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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• PSE Natural-Gas Rates Will Fall; Power Rates Will Increase
• Northwest Power and Conservation Council to Hold Sept. 30 Hearing
• Fall Chinook Count Huge At Bonneville
• Salmon Litigants Promise Responses to Obama Plan
• Op/Ed - Wide Support for Dam Removal
• See Survey That Shows Exactly The Opposite
• Shrunken West Coast Fishing Fleet to Shrink Further
• Op/Ed - Why Feinstein Seeks Review of San Joaquin River Delta Findings
• State of Oregon Sends Fish Passage Money to Clean Up Road Runoff
• Lewis County Eagle Nest Removal Would Be a First
• School Drinking Water Contains Toxins
• Chelan PUD, State Give Solar Energy a Boost
• Avista Calls for Additional Renewable Energy
• Clean-Energy Jobs Touch off Bidding Wars between States
• Recession Causes Drop In U.S. Wind Installations
• Self-Interest - Global Wind Leaders Push Climate Legislation
• $3.1 Billion - California Sets Biggest Energy Efficiency Plan
• New Groups Revive the Debate over Causes of Climate Change
• California Clean-Air Program Designed To Boost Forests
• Carbon Disclosure Project: Con Edison Ranks Again as a Top Performer
• Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper
• How Much Broadband Do We Need?
• FCC To Examine Wireless Broadband Demands
• Worker Killed At Olympia Area Cider Mill
• Smoke from Two Oregon Wildfires Reaches Into Canada
• North Mason Chamber Members Reject Proposal to Add 'Kitsap' Label
• Forbes ranks Washington State No. 2 for Business
WORD OF THE DAY
Epigone • \EPP-ih-gōne \ • noun – Follower, disciple; also: an inferior imitator
Mariana was determined to exceed the glory of the previous mail delivery person in the office. Unfortunately, her inability to organize the mail by name and location doomed her forever as a pale epigone of her predecessors.
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
PSE Natural-Gas Rates Will Fall; Power Rates Will Increase (Olympian, WA – decreased BPA subsidy)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/981803.html
Northwest Power and Conservation Council to Hold Sept. 30 Hearing (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/energy/archives/180240.asp?source=rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Fall Chinook Count Huge At Bonneville (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090924/SPORTS04/709249926/Allen+Thomas+column++Fall+chinook+count+huge+at+Bonneville
Salmon Litigants Promise Responses to Obama Plan (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5894-salmon-litigants-promise-responses-obama-plan/
Spokesman Review Op/Ed - Wide Support for Dam Removal
http://www.spokesman.com/letters/2009/sep/25/many-oppose-latest-columbia-snake-salmon-plan/
See Survey That Shows Exactly The Opposite (NW River Partners: Links to 7.6 MB PDF File - Only 6% cited removing dams as a factor to help salmon; 71% agree that removing the lower Snake River dams would be an extreme solution.)
http://www.nwriverpartners.org/images/pdfs/pollresultssummary4-09.pdf
Shrunken West Coast Fishing Fleet to Shrink Further (KUOW Radio, Seattle)
http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=18473
SF Chronicle Op/Ed - Why Feinstein Seeks Review of San Joaquin River Delta Findings
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/25/EDK619SBTF.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
State of Oregon Sends Fish Passage Money to Clean Up Road Runoff (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5895-odot-sends-fish-passage-money-clean-road-runoff/
Lewis County Eagle Nest Removal Would Be a First - Chehalis Aerie Would Be First in State to Be Taken Down Since Bird Was Removed From Endangered Species List (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/09/25/news//doc4abbb6b5b98d8585354053.txt
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
School Drinking Water Contains Toxins (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009942499_apustoxicwaterschools.html?syndication=rss
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Chelan PUD, State Give Solar Energy a Boost (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/sep/24/pud-state-give-solar-energy-a-boost/
Avista Calls for Additional Renewable Energy (PR NewsWire)
http://sev.prnewswire.com/oil-energy/20090924/SF8151924092009-1.html
Clean-Energy Jobs Touch off Bidding Wars between States (USA Today – is there just one winner in this, or do we all get “participation trophies?”)
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/environment/2009-09-24-energy-jobs-incentives-states_N.htm
Recession Causes Drop In U.S. Wind Installations
http://pepei.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=6&ARTICLE_ID=369414&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss
Self-Interest - Global Wind Leaders Push Climate Legislation (Associated Press)
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/global-wind-leaders-push-climate-legislation-1.1473828
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
$3.1 Billion - California Sets Biggest Energy Efficiency Plan (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58N70520090924
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
New Groups Revive the Debate over Causes of Climate Change (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092404797.html?hpid=sec-business
Carbon Sequestration: California Clean-Air Program Designed To Boost Forests (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2235238~Calif__clean_air_program_designed_to_boost_forests.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
Carbon Disclosure Project: Con Edison Ranks Again as a Top Performer (Electric Energy Online – Ahem, see Public Utilities, Pacific Northwest…)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&rss=1&id=119072
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper - Soft Toilet Paper's Hard on the Earth, But Will We Sit for the Alternative? (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/23/AR2009092304711.html?wprss=rss_business
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
How Much Broadband Do We Need? (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/09/24/how-much-broadband-do-we-need/
FCC To Examine Wireless Broadband Demands (Washington Post)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2009/09/fcc_asks_if_enough_spectrum_fo.html
GENERAL NEWS
Worker Killed At Olympia Area Cider Mill - Police say man shot ex-girlfriend, self (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/982247.html
Smoke from Two Oregon Wildfires Reaches Into Canada (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5883-smoke-two-oregon-wildfires-reaches-canada/
39-30 Vote - North Mason Chamber Members Reject Proposal to Add 'Kitsap' Label (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/24/north-mason-chamber-members-reject-kitsap-label/?partner=RSS
Forbes ranks Washington State No. 2 for Business (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090925/BIZ01/709259967/-1/BIZ
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
At 19 Pounds - Giant Baby Draws Spectators to Indonesian Hospital
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009938511_apasindonesiagiantbaby.html?syndication=rss
Pomeranians and Put Bulls, Oh My! Judge Orders Pomeranian to Leave Town
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009937980_apusoddpomeranianbanned.html?syndication=rss
Bob Dylan to Release Christmas Album for Charity
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009936445_apunmusicbobdylan.html?syndication=rss
It's A Mystery: Whose $100 Bills Rained On Sunnyvale Recycling Workers?
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13419175
Pilot Allegedly Buzzed Ex-Girlfriend's House
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/24/BABN19S3AT.DTL&feed=rss.news
SONG OF THE DAY
Eric Burdon and the Animals - Sky Pilot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gL3HTlfW0A
Friday, September 25, 2009
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