Energy News Digest for October 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.

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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)

• Western States Stress Energy Cooperation
• Op/Ed - Finding the Right Path to Our Energy Future
• Could BPA’s High Voltage Line Project Boot People Out Of Their Homes?
• More People Seeking Help Paying Utility Bills
• Montana - Energy & Mining: Holding Steady
• Editorial - Energy Police Crackdown Is Possible
• Nuclear Energy Becomes Pivotal In Climate Debate
• A New Demand for Uranium Power Brings Concerns for Navajo Groups
• Japanese Firms to Develop Small Nuclear Reactors
• Hydro Plants on Ohio to Power Economy, Jobs
• Ohio - FirstEnergy Bulb Plan First Part of ‘Decoupling’
• Shutting Mexico City’s Power Company Is No Cure for Bad Service
• Tribes, States to Cooperate on Columbia River Salmon Recovery Plan
• Coho Returning To Columbia in Big Numbers
• Fixing Culverts - Judge Told Salmon Need Site-Specific Planning
• ‘Stimulus’ Narrows Corps’ Columbia River Funding Gap; $600,000 Added For Breaching Study Plan
• Columbia Riverkeeper Presses For Colder Columbia
• Op/Ed - Lessons for Snake River Dams in the Klamath Basin Agreement
• Fewer Smelt, More Sea Lions Blamed For Sturgeon Decline
• Salmon + Dogs = Salmon Hazard
• Editorial - Keep Fingers Crossed for Infant Orca
• Puget Sound Used As Classroom
• British Columbia Approves “Salish Sea” Proposal
• Flushable Products Causing Expensive Problems Downstream
• Silicon Energy of Arlington Crafts a Sleeker Kind of Solar Panel
• Costs for Wind Power Rise As Other Energy Drops
• Obama Presses Case for Renewable Energy
• Appalachian Conference Studies Energy Help
• South Dakota - Men Accused of Wind Power Conspiracy
• Op/Ed - Environmentalists Steering Federal Energy Policy End up Favoring the Giant Corporations
• AES Taps Into China’s Rush to Wind Power
• Are Biofuels Ready for Prime Time?
• Electronics Industry Fights California Proposal to Regulate TV Energy Use
• Power from Nothing: Northwest’s 20-year energy plan stresses conservation
• Editorial - We All Win When We Conserve Our Energy
• Green Building Council Faces Critical Forest Decision
• Right Lights for the Holidays
• Study: Warmed NW Forests May Yield Less Timber
• Senate Global Warming Bill Is Seeking to Cushion the Impact on Industry
• Iowa - Local Electric Providers: We’re For Cap, But Not Trade
• Seattle Expected To Be Key Market for Electric Cars
• Greenest Place in the U.S.? It’s Not Where You Think
• North Mason at the Head of the Class in Online Communications
• Internet Set for Change with Non-English Addresses
• Electronic Records, Boosted By Stimulus, Rush Hospitals into Unchartered Territory
• Blog Predecessor GeoCities Closes Down
• Data Center Efficiency - Firm Cuts High-Tech Energy Demands
• First Significant Snow in Washington Mountains
• Kitsap County “Amnesia Girl” Drained Bank Account before Vanishing
• Washington DOT Releases Powerful Simulation of Potential Quake
• Obama Declares Swine Flu a National Emergency
• Pilot Who Overshot Airport Denies Crew Was Napping
• Magma Pool under Cascades May Link Mt. Rainier, St. Helens
• Shelton Girls’ Soccer to Play in Narrows League Tournament
• U.S. Newspaper Circulation Falls 10%
• Washington State Wineries Getting Bigger As Production Grows
• Metal Thieves Strip Marysville Businesses

WORD OF THE DAY

Natant • \NAY-tunt\ • adjective - Swimming or floating in water

Happy birthday to the latest natent addition to the Orca L pod in Puget Sound.

WEATHER

Shelton Forecast & 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

Western States Stress Energy Cooperation (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010136136_apwyenergysymposium.html?syndication=rss

Oregonian Op/Ed - Finding the Right Path to Our Energy Future
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/10/finding_the_right_path_to_our.html

Could BPA’s High Voltage Line Project Boot People Out Of Their Homes? (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
http://www.katu.com/news/local/65878772.html

More People Seeking Help Paying Utility Bills (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/411521_utilities26.html?source=rss

Montana - Energy & Mining: Holding Steady “…At Columbia Falls Aluminum…the situation could hardly be worse…” (Helena Independent, MT)
http://www.helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/article_2caa09a6-c0d8-11de-a928-001cc4c002e0.html

SF Chronicle Editorial - Energy Police Crackdown Is Possible
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/24/INO11A8BTS.DTL&feed=rss.opinion

Nuclear Energy Becomes Pivotal In Climate Debate (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jsukLqyQ2R1X4f60DpGHPBX545lgD9BI64TG0

A New Demand for Uranium Power Brings Concerns for Navajo Groups (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/24/AR2009102402023.html?wprss=rss_business

Japanese Firms to Develop Small Nuclear Reactors (Breitbart)
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.314f8f63df41800c448cd89e0a88dd31.331&show_article=1

Hydro Plants on Ohio to Power Economy, Jobs (Cincinnati Enquirer, OH)
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20091026/BIZ01/910260303/Hydro+plants+on+Ohio+to+power+economy++jobs

Ohio - FirstEnergy Bulb Plan First Part of ‘Decoupling’: Seeking to comply with energy reform, utility eyes usage cut (Crain’s Business, Cleveland, OH)
http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20091026/SUB1/310269986/1003&Profile=1003

Shutting Mexico City’s Power Company Is No Cure for Bad Service (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/world/americas/26mexico.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

FISH & WILDLIFE

Tribes, States to Cooperate on Columbia River Salmon Recovery Plan (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/927856.html

Coho Returning To Columbia in Big Numbers (Associated Press)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_or_columbia_coho.html

Fixing Culverts - Judge Told Salmon Need Site-Specific Planning (Associated Press)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_salmon_culverts.html?source=pimail

‘Stimulus’ Narrows Corps’ Columbia River Funding Gap; $600,000 Added For Breaching Study Plan (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
http://www.cbbulletin.com/362259.aspx

Columbia Riverkeeper Presses For Colder Columbia (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20091024/NEWS02/710249962/Group+presses+for+colder+Columbia

Seattle Times Op/Ed - Lessons for Snake River Dams in the Klamath Basin Agreement
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2010126339_guest26wodder.html

Fewer Smelt, More Sea Lions Blamed For Sturgeon Decline (Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/10/24/this_day/doc4ae0f18a2f571615125011.txt

Salmon + Dogs = Salmon Hazard (Bend Bulletin, OR)
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091026/NEWS0107/910260310/-1/RSSNEWSMAP

Olympian Editorial - Keep Fingers Crossed for Infant Orca
http://www.theolympian.com/opinion/story/1014626.html

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Puget Sound Used As Classroom - Nonprofit takes students for a ride they won’t forget (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/1014579.html

British Columbia Approves “Salish Sea” Proposal (Crosscut Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/blog/crosscut/19142/

Flushable Products Causing Expensive Problems Downstream (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21406636/detail.html


RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Silicon Energy of Arlington Crafts a Sleeker Kind of Solar Panel (Everett Herald)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091025/BIZ/710219982/0/NEWS01

Costs for Wind Power Rise As Other Energy Drops (San Francisco Business Times)
http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/10/26/story7.html?ana=from_rss

Obama Presses Case for Renewable Energy (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/us/politics/24obama.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Appalachian Conference Studies Energy Help - Appalachian leaders are seeking ways to use alternative energy initiatives to spark the 13-state region’s long-sluggish economy (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/25/financial/f101224D33.DTL&feed=rss.business

South Dakota - Men Accused of Wind Power Conspiracy: Lawsuit says group developed new venture while working for plaintiff (Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, SD)
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20091026/NEWS/910260328/1001/rss01

Star-Telegram Op/Ed - Environmentalists Steering Federal Energy Policy End up Favoring the Giant Corporations (Fort Worth, TX)
http://www.star-telegram.com/242/story/1708466.html

AES Taps Into China’s Rush to Wind Power (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/25/AR2009102502132.html

Are Biofuels Ready for Prime Time? (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/environment/2009/oct/Are-Biofuels-Ready-for-Prime-Time.html

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Electronics Industry Fights California Proposal to Regulate TV Energy Use (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13623123

Power from Nothing: Northwest’s 20-year energy plan stresses conservation (Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/10/25/top_story/doc4ae3a64bb9449039452097.txt

Daily News Editorial - We All Win When We Conserve Our Energy
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/10/25/editorial/doc4ae39f647bdbd029011886.txt

Green Building Council Faces Critical Forest Decision (Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce)
http://www.djc.com/news/ae/12011268.html

Right Lights for the Holidays (National Post, Canada)
http://www.nationalpost.com/homes/story.html?id=2139564

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Study: Warmed NW Forests May Yield Less Timber (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010135057_aporclimateforests.html?syndication=rss

Senate Global Warming Bill Is Seeking to Cushion the Impact on Industry (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/us/politics/25climate.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Iowa - Local Electric Providers: We’re For Cap, But Not Trade (LeMars Sentinel, IA)
http://www.lemarssentinel.com/story/1581347.html

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

Seattle Expected To Be Key Market for Electric Cars (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010131927_electriccars25m.html

Greenest Place in the U.S.? It’s Not Where You Think (Yale Environment 360)
http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2203

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

North Mason at the Head of the Class in Online Communications (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/oct/26/north-mason-at-front-of-class-when-it-comes-to/?partner=RSS

Internet Set for Change with Non-English Addresses (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010137022_apastecinternetnames.html?syndication=rss

Electronic Records, Boosted By Stimulus, Rush Hospitals into Unchartered Territory (Boston Business Journal)
http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2009/10/26/story11.html?ana=from_rss

Blog Predecessor GeoCities Closes Down - Yahoo Bought Service For $3.5B In 1999 (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/technology/21426614/detail.html

Data Center Efficiency - Firm Cuts High-Tech Energy Demands (Arizona Republic, Phoenix)
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/2009/10/25/20091025biz-savingenergy1025.html

GENERAL NEWS

First Significant Snow in Washington Mountains (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010138746_apwawinterstorm.html?syndication=rss

Kitsap County “Amnesia Girl” Drained Bank Account before Vanishing (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_102609WAB_amnesia-girl-bank-account-JM.254328e56.html?rss?npc

Washington DOT Releases Powerful Simulation of Potential Quake (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/65982637.html

Obama Declares Swine Flu a National Emergency (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13636328

Pilot Who Overshot Airport Denies Crew Was Napping (Associated Press)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=229777

Magma Pool under Cascades May Link Mt. Rainier, St. Helens (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010135468_volcano26m.html?syndication=rss

Shelton Girls’ Soccer to Play in Narrows League Tournament (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=475:shelton-girls-soccer-to-play-in-narrows-league-tournament&catid=38:sports&Itemid=56

U.S. Newspaper Circulation Falls 10% (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/business/media/27audit.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Washington State Wineries Getting Bigger As Production Grows (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010137197_apusfarmscenebigwineries.html?syndication=rss

Metal Thieves Strip Marysville Businesses (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/65951097.html

ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS

Web Site Ranks Cities with Ugliest Men - Two Texas Cities Show Up On Unflattering List
http://www.kirotv.com/health/21402267/detail.html

Oops! Woman Flashes $27,000 at Bar, Gets Robbed - Woman Bragged About Insurance Claim Payment
http://www.kirotv.com/money/21397402/detail.html

Pot Money Paid For College Tuitions
http://www.kirotv.com/money/21395967/detail.html

Man Wakes up To Find Dog Went on XBOX Spending Spree (Note: Comment section may contain PG-13 language)
http://consumerist.com/5389939/man-wakes-up-to-find-dog-went-on-xbox-spending-spree

Man Stuffs Mouth with 16 Cockroaches in Record Bid
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/25/national/a055439D93.DTL&feed=rss.business

SONG OF THE DAY

Simon & Garfunkel - Hazy Shade of Winter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSd4QJBEMvk

The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFRx4PkXeVM&feature=related