Energy News Digest for March 31, 2010

All the links in today’s news digest lead to current stories. Please note that some media organizations update their web sites regularly, which may result in broken links in the future.

To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)

·         Why Centralia Matters - Everyone Has a Stake in Washington's Coal Plant

·         Clallam economic summit to focus on jobs creation

·         Grant County Helps Fund New PUD Substation - For BMW Parts Manufacturer

·         Oregon - City of Dalles City Backs Off PUD Fee Hike: Wireless fee could be in city’s future

·         California Public Utility Commission Picks Firm to Investigate PG&E Smart Meters

·         Los Angeles Leaders to Consider Smaller Electricity Rate Hike

·         Wyoming - Rocky Mountain Power Agrees to Trim Rate Increase

·         Second Radioactive Substance at Vermont Yankee Nuke Plant

·         Fire Reported at Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant

·         Calvert Cliffs - New Maryland Nuclear Reactor Depends on Loan Guarantee Constellation

·         Nuclear Power: Obama Team Touts Mini-Nukes to Fight Global Warming

·         Solar, Wind Power Groups Becoming Prominent Washington Lobbying

·         Sea Lions Cause a Stir at Willamette Falls

·         California Sport Salmon Fishermen Ready Their Reels

·         Field & Stream Columnist - Some Dams Are Better Than Others

·         Second Bald Eagle Found Shot Dead in Spokane’s Riverside State Park

·         California Sea Otter Population in Decline

·         Study Seconds Army's Plans for Hanson Dam

·         PUD Commissioners from Clallam, Grays Harbor, Pacific & Mason 3 to Meet With Energy Northwest in Joint Workshop on Radar Ridge Wind Project

·         Guest Column: (Radar Ridge) Wind Project Deserves Fair, Timely Review

·         Grayland Turbines Go Up to Keep Prices Down

·         Check Sequim School Solar Harvest on Web - Photovoltaic Stats Uploaded Live to the Internet

·         Washington State Energy Projects Get $16.5M in Stimulus Funds

·         Biofuels Company Will Mean New Toppenish Jobs

·         Here’s a list of the funded projects, includes in Clark & Pend Oreille Counties

·         Gone With the Wind: Capital for China’s Turbine Makers

·         Michigan - Grand Rapids Community College Will Train Students in Jobs to Manufacture, Maintain Wind Energy Turbines

·         Kansas - Big Biomass Plans Sink in Lane County: Prairie Fire plant

·         California Solar Projects Rush to Beat Deadline for Subsidies

·         Santa Clara County, Cities Team on Renewable Energy Project

·         Missouri Considers Animal Waste Gas as Renewable Energy

·         Seattle City Light’s “Company Towns” to Get Energy Upgrades

·         California - On the Money: Stimulus Funds Going Out of State?

·         Ed Begley Says $10 of Insulation Helped Shrink Utility Bills by Half

·         Harford Courant Op/Ed - Why Sabotage Effort to Save Energy?

·         United Kingdom Panel Calls Climate Data Valid

·         Carbon Trading & the Great Recession

·         Washington State among First to Get Nissan's New Leaf

·         Ford, Microsoft to Work on Electric-Car Charging

·         Profit from Backyard 'Green Power' – Feed-In Tariffs & the ‘Great Leap Forward’

·         German Film Offers Answers to Gore Climate Concerns

·         Plan Would Help Subsidize Access to Broadband

·         Verizon iPhone Report Sends Apple Shares to All-Time High

·         Verizon, Google Pretend They Don't Want Government Help

·         Microsoft, Google in Coalition to Boost 'Cloud' Privacy

·         State House Plans to be Back in Session Friday

·         State Lawmakers Debrief Bremerton Chamber Members on Special Session

·         Once-Underestimated, Sen. Patty Murray is Northwest's Most Powerful Politician

·         Asphalt Has Become So Expensive That Some States Are Going Back to Gravel

·         Washington Governor Signs $8.5B Transportation Budget

·         Once Envied, America's Aging Infrastructure is in Alarming Shape

·         Two-Vehicle Crash Injures Tumwater Man, Shelton Teen

·         Hate groups, militias on the rise in Washington State

·         Thousands May Receive Settlement Money in Indian Trust Lawsuit

·         Copper Prices Rise on Improving Economic News

·         Washington Wine Industry Tops 650 Wineries

·         Costco & the Paradox of Choice

·         Remove studded tires by April 11

WORD OF THE DAY

Reprobate • \REP-ruh-bait\ • noun - 1: a person foreordained to damnation *2: a depraved person: scoundrel

“Rooster, you reprobate,” shrilled Miss Hannigan at her hoodlum brother.

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

Why Centralia Matters - Everyone Has a Stake in Washington's Coal Plant (Sightline Daily)

http://daily.sightline.org/daily_score/archive/2010/03/30/why-centralia-matters

Clallam economic summit to focus on jobs creation “…the hospital is a big economic driver in Clallam County, & so is the PUD when it comes to infrastructure…” (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20100331/news/303319980

Grant County Helps Fund New PUD Substation - For BMW Parts Manufacturer (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)

http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2010/03/30/news/doc4bb275ecf3476219025690.txt

Oregon - City of Dalles City Backs Off PUD Fee Hike: Wireless fee could be in city’s future (The Dalles Chronicle, OR)

http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2010/03/news03-30-10-01.shtml

California Public Utility Commission Picks Firm to Investigate PG&E Smart Meters (San Francisco Business Times)

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/03/29/daily37.html

Los Angeles Leaders to Consider Smaller Electricity Rate Hike – Original increase was 37% to pay for green projects (Associated Press)

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14784861

Wyoming - Rocky Mountain Power Agrees to Trim Rate Increase (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)

http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_428ffac5-91c0-5829-9674-82749f14c332.html

Second Radioactive Substance at Vermont Yankee Nuke Plant (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2011482433_apusvermontyankee.html?syndication=rss

Fire Reported at Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant (WECT-TV, Wilmington, NC)

http://www.wect.com/Global/story.asp?S=12221607

Calvert Cliffs - New Maryland Nuclear Reactor Depends on Loan Guarantee Constellation (NASDAQ)

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201003291304dowjonesdjonline000317&title=new-maryland-nuclear-reactor-depends-on-loan-guarantee-constellation

Nuclear Power: Obama Team Touts Mini-Nukes to Fight Global Warming (Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0330/Nuclear-power-Obama-team-touts-mini-nukes-to-fight-global-warming

Solar, Wind Power Groups Becoming Prominent Washington Lobbying (Open Secrets)

http://209.190.229.100/news/2010/03/solar-wind-power-becoming-prominent.html

FISH, WATER & WILDLIFE

Sea Lions Cause a Stir at Willamette Falls - Officials will try to scare the massive mammals with explosives (Oregon City News, OR)

http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=126997866815858600

California Sport Salmon Fishermen Ready Their Reels (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011481319_apcadisappearingsalmon1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss

Field & Stream Columnist - Some Dams Are Better Than Others

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/where-fish-trout/2010/03/deeter-some-dams-are-better-others

Second Bald Eagle Found Shot Dead in Spokane’s Riverside State Park (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/mar/31/in-brief-second-bald-eagle-found-shot-dead/

California Sea Otter Population in Decline (Associated Press)

http://www.examiner.com/a-2554540~Sea_otter_population_in_decline.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines

Study Seconds Army's Plans for Hanson Dam (KOMO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/89564952.html

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

PUD Commissioners from Clallam, Grays Harbor, Pacific & Mason 3 to Meet With Energy Northwest in Joint Workshop on Radar Ridge Wind Project (Mason County PUD No. 3)

http://www.masonpud3.org/Newsdisplay.aspx?NewsID=702

Guest Column: (Radar Ridge) Wind Project Deserves Fair, Timely Review (Chinook Observer, Long Beach, WA)

http://www.chinookobserver.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&ArticleID=33428

Grayland Turbines Go Up to Keep Prices Down (Chinook Observer, Long Beach, WA)

http://www.chinookobserver.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=33434

Check Sequim School Solar Harvest on Web - Photovoltaic Stats Uploaded Live to the Internet (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20100331/news/303319986

Washington State Energy Projects Get $16.5M in Stimulus Funds (Puget Sound Business Journal)

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2010/03/29/daily14.html

Biofuels Company Will Mean New Toppenish Jobs (Yakima Herald Republic, WA)

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/03/30/biofuels-company-will-mean-new-toppenish-jobs

Here’s a list of the funded projects, includes in Clark & Pend Oreille Counties (Links to PDF File)

http://www.governor.wa.gov/news/SEP_Projects.pdf

Gone With the Wind: Capital for China’s Turbine Makers (Wall Street Journal)

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/03/31/gone-with-the-wind-capital-for-chinas-turbine-makers/

Michigan - Grand Rapids Community College Will Train Students in Jobs to Manufacture, Maintain Wind Energy Turbines (Grand Rapids Press, MI)

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/03/grand_rapids_community_college_38.html

Kansas - Big Biomass Plans Sink in Lane County: Prairie Fire plant, designed to boost economy, has officially closed down (Trading Markets)

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/stock-alert/fsce_big-biomass-plans-sink-in-lane-county-prairie-fire-plant-designed-to-boost-economy-has-officially-882555.html

California Solar Projects Rush to Beat Deadline for Subsidies (USA Today)

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/environment/2010-03-31-californiasolar31_CV_N.htm?csp=34

Santa Clara County, Cities Team on Renewable Energy Project (Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal)

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2010/03/29/daily29.html

Missouri Considers Animal Waste Gas as Renewable Energy (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2011482418_apmoxgrmethanepower.html?syndication=rss

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Seattle City Light’s “Company Towns” to Get Energy Upgrades (Puget Sound Business Journal)

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2010/03/29/daily21.html

California - On the Money: Stimulus Funds Going Out of State? Millions Could be Going to Oregon (KOVR-TV, Sacramento, CA)

http://cbs13.com/onthemoney/on.the.money.2.1600825.html

Ed Begley Says $10 of Insulation Helped Shrink Utility Bills by Half (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/03/29/1127639/ed-begley-says-10-of-insulation.html

Harford Courant Op/Ed - Why Sabotage Effort to Save Energy?

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-lopez-trinity-energy-saving.artmar31,0,4245119.story

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

United Kingdom Panel Calls Climate Data Valid (Associated Press)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/science/earth/31climate.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Carbon Trading & the Great Recession (NY Times)

http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/carbon-trading-and-the-great-recession/

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

Washington State among First to Get Nissan's New Leaf (KPLU Radio, Tacoma, WA)

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kplu/news.newsmain/article/0/13/1630411/Top.Stories/State.Among.First.to.Get.Nissan’s.New..Leaf

Ford, Microsoft to Work on Electric-Car Charging (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011487820_apusfordelectricity.html?syndication=rss

Profit from Backyard 'Green Power' – Feed-In Tariffs & the ‘Great Leap Forward’ (Money Week)

http://www.moneyweek.com/investments/commodities/profit-from-backyard-green-power-01305.aspx

German Film Offers Answers to Gore Climate Concerns (Reuters)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62U1TR20100331

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Plan Would Help Subsidize Access to Broadband (Nat’l Public Radio)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125361296&ft=1&f=2

Verizon iPhone Report Sends Apple Shares to All-Time High (Associated Press)

http://www.examiner.com/a-2553203~Verizon_report_sends_Apple_shares_to_all_time_high.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines

Verizon, Google Pretend They Don't Want Government Help - Push publicly for limited government, privately for regulation of one another (Broadband Reports)

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Google-Pretend-They-Dont-Want-Government-Help-107643

Microsoft, Google in Coalition to Boost 'Cloud' Privacy (Seattle Times)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2011483055_netprivacy31.html

GOVERNANCE & POLITICS

State House Plans to be Back in Session Friday (Olympian, WA)

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/03/30/1190293/state-house-plans-to-be-back-in.html

State Lawmakers Debrief Bremerton Chamber Members on Special Session (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/mar/30/state-lawmakers-debrief-chamber-members-on/?partner=RSS

Once-Underestimated, Sen. Patty Murray is Northwest's Most Powerful Politician (The Oregonian, Portland)

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/03/once-underestimated_sen_patty.html

Asphalt Has Become So Expensive That Some States Are Going Back to Gravel (Kiplinger)

http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/archive/states-will-use-gravel-for-roads-less-traveled.html

GENERAL NEWS

Washington Governor Signs $8.5B Transportation Budget (Associated Press)

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/03/30/1190060/wa-governor-signs-85b-transportation.html

Once Envied, America's Aging Infrastructure is in Alarming Shape (Crosscut Seattle)

http://crosscut.com/2010/03/31/econ-finance/19702/

Two-Vehicle Crash Injures Tumwater Man, Shelton Teen (Olympian, WA)

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/03/30/1190189/2-vehicle-crash-injures-tumwater.html

Hate groups, militias on the rise in Washington State (KIRO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=304410

Thousands May Receive Settlement Money in Indian Trust Lawsuit (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)

http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=12230480

Copper Prices Rise on Improving Economic News (Associated Press)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/03/30/financial/f131941D33.DTL&feed=rss.business

Washington Wine Industry Tops 650 Wineries (Associated Press)

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/89604237.html

Costco & the Paradox of Choice (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/417559_costco30.html?source=pimail

Remove studded tires by April 11 (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)

http://blog.thenewstribune.com/crime/2010/03/30/remove-studded-tires-by-april-11/

DIVERSIONS

Florida Deputy Uses Google Earth to Make Arrest

http://www.kirotv.com/technology/22999986/detail.html

Man Fleeing Police Jumps Fence - Into Prison

http://www.kirotv.com/news/22997939/detail.html

Tenant Says She Was Evicted over Easter Décor

http://www.kirotv.com/news/22996570/detail.html

Portland's Coffee Culture Swipes Seattle's Crown

http://news.opb.org/article/7017-tale-two-cities-portlands-coffee-culture-swipes-seattles-crown/

SONG OF THE DAY

Frank Sinatra - The Coffee Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVGXcjM9SOQ

The Coffee Song - The Arrogant Worms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZHgHN87GRg

Energy News Digest for March 30, 2010

All the links in today’s news digest lead to current stories. Please note that some media organizations update their web sites regularly, which may result in broken links in the future.

To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)

·         Wind Generates Eastern Washington/Idaho Problems

·         Southern Montana Electric Cooperative Critics Get Some Answers about Power Costs

·         Oregon - Bonneville Power to Replace Transmission Line between Bandon & Gold Beach

·         Colorado House Passes Bill to Spur Utilities to Switch from Coal to Gas

·         Colorado Gas-Coal Fight Could Preview National Battle

·         Oregon – City of Dalles Eyes Increased Franchise Fees: Budget shortfall in the city’s street fund may ultimately lead to a hike in local electrical rates

·         San Jose Mercury News Op/Ed - Two-Thirds Vote Should be Needed to Let Government Start a Utility

·         Lawrence to Become First City in Kansas to Get Smart Electricity Meters

·         Zanesville Times-Recorder Op/Ed - Electric Utility Industry is Heading into a ‘Perfect Storm’

·         Atlantic City Electric Urges Customers to be Safe This Spring

·         Canada - Warm Water Partly Cause of Fraser River Salmon Decline, Study Finds

·         Gill-Netting on Lower Columbia River is on for Tuesday; Sport Fishing Closed

·         Canada - Calls to Save BC Salmon from Across the Pond

·         Electric Power Research Institute Seeks Test Site for Fish Friendly Hydropower Turbine

·         Campaign Launched Against Nestle Waters Proposed Cascade Locks Plant

·         Groups Say They Intend to Sue over Sage Grouse

·         Part of PUD 3 Tree Program - Mason County Conservation District & Shelton High Students Enhance Oakland Bay Shoreline Habitat

·         Trash Bound for Mainland Keeps Piling Up in Hawaii

·         Montana - Region Continues Move toward Wind Development

·         Small Wind Group Begins Site Assessor Training

·         California - ‘Free Solar’ Scam: Sunnyvale Man Sentenced to Eight Months in Jail

·         California - Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative Opens New Cogeneration Power Plant

·         Ohio - Benefits, Peril Seen in Energy Transition

·         Electric Tankless Water Heater Manufacturers Form Coalition

·         Can Carbon ‘Cap & Trade’ Make a Comeback?

·         EPA Phases in Permits for Greenhouse Gas Pollution

·         EPA Delays Plants’ Pollution Permits

·         Among Weathercasters, Doubt on Warming

·         Professor Criticized for Climate Change Work Says Research Holds Up

·         Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the Nation’s Energy Future

·         Public to Get Look at Simpson Tacoma Community ‘Footprint’

·         Coal Fuels Much of Internet “Cloud”, Says Greenpeace

·         “Judge Not, That Ye be Judged…” Greenpeace Loses Round Two in Tiff with Facebook

·         Nissan Prices Its First Electric Car at Roughly $25K

·         Pearl Jam Giving $210,000 to Offset Carbon Emissions

·         The Press Realizes the FiOS Party is Over

·         Sweden Predicts the Future of Broadband & It May Scare You

·         Parts of Cleveland Getting 1 Gbps, for Free

·         Maine Rejects Radiation Warning Labels on Cell Phones

·         More Than $34,000 Poorer, Puyallup Goes Back to Free Parking

·         Recession Creating More Washington State Highway Projects This Season

·         Cause of Simpson’s Shelton Waterfront Fire Likely from “Hot Work”

·         Worker Killed in Port Angeles Conveyor Accident

·         Home Being Washed Away on Washington Coast

·         Storm Damage 2010: States Ring Up the Cost

·         Lt. Governor Talks about Underage Drinking at Shelton Town Hall Meeting

·         Moses Lake Officials Hopeful about BMW Announcement

·         Nine Charged With Bullying Teen Who Killed Herself

·         Chinese Court Hands Down Stiff Sentences to Four Mining Company Employees

·         Washington Post Poll: Majority Support Cutting Saturday Mail

WORD OF THE DAY

Fecund • \FECK-und\ • adjective - 1: fruitful in offspring or vegetation: prolific

2: intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree

Barty’s fevered, fecund mind was in overdrive. He was the workhorse in the Menlo Park facility headed by the famed Thomas Edison. Unfortunately for Barty, he was never given the really BIG projects. He normally got assignments like, come up with an idea for “strike anywhere matches,” or a way to keep maple syrup from running down the outside of the jug. “What I don’t do in flashy inventions,” he was wont to say, “I make up for in quantity!”

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

Wind Generates Eastern Washington/Idaho Problems - Area socked with gusts that down power lines (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/mar/30/wind-generates-problems/

Southern Montana Electric Cooperative Critics Get Some Answers about Power Costs (Billings Gazette, MT)

http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_57bc1178-3bbe-11df-8c33-001cc4c002e0.html

Oregon - Bonneville Power to Replace Transmission Line between Bandon & Gold Beach (Bandon World, OR)

http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2010/03/30/news/doc4bb0da4be3cd6644558610.txt

Colorado House Passes Bill to Spur Utilities to Switch from Coal to Gas (SNL Financial)

http://www.snl.com/Interactivex/article.aspx?CdId=A-10939346-10292

Colorado Gas-Coal Fight Could Preview National Battle (KOAA-TV, Colorado Springs, CO)

http://www.newsfirst5.com/news/colorado-gas-coal-fight-could-preview-national-battle/

Oregon – City of Dalles Eyes Increased Franchise Fees: Budget shortfall in the city’s street fund may ultimately lead to a hike in local electrical rates (Dalles Chronicle, OR)

http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2010/03/news03-28-10-02.shtml

San Jose Mercury News Op/Ed - Two-Thirds Vote Should be Needed to Let Government Start a Utility

http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_14765813

Lawrence to Become First City in Kansas to Get Smart Electricity Meters (Lawrence Journal-World)

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2010/mar/30/lawrence-become-first-city-kansas-get-smart-electr/?city_local

Zanesville Times-Recorder Op/Ed - Electric Utility Industry is Heading into a ‘Perfect Storm’

http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/article/20100328/OPINION03/3280348/1014/OPINION

Atlantic City Electric Urges Customers to be Safe This Spring - Steer clear of overhead & underground utility lines (Electric Energy Online)

http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&rss=1&id=130509

FISH & WATER

Canada - Warm Water Partly Cause of Fraser River Salmon Decline, Study Finds (Globe & Mail)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/warm-water-partly-cause-of-salmon-decline-study-finds/article1516741/

Gill-Netting on Lower Columbia River is on for Tuesday; Sport Fishing Closed (The Oregonian, Portland)

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/bill_monroe/index.ssf/2010/03/gill-netting_on_lower_columbia_1.html

Canada - Calls to Save BC Salmon from Across the Pond (Globe & Mail)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/calls-to-save-salmon-from-across-the-pond/article1515880/

Electric Power Research Institute Seeks Test Site for Fish Friendly Hydropower Turbine (Renewable Energy World)

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/03/electric-power-research-institute-seeks-test-site-for-fish-friendly-hydropower-turbine?cmpid=rss

Campaign Launched Against Nestle Waters Proposed Cascade Locks Plant (The Oregonian, Portland)

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/03/campaign_launched_against_nest.html

ECOLOGY & THE ENVIRONMENT

Groups Say They Intend to Sue over Sage Grouse (Associated Press)

http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=12223061

Part of PUD 3 Tree Program - Mason County Conservation District & Shelton High Students Enhance Oakland Bay Shoreline Habitat (Mason County PUD No. 3)

http://www.masonpud3.org/newsdisplay.aspx?newsid=701

Trash Bound for Mainland Keeps Piling Up in Hawaii (Associated Press)

http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=12221912

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Montana - Region Continues Move toward Wind Development (Great Falls Tribune, MT)

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20100328/REPOSITORY/3290320

Small Wind Group Begins Site Assessor Training (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)

http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/mar/30/small-wind-group-begins-site-assessor-training/

California - ‘Free Solar’ Scam: Sunnyvale Man Sentenced to Eight Months in Jail

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14779545

California - Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative Opens New Cogeneration Power Plant (Lassen County News, CA)

http://www.lassennews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5766:psrec-opens-new-cogeneration-power-plant&catid=2:lassencountynewsheadline&Itemid=1

Ohio - Benefits, Peril Seen in Energy Transition (Toledo Blade, OH)

http://www.toledoblade.com/article/20100327/NEWS16/3270366/-1/RSS

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Electric Tankless Water Heater Manufacturers Form Coalition to Achieve ENERGY STAR® Certification (Business Wire)

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100329006648&newsLang=en

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Can Carbon ‘Cap & Trade’ Make a Comeback? The recession has dampened enthusiasm for cap-&-trade legislation (Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/Money/Green-Economics/2010/0329/Can-carbon-cap-and-trade-make-a-comeback

EPA Phases in Permits for Greenhouse Gas Pollution (Reuters)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62S4JT20100329

EPA Delays Plants’ Pollution Permits (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/science/earth/30emissions.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Among Weathercasters, Doubt on Warming (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/science/earth/30warming.html?th&emc=th

Professor Criticized for Climate Change Work Says Research Holds Up, but There are Questions (Idaho Statesman, Boise, ID)

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/03/30/1135437/professor-criticized-for-climate.html

Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the Nation’s Energy Future (Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/29/AR2010032901892.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

Public to Get Look at Simpson Tacoma Community ‘Footprint’ (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/03/30/1128603/tacoma-public-to-get-look-at-simpson.html

Coal Fuels Much of Internet “Cloud”, Says Greenpeace (Reuters)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100330/wr_nm/us_climate_internet

“Judge Not, That Ye be Judged…” Greenpeace Loses Round Two in Tiff with Facebook (Reuters)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS101997167220100309

Nissan Prices Its First Electric Car at Roughly $25K (Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/30/AR2010033001693.html?nav=rss_email/components

Pearl Jam Giving $210,000 to Offset Carbon Emissions (KOMO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/89435157.html

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

The Press Realizes the FiOS Party is Over - But doesn’t quite see the bigger picture yet (Broadband Reports)

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/The-Press-Realizes-The-FiOS-Party-Is-Over-107639

Sweden Predicts the Future of Broadband & It May Scare You (GigaOM)

http://gigaom.com/2010/03/29/sweden-predicts-the-future-of-broadband-and-it-may-scare-you/

Parts of Cleveland Getting 1 Gbps, for Free (Broadband Reports)

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Parts-Of-Cleveland-Getting-1-Gbps-For-Free-107623

Maine Rejects Radiation Warning Labels on Cell Phones (Broadband Reports)

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Maine-Rejects-Radiation-Warning-Labels-on-Cell-Phones-107631

GOVERNANCE

More Than $34,000 Poorer, Puyallup Goes Back to Free Parking - ‘No real benefit’: City Council votes to end deal with company that managed garage (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/03/30/1128601/more-than-34000-poorer-puyallup.html

GENERAL NEWS

Recession Creating More Washington State Highway Projects This Season (KING-TV, Seattle)

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Recession-actually-creating-more-WA-highway-projects.html

Cause of Simpson’s Shelton Waterfront Fire Likely from “Hot Work”; Repairs Underway (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/1742-cause-of-simpson-fire-likely-from-hot-work-repairs-underway

Worker Killed in Port Angeles Conveyor Accident (Associated Press)

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/03/30/1189552/worker-killed-in-port-angeles.html

Home Being Washed Away on Washington Coast (KIRO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.kirotv.com/news/22994258/detail.html

Storm Damage 2010: States Ring Up the Cost (Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0329/Storm-damage-2010-States-ring-up-the-cost

Lt. Governor Talks about Underage Drinking at Shelton Town Hall Meeting (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/1740-lt-governor-talks-about-underage-drinking-at-shelton-town-hall-meeting

Moses Lake Officials Hopeful about BMW Announcement - Grant County PUD involved in talks (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)

http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2010/03/29/news/doc4bb12c6d7020b810311659.txt

Nine Charged With Bullying Teen Who Killed Herself (Associated Press)

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/mar/30/nine-charged-with-bullying-teen-who-killed-herself/

Chinese Court Hands Down Stiff Sentences to Four Mining Company Employees (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/world/asia/30riotinto.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Washington Post Poll: Majority Support Cutting Saturday Mail

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/03/postal_service_details_saturda.html

DIVERSIONS

Junk Food Addiction May be Clue to Obesity

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62R23O20100328

Feds: Woman Posed as FBI Agent, ‘Hired’ Neighbors

http://www.kirotv.com/news/22988936/detail.html

Two Survive ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Crash in Burien

http://www.kirotv.com/news/22996404/detail.html

Washington State School Leader Warns About Dangerous New Fire Fad – Kids lighting themselves on fire with “industrial-strength” body spray

http://www.king5.com/news/local/WA-school-leader-warns-about-dangerous-new-fire-fad-89509967.html

SONG OF THE DAY

Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcHNZVrxEts