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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
· Pacific Northwest Power Consumption Peaks during Cold Weather
· Mason County PUD No. 3 Releases 2010 Budget
· Apartment Residents Displaced by Transformer Fire
· Jefferson PUD Gives Self 90 Days to Fill Vacancy
· Nine Undersea Routes Mapped for Power Grid
· Shattuck: Constellation Doing Away with Golden Parachutes
· City of San Antonio Nervous about Nuke Plant Expansion
· Jefferson PUD Commissioner’s View Applauded at Port Townsend
· Canada - Sockeye decline linked to climate change
· Canadian Scientists Call For More Cautious Salmon Harvest
· Hood Canal Salmon Hatchery May Face Closure
· Idaho’s Nez Perce Ship Coho Eggs to Oregon
· Leavenworth Hatchery Workers Host Ice-Breakers This Time Of Year
· Experiment to Test Killing One Owl to Help Another
· Why Is Capitol Lake Lower? To See If Cold Kills Snails
· Kittitas County - Environmental Questions Await Proposed Solar Farm
· Solar Power Coming to a Store near You
· Op/Ed - NIMBY Desert Dwellers Are Equal-Opportunity Naysayers
· Judge Halts West Virginia Wind Farm Due to Endangered Bats
· Indiana Regulators Order Greater Conservation Push
· U.S. Negotiator Dismisses Reparations for Climate
· Researcher’s Lie Could Threaten California Diesel Rules
· Op/Ed - We’ll Become A Can’t-Do Nation If We Listen To Clean-Energy Defeatists
· Oregon - Bankrupt Ethanol Plant Sells For $15M
· Seattle Gets First Peek At Nissan Electric Car
· Stimulus Funds Possible for Grant PUD Fiber
· Part of the Daily American Diet, 34 Gigabytes of Data
· AT&T to Urge Customers to Use Less Wireless
· Clearwire Suffers Five Hour
· Deep Freeze Continues as Flurries Possible in North Sound
· Carbon Monoxide Kills One In Portland, Ore., Home
· Wash. Rep. Baird says he will not seek re-election
· Hood Canal - Marine Mammals Set to Guard US Submarine Base
· Papa John’s Swamped in Police Officer Pizza Fundraiser
WORD OF THE DAY
Mugwump • \MUG-wump \ • noun – 1: a bolter from the Republican party in 1884 2: a person who is independent (as in politics) or who remains undecided or neutral
From Massachusett mugquomp, muggumquomp war leader
“Will you PLEASE make up your mind about your menu choice,” Mindy shouted one morning at her hesitant husband in the local hash-house. “Had I known you were such a mugwump I would have never married you,” she frumped.
WEATHER
Shelton Forecast & 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
Pacific Northwest Power Consumption Peaks during Cold Weather (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=253779
Mason County PUD No. 3 Releases 2010 Budget (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=815:pud-3-releases-2010-budget-&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
Apartment Residents Displaced by Transformer Fire (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010472201_webauburn10m.html?syndication=rss
Jefferson PUD Gives Self 90 Days to Fill Vacancy (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20091210/news/312109989
Nine Undersea Routes Mapped for Power Grid (Pacific Business News)
http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2009/12/07/daily21.html?ana=from_rss
Shattuck: Constellation Doing Away with Golden Parachutes (Baltimore Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/12/07/daily26.html?ana=from_rss
City of San Antonio Nervous about Nuke Plant Expansion (Courthouse News)
http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/12/09/City_Nervous_About_Nuke_Plant_Expansion.htm
Jefferson PUD Commissioner’s View Applauded at Port Townsend Forum on Open Government (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20091210/NEWS/312109986
FISH & WILDLIFE
Canada - Sockeye decline linked to climate change - Change in ocean conditions in 2007 likely behind mass death of stocks (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/09/bc-scientists-sockeye-climate-change.html?ref=rss
Canadian Scientists Call For More Cautious Salmon Harvest - Government needs to conduct more research to uncover cause of declining Fraser returns, think tank says (Globe and Mail, Canada)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/scientists-call-for-more-cautious-salmon-harvest/article1395120/
Hood Canal Salmon Hatchery May Face Closure (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20091210/news/312109985
Idaho’s Nez Perce Ship Coho Eggs to Oregon (Associated Press)
http://www.kpvi.com/global/story.asp?s=11653997
Leavenworth Hatchery Workers Host Ice-Breakers This Time Of Year (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/dec/09/hatchery-workers-host-ice-breakers-this-time-of/
Experiment to Test Killing One Owl to Help Another (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010467666_apusowlvsowl1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
Why Is Capitol Lake Lower? To See If Cold Kills Snails (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/1065444.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Kittitas County - Environmental Questions Await Proposed Solar Farm (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/413046_Solar09.html?source=rss
Solar Power Coming to a Store near You (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010467926_apusdiysolar.html?syndication=rss
Los Angeles Times Op/Ed - NIMBY Desert Dwellers Are Equal-Opportunity Naysayers
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-lewis10-2009dec10,0,4418624.story
Judge Halts West Virginia Wind Farm Due to Endangered Bats (ABC News)
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9294527
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Indiana Regulators Order Greater Conservation Push (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/10/financial/f082510S57.DTL&feed=rss.business
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
U.S. Negotiator Dismisses Reparations for Climate (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/science/earth/10climate.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Researcher’s Lie Could Threaten California Diesel Rules (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/09/MNQR1B123E.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Seattle Times Op/Ed - We’ll Become A Can’t-Do Nation If We Listen To Clean-Energy Defeatists
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2010462842_harrop10.html?syndication=rss
Oregon - Bankrupt Ethanol Plant Sells For $15M (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/12/07/daily27.html
Seattle Gets First Peek At Nissan Electric Car (Seattle Tmes)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010468141_electriccars10m.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Stimulus Funds Possible for Grant PUD Fiber (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2009/12/09/news/doc4b2033a518ecd924350423.txt
Part of the Daily American Diet, 34 Gigabytes of Data (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/10data.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
AT&T to Urge Customers to Use Less Wireless Data (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/companies/10iphone.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Clearwire Suffers Five Hour Outage - In half a dozen of the company’s launch markets (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Clearwire-Suffers-Five-Hour-Outage-105903
GENERAL NEWS
Deep Freeze Continues as Flurries Possible in North Sound (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/weather/21906662/detail.html
Carbon Monoxide Kills One In Portland, Ore., Home (NW Cable News)
http://www.nwcn.com/news/78943637.html
Wash. Rep. Baird says he will not seek re-election
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/1065280.html
Hood Canal - Marine Mammals Set to Guard US Submarine Base (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/2009/dec/Marine-Mammals-Set-to-Guard-US-Submarine-Base.html
Papa John’s Swamped in Police Officer Pizza Fundraiser (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010467133_webpizza09m.html?syndication=rss
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
No Eggo Shortage for Costco Members
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13954531?nclick_check=1
WSDOT Says “Bah, Humbug” To Poulsbo Christmas Lights
http://www.king5.com/news/local/WSDOT-says-bahumbug-to-Christmas-lights-78942702.html
Man, 93, Adopts 64-Year-Old Foster Son
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21907362/detail.html
Dog Missing 3 Weeks Found In Storm Drain
http://www.kirotv.com/family/21901255/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Greg Lake - I Believe in Father Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O_fCs5Buwg
Thursday, December 10, 2009
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