Energy News Digest for October 6, 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)

• City Approves John's Prairie Water Latecomers' Agreement with PUD 3
• Montana - Storm Hits Mountain Areas Hardest; Power Knocked Out for Many
• Arcing Wires Blamed for Explosion in Bellingham
• Tiny Temblor Rumbles near Mossyrock Dam
• Montana - Report May Come In November for Great Falls Energy Venture
• Op/Ed: Fall River Electric Replies to Customer's Questions
• During Wildfires - San Diego Utility Pushes Rural Shut-Off Plan
• California - Diablo Canyon Power Plant Safely Shuts Down Unit Two
• Gov't to Consumers: Break on Winter Heating Costs
• RTI Data Distribution Service Selected for Upgrade of Grand Coulee Control System
• The Worm: Band promotes Grant County, Including Grant PUD
• Editorial - We Will Pay True Cost of Klamath Dams
• Killer Whales Heading South
• Report: North America to Install 40,000 Wind Turbines by 2015 (hmm, what is it about that year that sounds soooo familiar?)
• Ellensburg Company Harnesses the Wind Installing Residential Wind Turbines
• Editorial - Can Baker Ride The Biomass Wave?
• Stanwood Students Earn Snohomish PUD Grant to Power Farm Equipment with Solar Panel
• Rating a Home’s Energy Efficiency
• Renewable Energy Credits Are Not Carbon Dioxide Offsets: U.S. Expert
• Apple to Leave U.S. Chamber of Commerce over Global-Warming Views
• New Report Details Costs of Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Op/Ed - A Code Too Far: Building codes have finally gone too far
• Obama Puts Government on Greenhouse-Gas Diet
• NTIA Hands Out First Broadband Stimulus Grants
• Thousands of Hotmail Passwords Posted Online
• Is Cloud Computing The Hotel California Of Tech?
• Ecology Director Jay Manning Named Gregoire's Chief of Staff
• Ecology Chief, Point Man in Upper Kittitas Well Ban, Moves to Governor's Staff
• Dog Fighting Operation Suspected in Graham
• Shelton City Commission Considering Cutting Four Positions
• Boeing Will Take $1 Billion Charge in Quarter
• Poll Says Seattle, Washington State Are Popular Places to Live
• Is Manufacturing Overcapacity a Threat to the Global Recovery?
• Montana City's Jail Deal Delayed amid Controversy
• DUST STORM: NASA Satellite Captures Image of Yesterday's Dust Storm
• Neighboring Planets to Be Noticeable in Pre-Dawn Sky
• Shelton Grad (and Mason PUD 3 employee) Bowls Perfect Game

WORD OF THE DAY

Saurian • \SOAR-ee-un\ • noun – Any of a suborder (Sauria) of reptiles including the lizards and in older classifications the crocodiles and various extinct forms (as the dinosaurs and ichthyosaurs) that resemble lizards.

Bradley dreaded his weekly encounters with his ponderous, slow-talking supervisor. As he stalked into the boss’s lair, he always had an impression of a huge, saurian beast occupying the creaking, leather chair behind the fortress-like oak desk. Brad often wondered what would happen if he tossed a chicken carcass into the room before entering. Would it be gone when he took his seat, the poultry juices running down the chin of his mentor?

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

City Approves John's Prairie Water Latecomers' Agreement with PUD 3 (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=316:city-approves-johns-prairie-water-latecomers-agreement-with-pud-3&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50

Montana - Storm Hits Mountain Areas Hardest; Power Knocked Out for Many: Snow passes 3 feet in places (Billings Gazette)
http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_3ec2d8ca-b23c-11de-a3a4-001cc4c03286.html

Arcing Wires Blamed for Explosion in Bellingham (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/63569722.html

Tiny Temblor Rumbles near Mossyrock Dam (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
http://www.kelaam.com/pages/localnews?Tiny-Temblor-Rumbles-near-Mossyrock-Dam=1&blockID=79268&feedID=410

Montana - Report May Come In November for Great Falls Energy Venture (Great Falls Tribune, MT)
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20091006/NEWS01/910060314

Montana - Yellowstone News Op/Ed: Fall River Electric Replies to Customer's Questions
http://www.westyellowstonenews.com/articles/2009/10/05/opinions/opinion1.txt

During Wildfires - San Diego Utility Pushes Rural Shut-Off Plan (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/05/state/n091953D30.DTL&feed=rss.business

California - Diablo Canyon Power Plant Safely Shuts Down Unit Two (KSBY-TV, San Luis Obispo, CA)
http://www.ksby.com/Global/story.asp?S=11256331

Gov't to Consumers: Break on Winter Heating Costs (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2010009739_apuswinterheating.html?syndication=rss

RTI Data Distribution Service Selected for Upgrade of Grand Coulee Dam’s Control System (BusinessWire)
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091006005276&newsLang=en

The Worm: Band promotes Grant County, Including Grant PUD (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/oct/05/the-worm-band-promotes-grant-county/

FISH & WILDLIFE

Astorian Editorial - We Will Pay True Cost of Klamath Dams: This monumental negotiation carries meaning for Columbia-Snake dams
http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=392&ArticleID=64621

Killer Whales Heading South - Pod that was in South Sound spotted off California coast (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/994323.html

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Report: North America to Install 40,000 Wind Turbines by 2015 (Power Engineering)
http://pepei.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=6&ARTICLE_ID=369727&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss

Ellensburg Company Harnesses the Wind Installing Residential Wind Turbines (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=11262550

Baker City Herald Editorial - Can Baker Ride The Biomass Wave?
http://www.bakercityherald.com/Editorials/Can-Baker-ride-the-biomass-wave

Stanwood Students Earn Snohomish PUD Grant to Power Farm Equipment with Solar Panel (Everett Herald, WA)
http://heraldnet.com/article/20091006/NEWS01/708179781

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Rating a Home’s Energy Efficiency - A new tool can help buyers gauge their future utility expenses (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/business/20198052-41/story.csp

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Renewable Energy Credits Are Not Carbon Dioxide Offsets: U.S. Expert (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE5943YC20091005

Apple to Leave U.S. Chamber of Commerce over Global-Warming Views (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13492186

New Report Details Costs of Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/06/AR2009100600018.html?wprss=rss_business

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Op/Ed - A Code Too Far: Building codes have finally gone too far.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/forthright/archives/181140.asp?from=blog_last3

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

Obama Puts Government on Greenhouse-Gas Diet (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2010005190_apusobamagreenhousegases.html?syndication=rss

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

NTIA Hands Out First Broadband Stimulus Grants - California, Indiana, North Carolina and Vermont (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/NTIA-Hands-Out-First-Broadband-Stimulus-Grants-104827

Thousands of Hotmail Passwords Posted Online (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/181057.asp?source=pimail

Is Cloud Computing The Hotel California Of Tech? (C/NET News)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10367052-16.html?tag=nl.e703

GENERAL NEWS

Ecology Director Jay Manning Named Gregoire's Chief of Staff (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politicsnorthwest/2010005243_department_of_ecology_director.html?syndication=rss

Ecology Chief, Point Man in Upper Kittitas Well Ban, Moves To Governor's Staff (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/10/05/ecology-chief-point-man-in-upper-kittitas-well-ban-moves-to-governor-s-staff

Dog Fighting Operation Suspected in Graham (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_100509WAB-graham-dog-fighting-KC.1eaa1e1a3.html?rss

Shelton City Commission Considering Cutting Four Positions (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=318:city-commission-considering-cutting-four-positions&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50

Boeing Will Take $1 Billion Charge in Quarter (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/business/07boeing.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Poll Says Seattle, Washington State Are Popular Places to Live (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/10/05/daily5.html?ana=from_rss

Is Manufacturing Overcapacity a Threat to the Global Recovery? (Time Magazine)
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1928261,00.html

Montana City's Jail Deal Delayed amid Controversy (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ifOx0LPKy5B_0KAyPHyNTEqdQz6QD9B59NN80

DUST STORM: NASA Satellite Captures Image of Yesterday's Dust Storm (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/743453.html

Neighboring Planets to Be Noticeable in Pre-Dawn Sky (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/05/neighboring-planets-be-noticeable-week/

Shelton Grad (and Mason PUD 3 employee) Bowls Perfect Game (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=321:shelton-grad-bowls-perfect-game-a-results-from-high-school-sports-played-monday-10509&catid=38:sports&Itemid=56

ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS

Hotel Survival - with George Egg
http://digs.by/Tfp

Weather Eye: Caterpillars Call for Milder Winter
http://columbian.com/article/20091006/NEWS02/710069964/

Shroud Of Turin Called Medieval Fake - Italian debunkers say relic man-made
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/06/shroud-of-turin-called-medieval-fake/

Md. Driving Lesson Ends With Van in Bedroom
http://www.kirotv.com/automotive/21215099/detail.html

Students Sign On For Beatles Degree - Master of the Arts Degree Focuses on Beatles Music, History (And NO, it isn’t an Evergreen program)
http://www.kirotv.com/education/21213591/detail.html

SONG OF THE DAY

Eagles – Hotel California
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zT3LzXzhJo