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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Coal Mines Leases Could Mean Riches for Montana
- Alcoa May Slash Output, Jobs at Canada Plant – want wage cuts
- Tracking the Results of Salmon Habitat Restoration
- Columbia Basin (Political) Science
- Oregon - Spring Chinook Salmon Runs Are Now Under Way
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Get a Helping Hand from Kamiakin High
- Port Of Seattle May Offer $7M in Rent Breaks To Help Cut Diesel Soot
- City of Shelton City Seeking Stimulus Money for Sewer Plant
- Spokane's Soap Smugglers Make Clean Getaways
- Meeting set on wind projects in Blue Mountains
- Wind Turbine Imports Increase; Can U.S. Factories Catch Up
- Wind-Energy Certificates: Clean Power or Scam
- FactCheck.org - Hot Air on Wind Energy
- Transmission: 'Green Power Express' gains federal rate
- Pacific Gas & Electric Looks To Solar Panels in Space for
- Solar Incentives: Could Ontario Be the Next Germany?
- Unemployed Seek Training for 'Green Collar' Jobs
- California - State wants to pull plug on energy-guzzling
- Project to Save Energy,
- Oregon Electric Utilities Fight Curbs on Carbon Emissions
- Debate on Energy, Climate Bill to Begin Next Week
- Strange Bedfellows - Getting past square one with climate change
- Intel Oregon: Outstanding Achievement in Corporate Greenwashing
- Risk of EPA Move Smooths Way for U.S. Carbon Law
- 114 Arrested before Protest near UK Coal-Fired Power Station
- Internet Bandwidth Hogs May Soon Pay For It
- The Metered Broadband Math
- Twitter Hit by Series of Worm Attacks
- Washington Cities Appear On Organization's Annual Car Theft Rankings
- WSU Stops Accepting Freshman Applicants
- Olympia Fire Department Rolls Out Plans For New Station
WORD OF THE DAY
Vatic • \VAT-ik\ • adjective - Prophetic, oracular
“In about ten seconds you’re gonna be very sorry you sat there,” intoned Derwood’s seemingly vatic classmate. His seeming awe turned to outright shock as a small drip from the ceiling transformed into a roof-rending hole, dropping gallons of trapped rainwater on the unfortunate student’s head.
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
Coal Mines Leases Could Mean Riches for Montana (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009032374_apmontanacoal.html?syndication=rss
Alcoa May Slash Output, Jobs at Canada Plant “…wants employees to agree to a 15 percent pay cut… other large aluminum companies…have also announced cuts in a drive to balance aluminum supply with shrinking demand…” (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/13/financial/f142906D76.DTL&feed=rss.business
FISH & WILDLIFE
Tracking the Results of Salmon Habitat Restoration (The Columbian, via US News & World Report)
http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/04/13/tracking-the-results-of-salmon-habitat-restoration.html
Columbia Basin (Political) Science - An investigation into the Bonneville Power Administration's influence on salmon research (High Country News)
http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.6/columbia-basin-political-science
Oregon - Spring Chinook Salmon Runs Are Now Under Way on Rogue, Several Other Oregon Rivers (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/sports/outdoors/11649022-44/story.csp
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Get a Helping Hand from Kamiakin High (KNDO-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10176975
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Port Of Seattle May Offer $7M in Rent Breaks To Help Cut Diesel Soot (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009028912_porttrucks13m0.html?syndication=rss
City of Shelton City Seeking Stimulus Money for Sewer Plant (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/6975/reftab/1632/t/CITY-SEEKING-STIMULUS-MONEY-FOR-SEWER-PLANT/Default.aspx
Spokane's Soap Smugglers Make Clean Getaways (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009034806_soapsmuggling14.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Meeting set on wind projects in Blue Mountains (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, WA)
http://union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/04/13/local_news/090413local05windmeet.txt
Wind Turbine Imports Increase; Can U.S. Factories Catch Up? (The News Observer, NC)
http://www.newsobserver.com/1573/story/1485169.html
Wind-Energy Certificates: Clean Power or Scam? (Baltimore Sun, MD)
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/business/hancock/blog/2009/04/windenergy_certificates_clean.html
FactCheck.org - Hot Air on Wind Energy: Don't expect wind power to replace coal as the nation's main source of electric power, whatever Obama's interior secretary said
http://www.factcheck.org/politics/hot_air_on_wind_energy.html
Transmission: 'Green Power Express' gains federal rate incentives (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/04/13/13greenwire-green-power-express-gains-federal-rate-incenti-10514.html
Pacific Gas & Electric Looks To Solar Panels in Space for Power (Sacramento Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2009/04/13/daily16.html?ana=from_rss
Solar Incentives: Could Ontario Be the Next Germany? (Should Quebec be concerned? – Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/04/solar-incentives-could-ontario-be-the-next-germany?src=rss
Unemployed Seek Training for 'Green Collar' Jobs (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/13/national/a133300D68.DTL&feed=rss.business
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
California - State wants to pull plug on energy-guzzling TVs (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/14/MNT516V87T.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
Project to Save Energy, Money - Forest Service employees benefit from economic stimulus package funds (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/living/story/819465.html
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Oregon Electric Utilities Fight Curbs on Carbon Emissions (The Oregonian, Portland)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/04/electric_utilities_fight_curbs.html
Debate on Energy, Climate Bill to Begin Next Week (CNET News)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10218083-54.html
Strange Bedfellows - Getting past square one with climate change (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/166299.asp?source=pimail
Intel Oregon: Outstanding Achievement in Corporate Greenwashing (It’s Getting Hot in Here)
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/04/13/intel-oregon-outstanding-achievement-in-corporate-greenwashing/
Risk of EPA Move Smooths Way for U.S. Carbon Law (Reuters)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/behindTheScenes/idUKTRE53C4EG20090413
114 Arrested before Protest near UK Coal-Fired Power Station (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jPxlNseEZs1n3paekE0R_vucrXfgD97HQV9G1
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Internet Bandwidth Hogs May Soon Pay For It (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103041709&ft=1&f=2
The Metered Broadband Math: As Much As $24.59 to Rent “Twilight” (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/04/14/the-metered-broadband-math-as-much-as-2459-to-rent-twilight/
Twitter Hit by Series of Worm Attacks (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/04/13/daily3.html?ana=from_rss
GENERAL NEWS
Washington Cities Appear On Organization's Annual Car Theft Rankings (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/crime/2009/04/13/washington_cities_appear_on_organization
WSU Stops Accepting Freshman Applicants (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/819060.html
Olympia Fire Department Rolls Out Plans For New Station - Assistant fire chief to discuss project at council meeting (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/news/story/819287.html
DIVERSIONS
Spokane Parks to Detonate Squirrels
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/42916587.html
Nurse Called Out Of Surgery and Laid Off
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/42952817.html
Conman Hypnotizes Jeweler, Steals Diamonds
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090413/od_afp/indiacrimeoffbeat_20090413064525;_ylt=AqzRfHWFtMws7jKl_RzHjqKgOrgF
Man lobs $30,000 from cars
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE53C5AF20090413?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
SONG OF THE DAY
Charlie Parker – Ko-Ko (1947, reportedly the first official bebop recording)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_ZajJd-1kY
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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