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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Woman's Body Found at Hydroelectric Facility near Yelm
- State Seeks Tighter Emissions Controls at PGE Plant
- Boardman Power Plant Would Have to Reduce Pollution under New Oregon Plan
- Idaho Power’s Langley Gulch Power Plant Challenged
- Duke Ordered To Shut Indiana Coal Fired Generating Units
- The Heat Is On When It Comes to Building Coal-Fired Power Plants
- Fitch Confirms Chelan County PUD Series 2008B Ratings at 'AA+/F1+'
- Oregon Governor Takes Issue with LNG Review
- Puget Sound Energy’s Updated Long-Range Energy Strategy
- PUD 3 Wins Award for 2009 Forest Festival Parade Entry
- Wenatchee - Lineman Rodeo Coming June 20
- Grand Coulee Dam Laser Show Resumes
- Ex-Enron Official Enters Guilty Plea
- Warren Buffett Sells Remaining Constellation Shares
- News Whiz - Rates Continue to Decrease in Competitive Markets
- Idaho’s Senators Seek Talks on Dams
- American Rivers Position Paper on the Role of Hydropower Dams
- Federal Judge Rules San Diego Seals Should Stay
- Seattle Sewage Flowing Through Wooden Pipelines
- 140,000 Gallons Later - Crews Repair Bainbridge Sewage Pipe
- Castle Rock, Toutle Residents Asked To Conserve Water
- Spokane River Dangerous For Users Now
- Columbian Op/Ed - Washingtonians Send Mixed Signals on Clean Energy
- News Tribune Editorial - Ocean Power Deserves Better Budget Play
- Wind Farms? Numbers of sage grouse in Oregon dropping
- Wood Is New Coal as Polluters Use Carbon-Eating Trees
- State of Oregon Awards $17 Million Loan to New Hydroelectric Plant
- Earmarks: Utah Senators Say Alternative Energy Requests More Than Doubled
- Texas - Electricity Transmission Limits Wind Boom in the Panhandle
- Texas - Showing Just What ‘Green' Means
- Wall Street Journal Editorial - Ethanol's Grocery Bill
- Oregon's Pro-Clothesline Bill Stalls in Senate
- United Kingdom - Electricity Figures Show Energy Efficiency Isn't Working
- Baltimore Sun Op/Ed - We're In For A Shock
- Colorado - Silverton's Digital-Divide Battle to Get PUC Hearing
- Stuck In Broadband No Man's Land
- Cable Operators Mull IPTV As They Roll Out Faster Broadband
- Group Says Time Warner Cable Terms May Hamper Use of Internet
- Mason County’s First Day of Candidate Filing Draws 19
- News from Danger Jim! - Dry Spell Means Early Fire Season
- Clallam County Treasurer's Office Investigated For Suspected Theft by Employee
- Hood Canal Bridge Reopening Ceremonies Saturday
- City of Shelton’s Urban Growth Area Agreement Draws Opposition
- Chinese Company Said to Be Buyer of Hummer
WORD OF THE DAY
Melee • \MAY-lay\ • noun - A confused struggle; especially: a hand-to-hand fight among several people
Alfred’s eyes narrowed at the aggressive approach of his nemesis, Joey “The Thumb” Chiclet. The last time they met in a tiddlywinks blood feud the event had descended into a melee of flying plastic disks and howling, rabid fans. Only when the last tiddlywink had dropped into the cup did the carnage end. For now, they would have to put that all aside as they teamed up with their “Sharpie” pens to sign pictures and souvenirs for the American Cancer Society’s “Walk for the Cure”.
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
Woman's Body Found at Hydroelectric Facility near Yelm (The Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/868487.html
State Seeks Tighter Emissions Controls at PGE Plant (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/06/01/daily14.html?ana=from_rss
Boardman Power Plant Would Have to Reduce Pollution under New Oregon Plan (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5109-boardman-power-plant-would-have-reduce-pollution-under-new-oregon-plan/
Idaho Power’s Langley Gulch Power Plant Challenged - “Unprecedented” Coalition Calls for Delay in Rate Recovery Proceeding (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&id=112825
Duke Ordered To Shut Indiana Coal Fired Generating Units (Charlotte Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2009/06/01/daily13.html?ana=from_rss
The Heat Is On When It Comes to Building Coal-Fired Power Plants (Scientific American)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=building-coal-power-plants
Fitch Confirms Chelan County PUD Series 2008B Ratings at 'AA+/F1+' (Yahoo! Finance)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Fitch-Confirms-Chelan-County-bw-15401784.html?.v=1
Oregon Governor Takes Issue with LNG Review (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2046885~Oregon_governor_takes_issue_with_LNG_review.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
Puget Sound Energy’s Updated Long-Range Energy Strategy Stays Focused on Energy Efficiency, Wind Power, and Natural Gas (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&id=112828
PUD 3 Wins Award for 2009 Forest Festival Parade Entry
http://www.masonpud3.org/newsdisplay.aspx?newsid=556
Wenatchee - Lineman Rodeo Coming June 20 (Wenatchee World)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090601/NEWS04/706029998/-1/PRINTINDEX?Lineman-rodeo-coming-June-20
Grand Coulee Dam Laser Show Resumes (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/598382.html
Ex-Enron Official Enters Guilty Plea (Associated Press)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/business/02enron.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Warren Buffett Sells Remaining Constellation Shares (Baltimore Business Journal – Throws in used set of ukulele strings…)
http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/06/01/daily13.html?ana=from_rss
News Whiz - Rates Continue to Decrease in Competitive Markets, Including Ohio, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois and Maryland (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&id=112731
FISH & WILDLIFE
Idaho’s Senators Seek Talks on Dams (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA – Terry Flores Steps to the plate, uses a prior “word of the day”…)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090602/NEWS02/706029970/Idaho%E2%80%99+s+senators+seek+talks+on+dams
American Rivers Position Paper on the Role of Hydropower Dams in an Era of Climate Change (American Rivers)
http://www.flyrodreel.com/node/12336
Federal Judge Rules San Diego Seals Should Stay (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2046368~Federal_judge_rules_San_Diego_seals_should_stay.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Seattle Sewage Flowing Through Wooden Pipelines - Two pipelines that carry up to 60 million gallons of sewage a day under Seattle's Salmon Bay are made out of wood (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009287111_apwawoodenpipeline.html?syndication=rss
140,000 Gallons Later - Crews Repair Bainbridge Sewage Pipe (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_060209WAB-sewage-puget-sound-LJ.3f0d7a2b.html?rss
Castle Rock, Toutle Residents Asked To Conserve Water (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/06/02//area_news/doc4a2485d1e93f0937794113.txt
Spokane River Dangerous For Users Now - The fast waters of the Spokane River are keeping rescue crews busy (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009290181_apwaragingriver.html?syndication=rss
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Columbian Op/Ed - Washingtonians Send Mixed Signals on Clean Energy
http://columbian.com/article/20090602/BIZ01/706029986/-1/BIZ
News Tribune Editorial - Ocean Power Deserves Better Budget Play (Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/editorials/story/763981.html
Wind Farms? Numbers of sage grouse in Oregon dropping: The feds are using some stimulus money to study the effect of wind farms on a dwindling sage grouse population in Central Oregon (The World, Coos Bay, OR)
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/06/01/news/doc4a241b4f804f0329659383.txt
Wood Is New Coal as Polluters Use Carbon-Eating Trees “…the renewable fuel can be cheaper than coal and ignited without needing permits to release carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming…” (Bloomberg News)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aYIHK.YDKafc&refer=latin_america
State of Oregon Awards $17 Million Loan to New Hydroelectric Plant (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/06/01/daily10.html?ana=from_rss
Earmarks: Utah Senators Say Alternative Energy Requests More Than Doubled (Salt Lake Tribune)
http://www.sltrib.com/News/ci_12486867
Texas - Electricity Transmission Limits Wind Boom in the Panhandle (KFDA, Amarillo, TX)
http://www.newschannel10.com/Global/story.asp?S=10456667
Texas - Showing Just What ‘Green' Means (San Antonio Express News)
http://www.mysanantonio.com/livinggreensa/46667482.html
Wall Street Journal Editorial - Ethanol's Grocery Bill: Two federal studies add up the corn fuel's exorbitant cost
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124389966385274413.html
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Oregon's Pro-Clothesline Bill Stalls in Senate (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5110-oregons-pro-clothesline-bill-stalls-senate/
United Kingdom - Electricity Figures Show Energy Efficiency Isn't Working: Electricity demand has fallen substantially in the last couple of years, but is that because of the recession, energy efficiency or something else entirely? (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/01/electricity-energy-efficiency-working
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Baltimore Sun Op/Ed - We're In For A Shock - Vaunted cap-and-trade bill does nothing about oil dependence
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.oil02jun02,0,5034936.story
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Colorado - Silverton's Digital-Divide Battle to Get PUC Hearing (Denver Post)
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_12498621
Stuck In Broadband No Man's Land - Many sold Verizon markets may have a long wait (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Stuck-In-Broadband-No-Mans-Land-102710
Cable Operators Mull IPTV As They Roll Out Faster Broadband (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/06/01/cable-operators-mull-iptv-as-they-roll-out-faster-broadband/
Group Says Time Warner Cable Terms May Hamper Use of Internet (Bloomberg News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12497966
GENERAL NEWS
Mason County’s First Day of Candidate Filing Draws 19 (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7424/reftab/1632/t/FIRST-DAY-OF-CANDIDATE-FILING-DRAWS-19/Default.aspx
News from Danger Jim! - Dry Spell Means Early Fire Season (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_060109WAB-fireseason-KC.3d006ecf.html?rss
Clallam County Treasurer's Office Investigated For Suspected Theft by Employee (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009290187_apwaclallamtheft.html?syndication=rss
Hood Canal Bridge Reopening Ceremonies Saturday (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/868826.html
City of Shelton’s Urban Growth Area Agreement Draws Opposition (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/7423/reftab/1632/t/U-G-A-AGREEMENT-DRAWS-OPPOSITION/Default.aspx
Chinese Company Said to Be Buyer of Hummer (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/business/03auto.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
DIVERSIONS
Ukulele Helps Ease the Pain (Michigan Public Radio)
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/michigan/news.newsmain/article/8/0/1511910/Arts..and..Culture/Ukulele.Helps.Ease.the.Pain
Enemies to Electrical Utilities Get another Black Mark - Cemetery squirrels nuts about US flags: Rogue rodent discovered robbing graves of Old Glory
http://www.thetimesherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009905300301
Jogger Injured After Using Twitter As He Ran
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5421097/Jogger-injured-after-using-Twitter-as-he-ran.html
Lard - After Decades Of Trying, Its Moment Is Finally Here
http://www.slate.com/id/2219314/?from=rss
SONG OF THE DAY
The Flying Lizards – Cover: Money (That's What I Want)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-P2qL3qkzk
Barrett Strong – Original Version: Money (That's What I Want)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6xkT7FMyTc
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
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