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.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- BPA energy deal for struggling aluminum companies sparks strong objections
- Mason County Residents Urged To Prepare For Storms
- Scientist says fraudulent science hides hydro project's damage to B.C. creek
- Obama's Energy Department – Let the speculating begin
- Electric markets are broken, Pennsylvania officials told
- U.S. Decides One Nuclear Dump Is Enough
- Extreme Makeover: Nuclear Power Plant Edition
- State OKs part of Puget Sound for geoduck harvest
- Montana – On the brink of extinction: The Kootenai River white sturgeon
- 2020 vision to clean up Puget Sound unveiled
- EPA targets Columbia’s 4 key pollutants
- Lower Yakima Valley – EPA targets groundwater contamination
- Walla Walla – Corps lays plans to boost Mill Creek dam safety
- Walla Walla – Mill Creek project spurred by 1931 flood
- Pickens Plan: Boon or Boondoggle?
- Minnesota – Residents tilt at windmill and lose
- Duke Energy Sees Rooftops as Future Power Plants
- Ameren Illinois Utilities Encourage Customers to Control Energy Bills
- Carbon Trading: States & Utilities Unite to Rob Energy Consumer
- Clearwire Creatively Renamed 'New Clearwire'
- Report: Microsoft luring Verizon away from Google
- Heavy Rain Brings Rivers to Banks, Floods Roadways
- Flood Warning in Effect for Skokomish River
- Officer Fires Shot at Man in Mason County
- Ex-fire official admits stealing half a million dollars
- Kitsap Sun Plans Company-Wide Cuts
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Licentious • \lie-SENN-chus\ • adjective – 1: lacking legal or moral restraints; especially: disregarding sexual restraints 2: marked by disregard for strict rules of correctness
Alberto was on a rampage in the corridors of the company’s headquarters. His licentious romp was punctuated with handfuls of confetti from his shredded annual report. It wasn’t until he blasted the head accountant with a handful of the shredded paper that he was subdued by a blow to the side of his head from a hefty Swingline stapler.
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
BPA energy deal for struggling aluminum companies sparks strong objections “…it couldn’t come at a worse time, local economic leaders said Thursday…” (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/11/07/area_news/doc4913f146cc1aa162010610.txt
Mason County Residents Urged To Prepare For Storms (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5493/reftab/1632/title/RESIDENTS_URGED_TO_PREPARE_FOR_STORMS/Default.aspx
Canada – Scientist says fraudulent science used to hide hydro project's damage to B.C. creek (CBC News)
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/11/06/bc-miller-creek.html?ref=rss
Obama's Energy Department – Let the speculating begin. Not oil speculation, but job speculation for the new Obama administration (Washington Post)
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/energywire/2008/11/obamas_energy_department.html
Electric markets are broken, Pennsylvania officials told (Associated Press)
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/11/07/ap5664817.html
U.S. Decides One Nuclear Dump Is Enough (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/washington/07yucca.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
Extreme Makeover: Nuclear Power Plant Edition (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/extreme-makeover-nuclear-power-plant-edition/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
State OKs part of Puget Sound for geoduck harvest (KIRO-Radio, Seattle)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=102915
Montana – On the brink of extinction: The Kootenai River white sturgeon is one of the most intriguing, and some would say bizarre, fish in North America (Helena Independent-Record, MT)
http://www.helenair.com/articles/2008/11/07/state/80st_081107_sturgeon.txt
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
2020 vision to clean up Puget Sound unveiled – Partnership shares environmental objectives for next 12 years (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/653143.html
EPA targets Columbia’s 4 key pollutants – Report gives officials, concerned parties basis to pursue action (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081106/NEWS02/711079954/-1/NEWS
Lower Yakima Valley – EPA targets groundwater contamination: Agencies will meet to see what can be done (Yakima Herald Republic)
http://www.yakimaherald.com/stories/2008/11/06/epa-targets-groundwater-contamination
Walla Walla – Corps lays plans to boost Mill Creek dam safety – The Corps of Engineers plans steps to ward off potential failure of the dam at the lake
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/11/06/local_news/081106local03millcreekdam.txt
Walla Walla – Mill Creek project spurred by 1931 flood (The Union-Bulletin)
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/11/06/local_news/081106local04flood.txt
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Pickens Plan: Boon or Boondoggle? (OpEd News)
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Pickens-Plan-Boon-or-Boon-by-Barry-Krusch-081106-305.html
Minnesota – Residents tilt at windmill, but Medina Council approves it (Minneapolis Star, MN)
http://www.startribune.com/local/west/34061499.html?elr=KArksc8P:Pc:UHDaaDyiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
Duke Energy Sees Rooftops as Future Power Plants (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96392743&ft=1&f=1025
CONSERVATION
Ameren Illinois Utilities Encourage Customers to Control Energy Bills Through Budget Billing and Conservation (PRNewswire)
http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/prnewswire/press_releases/national/Illinois/2008/11/06/AQTH543
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Energy Pulse Commentary – Carbon Trading: States & Utilities Unite to Rob Energy Consumers
http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=1870
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Clearwire Creatively Renamed 'New Clearwire' – Branding department apparently didn't work much overtime (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Clearwire-Creatively-Renamed-New-Clearwire-98938
Report: Microsoft luring Verizon away from Google (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2008/11/03/daily96.html?ana=from_rss
GENERAL NEWS
Heavy Rain Brings Rivers to Banks, Floods Roadways (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/17930567/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Flood Warning in Effect for Skokomish River (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5495/reftab/1632/title/FLOOD_WARNING_IN_EFFECT_FOR_SKOKOMISH_RIVER/Default.aspx
Officer Fires Shot at Man in Mason County (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/17931299/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
Ex-fire official admits stealing – Likely prison term, restitution to follow plea by former South King CFO (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/531012.html
Kitsap Sun Plans Company-Wide Cuts (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/nov/06/sun-plans-company-wide-cuts/?partner=RSS
DIVERSIONS
Squirrels Too Licentious For Calif. Campus – UC Davis Squirrels to Get Birth Control Injections
http://www.kirotv.com/education/17929038/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=irresistible
Mushroom foragers love thrill of the hunt – As autumn rains rinse the Pacific Northwest, it is wild mushroom time
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/traveloutdoors/2008362133_shrooms07m.html
Snoring Australian judge's verdicts overturned
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081106/od_afp/australiajusticeoffbeat_081106172200;_ylt=AqJ7jAjhifwVFC10uk8G9UagOrgF
On a roll: Golfer records 5 holes-in-one in a week
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081107/ap_on_fe_st/odd5_holes_in_one;_ylt=AlihcPr2Y4zxhN5K0ZYyCePtiBIF
Friday, November 7, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Energy News Digest for November 6, 2008
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.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Counties split on public taking over PSE electric service
- Jefferson County favors independence from Puget Energy
- Jefferson PUD poised for talks on acquiring electric service
- Canada – 'Tape and twine' keep BC Hydro facilities going
- Most of Centralia Impacted by Planned Outage Midnight Friday
- Coos-Curry Electric Coop signs wholesale power agreement with PNGC Power
- Congressional Research Reports – Winter Fuels Markets
- Too much wind power may be bad news for endangered salmon
- Seattle Times Op/Ed – Orcas are a call to action on Puget Sound cleanup
- Net of warring interests surrounds West Coast fishery changes
- Fishermen criticize quota plan for West Coast groundfish
- Shoshone-Bannock Tribes to sign historic fish agreement Friday
- Oregonian Op/Ed – Questions of diversity for humans and fish
- Cowlitz the place for Coho; Skokomish hot for Chum
- Bush hits choppy water over ocean sanctuaries
- Agency to release Puget Sound cleanup plan
- Corps takes measures after inspection finds seepage at Bennington Lake dam
- On this Day: The Barnes Lake Dam Bursts in Toccoa Falls, Ga.
- Wave, Tidal, and In-Stream Energy Projects: Which Agency Has the Lead?
- Mass Megawatts Expands Into Small Wind
- Paying For Heat, Electric in Trying Times
- The Climate Change Trap
- Are Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rising More Rapidly Than Expected?
- Google pulls out of search ad deal with Yahoo
- Tech problems in a phone network in Coeur d'Alene cut service in E. Washington
- US President-Elect Obama Is Plugged In On Technology Issues
- Mason County Flood Watch Remains in Effect
- Simpson Door says workers have company’s “last offer”
- Trucker killed on I-5 at Olympia
- Crisis clinic seeks help with new funding to serve Thurston and Mason counties
WORD OF THE DAY
Panglossian • \pan-GLOSS-ee-un\ • adjective – Marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds: excessively optimistic
Olive’s eyes were positively dewy. “ I just know that by blasting dams out of the Snake River that millions of salmon will magically appear, and all will be well,” she gushed in her best “Earth Mother” voice. Her Panglossian view was barely dented by virtually identical fish survival statistics for dammed and free-running rivers.
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
Counties split on public taking over PSE electric service (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/386581_pse06.html
Jefferson County favors independence from Puget Energy (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008356727_pugetenergy06.html
Jefferson PUD poised for talks on acquiring electric service (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081106/news/311069994
Canada – 'Tape and twine' keep BC Hydro facilities going (The Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=53940f0c-608b-474b-bc09-411a219e186c
Most of Centralia Impacted by Planned Outage Midnight Friday (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
http://www.kelaam.com/pages/localnews/?Most-of-Centralia-Impacted-by-Planned-Ou=1&blockID=17231&feedID=410
Oregon – Coos-Curry Electric Coop signs wholesale power agreement with PNGC Power (Curry County Reporter, Gold Beach, OR)
http://www.currycountyreporter.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=4126
Congressional Research Reports – Winter Fuels Markets
http://opencrs.com/document/RL34714
FISH & WILDLIFE
Too much wind power may be bad news for endangered salmon (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/33970219.html
Seattle Times Op/Ed – Orcas are a call to action on Puget Sound cleanup
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008356333_opin06orca.html?syndication=rss
Net of warring interests surrounds West Coast fishery changes (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008356998_fishvote06.html
Fishermen criticize quota plan for West Coast groundfish (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/fishermen_criticize_quota_plan.html
BPA Media Advisory – Shoshone-Bannock Tribes to sign historic fish agreement Friday (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.bpa.gov/corporate/BPAnews/nreleases.cfm
Oregonian Op/Ed – Questions of diversity -- for humans and fish (Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2008/11/andy_parker_questions_of_diver.html
Cowlitz the place for Coho; Skokomish hot for Chum (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/outdoors/story/651792.html
Bush hits choppy water over ocean sanctuaries (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/05/MNCJ13TPAV.DTL
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Agency to release Puget Sound cleanup plan (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1676558~Agency_to_release_Puget_Sound_cleanup_plan.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines
Corps takes measures after inspection finds seepage at Bennington Lake dam (Walla Walla Union Bulletin, WA)
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/11/06/local_news/081105local09damsafety.txt
On this Day: The Barnes Lake Dam Bursts in Toccoa Falls, Ga. (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/November/The-Barnes-Lake-Dam-Bursts-in-Toccoa-Falls-Ga.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Congressional Research Reports – Wave, Tidal, and In-Stream Energy Projects: Which Federal Agency Has the Lead?
http://opencrs.com/document/RS22721
Mass Megawatts Expands Into Small Wind (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=54021&src=rss
CONSERVATION
Paying For Heat, Electric in Trying Times (CBS News)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/06/earlyshow/contributors/raymartin/main4577451.shtml
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
The Climate Change Trap (Forbes Magazine)
http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/11/05/obama-climate-change-biz-energy-cx_wp_1106energy.html
Congressional Research Reports – Are Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rising More Rapidly Than Expected?
http://opencrs.com/document/RS22970
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Google pulls out of search ad deal with Yahoo (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE49U0C620081105?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology
Tech problems in a phone network in Coeur d'Alene cut service in E. Washington (Tri-City Herald)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/915/story/374989.html
US President-Elect Obama Is Plugged In On Technology Issues (CNN Money)
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200811051144DOWJONESDJONLINE000793_FORTUNE5.htm
GENERAL NEWS
Mason County Flood Watch Remains In Effect From Through Late Friday Night (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5486/reftab/1896/title/FLOOD_WATCH_REMAINS_IN_EFFECT_FROM_THROUGH_LATE_FRIDAY_NIGHT/Default.aspx
Simpson Door says workers have company’s “last offer” (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2008/11/05/local_news/05news.txt
Trucker killed on I-5 at Olympia (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008359033_apwaolympiafatal1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
Crisis clinic seeks help with new funding to serve Thurston and Mason counties (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/651779.html
DIVERSIONS
Alaska man says he accidentally stole a car
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_fe_st/odd_auto_theft;_ylt=At3kSeNMvZV7l9hYqf2QF6btiBIF
Thieves caught in Hungary with 12 pigs in car
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081106/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_hungary_pigs;_ylt=Aror0M7nd9mKHguy48ImrpztiBIF
FBI: Airline passenger restrained with duct tape
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_re_us/odd_passenger_duct_tape;_ylt=AuotdINp4pjAe0xxgk0sC3DtiBIF
Police net Shanghai's cricket fighting king
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081030/od_afp/chinacrimegamblingcricketsoffbeat_081030161730;_ylt=AusZ24Qp8sHpQCp1QSOTxMygOrgF
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Counties split on public taking over PSE electric service
- Jefferson County favors independence from Puget Energy
- Jefferson PUD poised for talks on acquiring electric service
- Canada – 'Tape and twine' keep BC Hydro facilities going
- Most of Centralia Impacted by Planned Outage Midnight Friday
- Coos-Curry Electric Coop signs wholesale power agreement with PNGC Power
- Congressional Research Reports – Winter Fuels Markets
- Too much wind power may be bad news for endangered salmon
- Seattle Times Op/Ed – Orcas are a call to action on Puget Sound cleanup
- Net of warring interests surrounds West Coast fishery changes
- Fishermen criticize quota plan for West Coast groundfish
- Shoshone-Bannock Tribes to sign historic fish agreement Friday
- Oregonian Op/Ed – Questions of diversity for humans and fish
- Cowlitz the place for Coho; Skokomish hot for Chum
- Bush hits choppy water over ocean sanctuaries
- Agency to release Puget Sound cleanup plan
- Corps takes measures after inspection finds seepage at Bennington Lake dam
- On this Day: The Barnes Lake Dam Bursts in Toccoa Falls, Ga.
- Wave, Tidal, and In-Stream Energy Projects: Which Agency Has the Lead?
- Mass Megawatts Expands Into Small Wind
- Paying For Heat, Electric in Trying Times
- The Climate Change Trap
- Are Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rising More Rapidly Than Expected?
- Google pulls out of search ad deal with Yahoo
- Tech problems in a phone network in Coeur d'Alene cut service in E. Washington
- US President-Elect Obama Is Plugged In On Technology Issues
- Mason County Flood Watch Remains in Effect
- Simpson Door says workers have company’s “last offer”
- Trucker killed on I-5 at Olympia
- Crisis clinic seeks help with new funding to serve Thurston and Mason counties
WORD OF THE DAY
Panglossian • \pan-GLOSS-ee-un\ • adjective – Marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds: excessively optimistic
Olive’s eyes were positively dewy. “ I just know that by blasting dams out of the Snake River that millions of salmon will magically appear, and all will be well,” she gushed in her best “Earth Mother” voice. Her Panglossian view was barely dented by virtually identical fish survival statistics for dammed and free-running rivers.
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
Counties split on public taking over PSE electric service (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/386581_pse06.html
Jefferson County favors independence from Puget Energy (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008356727_pugetenergy06.html
Jefferson PUD poised for talks on acquiring electric service (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081106/news/311069994
Canada – 'Tape and twine' keep BC Hydro facilities going (The Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=53940f0c-608b-474b-bc09-411a219e186c
Most of Centralia Impacted by Planned Outage Midnight Friday (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
http://www.kelaam.com/pages/localnews/?Most-of-Centralia-Impacted-by-Planned-Ou=1&blockID=17231&feedID=410
Oregon – Coos-Curry Electric Coop signs wholesale power agreement with PNGC Power (Curry County Reporter, Gold Beach, OR)
http://www.currycountyreporter.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=4126
Congressional Research Reports – Winter Fuels Markets
http://opencrs.com/document/RL34714
FISH & WILDLIFE
Too much wind power may be bad news for endangered salmon (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/33970219.html
Seattle Times Op/Ed – Orcas are a call to action on Puget Sound cleanup
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008356333_opin06orca.html?syndication=rss
Net of warring interests surrounds West Coast fishery changes (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008356998_fishvote06.html
Fishermen criticize quota plan for West Coast groundfish (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/fishermen_criticize_quota_plan.html
BPA Media Advisory – Shoshone-Bannock Tribes to sign historic fish agreement Friday (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.bpa.gov/corporate/BPAnews/nreleases.cfm
Oregonian Op/Ed – Questions of diversity -- for humans and fish (Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2008/11/andy_parker_questions_of_diver.html
Cowlitz the place for Coho; Skokomish hot for Chum (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/outdoors/story/651792.html
Bush hits choppy water over ocean sanctuaries (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/05/MNCJ13TPAV.DTL
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Agency to release Puget Sound cleanup plan (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1676558~Agency_to_release_Puget_Sound_cleanup_plan.html?cid=rss-Washington_Headlines
Corps takes measures after inspection finds seepage at Bennington Lake dam (Walla Walla Union Bulletin, WA)
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/11/06/local_news/081105local09damsafety.txt
On this Day: The Barnes Lake Dam Bursts in Toccoa Falls, Ga. (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/November/The-Barnes-Lake-Dam-Bursts-in-Toccoa-Falls-Ga.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Congressional Research Reports – Wave, Tidal, and In-Stream Energy Projects: Which Federal Agency Has the Lead?
http://opencrs.com/document/RS22721
Mass Megawatts Expands Into Small Wind (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=54021&src=rss
CONSERVATION
Paying For Heat, Electric in Trying Times (CBS News)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/06/earlyshow/contributors/raymartin/main4577451.shtml
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
The Climate Change Trap (Forbes Magazine)
http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/11/05/obama-climate-change-biz-energy-cx_wp_1106energy.html
Congressional Research Reports – Are Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rising More Rapidly Than Expected?
http://opencrs.com/document/RS22970
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Google pulls out of search ad deal with Yahoo (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE49U0C620081105?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology
Tech problems in a phone network in Coeur d'Alene cut service in E. Washington (Tri-City Herald)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/915/story/374989.html
US President-Elect Obama Is Plugged In On Technology Issues (CNN Money)
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200811051144DOWJONESDJONLINE000793_FORTUNE5.htm
GENERAL NEWS
Mason County Flood Watch Remains In Effect From Through Late Friday Night (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5486/reftab/1896/title/FLOOD_WATCH_REMAINS_IN_EFFECT_FROM_THROUGH_LATE_FRIDAY_NIGHT/Default.aspx
Simpson Door says workers have company’s “last offer” (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2008/11/05/local_news/05news.txt
Trucker killed on I-5 at Olympia (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008359033_apwaolympiafatal1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
Crisis clinic seeks help with new funding to serve Thurston and Mason counties (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/651779.html
DIVERSIONS
Alaska man says he accidentally stole a car
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_fe_st/odd_auto_theft;_ylt=At3kSeNMvZV7l9hYqf2QF6btiBIF
Thieves caught in Hungary with 12 pigs in car
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081106/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_hungary_pigs;_ylt=Aror0M7nd9mKHguy48ImrpztiBIF
FBI: Airline passenger restrained with duct tape
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_re_us/odd_passenger_duct_tape;_ylt=AuotdINp4pjAe0xxgk0sC3DtiBIF
Police net Shanghai's cricket fighting king
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081030/od_afp/chinacrimegamblingcricketsoffbeat_081030161730;_ylt=AusZ24Qp8sHpQCp1QSOTxMygOrgF
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Energy News Digest for November 5, 2008
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.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Jefferson PUD headed for authority to provide power
- Whidbey voters reject bid for public power – Skagit PUD proposal trailing slightly
- Jefferson County Election: Public power measure is passing
- Election Results
- Cowlitz County power outage delays release of county results
- In S.F., voters defeat Prop. H for city utility
- Clark Public Utilities Sees Slower Residential Customer Growth
- Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals – Snohomish County PUD, Et. Al vs. FERC
- Oregon – BPA proposes constructing line after 6-year delay
- Puget Energy Reports Third-Quarter 2008 Financial Results
- Jackson Prairie PSE Natural Gas Storage Expansion Complete
- TRAFFIC: BPA work to restrict I-82 south of Kennewick
- On the job with a Chelan PUD lineman
- Economic collapse puts salmon revival in jeopardy
- Search is on for Coho salmon-friendly streams
- Scotsman (UK) Op/Ed – Shun salmon to save seals
- Bathroom fixtures save water
- California is facing a water crisis
- SolarWorld union votes to strike
- Grays Harbor County PUD to spend $77 million on wind
- Energy Pulse Commentary – Offshore Wind Riding a Wave
- California’s Renewable power, alternative fuel measures fail
- Economy Shifts, and the Ethanol Industry Reels
- Pennsylvania – Customers of PPL Electric Utilities Taking Control of Electricity
- Canada to seek climate deal with Obama
- Not So Green: Voters Nix Most Environmental State Ballot Measures
- 100 Percent Rural Broadband Access, Study Finds
- Google Wins Big at FCC
- Cable companies, Verizon under investigation for pricing policies
- Gregoire triumphs as close race fails to materialize
- Tight race for Lands Commission, others win easily
- Heavy Rain Warning Prompts Flooding Concerns; Snow Also Expected
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Gauche • \GOE-SH\ • adjective – *1: lacking social experience or grace; also: not tactful: crude
2: crudely made or done
Alfredo was highly embarrassed by the gauche manners of his friend Frieda, whom he had invited to high mass at his church on Sunday. He could have ignored her secret snacking of raw garlic cloves during the service, but it was her lip smacking and burping that sent him over the edge.
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
Jefferson PUD headed for authority to provide power (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081105/news/311059993
2-1 Margin – Whidbey voters reject bid for public power – Skagit PUD proposal trailing slightly (Whidbey Examiner, Coupeville, WA)
http://www.whidbeyexaminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=1877&TM=41849.73
Jefferson County Election: Public power measure is passing (Port Townsend Leader, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.ptleader.com/Main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=22287
In the race for John Whalen's seat on the Mason County PUD No. 3 Commission, Tom Farmer has a 590 vote lead on Doug Womack. Farmer has 51.43% of the vote or 8,139 votes while Womack has 47.7% or 7,549 votes.
For Mason County PUD No. 1 Commission, District Two, incumbent Ron Gold has just under 60% (59.94%) or 645 votes to challenger Tom Strong's 38.94% or 419 votes.
Peshastin Orchardist Carnan Bergren is outpacing Chelan County PUD commissioner Werner Janssen 52 to 48 percent.
It appears there will be a shift of power in the Grays Harbor PUD Board of Commissioners. Chairman Jim Eddy is trailing Russ Skolrood 56% to 43%.
Incumbent Hugh Haffner maintained a comfortable54.5% to 45.5% lead in the Clallam County Public Utility District District 2 against challenger, Bob Jensen of Port Angeles.
Ken McMillen had a small margin in the race against Jim Pivarnik for Jefferson County Public Utility District commissioner on Tuesday night. McMillen leads by 53% to Pivarnik’s 47%.
Benton County PUD Commissioner, District 2 – Jeff Hall: 16,613, Pat Tucker: 10,230
Grant County PUD Commissioner, District 3 – Don Long: 9,555, Randy Allred: 10,533
Grant County PUD Commissioner, At Large A – Tom Flint: 11,554, Sam A. Johnson: 7,656
Thurston County PUD, District 3 – Chris Stearns (60%) is leading Terence Artz (40%)
Clark Public Utilities Commissioner Byron Hanke has won a second six-year term on the electric and water utility board. He ran unopposed.
Jeffrey McClure (68%) will likely be the new member on the Whatcom County Public Utility District board. Defeats Robin Dexter (32%).
Snohomish County PUD Commissioner, Dist 1 – Dave Aldrich: 97,717, Bill Barnet: 34,426
Kitsap County PUD Commissioner, Dist 2 Lee F. Caldwell 39,276 Pete Favazza 19,412
Cowlitz County power outage delays release of county results (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/11/05//area_news/doc49111fbb481db901732561.txt
In S.F., voters defeat Prop. H for city utility (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/05/BATD13RC1Q.DTL&feed=rss.news
CLARK PUBLIC UTILITIES SEES SLOWER RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER GROWTH – Residential hook-ups with Clark Public Utilities grew to 166,298 in September, up from 164,008 in September 2007. The change represents a 1.39 percent annual increase in housing units in the county. Residential growth with the utility has slowed considerable from two years ago, when the hook-up rate was growing at an annual rate of more than 3 percent. (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals – Snohomish County PUD, Et. Al vs. FERC (Links to PDF File)
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/79A1ACCBBD3550E9882574F6005B1777/$file/0372511o.pdf?openelement
Oregon – BPA proposes constructing line after 6-year delay (East Oregonian, Hermiston, OR)
http://www.eastoregonian.info/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=84754&TM=52367.77
Puget Energy Reports Third-Quarter 2008 Financial Results (MarketWatch)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Puget-Energy-Reports-Third-Quarter/story.aspx?guid=%7B9A0DF4D1-878D-4178-80A6-1B795ECE2F4D%7D
Jackson Prairie PSE Natural Gas Storage Expansion Complete (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
http://www.kelaam.com/pages/localnews/?Jackson-Prairie-PSE-Expansion-Complete=1&blockID=17155&feedID=410
TRAFFIC: BPA work to restrict I-82 south of Kennewick (Tri-City Herald)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/372887.html?mi_email=Tri-City%20Herald_PM+%26+Breaking+News
On the job with a Chelan PUD lineman (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081105/NEIGHBORS/711059954
FISH & WILDLIFE
Economic collapse puts salmon revival in jeopardy (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/386402_salmon05.html
Search is on for Coho salmon-friendly streams (The World, Coos Bay, OR)
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2008/11/04/news/doc4910a43c546e8856876114.txt
Scotsman (UK) Op/Ed – Shun salmon to save seals
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Shun-salmon-to-save-seals.4660790.jp
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Bathroom fixtures save water (Arizona Republic)
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2008/11/04/20081104tempegreen1103urinal.html
California is facing a water crisis (Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, CA)
http://www.contracostatimes.com/opinion/ci_10896592
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
SolarWorld union votes to strike (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20081105/BIZ01/711059954/-1/BIZ
Grays Harbor County PUD to spend $77 million on wind – Clallam, Mason and Pacific County PUDs may participate in the project (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2008/11/04/local_news/01news.txt
Energy Pulse Commentary – Offshore Wind Riding a Wave
http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=1860
California’s Renewable power, alternative fuel measures fail (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/04/MND813Q18V.DTL&tsp=1
Economy Shifts, and the Ethanol Industry Reels (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/business/05ethanol.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1225912087-CPq4Q0hlmERy5le5ZttOpQ
CONSERVATION
Pennsylvania – Customers of PPL Electric Utilities Taking Control of Electricity Use, Bills (Solanco News, PA)
http://www.solanconews.com/Features/2008/081105_PPL_customers.htm
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Canada to seek climate deal with Obama (The Toronto Star, Ontario)
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/531128
Not So Green: Voters Nix Most Environmental State Ballot Measures (Wall Street Journal)
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/11/05/not-so-green-voters-nix-most-environmental-state-ballot-measures/
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
100 Percent Rural Broadband Access, Study Finds (TMC-Net)
http://hosted-communications.tmcnet.com/topics/broadband-comm/articles/44483-100-percent-rural-broadband-access-study-finds.htm
Google Wins Big at FCC (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2008/11/04/google-wins-big-at-fcc-today/
Cable companies, Verizon under investigation for pricing policies (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/529081.html
GENERAL NEWS
Gregoire triumphs as close race fails to materialize (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/386451_governor05.html?source=rss
Tight race for Lands Commission, others win easily (Associated Press )
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_110408POB_results_wa_misc_KC.17fbc5a0e.html?npc
Heavy Rain Warning Prompts Flooding Concerns; Snow Also Expected (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/rss/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1225831296&archive=
DIVERSIONS
Teen compacted in Wis. garbage truck, survives
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081105/ap_on_fe_st/odd_teen_compacted;_ylt=ApZrt7QH1RtWOorBk1XlUajtiBIF
Illinois police take aggressive rooster into custody
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081104/ap_on_fe_st/odd_arrested_rooster;_ylt=AmAVwo_9HVff3_OUIp88l4ztiBIF
Woman arrested for calling Japanese police 7,177 times
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081105/od_afp/japancrimeoffbeat_081105135608
CNN 'beams up' virtual correspondent – “Help me Obi-Wan, you’re my only hope”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081105/od_afp/usvotemediatelevisioncnnoffbeat_081105011323;_ylt=AsJUHt4O7arY371nnfLwpkOgOrgF
Welsh road sign lost in translation
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081101/od_afp/britainwalestransportoffbeat_081101160708;_ylt=ApHZlNbu9o2uJ5Jp2YRHm3agOrgF
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Jefferson PUD headed for authority to provide power
- Whidbey voters reject bid for public power – Skagit PUD proposal trailing slightly
- Jefferson County Election: Public power measure is passing
- Election Results
- Cowlitz County power outage delays release of county results
- In S.F., voters defeat Prop. H for city utility
- Clark Public Utilities Sees Slower Residential Customer Growth
- Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals – Snohomish County PUD, Et. Al vs. FERC
- Oregon – BPA proposes constructing line after 6-year delay
- Puget Energy Reports Third-Quarter 2008 Financial Results
- Jackson Prairie PSE Natural Gas Storage Expansion Complete
- TRAFFIC: BPA work to restrict I-82 south of Kennewick
- On the job with a Chelan PUD lineman
- Economic collapse puts salmon revival in jeopardy
- Search is on for Coho salmon-friendly streams
- Scotsman (UK) Op/Ed – Shun salmon to save seals
- Bathroom fixtures save water
- California is facing a water crisis
- SolarWorld union votes to strike
- Grays Harbor County PUD to spend $77 million on wind
- Energy Pulse Commentary – Offshore Wind Riding a Wave
- California’s Renewable power, alternative fuel measures fail
- Economy Shifts, and the Ethanol Industry Reels
- Pennsylvania – Customers of PPL Electric Utilities Taking Control of Electricity
- Canada to seek climate deal with Obama
- Not So Green: Voters Nix Most Environmental State Ballot Measures
- 100 Percent Rural Broadband Access, Study Finds
- Google Wins Big at FCC
- Cable companies, Verizon under investigation for pricing policies
- Gregoire triumphs as close race fails to materialize
- Tight race for Lands Commission, others win easily
- Heavy Rain Warning Prompts Flooding Concerns; Snow Also Expected
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Gauche • \GOE-SH\ • adjective – *1: lacking social experience or grace; also: not tactful: crude
2: crudely made or done
Alfredo was highly embarrassed by the gauche manners of his friend Frieda, whom he had invited to high mass at his church on Sunday. He could have ignored her secret snacking of raw garlic cloves during the service, but it was her lip smacking and burping that sent him over the edge.
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
Jefferson PUD headed for authority to provide power (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081105/news/311059993
2-1 Margin – Whidbey voters reject bid for public power – Skagit PUD proposal trailing slightly (Whidbey Examiner, Coupeville, WA)
http://www.whidbeyexaminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=1877&TM=41849.73
Jefferson County Election: Public power measure is passing (Port Townsend Leader, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.ptleader.com/Main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=22287
In the race for John Whalen's seat on the Mason County PUD No. 3 Commission, Tom Farmer has a 590 vote lead on Doug Womack. Farmer has 51.43% of the vote or 8,139 votes while Womack has 47.7% or 7,549 votes.
For Mason County PUD No. 1 Commission, District Two, incumbent Ron Gold has just under 60% (59.94%) or 645 votes to challenger Tom Strong's 38.94% or 419 votes.
Peshastin Orchardist Carnan Bergren is outpacing Chelan County PUD commissioner Werner Janssen 52 to 48 percent.
It appears there will be a shift of power in the Grays Harbor PUD Board of Commissioners. Chairman Jim Eddy is trailing Russ Skolrood 56% to 43%.
Incumbent Hugh Haffner maintained a comfortable54.5% to 45.5% lead in the Clallam County Public Utility District District 2 against challenger, Bob Jensen of Port Angeles.
Ken McMillen had a small margin in the race against Jim Pivarnik for Jefferson County Public Utility District commissioner on Tuesday night. McMillen leads by 53% to Pivarnik’s 47%.
Benton County PUD Commissioner, District 2 – Jeff Hall: 16,613, Pat Tucker: 10,230
Grant County PUD Commissioner, District 3 – Don Long: 9,555, Randy Allred: 10,533
Grant County PUD Commissioner, At Large A – Tom Flint: 11,554, Sam A. Johnson: 7,656
Thurston County PUD, District 3 – Chris Stearns (60%) is leading Terence Artz (40%)
Clark Public Utilities Commissioner Byron Hanke has won a second six-year term on the electric and water utility board. He ran unopposed.
Jeffrey McClure (68%) will likely be the new member on the Whatcom County Public Utility District board. Defeats Robin Dexter (32%).
Snohomish County PUD Commissioner, Dist 1 – Dave Aldrich: 97,717, Bill Barnet: 34,426
Kitsap County PUD Commissioner, Dist 2 Lee F. Caldwell 39,276 Pete Favazza 19,412
Cowlitz County power outage delays release of county results (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/11/05//area_news/doc49111fbb481db901732561.txt
In S.F., voters defeat Prop. H for city utility (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/05/BATD13RC1Q.DTL&feed=rss.news
CLARK PUBLIC UTILITIES SEES SLOWER RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER GROWTH – Residential hook-ups with Clark Public Utilities grew to 166,298 in September, up from 164,008 in September 2007. The change represents a 1.39 percent annual increase in housing units in the county. Residential growth with the utility has slowed considerable from two years ago, when the hook-up rate was growing at an annual rate of more than 3 percent. (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals – Snohomish County PUD, Et. Al vs. FERC (Links to PDF File)
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/79A1ACCBBD3550E9882574F6005B1777/$file/0372511o.pdf?openelement
Oregon – BPA proposes constructing line after 6-year delay (East Oregonian, Hermiston, OR)
http://www.eastoregonian.info/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=84754&TM=52367.77
Puget Energy Reports Third-Quarter 2008 Financial Results (MarketWatch)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Puget-Energy-Reports-Third-Quarter/story.aspx?guid=%7B9A0DF4D1-878D-4178-80A6-1B795ECE2F4D%7D
Jackson Prairie PSE Natural Gas Storage Expansion Complete (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
http://www.kelaam.com/pages/localnews/?Jackson-Prairie-PSE-Expansion-Complete=1&blockID=17155&feedID=410
TRAFFIC: BPA work to restrict I-82 south of Kennewick (Tri-City Herald)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/372887.html?mi_email=Tri-City%20Herald_PM+%26+Breaking+News
On the job with a Chelan PUD lineman (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081105/NEIGHBORS/711059954
FISH & WILDLIFE
Economic collapse puts salmon revival in jeopardy (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/386402_salmon05.html
Search is on for Coho salmon-friendly streams (The World, Coos Bay, OR)
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2008/11/04/news/doc4910a43c546e8856876114.txt
Scotsman (UK) Op/Ed – Shun salmon to save seals
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Shun-salmon-to-save-seals.4660790.jp
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Bathroom fixtures save water (Arizona Republic)
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2008/11/04/20081104tempegreen1103urinal.html
California is facing a water crisis (Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, CA)
http://www.contracostatimes.com/opinion/ci_10896592
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
SolarWorld union votes to strike (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20081105/BIZ01/711059954/-1/BIZ
Grays Harbor County PUD to spend $77 million on wind – Clallam, Mason and Pacific County PUDs may participate in the project (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2008/11/04/local_news/01news.txt
Energy Pulse Commentary – Offshore Wind Riding a Wave
http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=1860
California’s Renewable power, alternative fuel measures fail (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/04/MND813Q18V.DTL&tsp=1
Economy Shifts, and the Ethanol Industry Reels (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/business/05ethanol.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1225912087-CPq4Q0hlmERy5le5ZttOpQ
CONSERVATION
Pennsylvania – Customers of PPL Electric Utilities Taking Control of Electricity Use, Bills (Solanco News, PA)
http://www.solanconews.com/Features/2008/081105_PPL_customers.htm
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Canada to seek climate deal with Obama (The Toronto Star, Ontario)
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/531128
Not So Green: Voters Nix Most Environmental State Ballot Measures (Wall Street Journal)
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/11/05/not-so-green-voters-nix-most-environmental-state-ballot-measures/
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
100 Percent Rural Broadband Access, Study Finds (TMC-Net)
http://hosted-communications.tmcnet.com/topics/broadband-comm/articles/44483-100-percent-rural-broadband-access-study-finds.htm
Google Wins Big at FCC (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2008/11/04/google-wins-big-at-fcc-today/
Cable companies, Verizon under investigation for pricing policies (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/529081.html
GENERAL NEWS
Gregoire triumphs as close race fails to materialize (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/386451_governor05.html?source=rss
Tight race for Lands Commission, others win easily (Associated Press )
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_110408POB_results_wa_misc_KC.17fbc5a0e.html?npc
Heavy Rain Warning Prompts Flooding Concerns; Snow Also Expected (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/rss/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1225831296&archive=
DIVERSIONS
Teen compacted in Wis. garbage truck, survives
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081105/ap_on_fe_st/odd_teen_compacted;_ylt=ApZrt7QH1RtWOorBk1XlUajtiBIF
Illinois police take aggressive rooster into custody
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081104/ap_on_fe_st/odd_arrested_rooster;_ylt=AmAVwo_9HVff3_OUIp88l4ztiBIF
Woman arrested for calling Japanese police 7,177 times
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081105/od_afp/japancrimeoffbeat_081105135608
CNN 'beams up' virtual correspondent – “Help me Obi-Wan, you’re my only hope”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081105/od_afp/usvotemediatelevisioncnnoffbeat_081105011323;_ylt=AsJUHt4O7arY371nnfLwpkOgOrgF
Welsh road sign lost in translation
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081101/od_afp/britainwalestransportoffbeat_081101160708;_ylt=ApHZlNbu9o2uJ5Jp2YRHm3agOrgF
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Energy News Digest for November 4, 2008
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.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- PDC to investigate campaign-related complaint against Washington PUD Association
- Goose Short-Circuits Power Line, Causing North Seattle Outage
- Mason County PUD 1 and PUD 3 Urge Preparation for Fall and Winter Weather
- Grant PUD sees higher labor costs
- Avista Corp. Reports Results for the Third Quarter
- TransAlta Announces Profitable Year
- NW Power Council seeks natural gas price comments
- NorthWestern Energy Responds to Montana Proceedings Regarding Colstrip
- North Carolina – Duke doubles cost estimate for nuclear plant
- Is more nuclear energy in California's energy future?
- Tennessee – After years of cheap energy, rising costs are forcing changes
- United Kingdom’s gas and electricity bills increasing fast
- California – Copper thieves knocking out park lights
- Oregonian Op/Ed – Salmon science is not about sound bites
- Grant PUD approves $3 million for Priest Rapids Project Shoreline Management Plan
- Saving wild salmon, in hopes of saving the orca
- Canada – Salmon and whales
- Seattle Post Intelligencer Guest Columnist – Orcas deserve a fighting chance
- Fish forensics: Vital but stinky
- California – Coho salmon fry discovered up a remote creek
- Enough water for all in Orting?
- Olympian Editorial – LOTT remains innovative
- Canada – Burst dam may uncover hidden historical wonders
- Seattle Times Editorial – Washington State could spread the green around
- Seattle Times Op/Ed –Stimulate economy by supporting green power
- PSE Requests to Pass Through Adjusted Wind-Power Credit to Customers
- Digester project targets small farms
- California utility buys Iberdrola’s biomass energy
- EarthFirst Installs BC's First Wind Turbine
- There's a silver lining to Washington State Penitentiary's recent expansion project
- Utilities offer rebates, loans to increase home insulation
- Battelle CO2 project back online in Wallula
- Sitestar Purchases DONOBi Customers & Assets
- Barton Urges FCC to Listen to Public, Reform Costly Universal Service Fund
- FCC chairman cancels vote on telecom overhaul
- The strategic power of fiber
- Who Killed the VoIP Revolution?
- Time running short to make digital TV leap
- N. Idaho residents angry about cell tower
- City of Shelton Budget Controversial, Sobering: Library; Street Lights on Chopping Block
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Apropos • \ah-pruh-POE \ • adverb – 1: at an opportune time: seasonably 2: by way of interjection or further comment: with regard to the present topic
Whistling in the dark, the debate over streetlights goes on until, apropos of nothing, the meaning of life, the universe and everything commandeered the discussions…always ending, inexplicably, in the number 42.
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
PDC to investigate campaign-related complaint against Washington PUD Association (Whidbey Examiner, Coupeville, WA)
http://www.whidbeyexaminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=1869&TM=48656.59
Goose Short-Circuits Power Line, Causing North Seattle Outage (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/17874466/detail.html?treets=sea&tml=sea_break&ts=T&tmi=sea_break_-1_11360111032008
Mason County PUD 1 and PUD 3 Urge Preparation for Fall and Winter Weather in the Pacific Northwest (Mason County PUD No. 3)
http://www.masonpud3.org/News/display.asp?NewsID=476
Grant PUD sees higher labor costs (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2008/11/03/news/nw1.11.3.08.txt
Avista Corp. Reports Results for the Third Quarter and Year-to-Date 2008 (MarketWatch)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Avista-Corp-Reports-Results-Third/story.aspx?guid=%7BAAE3A7D2-B70E-4174-B990-5F16ED89B926%7D
TransAlta Announces Profitable Year – Canadian Company Spent $70 Million-$75 Million Upgrading Centralia Plant to Handle Wyoming Coal (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/rss/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1225482471&archive=
NW Power Council seeks natural gas price comments (The Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/645722.html
News Release – NorthWestern Energy Responds to Montana Public Service Commission Proceedings Regarding Colstrip Unit 4 (Yahoo! Finance)
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/081031/aqf055.html?.v=50
North Carolina – Duke doubles cost estimate for nuclear plant (Charlotte Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2008/11/03/daily19.html?ana=from_rss
Is more nuclear energy in California's energy future? (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/1365206.html
Tennessee – High Voltage: After years of cheap energy, rising costs are forcing changes (The Daily Herald, Columbia, TN)
http://www.columbiadailyherald.com/articles/2008/11/04/top_stories/01power.txt
United Kingdom’s gas and electricity bills increasing at twice the rate of European neighbors (Daily Telegraph, UK)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3379808/UK-gas-and-electricity-bills-increasing-at-twice-the-rate-of-European-neighbours.html
California – Copper thieves knocking out park lights (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/04/BA2V13TBRP.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
FISH & WILDLIFE
Oregonian Op/Ed – Salmon science is not about sound bites (Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2008/11/salmon_science_is_not_about_so.html
Grant PUD approves $3 million for Priest Rapids Project Shoreline Management Plan (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2008/11/02/news/nw5.10.31.08.txt
Saving wild salmon, in hopes of saving the orca (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/science/04prof.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
Canada – Salmon and whales (Globe and Mail)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081104.EWHALES04/TPStory/Comment
Seattle Post Intelligencer Guest Columnist – Orcas deserve a fighting chance
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/386200_orcas04.html
Fish forensics: Vital but stinky (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081103/NEWS04/711039950
California – Coho salmon fry discovered up a remote creek (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/31/MN5613NOAH.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Enough water for all in Orting? Officials are continuing talks about building a bottled water plant in the city (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/525984.html
Olympian Editorial – LOTT remains innovative: There was a time when the board governing the LOTT regional wastewater collection and treatment system was one of the most dysfunctional government entities in South Sound (Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/opinion/story/645752.html
Canada – Burst dam may uncover hidden historical wonders (Simcoe Reformer, Ontario)
http://www.simcoereformer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1278178
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Seattle Times Editorial – Washington State could spread the green around “…BPA should be permitted to borrow more money from the U.S. Treasury to invest in electricity-transmission infrastructure in the Northwest…” (How about a green power CRAC? Sarcasm intended)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2008342479_edit03green.html
Seattle Times Op/Ed –Stimulate economy by supporting green power: Some of the federal money intended to stimulate the economy should be devoted to building electrical transmission lines in the Northwest to help boost the development of green power
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008342480_opin03luceweb.html
PSE Requests to Pass Through Adjusted Wind-Power Credit to Customers – Output From Utility's Two Wind-Power Facilities Earns Increased Credit (MarketWatch)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/PSE-Requests-Pass-Through-Adjusted/story.aspx?guid=%7B5483D0E7-1F7F-4DC3-92CE-5DC139B64038%7D
Digester project targets small farms (Sustainable Industries)
http://www.sustainableindustries.com/breakingnews/33648134.html
California utility buys Iberdrola’s biomass energy (Biomass Magazine )
http://www.biomassmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2164
EarthFirst Installs BC's First Wind Turbine (Renewable Energy World)http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53993&src=rss
CONSERVATION
There's a silver lining to Washington State Penitentiary's recent expansion project – All seven buildings Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design silver certifications (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/11/03/local_news/081103local02leed.txt
Utilities (including Snohomish PUD) offer rebates, loans to increase home insulation (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20081103/BIZ/711039956
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Battelle CO2 project back online in Wallula (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/915/story/369773.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Sitestar Purchases DONOBi Customers & Assets – Deal Includes Narrowband, Broadband & Hosting Customers in Pacific Northwest & Hawaii (CNN Money)
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0448544.htm
Barton Urges FCC to Listen to Public, Reform Costly Universal Service Fund (Benton Foundation)
http://benton.org/node/18369?utm_campaign=Benton%27s+Headlines&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=2008/10/31/nid-18391&
FCC chairman cancels vote on telecom overhaul – But ruling due on TV 'white spaces' (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/386242_fcctelecom04.html?source=rss
The strategic power of fiber (Fierce Telecom)
http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/strategic-power-fiber/2008-10-30
Who Killed the VoIP Revolution? (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2008/11/02/who-killed-the-voip-revolution/
Time running short to make digital TV leap (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2008/11/time_running_short_to_make_dig.html
N. Idaho residents angry about cell tower – Get out your Faraday Cages! (The Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/649361.html
GENERAL NEWS
City of Shelton Budget Controversial, Sobering: Library; Street Lights on Chopping Block (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5467/reftab/1896/Default.aspx?title=CITY_BUDGET_CONTROVERSIAL,_SOBERING:_LIBRARY;_STREET_LIGHTS_ON_CHOPPING_BLOCK_
DIVERSIONS
Election law forces Starbucks to change free coffee promo
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_110308WAB_starbucks_free_coffee_TP.179d1864a.html?npc
Granger man charged with shooting paintballs at City Hall
http://www.yakimaherald.com/stories/8945
Paper Boy Steals Car To Make Faster Rounds
http://www.kirotv.com/irresistible/17865142/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_nots&tmi=sea_nots_-1_01000111032008&ts=H
Meth and cash found in boy's Halloween trick-or-treat bag
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008348854_webhalloweenmeth04.html?syndication=rss
Stevens juror: I lied about dad, went to horse race
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/03/stevens.trial.juror.ap/?iref=mpstoryview
Friday, October 31, 2008
Energy News Digest for October 31, 2008
NOTE: The news digest will be taking a break on Monday, November 3. It will return with its “I Think I Voted” sticker on November 4.
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.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Voters in 3 counties to decide on municipal authority over Puget Sound Energy
- Voters might pull the plug on Puget Sound Energy
- Drive against Jefferson PUD power approaches a cool quarter-million
- Wenatchee Alcoa layoffs coming amid soft metal prices and demand
- Intalco trims jobs as metal price falls
- Portland General Electric reports net income of zero for third quarter
- Fowler retiring from Portland General Electric
- Tri-City Herald Editorial – Nuclear fuel recycling shouldn't be shelved again
- California nuke plant back online after jellyfish block cooling water intake pipes
- T. Boone Pickens not bullish on energy smarts of Obama, McCain
- Budget Cuts Could Threaten Salmon Recovery
- Salmon egg nests destroyed on Elwha River
- Many Grays River residents say fish habitat plan could do more harm than good
- Biodiversity: Unraveling the Mysteries of Salmon Migration
- Group suggests gillnetting changes on Columbia
- South Dakota – Spawning next wave of salmon
- Canada – Pink salmon in sharp decline near Broughton fish farms
- Project aims to keep bats under Oregon bridges
- Thurston Country recycling options shrink
- Recycled Goods On Ferry Thrown In Trash
- California cuts water deliveries to cities, farms
- Wind Companies Compelled to Play Nice in New York
- Tumwater district joins energy-saving program
- Do You Know You Have Phantoms in Your House?
- New York – United Way to host free energy workshops
- Tennessean Op/Ed – Energy progress needs broad plan
- Canada – Adjust carbon tax to lift burden on poor, think-tank says
- The Unintended Consequences of Climate Change Solutions
- Qwest FTTN: Available to 5 Million By 2010
- JD Power Ranks Broadband ISP Satisfaction
- Chip makers tighten belt
- DOT warns of death after daylight savings
- Earnings: Exxon profit a record: $14.83 billion in quarter
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Parley • \PARR-lee \ • verb – To speak with another: confer; specifically: to discuss terms with an enemy.
“ARRRRRRRR,” growled the lady pirate to her opponents. “I won’t let ye onto me ship for a parley unless ye all wear dresses before ye come aboard.” Her quaking opponents, facing the grinning guns of the pirate ship were only too happy to don hoop skirts for their trip to discuss terms of surrender.
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
Voters in 3 counties to decide on municipal authority over Puget Sound Energy – Utility spends more than $900,000 to fight the measures (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/385776_pse31.html
Voters might pull the plug on Puget Sound Energy (Crosscut)
http://crosscut.com/2008/10/30/energy-utilities/18604/
Drive against Jefferson PUD power approaches a cool quarter-million (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081031/news/310319991
Wenatchee Alcoa layoffs coming amid soft metal prices and demand (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081030/NEWS04/710319992
Intalco trims jobs as metal price falls (The Bellingham Herald, WA)
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/255/story/640477.html
Portland General Electric reports net income of zero for third quarter – The company faults a customer refund from the closure of the Trojan plant (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1225423519154860.xml&coll=7
Fowler retiring from Portland General Electric (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/10/27/daily33.html?ana=from_rss
Tri-City Herald Editorial – Nuclear fuel recycling shouldn't be shelved again
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/962/story/368514.html
Suicidal Jellyfish – PG&E Calif. Diablo Canyon reactors start back after jellyfish block cooling water intake pipes (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2450595320081024
T. Boone Pickens not bullish on energy smarts of Obama, McCain (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/10/27/daily39.html?ana=from_rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Budget Cuts Could Threaten Salmon Recovery – between 20-30 percent of BPA customer bills go towards fish & wildlife (Audio from KPLU-Radio, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kplu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1403151
Salmon egg nests destroyed on Elwha River (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081031/NEWS/310319993
Many Grays River residents say fish habitat plan could do more harm than good (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/10/31/area_news/doc4909470fa33b8928710444.txt
Biodiversity: Unraveling the Mysteries of Salmon Migration (IPS, Italy)
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44532
Group suggests gillnetting changes on Columbia – Proposal would move commercial users to side channels on lower river (The Statesman-Journal, Salem, OR)
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081031/OUTDOORS/810310356/1034/SPORTS
South Dakota – Spawning next wave of salmon: 1.5M fertilized fish eggs to boost S.D. economy (The Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, SD)
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20081031/NEWS/810310319/1001/rss01
Canada – Pink salmon in sharp decline near Broughton fish farms – Numbers spawning in five key indicator streams down 90 per cent (The Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=6d3af277-d143-4115-adf9-25a2825e342a
Project aims to keep bats under Oregon bridges (Associated Press)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/33368179.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Thurston Country recycling options shrink – Five blue box locations in county to close Jan. 1 (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/643361.html
Recycled Goods On Ferry Thrown In Trash (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/17815454/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
California cuts water deliveries to cities, farms to second lowest level ever (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10861484?source=rss
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Wind Companies Compelled to Play Nice in New York (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/wind-companies-compelled-to-play-nice-in-new-york/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
CONSERVATION
Tumwater district joins energy-saving program (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/643348.html
Do You Know You Have Phantoms in Your House? How to Combat Phantom Power Pilferage (MarketWatch)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Do-You-Know-You-Have/story.aspx?guid=%7B2EAACF7E-D27F-4255-BE0F-DFF15C60B5FC%7D
New York – United Way to host free energy workshops (The Chronicle, Goshen, NY)
http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2008/10/30/the_chronicle/news/30.txt
Tennessean Op/Ed – Energy progress needs broad plan
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081029/OPINION01/810290418/1007/OPINION
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Canada – Adjust carbon tax to lift burden on poor, think-tank says (Globe and Mail)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081031.BCCARBON31/TPStory/TPNational/BritishColumbia/
The Unintended Consequences of Climate Change Solutions (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/the-unintended-consequences-of-climate-change-solutions/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Qwest FTTN: Available to 5 Million By 2010 – Should be available to 1.8 million users by year's end (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Qwest-FTTN-Available-To-5-Million-By-2010-98787
JD Power Ranks Broadband ISP Satisfaction – Cablevision, Cox, WOW and Roadrunner take top honors (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/JD-Power-Ranks-Broadband-ISP-Satisfaction-98786
Chip makers tighten belt – Local companies cut costs as global sales sag (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081031/BIZ01/710319984/-1/biz
GENERAL NEWS
DOT warns of death after daylight savings – I am Darkness, the bringer of death… (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/33640039.html
Earnings: Exxon profit a record: $14.83 billion in quarter – Insert Cynical Comment Here (Associated Press)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/385805_earnsoil31.html?source=rss
DIVERSIONS
Would-be florist robbers get only rose as loot
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008334669_webroserobbery31.html?syndication=rss
Hover chair hopes to rise above economic woes
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49T64U20081030?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
Theft averted – Boy shocked after man powers up campaign sign
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_fe_st/odd_shocking_sign;_ylt=AsoEEApopkcGPx1gdsPkWivtiBIF
Man allegedly helps renovate with 'hot' property
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_fe_st/odd_stolen_renovation;_ylt=Avq7VxvFErX1UZv46LwHpv3tiBIF
Teen Volunteer Finds Ancient Hebrew Writing – Archaeologist Says Find Holds Oldest Hebrew Writing
http://www.kirotv.com/irresistible/17853985/detail.html
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.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Voters in 3 counties to decide on municipal authority over Puget Sound Energy
- Voters might pull the plug on Puget Sound Energy
- Drive against Jefferson PUD power approaches a cool quarter-million
- Wenatchee Alcoa layoffs coming amid soft metal prices and demand
- Intalco trims jobs as metal price falls
- Portland General Electric reports net income of zero for third quarter
- Fowler retiring from Portland General Electric
- Tri-City Herald Editorial – Nuclear fuel recycling shouldn't be shelved again
- California nuke plant back online after jellyfish block cooling water intake pipes
- T. Boone Pickens not bullish on energy smarts of Obama, McCain
- Budget Cuts Could Threaten Salmon Recovery
- Salmon egg nests destroyed on Elwha River
- Many Grays River residents say fish habitat plan could do more harm than good
- Biodiversity: Unraveling the Mysteries of Salmon Migration
- Group suggests gillnetting changes on Columbia
- South Dakota – Spawning next wave of salmon
- Canada – Pink salmon in sharp decline near Broughton fish farms
- Project aims to keep bats under Oregon bridges
- Thurston Country recycling options shrink
- Recycled Goods On Ferry Thrown In Trash
- California cuts water deliveries to cities, farms
- Wind Companies Compelled to Play Nice in New York
- Tumwater district joins energy-saving program
- Do You Know You Have Phantoms in Your House?
- New York – United Way to host free energy workshops
- Tennessean Op/Ed – Energy progress needs broad plan
- Canada – Adjust carbon tax to lift burden on poor, think-tank says
- The Unintended Consequences of Climate Change Solutions
- Qwest FTTN: Available to 5 Million By 2010
- JD Power Ranks Broadband ISP Satisfaction
- Chip makers tighten belt
- DOT warns of death after daylight savings
- Earnings: Exxon profit a record: $14.83 billion in quarter
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Parley • \PARR-lee \ • verb – To speak with another: confer; specifically: to discuss terms with an enemy.
“ARRRRRRRR,” growled the lady pirate to her opponents. “I won’t let ye onto me ship for a parley unless ye all wear dresses before ye come aboard.” Her quaking opponents, facing the grinning guns of the pirate ship were only too happy to don hoop skirts for their trip to discuss terms of surrender.
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
Voters in 3 counties to decide on municipal authority over Puget Sound Energy – Utility spends more than $900,000 to fight the measures (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/385776_pse31.html
Voters might pull the plug on Puget Sound Energy (Crosscut)
http://crosscut.com/2008/10/30/energy-utilities/18604/
Drive against Jefferson PUD power approaches a cool quarter-million (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081031/news/310319991
Wenatchee Alcoa layoffs coming amid soft metal prices and demand (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081030/NEWS04/710319992
Intalco trims jobs as metal price falls (The Bellingham Herald, WA)
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/255/story/640477.html
Portland General Electric reports net income of zero for third quarter – The company faults a customer refund from the closure of the Trojan plant (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1225423519154860.xml&coll=7
Fowler retiring from Portland General Electric (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/10/27/daily33.html?ana=from_rss
Tri-City Herald Editorial – Nuclear fuel recycling shouldn't be shelved again
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/962/story/368514.html
Suicidal Jellyfish – PG&E Calif. Diablo Canyon reactors start back after jellyfish block cooling water intake pipes (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2450595320081024
T. Boone Pickens not bullish on energy smarts of Obama, McCain (Portland Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/10/27/daily39.html?ana=from_rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Budget Cuts Could Threaten Salmon Recovery – between 20-30 percent of BPA customer bills go towards fish & wildlife (Audio from KPLU-Radio, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kplu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1403151
Salmon egg nests destroyed on Elwha River (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081031/NEWS/310319993
Many Grays River residents say fish habitat plan could do more harm than good (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/10/31/area_news/doc4909470fa33b8928710444.txt
Biodiversity: Unraveling the Mysteries of Salmon Migration (IPS, Italy)
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44532
Group suggests gillnetting changes on Columbia – Proposal would move commercial users to side channels on lower river (The Statesman-Journal, Salem, OR)
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081031/OUTDOORS/810310356/1034/SPORTS
South Dakota – Spawning next wave of salmon: 1.5M fertilized fish eggs to boost S.D. economy (The Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, SD)
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20081031/NEWS/810310319/1001/rss01
Canada – Pink salmon in sharp decline near Broughton fish farms – Numbers spawning in five key indicator streams down 90 per cent (The Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=6d3af277-d143-4115-adf9-25a2825e342a
Project aims to keep bats under Oregon bridges (Associated Press)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/33368179.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Thurston Country recycling options shrink – Five blue box locations in county to close Jan. 1 (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/localnewsfeed/story/643361.html
Recycled Goods On Ferry Thrown In Trash (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/17815454/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news
California cuts water deliveries to cities, farms to second lowest level ever (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10861484?source=rss
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Wind Companies Compelled to Play Nice in New York (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/wind-companies-compelled-to-play-nice-in-new-york/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
CONSERVATION
Tumwater district joins energy-saving program (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/643348.html
Do You Know You Have Phantoms in Your House? How to Combat Phantom Power Pilferage (MarketWatch)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Do-You-Know-You-Have/story.aspx?guid=%7B2EAACF7E-D27F-4255-BE0F-DFF15C60B5FC%7D
New York – United Way to host free energy workshops (The Chronicle, Goshen, NY)
http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2008/10/30/the_chronicle/news/30.txt
Tennessean Op/Ed – Energy progress needs broad plan
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081029/OPINION01/810290418/1007/OPINION
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Canada – Adjust carbon tax to lift burden on poor, think-tank says (Globe and Mail)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081031.BCCARBON31/TPStory/TPNational/BritishColumbia/
The Unintended Consequences of Climate Change Solutions (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/the-unintended-consequences-of-climate-change-solutions/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Qwest FTTN: Available to 5 Million By 2010 – Should be available to 1.8 million users by year's end (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Qwest-FTTN-Available-To-5-Million-By-2010-98787
JD Power Ranks Broadband ISP Satisfaction – Cablevision, Cox, WOW and Roadrunner take top honors (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/JD-Power-Ranks-Broadband-ISP-Satisfaction-98786
Chip makers tighten belt – Local companies cut costs as global sales sag (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081031/BIZ01/710319984/-1/biz
GENERAL NEWS
DOT warns of death after daylight savings – I am Darkness, the bringer of death… (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/33640039.html
Earnings: Exxon profit a record: $14.83 billion in quarter – Insert Cynical Comment Here (Associated Press)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/385805_earnsoil31.html?source=rss
DIVERSIONS
Would-be florist robbers get only rose as loot
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008334669_webroserobbery31.html?syndication=rss
Hover chair hopes to rise above economic woes
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49T64U20081030?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
Theft averted – Boy shocked after man powers up campaign sign
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_fe_st/odd_shocking_sign;_ylt=AsoEEApopkcGPx1gdsPkWivtiBIF
Man allegedly helps renovate with 'hot' property
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_fe_st/odd_stolen_renovation;_ylt=Avq7VxvFErX1UZv46LwHpv3tiBIF
Teen Volunteer Finds Ancient Hebrew Writing – Archaeologist Says Find Holds Oldest Hebrew Writing
http://www.kirotv.com/irresistible/17853985/detail.html
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Energy News Digest for October 30, 2008
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.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Supplier Poll: Texas voters favor electricity competition
- Massachusetts – Utility offers a 3-year lock on electricity rate
- Massachusetts Electricity offer slammed
- Benton PUD offering low-income discounts
- South Africa – 'No electricity, No vote’
- Union-Bulletin Editorial – New study finds fish do as well on dammed rivers
- Coho flooding to Cowlitz salmon hatchery at record pace
- 'We're getting down to the last fish in the barrel'
- Oregon – Commercial fishermen question salmon plan
- Taylor Shellfish May Face Fines from Washington State
- Dusky tree vole may be in need of federal protection
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial – Puget Sound: Troubled waters
- Camas, state tout ‘win-win’ water rights
- Pateros businesses lament Douglas County PUD’s plan to lower river
- West Montana tribal water compact negotiations rolling along
- Feds to check for contaminants in Columbia River
- Wastewater concerns slowing N. Idaho developers
- Renewable energy debuts on ballots
- Pickens delays world's biggest wind farm project
- California rejects Pacific Gas & Electric contract for wave energy
- Michigan – Stranded oil spurs an electric America with more renewables
- California City to Turn Waste into Energy
- Turning Waste Olive Stones Into Bioethanol
- Energy-efficient fridge actually costs less
- North Carolina – Energy Star goods have tax holiday
- Pointers to help you avoid ‘greenwashing’
- Comcast: The New Broadband King
- Cable Subscribers Increase Before Digital Transition
- State Releases Audit of City of Shelton
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Internecine • \inter-NESS-seen\ • \adjective – 1: marked by slaughter: deadly; especially: mutually destructive 2: of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group
The manufacturing employees and design staff continued their internecine battles over color choices for the new product line throughout the year. The designers demanded that the assembly line use dark brown and hot pink in new throw-pillow designs. The workers rebelled, when after one week, the color combination had sent hundreds of them home with headaches and nausea.
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
Poll: Texas voters favor electricity competition – Industry to use findings in battle against efforts to regulate prices “…poll commissioned by a power industry trade group…” (Houston Chronicle, TX)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6084989.html
Massachusetts – Utility offers a 3-year lock on electricity rate: Dominion's deal would cut average bill by a few dollars (Boston Globe, MA)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6084989.html
Massachusetts Electricity offer slammed (Boston Herald)
http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1128762&srvc=rss
Benton PUD offering low-income discounts (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/367432.html
South Africa – 'No electricity, No vote’ (Independent Online)
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_South%20Africa&set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20081030152202533C743404
FISH & WILDLIFE
Union-Bulletin Editorial – New study finds fish do as well on dammed rivers: Yet, environmental groups quickly dismissed the merits of the study. Any study that doesn't denigrate dams is automatically unscientific, horrible or both (Walla Walla, WA)
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/10/29/opinion/daily_editorial/081029%20editorial%20dams.txt
Coho flooding to Cowlitz salmon hatchery at record pace (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/704/story/641985.html
'We're getting down to the last fish in the barrel' (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/33560749.html
Oregon – Commercial fishermen question salmon plan (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2008/10/andy_parker_commercial_fisherm.html
Taylor Shellfish May Face Fines from Washington State (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5427/reftab/1632/title/TAYLOR_SHELLFISH_MAY_FACE_FINES_FROM_THE_STATE/Default.aspx
Dusky tree vole may be in need of federal protection (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008328905_treevole30.html?syndication=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial – Puget Sound: Troubled waters
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/385542_pugeted.html?source=rss
Camas, state tout ‘win-win’ water rights (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081030/NEWS02/710309968/-1/NEWS
Pateros businesses lament Douglas County PUD’s plan to lower river (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081030/NEWS04/710301306
West Montana tribal water compact negotiations rolling along (Char-Koosta, Pablo, MT)
http://www.charkoosta.com/2008/2008_10_30/CSKT_water_compacts_roll_along.html
Feds to check for contaminants in Columbia River (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/366999.html
Wastewater concerns slowing N. Idaho developers (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1658956~Wastewater_concerns_slowing_N__Idaho_developers.html?cid=rss-Idaho_Headlines
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Renewable energy debuts on ballots (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-29-ballot-proposals_N.htm?csp=34
Pickens delays world's biggest wind farm project – Texas oilman's wind farm project hit by financial crisis and drop in price of natural gas (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/30/windpower-energy
California rejects Pacific Gas & Electric contract for wave energy (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10830160?source=rss
Michigan – Stranded oil spurs an electric America with more renewables (Tri-Cities Business Review, MI)
http://www.mlive.com/businessreview/tricities/index.ssf/2008/10/stranded_oil_spurs_an_electric.html
California City to Turn Waste into Energy (Facility Blog)
http://todaysfacilitymanager.com/facilityblog/2008/10/california-city-to-turn-waste-into-energy.html
Turning Waste Olive Stones Into Bioethanol ([Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53974&src=rss
CONSERVATION
Energy-efficient fridge actually costs less (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1224712526166670.xml&coll=7
North Carolina – Energy Star goods have tax holiday (The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area)
http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2008/10/27/daily28.html?ana=from_rss
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Pointers to help you avoid ‘greenwashing’ (Wenatchee World)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081030/HOM/710301323/1025/rss1025
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Comcast: The New Broadband King – Poised to surpass AT&T as nation's largest provider (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-The-New-Broadband-King-98748
Cable Subscribers Increase Before Digital Transition (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96311177&ft=1&f=3
GENERAL NEWS
State Releases Audit of City of Shelton (KMAS Radio, Shelton)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5425/reftab/1632/title/STATE_RELEASES_AUDIT_OF_CITY/Default.aspx
DIVERSIONS
Police kill wild turkeys in Philomath
http://www.examiner.com/a-1663998~Police_kill_wild_turkeys_in_Philomath.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
On this Day: ‘The War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Causes Panic
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/September-October-08/On-this-Day---The-War-of-the-Worlds--Broadcast-Causes-Panic.html
Leave Your Ear Wax Alone, Experts Say
http://www.kirotv.com/health/17846271/detail.html
Sticky-Fingered Campus Cop Charged In Pastry Theft
http://www.kirotv.com/irresistible/17848981/detail.html
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Supplier Poll: Texas voters favor electricity competition
- Massachusetts – Utility offers a 3-year lock on electricity rate
- Massachusetts Electricity offer slammed
- Benton PUD offering low-income discounts
- South Africa – 'No electricity, No vote’
- Union-Bulletin Editorial – New study finds fish do as well on dammed rivers
- Coho flooding to Cowlitz salmon hatchery at record pace
- 'We're getting down to the last fish in the barrel'
- Oregon – Commercial fishermen question salmon plan
- Taylor Shellfish May Face Fines from Washington State
- Dusky tree vole may be in need of federal protection
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial – Puget Sound: Troubled waters
- Camas, state tout ‘win-win’ water rights
- Pateros businesses lament Douglas County PUD’s plan to lower river
- West Montana tribal water compact negotiations rolling along
- Feds to check for contaminants in Columbia River
- Wastewater concerns slowing N. Idaho developers
- Renewable energy debuts on ballots
- Pickens delays world's biggest wind farm project
- California rejects Pacific Gas & Electric contract for wave energy
- Michigan – Stranded oil spurs an electric America with more renewables
- California City to Turn Waste into Energy
- Turning Waste Olive Stones Into Bioethanol
- Energy-efficient fridge actually costs less
- North Carolina – Energy Star goods have tax holiday
- Pointers to help you avoid ‘greenwashing’
- Comcast: The New Broadband King
- Cable Subscribers Increase Before Digital Transition
- State Releases Audit of City of Shelton
These and links to more stories in today’s Energy News Digest
WORD OF THE DAY
Internecine • \inter-NESS-seen\ • \adjective – 1: marked by slaughter: deadly; especially: mutually destructive 2: of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group
The manufacturing employees and design staff continued their internecine battles over color choices for the new product line throughout the year. The designers demanded that the assembly line use dark brown and hot pink in new throw-pillow designs. The workers rebelled, when after one week, the color combination had sent hundreds of them home with headaches and nausea.
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
Poll: Texas voters favor electricity competition – Industry to use findings in battle against efforts to regulate prices “…poll commissioned by a power industry trade group…” (Houston Chronicle, TX)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6084989.html
Massachusetts – Utility offers a 3-year lock on electricity rate: Dominion's deal would cut average bill by a few dollars (Boston Globe, MA)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6084989.html
Massachusetts Electricity offer slammed (Boston Herald)
http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1128762&srvc=rss
Benton PUD offering low-income discounts (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/367432.html
South Africa – 'No electricity, No vote’ (Independent Online)
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_South%20Africa&set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20081030152202533C743404
FISH & WILDLIFE
Union-Bulletin Editorial – New study finds fish do as well on dammed rivers: Yet, environmental groups quickly dismissed the merits of the study. Any study that doesn't denigrate dams is automatically unscientific, horrible or both (Walla Walla, WA)
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/10/29/opinion/daily_editorial/081029%20editorial%20dams.txt
Coho flooding to Cowlitz salmon hatchery at record pace (The Olympian, Olympia, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/704/story/641985.html
'We're getting down to the last fish in the barrel' (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/33560749.html
Oregon – Commercial fishermen question salmon plan (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2008/10/andy_parker_commercial_fisherm.html
Taylor Shellfish May Face Fines from Washington State (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5427/reftab/1632/title/TAYLOR_SHELLFISH_MAY_FACE_FINES_FROM_THE_STATE/Default.aspx
Dusky tree vole may be in need of federal protection (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008328905_treevole30.html?syndication=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial – Puget Sound: Troubled waters
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/385542_pugeted.html?source=rss
Camas, state tout ‘win-win’ water rights (The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20081030/NEWS02/710309968/-1/NEWS
Pateros businesses lament Douglas County PUD’s plan to lower river (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081030/NEWS04/710301306
West Montana tribal water compact negotiations rolling along (Char-Koosta, Pablo, MT)
http://www.charkoosta.com/2008/2008_10_30/CSKT_water_compacts_roll_along.html
Feds to check for contaminants in Columbia River (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/366999.html
Wastewater concerns slowing N. Idaho developers (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-1658956~Wastewater_concerns_slowing_N__Idaho_developers.html?cid=rss-Idaho_Headlines
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Renewable energy debuts on ballots (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-29-ballot-proposals_N.htm?csp=34
Pickens delays world's biggest wind farm project – Texas oilman's wind farm project hit by financial crisis and drop in price of natural gas (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/30/windpower-energy
California rejects Pacific Gas & Electric contract for wave energy (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10830160?source=rss
Michigan – Stranded oil spurs an electric America with more renewables (Tri-Cities Business Review, MI)
http://www.mlive.com/businessreview/tricities/index.ssf/2008/10/stranded_oil_spurs_an_electric.html
California City to Turn Waste into Energy (Facility Blog)
http://todaysfacilitymanager.com/facilityblog/2008/10/california-city-to-turn-waste-into-energy.html
Turning Waste Olive Stones Into Bioethanol ([Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53974&src=rss
CONSERVATION
Energy-efficient fridge actually costs less (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1224712526166670.xml&coll=7
North Carolina – Energy Star goods have tax holiday (The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area)
http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2008/10/27/daily28.html?ana=from_rss
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Pointers to help you avoid ‘greenwashing’ (Wenatchee World)
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081030/HOM/710301323/1025/rss1025
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Comcast: The New Broadband King – Poised to surpass AT&T as nation's largest provider (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-The-New-Broadband-King-98748
Cable Subscribers Increase Before Digital Transition (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96311177&ft=1&f=3
GENERAL NEWS
State Releases Audit of City of Shelton (KMAS Radio, Shelton)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/selectmoduleid/3468/ArticleID/5425/reftab/1632/title/STATE_RELEASES_AUDIT_OF_CITY/Default.aspx
DIVERSIONS
Police kill wild turkeys in Philomath
http://www.examiner.com/a-1663998~Police_kill_wild_turkeys_in_Philomath.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
On this Day: ‘The War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Causes Panic
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/September-October-08/On-this-Day---The-War-of-the-Worlds--Broadcast-Causes-Panic.html
Leave Your Ear Wax Alone, Experts Say
http://www.kirotv.com/health/17846271/detail.html
Sticky-Fingered Campus Cop Charged In Pastry Theft
http://www.kirotv.com/irresistible/17848981/detail.html
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