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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Mason County PUD No. 3 to Reduce Proposed Rate Increase
- Idaho Senate Votes to Kill Power Assistance Bill
- Idaho Couple Got Someone Else's Power Bill for Three Years
- Orcas Power & Light Improves Reliability with Olga Substation Upgrade
- Nuclear Power Industry Sees Opening for Revival
- Washington Post Editorial – Post Yucca: Mountain of Trouble
- Coal Plants Checked by Environmentalist Campaigns, Costs
- Will New Power Lines Run Through Your Back Yard?
- Texas Bills Aim To Cut Wholesale Electricity Prices
- Energy Execs Have Low Hopes for Stimulus Bill
- United Kingdom - Dialing Back Power Supplies
- Judge Says Columbia Salmon Recovery Plan Is 'Very Close'
- Tale of Two Headlines - Judge Faults Gov't Plan to Save Pacific NW Salmon
- Judge makes plea for environmental officials to compromise on salmon
- Liveblogging the legal fight over salmon's future
- Healthy Returns Projected For Columbia Gorge Rivers
- Skirmish Continues Over Shellfish Farming In Puget Sound
- Olympian Editorial - Shellfish dispute vs. ethics pledge
- Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Issues in the 111th Congress
- Lewis County PUD to make Presentation on Chehalis Dam Projects
- Brightwater Sewer Project Likely Caused Kenmore Sinkhole
- Canadian Old-Growth Forests Fall In Tough Economy
- Washington Can Be Green and Still Protect Electricity Ratepayers
- NY Times Op/Ed - Home-Grown Power
- Oregon Major Utilities Ahead Of Green Energy Goals
- Kittitas County Wind Power Backers Tout Project’s Benefits
- Boot Camp Helps Harness Wind Energy Jobs
- Solar Maker Criticizes Renewable Energy Tax Credits
- Governors Envision Eco-Friendly Fuels At I-5 Rest Stops
- Northern Wasco PUD, City of The Dalles Explore Renewable Energy
- Stimulus May Get Small Wind Turbines Spinning
- Idaho Company Weighs Ore. Hot Springs for Energy
- Biodiesel Demand Conflicts with Farm Restrictions
- Ethanol Producers Press for Higher Limits
- Green Movement, Tighter Budgets Spur Interest in Energy Audits
- 13 Ways to Cut Energy Costs Year-Round
- The Recession’s Green Lining - A global downturn is doing what activists couldn't
- House Bill for a Carbon Tax to Cut Emissions Faces a Steep Climb
- Global Warming May Stop For Years or Decades
- Skeptics Dispute Climate Worries and Each Other
- Vision Of Future Tinted In Green - Environmentalism is good for economy
- California Air Regulators Have Beef with Charbroilers
- Fight Over Internet Filtering Has a Test Run in Europe
- Verizon Plays Stimulus Keep Away In Pennsylvania
- U.S. Gears Up For Digital TV Switch Now On June 12
- Washington Lt. Gov. Brad Owen got more powerful in court ruling
- Tribes, Olympia Will Get Big Boost from Stimulus
- Lawyers’ Attack Ads Doom Bills
- Meeting Planned on Formation of Grange in Grapeview
- Newspaper Publisher McClatchy Cutting 1,600 Jobs
- Spokane school tests jamming cell phone signals
WORD OF THE DAY
Equanimity • \ee-kwuh-NIM-uh-tee\ • noun - 1: evenness of mind especially under stress 2: right disposition: balance
Instead of the normally sedate procedures, the atmosphere at the bank shareholders meeting resembled a bloody day on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Shareholders seated next to Clancy were astounded at his seeming equanimity. Charges of fraud, malfeasance, misfeasance and other unpleasant physical shortcomings seemed to run off his back with no effect. That is, until one of the attendees realized that Clancy had quietly, peacefully passed away without a sign sometime early in the meeting.
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
Mason County PUD No. 3 to Reduce Proposed Rate Increase (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/6620/reftab/1896/Default.aspx
Idaho Senate Votes to Kill Power Assistance Bill (Associated Press)
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090306/id_utilities_help.html?.v=1
Idaho Couple Got Someone Else's Power Bill for Three Years (Associated Press)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/03/06/breaking_news/doc49b1791506106509766097.txt
Orcas Power & Light Improves Reliability with Olga Substation Upgrade (Island Weekly, Lopez Island, WA)
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/sanjuans/isw/news/40455358.html
Nuclear Power Industry Sees Opening for Revival (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/08/MN3H16ANEN.DTL
Washington Post Editorial – Post Yucca: Mountain of Trouble - Mr. Obama defunds the nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain. Now what?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/07/AR2009030701666.html?nav=rss_opinions
Coal Plants Checked by Environmentalist Campaigns, Costs - Coal plants fall as global warming campaign makes gains; construction boom grinds on (ABC News)
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=7032209
Will New Power Lines Run Through Your Back Yard? (CQ Politics)
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003069319
Texas Bills Aim To Cut Wholesale Electricity Prices (Dallas Morning News)
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/030909dnbuselectricitybills.3c34978.html
Energy Execs Have Low Hopes for Stimulus Bill (Houston Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2009/03/09/story5.html?ana=from_rss
United Kingdom - Dialing Back Power Supplies: Economic slowdown stalls plan for electric plant (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
http://www.telegram.com/article/20090308/NEWS/903080339/1002
FISH & WILDLIFE
Judge Says Columbia Salmon Recovery Plan Is 'Very Close' (The Oregonian, Portland)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/03/judge_says_columbia_salmon_rec.html
Tale of Two Headlines - Judge Faults Gov't Plan to Save Pacific NW Salmon (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ipjYpPd8lX55FO5Iz0UPfCSdVlpwD96P8U980
Plato’s Cave: Judge makes plea for environmental officials to compromise on salmon, dams in Northwest (Rocky Barker in the Miami Herald)
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/938427.html
Liveblogging the legal fight over salmon's future (The Oregonian, Portland - Carries through to the end of the hearing)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/03/liveblogging_the_legal_fight_o.html
Healthy Returns Projected For Columbia Gorge Rivers (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/outdoors/story/778932.html
Skirmish Continues Over Shellfish Farming In Puget Sound (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008824523_geoduck07m.html
Olympian Editorial - Shellfish dispute vs. ethics pledge: Shelton-based Taylor case calls Goldmark into question “…a minor donor to his campaign is asking to lease the same land…”
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/781080.html
Congressional Research Reports - Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Issues in the 111th Congress
http://opencrs.com/document/R40172/
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Lewis County PUD to make Presentation - Chehalis Council to Vote on Support of Dam Project (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.outdoorslc.com/story.php?subaction=showfull&id=1236432820&archive=&start_from=&ucat=5&
Brightwater Sewer Project Likely Caused Kenmore Sinkhole (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008829998_sinkhole09m.html?syndication=rss
Canadian Old-Growth Forests Fall In Tough Economy - Firms face clashes in Island towns as they struggle to make profits (Victoria Times Colonist)
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/growth+forests+fall+tough+economy/1364932/story.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Seattle Times Editorial - Washington Can Be Green and Still Protect Electricity Ratepayers: Lisa Brown, D-Spokane argues the law can be made more flexible to account for its impact on ratepayers while remaining committed to environmental goals
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008829421_opinb09brown.html
NY Times Op/Ed - Home-Grown Power “…In the Northwest, the largest amount of green power comes from hydroelectricity…”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/opinion/07bowles.html?_r=1&em
Oregon Major Utilities Ahead Of Green Energy Goals - 25 percent of state's energy has to be renewable by 2025 “…Rates have gone up because of renewables, but they would have gone up anyway…” (Salem Statesman Journal, OR)
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090308/NEWS/903080340/1001
Kittitas County Wind Power Backers Tout Project’s Benefits (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/03/02/daily64.html?ana=from_rss
Boot Camp Helps Harness Wind Energy Jobs - Hopes are high that wind technology will replace vanishing construction jobs (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090306/NEWS02/703069967/1025/rss1025
Solar Maker Criticizes Renewable Energy Tax Credits (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/03/09/newscolumn6.html?ana=from_rss
Governors Envision Eco-Friendly Fuels At I-5 Rest Stops (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008827158_greenfreeway08m.html
Green City - Northern Wasco PUD, City of The Dalles Explore Renewable Energy (The Dalles Chronicle)
http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2009/03/news03-06-09-01.shtml
Stimulus May Get Small Wind Turbines Spinning (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/09/small.wind.turbines/
Idaho Company Weighs Ore. Hot Springs for Energy (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/780824.html
Biodiesel Demand Conflicts with Farm Restrictions (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1892355~Biodiesel_demand_conflicts_with_farm_restrictions.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
Ethanol Producers Press for Higher Limits (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/05/AR2009030503815.html?wprss=rss_business
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Green Movement, Tighter Budgets Spur Interest in Energy Audits (Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area)
http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2009/03/09/focus1.html?ana=from_rss
13 Ways to Cut Energy Costs Year-Round - The 'Frugal Family Challenge' Has Money-Saving Tips for Every Household (ABC News)
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=7031633&page=1
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
The Recession’s Green Lining - A global downturn is doing what activists couldn't: closing dirty factories (Newsweek)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/188200?from=rss
House Bill for a Carbon Tax to Cut Emissions Faces a Steep Climb (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/us/politics/07carbon.html
Global Warming May Stop For Years or Decades (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/x-1586-Baltimore-Weather-Examiner~y2009m3d3-Global-Warming-may-stop-for-a-while
Skeptics Dispute Climate Worries and Each Other (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/science/earth/09climate.html
Vision Of Future Tinted In Green - Environmentalism is good for economy; Kennedy says "…Every nation that has decarbonized its economy has experienced immediate prosperity…" (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/402601_greenbuild07.html
California Air Regulators Have Beef with Charbroilers (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1892724~Valley_air_regulators_have_beef_with_charbroilers.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Fight Over Internet Filtering Has a Test Run in Europe (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/technology/internet/09neutral.html
Verizon Plays Stimulus Keep Away In Pennsylvania - Getting free marketeers to push new anti-muni bill (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Plays-Stimulus-Keep-Away-In-Pennsylvania-101274
U.S. Gears Up For Digital TV Switch Now On June 12 (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE52461E20090306?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology
GENERAL NEWS
Seattle Times Editorial - Washington Lt. Gov. Brad Owen got more powerful in court ruling
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2008829417_edita09kingowen.html
Tribes, Olympia Will Get Big Boost from Stimulus - HUD funds called 'brick-and-mortar money' for projects (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/779522.html
Lawyers’ Attack Ads Doom Bills - full-page newspaper ads to pressure three state senators apparently has backfired (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/government/story/650748.html
Meeting Planned on Formation of Grange in Grapeview (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/mar/06/meeting-planned-on-formation-of-grange-in/?partner=RSS
Newspaper Publisher McClatchy Cutting 1,600 Jobs (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008830771_apmcclatchyjobcuts.html?syndication=rss
Spokane school tests jamming cell phone signals (KHQ-TV, Spokane)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=9971909
DIVERSIONS
Driver Sits through 6 Lights, Faces DUI Charge - Man Fell Asleep At Intersection
http://www.kirotv.com/automotive/18872188/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_4pm&tmi=sea_4pm_1_06000203062009&ts=H
Bogus Love Notes Pricey - A series of viral love notes has cost a Seattle-based marketing company a $500,000 fine
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/402642_luvcrush07.html
Seattle near Bottom of U.S. “Manliest” Cities
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/03/02/daily61.html?ana=from_rss
Man Who Tried To Kill Himself Successfully Sued the Hospital Which Saved His Life
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4944419/Man-who-tried-to-kill-himself-sues-hospital-that-saved-him-for-compensation.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Annie Lennox - Ghosts In My Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofvf3tUTGvw&feature=related
Monday, March 9, 2009
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