Energy News Digest for September 15, 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.

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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES

Citizen Group Files Lawsuit against the Port of Shelton over ADAGE (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/3251-citizen-group-files-lawsuit-against-the-port-of-shelton-over-adage

RUS, NTIA Unveil New Broadband Stimulus Winners - $518 million from USDA/RUS, another $482 million from NTIA (Broadband Reports)

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/RUS-NTIA-Unveil-New-Broadband-Stimulus-Winners-110363

Pacific Gas & Electric Won’t Apply Billing Plan to San Bruno Fire – Could have allowed company to bill the public for last week’s deadly pipeline explosion (SF Chronicle)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/14/BAS01FDTS0.DTL

Tahuya - Victim’s Neighbor Arrested in Mason County Shooting (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/3254-man-shot-near-belfair-suspect-arrested

Boyd Is Chelan PUD’s New Chief Financial Officer (Wenatchee World, WA)

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/sep/14/boyd-is-chelan-puds-new-chief-financial-officer/

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)

• Pacific Gas & Electric Won’t Apply Billing Plan to San Bruno Fire
• Groups Mount New Challenge to Ruby Pipeline Plan
• California - Santa Cruz County Supervisors Vote to Support Moratorium on SmartMeters
• South Carolina: Nuclear Cleanup Underestimated by $1.5. Billion
• Boyd Is Chelan PUD’s New Chief Financial Officer
• Michigan - Consumers Energy Introduces New Rates in Preparation for Electric Vehicles
• Michigan - Chamber Supports Traverse City Public Utility
• Ocean Coho Take, Cowlitz, Nisqually River Angling Improves
• First Genetically Modified Salmon Sparks FDA Debate
• Whole Foods to Post Seafood Sustainability Ratings
• Editorial - Fishing at the Base of the (Food) Pyramid
• Tulalips Release Turkeys for Hunting by Tribe
• Sandy River Life After the Dam - Three Years after the Marmot Dam’s Removal, Where Did the Sediment Buildup Go?
• Oregon’s Rogue River Draws in Gold Prospectors
• The Clean Air Act Turns 40
• Anacortes to Supply Water to Bottler Everett Rebuffed
• Citizen Group Files Lawsuit against the Port of Shelton over ADAGE
• Biomass Takes Center Stage - Annual Forestry Tour Yields New Ideas for Timber Debris
• Proposed New Rules Concern Maine’s Biomass Industry
• Methane to Produce Power in Quincy
• National Hydropower Association Congratulates Snohomish PUD on DOE Funding Award
• Vestas Blames Human Error for V112 Wind Turbine Blade Detachment
• Massachusetts - Municipal Wind Power Project Moving Forward
• CEO: No Easy Fix to Maine Wind Turbine Noise Complaints
• New Jersey Solar Bill Too Costly, Complicated for Former Backers
• When Are We Going to Get This Transmission Thing Right?
• Editorial - They Must Think I’m a Dim Bulb
• Climate Policy Inaction Lost Oregon 26,000 Jobs, Groups Say
• States Are Climate Battlegrounds
• Arctic Sea Ice Continues Its Summer Slide
• Women Agree with Science on Global Warming More Than Men Do
• Roving Herds of Grazing Climate Helpers
• My Personal Biomass Incinerator - Should You Install a Wood-Burning Stove?
• RUS, NTIA Unveil New Broadband Stimulus Winners
• Federal Grant Bringing Wi-Fi to Rural Areas of Stevens, Spokane & Ferry Counties
• Online Banking Is Restored at Chase after Outage
• Internet Explorer 9 Test Launch Is Today
• Google Unveils White Space Broadband Trial in Ohio
• Editorial - ‘Net Neutrality’ Is a New Wrinkle in Web Content Competition
• How Do People Use Their Smartphones?
• At Twitter, a Web Site Is Revamped & Simplified
• Ten Things You Didn’t Know About the New Twitter.com
• States Cutting Benefits for Public-Sector Retirees
• A Look at State Pension Changes
• Census Response in Mason County Up Substantially from 2000
• Washington State’s 35th District Candidates Talk Education, Government Priorities
• Metric Interstate Divides Arizonans
• Tahuya - Victim’s Neighbor Arrested in Mason County Shooting
• Walla Walla: Five Year Old Shoots & Kills His Toddler Brother
• Oregon, Washington Secretaries of State Oppose Cuts to Saturday Mail Delivery
• Boeing Prepares for Illegal Subsidy Ruling from World Trade Organization
• Log Exports Still Booming at Port of Longview - Wind Power Shipping Slows
• Despite Call Before You Dig - Firefighters Respond to a Broken Gas Line
• Auditor: WWU Employee Wasted Tax Dollars on Trips, Parking Fees
• Olympia Man Admits to Thousands of Obscene Phone Calls

WORD OF THE DAY

Onomatopoeia • \on-uh-mott-uh-PEE-uh\ • noun - 1: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss) 2: the use of words whose sound suggests the sense.

“Whiz…bang…pow…vroom,” bellowed the toddler as he bounced around the room with his toy cars. His manic bouts of onomatopoeia did not end at nap time, as he snored loudly in French…much to his mother’s amusement.

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 Gas & Electric Won’t Apply Billing Plan to San Bruno Fire – Could have allowed company to bill the public for last week’s deadly pipeline explosion (SF Chronicle)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/14/BAS01FDTS0.DTL

Groups Mount New Challenge to Ruby Pipeline Plan (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2012893079_apnvrubypipeline.html

California - Santa Cruz County Supervisors Vote to Support Moratorium on SmartMeters (San Jose Mercury News, CA)

http://www.mercurynews.com/rss/ci_16073481

South Carolina: Nuclear Cleanup Underestimated by $1.5. Billion (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/us/15brfs-NUCLEARCLEAN_BRF.html

Boyd Is Chelan PUD’s New Chief Financial Officer (Wenatchee World, WA)

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/sep/14/boyd-is-chelan-puds-new-chief-financial-officer/

Michigan - Consumers Energy Introduces New Rates in Preparation for Chevy Volt, Other Electric Vehicles (Grand Rapids Press, MI)

http://www.mlive.com/auto/index.ssf/2010/09/consumers_energy_introduces_ne.html

Michigan - Chamber Supports Traverse City Public Utility (Interlochen Public Radio, MI)

http://ipr.interlochen.org/ipr-news-features/episode/9869

FISH & WILDLIFE

Ocean Coho Take, Cowlitz, Nisqually River Angling Improves (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/09/15/1341905/ocean-coho-take-cowlitz-nisqually.html

First Genetically Modified Salmon Sparks FDA Debate (USA Today)

http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/food/safety/2010-09-10-onlinesalmon15_ST_N.htm?csp=34news

Whole Foods to Post Seafood Sustainability Ratings (Oregonian, Portland)

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/09/whole_foods_to_post_seafood_su.html

Editorial - Fishing at the Base of the (Food) Pyramid (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/opinion/15wed3.html

Tulalips Release Turkeys for Hunting by Tribe (Everett Herald, WA)

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100915/NEWS01/709159790/-1/rss02

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Sandy River Life After the Dam - Three Years After the Marmot Dam’s Removal, Where Did the Sediment Buildup Go? (Sandy Post, OR)

http://www.sandypost.com/news/story.php?story_id=128451039679730000

Oregon’s Rogue River Draws in Gold Prospectors (SF Chronicle)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/15/BAFJ1FE3OV.DTL

The Clean Air Act Turns 40 (NY Times)

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/clean-air-act-turns-40/

Anacortes to Supply Water to Bottler Everett Rebuffed (Everett Herald, WA)

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100915/BIZ/709159942/-1/rss03

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Citizen Group Files Lawsuit against the Port of Shelton over ADAGE (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/3251-citizen-group-files-lawsuit-against-the-port-of-shelton-over-adage

Biomass Takes Center Stage - Annual Forestry Tour Yields New Ideas for Timber Debris (Daily Astorian, OR)

http://www.dailyastorian.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=73309

Proposed New Rules Concern Maine’s Biomass Industry (Maine Public Broadcasting Network)

http://www.mpbn.net/News/MaineNewsArchive/tabid/181/ctl/ViewItem/mid/3475/ItemId/13507/Default.aspx

Methane to Produce Power in Quincy (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)

http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/news/article_f956eec6-c049-11df-9087-001cc4c002e0.html

National Hydropower Association Congratulates Snohomish PUD on DOE Funding Award (Renewable Energy World)

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/national-hydropower-association/news/article/2010/09/nha-congratulates-snohomish-pud-on-doe-funding-award

Vestas Blames Human Error for V112 Wind Turbine Blade Detachment (Renewable Energy World)

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/09/vestas-blames-human-error-for-v112-wind-turbine-blade-detachment

Massachusetts - Municipal Wind Power Project Moving Forward (Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, MA)

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100915/NEWS/9150312/-1/NEWSMAP

CEO: No Easy Fix to Maine Wind Turbine Noise Complaints (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2012893816_apmewindturbinenoise.html

New Jersey Solar Bill Too Costly, Complicated for Former Backers (New Jersey Spotlight)

http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/10/0914/2052/

When Are We Going to Get This Transmission Thing Right? (Renewable Energy World)

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2010/09/when-are-we-going-to-get-this-transmission-thing-right

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Editorial - They Must Think I’m a Dim Bulb (Wenatchee World, WA)

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/sep/14/they-must-think-im-a-dim-bulb/

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Climate Policy Inaction Lost Oregon 26,000 Jobs, Groups Say (Sustainable Business Oregon)

http://sustainablebusinessoregon.com/articles/2010/09/climate_policy_inaction_lost_oregon_26000_jobs_groups_say.html

States Are Climate Battlegrounds (Politico)

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42173.html

Arctic Sea Ice Continues Its Summer Slide (NY Times)

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/arctic-sea-ice-continues-its-summer-slide/

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

Women Agree with Science on Global Warming More Than Men Do (Live Science)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100914/sc_livescience/womenagreewithscienceonglobalwarmingmorethanmendo

Roving Herds of Grazing Climate Helpers (Miller McCune Magazine)

http://www.miller-mccune.com/environment/roving-herds-of-grazing-climate-helpers-22521/

My Personal Biomass Incinerator - Should You Install a Wood-Burning Stove? “…wood stoves can also be significant sources of air pollution…” (DIY Life)

http://www.diylife.com/2010/09/15/wood-stoves/

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

RUS, NTIA Unveil New Broadband Stimulus Winners - $518 million from USDA/RUS, another $482 million from NTIA (Broadband Reports)

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/RUS-NTIA-Unveil-New-Broadband-Stimulus-Winners-110363

Federal Grant Bringing Wi-Fi to Rural Areas of Stevens, Spokane & Ferry Counties (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/sep/14/federal-grant-bringing-wi-fi-rural-areas/

Online Banking Is Restored at Chase after Outage (USA Today)

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2010-09-15-chase-restored_N.htm?csp=34money

Internet Explorer 9 Test Launch Is Today (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/09/15/1341881/internet-explorer-9-test-launch.html

Google Unveils White Space Broadband Trial in Ohio - Hospital trial got one-year experimental FCC license (Broadband Reports)

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Google-Unveils-White-Space-Broadband-Trial-In-Ohio-110365

Editorial - ‘Net Neutrality’ Is a New Wrinkle in Web Content Competition (Olympian, WA)

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/09/15/1370033/net-neutrality-is-a-new-wrinkle.html

How Do People Use Their Smartphones? (NY Times)

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/report-looks-at-trends-with-mobile-apps/

At Twitter, a Web Site Is Revamped & Simplified (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/technology/15twitter.html

Ten Things You Didn’t Know About the New Twitter.com (GigaOM)

http://gigaom.com/2010/09/14/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-new-twitter-com/

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE

States Cutting Benefits for Public-Sector Retirees “…Only four states - Florida, New York, Washington & Wisconsin - had fully funded pension systems as of 2008…” (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2012898691_apuspensionheadaches.html

A Look at State Pension Changes (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2012898370_apuspensionheadachesglance.html

Census Response in Mason County Up Substantially from 2000 (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/3241-census-response-in-mason-county-up-substantially-from-2000

Washington State’s 35th District Candidates Talk Education, Government Priorities (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/sep/14/35th-district-candidates-talk-education/

Metric Interstate Divides Arizonans (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/us/15highway.html

GENERAL NEWS

Tahuya - Victim’s Neighbor Arrested in Mason County Shooting (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/3254-man-shot-near-belfair-suspect-arrested

Walla Walla: Five Year Old Shoots & Kills His Toddler Brother (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)

http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=13154991

Oregon, Washington Secretaries of State Oppose Cuts to Saturday Mail Delivery (Northwest Public Radio)

http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=7788

Boeing Prepares for Illegal Subsidy Ruling from World Trade Organization (KIRO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=366156

Log Exports Still Booming at Port of Longview - Wind Power Shipping Slows (Longview Daily News, WA)

http://tdn.com/news/local/article_c0ef3478-c060-11df-b835-001cc4c002e0.html

Despite Call Before You Dig - Firefighters Respond to a Broken Gas Line (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)

http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=13153972

Auditor: WWU Employee Wasted Tax Dollars on Trips, Parking Fees (KOMO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/102919324.html

Olympia Man Admits to Thousands of Obscene Phone Calls (Seattle Times)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/theblotter/2012897000_olympia_man_admits_to_thousand.html

DIVERSIONS

Treasure Hunter Finds Rare Antique in Cumbria

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-11287093

Gin-Soaked Raisins Relief to Back Pain?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2012877540_webback14.html

Victoria Rabbits Hop for the Border

http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/Victoria+rabbits+begin+exodus/3520105/story.html

Rescuers Free Camel from Oregon Sinkhole

http://www.kirotv.com/news/25017244/detail.html

SONG OF THE DAY

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x62pEAgAdTM