st/as_odd_australia_late_lottery_winner;_ylt=AqKy4z4Z_FRKNcZwo9gn.uXtiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTNhMGtlcHQzBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwNTI5L2FzX29kZF9hdXN0cmFsaWFfbGF0ZV9sb3R0ZXJ5X3dpbm5lcgRwb3MDMTcEc2VjA3luX2FydGljbGVfc3VtbWFyeV9saXN0BHNsawNhdXN0cmFsaWFuYmU-
In Death, UK Widow Leaves Neighbors Surprise Gifts
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Europe/2009/may/In-Death--UK-Widow-Leaves-Neighbors-Surprise-Gifts-.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Ella Fitzgerald – Summertime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc2Bm5IXGh4
Friday, May 29, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Energy News Digest for May 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)
- Lewis County Wire Theft Ring Is No More
- River of Power Education Day - Local kids dig in at Rocky Reach Dam
- Energy Northwest's Nuclear Power Plant Halfway Through Refueling Outage
- Key Senator Calls for 100 New Reactors in 20 Years
- Arizona Republic Editorial – Nuclear Plants are the Best Way to Go
- News Tribune Editorial - Science, Politics and Yucca Mountain
- North Carolina - Alcoa Hydro Relicensing Blocked
- Spring Chinook ‘Catch-Balancing’ Sure To Be Topic in 2010
- Sea Lions and Trappers Disengage
- With Sewers, Tillicum Will Take Off
- Wenatchee World Editorial - Why can’t they use biofuels?
- Columbian Editorial - Wait on the Wind
- Vermont Renewable-Energy Bill Becomes Law
- Forecasting Wind for Dollars
- Obama Says Clean-Energy, Stimulus Plans Creating Jobs
- Kansas - Net Metering Impact Not Great So Far
- Hawaiian Garbage-to-Energy Plant Recycles Derelict Fishing Nets
- United Kingdom - Rumbling over Wind Power
- Group Helps Tri-Citians Go Green
- Mason County PUD No. 3 and City Team Up For Energy Efficient Traffic Signals
- Greenland Ice Could Fuel Severe US Sea Level Rise
- Southern Co. to run National Carbon Capture Center
- Thankfully, Irony Is Not Dead – Environmentalists Saved By Oil Tanker
- FCC Issues Rural Broadband Report
- City Of Richland Continues On Fiber-Optics
- The New UTOPIA: Transforming Failure into Success
- There's A Catch To AT&T Speed Boost
- North Carolina Offers Incentives for $1 Billion Apple Data Center
- Time Warner to Spin Off AOL, Ending Ill-Fated Deal
- Yahoo Open To Microsoft Deal under Right Terms
- Bing It On: Microsoft Overhauls Search, Again
- Yahoo CEO Bartz: “We Are Not a Search Company”
- Digital TV Switchover Imminent Though Millions Remain Unprepared
- Apogee Interactive Adds New Regional Manager of Business Development
- Swine Flu Now Labeled 'Common'
- Mason County Government Facing Third Round of Cutbacks
- Man Gets 11 Years for Seattle Traffic-Circle Death
- Coastal Radar Station Sought To Improve Storm Forecasts
- Video Game Addiction A Serious Problem among Children
PHRASE OF THE DAY
Philadelphia Lawyer • noun - A lawyer knowledgeable in the most minute aspects of the law
From the opening statements, “Manny the Mole” knew that his slick Philadelphia Lawyer was going to get him sprung from his legal entanglements. His counsel argued that since the charging papers identified his client as “The Mole” instead of his real name: Emmanuel Franklin McDonald, that all charges should be dropped.
From Merriam-Webster Online: The reputation of the Philadelphia lawyer dates back to the colonial period, when our legal system was in its infancy and lawyers had to be especially astute. Many noted attorneys seem to have hailed from early Philadelphia, and probably no single lawyer is the source of the term, but several have been suggested. Although not strictly a lawyer, Benjamin Franklin is sometimes claimed to have inspired the expression through his cunning in diplomatic negotiations with the British and French. Another possible source is the Scottish-American Philadelphia attorney Andrew Hamilton, who famously got newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger acquitted of libel charges in 1735, paving the way for the principle of freedom of the press in the process.
WEATHER
Shelton Forecast and Weather Alerts
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/mapclick.php?textfield1=47.213805&textfield2=-123.113412&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=shelton%2c%20wa%2c%20usa
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Lewis County Wire Theft Ring Is No More - Jail Time: With Suspects Sentenced and Metal Prices Declining, County Disbands Task Force (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/05/27/news/doc4a1d83155ce9c989699851.txt
River of Power Education Day - Local kids dig in at Rocky Reach Dam (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090527/NEWS04/705279918?Local-kids-dig-in-at-Rocky-Reach-Dam
Energy Northwest's Nuclear Power Plant in Richland Halfway Through Refueling Outage (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10434920
Key Senator Calls for 100 New Reactors in 20 Years (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/27/national/a172516D09.DTL&feed=rss.business
Arizona Republic Editorial – Nuclear Plants are the Best Way to Go
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2009/05/28/20090528thurlets286.html
News Tribune Editorial - Science, Politics and Yucca Mountain
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/757329.html
North Carolina - Alcoa Hydro Relicensing Blocked (Charlotte Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2009/05/25/daily28.html?ana=from_rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Spring Chinook ‘Catch-Balancing’ Sure To Be Topic in 2010 (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090528/SPORTS02/705289945
Sea Lions and Trappers Disengage (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5077-sea-lions-and-trappers-disengage/
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
With Sewers, Tillicum Will Take Off (The News Tribune, Tacoma)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/757326.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Wenatchee World Editorial - Why can’t they use biofuels? Maybe someday they will give up. From the beginning their goals weren't practical. Eventually that will sink in.
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090527/OP02/705279888/1025/rss1025
Columbian Editorial - Wait on the Wind: State agencies will conduct more research before deciding on mountain wind farms
http://columbian.com/article/20090528/OPINION02/705289975/-1/OPINION
Vermont Renewable-Energy Bill Becomes Law (Burlington Free Press, VT)
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090528/NEWS03/90528004
Forecasting for Dollars “…swings of 500 megawatts of wind can disappear from a system in an hour or less, creating scheduling havoc for system operators…” (Energy Biz Insider)
http://www.energycentral.com/utility/newsletters/sample_ebi.htm
Obama Says Clean-Energy, Stimulus Plans Creating Jobs (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/27/AR2009052702458.html?wprss=rss_business
Kansas - Net Metering Impact Not Great So Far (Pratt Tribune, KS)
http://www.pratttribune.com/news/x2085732965/Net-metering-impact-not-great-so-far
Hawaiian Garbage-to-Energy Plant Recycles Derelict Fishing Nets for Electricity (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/mnEnergy/idUS91417768220090528
United Kingdom - Rumbling over Wind Power: Vineyard owner can't wait for turbine (Suffolk Times, UK)
http://www2.timesreview.com/ST/Stories/T052809_windmill_bh
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Group Helps Tri-Citians Go Green (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/915/story/591778.html?mi_email=Tri-City%20Herald_PM+%26+Breaking+News
Mason County PUD No. 3 and City Team Up For Energy Efficient Traffic Signals (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7378/reftab/1632/Default.aspx
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Greenland Ice Could Fuel Severe US Sea Level Rise (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2718485020090527
Southern Co. to run National Carbon Capture Center (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2009/05/25/daily32.html?ana=from_rss
Thankfully, irony is not dead - Environmentalists often like to wax poetic about the beauty of lakes and rivers, trees and mountains. But sometimes, the sweetest sight is an oil tanker (The Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.vancouversun.com/Technology/Thankfully+irony+dead/1637897/story.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
FCC Issues Rural Broadband Report - First step in concocting national broadband strategy (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Issues-Rural-Broadband-Report-102631
City of Richland continues on fiber-optics (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/592180.html
The New UTOPIA: Transforming Failure into Success (AppRising)
http://www.app-rising.com/2009/05/the_new_utopia_transforming_fa.html
There's A Catch To AT&T Speed Boost - Download speeds of up to 7.2 megabits per second (theoretically) will be available on AT&T's 3G network after upgrades are completed this year (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/brierdudley/2009270924_brier28.html
North Carolina Offers Incentives for $1 Billion Apple Data Center (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/05/27/n-c-votes-on-incentives-for-apples-1b-data-center/
Time Warner to Spin Off AOL, Ending Ill-Fated Deal (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052800895.html?wprss=rss_technology
Yahoo Open To Microsoft Deal under Right Terms (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2037606~Yahoo_open_to_Microsoft_deal_under_right_terms.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
Bing It On: Microsoft Overhauls Search, Again (KIRO Radio, Seattle)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=172433
Yahoo CEO Bartz: “We Are Not a Search Company” (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/05/27/yahoo-ceo-bartz-we-are-not-a-search-company/
Digital TV Switchover Imminent Though Millions Remain Unprepared (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/2009/May/Digital-TV-Switchover-Imminent--Though-Millions-Remain-Unprepared.html
Apogee Interactive Adds Andrew Schechter as Regional Manager of Business Development - Utility Demand for Energy Analysis Software Rising (BusinessWire)
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090528005305&newsLang=en
GENERAL NEWS
Swine Flu Now Labeled 'Common' (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_052709WAB-swine-flu-common-TP.2181002d.html?rss
Mason County Government Facing Third Round of Cutbacks (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/may/27/mason-county-government-facing-third-round-of/?partner=RSS
Man Gets 11 Years for Seattle Traffic-Circle Death (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2018401~Man_gets_11_years_for_Seattle_traffic_circle_death.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines
Coastal Radar Station Sought To Improve Storm Forecasts (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009271163_radar28m.html?syndication=rss
Video Game Addiction A Serious Problem among Children (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_052809WAB-video-game-addiction-LJ.257b5140.html?rss
DIVERSIONS
Rock-throwing pair: 'It was just a dumb little prank'
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/46251362.html
News Flash! Archie Andrews to Marry Veronica Lodge!
http://www.vancouversun.com/Technology/News+flash+Archie+Andrews+marry+Veronica+Lodge/1636102/story.html
Man Calls 911 to Protest Missing Juice Box - Family Says McDonald's Left Juice Box Out Of Order
http://www.kirotv.com/money/19579261/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_nots&tmi=sea_nots_1_01000205272009&ts=H
Minnesota Man’s Mullet Experiment Exposes Fashion Prejudice
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/2009/May/Minnesota-Man-s-Mullet-Experiment-Exposes-Fashion-Prejudice.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Hair - Hair the Musical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yd3Elm-X7c&feature=related
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Lewis County Wire Theft Ring Is No More
- River of Power Education Day - Local kids dig in at Rocky Reach Dam
- Energy Northwest's Nuclear Power Plant Halfway Through Refueling Outage
- Key Senator Calls for 100 New Reactors in 20 Years
- Arizona Republic Editorial – Nuclear Plants are the Best Way to Go
- News Tribune Editorial - Science, Politics and Yucca Mountain
- North Carolina - Alcoa Hydro Relicensing Blocked
- Spring Chinook ‘Catch-Balancing’ Sure To Be Topic in 2010
- Sea Lions and Trappers Disengage
- With Sewers, Tillicum Will Take Off
- Wenatchee World Editorial - Why can’t they use biofuels?
- Columbian Editorial - Wait on the Wind
- Vermont Renewable-Energy Bill Becomes Law
- Forecasting Wind for Dollars
- Obama Says Clean-Energy, Stimulus Plans Creating Jobs
- Kansas - Net Metering Impact Not Great So Far
- Hawaiian Garbage-to-Energy Plant Recycles Derelict Fishing Nets
- United Kingdom - Rumbling over Wind Power
- Group Helps Tri-Citians Go Green
- Mason County PUD No. 3 and City Team Up For Energy Efficient Traffic Signals
- Greenland Ice Could Fuel Severe US Sea Level Rise
- Southern Co. to run National Carbon Capture Center
- Thankfully, Irony Is Not Dead – Environmentalists Saved By Oil Tanker
- FCC Issues Rural Broadband Report
- City Of Richland Continues On Fiber-Optics
- The New UTOPIA: Transforming Failure into Success
- There's A Catch To AT&T Speed Boost
- North Carolina Offers Incentives for $1 Billion Apple Data Center
- Time Warner to Spin Off AOL, Ending Ill-Fated Deal
- Yahoo Open To Microsoft Deal under Right Terms
- Bing It On: Microsoft Overhauls Search, Again
- Yahoo CEO Bartz: “We Are Not a Search Company”
- Digital TV Switchover Imminent Though Millions Remain Unprepared
- Apogee Interactive Adds New Regional Manager of Business Development
- Swine Flu Now Labeled 'Common'
- Mason County Government Facing Third Round of Cutbacks
- Man Gets 11 Years for Seattle Traffic-Circle Death
- Coastal Radar Station Sought To Improve Storm Forecasts
- Video Game Addiction A Serious Problem among Children
PHRASE OF THE DAY
Philadelphia Lawyer • noun - A lawyer knowledgeable in the most minute aspects of the law
From the opening statements, “Manny the Mole” knew that his slick Philadelphia Lawyer was going to get him sprung from his legal entanglements. His counsel argued that since the charging papers identified his client as “The Mole” instead of his real name: Emmanuel Franklin McDonald, that all charges should be dropped.
From Merriam-Webster Online: The reputation of the Philadelphia lawyer dates back to the colonial period, when our legal system was in its infancy and lawyers had to be especially astute. Many noted attorneys seem to have hailed from early Philadelphia, and probably no single lawyer is the source of the term, but several have been suggested. Although not strictly a lawyer, Benjamin Franklin is sometimes claimed to have inspired the expression through his cunning in diplomatic negotiations with the British and French. Another possible source is the Scottish-American Philadelphia attorney Andrew Hamilton, who famously got newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger acquitted of libel charges in 1735, paving the way for the principle of freedom of the press in the process.
WEATHER
Shelton Forecast and Weather Alerts
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/mapclick.php?textfield1=47.213805&textfield2=-123.113412&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=shelton%2c%20wa%2c%20usa
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Lewis County Wire Theft Ring Is No More - Jail Time: With Suspects Sentenced and Metal Prices Declining, County Disbands Task Force (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/05/27/news/doc4a1d83155ce9c989699851.txt
River of Power Education Day - Local kids dig in at Rocky Reach Dam (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090527/NEWS04/705279918?Local-kids-dig-in-at-Rocky-Reach-Dam
Energy Northwest's Nuclear Power Plant in Richland Halfway Through Refueling Outage (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10434920
Key Senator Calls for 100 New Reactors in 20 Years (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/27/national/a172516D09.DTL&feed=rss.business
Arizona Republic Editorial – Nuclear Plants are the Best Way to Go
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2009/05/28/20090528thurlets286.html
News Tribune Editorial - Science, Politics and Yucca Mountain
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/757329.html
North Carolina - Alcoa Hydro Relicensing Blocked (Charlotte Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2009/05/25/daily28.html?ana=from_rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Spring Chinook ‘Catch-Balancing’ Sure To Be Topic in 2010 (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090528/SPORTS02/705289945
Sea Lions and Trappers Disengage (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5077-sea-lions-and-trappers-disengage/
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
With Sewers, Tillicum Will Take Off (The News Tribune, Tacoma)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/757326.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Wenatchee World Editorial - Why can’t they use biofuels? Maybe someday they will give up. From the beginning their goals weren't practical. Eventually that will sink in.
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090527/OP02/705279888/1025/rss1025
Columbian Editorial - Wait on the Wind: State agencies will conduct more research before deciding on mountain wind farms
http://columbian.com/article/20090528/OPINION02/705289975/-1/OPINION
Vermont Renewable-Energy Bill Becomes Law (Burlington Free Press, VT)
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090528/NEWS03/90528004
Forecasting for Dollars “…swings of 500 megawatts of wind can disappear from a system in an hour or less, creating scheduling havoc for system operators…” (Energy Biz Insider)
http://www.energycentral.com/utility/newsletters/sample_ebi.htm
Obama Says Clean-Energy, Stimulus Plans Creating Jobs (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/27/AR2009052702458.html?wprss=rss_business
Kansas - Net Metering Impact Not Great So Far (Pratt Tribune, KS)
http://www.pratttribune.com/news/x2085732965/Net-metering-impact-not-great-so-far
Hawaiian Garbage-to-Energy Plant Recycles Derelict Fishing Nets for Electricity (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/mnEnergy/idUS91417768220090528
United Kingdom - Rumbling over Wind Power: Vineyard owner can't wait for turbine (Suffolk Times, UK)
http://www2.timesreview.com/ST/Stories/T052809_windmill_bh
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Group Helps Tri-Citians Go Green (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/915/story/591778.html?mi_email=Tri-City%20Herald_PM+%26+Breaking+News
Mason County PUD No. 3 and City Team Up For Energy Efficient Traffic Signals (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7378/reftab/1632/Default.aspx
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Greenland Ice Could Fuel Severe US Sea Level Rise (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2718485020090527
Southern Co. to run National Carbon Capture Center (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2009/05/25/daily32.html?ana=from_rss
Thankfully, irony is not dead - Environmentalists often like to wax poetic about the beauty of lakes and rivers, trees and mountains. But sometimes, the sweetest sight is an oil tanker (The Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.vancouversun.com/Technology/Thankfully+irony+dead/1637897/story.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
FCC Issues Rural Broadband Report - First step in concocting national broadband strategy (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Issues-Rural-Broadband-Report-102631
City of Richland continues on fiber-optics (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/592180.html
The New UTOPIA: Transforming Failure into Success (AppRising)
http://www.app-rising.com/2009/05/the_new_utopia_transforming_fa.html
There's A Catch To AT&T Speed Boost - Download speeds of up to 7.2 megabits per second (theoretically) will be available on AT&T's 3G network after upgrades are completed this year (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/brierdudley/2009270924_brier28.html
North Carolina Offers Incentives for $1 Billion Apple Data Center (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/05/27/n-c-votes-on-incentives-for-apples-1b-data-center/
Time Warner to Spin Off AOL, Ending Ill-Fated Deal (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052800895.html?wprss=rss_technology
Yahoo Open To Microsoft Deal under Right Terms (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2037606~Yahoo_open_to_Microsoft_deal_under_right_terms.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
Bing It On: Microsoft Overhauls Search, Again (KIRO Radio, Seattle)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=172433
Yahoo CEO Bartz: “We Are Not a Search Company” (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/05/27/yahoo-ceo-bartz-we-are-not-a-search-company/
Digital TV Switchover Imminent Though Millions Remain Unprepared (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/2009/May/Digital-TV-Switchover-Imminent--Though-Millions-Remain-Unprepared.html
Apogee Interactive Adds Andrew Schechter as Regional Manager of Business Development - Utility Demand for Energy Analysis Software Rising (BusinessWire)
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090528005305&newsLang=en
GENERAL NEWS
Swine Flu Now Labeled 'Common' (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_052709WAB-swine-flu-common-TP.2181002d.html?rss
Mason County Government Facing Third Round of Cutbacks (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/may/27/mason-county-government-facing-third-round-of/?partner=RSS
Man Gets 11 Years for Seattle Traffic-Circle Death (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2018401~Man_gets_11_years_for_Seattle_traffic_circle_death.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines
Coastal Radar Station Sought To Improve Storm Forecasts (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009271163_radar28m.html?syndication=rss
Video Game Addiction A Serious Problem among Children (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_052809WAB-video-game-addiction-LJ.257b5140.html?rss
DIVERSIONS
Rock-throwing pair: 'It was just a dumb little prank'
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/46251362.html
News Flash! Archie Andrews to Marry Veronica Lodge!
http://www.vancouversun.com/Technology/News+flash+Archie+Andrews+marry+Veronica+Lodge/1636102/story.html
Man Calls 911 to Protest Missing Juice Box - Family Says McDonald's Left Juice Box Out Of Order
http://www.kirotv.com/money/19579261/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_nots&tmi=sea_nots_1_01000205272009&ts=H
Minnesota Man’s Mullet Experiment Exposes Fashion Prejudice
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/2009/May/Minnesota-Man-s-Mullet-Experiment-Exposes-Fashion-Prejudice.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Hair - Hair the Musical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yd3Elm-X7c&feature=related
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Energy News Digest for May 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)
- Third Open House on Mason County PUD No. 3 John's Prairie Facility Thursday
- Little Leisure For Retirees Fighting Proposed Power Plant
- Minnesota - Plans for Prairie Island Nuclear Plant Face Opposition
- US Department of Energy Budget Doubles With Stimulus Funds
- Texas - Now's the Time to Lock In “Low” Electricity Rates,
- Pepco Wants to Raise Rates in D.C.
- Obama Officials Come To NW to Learn Salmon Issues
- Chinook Run Prediction Updated, But Still No Steelhead Season
- Northwest Scientists Work to Track Tiny Salmon down Columbia River to Ocean
- Deadline Looms over Stocking Fish in North Cascades National Park
- Victoria’s Raw Sewage to Flow When It Rains, Despite Treatment
- Clotheslines, Rainwater, Vs. The Law
- San Francisco Chronicle Op/Ed - Time for The Governor to Wade Into the Delta
- Montana – Cascade County Will Test Wind-Energy Storage
- Wyoming - $6 Billion Wind Farm Proposed Near Rawlins
- Consumers Energy to Add Surcharges to Monthly Bills for Renewable Energy Plan
- Wind Farm Opponents Want European Moratorium
- Zero Down Solar Panels
- Feds Announce Money for Green Jobs and Training
- Historic Architecture vs. Clean Energy
- Free Energy Audit Can Uncover Problems
- Carbon Pollution to Grow By 40 Percent
- Electric Co-Ops Concerned With Climate Bill
- Carbon Allowances -- The Glue In House Energy Package
- Global Warming: a Controversial Bill, And a Game of Roulette
- Forest Offsets Give EPA Regulators Some Tough Nuts to Crack
- Germany Abandons Cap and Trade for Major Industries
- Qwest Struggling To Sell Long Haul Network
- Appeals Court Upholds No Exclusive Cable Rights In Apartments
- FaceBook Sells Nearly Two Percent Stake for $200 Million
- Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate
- Texting May Be Taking a Toll
- Will Bridge Reopen June 5? State Says . . . Maybe
- Mason County Needs To Make More Budget Cuts
- Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look
- Evergreen State College Police Say They Need Rifles
- City of Shelton to Exempt Some Development from Street Frontage Requirement
WORD OF THE DAY
Carrefour • \ kair-uh-FOOR \ • noun - 1: crossroads *2: square, plaza
Fredo was in heaven, the shaded carrefour in the aged city of Sienna was devoid of all activity, save the large flock of pigeons that were making cooing and clucking sounds around the bread crumbs at his feet. His desire to lure the birds ever closer was at odds with the consequences: what most birds do when they take flight.
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
Third Open House on Mason County PUD No. 3 John's Prairie Facility Thursday (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7366/reftab/1632/Default.aspx
Little Leisure For Retirees Fighting Proposed Power Plant: Coal country community split by eight year battle (The Salt Lake Tribune, UT)
http://www.scoop.com/remote/article/include/92989569/53616c7465645f5fbc00fa1e22be88150e1c10944a591aef92a6e38a54b2a90c
Minnesota - Plans for Prairie Island Nuclear Plant Face Opposition (Minnesota Public Radio)
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/05/22/prairie_island_nuclear_plant/
US Department of Energy Budget Doubles With Stimulus Funds (Associated Press)
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/05/26/ap6467236.html
Texas - Now's the Time to Lock In “Low” Electricity Rates, Experts Advise (Dallas Morning News, TX – median rate is 13.45 cents per kWh: what deregulation hath wroght))
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-electricity_26bus.State.Edition1.98a886.html
Pepco Wants to Raise Rates in D.C. “…average homeowner who uses 750 kilowatt-hours of electricity a month would increase…to $112.69 a month…” (Washington Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/05/25/daily18.html?ana=from_rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Obama Officials Come To NW to Learn Salmon Issues (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/05/obama_officials_come_to_nw_to.html
Chinook Run Prediction Updated, But Still No Steelhead Season (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/bill_monroe/index.ssf/2009/05/chinook_run_prediction_updated.html
Northwest Scientists Work to Track Tiny Salmon down Columbia River to Ocean (KUOW Radio, Seattle)
http://kuow.org/program.php?id=17630
Deadline Looms over Stocking Fish in North Cascades National Park (The Bellingham Herald, WA)
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/102/story/920848.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Victoria’s Raw Sewage to Flow When It Rains, Despite Treatment - CRD says it can save money by delaying wet-weather plant (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/sewage+flow+when+rains+despite+treatment/1627610/story.html
Clotheslines, Rainwater, Vs. The Law (Whidbey News Times, WA)
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/whidbey/wnt/lifestyle/46114097.html
San Francisco Chronicle Op/Ed - Time for The Governor to Wade Into the Delta: Clean, abundant water is something most people take for granted
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/27/EDCP17R69A.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Montana – Cascade County Will Test Wind-Energy Storage (Great Falls Tribune, MT)
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20090527/NEWS01/905270304
Wyoming - $6 Billion Wind Farm Proposed Near Rawlins (Gillette News Record, WY)
http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/articles/2009/05/26/news/today/news04.txt
Michigan - Consumers Energy to Add Surcharges to Monthly Bills for Renewable Energy Plan (Jackson Citizen Patriot, MI)
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2009/05/consumers_energy_to_add_surcha.html
Wind Farm Opponents Want European Moratorium (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE54P53Q20090526
Zero Down Solar Panels (Cool Tools)
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003737.php
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Feds Announce Money for Green Jobs and Training (Associated Press)
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1110ap_us_obama_middle_class.html?source=rss
Historic Architecture vs. Clean Energy (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/historic-architecture-vs-clean-energy/
Free Energy Audit Can Uncover Problems (NW Arkansas News)
http://www.nwanews.com/bvwv/Business/8828/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Carbon Pollution to Grow By 40 Percent (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009267453_apusenergyforecast.html?syndication=rss
Electric Co-Ops Concerned With Climate Bill - How much is regulating climate change worth to you? (The Ledger Independent, Maysville, KY)
http://www.maysville-online.com/articles/2009/05/27/local_news/doc4a1cc43aa6309954067216.txt
Carbon Allowances -- The Glue In House Energy Package (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/05/26/26greenwire-carbon-allowances----the-glue-in-house-energy-10416.html
Global Warming: a Controversial Bill, And a Game of Roulette (Popular Science)
http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2009-05/greenhouse-gamble
Forest Offsets Give EPA Regulators Some Tough Nuts to Crack (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/05/27/27climatewire-forest-offsets-give-epa-regulators-some-toug-91999.html
Germany Abandons Cap and Trade for Major Industries (Weekly Standard)
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/05/germany_abandons_cap_and_trade.asp
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Qwest Struggling To Sell Long Haul Network - Probably won't get over $2 billion, say analysts (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Qwest-Struggling-To-Sell-Long-Haul-Network-102613
Appeals Court Upholds No Exclusive Cable Rights In Apartments (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12450859
FaceBook Sells Nearly Two Percent Stake for $200 Million (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/05/26/technology/tech-us-facebook.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate - Shielding Public, Private Networks Is Goal (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/25/AR2009052502104.html?wprss=rss_technology
Texting May Be Taking a Toll (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26teen.html?_r=1&8dpc
GENERAL NEWS
Will Bridge Reopen June 5? State Says . . . Maybe (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090527/NEWS/305279994
Mason County Needs To Make More Budget Cuts (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7371/reftab/1632/t/COUNTY-NEEDS-TO-MAKE-MORE-BUDGET-CUTS/Default.aspx
Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look - Levy Viewed as Way to Reduce Deficits, Fund Health Reform (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/26/AR2009052602909.html?wprss=rss_politics
Evergreen State College Police Say They Need Rifles (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19573271/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_1_09000105272009&ts=H
City of Shelton to Exempt Rebuilds, Remodels, Additions from Street Frontage Requirement (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7370/reftab/1632/t/CITY-TO-EXEMPT-REBUILDS-REMODELS-ADDITIONS-FROM-STREET-FRONTAGE-REQUIREMENT/Default.aspx
DIVERSIONS
'I bought my daughter Botox jabs for her 18th birthday'... says mother who has spent £45,000 on plastic surgery
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1187380/I-bought-daughter-Botox-jabs-18th-birthday--says-mother-spent-45-000-plastic-surgery.html
Nebraska Cigarette Bandit Wore Beer Carton as Disguise
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12450821
Chef Bourdain talks about Seattle's magical food scene, Batali envy and more
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/restaurants/2009265119_zres27bourdain.html
First Thieves, Then Cops Take Man's Medical Pot
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/46183347.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8SfiCnwF28
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Third Open House on Mason County PUD No. 3 John's Prairie Facility Thursday
- Little Leisure For Retirees Fighting Proposed Power Plant
- Minnesota - Plans for Prairie Island Nuclear Plant Face Opposition
- US Department of Energy Budget Doubles With Stimulus Funds
- Texas - Now's the Time to Lock In “Low” Electricity Rates,
- Pepco Wants to Raise Rates in D.C.
- Obama Officials Come To NW to Learn Salmon Issues
- Chinook Run Prediction Updated, But Still No Steelhead Season
- Northwest Scientists Work to Track Tiny Salmon down Columbia River to Ocean
- Deadline Looms over Stocking Fish in North Cascades National Park
- Victoria’s Raw Sewage to Flow When It Rains, Despite Treatment
- Clotheslines, Rainwater, Vs. The Law
- San Francisco Chronicle Op/Ed - Time for The Governor to Wade Into the Delta
- Montana – Cascade County Will Test Wind-Energy Storage
- Wyoming - $6 Billion Wind Farm Proposed Near Rawlins
- Consumers Energy to Add Surcharges to Monthly Bills for Renewable Energy Plan
- Wind Farm Opponents Want European Moratorium
- Zero Down Solar Panels
- Feds Announce Money for Green Jobs and Training
- Historic Architecture vs. Clean Energy
- Free Energy Audit Can Uncover Problems
- Carbon Pollution to Grow By 40 Percent
- Electric Co-Ops Concerned With Climate Bill
- Carbon Allowances -- The Glue In House Energy Package
- Global Warming: a Controversial Bill, And a Game of Roulette
- Forest Offsets Give EPA Regulators Some Tough Nuts to Crack
- Germany Abandons Cap and Trade for Major Industries
- Qwest Struggling To Sell Long Haul Network
- Appeals Court Upholds No Exclusive Cable Rights In Apartments
- FaceBook Sells Nearly Two Percent Stake for $200 Million
- Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate
- Texting May Be Taking a Toll
- Will Bridge Reopen June 5? State Says . . . Maybe
- Mason County Needs To Make More Budget Cuts
- Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look
- Evergreen State College Police Say They Need Rifles
- City of Shelton to Exempt Some Development from Street Frontage Requirement
WORD OF THE DAY
Carrefour • \ kair-uh-FOOR \ • noun - 1: crossroads *2: square, plaza
Fredo was in heaven, the shaded carrefour in the aged city of Sienna was devoid of all activity, save the large flock of pigeons that were making cooing and clucking sounds around the bread crumbs at his feet. His desire to lure the birds ever closer was at odds with the consequences: what most birds do when they take flight.
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
Third Open House on Mason County PUD No. 3 John's Prairie Facility Thursday (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7366/reftab/1632/Default.aspx
Little Leisure For Retirees Fighting Proposed Power Plant: Coal country community split by eight year battle (The Salt Lake Tribune, UT)
http://www.scoop.com/remote/article/include/92989569/53616c7465645f5fbc00fa1e22be88150e1c10944a591aef92a6e38a54b2a90c
Minnesota - Plans for Prairie Island Nuclear Plant Face Opposition (Minnesota Public Radio)
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/05/22/prairie_island_nuclear_plant/
US Department of Energy Budget Doubles With Stimulus Funds (Associated Press)
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/05/26/ap6467236.html
Texas - Now's the Time to Lock In “Low” Electricity Rates, Experts Advise (Dallas Morning News, TX – median rate is 13.45 cents per kWh: what deregulation hath wroght))
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-electricity_26bus.State.Edition1.98a886.html
Pepco Wants to Raise Rates in D.C. “…average homeowner who uses 750 kilowatt-hours of electricity a month would increase…to $112.69 a month…” (Washington Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/05/25/daily18.html?ana=from_rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Obama Officials Come To NW to Learn Salmon Issues (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/05/obama_officials_come_to_nw_to.html
Chinook Run Prediction Updated, But Still No Steelhead Season (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/bill_monroe/index.ssf/2009/05/chinook_run_prediction_updated.html
Northwest Scientists Work to Track Tiny Salmon down Columbia River to Ocean (KUOW Radio, Seattle)
http://kuow.org/program.php?id=17630
Deadline Looms over Stocking Fish in North Cascades National Park (The Bellingham Herald, WA)
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/102/story/920848.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Victoria’s Raw Sewage to Flow When It Rains, Despite Treatment - CRD says it can save money by delaying wet-weather plant (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/sewage+flow+when+rains+despite+treatment/1627610/story.html
Clotheslines, Rainwater, Vs. The Law (Whidbey News Times, WA)
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/whidbey/wnt/lifestyle/46114097.html
San Francisco Chronicle Op/Ed - Time for The Governor to Wade Into the Delta: Clean, abundant water is something most people take for granted
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/27/EDCP17R69A.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Montana – Cascade County Will Test Wind-Energy Storage (Great Falls Tribune, MT)
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20090527/NEWS01/905270304
Wyoming - $6 Billion Wind Farm Proposed Near Rawlins (Gillette News Record, WY)
http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/articles/2009/05/26/news/today/news04.txt
Michigan - Consumers Energy to Add Surcharges to Monthly Bills for Renewable Energy Plan (Jackson Citizen Patriot, MI)
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2009/05/consumers_energy_to_add_surcha.html
Wind Farm Opponents Want European Moratorium (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE54P53Q20090526
Zero Down Solar Panels (Cool Tools)
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003737.php
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Feds Announce Money for Green Jobs and Training (Associated Press)
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1110ap_us_obama_middle_class.html?source=rss
Historic Architecture vs. Clean Energy (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/historic-architecture-vs-clean-energy/
Free Energy Audit Can Uncover Problems (NW Arkansas News)
http://www.nwanews.com/bvwv/Business/8828/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Carbon Pollution to Grow By 40 Percent (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009267453_apusenergyforecast.html?syndication=rss
Electric Co-Ops Concerned With Climate Bill - How much is regulating climate change worth to you? (The Ledger Independent, Maysville, KY)
http://www.maysville-online.com/articles/2009/05/27/local_news/doc4a1cc43aa6309954067216.txt
Carbon Allowances -- The Glue In House Energy Package (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/05/26/26greenwire-carbon-allowances----the-glue-in-house-energy-10416.html
Global Warming: a Controversial Bill, And a Game of Roulette (Popular Science)
http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2009-05/greenhouse-gamble
Forest Offsets Give EPA Regulators Some Tough Nuts to Crack (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/05/27/27climatewire-forest-offsets-give-epa-regulators-some-toug-91999.html
Germany Abandons Cap and Trade for Major Industries (Weekly Standard)
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/05/germany_abandons_cap_and_trade.asp
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Qwest Struggling To Sell Long Haul Network - Probably won't get over $2 billion, say analysts (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Qwest-Struggling-To-Sell-Long-Haul-Network-102613
Appeals Court Upholds No Exclusive Cable Rights In Apartments (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12450859
FaceBook Sells Nearly Two Percent Stake for $200 Million (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/05/26/technology/tech-us-facebook.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate - Shielding Public, Private Networks Is Goal (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/25/AR2009052502104.html?wprss=rss_technology
Texting May Be Taking a Toll (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26teen.html?_r=1&8dpc
GENERAL NEWS
Will Bridge Reopen June 5? State Says . . . Maybe (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090527/NEWS/305279994
Mason County Needs To Make More Budget Cuts (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7371/reftab/1632/t/COUNTY-NEEDS-TO-MAKE-MORE-BUDGET-CUTS/Default.aspx
Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look - Levy Viewed as Way to Reduce Deficits, Fund Health Reform (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/26/AR2009052602909.html?wprss=rss_politics
Evergreen State College Police Say They Need Rifles (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19573271/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_1_09000105272009&ts=H
City of Shelton to Exempt Rebuilds, Remodels, Additions from Street Frontage Requirement (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7370/reftab/1632/t/CITY-TO-EXEMPT-REBUILDS-REMODELS-ADDITIONS-FROM-STREET-FRONTAGE-REQUIREMENT/Default.aspx
DIVERSIONS
'I bought my daughter Botox jabs for her 18th birthday'... says mother who has spent £45,000 on plastic surgery
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1187380/I-bought-daughter-Botox-jabs-18th-birthday--says-mother-spent-45-000-plastic-surgery.html
Nebraska Cigarette Bandit Wore Beer Carton as Disguise
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12450821
Chef Bourdain talks about Seattle's magical food scene, Batali envy and more
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/restaurants/2009265119_zres27bourdain.html
First Thieves, Then Cops Take Man's Medical Pot
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/46183347.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8SfiCnwF28
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Energy News Digest for May 26, 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)
- Gregoire: Cut TransAlta Emissions by More than Half by 2025
- Historic Green Victory at Idaho Power Annual Meeting Could Mean Higher Electric Bills
- Idaho Statesman: Power Rates Will Rise, But Your Bill Doesn't Need To
- Idaho Power must sell energy credits
- Benton PUD to Raise Rates
- Contracting economy sparks BPA expansion
- BPA Hosts Vancouver Meeting Tuesday on Grid Boost
- Wire Power - How to Send Electricity across the Continent, Virtually For Free
- California - Colusa Power Plant Shows Importance of Fossil Fuels
- Hartford Courant Op/Ed - Heating Tax Would Only Burn Consumers
- Cost of Electric Grid Failure from 2012 Solar Storms Avoidable
- Fish Tales - Obama brass angle for answers
- Oregonian Editorial - Fresh Eyes, Fragile Deal on Columbia Salmon
- Upper Klamath Water Rights Issue Settled
- Dewatto River - Steelhead Recovering Through Hood Canal Program
- Million-Dollar Creek Restoration Begins In Central Oregon
- PacifiCorp Delays Condit Dam Removal
- Willamette Sea Lions Escape Brethrens' Fate
- San Diego Wants To Disperse Seals with Dog Barking
- Report Finds the World's Oysters Threatened by Development, Pollution
- Landfill Methane Towers Scorch Perched Hawks
- Silverdale Water Customers Get Tip-Top Taste Out of the Tap
- Environmentalists Want Drugs in Columbia River Monitored
- Without Meters, Fresno Water beyond Measure
- Market Pulse - Water May Be Hot Investment
- Environmentalists Fear for Tahoe amid Logging in Burned Angora Area
- In BPA Right of Way - Kitsap Redwood Spared, at Least Temporarily
- With Billions at Stake, Trying to Expand the Meaning of ‘Renewable Energy’
- Endangered Birds - Clark County wind farm on hold
- Chase for Wind Power Turns to Oregon's Public Lands
- Change in the Air? Wind Industry Wants Government Lift
- Renewable Power Mandate Overcomes Hurdle in US Senate
- GOP: Alternative Energy Alone Won't Meet US Needs
- Anchorage News Miner Op/Ed - Consider energy reliability and reality
- Oregonian Op/Ed - The Unfortunate Myth of "Renewables Now!"
- Renewables: America's next heavy industry
- Detroit Edison Seeking Input On Wind Energy Programs
- Two Neah Power Board Members Resign
- United Kingdom - Blown away by the North Sea
- Solar-Tech Company Scouts Oregon Sites
- NW Natural’s Methane Project Taps Cow Power
- Green Homeowner Given Noise Order After Hum of 40ft Wind Turbine Drives Neighbors Mad
- PUD 3 and City of Shelton Team Up for Energy Efficient Traffic Signals
- Mason County - Energy-Efficient Businesses Can Get a Break
- Energy Efficiency Rates High On Home Buyers’ Wish Lists
- Energy-Efficiency Pitch Brings Funds
- Cut Energy Costs This Summer by Making Changes At Home; Help Is Available
- Caps, Trades and Offsets: Can Climate Plan Work?
- Gov. Gregoire Does Her Own Thing On Climate Change
- Seattle Times Editorial - Climate-Change Action Picks Up On Three Fronts
- Idaho Delegation Opposes Greenhouse Gas Legislation
- Canada – Globe & Mail Op/Ed - Carbon offsets: It really isn't easy being green
- Study Says Businesses Can Create Clean Energy Jobs
- Seattle P-I Columnist - Global warming's impacts on state forests
- Canada - Inaction on Climate Change Backfires
- How Boeing Fights Climate Change
- Kansas - Farmers Could Cash In On Cap-And-Trade
- U.S. Government Delays Broadband Grants
- Broadband Stimulus Fund Timetable
- FCC: Broadband Plan Will Be Huge
- Verizon Threatens Massachusetts
- Net Computing ‘Cloud’ Over Microsoft Chills Investors
- Yahoo's Departing CFO to Get $1.8M in Severance
- Skyline Drums Up Strong Data Center Business
- Hood Canal Bridge Might Reopen a Week Early
- Propane suppliers quietly reduce size of refills
- Catching Up On State's New Crop of Green Legislation
- Washington State Won't Make Target for Biofuels
- Localities Want U.S. To Support Muni Bonds
WORD OF THE DAY
Obnubilate • \obb-NOO-buh-layt\ • verb - Becloud, obscure
Here’s one of my favorite Groucho Marx quotes, intended to confuse is antagonist by obnulation:
“Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.”
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
Gregoire: Cut TransAlta Emissions by More than Half by 2025 (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
http://www.kelaam.com/pages/localnews?Gregoire-Cut-TransAlta-Emissions-by-More=1&blockID=55236&feedID=410
Historic Green Victory at Idaho Power Annual Meeting Could Mean Higher Electric Bills (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/777839.html
Idaho Statesman Columnist: Power Rates Will Rise, But Your Bill Doesn't Need To
http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/780888.html
Idaho Power must sell energy credits - regulators have ordered the state's biggest utility to sell about $2 million worth of renewable energy credits and use the money to benefit ratepayers (Associated Press)
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/05/25/ap6462221.html
Benton PUD to Raise Rates (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.kndo.com/Global/story.asp?S=10404267&nav=menu484_2_11
Contracting economy sparks BPA expansion “…Unlike most stimulus dollars, which add directly to the deficit, the BPA must repay with interest whatever it uses…” (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/05/contracting_economy_sparkis_bp.html
BPA Hosts Vancouver Meeting Tuesday on Grid Boost (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090523/NEWS02/905229977/BPA+hosts+Vancouver+meeting+on+grid+boost
Wire Power - How to Send Electricity across the Continent, Virtually For Free (Newsweek Magazine)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/198942?from=rss
California - Colusa Power Plant Shows Importance of Fossil Fuels “…even in a future dominated by renewable power, some fossil fuel-fired plants will be needed to provide the reliable, on-demand juice needed to keep the grid running smoothly…” (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1885837.html
Hartford Courant Op/Ed - Heating Tax Would Only Burn Consumers (Connecticut)
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-snyder-oil-taxes.artmay24,0,882334.story
Cost of Electric Grid Failure from 2012 Solar Storms Avoidable (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m5d25-Cost-of-electric-grid-failure-from-2012-solar-storms-avoidable
FISH & WILDLIFE
Fish Tales - Obama brass angle for answers: Four top Obama administration officials will travel to Portland on Tuesday, to hear fish stories and angle for answers (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/169257.asp?from=blog_last3
Oregonian Editorial - Fresh Eyes, Fragile Deal on Columbia Salmon
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/05/fresh_eyes_fragile_deal_on_col.html
Upper Klamath Water Rights Issue Settled (The Times-Standard, Eureka, CA)
http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_12427596?source=rss
Dewatto River - Steelhead Recovering Through Hood Canal Program (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009251881_apwasteelheadrecovery.html?syndication=rss
Million-Dollar Creek Restoration Begins In Central Oregon (Oregon Public Radio)
http://news.opb.org/article/5053-million-dollar-creek-restoration-begins/
PacifiCorp Delays Condit Dam Removal (Associated Press)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_dam_removal.html
Willamette Sea Lions Escape Brethrens' Fate (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/bill_monroe/index.ssf/2009/05/willamette_sea_lions_may_face.html
San Diego Wants To Disperse Seals with Dog Barking (Examiner.Com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2031046~San_Diego_wants_to_disperse_seals_with_dog_barking.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
Report Finds the World's Oysters Threatened by Development, Pollution - Oyster reefs are the most critically threatened marine habitat on Earth (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/05/new_report_finds_the_worlds_oy.html
Landfill Methane Towers Scorch Perched Hawks (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009258267_apusscorchedhawks.html?syndication=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Silverdale Water Customers Get Tip-Top Taste Out of the Tap (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/may/26/silverdale-water-customers-get-tip-top-taste-out/?partner=RSS
Environmentalists Want Drugs in Columbia River Monitored (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090524/NEWS02/705249966/
Without Meters, Fresno Water beyond Measure (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104466681&ft=1&f=3
Market Pulse - Water May Be Hot Investment (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009256237_pulse24.html?syndication=rss
Environmentalists Fear for Tahoe amid Logging in Burned Angora Area (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1890877.html
In BPA Right of Way - Kitsap Redwood Spared, at Least Temporarily (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/may/22/kitsap-redwood-spared-at-least-temporarily/?partner=RSS
RENEWABLE & ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
With Billions at Stake, Trying to Expand the Meaning of ‘Renewable Energy’ (NY Times – How ironic: first time I saw “subsidy” used as an argument against hydro as renewable)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/business/energy-environment/25renew.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Endangered Birds - Clark County wind farm on hold: State introduces a delay to think through possible environmental effects of the turbine construction (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090523/NEWS02/705239990/
Chase for Wind Power Turns to Oregon's Public Lands (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/05/chase_for_wind_power_turns_to.html
Change in the Air? Wind Industry Wants Government Lift (Associated Press – more than it gets now; subsidies plus mandates?)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009258295_apuswindpowergovernmentpolicy.html?syndication=rss
Renewable Power Mandate Overcomes Hurdle in US Senate (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN21261453
GOP: Alternative Energy Alone Won't Meet US Needs (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009120717_apusrepublicansenergy.html?syndication=rss
Anchorage News Miner Op/Ed - Consider energy reliability and reality: Crisis looms and alternative energy can’t deal with it
http://newsminer.com/news/2009/may/24/consider-energy-reliability-and-reality/?opinion
Oregonian Op/Ed - The Unfortunate Myth of "Renewables Now!" “…the region simply will not be able to move away from coal and rely on renewable sources of electric generation without facing reliability issues that could result in blackouts…”
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/05/the_unfortunate_myth_of_renewa.html
Renewables: America's next heavy industry - How three manufacturers in three Midwest states are picking up where the auto sector is laying off (CNN Money)
http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/21/news/economy/midwest_renewables/?postversion=2009052309
Detroit Edison Seeking Input On Wind Energy Programs (Utility Automation & Engineering)
http://uaelp.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=22&ARTICLE_ID=363004&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss
Two Neah Power Board Members Resign (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/05/18/daily58.html?ana=from_rss
United Kingdom - Blown away by the North Sea: Offshore wind farms in Scottish waters ‘could produce 40% more power than English equivalents (Sunday Herald, UK)
http://www.sundayherald.com/business/businessnews/display.var.2509982.0.blown_away_by_the_north_sea.php
Solar-Tech Company Scouts Oregon Sites (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/05/chinese_solar_giant_considers.html
NW Natural’s Methane Project Taps Cow Power (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/05/25/story1.html?ana=from_rss
United Kingdom - Green Homeowner Given Noise Order After Hum of 40ft Wind Turbine Drives Neighbors Mad (The Daily Mail, UK)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1187936/Green-homeowner-given-noise-order-hum-40ft-wind-turbine-drives-neighbours-mad.html
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
PUD 3 and City of Shelton Team Up for Energy Efficient Traffic Signals (Mason County PUD No. 3)
http://www.masonpud3.org/newsdisplay.aspx?newsid=555
Mason County - Energy-Efficient Businesses Can Get a Break (The Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/environment/story/860807.html
Energy Efficiency Rates High On Home Buyers’ Wish Lists (Houston Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2009/05/25/focus4.html?ana=from_rss
Energy-Efficiency Pitch Brings Funds - Corning: Ailing Fiberglass Maker May Benefit (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/24/AR2009052402143.html?wprss=rss_politics
Cut Energy Costs This Summer by Making Changes At Home; Help Is Available (Kansas City Star, MO)
http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1212467.html
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Caps, Trades and Offsets: Can Climate Plan Work? Lawmakers, Scientists and Industry Debate House Measure (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/25/AR2009052502264.html?hpid=moreheadlines
Gov. Gregoire Does Her Own Thing On Climate Change After Legislature Fails To Pass Bill. Can she do that? (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/politics/2009/05/24/gov_gregoire_does_her_own_thing_on_clima
Seattle Times Editorial - Climate-Change Action Picks Up On Three Fronts
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2009259641_edita25green.html
Idaho Delegation Opposes Greenhouse Gas Legislation - Lawmakers doubt that a bill they say would raise the cost of gas and electricity can pass Congress this year (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/780890.html
Canada – Globe & Mail Op/Ed - Carbon offsets: It really isn't easy being green - B.C. learns that it's hard to navigate the murky world of offsets
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/carbon-offsets-it-really-isnt-easy-being-green/article1147597/
Study Says Businesses Can Create Clean Energy Jobs (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/24/international/i064439D36.DTL&feed=rss.news
Seattle P-I Columnist - Global warming's impacts on state forests: Burn baby burn! Lands commissioner says our children will live with consequences
http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/406468_joel22.html?source=rss
Canada - Inaction on Climate Change Backfires (Winnipeg Free Press, Manitoba)
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/inaction-on-climate-change-backfires-45974802.html
How Boeing Fights Climate Change - The efficiency of jets has increased by 70% over the past 50 years (Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124303177241948493.html
Kansas - Farmers Could Cash In On Cap-And-Trade (Wichita Eagle KS)
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2009/05/farmers-could-cash-in-on-cap-and-trade/
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
U.S. Government Delays Broadband Grants (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/government-delays-broadband-grants/
Broadband Stimulus Fund Timetable - First stimulus funds available Q4 2009 (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Broadband-Stimulus-Fund-Timetable-102574
FCC: Broadband Plan Will Be Huge - Biggest project the commission has ever undertaken (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Broadband-Plan-Will-Be-Huge-102553
Verizon Threatens Massachusetts - If you don't pass franchise 'reform,' you don't get broadband?
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Threatens-Massachusetts-102601
Net Computing ‘Cloud’ Over Microsoft Chills Investors (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/05/25/focus8.html?ana=from_rss
Yahoo's Departing CFO to Get $1.8M in Severance (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12430962
Skyline Drums Up Strong Data Center Business - Skyline Construction is turning to data centers to help beat the recession (San Francisco Business Times
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/05/25/story18.html?ana=from_rss
GENERAL NEWS
Hood Canal Bridge Might Reopen a Week Early (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/45874332.html
Propane suppliers quietly reduce size of refills (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12433769
Catching Up On State's New Crop of Green Legislation (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/ecoconsumer/2009253167_ecoconsumer23m.html
Washington State Won't Make Target for Biofuels – The state won't reach its goal next month of having biofuels make up at least 20 percent of its fuel use in state vehicles and ferries (Seattle Times – the state didn’t meet its energy conservation “goals” either)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009260425_apwabiofuels.html?syndication=rss
Localities Want U.S. To Support Muni Bonds - State and local governments are asking Washington to give them something that banks are trying to get rid of: federal bailout money (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/business/26muni.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
DIVERSIONS
Snohomish Dog Adopts Litter of Kittens
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/45871602.html
Media Ipecac - Sales of Bacon-Flavored Vodka Sizzling
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_052409WAB-bacon-vodka-SW.129e5d8e.html?rss
Couple throwing rocks off I-5 playing 'stripping game'
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_052509WAB-rocks-thrown-trestle-SW.17026e59.html?rss
SONG OF THE DAY
Henry Gross – Shannon (About his family’s Irish Setter)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxz2wQX3EvA
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Gregoire: Cut TransAlta Emissions by More than Half by 2025
- Historic Green Victory at Idaho Power Annual Meeting Could Mean Higher Electric Bills
- Idaho Statesman: Power Rates Will Rise, But Your Bill Doesn't Need To
- Idaho Power must sell energy credits
- Benton PUD to Raise Rates
- Contracting economy sparks BPA expansion
- BPA Hosts Vancouver Meeting Tuesday on Grid Boost
- Wire Power - How to Send Electricity across the Continent, Virtually For Free
- California - Colusa Power Plant Shows Importance of Fossil Fuels
- Hartford Courant Op/Ed - Heating Tax Would Only Burn Consumers
- Cost of Electric Grid Failure from 2012 Solar Storms Avoidable
- Fish Tales - Obama brass angle for answers
- Oregonian Editorial - Fresh Eyes, Fragile Deal on Columbia Salmon
- Upper Klamath Water Rights Issue Settled
- Dewatto River - Steelhead Recovering Through Hood Canal Program
- Million-Dollar Creek Restoration Begins In Central Oregon
- PacifiCorp Delays Condit Dam Removal
- Willamette Sea Lions Escape Brethrens' Fate
- San Diego Wants To Disperse Seals with Dog Barking
- Report Finds the World's Oysters Threatened by Development, Pollution
- Landfill Methane Towers Scorch Perched Hawks
- Silverdale Water Customers Get Tip-Top Taste Out of the Tap
- Environmentalists Want Drugs in Columbia River Monitored
- Without Meters, Fresno Water beyond Measure
- Market Pulse - Water May Be Hot Investment
- Environmentalists Fear for Tahoe amid Logging in Burned Angora Area
- In BPA Right of Way - Kitsap Redwood Spared, at Least Temporarily
- With Billions at Stake, Trying to Expand the Meaning of ‘Renewable Energy’
- Endangered Birds - Clark County wind farm on hold
- Chase for Wind Power Turns to Oregon's Public Lands
- Change in the Air? Wind Industry Wants Government Lift
- Renewable Power Mandate Overcomes Hurdle in US Senate
- GOP: Alternative Energy Alone Won't Meet US Needs
- Anchorage News Miner Op/Ed - Consider energy reliability and reality
- Oregonian Op/Ed - The Unfortunate Myth of "Renewables Now!"
- Renewables: America's next heavy industry
- Detroit Edison Seeking Input On Wind Energy Programs
- Two Neah Power Board Members Resign
- United Kingdom - Blown away by the North Sea
- Solar-Tech Company Scouts Oregon Sites
- NW Natural’s Methane Project Taps Cow Power
- Green Homeowner Given Noise Order After Hum of 40ft Wind Turbine Drives Neighbors Mad
- PUD 3 and City of Shelton Team Up for Energy Efficient Traffic Signals
- Mason County - Energy-Efficient Businesses Can Get a Break
- Energy Efficiency Rates High On Home Buyers’ Wish Lists
- Energy-Efficiency Pitch Brings Funds
- Cut Energy Costs This Summer by Making Changes At Home; Help Is Available
- Caps, Trades and Offsets: Can Climate Plan Work?
- Gov. Gregoire Does Her Own Thing On Climate Change
- Seattle Times Editorial - Climate-Change Action Picks Up On Three Fronts
- Idaho Delegation Opposes Greenhouse Gas Legislation
- Canada – Globe & Mail Op/Ed - Carbon offsets: It really isn't easy being green
- Study Says Businesses Can Create Clean Energy Jobs
- Seattle P-I Columnist - Global warming's impacts on state forests
- Canada - Inaction on Climate Change Backfires
- How Boeing Fights Climate Change
- Kansas - Farmers Could Cash In On Cap-And-Trade
- U.S. Government Delays Broadband Grants
- Broadband Stimulus Fund Timetable
- FCC: Broadband Plan Will Be Huge
- Verizon Threatens Massachusetts
- Net Computing ‘Cloud’ Over Microsoft Chills Investors
- Yahoo's Departing CFO to Get $1.8M in Severance
- Skyline Drums Up Strong Data Center Business
- Hood Canal Bridge Might Reopen a Week Early
- Propane suppliers quietly reduce size of refills
- Catching Up On State's New Crop of Green Legislation
- Washington State Won't Make Target for Biofuels
- Localities Want U.S. To Support Muni Bonds
WORD OF THE DAY
Obnubilate • \obb-NOO-buh-layt\ • verb - Becloud, obscure
Here’s one of my favorite Groucho Marx quotes, intended to confuse is antagonist by obnulation:
“Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.”
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
Gregoire: Cut TransAlta Emissions by More than Half by 2025 (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
http://www.kelaam.com/pages/localnews?Gregoire-Cut-TransAlta-Emissions-by-More=1&blockID=55236&feedID=410
Historic Green Victory at Idaho Power Annual Meeting Could Mean Higher Electric Bills (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/777839.html
Idaho Statesman Columnist: Power Rates Will Rise, But Your Bill Doesn't Need To
http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/780888.html
Idaho Power must sell energy credits - regulators have ordered the state's biggest utility to sell about $2 million worth of renewable energy credits and use the money to benefit ratepayers (Associated Press)
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/05/25/ap6462221.html
Benton PUD to Raise Rates (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.kndo.com/Global/story.asp?S=10404267&nav=menu484_2_11
Contracting economy sparks BPA expansion “…Unlike most stimulus dollars, which add directly to the deficit, the BPA must repay with interest whatever it uses…” (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/05/contracting_economy_sparkis_bp.html
BPA Hosts Vancouver Meeting Tuesday on Grid Boost (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090523/NEWS02/905229977/BPA+hosts+Vancouver+meeting+on+grid+boost
Wire Power - How to Send Electricity across the Continent, Virtually For Free (Newsweek Magazine)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/198942?from=rss
California - Colusa Power Plant Shows Importance of Fossil Fuels “…even in a future dominated by renewable power, some fossil fuel-fired plants will be needed to provide the reliable, on-demand juice needed to keep the grid running smoothly…” (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1885837.html
Hartford Courant Op/Ed - Heating Tax Would Only Burn Consumers (Connecticut)
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-snyder-oil-taxes.artmay24,0,882334.story
Cost of Electric Grid Failure from 2012 Solar Storms Avoidable (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m5d25-Cost-of-electric-grid-failure-from-2012-solar-storms-avoidable
FISH & WILDLIFE
Fish Tales - Obama brass angle for answers: Four top Obama administration officials will travel to Portland on Tuesday, to hear fish stories and angle for answers (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/169257.asp?from=blog_last3
Oregonian Editorial - Fresh Eyes, Fragile Deal on Columbia Salmon
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/05/fresh_eyes_fragile_deal_on_col.html
Upper Klamath Water Rights Issue Settled (The Times-Standard, Eureka, CA)
http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_12427596?source=rss
Dewatto River - Steelhead Recovering Through Hood Canal Program (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009251881_apwasteelheadrecovery.html?syndication=rss
Million-Dollar Creek Restoration Begins In Central Oregon (Oregon Public Radio)
http://news.opb.org/article/5053-million-dollar-creek-restoration-begins/
PacifiCorp Delays Condit Dam Removal (Associated Press)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_dam_removal.html
Willamette Sea Lions Escape Brethrens' Fate (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/bill_monroe/index.ssf/2009/05/willamette_sea_lions_may_face.html
San Diego Wants To Disperse Seals with Dog Barking (Examiner.Com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2031046~San_Diego_wants_to_disperse_seals_with_dog_barking.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
Report Finds the World's Oysters Threatened by Development, Pollution - Oyster reefs are the most critically threatened marine habitat on Earth (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/05/new_report_finds_the_worlds_oy.html
Landfill Methane Towers Scorch Perched Hawks (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009258267_apusscorchedhawks.html?syndication=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Silverdale Water Customers Get Tip-Top Taste Out of the Tap (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/may/26/silverdale-water-customers-get-tip-top-taste-out/?partner=RSS
Environmentalists Want Drugs in Columbia River Monitored (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090524/NEWS02/705249966/
Without Meters, Fresno Water beyond Measure (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104466681&ft=1&f=3
Market Pulse - Water May Be Hot Investment (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009256237_pulse24.html?syndication=rss
Environmentalists Fear for Tahoe amid Logging in Burned Angora Area (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1890877.html
In BPA Right of Way - Kitsap Redwood Spared, at Least Temporarily (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/may/22/kitsap-redwood-spared-at-least-temporarily/?partner=RSS
RENEWABLE & ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
With Billions at Stake, Trying to Expand the Meaning of ‘Renewable Energy’ (NY Times – How ironic: first time I saw “subsidy” used as an argument against hydro as renewable)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/business/energy-environment/25renew.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Endangered Birds - Clark County wind farm on hold: State introduces a delay to think through possible environmental effects of the turbine construction (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090523/NEWS02/705239990/
Chase for Wind Power Turns to Oregon's Public Lands (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/05/chase_for_wind_power_turns_to.html
Change in the Air? Wind Industry Wants Government Lift (Associated Press – more than it gets now; subsidies plus mandates?)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009258295_apuswindpowergovernmentpolicy.html?syndication=rss
Renewable Power Mandate Overcomes Hurdle in US Senate (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN21261453
GOP: Alternative Energy Alone Won't Meet US Needs (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009120717_apusrepublicansenergy.html?syndication=rss
Anchorage News Miner Op/Ed - Consider energy reliability and reality: Crisis looms and alternative energy can’t deal with it
http://newsminer.com/news/2009/may/24/consider-energy-reliability-and-reality/?opinion
Oregonian Op/Ed - The Unfortunate Myth of "Renewables Now!" “…the region simply will not be able to move away from coal and rely on renewable sources of electric generation without facing reliability issues that could result in blackouts…”
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/05/the_unfortunate_myth_of_renewa.html
Renewables: America's next heavy industry - How three manufacturers in three Midwest states are picking up where the auto sector is laying off (CNN Money)
http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/21/news/economy/midwest_renewables/?postversion=2009052309
Detroit Edison Seeking Input On Wind Energy Programs (Utility Automation & Engineering)
http://uaelp.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=22&ARTICLE_ID=363004&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss
Two Neah Power Board Members Resign (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/05/18/daily58.html?ana=from_rss
United Kingdom - Blown away by the North Sea: Offshore wind farms in Scottish waters ‘could produce 40% more power than English equivalents (Sunday Herald, UK)
http://www.sundayherald.com/business/businessnews/display.var.2509982.0.blown_away_by_the_north_sea.php
Solar-Tech Company Scouts Oregon Sites (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/05/chinese_solar_giant_considers.html
NW Natural’s Methane Project Taps Cow Power (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/05/25/story1.html?ana=from_rss
United Kingdom - Green Homeowner Given Noise Order After Hum of 40ft Wind Turbine Drives Neighbors Mad (The Daily Mail, UK)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1187936/Green-homeowner-given-noise-order-hum-40ft-wind-turbine-drives-neighbours-mad.html
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
PUD 3 and City of Shelton Team Up for Energy Efficient Traffic Signals (Mason County PUD No. 3)
http://www.masonpud3.org/newsdisplay.aspx?newsid=555
Mason County - Energy-Efficient Businesses Can Get a Break (The Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/environment/story/860807.html
Energy Efficiency Rates High On Home Buyers’ Wish Lists (Houston Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2009/05/25/focus4.html?ana=from_rss
Energy-Efficiency Pitch Brings Funds - Corning: Ailing Fiberglass Maker May Benefit (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/24/AR2009052402143.html?wprss=rss_politics
Cut Energy Costs This Summer by Making Changes At Home; Help Is Available (Kansas City Star, MO)
http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1212467.html
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Caps, Trades and Offsets: Can Climate Plan Work? Lawmakers, Scientists and Industry Debate House Measure (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/25/AR2009052502264.html?hpid=moreheadlines
Gov. Gregoire Does Her Own Thing On Climate Change After Legislature Fails To Pass Bill. Can she do that? (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/politics/2009/05/24/gov_gregoire_does_her_own_thing_on_clima
Seattle Times Editorial - Climate-Change Action Picks Up On Three Fronts
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2009259641_edita25green.html
Idaho Delegation Opposes Greenhouse Gas Legislation - Lawmakers doubt that a bill they say would raise the cost of gas and electricity can pass Congress this year (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/780890.html
Canada – Globe & Mail Op/Ed - Carbon offsets: It really isn't easy being green - B.C. learns that it's hard to navigate the murky world of offsets
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/carbon-offsets-it-really-isnt-easy-being-green/article1147597/
Study Says Businesses Can Create Clean Energy Jobs (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/24/international/i064439D36.DTL&feed=rss.news
Seattle P-I Columnist - Global warming's impacts on state forests: Burn baby burn! Lands commissioner says our children will live with consequences
http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/406468_joel22.html?source=rss
Canada - Inaction on Climate Change Backfires (Winnipeg Free Press, Manitoba)
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/inaction-on-climate-change-backfires-45974802.html
How Boeing Fights Climate Change - The efficiency of jets has increased by 70% over the past 50 years (Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124303177241948493.html
Kansas - Farmers Could Cash In On Cap-And-Trade (Wichita Eagle KS)
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2009/05/farmers-could-cash-in-on-cap-and-trade/
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
U.S. Government Delays Broadband Grants (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/05/21/government-delays-broadband-grants/
Broadband Stimulus Fund Timetable - First stimulus funds available Q4 2009 (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Broadband-Stimulus-Fund-Timetable-102574
FCC: Broadband Plan Will Be Huge - Biggest project the commission has ever undertaken (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Broadband-Plan-Will-Be-Huge-102553
Verizon Threatens Massachusetts - If you don't pass franchise 'reform,' you don't get broadband?
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Threatens-Massachusetts-102601
Net Computing ‘Cloud’ Over Microsoft Chills Investors (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/05/25/focus8.html?ana=from_rss
Yahoo's Departing CFO to Get $1.8M in Severance (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12430962
Skyline Drums Up Strong Data Center Business - Skyline Construction is turning to data centers to help beat the recession (San Francisco Business Times
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/05/25/story18.html?ana=from_rss
GENERAL NEWS
Hood Canal Bridge Might Reopen a Week Early (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/45874332.html
Propane suppliers quietly reduce size of refills (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12433769
Catching Up On State's New Crop of Green Legislation (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/ecoconsumer/2009253167_ecoconsumer23m.html
Washington State Won't Make Target for Biofuels – The state won't reach its goal next month of having biofuels make up at least 20 percent of its fuel use in state vehicles and ferries (Seattle Times – the state didn’t meet its energy conservation “goals” either)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009260425_apwabiofuels.html?syndication=rss
Localities Want U.S. To Support Muni Bonds - State and local governments are asking Washington to give them something that banks are trying to get rid of: federal bailout money (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/business/26muni.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
DIVERSIONS
Snohomish Dog Adopts Litter of Kittens
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/45871602.html
Media Ipecac - Sales of Bacon-Flavored Vodka Sizzling
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_052409WAB-bacon-vodka-SW.129e5d8e.html?rss
Couple throwing rocks off I-5 playing 'stripping game'
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_052509WAB-rocks-thrown-trestle-SW.17026e59.html?rss
SONG OF THE DAY
Henry Gross – Shannon (About his family’s Irish Setter)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxz2wQX3EvA
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Energy News Digest for May 21, 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)
- Grays Harbor County PUD Calls Off Rate Increase
- Power Project Generates Walla Walla-Hi FFA Championship
- NW Natural Gas Refunds Ratepayers
- U.S. Natural Gas Boom: The Race to Tap Shale's Potential
- Georgia Coal Plant Project Loses Two More Coalition Members
- With Salmon Facing Extinction, Will Pols Continue "Treading Water"?
- Wenatchee World Editorial - Salmon and the Perpetual War
- Hazing Sea Lions to Protect Salmon
- Vancouver Island salmon numbers on rise
- Puget Sound Fish Counters
- Washington State Dept. of Wildlife Struggling With Cuts
- Vancouver Island Natives Plan To Kill Sea Otters for Pelts
- Naming the inland waters of the Pacific Northwest the Salish Sea
- Oregon House OKs Greener Dishwasher Soap
- New King County Sewage Plant behind Schedule and Over Budget
- New Project Uses Slash for Electrical Power
- Enough With Birds, Farmer Claims Wind Turbines Kill Goats
- Iowa Co-Op’s Increase Because Of Renewable Energy
- Wind Turbines Becoming Growth Industry in Ohio
- Herald Op/Ed - Winds of Change
- PenLight Hires Company to Conduct Energy Efficiency Survey
- Gregoire Signs Order To Reduce Greenhouse Gases
- Seattle's Day to Tell EPA How to Fix Climate
- Poor Economy: Carbon Dioxide Emissions Drop in 2008
- Oregon Power Companies Divided Over Pollution Plan
- Shareholders to Push Idaho Power for Greener Standards
- Idaho Statesman Op/Ed - Idaho Power is Steps behind the Energy-Efficiency Movement
- New Web site reports greenhouse gas emissions
- America's climate-change bill is weaker and worse than expected
- Yahoo Eyes Acquisitions, Social Media
- State Sues to Recover $100 Million Lost In Stock Market
- Former Idaho Attorney General - Bureau of Indian Affairs Leader Chosen
- Barbecue Coals Cause $200,000 Fire at Mukilteo Home
WORD OF THE DAY
Plenary • \PLEE-nuh-ree\ • adjective – 1: complete in every respect: absolute, unqualified 2: fully attended or constituted by all entitled to be present
The plenary session of the Abercrombie County Rock and Mineral Society crumbled into bitter recriminations after some members had been found throwing rocks in the vicinity of the local florist’s greenhouses. “But we weren’t LIVING in the glass house,” whined the reprobates, “so throwing stones near houses in which we did not live was OK!”
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
Grays Harbor County PUD Calls Off Rate Increase (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2009/05/20/local_news/doc4a1443fe7be5d017557002.txt
Power Project Generates Walla Walla-Hi FFA Championship (Walla Walla Union Bulletin)
http://union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/05/20/local_news/090520local04wahiffakids.txt
NW Natural Gas Refunds Ratepayers (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/05/18/daily38.html?ana=from_rss
U.S. Natural Gas Boom: The Race to Tap Shale's Potential (Popular Mechanics)
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/4318390.html
Georgia Coal Plant Project Loses Two More Coalition Members (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/2009/05/21/coal0521.html
FISH & WILDLIFE
Seattle P-I Columnist - With Salmon Facing Extinction, Will Pols Continue "Treading Water"?
http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/406433_joel21.html
Wenatchee World Editorial - Salmon and the Perpetual War
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090520/OP02/705209882/1025/rss1025
Hazing Sea Lions to Protect Salmon (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5024-hazing-sea-lions-protect-salmon/
Vancouver Island salmon numbers on rise (Nanaimo Daily News, BC)
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/regional/Vancouver+Island+salmon+numbers+rise/1609807/story.html
Puget Sound Fish Counters (KUOW-Radio, Seattle)
http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=17557
Washington State Dept. of Wildlife Struggling With Cuts (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/adventure/story/749971.html
Vancouver Island Natives Plan To Kill Sea Otters for Pelts (Victoria Times-Colonist, BC)
http://www.timescolonist.com/Technology/Vancouver+Island+band+plans+kill+otters+pelts/1612728/story.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Sea Change - Washington State will officially consider altering the map by naming the inland waters of the Pacific Northwest the Salish Sea (Crosscut, Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2009/05/20/mossback/19007/
Oregon House OKs Greener Dishwasher Soap (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2027180~Ore__House_OKs_greener_dishwasher_soap.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
New King County Sewage Plant behind Schedule and Over Budget (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/406434_brightwater21.html?source=rss
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
New Project Uses Slash for Electrical Power (Wenatchee World)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090520/NEWS04/705209874/1025/rss1025
Enough With Birds, Farmer Claims Wind Turbines Kill Goats (British Broadcasting Corporation)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8060969.stm
Iowa Co-Op’s Increase Because Of Renewable Energy (Osceola Sentinel-Tribune, IA)
http://www.osceolaiowa.com/articles/2009/05/20/24198238/index.xml
Wind Turbines Becoming Growth Industry in Ohio (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH) http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2009/05/wind_turbines_turning_into_gro.html
Herald Op/Ed - Winds of Change (United Kingdom)
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/editorial/display.var.2509413.0.Winds_of_change.php
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
PenLight Hires Company to Conduct Energy Efficiency Survey (Peninsula Gateway, Gig Harbor, WA)
http://www.gateline.com/104/story/4253.html
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Gregoire Signs Order To Reduce Greenhouse Gases (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009247078_apwaepaclimategregoire1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
Seattle's Day to Tell EPA How to Fix Climate (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009245410_greenhousegas21m0.html
Poor Economy: Carbon Dioxide Emissions Drop in 2008 (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12413989
Oregon Power Companies Divided Over Pollution Plan (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/05/oregon_power_companies_divided.html
Shareholders to Push Idaho Power for Greener Standards (The New West)
http://www.newwest.net/city/article/shareholders_to_push_idaho_power_for_greener_standards/C108/L108/
Idaho Statesman Op/Ed - Idaho Power is Steps behind the Energy-Efficiency Movement
http://www.idahostatesman.com/OPINION/story/776181.html
New Web site reports greenhouse gas emissions (Portland Business Journal – PNW Looks Good)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/05/18/daily41.html?ana=from_rss
Handouts and loopholes - America's climate-change bill is weaker and worse than expected (The Economist)
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13705417
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Yahoo Eyes Acquisitions, Social Media (Yahoo! Technology)
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090521/tc_nm/us_summit_yahoo_1
GENERAL NEWS
State Sues to Recover $100 Million Lost In Stock Market (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/169125.asp?source=pimail
Former Idaho Attorney General - Bureau of Indian Affairs Leader Chosen (Associated Press)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21brfs-BUREAUOFINDI_BRF.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Barbecue Coals Cause $200,000 Fire at Mukilteo Home (Everett Herald)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090521/NEWS01/705219904/-1/RSS02
DIVERSIONS
Bank Mistakenly Deposits $6M in Couple's Account
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/21/international/i021829D42.DTL&feed=rss.business
Game Of Lighter Fluid Tag Ends Badly
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=169972
Drink Up: Space Station Recycling Urine to Water
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009243427_apusspaceurine.html?syndication=rss
Household Drill to Head Saves Boy's Life
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19509317/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
The Partridge Family Opening TV Theme Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOiKa51ll-k
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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Grays Harbor County PUD Calls Off Rate Increase
- Power Project Generates Walla Walla-Hi FFA Championship
- NW Natural Gas Refunds Ratepayers
- U.S. Natural Gas Boom: The Race to Tap Shale's Potential
- Georgia Coal Plant Project Loses Two More Coalition Members
- With Salmon Facing Extinction, Will Pols Continue "Treading Water"?
- Wenatchee World Editorial - Salmon and the Perpetual War
- Hazing Sea Lions to Protect Salmon
- Vancouver Island salmon numbers on rise
- Puget Sound Fish Counters
- Washington State Dept. of Wildlife Struggling With Cuts
- Vancouver Island Natives Plan To Kill Sea Otters for Pelts
- Naming the inland waters of the Pacific Northwest the Salish Sea
- Oregon House OKs Greener Dishwasher Soap
- New King County Sewage Plant behind Schedule and Over Budget
- New Project Uses Slash for Electrical Power
- Enough With Birds, Farmer Claims Wind Turbines Kill Goats
- Iowa Co-Op’s Increase Because Of Renewable Energy
- Wind Turbines Becoming Growth Industry in Ohio
- Herald Op/Ed - Winds of Change
- PenLight Hires Company to Conduct Energy Efficiency Survey
- Gregoire Signs Order To Reduce Greenhouse Gases
- Seattle's Day to Tell EPA How to Fix Climate
- Poor Economy: Carbon Dioxide Emissions Drop in 2008
- Oregon Power Companies Divided Over Pollution Plan
- Shareholders to Push Idaho Power for Greener Standards
- Idaho Statesman Op/Ed - Idaho Power is Steps behind the Energy-Efficiency Movement
- New Web site reports greenhouse gas emissions
- America's climate-change bill is weaker and worse than expected
- Yahoo Eyes Acquisitions, Social Media
- State Sues to Recover $100 Million Lost In Stock Market
- Former Idaho Attorney General - Bureau of Indian Affairs Leader Chosen
- Barbecue Coals Cause $200,000 Fire at Mukilteo Home
WORD OF THE DAY
Plenary • \PLEE-nuh-ree\ • adjective – 1: complete in every respect: absolute, unqualified 2: fully attended or constituted by all entitled to be present
The plenary session of the Abercrombie County Rock and Mineral Society crumbled into bitter recriminations after some members had been found throwing rocks in the vicinity of the local florist’s greenhouses. “But we weren’t LIVING in the glass house,” whined the reprobates, “so throwing stones near houses in which we did not live was OK!”
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
Grays Harbor County PUD Calls Off Rate Increase (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2009/05/20/local_news/doc4a1443fe7be5d017557002.txt
Power Project Generates Walla Walla-Hi FFA Championship (Walla Walla Union Bulletin)
http://union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/05/20/local_news/090520local04wahiffakids.txt
NW Natural Gas Refunds Ratepayers (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/05/18/daily38.html?ana=from_rss
U.S. Natural Gas Boom: The Race to Tap Shale's Potential (Popular Mechanics)
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/4318390.html
Georgia Coal Plant Project Loses Two More Coalition Members (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/2009/05/21/coal0521.html
FISH & WILDLIFE
Seattle P-I Columnist - With Salmon Facing Extinction, Will Pols Continue "Treading Water"?
http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/406433_joel21.html
Wenatchee World Editorial - Salmon and the Perpetual War
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090520/OP02/705209882/1025/rss1025
Hazing Sea Lions to Protect Salmon (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5024-hazing-sea-lions-protect-salmon/
Vancouver Island salmon numbers on rise (Nanaimo Daily News, BC)
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/regional/Vancouver+Island+salmon+numbers+rise/1609807/story.html
Puget Sound Fish Counters (KUOW-Radio, Seattle)
http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=17557
Washington State Dept. of Wildlife Struggling With Cuts (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/adventure/story/749971.html
Vancouver Island Natives Plan To Kill Sea Otters for Pelts (Victoria Times-Colonist, BC)
http://www.timescolonist.com/Technology/Vancouver+Island+band+plans+kill+otters+pelts/1612728/story.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Sea Change - Washington State will officially consider altering the map by naming the inland waters of the Pacific Northwest the Salish Sea (Crosscut, Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2009/05/20/mossback/19007/
Oregon House OKs Greener Dishwasher Soap (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2027180~Ore__House_OKs_greener_dishwasher_soap.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
New King County Sewage Plant behind Schedule and Over Budget (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/406434_brightwater21.html?source=rss
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
New Project Uses Slash for Electrical Power (Wenatchee World)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090520/NEWS04/705209874/1025/rss1025
Enough With Birds, Farmer Claims Wind Turbines Kill Goats (British Broadcasting Corporation)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8060969.stm
Iowa Co-Op’s Increase Because Of Renewable Energy (Osceola Sentinel-Tribune, IA)
http://www.osceolaiowa.com/articles/2009/05/20/24198238/index.xml
Wind Turbines Becoming Growth Industry in Ohio (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH) http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2009/05/wind_turbines_turning_into_gro.html
Herald Op/Ed - Winds of Change (United Kingdom)
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/editorial/display.var.2509413.0.Winds_of_change.php
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
PenLight Hires Company to Conduct Energy Efficiency Survey (Peninsula Gateway, Gig Harbor, WA)
http://www.gateline.com/104/story/4253.html
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Gregoire Signs Order To Reduce Greenhouse Gases (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009247078_apwaepaclimategregoire1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
Seattle's Day to Tell EPA How to Fix Climate (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009245410_greenhousegas21m0.html
Poor Economy: Carbon Dioxide Emissions Drop in 2008 (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12413989
Oregon Power Companies Divided Over Pollution Plan (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/05/oregon_power_companies_divided.html
Shareholders to Push Idaho Power for Greener Standards (The New West)
http://www.newwest.net/city/article/shareholders_to_push_idaho_power_for_greener_standards/C108/L108/
Idaho Statesman Op/Ed - Idaho Power is Steps behind the Energy-Efficiency Movement
http://www.idahostatesman.com/OPINION/story/776181.html
New Web site reports greenhouse gas emissions (Portland Business Journal – PNW Looks Good)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/05/18/daily41.html?ana=from_rss
Handouts and loopholes - America's climate-change bill is weaker and worse than expected (The Economist)
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13705417
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Yahoo Eyes Acquisitions, Social Media (Yahoo! Technology)
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090521/tc_nm/us_summit_yahoo_1
GENERAL NEWS
State Sues to Recover $100 Million Lost In Stock Market (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/169125.asp?source=pimail
Former Idaho Attorney General - Bureau of Indian Affairs Leader Chosen (Associated Press)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21brfs-BUREAUOFINDI_BRF.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Barbecue Coals Cause $200,000 Fire at Mukilteo Home (Everett Herald)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090521/NEWS01/705219904/-1/RSS02
DIVERSIONS
Bank Mistakenly Deposits $6M in Couple's Account
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/21/international/i021829D42.DTL&feed=rss.business
Game Of Lighter Fluid Tag Ends Badly
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=169972
Drink Up: Space Station Recycling Urine to Water
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009243427_apusspaceurine.html?syndication=rss
Household Drill to Head Saves Boy's Life
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19509317/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
The Partridge Family Opening TV Theme Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOiKa51ll-k
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