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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Grays Harbor County PUD Calls Off Rate Increase
- Power Project Generates Walla Walla-Hi FFA Championship
- NW Natural Gas Refunds Ratepayers
- U.S. Natural Gas Boom: The Race to Tap Shale's Potential
- Georgia Coal Plant Project Loses Two More Coalition Members
- With Salmon Facing Extinction, Will Pols Continue "Treading Water"?
- Wenatchee World Editorial - Salmon and the Perpetual War
- Hazing Sea Lions to Protect Salmon
- Vancouver Island salmon numbers on rise
- Puget Sound Fish Counters
- Washington State Dept. of Wildlife Struggling With Cuts
- Vancouver Island Natives Plan To Kill Sea Otters for Pelts
- Naming the inland waters of the Pacific Northwest the Salish Sea
- Oregon House OKs Greener Dishwasher Soap
- New King County Sewage Plant behind Schedule and Over Budget
- New Project Uses Slash for Electrical Power
- Enough With Birds, Farmer Claims Wind Turbines Kill Goats
- Iowa Co-Op’s Increase Because Of Renewable Energy
- Wind Turbines Becoming Growth Industry in Ohio
- Herald Op/Ed - Winds of Change
- PenLight Hires Company to Conduct Energy Efficiency Survey
- Gregoire Signs Order To Reduce Greenhouse Gases
- Seattle's Day to Tell EPA How to Fix Climate
- Poor Economy: Carbon Dioxide Emissions Drop in 2008
- Oregon Power Companies Divided Over Pollution Plan
- Shareholders to Push Idaho Power for Greener Standards
- Idaho Statesman Op/Ed - Idaho Power is Steps behind the Energy-Efficiency Movement
- New Web site reports greenhouse gas emissions
- America's climate-change bill is weaker and worse than expected
- Yahoo Eyes Acquisitions, Social Media
- State Sues to Recover $100 Million Lost In Stock Market
- Former Idaho Attorney General - Bureau of Indian Affairs Leader Chosen
- Barbecue Coals Cause $200,000 Fire at Mukilteo Home
WORD OF THE DAY
Plenary • \PLEE-nuh-ree\ • adjective – 1: complete in every respect: absolute, unqualified 2: fully attended or constituted by all entitled to be present
The plenary session of the Abercrombie County Rock and Mineral Society crumbled into bitter recriminations after some members had been found throwing rocks in the vicinity of the local florist’s greenhouses. “But we weren’t LIVING in the glass house,” whined the reprobates, “so throwing stones near houses in which we did not live was OK!”
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
Grays Harbor County PUD Calls Off Rate Increase (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2009/05/20/local_news/doc4a1443fe7be5d017557002.txt
Power Project Generates Walla Walla-Hi FFA Championship (Walla Walla Union Bulletin)
http://union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/05/20/local_news/090520local04wahiffakids.txt
NW Natural Gas Refunds Ratepayers (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/05/18/daily38.html?ana=from_rss
U.S. Natural Gas Boom: The Race to Tap Shale's Potential (Popular Mechanics)
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/4318390.html
Georgia Coal Plant Project Loses Two More Coalition Members (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/2009/05/21/coal0521.html
FISH & WILDLIFE
Seattle P-I Columnist - With Salmon Facing Extinction, Will Pols Continue "Treading Water"?
http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/406433_joel21.html
Wenatchee World Editorial - Salmon and the Perpetual War
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090520/OP02/705209882/1025/rss1025
Hazing Sea Lions to Protect Salmon (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5024-hazing-sea-lions-protect-salmon/
Vancouver Island salmon numbers on rise (Nanaimo Daily News, BC)
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/regional/Vancouver+Island+salmon+numbers+rise/1609807/story.html
Puget Sound Fish Counters (KUOW-Radio, Seattle)
http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=17557
Washington State Dept. of Wildlife Struggling With Cuts (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/adventure/story/749971.html
Vancouver Island Natives Plan To Kill Sea Otters for Pelts (Victoria Times-Colonist, BC)
http://www.timescolonist.com/Technology/Vancouver+Island+band+plans+kill+otters+pelts/1612728/story.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Sea Change - Washington State will officially consider altering the map by naming the inland waters of the Pacific Northwest the Salish Sea (Crosscut, Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2009/05/20/mossback/19007/
Oregon House OKs Greener Dishwasher Soap (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2027180~Ore__House_OKs_greener_dishwasher_soap.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
New King County Sewage Plant behind Schedule and Over Budget (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/406434_brightwater21.html?source=rss
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
New Project Uses Slash for Electrical Power (Wenatchee World)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090520/NEWS04/705209874/1025/rss1025
Enough With Birds, Farmer Claims Wind Turbines Kill Goats (British Broadcasting Corporation)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8060969.stm
Iowa Co-Op’s Increase Because Of Renewable Energy (Osceola Sentinel-Tribune, IA)
http://www.osceolaiowa.com/articles/2009/05/20/24198238/index.xml
Wind Turbines Becoming Growth Industry in Ohio (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH) http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2009/05/wind_turbines_turning_into_gro.html
Herald Op/Ed - Winds of Change (United Kingdom)
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/editorial/display.var.2509413.0.Winds_of_change.php
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
PenLight Hires Company to Conduct Energy Efficiency Survey (Peninsula Gateway, Gig Harbor, WA)
http://www.gateline.com/104/story/4253.html
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Gregoire Signs Order To Reduce Greenhouse Gases (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009247078_apwaepaclimategregoire1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
Seattle's Day to Tell EPA How to Fix Climate (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009245410_greenhousegas21m0.html
Poor Economy: Carbon Dioxide Emissions Drop in 2008 (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12413989
Oregon Power Companies Divided Over Pollution Plan (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/05/oregon_power_companies_divided.html
Shareholders to Push Idaho Power for Greener Standards (The New West)
http://www.newwest.net/city/article/shareholders_to_push_idaho_power_for_greener_standards/C108/L108/
Idaho Statesman Op/Ed - Idaho Power is Steps behind the Energy-Efficiency Movement
http://www.idahostatesman.com/OPINION/story/776181.html
New Web site reports greenhouse gas emissions (Portland Business Journal – PNW Looks Good)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/05/18/daily41.html?ana=from_rss
Handouts and loopholes - America's climate-change bill is weaker and worse than expected (The Economist)
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13705417
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Yahoo Eyes Acquisitions, Social Media (Yahoo! Technology)
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090521/tc_nm/us_summit_yahoo_1
GENERAL NEWS
State Sues to Recover $100 Million Lost In Stock Market (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/169125.asp?source=pimail
Former Idaho Attorney General - Bureau of Indian Affairs Leader Chosen (Associated Press)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21brfs-BUREAUOFINDI_BRF.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Barbecue Coals Cause $200,000 Fire at Mukilteo Home (Everett Herald)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090521/NEWS01/705219904/-1/RSS02
DIVERSIONS
Bank Mistakenly Deposits $6M in Couple's Account
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/21/international/i021829D42.DTL&feed=rss.business
Game Of Lighter Fluid Tag Ends Badly
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=169972
Drink Up: Space Station Recycling Urine to Water
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009243427_apusspaceurine.html?syndication=rss
Household Drill to Head Saves Boy's Life
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19509317/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
The Partridge Family Opening TV Theme Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOiKa51ll-k
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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