Energy News Digest for June 18, 2009

All the links in today’s news digest lead to current stories. Please note that some media organizations update their web sites regularly, which may result in broken links in the future.

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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)

- US Senate Panel Approves Energy Bill
- Senate Panel Backs Renewable Power Rules, Drilling
- Estimate Places Natural Gas Reserves 35% Higher
- Duke Energy to Build Nuclear Plant in Ohio
- Peninsula Gateway Op/Ed - Our Energy, Our Future
- Deal Keeps Lights On In Northwest Alaska Village
- Seattle 911 - How Can I Get A Streetlight Fixed To Deter Crime?
- Tennessee Senate Urges TVA to Finalize Alcoa Contract
- Texas - Two Indicted After Pedernales Electric Cooperative Investigation
- Here’s Why Electricity Deregulation Is Bad for Virginia’s Economy
- Supreme Court Rejects Ruling on Retrial of Enron Executive
- Columbia River Sockeye Counts Rising
- June Hogs Arrive - Over-The-Bank Sales of Summer Chinook Salmon Started This Week
- Salmon Fishing Closing on Three Idaho Rivers
- Changing Commercial Fishing
- Irony is thy Name - Klamath River Tribes Will Kick off SalmonAid with Traditional Salmon Bake
- Feds Says Protection for Marbled Murrelet Should Stay
- Low Tides Mean It's Time To Go After Shellfish
- Idaho - Flows at Shoshone Falls to Rise Again
- Good Data on Water Runs Dry in Oregon
- Grant PUD Shoreline Plan Meeting Draws Crescent Bar Residents
- BPA Brings More Wind Power into Northwest Grid
- BPA Upgrades System to Ship Wind Power to Clark
- 3TIER encourages a cautionary response to a recent study claiming U.S. wind speeds have slowed
- Green-Backed Ventures Mean More Greenbacks
- Clean-Energy Bond Program Faces Lackluster Record
- Tide Is Going out for Marine Energy around Britain’s Coasts
- European Solar Power from African Deserts?
- Canada Offers Renewable Subsidy to Pulp and Paper Industry
- New FERC Study Assesses State-By-State Potential for Demand Response
- PECO Tips Can Help You Stay Cool, Save Money and Be Green This Summer
- Examiner.Com Columnist - Can 'Cap And Trade' Solve Global Warming?
- Elderly and Poor Starting To Narrow Broadband Service Gap
- Regulators Seem Eager to Repeat Fairpoint Mistakes with Frontier
- Telecom’s Titanic Shift: How the Mighty Have Fallen
- Congressman Files Bill to Stop Tiered Broadband Pricing
- State Treasury to Take $482m Hit Through 2011
- Kitsap County Stands to Get Some Green for Green Projects
- Slump Dashes Oregon Dreams of Californians
- Eddie Bauer Files for Bankruptcy Protection
- Seattle Spring Dry Spell Ties Record
- Ryan Leaf Arrested On Texas Charges at US-Canada Border
- Sustainable Prison System Grows
- Plant Thieves Targeting Japanese Maple Trees

WORD OF THE DAY

Otiose • \OH-shee-ose \ • adjective – 1: producing no useful result: futile 2: being at leisure: idle 3: lacking use or effect: functionless

Bert was becoming extremely frustrated with his purchase. It became exceeding obvious to him after 30 seconds of bailing, that a papier mache bucket was the most otiose object in his rowboat. Perhaps less useful than the sunscreen he insisted on bringing into the gales of winter on Puget Sound.

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

US Senate Panel Approves Energy Bill (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/us/politics/18energy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Senate Panel Backs Renewable Power Rules, Drilling (Bloomberg News)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a3RNMWPhmUKM

Estimate Places Natural Gas Reserves 35% Higher (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/business/energy-environment/18gas.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Duke Energy to Build Nuclear Plant in Ohio (Triangle Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/06/15/daily48.html?ana=from_rss

Peninsula Gateway Op/Ed - Our Energy, Our Future (Gig Harbor, WA)
http://www.gateline.com/opinion/story/4428.html

Deal Keeps Lights On In Northwest Alaska Village (Fairbanks News Miner, AK)
http://newsminer.com/news/2009/jun/17/deal-keeps-lights-northwest-alaska-village/

Seattle 911 - How Can I Get A Streetlight Fixed To Deter Crime? (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattle911/archives/171380.asp?source=pimail

Tennessee Senate Urges TVA to Finalize Alcoa Contract (Blount Today, TN)
http://www.blounttoday.com/news/2009/jun/17/tennessee-senate-urges-tva-finalize-alcoa-contract/

Texas - Two Indicted After Pedernales Electric Cooperative Investigation (KEYE-TV, Austin, TX)
http://www.keyetv.com/content/news/topnews/story/Two-indicted-after-Pedernales-Cooperative/Gjv9XP36OU250g1qfDSXiQ.cspx

Here’s Why Electricity Deregulation Is Bad for Virginia’s Economy (Culpepper Star Exponent, VA)
http://www.starexponent.com/cse/news/opinion/columnists/article/heres_why_electricity_deregulation_is_bad_for_virginias_economy/37695/

Supreme Court Rejects Ruling on Retrial of Enron Executive (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/business/19bizcourt.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

FISH & WILDLIFE

Columbia River Sockeye Counts Rising (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/reeltimenorthwest/2009352345_columbia_river_sockeye_counts.html

June Hogs Arrive - Over-The-Bank Sales of Summer Chinook Salmon Started This Week (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090617/NEWS02/706179940/June+Hogs+Arrive

Salmon Fishing Closing on Three Idaho Rivers “…anglers have harvested about 95 percent of the state's harvest share…” (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/885226.html

Changing Commercial Fishing (The Columbian, Vancouver, OR)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090617/SPORTS04/706189978/Changing+commercial+fishing

Irony is thy Name - Klamath River Tribes Will Kick off SalmonAid with Traditional Salmon Bake “…takes place as California fish populations are in their greatest crisis ever…” (IndyBay, SF)
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/17/18602157.php

Feds Says Protection for Marbled Murrelet Should Stay (Associated Press)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10551772

Low Tides Mean It's Time To Go After Shellfish - The lowest tides of the season are this week in Puget Sound, and clams, oysters and crab are available in most areas (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2009351738_fish18.html?syndication=rss

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Idaho - Flows at Shoshone Falls to Rise Again (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/885202.html

Good Data on Water Runs Dry in Oregon (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/06/archive_oregons_water_issues.html

Grant PUD Shoreline Plan Meeting Draws Crescent Bar Residents (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2009/06/18/news/doc4a381762ea844605179934.txt

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

BPA Brings More Wind Power into Northwest Grid - New $3.7-million line and upgrade supports new wind project and jobs (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1582/281827/

BPA Upgrades System to Ship Wind Power to Clark (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090618/NEWS02/906179970/

3TIER encourages a cautionary response to a recent study claiming U.S. wind speeds have slowed (3Tier)
http://www.3tier.com/en/news-events/publications

Green-Backed Ventures Mean More Greenbacks (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/business/2009/june/Chin-Up-in-the-Downswing-Green-Backed-Ventures-Mean-More-Greenbacks.html

Clean-Energy Bond Program Faces Lackluster Record (CNN Money)
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200906171454DOWJONESDJONLINE000791_FORTUNE5.htm

Tide Is Going out for Marine Energy around Britain’s Coasts - It is exciting the most interest in the country's tidal systems since King Canute told the waves off the south coast to desist. (London Evening Standard, UK)
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23709134-details/Tide+is+going+out+for+marine+energy+around+Britain+s+coasts/article.do

European Solar Power from African Deserts? (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/european-solar-power-from-african-deserts/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Canada Offers Renewable Subsidy to Pulp and Paper Industry (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/business/global/18paper.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

New FERC Study Assesses State-By-State Potential for Demand Response (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)
http://www.ferc.gov/news/news-releases/2009/2009-2/06-18-09.asp

PECO Tips Can Help You Stay Cool, Save Money and Be Green This Summer (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&rss=1&id=114116

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Examiner.Com Columnist - Can 'Cap And Trade' Solve Global Warming?
http://www.examiner.com/x-10660-Eau-Claire-County-Liberal-Examiner~y2009m6d17-Can-cap-and-trade-solve-global-warming

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Elderly and Poor Starting To Narrow Broadband Service Gap (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/06/17/financial/f133514D56.DTL&feed=rss.business

Regulators Seem Eager to Repeat Fairpoint Mistakes with Frontier - Ohio state consumer advocate raises questions that will be summarily ignored (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Regulators-Seem-Eager-To-Repeat-Fairpoint-Mistakes-With-Frontier-103006

Telecom’s Titanic Shift: How the Mighty Have Fallen (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/06/18/telecoms-titanic-shift-how-the-mighty-have-fallen/

Congressman Files Bill to Stop Tiered Broadband Pricing (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/06/17/ny-congressman-massa-files-bill-to-stop-tiered-broadband-pricing/

GENERAL NEWS

State Treasury to Take $482m Hit Through 2011 (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19791060/detail.html?treets=sea&tml=sea_break&ts=T&tmi=sea_break_1_12540106182009

Kitsap County Stands to Get Some Green for Green Projects (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/jun/17/kitsap-stands-to-get-some-green-for-green/?partner=RSS

Slump Dashes Oregon Dreams of Californians (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/us/18oregon.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Eddie Bauer Files For Bankruptcy Protection (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009350032_apuseddiebauerbankruptcy.html?syndication=rss

Seattle Spring Dry Spell Ties Record (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_061809WAB-dry-spell-LJ.b29396.html?rss

Ryan Leaf Arrested On Texas Charges at US-Canada Border (Associated Press)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10551132

Sustainable Prison System Grows - Environment: Tons of produce used (The Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/884925.html

Plant Thieves Targeting Japanese Maple Trees (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/06/18//area_news/doc4a39d2b603e33344637016.txt

DIVERSIONS

Dungeons & Dragons Maker Sues over Handbooks
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10551468

Clerk's Phone in Shirt Stops Knife to Chest - Clerk Then Shoots Robbery Suspect With Gun
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19783202/detail.html

Florida City to Workers: Wear Underwear, Deodorant
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19790956/detail.html

PETA Wishes Obama Hadn't Swatted That Fly - PETA Sends Obama Bug Humane Bug Catcher
http://www.kirotv.com/politics/19784490/detail.html

SONG OF THE DAY

Frank Sinatra - Fly Me to the Moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3pv_GKDEec&feature=PlayList&p=ABCCC051FF42CA20&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=45