Energy News Digest for June 11, 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

Bonneville Power Administration Trims Wind, Nuclear Output to Help Fish (Reuters)

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFN1025347020100610

Nez Perce Say Feds’ Water Priorities Are Skewed (Courthouse News Service)

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/11/28022.htm

Mason County Community of Allyn Granted Water Rights (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/2392-allyn-granted-water-rights-

Massachusetts Study: Wood Power Worse Polluter Than Coal “...Biomass has long been part of the…portfolio of renewable energy sources, along with solar, wind & geothermal energy…” (Associated Press)

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gfe69Woon_43mEJbvRsdEmOc2GkgD9G8N55O0

Mason County Auditor's Office Holding Primary Election Lot Draw Friday (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/2393-mason-county-auditors-office-holding-primary-election-lot-draw-friday

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)

·         Bonneville Power Administration Trims Wind, Nuclear Output to Help Fish

·         Fitch Rates Clark County Public Utility District Bonds ‘A+’; Outlook Stable

·         Grant PUD Firm on Crescent Bar

·         California – Pacific Gas & Electric’s Prop. 16 Lost Big in Its Service Area

·         Polls: Americans Still Worried About Global Warming

·         Will New York Rebel Against Oil & Natural Gas Fracking?

·         Kentucky - Residents Worry about Pollution from Coal Plant

·         Colorado - Black Hills Rate Hike Could Have Been Higher - Than Ten Percent

·         Hawaii Begins Study of Undersea Power Cable Plan

·         British Petroleum - A Branding Nightmare

·         Summer Salmon Season Starts Wednesday on Columbia

·         Nez Perce Say Feds’ Water Priorities Are Skewed

·         Seals’ Whiskers Can Track Fish from Hundreds of Feet Away

·         Scientists to Begin Charting Amazing Coral Colonies in Ocean off Olympic Peninsula

·         Mason County Community of Allyn Granted Water Rights

·         Aberdeen City Council Puts Off Chehalis River Dam Decision

·         Pend Oreille Basin Board Seeks EIS on BPA Plan for Lake’s Water Level

·         Dishwasher Soap Rules Go Statewide

·         Massachusetts Study: Wood Power Worse Polluter Than Coal

·         Wood Burning Power Plants May Hurt Global Warming Fight

·         New York Wood Boiler Dealers Up in Arms

·         Air Emissions Control for the Biomass Industry

·         Oregon Geothermal Plant Project Gets Funding - A $102.2-million loan guarantee

·         BP Oil Spill: Renewable Energy Looking Pretty Good Now

·         Op/Ed – Radar Ridge, et. al.: Earth-Friendliness Wrapped in Red Tape

·         Massachusetts - State Suspends Rule That Utilities Buy Local Green Energy

·         North Carolina House Passes Bill to Boost Renewable Energy

·         NY Solar Bill Would Create 22,000 Jobs, US $20B Industry

·         Why the Wind Market is Hurting – Energy Conservation & Lower Natural Gas Prices

·         Washington Schools Invited to Apply for Energy Grants

·         Obama’s Greenhouse Gas Rules Survive Senate Vote

·         Resolution on Greenhouse Gases Fails, Could Boost Energy Bill

·         Study: Shrinking Glaciers to Spark Asian Food Shortages

·         Calling Mr. Clean - Can Whiter Clouds Reduce Global Warming?

·         FCC, Public Safety Groups at Odds over Control of Nationwide Wireless Network

·         Twitter to Use Own Web Link Shortener

·         Tennessee - Data Center Looking at Lewisburg

·         Google Reverts to Spartan Look After Photos Flop

·         4:30 PM Deadline - Mason County Candidate Filings

·         California’s Move to ‘Top Two’ Primaries: An End to Political Parties?

·         Cell Phone Grace Period Over - It’s now primary offense to drive while talking or texting

·         LaTanya Clemmons Found Guilty of Rendering Criminal Assistance

·         Seattle Man Arrested for Suspicious Mail Sent to US Senator Jim DeMint

·         Man Accused of Threatening US Senator Murray Pleads Guilty

·         Extreme Avalanche Danger in Cascades, Olympics

·         Rupture Caused Washington State Refinery Blast That Killed Seven

·         League of Women Voters to Present Results of Study of Mason County Budget

·         Army: Bodies Misidentified, Misplaced at Arlington

WORD OF THE DAY

Nonplussed • \non-PLUST\ • verb - To cause to be at a loss as to what to say, think, or do

The local candidate felt he was prepared for just about any question regarding the office of dog catcher…that is until a left-field question was lobbed during the intense radio debate left him nonplussed, “if elected, what would you do about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill?”

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

Bonneville Power Administration Trims Wind, Nuclear Output to Help Fish (Reuters)

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFN1025347020100610

Fitch Rates Clark County Public Utility District Bonds ‘A+’; Outlook Stable (Business Wire)

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Fitch-Rates-Clark-County-bw-1728522362.html?x=0&.v=1

Grant PUD Firm on Crescent Bar (Wenatchee World, WA)

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/jun/10/grant-pud-firm-on-crescent-bar-islanders-fail-to/

California – Pacific Gas & Electric’s Prop. 16 Lost Big in Its Service Area (SF Chronicle)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/10/BU8N1DSL95.DTL&feed=rss.news

Polls: Americans Still Worried About Global Warming (USA Today)

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/06/global-warming-survey/1?csp=34tech

Will New York Rebel Against Oil & Natural Gas Fracking? (NY Times)

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/will-new-york-rebel-against-fracking/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Kentucky - Residents Worry about Pollution from Coal Plant (Richmond Register, KY)

http://richmondregister.com/localnews/x1910033120/Residents-worry-about-pollution-from-coal-plant

Colorado - Black Hills Rate Hike Could Have Been Higher - Than Ten Percent (Pueblo Chieftain, CO)

http://www.chieftain.com/news/local/article_9d0e5cc6-7517-11df-bde0-001cc4c03286.html

Hawaii Begins Study of Undersea Power Cable Plan (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2012084831_aphiunderseacables.html?syndication=rss

British Petroleum - A Branding Nightmare (EnergyBiz Insider)

http://www.scoop.com/remote/article/include/166150698/53616c7465645f5fb39b0ee0e48131dadd403083407769a9f71a87a7e0a9256dad480c61c0f14587

FISH & WILDLIFE

Summer Salmon Season Starts Wednesday on Columbia (Longview Daily News, WA)

http://tdn.com/lifestyles/article_dbfffa6e-750f-11df-8712-001cc4c03286.html

Nez Perce Say Feds’ Water Priorities Are Skewed (Courthouse News Service)

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/11/28022.htm

Seals’ Whiskers Can Track Fish from Hundreds of Feet Away (Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0611/Seals-whiskers-can-track-fish-from-hundreds-of-feet-away

Scientists to Begin Charting Amazing Coral Colonies in Ocean off Olympic Peninsula (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20100611/NEWS/306119988/scientists-to-begin-charting-amazing-coral-colonies-in-ocean-off

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Mason County Community of Allyn Granted Water Rights (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/2392-allyn-granted-water-rights-

Aberdeen City Council Puts Off Chehalis River Dam Decision (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)

http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2010/06/10/local_news/doc4c112854a7916836220187.txt

Pend Oreille Basin Board Seeks EIS on BPA Plan for Lake’s Water Level (Bonner County Daily Bee, Sandpoint, ID)

http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/articles/2010/06/10/news/doc4c10881ce93b0068856048.txt

Dishwasher Soap Rules Go Statewide (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/jun/11/dishwasher-soap-rules-go-statewide/

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Massachusetts Study: Wood Power Worse Polluter Than Coal “...Biomass has long been part of the…portfolio of renewable energy sources, along with solar, wind & geothermal energy…” (Associated Press)

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gfe69Woon_43mEJbvRsdEmOc2GkgD9G8N55O0

Wood Burning Power Plants May Hurt Global Warming Fight (Boston Globe, MA)

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2010/06/wood_burning_power_plants_may.html

New York Wood Boiler Dealers Up in Arms - Just the talk about regulations has hurt business already; some say (The Daily Mail, Catskill, NY)

http://www.thedailymail.net/articles/2010/06/11/news/doc4c11ba5d1571a292191141.txt

Air Emissions Control for the Biomass Industry (Biomass Magazine)

http://www.biomassmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=3854

Oregon Geothermal Plant Project Gets Funding - A $102.2-million loan guarantee (Daily Journal of Commerce, OR)

http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/06/10/oregon-geothermal-plant-project-gets-funding/

BP Oil Spill: Renewable Energy Looking Pretty Good Now - A new Stanford University poll out of found that most Americans percent favor breaks for wind, solar, & water power (Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0610/BP-oil-spill-Renewable-energy-looking-pretty-good-now

Op/Ed – Radar Ridge, et. al.: Earth-Friendliness Wrapped in Red Tape (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20100611/news/306119996/the-martha-ireland-column-earth-friendliness-wrapped-in-red-tape

Massachusetts - State Suspends Rule That Utilities Buy Local Green Energy (Boston Globe, MA)

http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2010/06/state_suspends.html

North Carolina House Passes Bill to Boost Renewable Energy - including biomass, hydro-generation, solar, wind & geothermal heat pumps (Triangle Business Journal)

http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/06/07/daily52.html

NY Solar Bill Would Create 22,000 Jobs, US $20B Industry (Renewable Energy World)

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/06/ny-solar-bill-would-create-22000-jobs-us-20b-industry?cmpid=rss

Why the Wind Market is Hurting – Energy Conservation & Lower Natural Gas Prices (Renewable Energy World – So, the bane of renewable energy is…CONSERVATION?)

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/podcast/2010/06/why-the-wind-market-is-hurting?cmpid=rss

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Washington Schools Invited to Apply for Energy Grants (KIRO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=330782

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Obama’s Greenhouse Gas Rules Survive Senate Vote (Associated Press)

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15272759

Resolution on Greenhouse Gases Fails, Could Boost Energy Bill (Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0610/Resolution-on-greenhouse-gases-fails-could-boost-energy-bill

Study: Shrinking Glaciers to Spark Asian Food Shortages (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2012079775_apmlasiameltingglaciers.html?syndication=rss

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

Calling Mr. Clean - Can Whiter Clouds Reduce Global Warming? (USA Today)

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/research/2010-06-10-cloud-whitening_N.htm?csp=34news

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

FCC, Public Safety Groups at Odds over Control of Nationwide Wireless Network (Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/08/AR2010060805253.html?wprss=rss_technology

Twitter to Use Own Web Link Shortener (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/06/11/1221908/twitter-to-use-own-web-link-shortener.html

Tennessee - Data Center Looking at Lewisburg (Marshall County Tribune, Lewisburg, TN)

http://www.marshalltribune.com/story/1641635.html

Google Reverts to Spartan Look After Photos Flop (Associated Press)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/06/10/financial/f153321D59.DTL&feed=rss.business

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE

Mason County Auditor's Office Holding Primary Election Lot Draw Friday (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/2393-mason-county-auditors-office-holding-primary-election-lot-draw-friday

4:30 PM Deadline - Mason County Candidate Filings (Mason County Auditor)

http://wei.secstate.wa.gov/mason/Elections/Pages/CandidateFilings.aspx

California’s Move to ‘Top Two’ Primaries: An End to Political Parties? Modeled after a similar one in Washington State passed in 2004 (Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2010/0610/California-s-move-to-top-two-primaries-An-end-to-political-parties

GENERAL NEWS

Cell Phone Grace Period Over - It’s now primary offense to drive while talking or texting (Olympian, WA)

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/06/11/1268035/cell-phone-grace-period-over.html

LaTanya Clemmons Found Guilty of Rendering Criminal Assistance (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/06/10/1221365/latanya-clemmons-found-guilty.html

Seattle Man Arrested for Suspicious Mail Sent to US Senator Jim DeMint (KIRO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=330813

Man Accused of Threatening US Senator Murray Pleads Guilty (KIRO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.kirotv.com/news/23863221/detail.html

Extreme Avalanche Danger in Cascades, Olympics (KIRO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=330805

Rupture Caused Washington State Refinery Blast That Killed Seven (Associated Press)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/06/10/financial/f170726D86.DTL&feed=rss.business

League of Women Voters to Present Results of Study of Mason County Budget (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/jun/10/lwv-to-present-results-of-study-of-mason-county/?partner=RSS

Army: Bodies Misidentified, Misplaced at Arlington (KIRO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.kirotv.com/politics/23857446/detail.html

DIVERSIONS

Eastern Washington University Sees Red on Football Field

http://news.opb.org/article/7560-eastern-washington-university-sees-red-football-field/

NY Lawmaker Got His Goat, & Horn in the Hand

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2012089227_apusoddcongressmangoat.html?syndication=rss

Mr. Potato Head -- The Elvis Version?

http://www.kirotv.com/entertainment/23841842/detail.html

Colonial Document Turns Up in Classroom

http://www.kirotv.com/news/23828827/detail.html

SONG OF THE DAY

Neil Young - Old Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVC2cszdTao