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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- BPA Transmission Upgrades in Shelton - Delays Possible On Olympic Highway North
- Two Earth-Friendly Bills Headed To Governor
- FERC Chief Says New Coal, Nuclear Plants May Be Unnecessary
- How Smart Can The Grid Get?
- Oregon AG Wants Increased Use of Domestic Natural Gas
- Is the Near-Record Columbia River Spring Chinook Run Late or Just Not Coming
- Alliances Changing In Battle to Save Salmon
- Obama: Good News for Columbia River Salmon
- Thompson Bill Charts Policy for Wild Pacific Salmon
- Puget Sound Rockfish May Get Federal Protection
- Federal Stimulus Money Accelerates Elwha Dam Project
- Washington Lowland Lakes Trout Opener Is Saturday
- Mason County TO Celebrate Completion of Rustlewood Sewer Upgrades
- Major Shift on Tap For Walla Walla River Basin Water Management
- Planting a Garden in That Parking Strip Could Cost You A Bunch of Green
- Tidal Turbines Destined for Admiralty Head
- Offshore Wind Farms Get Green Light
- Help, I’m On Fire! - Do-It-Yourself Biodiesel Trend Brings Fire Risk
- Cowlitz Co. Man Fined For Alleged Water Power Device
- Lower Your Energy Bills With Kill A Watt!
- A Greener Home Could Save Your Money and Your Health
- Seattle Residents Get Break On Energy Evaluation
- West Linn Tidings Op/Ed – An Oregon State Carbon Cap Costly, Not Needed
- Cantwell on Cap and Dividend
- EPA: Greenhouse gas limits would lead to 'modest' electricity price increases
- Who’s going to get the Carbon Pollution Credits?
- US Carbon Giveaways and Spending the Proceeds
- Lisa Jackson: The New Head of the EPA
- Time Warner Cable Cannot Possibly Compete With the Small City of Wilson, NC
- No, Broadband Is Not an Economic Magic Wand
- Earthlink Struggles with Earth Day Outage
- MySpace Co-Founder DeWolfe to Step down
- State Workers’ Four-Day Week Saves A Bit
- Alaska to Charge for First Bag after First Quarter Loss
- Leader in Tribal Fishing, Gaming Issues Dies
WORD OF THE DAY
Eidetic • \eye-DET-ik\ • adjective - Marked by or involving extraordinarily accurate and vivid recall especially of visual images
At once a blessing and a curse, Marco’s eidetic memory was the wonder of the manufacturing floor at Barty’s “Eclectic Tiddlywinks Factory.” Although Marco could recall in intricate detail the texture, color, even the smell of each tiddlywink that he inspected for final shipping…that was the ONLY thing he could recall, which made his talent slightly less impressive to tiddlywind “outsiders.”
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
BPA Transmission Upgrades in Shelton - Delays Possible On Olympic Highway North Today (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7044/reftab/1632/t/DELAYS-POSSIBLE-ON-OLYMPIC-HIGHWAY-NORTH-TODAY-/Default.aspx
Two Earth-Friendly Bills Headed To Governor - Gregoire signs a third aimed at renewable energy (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090423/NEWS02/904229973/
FERC Chief Says New Coal, Nuclear Plants May Be Unnecessary “…renewables like wind, solar and biomass will provide enough energy to meet baseload capacity and future energy demands…” (Baseload demands, huh? NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/04/22/22greenwire-no-need-to-build-new-us-coal-or-nuclear-plants-10630.html
How Smart Can The Grid Get? (MSNBC)
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/22/1903394.aspx
Oregon AG Wants Increased Use of Domestic Natural Gas (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/4830-oregon-ag-wants-increased-use-domestic-natural-gas/
FISH & WILDLIFE
Is The Near-Record Columbia River Spring Chinook Run Late Or Just Not Coming Back Like Expected? (Seattle Times)
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reeltimenorthwest/2009/04/22/is_the_near-record_columbia_ri.html
Alliances Changing In Battle to Save Salmon (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/4828-alliances-changing-battle-save-salmon/
Obama: Good News for Columbia River Salmon (Crosscut Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2009/04/23/federal/18967/
Thompson Bill Charts Policy for Wild Pacific Salmon (The Times-Standard, Eureka, CA)http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_12207596
Puget Sound Rockfish May Get Federal Protection (Associated Press)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43473272.html
Federal Stimulus Money Accelerates Elwha Dam Project (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/apr/22/federal-stimulus-money-accelerates-elwha-dam/?partner=RSS
Washington Lowland Lakes Trout Opener Is Saturday (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2009104003_fish23.html?syndication=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Mason County TO Celebrate Completion of Rustlewood Sewer Upgrades (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7054/reftab/1632/t/COUNTY-TO-CELEBRATE-COMPLETION-OF-RUSTLEWOOD-SEWER-UPGRADES/Default.aspx
Major shift on tap for Walla Walla River basin water management (The Union Bulletin, Walla Walla, WA)
http://union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/04/22/local_news/090422local02watershedbill.txt
In Seattle, Planting A Garden in That Parking Strip Could Cost You A Bunch of Green (Seattle Post-Globe)
http://seattlepostglobe.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=153:it-could-cost-you-to-plant-a-garden-in-that-parking-strip-&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=18
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Tidal Turbines Destined for Admiralty Head (Whidbey Examiner, WA)
http://www.whidbeyexaminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=2468&TM=71812.3
Offshore Wind Farms Get Green Light - The federal government has cleared the way for developers to plant wind farms in offshore waters on the outer continental shelf (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009106951_wind23.html?syndication=rss
Help, I’m On Fire! - Do-It-Yourself Biodiesel Trend Brings Fire Risk (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/718367.html
Cowlitz Co. Man Fined For Alleged Water Power Device (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/828199.html
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Lower Your Energy Bills With Kill A Watt! (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.keprtv.com/news/local/43493107.html
A Greener Home Could Save Your Money and Your Health (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10232616
Seattle Residents Get Break On Energy Evaluation - Seattle is offering 5,000 discounted home energy-use evaluations as part of a new initiative to cut energy use (Seattle Times – Hurray for free PUD energy audits!)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009106644_webenergy23m.html?syndication=rss
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
West Linn Tidings Op/Ed – An Oregon State Carbon Cap Costly, Not Needed
http://www.westlinntidings.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=124043258440292900
Cantwell on Cap and Dividend (Sightline Daily)
http://daily.sightline.org/daily_score/archive/2009/04/22/cantwell-on-cap-and-dividend
EPA: Greenhouse gas limits would lead to 'modest' electricity price increases (Dallas Morning News, TX)http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/042309dnbusgreenhouse.fd9dc04c.html
Who’s going to get the Carbon Pollution Credits? (Christian Science Monitor)
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/04/14/whos-going-to-get-the-carbon-pollution-credits/
US Carbon Giveaways and Spending the Proceeds (Financial Times Of London)
http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2009/04/23/us-carbon-giveaways-and-spending-the-proceeds/
Lisa Jackson: The New Head of the EPA (Time Magazine)
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893155,00.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Time Warner Cable Cannot Possibly Compete With the Small City of Wilson, NC (The Consumerist)
http://consumerist.com/5224578/time-warner-cable-cannot-possibly-compete-with-the-small-city-of-wilson-nc
No, Broadband Is Not an Economic Magic Wand - A tale of two rural Western Virginia towns (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/No-Broadband-Is-Not-An-Economic-Magic-Wand-102078
Earthlink Struggles With Earth Day Outage - Pasadena power outage takes websites, e-mail offline (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Earthlink-Struggles-With-Earth-Day-Outage-102059
MySpace Co-Founder DeWolfe to Step down (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009105401_apnewscorpmyspace.html?syndication=rss
GENERAL NEWS
Four-Day Week Saves A Bit - Six-month test: State workers love it, use fewer sick days, report says (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/829016.html
Alaska to Charge for First Bag after First Quarter Loss (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/829449.html
Leader in Tribal Fishing, Gaming Issues Dies (Wenatchee World)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090422/NEWS04/704229921
DIVERSIONS
Judge Orders Defendant's Mouth Taped Shut - ACLU Refrains From Commenting
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19241894/detail.html
Judge Taking Names, Seeking To Ban Odd Ones
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19245007/detail.html
John Curley: Local TV Host Aiming for a New Life in Politics
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43491772.html
Colbert: Does Bill Gates Ever Talk About Me?
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43492797.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Carly Simon – You’re So Vain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B7bVD_DkM4
Thursday, April 23, 2009
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