All the links in today’s news digest lead to current stories. Please note that some media organizations update their web sites regularly, which may result in broken links in the future.
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Money Approved For More Seismic Studies at Dams
• Utah OKs Continued Disposal Of Depleted Uranium
• Oregon - Ashland May Raise Power Rates
• California - Diablo Canyon Reactor Restarted After Repairs
• Who's Looking At Natural Gas Now? Big Oil
• BC Hydro Defends $600,000 Olympic Ticket Contest
• Chelan PUD Won't Pay For Wenatchee's Riverfront Improvements
• Columbia River's Hanford Reach area opens for steelhead fishing
• State AG Sides with Ecology in Kittitas Co. Wells Dispute
• California - Opponents Sue to Stop Marin Desalination Plant
• Canada's wind industry aims high
• Are Smart Grids Too Smart?
• Analysis: Miles to Go On Long Road to Climate Deal
• California Utility Quits Alliance over Climate Change
• After a Tornado, a Kansas Town Rebuilds Green
• Debate Begins About Fuel Ratings on Electric Cars
• Washington Governor Appoints Panel to Review Broadband Requests
• Twitter's Stone Says No Ads In 2009
• Yahoo to Spend $100M in Bid for More Brand Buzz
• Obama to World: Don't Expect America to Fix It All
• Study Says Washington Ninth-Best State for Business
• Sequim Rejects Former Lacey City Manager
• Victoria Protest Group Vows to Disrupt Start of 2010 Olympic Torch Relay
• Pages of Inappropriate E-Mails Put Hanford Employee under Scrutiny
WORD OF THE DAY
Popinjay • \PAH-pin-jay\ • noun - A strutting supercilious person
The Defense Secretary of Ruritania, attending NATO exercises in Belgium, cut an impressive figure in his flamboyant dress uniform. His proclamations about troop movements and grand strategy would have been more impressive had not this bristling little popinjay commanded an army of more than three soldiers.
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
Money Approved For More Seismic Studies at Dams (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/sep/22/money-approved-for-more-seismic-studies-at-dams/
Utah OKs Continued Disposal Of Depleted Uranium (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009921856_apusdepleteduranium.html?syndication=rss
Oregon - Ashland May Raise Power Rates (Mail Tribune, Medford, OR)
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090922/NEWS07/909229998/-1/NEWSMAP
California - Diablo Canyon Reactor Restarted After Repairs (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2229962~Diablo_Canyon_reactor_restarted_after_repairs.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
Who's Looking At Natural Gas Now? Big Oil (Nat’l Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113080237&ft=1&f=3
BC Hydro Defends $600,000 Olympic Ticket Contest (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/09/22/bc-hydro-olympic-tickets-lotto-icbc.html
Chelan PUD Won't Pay For Wenatchee's Riverfront Improvements (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/sep/22/pud-wonat-pay-for-cityas-riverfront-improvements/
FISH & WILDLIFE
Columbia River's Hanford Reach area opens for steelhead fishing, including a portion not open since 1996 (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/reeltimenorthwest/2009920375_columbia_rivers_hanford_reach.html?syndication=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
State AG Sides with Ecology in Kittitas Co. Wells Dispute (Yakima Herald Republic, WA)
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/09/22/state-ag-sides-with-ecology-in-kittitas-co-wells-dispute
California - Opponents Sue to Stop Marin Desalination Plant (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2230638~Opponents_sue_to_stop_Marin_desalination_plant.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
RENEWABLE & ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Canada's wind industry aims high (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE58L42F20090922
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Are Smart Grids Too Smart? (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/green/detail?entry_id=48115
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Analysis: Miles to Go On Long Road to Climate Deal (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iyr7eKs68bpTnBETOuMfypAQue3gD9ASIL7O0
California Utility Quits Alliance over Climate Change (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/business/energy-environment/23utility.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
After a Tornado, a Kansas Town Rebuilds Green (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/realestate/commercial/23kansas.html
Debate Begins About Fuel Ratings on Electric Cars (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/environment/2009-09-22-electric-car-fuel-ratings_N.htm
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Washington Governor Appoints Panel to Review Broadband Requests (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/09/21/daily17.html?ana=from_rss
Twitter's Stone Says No Ads In 2009 (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE58L4C520090922?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology
Yahoo to Spend $100M in Bid for More Brand Buzz (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009921060_apustecyahooadcampaign1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
GENERAL NEWS
Obama to World: Don't Expect America to Fix It All (Associated Press)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090923/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama;_ylt=AmE9vxozU0YOW3nAYj51GEd34T0D;_ylu=X3oDMTI5OGY5c2duBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwOTIzL3VzX29iYW1hBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNvYmFtYXRvd29ybGQ-
Study Says Washington Ninth-Best State for Business (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/09/21/daily21.html?ana=from_rss
Sequim Rejects Former Lacey City Manager (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/979591.html
Victoria Protest Group Vows to Disrupt Start of 2010 Olympic Torch Relay (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Victoria+protest+group+vows+disrupt+start+2010+Olympic+torch+relay/2020212/story.html
Cautionary Tale - Pages of Inappropriate E-Mails Put Hanford Employee under Scrutiny (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=11180000
DIVERSIONS
Iran - No Curvy Mannequins in Shop Windows
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE58L3PI20090922?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
Hog Lawsuits Raising Stink In Missouri
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/23/financial/f000042D39.DTL&feed=rss.business
One in seven Germans wants Berlin Wall back?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090917/od_nm/us_wall_odd;_ylt=AnIq.Xl3Y_4cRZZVRaq2lQXtiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJncXV1OHV2BGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMDkwOTE3L3VzX3dhbGxfb2RkBHBvcwM3BHNlYwN5bl9hcnRpY2xlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDb25laW5zZXZlbmdl
SONG OF THE DAY
Marx Brothers - Lydia the Tattooed Lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8&feature=related
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Energy News Digest for September 22, 2009
All the links in today’s news digest lead to current stories. Please note that some media organizations update their web sites regularly, which may result in broken links in the future.
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Montana Urged To Lease Coal Reserves
• Rediscovering Natural Gas by Hitting Rock Bottom
• Rural Alaska Energy - Dreading the Diesel Deadline
• Opponents Ask Salazar to Halt Offshore Drilling
• Editorial - A Plan for Columbia River Salmon Recovery to Please A Critic
• Op/Ed - Obama Decision Protects NW Salmon
• Op/Ed - Start On Dam Removal Now
• Willamette Coho Run On Pace to Set A Record
• Chum Salmon Fishery Suspended In Northern Yukon
• See Spawning Spring Chinook Salmon Saturday
• Farm-Fresh Fish - With a Catch
• Killer whales show off in South Sound
• "The Cove" Could Halt Japan's Dolphin Slaughter
• Toxins Shut Mussel, Clam Harvesting In Oregon
• Mini-Golf Course Plots Salmon's Life Journey
• Chehalis River - Study Finds Sites OK for Dams
• Montana - Environmental Groups Log Former Plum Creek Lands
• Editorial - Cleaning up the Chesapeake
• Wind Power Advances A Big Advantage for Cowlitz PUD
• PacifiCorp Looks to Renewables for Future Power Needs
• Bird Deaths Present Problem at Wind Farms
• Wind-Turbine Makers Press for Green Mandates
• Stimulating through Subsidy - Does It Work?
• New York - Crane Collapse: Operator at Wind Farm Escapes Injury
• Cow Poop-To-Power Plant Now Online
• Benton PUD Takes Lead in Putting In 'Smart Meters'
• Oregon Conservation Plan Means More Upgrades Ahead
• Conservation Starter
• HP Plans To Trim Energy Use
• Smart Grid Project Cuts Electricity Usage
• States Can Sue Utilities Over Emissions
• California Plans to Levy Greenhouse Gas Fees
• Emissions of CO2 Set for Best Drop in 40 Years
• Murkowski CO2 Amendment Could Have Broad Reach
• DOE Chief says Clean-Tech Progress More Important than U.N. Climate Treaty
• Refitted to Bury Emissions, West Virginia Coal Plant Draws Attention
• Tesla Founders End Bitter Legal Fight
• Drink Responsibly - Which Is Better For The Planet, Beer Or Wine?
• F.C.C. Calls Open Internet Rules Vital
• Comcast 'Honors' FCC Authority on Neutrality
• FCC Fires Back at Comcast in Net Neutrality Legal Battle
• Washington State Proposes 7.6 Percent Workers' Comp Rate Hike
• Former Classmate - Onalaska Native Brings Bikes to Africa
WORD OF THE DAY
Cantankerous • \kan-TANK-uh-rus\ • adjective - Difficult or irritating to deal with
“A little water displacement formula 40 should loosen that reluctant bolt,” twanged the ancient mechanic to his fresh faced apprentice. “Just call it WD-40 you cantankerous old fool,” thought the sweaty young man as he strained to remove the rusty bolt from the header of the creaky combine.
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
Montana Urged To Lease Coal Reserves (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2228755~Montana_urged_to_lease_coal_reserves.html?cid=rss-Montana_Headlines
Rediscovering Natural Gas by Hitting Rock Bottom (Nat’l Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113043935&ft=1&f=3
Rural Alaska Energy - Dreading the Diesel Deadline (Alaska Dispatch)
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/news/rural-alaska/2033-dreading-diesel-deadline
Opponents Ask Salazar to Halt Offshore Drilling (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009914495_apusoffshoredrilling2ndldwritethru.html
FISH & WILDLIFE
Seattle Times Editorial - A Plan for Columbia River Salmon Recovery to Please A Critic
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2009914632_edit22fish.html
SF Chronicle Op/Ed - Obama Decision Protects NW Salmon
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/22/EDOR19QC3F.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
Spokesman Review Op/Ed - Start On Dam Removal Now (note credentials used in posting opinion)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/22/start-on-dam-removal-now/
Willamette Coho Run On Pace to Set A Record (Salem Statesman Journal, OR)
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090921/OUTDOORS/90921016/1034/SPORTS
Chum Salmon Fishery Suspended In Northern Yukon (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/09/21/yukon-chum-salmon.html
See Spawning Spring Chinook Salmon Saturday (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/09/21/see-spawning-spring-chinook-salmon-saturday
Farm-Fresh Fish - With a Catch: Aquaculture Boom Raises Concerns (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/19/AR2009091900928.html
Killer whales show off in South Sound - Violations: Some boaters appear to be herding orcas (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/888229.html
"The Cove" Could Halt Japan's Dolphin Slaughter (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/environment/2009/sep/-The-Cove--Could-Halt-Japan-s-Dolphin-Slaughter-.html
Toxins Shut Mussel, Clam Harvesting In Oregon (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/21/financial/f160823D45.DTL&feed=rss.business
Mini-Golf Course Plots Salmon's Life Journey (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/sep/21/Mini-golf-course-plots-salmons-life-journey/
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Chehalis River - Study Finds Sites OK for Dams: Two spots are suitable for construction, says report (The Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/977631.html
Montana - Environmental Groups Log Former Plum Creek Lands For Sake Of Preservation, Access (The Missoulian, MT)
http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_b398c586-a5a0-11de-b938-001cc4c002e0.html
Washington Post Editorial - Cleaning up the Chesapeake: Draft reports on the state of the bay signal more aggressive federal action.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/21/AR2009092103109.html?nav=rss_opinions
RENEWABLE & ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Wind Power Advances A Big Advantage for Cowlitz PUD, Officials Say (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/09/21/area_news/doc4ab82b7d87ffd892189214.txt
PacifiCorp Looks to Renewables for Future Power Needs (Idaho Business Review)
http://www.idahobusiness.net/archive.htm/2009/09/21/PacifiCorp-looks-to-renewables-for-future-power-needs
Bird Deaths Present Problem at Wind Farms (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2009-09-21-wind-farms_N.htm
Wind-Turbine Makers Press for Green Mandates (Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125358112175629695.html
Stimulating through Subsidy - Does It Work? (Energy Priorities)
http://energypriorities.com/entries/2009/09/stimulating_through_sub.php
New York - Crane Collapse: Operator at Wind Farm Escapes Injury (The Courier, Bath, NY)
http://www.steubencourier.com/news/x1073704913/Crane-collapse-Operator-at-wind-farm-escapes-injury
Cow Poop-To-Power Plant Now Online (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/410362_cow22.html?source=rss
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Benton PUD Takes Lead in Putting In 'Smart Meters' (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/888354.html
Oregon Conservation Plan Means More Upgrades Ahead (Associated Press)
http://gazettetimes.com/business/article_d2be03b0-a4f4-11de-be71-001cc4c002e0.html
Conservation Starter (Helena Independent Record, MT)
http://www.helenair.com/news/local/article_8cced23a-a733-11de-8b48-001cc4c03286.html
HP Plans To Trim Energy Use (Portland Business Journal)
http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/09/21/daily1.html?ana=from_rss
Smart Grid Project Cuts Electricity Usage (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/smart-grid-project-cuts-electricity-usage/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
States Can Sue Utilities Over Emissions (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/science/earth/22carbon.html
California Plans to Levy Greenhouse Gas Fees (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/19/MNCK19O6HC.DTL
Emissions of CO2 Set for Best Drop in 40 Years (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/science/earth/22emissions.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Murkowski CO2 Amendment Could Have Broad Reach (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/09/22/22climatewire-murkowski-co2-amendment-could-have-broad-reac-8171.html
DOE Chief says Clean-Tech Progress More Important than U.N. Climate Treaty (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/09/21/21greenwire-clean-tech-progress-more-important-than-un-cli-10686.html
Refitted to Bury Emissions, West Virginia Coal Plant Draws Attention (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/science/earth/22coal.html
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Tesla Founders End Bitter Legal Fight - The co-founders of the electric car company Tesla Motors Inc. have settled their legal battle with laudatory statements of each other's accomplishments (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009913475_apusteslafoundersfight.html?syndication=rss
Drink Responsibly - Which Is Better For The Planet, Beer Or Wine? (Slate Magazine)
http://www.slate.com/id/2229095/?from=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
F.C.C. Calls Open Internet Rules Vital (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/technology/internet/22net.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Comcast 'Honors' FCC Authority on Neutrality - Except When Suing Them to Prove They Have None (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Honors-FCC-Authority-On-Neutrality-104569
FCC Fires Back at Comcast in Net Neutrality Legal Battle (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/09/21/fcc-fires-back-at-comcast-in-net-neutrality-legal-battle/
GENERAL NEWS
Washington State Proposes 7.6 Percent Workers' Comp Rate Hike (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/60076817.html
Former Classmate - Onalaska Native Brings Bikes to Africa (Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/09/22/life/doc4ab7bdff5b590767981610.txt
DIVERSIONS
Mass. Postal Worker Admits To Stealing 30,000 DVDs
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009919531_apuspostalworkertheft.html?syndication=rss
Maine Worker Finds New Hire Is Lost Brother
http://www.kirotv.com/family/21055486/detail.html
Cursive Writing May Be Fading Skill, But So What?
http://www.kirotv.com/education/21003548/detail.html
67M to 1 Shot! British Woman Makes 2 Holes-In-One
http://www.kirotv.com/sports/20984399/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
James Brown - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtqDB2spyG0
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Montana Urged To Lease Coal Reserves
• Rediscovering Natural Gas by Hitting Rock Bottom
• Rural Alaska Energy - Dreading the Diesel Deadline
• Opponents Ask Salazar to Halt Offshore Drilling
• Editorial - A Plan for Columbia River Salmon Recovery to Please A Critic
• Op/Ed - Obama Decision Protects NW Salmon
• Op/Ed - Start On Dam Removal Now
• Willamette Coho Run On Pace to Set A Record
• Chum Salmon Fishery Suspended In Northern Yukon
• See Spawning Spring Chinook Salmon Saturday
• Farm-Fresh Fish - With a Catch
• Killer whales show off in South Sound
• "The Cove" Could Halt Japan's Dolphin Slaughter
• Toxins Shut Mussel, Clam Harvesting In Oregon
• Mini-Golf Course Plots Salmon's Life Journey
• Chehalis River - Study Finds Sites OK for Dams
• Montana - Environmental Groups Log Former Plum Creek Lands
• Editorial - Cleaning up the Chesapeake
• Wind Power Advances A Big Advantage for Cowlitz PUD
• PacifiCorp Looks to Renewables for Future Power Needs
• Bird Deaths Present Problem at Wind Farms
• Wind-Turbine Makers Press for Green Mandates
• Stimulating through Subsidy - Does It Work?
• New York - Crane Collapse: Operator at Wind Farm Escapes Injury
• Cow Poop-To-Power Plant Now Online
• Benton PUD Takes Lead in Putting In 'Smart Meters'
• Oregon Conservation Plan Means More Upgrades Ahead
• Conservation Starter
• HP Plans To Trim Energy Use
• Smart Grid Project Cuts Electricity Usage
• States Can Sue Utilities Over Emissions
• California Plans to Levy Greenhouse Gas Fees
• Emissions of CO2 Set for Best Drop in 40 Years
• Murkowski CO2 Amendment Could Have Broad Reach
• DOE Chief says Clean-Tech Progress More Important than U.N. Climate Treaty
• Refitted to Bury Emissions, West Virginia Coal Plant Draws Attention
• Tesla Founders End Bitter Legal Fight
• Drink Responsibly - Which Is Better For The Planet, Beer Or Wine?
• F.C.C. Calls Open Internet Rules Vital
• Comcast 'Honors' FCC Authority on Neutrality
• FCC Fires Back at Comcast in Net Neutrality Legal Battle
• Washington State Proposes 7.6 Percent Workers' Comp Rate Hike
• Former Classmate - Onalaska Native Brings Bikes to Africa
WORD OF THE DAY
Cantankerous • \kan-TANK-uh-rus\ • adjective - Difficult or irritating to deal with
“A little water displacement formula 40 should loosen that reluctant bolt,” twanged the ancient mechanic to his fresh faced apprentice. “Just call it WD-40 you cantankerous old fool,” thought the sweaty young man as he strained to remove the rusty bolt from the header of the creaky combine.
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
Montana Urged To Lease Coal Reserves (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2228755~Montana_urged_to_lease_coal_reserves.html?cid=rss-Montana_Headlines
Rediscovering Natural Gas by Hitting Rock Bottom (Nat’l Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113043935&ft=1&f=3
Rural Alaska Energy - Dreading the Diesel Deadline (Alaska Dispatch)
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/news/rural-alaska/2033-dreading-diesel-deadline
Opponents Ask Salazar to Halt Offshore Drilling (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009914495_apusoffshoredrilling2ndldwritethru.html
FISH & WILDLIFE
Seattle Times Editorial - A Plan for Columbia River Salmon Recovery to Please A Critic
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2009914632_edit22fish.html
SF Chronicle Op/Ed - Obama Decision Protects NW Salmon
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/22/EDOR19QC3F.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
Spokesman Review Op/Ed - Start On Dam Removal Now (note credentials used in posting opinion)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/22/start-on-dam-removal-now/
Willamette Coho Run On Pace to Set A Record (Salem Statesman Journal, OR)
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090921/OUTDOORS/90921016/1034/SPORTS
Chum Salmon Fishery Suspended In Northern Yukon (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/09/21/yukon-chum-salmon.html
See Spawning Spring Chinook Salmon Saturday (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/09/21/see-spawning-spring-chinook-salmon-saturday
Farm-Fresh Fish - With a Catch: Aquaculture Boom Raises Concerns (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/19/AR2009091900928.html
Killer whales show off in South Sound - Violations: Some boaters appear to be herding orcas (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/888229.html
"The Cove" Could Halt Japan's Dolphin Slaughter (Finding Dulcinea)
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/environment/2009/sep/-The-Cove--Could-Halt-Japan-s-Dolphin-Slaughter-.html
Toxins Shut Mussel, Clam Harvesting In Oregon (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/21/financial/f160823D45.DTL&feed=rss.business
Mini-Golf Course Plots Salmon's Life Journey (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/sep/21/Mini-golf-course-plots-salmons-life-journey/
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Chehalis River - Study Finds Sites OK for Dams: Two spots are suitable for construction, says report (The Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/977631.html
Montana - Environmental Groups Log Former Plum Creek Lands For Sake Of Preservation, Access (The Missoulian, MT)
http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_b398c586-a5a0-11de-b938-001cc4c002e0.html
Washington Post Editorial - Cleaning up the Chesapeake: Draft reports on the state of the bay signal more aggressive federal action.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/21/AR2009092103109.html?nav=rss_opinions
RENEWABLE & ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Wind Power Advances A Big Advantage for Cowlitz PUD, Officials Say (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/09/21/area_news/doc4ab82b7d87ffd892189214.txt
PacifiCorp Looks to Renewables for Future Power Needs (Idaho Business Review)
http://www.idahobusiness.net/archive.htm/2009/09/21/PacifiCorp-looks-to-renewables-for-future-power-needs
Bird Deaths Present Problem at Wind Farms (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2009-09-21-wind-farms_N.htm
Wind-Turbine Makers Press for Green Mandates (Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125358112175629695.html
Stimulating through Subsidy - Does It Work? (Energy Priorities)
http://energypriorities.com/entries/2009/09/stimulating_through_sub.php
New York - Crane Collapse: Operator at Wind Farm Escapes Injury (The Courier, Bath, NY)
http://www.steubencourier.com/news/x1073704913/Crane-collapse-Operator-at-wind-farm-escapes-injury
Cow Poop-To-Power Plant Now Online (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/410362_cow22.html?source=rss
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Benton PUD Takes Lead in Putting In 'Smart Meters' (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/888354.html
Oregon Conservation Plan Means More Upgrades Ahead (Associated Press)
http://gazettetimes.com/business/article_d2be03b0-a4f4-11de-be71-001cc4c002e0.html
Conservation Starter (Helena Independent Record, MT)
http://www.helenair.com/news/local/article_8cced23a-a733-11de-8b48-001cc4c03286.html
HP Plans To Trim Energy Use (Portland Business Journal)
http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/09/21/daily1.html?ana=from_rss
Smart Grid Project Cuts Electricity Usage (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/smart-grid-project-cuts-electricity-usage/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
States Can Sue Utilities Over Emissions (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/science/earth/22carbon.html
California Plans to Levy Greenhouse Gas Fees (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/19/MNCK19O6HC.DTL
Emissions of CO2 Set for Best Drop in 40 Years (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/science/earth/22emissions.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Murkowski CO2 Amendment Could Have Broad Reach (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/09/22/22climatewire-murkowski-co2-amendment-could-have-broad-reac-8171.html
DOE Chief says Clean-Tech Progress More Important than U.N. Climate Treaty (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/09/21/21greenwire-clean-tech-progress-more-important-than-un-cli-10686.html
Refitted to Bury Emissions, West Virginia Coal Plant Draws Attention (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/science/earth/22coal.html
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Tesla Founders End Bitter Legal Fight - The co-founders of the electric car company Tesla Motors Inc. have settled their legal battle with laudatory statements of each other's accomplishments (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009913475_apusteslafoundersfight.html?syndication=rss
Drink Responsibly - Which Is Better For The Planet, Beer Or Wine? (Slate Magazine)
http://www.slate.com/id/2229095/?from=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
F.C.C. Calls Open Internet Rules Vital (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/technology/internet/22net.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Comcast 'Honors' FCC Authority on Neutrality - Except When Suing Them to Prove They Have None (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Honors-FCC-Authority-On-Neutrality-104569
FCC Fires Back at Comcast in Net Neutrality Legal Battle (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/09/21/fcc-fires-back-at-comcast-in-net-neutrality-legal-battle/
GENERAL NEWS
Washington State Proposes 7.6 Percent Workers' Comp Rate Hike (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/60076817.html
Former Classmate - Onalaska Native Brings Bikes to Africa (Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/09/22/life/doc4ab7bdff5b590767981610.txt
DIVERSIONS
Mass. Postal Worker Admits To Stealing 30,000 DVDs
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009919531_apuspostalworkertheft.html?syndication=rss
Maine Worker Finds New Hire Is Lost Brother
http://www.kirotv.com/family/21055486/detail.html
Cursive Writing May Be Fading Skill, But So What?
http://www.kirotv.com/education/21003548/detail.html
67M to 1 Shot! British Woman Makes 2 Holes-In-One
http://www.kirotv.com/sports/20984399/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
James Brown - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtqDB2spyG0
Monday, September 21, 2009
Energy News Digest for September 21, 2009
All the links in today’s news digest lead to current stories. Please note that some media organizations update their web sites regularly, which may result in broken links in the future.
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Warmth Won't Break The Bank This Winter
• Columbian Editorial - Good Energy News
• Re-Regulation Foes Point to Jump in Baltimore Gas & Electric Competitors
• Plugged-In Age Feeds a Hunger for Electricity
• New York - Sullivan Miffed over Hydroelectric-Plant Plan
• Martha’s Vineyard Energy Cooperative Outlined as Powerful Idea for the Island
• Governments Use Social Media - With Caution
• Editorial - Progress for Salmon
• Editorial - Habitat Plan Safeguards Dams As Well As Salmon
• Editorial - Latest Salmon Plan Flawed, But Northwest's Best Bet
• Op/Ed - It's Time to Implement Plans That Will Benefit Salmon
• Missoulian Op/Ed - Salmon Blueprint Mindful Of Montana
• Op/Ed - Terry Flores: The Administration Joins the Majority on Salmon Plan
• NY Times Editorial - Not There on Salmon
• Skokomish Watershed Work Helps Fish
• Elwha Fish Hatchery Contract Awarded
• Fall Chinook Jack Surge At Lower Granite Breaking Records; Outnumber Adult Fish
• Wash., Trollers Team Up To Improve Chinook Harvest
• Researchers Track Idaho Salmon to Learn Why Some Delay Migration to the Ocean
• Nez Perce’s McCoy Oatman Named New Chair of Tribal Fish Commission
• Belfair Sewer Project Bids Accepted, Groundbreaking Set
• Chehalis River Dam Sites Identified
• Grant Will Support Further Study of Water Storage Options
• Oregon Lakes and Reservoirs Seeing High Algae Levels This Year
• Obama Avoids a 'War on the West'
• Brazilian Prosecutors Take On Alcoa for Razing Rain Forest
• Washington State - California's Appetite for Green Power Could Boost Rates Here
• Renewable Power Decisions Create A Tangled Web
• Texas - Advocates Concerned Austin Energy Plans Will Hurt Poor, Elderly
• How Might Tidal Project Affect Marine Life? Snohomish PUD Gets Grant to Find Out
• Wave Energy Will Be Done 'The Oregon Way,' Johnson Says
• Small Wind Projects Get Better Price in Idaho (
• Montana - Small Power Struggle: Independents Say Setting Up in Montana is Difficult
• Disputed Solar Energy Project in California Desert is Dropped
• Rooftop Solar Setback in California
• Canada - New Hydroelectric System for Whistler
• Op/Ed - Positively Clean Energy – Biomass
• United Kingdom - Parts Arrive to Fix Damaged Wind Turbine
• High-Tech Materials May Boost Geothermal Appeal
• Spinning Flywheels Said To Make Greener Energy
• Electricity to Burn? Despite Low Rates, NCW Sees Benefits to Conservation
• Home Energy Q&A
• US Battles for Credibility on Climate Change
• Editorial - Regulating Carbon
• Wyoming - State Crafts Plan for Carbon Sequestration
• Audit Finds Waste in 'Green' Projects
• FCC To Announce New Net Neutrality Rules Monday
• With Broadband, Quality Should Trump Penetration
• Vermont - Communications Company Having Trouble Connecting
• Tacoma - Click! Says False Cable Sales Pitches Go Door To Door
• Qwest Will Take Over Malheur Bell in Oregon
• The Triumph of Web 2.5
• Allen Could Lose Control of Charter
• Apple Lied to FCC about Blocking Google Voice
• Old-Fashioned Medicine Needs Assist From WiFi
• Federal Role Was Crucial to Internet
• Broadband Derailed By Fears of Mutant Garlic
• Criminally Insane Killer Apprehended in Goldendale
• Critics Say Natural Resource Reform Is Too Little, Too Late
• The Bully of Puget Sound
• Installing Fire Sprinklers in Homes Could Become a Requirement
• Want To Read All About It Online? It May Cost You
WORD OF THE DAY
Laodicean • \lay-ah-duh-SEE-un\ • adjective - Lukewarm or indifferent in religion or politics
“…therefore, we admonish you to cast off your Laodician attitude towards your parish duties, and renew your vow of enthusiasm for your work…” read the Papal missive to the newly ordained priest. “Whatever,” he muttered as he reverently placed the ornately crested letter on top of the fifteen others he had received over the past three months.
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
Warmth Won't Break The Bank This Winter: Prices for natural gas and heating oil down substantially from a year ago (Trading Markets)
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2536234/
Columbian Editorial - Good Energy News: Natural gas bills expected to decline soon, and technology could bring more good news
http://columbian.com/article/20090921/OPINION02/709219994/-1/OPINION
Re-Regulation Foes Point to Jump in Baltimore Gas & Electric Competitors (Baltimore Business Journal)
http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/09/21/story7.html?ana=from_rss
Plugged-In Age Feeds a Hunger for Electricity (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/business/energy-environment/20efficiency.html?hp
New York - Sullivan Miffed over Hydroelectric-Plant Plan: It claims NY City's reservoir project excludes locals (Times Herald Record, Middletown, NY)
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090920/NEWS/909200320
Martha’s Vineyard Energy Cooperative Outlined as Powerful Idea for the Island (Martha’s Vineyard Gazette, MA)
http://www.mvgazette.com/article.php?22987
Governments Use Social Media - With Caution (Denver Business Journal)
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2009/09/21/story3.html?ana=from_rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Columbian Editorial - Progress for Salmon: New federal plan supported by three states; it's time to let the scientists take over
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090920/OPINION02/709209981/-1/OPINION
Spokesman Review Editorial - Habitat Plan Safeguards Dams As Well As Salmon
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/20/habitat-plan-safeguards-dams-as-well-as-salmon/
Tri-City Herald Editorial - Latest Salmon Plan Flawed, But Northwest's Best Bet
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/opinions/story/723398.html
Idaho Statesman Op/Ed - Bill McDonald and Steve Wright: It's Time to Implement Plans That Will Benefit Salmon
http://www.idahostatesman.com/readersopinion/story/905974.html
Missoulian Op/Ed - Salmon Blueprint Mindful Of Montana
http://www.missoulian.com/news/opinion/columnists/article_2bd8e786-a6b6-11de-86c4-001cc4c03286.html
Idaho Statesman Op/Ed - Terry Flores: The Administration Joins the Majority on Salmon Plan
http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/story/905972.html
NY Times Editorial - Not There on Salmon
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/opinion/20sun2.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Skokomish Watershed Work Helps Fish - Three miles returned to breeding habitat (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/environment/story/974622.html
Elwha Fish Hatchery Contract Awarded (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.konp.com/local/5109
Fall Chinook Jack Surge At Lower Granite Breaking Records; Outnumber Adult Fish (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
http://www.cbbulletin.com/356408.aspx
Wash., Trollers Team Up To Improve Chinook Harvest (Associated Press)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_salmon_genetics.html
Researchers Track Idaho Salmon to Learn Why Some Delay Migration to the Ocean (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/researchers_track_idaho_salmon.html
Nez Perce’s McCoy Oatman Named New Chair of Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
http://www.cbbulletin.com/356400.aspx
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Belfair Sewer Project Bids Accepted, Groundbreaking Set (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/18/belfair-sewer-project-bids-accepted-set/?partner=RSS
Chehalis River Dam Sites Identified - Consultants Issue Geotechnical Status, Point to Challenges and Positive Attributes (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/09/19/news//doc4ab47a68ee1ee044835239.txt
Grant Will Support Further Study of Water Storage Options (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/09/18/09-19-09-money-for-water-study-dl
Oregon Lakes and Reservoirs Seeing High Algae Levels This Year (Oregon Public Radio)
http://news.opb.org/article/5847-oregon-lakes-and-reservoirs-seeing-high-algae-levels-year/
Obama Avoids a 'War on the West': Some Environmentalists Are Disappointed, but Western Republicans and Natural Resource Groups Are Surprised - in a Good Way (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
http://www.waterworld.com/index/display/news_display/s-135500099.html
Brazilian Prosecutors Take On Alcoa for Razing Rain Forest (Bloomberg News)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009895836_alcoabrazil20.html
RENEWABLE & ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Washington State - California's Appetite for Green Power Could Boost Rates Here “…once a green-energy credit was purchased (by California), the electricity left over could not be used by Washington utilities to meet I-937 requirements…” (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009902849_greenpower20m.html?syndication=rss
Renewable Power Decisions Create A Tangled Web (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/20/BU1S19PACH.DTL&feed=rss.business
Texas - Advocates Concerned Austin Energy Plans Will Hurt Poor, Elderly: Push for renewable energy, other reasons, are expected to drive up electricity rates (Austin American-Statesman, TX)
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/2009/09/21/0921energyconcerns.html
How Might Tidal Project Affect Marine Life? Snohomish PUD Gets Grant To Find Out (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090919/NEWS01/709199901
Wave Energy Will Be Done 'The Oregon Way,' Johnson Says (Daily Astorian, OR)
http://www.dailyastorian.com/Main.asp?SectionID=2&ArticleID=64138
Small Wind Projects Get Better Price in Idaho (Missoulian, MT)
http://www.missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_2c38a600-a5a1-11de-aa21-001cc4c03286.html
Montana - Small Power Struggle: Independents Say Setting Up in Montana is Difficult (The Missoulian, MT)
http://www.missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_24bf46d0-a5a2-11de-aa22-001cc4c03286.html
Disputed Solar Energy Project in California Desert is Dropped (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/science/earth/19mojave.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
China's Factory Muscle Tilts U.S. Solar Playing Field (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/09/chinese_solar_startups_take_on_1.html
Rooftop Solar Setback in California (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/rooftop-solar-setback-in-california/
Canada - New Hydroelectric System for Whistler: It's claimed The Fitzsimmons Creek Renewable Energy Project will provide enough energy to power the whole resort (Planet Ski)
http://www.planetski.eu/news/833
SF Chronicle Op/Ed - Positively Clean Energy – Biomass
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/20/EDH319P8M6.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
United Kingdom - Parts Arrive to Fix Damaged Wind Turbine: Energy Cause still unknown of last month's fire at Kent Hills facility (The Telegraph Journal, UK)
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/798096
High-Tech Materials May Boost Geothermal Appeal (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/977051.html
Spinning Flywheels Said To Make Greener Energy (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009907388_apusflywheelpower.html?syndication=rss
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Electricity To Burn? Despite Low Rates, NCW Sees Benefits to Conservation (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/sep/18/electricity-burn/
Home Energy Q&A (Wilton Villager, Norwalk, CT)
http://wiltonvillager.com/story/475194
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
US Battles for Credibility on Climate Change (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009890415_apususclimatechange.html?syndication=rss
Washington Post Editorial - Regulating Carbon: The EPA is getting ready. Congress? Not so much. And that's about to become a huge problem.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/20/AR2009092001965.html?nav=rss_opinions
Wyoming - State Crafts Plan for Carbon Sequestration (Billings Gazette, MT)
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_624e8c06-a654-11de-86bd-001cc4c002e0.html
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Audit Finds Waste in 'Green' Projects - Energy Dept. Acknowledges Problems With Outsourcing, Need for Oversight (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/20/AR2009092001917.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
FCC To Announce New Net Neutrality Rules Monday - Agency leaks news to most major news outlets (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-To-Announce-New-Net-Neutrality-Rules-Monday-104543
With Broadband, Quality Should Trump Penetration (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/09/19/with-broadband-quality-should-trump-penetration/
Vermont - Communications Company Having Trouble Connecting (National Public Broadcasting)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113005531&ft=1&f=10
Tacoma - Click! Says False Cable Sales Pitches Go Door To Door (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/885054.html
Qwest Will Take Over Malheur Bell in Oregon (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/976347.html
The Triumph of Web 2.5 - The well-deserved success of Mint.com, and what other Web businesses can learn from it (Newsweek Magazine)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/215692?from=rss
Allen Could Lose Control of Charter (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/09/14/daily54.html?ana=from_rss
Apple Lied to FCC about Blocking Google Voice - Google offers unredacted FCC response (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Apple-Lied-To-FCC-About-Blocking-Google-Voice-104545
Old-Fashioned Medicine Needs Assist From WiFi (Nat’l Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113018106&ft=1&f=3
Federal Role Was Crucial to Internet (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009908939_internet21.html?syndication=rss
Broadband Derailed By Fears of Mutant Garlic - Nova Scotia farmer derails tower over crop mutation fears (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Broadband-Derailed-By-Fears-Of-Mutant-Garlic-104538
GENERAL NEWS
Criminally Insane Killer Apprehended in Goldendale (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009909446_mentalinstitution21m.html?syndication=rss
Critics Say Natural Resource Reform Is Too Little, Too Late (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5834-wa-gov-tackles-natural-resource-reform-critics-say-its-too-little-too-late/
The Bully of Puget Sound - Seattle has a great international brand, but locally, the Emerald City image is tarnished (Crosscut Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2009/09/18/mossback/19241/
Installing Fire Sprinklers in Homes Could Become a Requirement (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=11159141
Want To Read All About It Online? It May Cost You (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2226935~Want_to_read_all_about_it_online__It_may_cost_you.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
DIVERSIONS
Shelton Man Fears Losing 'Service Snake' (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_091809WAB-service-snake-shelton-KS.19223b6e3.html?rss
The Man Who Made Oz: Frank Baum and the First American Fairy Tale.
http://www.slate.com/id/2228592/?from=rss
Closed-Minded Retailer Bans Jedi Religious Garb “…If Jedi walk around our stores with their hoods on, they’ll miss lots of special offers…”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6204199/Jedi-ejected-from-Tesco-for-wearing-hood.html
NY Group Tests Composting Of Pooch Poop
http://www.kirotv.com/money/20979887/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole IZ - Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltAGuuru7Q
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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Warmth Won't Break The Bank This Winter
• Columbian Editorial - Good Energy News
• Re-Regulation Foes Point to Jump in Baltimore Gas & Electric Competitors
• Plugged-In Age Feeds a Hunger for Electricity
• New York - Sullivan Miffed over Hydroelectric-Plant Plan
• Martha’s Vineyard Energy Cooperative Outlined as Powerful Idea for the Island
• Governments Use Social Media - With Caution
• Editorial - Progress for Salmon
• Editorial - Habitat Plan Safeguards Dams As Well As Salmon
• Editorial - Latest Salmon Plan Flawed, But Northwest's Best Bet
• Op/Ed - It's Time to Implement Plans That Will Benefit Salmon
• Missoulian Op/Ed - Salmon Blueprint Mindful Of Montana
• Op/Ed - Terry Flores: The Administration Joins the Majority on Salmon Plan
• NY Times Editorial - Not There on Salmon
• Skokomish Watershed Work Helps Fish
• Elwha Fish Hatchery Contract Awarded
• Fall Chinook Jack Surge At Lower Granite Breaking Records; Outnumber Adult Fish
• Wash., Trollers Team Up To Improve Chinook Harvest
• Researchers Track Idaho Salmon to Learn Why Some Delay Migration to the Ocean
• Nez Perce’s McCoy Oatman Named New Chair of Tribal Fish Commission
• Belfair Sewer Project Bids Accepted, Groundbreaking Set
• Chehalis River Dam Sites Identified
• Grant Will Support Further Study of Water Storage Options
• Oregon Lakes and Reservoirs Seeing High Algae Levels This Year
• Obama Avoids a 'War on the West'
• Brazilian Prosecutors Take On Alcoa for Razing Rain Forest
• Washington State - California's Appetite for Green Power Could Boost Rates Here
• Renewable Power Decisions Create A Tangled Web
• Texas - Advocates Concerned Austin Energy Plans Will Hurt Poor, Elderly
• How Might Tidal Project Affect Marine Life? Snohomish PUD Gets Grant to Find Out
• Wave Energy Will Be Done 'The Oregon Way,' Johnson Says
• Small Wind Projects Get Better Price in Idaho (
• Montana - Small Power Struggle: Independents Say Setting Up in Montana is Difficult
• Disputed Solar Energy Project in California Desert is Dropped
• Rooftop Solar Setback in California
• Canada - New Hydroelectric System for Whistler
• Op/Ed - Positively Clean Energy – Biomass
• United Kingdom - Parts Arrive to Fix Damaged Wind Turbine
• High-Tech Materials May Boost Geothermal Appeal
• Spinning Flywheels Said To Make Greener Energy
• Electricity to Burn? Despite Low Rates, NCW Sees Benefits to Conservation
• Home Energy Q&A
• US Battles for Credibility on Climate Change
• Editorial - Regulating Carbon
• Wyoming - State Crafts Plan for Carbon Sequestration
• Audit Finds Waste in 'Green' Projects
• FCC To Announce New Net Neutrality Rules Monday
• With Broadband, Quality Should Trump Penetration
• Vermont - Communications Company Having Trouble Connecting
• Tacoma - Click! Says False Cable Sales Pitches Go Door To Door
• Qwest Will Take Over Malheur Bell in Oregon
• The Triumph of Web 2.5
• Allen Could Lose Control of Charter
• Apple Lied to FCC about Blocking Google Voice
• Old-Fashioned Medicine Needs Assist From WiFi
• Federal Role Was Crucial to Internet
• Broadband Derailed By Fears of Mutant Garlic
• Criminally Insane Killer Apprehended in Goldendale
• Critics Say Natural Resource Reform Is Too Little, Too Late
• The Bully of Puget Sound
• Installing Fire Sprinklers in Homes Could Become a Requirement
• Want To Read All About It Online? It May Cost You
WORD OF THE DAY
Laodicean • \lay-ah-duh-SEE-un\ • adjective - Lukewarm or indifferent in religion or politics
“…therefore, we admonish you to cast off your Laodician attitude towards your parish duties, and renew your vow of enthusiasm for your work…” read the Papal missive to the newly ordained priest. “Whatever,” he muttered as he reverently placed the ornately crested letter on top of the fifteen others he had received over the past three months.
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
Warmth Won't Break The Bank This Winter: Prices for natural gas and heating oil down substantially from a year ago (Trading Markets)
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2536234/
Columbian Editorial - Good Energy News: Natural gas bills expected to decline soon, and technology could bring more good news
http://columbian.com/article/20090921/OPINION02/709219994/-1/OPINION
Re-Regulation Foes Point to Jump in Baltimore Gas & Electric Competitors (Baltimore Business Journal)
http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/09/21/story7.html?ana=from_rss
Plugged-In Age Feeds a Hunger for Electricity (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/business/energy-environment/20efficiency.html?hp
New York - Sullivan Miffed over Hydroelectric-Plant Plan: It claims NY City's reservoir project excludes locals (Times Herald Record, Middletown, NY)
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090920/NEWS/909200320
Martha’s Vineyard Energy Cooperative Outlined as Powerful Idea for the Island (Martha’s Vineyard Gazette, MA)
http://www.mvgazette.com/article.php?22987
Governments Use Social Media - With Caution (Denver Business Journal)
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2009/09/21/story3.html?ana=from_rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Columbian Editorial - Progress for Salmon: New federal plan supported by three states; it's time to let the scientists take over
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090920/OPINION02/709209981/-1/OPINION
Spokesman Review Editorial - Habitat Plan Safeguards Dams As Well As Salmon
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/20/habitat-plan-safeguards-dams-as-well-as-salmon/
Tri-City Herald Editorial - Latest Salmon Plan Flawed, But Northwest's Best Bet
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/opinions/story/723398.html
Idaho Statesman Op/Ed - Bill McDonald and Steve Wright: It's Time to Implement Plans That Will Benefit Salmon
http://www.idahostatesman.com/readersopinion/story/905974.html
Missoulian Op/Ed - Salmon Blueprint Mindful Of Montana
http://www.missoulian.com/news/opinion/columnists/article_2bd8e786-a6b6-11de-86c4-001cc4c03286.html
Idaho Statesman Op/Ed - Terry Flores: The Administration Joins the Majority on Salmon Plan
http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/story/905972.html
NY Times Editorial - Not There on Salmon
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/opinion/20sun2.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Skokomish Watershed Work Helps Fish - Three miles returned to breeding habitat (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/environment/story/974622.html
Elwha Fish Hatchery Contract Awarded (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.konp.com/local/5109
Fall Chinook Jack Surge At Lower Granite Breaking Records; Outnumber Adult Fish (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
http://www.cbbulletin.com/356408.aspx
Wash., Trollers Team Up To Improve Chinook Harvest (Associated Press)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_salmon_genetics.html
Researchers Track Idaho Salmon to Learn Why Some Delay Migration to the Ocean (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/researchers_track_idaho_salmon.html
Nez Perce’s McCoy Oatman Named New Chair of Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
http://www.cbbulletin.com/356400.aspx
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Belfair Sewer Project Bids Accepted, Groundbreaking Set (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/18/belfair-sewer-project-bids-accepted-set/?partner=RSS
Chehalis River Dam Sites Identified - Consultants Issue Geotechnical Status, Point to Challenges and Positive Attributes (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/09/19/news//doc4ab47a68ee1ee044835239.txt
Grant Will Support Further Study of Water Storage Options (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/09/18/09-19-09-money-for-water-study-dl
Oregon Lakes and Reservoirs Seeing High Algae Levels This Year (Oregon Public Radio)
http://news.opb.org/article/5847-oregon-lakes-and-reservoirs-seeing-high-algae-levels-year/
Obama Avoids a 'War on the West': Some Environmentalists Are Disappointed, but Western Republicans and Natural Resource Groups Are Surprised - in a Good Way (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
http://www.waterworld.com/index/display/news_display/s-135500099.html
Brazilian Prosecutors Take On Alcoa for Razing Rain Forest (Bloomberg News)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009895836_alcoabrazil20.html
RENEWABLE & ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Washington State - California's Appetite for Green Power Could Boost Rates Here “…once a green-energy credit was purchased (by California), the electricity left over could not be used by Washington utilities to meet I-937 requirements…” (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009902849_greenpower20m.html?syndication=rss
Renewable Power Decisions Create A Tangled Web (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/20/BU1S19PACH.DTL&feed=rss.business
Texas - Advocates Concerned Austin Energy Plans Will Hurt Poor, Elderly: Push for renewable energy, other reasons, are expected to drive up electricity rates (Austin American-Statesman, TX)
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/2009/09/21/0921energyconcerns.html
How Might Tidal Project Affect Marine Life? Snohomish PUD Gets Grant To Find Out (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090919/NEWS01/709199901
Wave Energy Will Be Done 'The Oregon Way,' Johnson Says (Daily Astorian, OR)
http://www.dailyastorian.com/Main.asp?SectionID=2&ArticleID=64138
Small Wind Projects Get Better Price in Idaho (Missoulian, MT)
http://www.missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_2c38a600-a5a1-11de-aa21-001cc4c03286.html
Montana - Small Power Struggle: Independents Say Setting Up in Montana is Difficult (The Missoulian, MT)
http://www.missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_24bf46d0-a5a2-11de-aa22-001cc4c03286.html
Disputed Solar Energy Project in California Desert is Dropped (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/science/earth/19mojave.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
China's Factory Muscle Tilts U.S. Solar Playing Field (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/09/chinese_solar_startups_take_on_1.html
Rooftop Solar Setback in California (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/rooftop-solar-setback-in-california/
Canada - New Hydroelectric System for Whistler: It's claimed The Fitzsimmons Creek Renewable Energy Project will provide enough energy to power the whole resort (Planet Ski)
http://www.planetski.eu/news/833
SF Chronicle Op/Ed - Positively Clean Energy – Biomass
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/20/EDH319P8M6.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
United Kingdom - Parts Arrive to Fix Damaged Wind Turbine: Energy Cause still unknown of last month's fire at Kent Hills facility (The Telegraph Journal, UK)
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/798096
High-Tech Materials May Boost Geothermal Appeal (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/977051.html
Spinning Flywheels Said To Make Greener Energy (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009907388_apusflywheelpower.html?syndication=rss
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Electricity To Burn? Despite Low Rates, NCW Sees Benefits to Conservation (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/sep/18/electricity-burn/
Home Energy Q&A (Wilton Villager, Norwalk, CT)
http://wiltonvillager.com/story/475194
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
US Battles for Credibility on Climate Change (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009890415_apususclimatechange.html?syndication=rss
Washington Post Editorial - Regulating Carbon: The EPA is getting ready. Congress? Not so much. And that's about to become a huge problem.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/20/AR2009092001965.html?nav=rss_opinions
Wyoming - State Crafts Plan for Carbon Sequestration (Billings Gazette, MT)
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_624e8c06-a654-11de-86bd-001cc4c002e0.html
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Audit Finds Waste in 'Green' Projects - Energy Dept. Acknowledges Problems With Outsourcing, Need for Oversight (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/20/AR2009092001917.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
FCC To Announce New Net Neutrality Rules Monday - Agency leaks news to most major news outlets (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-To-Announce-New-Net-Neutrality-Rules-Monday-104543
With Broadband, Quality Should Trump Penetration (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/09/19/with-broadband-quality-should-trump-penetration/
Vermont - Communications Company Having Trouble Connecting (National Public Broadcasting)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113005531&ft=1&f=10
Tacoma - Click! Says False Cable Sales Pitches Go Door To Door (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/885054.html
Qwest Will Take Over Malheur Bell in Oregon (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/976347.html
The Triumph of Web 2.5 - The well-deserved success of Mint.com, and what other Web businesses can learn from it (Newsweek Magazine)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/215692?from=rss
Allen Could Lose Control of Charter (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/09/14/daily54.html?ana=from_rss
Apple Lied to FCC about Blocking Google Voice - Google offers unredacted FCC response (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Apple-Lied-To-FCC-About-Blocking-Google-Voice-104545
Old-Fashioned Medicine Needs Assist From WiFi (Nat’l Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113018106&ft=1&f=3
Federal Role Was Crucial to Internet (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009908939_internet21.html?syndication=rss
Broadband Derailed By Fears of Mutant Garlic - Nova Scotia farmer derails tower over crop mutation fears (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Broadband-Derailed-By-Fears-Of-Mutant-Garlic-104538
GENERAL NEWS
Criminally Insane Killer Apprehended in Goldendale (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009909446_mentalinstitution21m.html?syndication=rss
Critics Say Natural Resource Reform Is Too Little, Too Late (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5834-wa-gov-tackles-natural-resource-reform-critics-say-its-too-little-too-late/
The Bully of Puget Sound - Seattle has a great international brand, but locally, the Emerald City image is tarnished (Crosscut Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2009/09/18/mossback/19241/
Installing Fire Sprinklers in Homes Could Become a Requirement (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=11159141
Want To Read All About It Online? It May Cost You (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2226935~Want_to_read_all_about_it_online__It_may_cost_you.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
DIVERSIONS
Shelton Man Fears Losing 'Service Snake' (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_091809WAB-service-snake-shelton-KS.19223b6e3.html?rss
The Man Who Made Oz: Frank Baum and the First American Fairy Tale.
http://www.slate.com/id/2228592/?from=rss
Closed-Minded Retailer Bans Jedi Religious Garb “…If Jedi walk around our stores with their hoods on, they’ll miss lots of special offers…”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6204199/Jedi-ejected-from-Tesco-for-wearing-hood.html
NY Group Tests Composting Of Pooch Poop
http://www.kirotv.com/money/20979887/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole IZ - Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltAGuuru7Q
Friday, September 18, 2009
Energy News Digest for Septembetr 18, 2009
All the links in today’s news digest lead to current stories. Please note that some media organizations update their web sites regularly, which may result in broken links in the future.
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
· Cowlitz PUD Hearing To Address Rate
· Montana - Official Warns Electrical Rates Could Double If Intertie
· Political Headwinds Hit a Reactor Project on the
· Derivatives Bill May Raise Electric, Gas
· Skokomish Watershed Work Helps Fish
· Debate On New Sport Fishing Rules
· Lewis County - Flood Plans on Display at Open House
· Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls
· State Lands Commissioner Wants To Branch Out To Wind, Biomass
· BPA Hopes Meter Will Help Manage Wind Farm
· Demand Grows For 'Green' Homes Using Renewable
· Save Energy & Money this Fall with Snohomish PUD Programs
· Energy-Efficient Lampposts Unveiled in Central Park
· California May Pull Plug On Big TVs That Guzzle Energy
· Contraception Vital In Climate Change
· "Quiet" Sun can also hit Earth with wild winds
· A Green Label Alone Isn’t Going to Sell Eco-Friendly
· San Francisco Gets World's First In-Airport Carbon Offset Kiosks
· Verizon Boss Hangs Up on Landline Phone Business
· Customers Unhappy With Early Clearwire
· Is Twitter Worth $1 Billion
· Wash. Expected To Lose About $238M in Tax
· No Criminal Charges against Troopers for Clubbing Seagulls
· Tribal Cops Can Pursue Beyond Reservation
· Wisconsin Paper Faces Backlash for Outing Web
· DOT Building A Road Out Of...Styrofoam?
WORD OF THE DAY
Truncated • \TRUN-kayt-ed \ • noun – 1: having the apex replaced by a plane section and especially by one parallel to the base 2a: cut short: curtailed b: lacking an expected or normal element (as a syllable) at the beginning or end
Please enjoy today’s truncated energy news digest.
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
Cowlitz PUD Hearing To Address Rate Increase (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/09/18/area_news/doc4ab3262c80131174002308.txt
Montana - Official Warns Electrical Rates Could Double If Intertie Built (Montana Standard)
http://m.mtstandard.com/mtstandard/db_19597/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=DF0B26C49B9E205798D7A08448B2C90A?contentguid=fxiBas92&detailindex=3&pn=0&ps=4&full=true
Political Headwinds Hit a Reactor Project on the Chesapeake (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/09/18/18climatewire-political-headwinds-hit-a-reactor-project-on-84809.html
Derivatives Bill May Raise Electric, Gas Rates (Energy Tribune)
http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=2318
FISH & WILDLIFE
Skokomish Watershed Work Helps Fish - Three miles returned to breeding habitat (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/974622.html
Debate On New Sport Fishing Rules Begins (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/883800.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Lewis County - Flood Plans on Display at Open House: Retention dams could provide low impact hydropower (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/09/17/news//doc4ab2725362a40748647002.txt
Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/us/18dairy.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
State Lands Commissioner Wants To Branch Out To Wind, Biomass Energy (Disses Radar Ridge – The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090918/NEWS02/709189938/State+lands+commissioner+wants+to+branch+out+to+wind++biomass+energy
BPA Hopes Meter Will Help Manage Wind Farm Power (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009887243_apwawindfarmmeter.html
Demand Grows For 'Green' Homes Using Renewable Energy (Muskegon Chronicle. MI)
http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2009/09/chroniclecory_morseadam_bearup.html
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Save Energy & Money this Fall with Snohomish PUD Programs (Lake Stevens Journal, WA)
http://www.lakestevensjournal.com/county-state/article.exm/2009-09-17_save_energy___money_this_fall_with_pud_programs
Energy-Efficient Lampposts Unveiled in Central Park (WNYC, New York, NY)
http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/140928
California May Pull Plug On Big TVs That Guzzle Energy (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bigtvs18-2009sep18,0,1102526.story
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Contraception Vital In Climate Change Fight (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58H10320090918?feedType=nl&feedName=ustopnewsearly
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
"Quiet" Sun can also hit Earth with wild winds (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE58H0L620090918?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest
A Green Label Alone Isn’t Going to Sell Eco-Friendly Phones (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/09/17/juniper-sees-big-opportunities-little-traction-in-green-handsets/
San Francisco Gets World's First In-Airport Carbon Offset Kiosks (Tree Hugger)
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/san-francisco-gets-worlds-first-in-airport-carbon-offset-kiosks.php?dcitc=th_rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Verizon Boss Hangs Up on Landline Phone Business (NY Times)
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/verizon-boss-hangs-up-on-landline-phone-business/?partner=rss&emc=rss
Customers Unhappy With Early Clearwire Launches - Poor customer support, low speeds, and high latency (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Customers-Unhappy-With-Early-Clearwire-Launches-104511
Is Twitter Worth $1 Billion? (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13358249?nclick_check=1
GENERAL NEWS
Wash. Expected To Lose About $238M in Tax Revenue (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009887723_apwarevenueforecast2ndldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
No Criminal Charges against Troopers for Clubbing Seagulls (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/theblotter/2009887877_no_criminal_charges_against_tr.html?syndication=rss
Tribal Cops Can Pursue Beyond Reservation (Associated Press)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=11150172
Wisconsin Paper Faces Backlash for Outing Web Critic (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009887604_apusanonymousonline.html?syndication=rss
DOT Building A Road Out Of...Styrofoam? (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/59652362.html
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
Foul Ball! Toddler Tosses Back Dad's Prized Catch - Dad simply wanted a souvenir. He got a ballpark full of cheers and a national television appearance instead.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2009885787_apbbnphilliestoddlerstoss.html?syndication=rss
Burning Man Fire Victim's Suit Goes Up In Smoke
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/17/BAHN19OMPU.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
Man Litters National Park with 3,000 Golf Balls
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009887874_apusoddhurlingballs.html?syndication=rss
Chicken Frequents KFC Drive-Through
http://www.kirotv.com/news/20963808/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Kenny Loggins - I'm Alright (Theme from Caddyshack)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WQNMWBSGUQ
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
· Cowlitz PUD Hearing To Address Rate
· Montana - Official Warns Electrical Rates Could Double If Intertie
· Political Headwinds Hit a Reactor Project on the
· Derivatives Bill May Raise Electric, Gas
· Skokomish Watershed Work Helps Fish
· Debate On New Sport Fishing Rules
· Lewis County - Flood Plans on Display at Open House
· Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls
· State Lands Commissioner Wants To Branch Out To Wind, Biomass
· BPA Hopes Meter Will Help Manage Wind Farm
· Demand Grows For 'Green' Homes Using Renewable
· Save Energy & Money this Fall with Snohomish PUD Programs
· Energy-Efficient Lampposts Unveiled in Central Park
· California May Pull Plug On Big TVs That Guzzle Energy
· Contraception Vital In Climate Change
· "Quiet" Sun can also hit Earth with wild winds
· A Green Label Alone Isn’t Going to Sell Eco-Friendly
· San Francisco Gets World's First In-Airport Carbon Offset Kiosks
· Verizon Boss Hangs Up on Landline Phone Business
· Customers Unhappy With Early Clearwire
· Is Twitter Worth $1 Billion
· Wash. Expected To Lose About $238M in Tax
· No Criminal Charges against Troopers for Clubbing Seagulls
· Tribal Cops Can Pursue Beyond Reservation
· Wisconsin Paper Faces Backlash for Outing Web
· DOT Building A Road Out Of...Styrofoam?
WORD OF THE DAY
Truncated • \TRUN-kayt-ed \ • noun – 1: having the apex replaced by a plane section and especially by one parallel to the base 2a: cut short: curtailed b: lacking an expected or normal element (as a syllable) at the beginning or end
Please enjoy today’s truncated energy news digest.
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
Cowlitz PUD Hearing To Address Rate Increase (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/09/18/area_news/doc4ab3262c80131174002308.txt
Montana - Official Warns Electrical Rates Could Double If Intertie Built (Montana Standard)
http://m.mtstandard.com/mtstandard/db_19597/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=DF0B26C49B9E205798D7A08448B2C90A?contentguid=fxiBas92&detailindex=3&pn=0&ps=4&full=true
Political Headwinds Hit a Reactor Project on the Chesapeake (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/09/18/18climatewire-political-headwinds-hit-a-reactor-project-on-84809.html
Derivatives Bill May Raise Electric, Gas Rates (Energy Tribune)
http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=2318
FISH & WILDLIFE
Skokomish Watershed Work Helps Fish - Three miles returned to breeding habitat (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/974622.html
Debate On New Sport Fishing Rules Begins (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/883800.html
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Lewis County - Flood Plans on Display at Open House: Retention dams could provide low impact hydropower (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/09/17/news//doc4ab2725362a40748647002.txt
Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/us/18dairy.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
State Lands Commissioner Wants To Branch Out To Wind, Biomass Energy (Disses Radar Ridge – The Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090918/NEWS02/709189938/State+lands+commissioner+wants+to+branch+out+to+wind++biomass+energy
BPA Hopes Meter Will Help Manage Wind Farm Power (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009887243_apwawindfarmmeter.html
Demand Grows For 'Green' Homes Using Renewable Energy (Muskegon Chronicle. MI)
http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2009/09/chroniclecory_morseadam_bearup.html
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Save Energy & Money this Fall with Snohomish PUD Programs (Lake Stevens Journal, WA)
http://www.lakestevensjournal.com/county-state/article.exm/2009-09-17_save_energy___money_this_fall_with_pud_programs
Energy-Efficient Lampposts Unveiled in Central Park (WNYC, New York, NY)
http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/140928
California May Pull Plug On Big TVs That Guzzle Energy (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bigtvs18-2009sep18,0,1102526.story
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Contraception Vital In Climate Change Fight (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58H10320090918?feedType=nl&feedName=ustopnewsearly
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
"Quiet" Sun can also hit Earth with wild winds (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE58H0L620090918?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest
A Green Label Alone Isn’t Going to Sell Eco-Friendly Phones (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/09/17/juniper-sees-big-opportunities-little-traction-in-green-handsets/
San Francisco Gets World's First In-Airport Carbon Offset Kiosks (Tree Hugger)
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/san-francisco-gets-worlds-first-in-airport-carbon-offset-kiosks.php?dcitc=th_rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Verizon Boss Hangs Up on Landline Phone Business (NY Times)
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/verizon-boss-hangs-up-on-landline-phone-business/?partner=rss&emc=rss
Customers Unhappy With Early Clearwire Launches - Poor customer support, low speeds, and high latency (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Customers-Unhappy-With-Early-Clearwire-Launches-104511
Is Twitter Worth $1 Billion? (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13358249?nclick_check=1
GENERAL NEWS
Wash. Expected To Lose About $238M in Tax Revenue (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009887723_apwarevenueforecast2ndldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
No Criminal Charges against Troopers for Clubbing Seagulls (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/theblotter/2009887877_no_criminal_charges_against_tr.html?syndication=rss
Tribal Cops Can Pursue Beyond Reservation (Associated Press)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=11150172
Wisconsin Paper Faces Backlash for Outing Web Critic (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009887604_apusanonymousonline.html?syndication=rss
DOT Building A Road Out Of...Styrofoam? (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/59652362.html
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
Foul Ball! Toddler Tosses Back Dad's Prized Catch - Dad simply wanted a souvenir. He got a ballpark full of cheers and a national television appearance instead.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2009885787_apbbnphilliestoddlerstoss.html?syndication=rss
Burning Man Fire Victim's Suit Goes Up In Smoke
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/17/BAHN19OMPU.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
Man Litters National Park with 3,000 Golf Balls
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009887874_apusoddhurlingballs.html?syndication=rss
Chicken Frequents KFC Drive-Through
http://www.kirotv.com/news/20963808/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Kenny Loggins - I'm Alright (Theme from Caddyshack)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WQNMWBSGUQ
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Energy News Digest for September 17, 2009
All the links in today’s news digest lead to current stories. Please note that some media organizations update their web sites regularly, which may result in broken links in the future.
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Jefferson PUD Prepares to Go to Community on Bid to Acquire Electrical Service
• Dam Tourism: Nation's Highest-Wattage Hydroelectric Wonders Are In Washington
• New Jersey - Nation's Oldest Nuclear Plant Showing Its Age
• Panel Says Electrical Grid Vulnerable To Terrorist Attack
• Natural Gas Prices Set To Slump
• Shares of Itron Rise on Stimulus View
• Audit: King Co. Utilities Wasting Tens of Millions
• Hastings Says Dam Removal Alternative Is Political
• Feds Push For Salmon Recovery
• Congressmen Question NOAA Head on Snake River Dam Removal
• Editorial - Obama Did Little for Dam Breaching Advocates
• Gregoire, Obama Administration Ink $40.5M Salmon Deal
• Washington State Signs Agreement with Federal Action Agencies
• Fishery: It's Only a Test
• Pink Fishing Winding Down, But Coho Picking Up Slack
• That’s my Tribe - Salmon People Feast: Cowlitz Tribal Gatherings
• Scientist Won’t ID Beaches That Tested Positive for Bacteria
• Toxic Soup Danger in Green River Flood Threat
• Puget Sound-Area Organizations Join to Fight Water Pollution
• Shellfish Gathering Closed In Bellingham Harbor
• Obama's Ocean Task Force to Recommend New Policy
• Weevils get to work in Capitol Lake – Milfoil
• Comments Favor Name Proposal for ‘Salish Sea’
• Editorial - Harvest Wind an Impressive Energy Project
• State Could Shine As Solar Hub
• United Kingdom - Caithness Man Killed In Accident at Wind Farm
• Michigan - New Program Pays Biomass Plant Suppliers
• Tucson Electric Power Plans Vast Solar Power Plants
• New York - Residential Windmill Gives Man Independence from Electric Bills
• Obama Administration Pushes Climate Talks into 2010
• Climate Bill Drifts Into a Potomac Fog
• Another Health-Care Casualty: The Cap-&-Trade Bill
• Cap-&-Trade Memos Fire up the Skeptics
• A Few Western Glaciers Growing; What's Up With That?
• World’s Oceans Were Warmest on Record in June through August
• Dong Energy: 'Clean' Denmark's Dirty Secret
• Op/Ed - Energy 'Sprawl' & the Green Economy
• Carbon Footprint - Will Eugene Green Its Sooty Foot?
• College Students Protest Coal Use on Campuses
• I.B.M. Sets Out to Make a City in Iowa ‘Smarter’
• Cable Beating Telcos in Phone Service
• Florida - Comcast, Springfield Cable Disagreement Leads to Arrest
• Google Updates Browser, Plans to Gain Share
• School Bus Hit In Belfair, Driver & Kids Unhurt
• Judge Accused of Assuming Clerk's ID to Attack Opponent
• Venture Bank Stock Likely Has No Value
WORD OF THE DAY
Proffer • \PRAH-fer\ • verb - To present for acceptance: tender, offer
I proffer this verse
Henry Gibson said mildly
Rest in peace my friend
WEATHER
Shelton Forecast & Weather Alerts
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/mapclick.php?textfield1=47.213805&textfield2=-123.113412&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=shelton%2c%20wa%2c%20usa
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Jefferson PUD Prepares to Go to Community on Bid to Acquire Electrical Service (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090917/news/309179992
Dam Tourism: Nation's Highest-Wattage Hydroelectric Wonders Are In Washington (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2009880632_nwwdams17.html
New Jersey - Nation's Oldest Nuclear Plant Showing Its Age (Associated Press)
http://www.lakewyliepilot.com/427/story/468103.html
Panel Says Electrical Grid Vulnerable To Terrorist Attack (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2009-09-16-electrical-grid-attack_N.htm
Natural Gas Prices Set To Slump: Expert (Commodity Online)
http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Natural-gas-prices-set-to-slump-Expert-21154-3-1.html
Shares of Itron Rise on Stimulus View (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009887116_apusitronmover.html?syndication=rss
Audit: King Co. Utilities Wasting Tens of Millions (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/179318.asp?source=pimail
FISH & WILDLIFE
Hastings Says Dam Removal Alternative Is Political (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/882785.html
Feds Push For Salmon Recovery - Plan includes: habitat, harvest activities, hatchery production, hydropower operations (East Oregonian, Pendleton, OR)
http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&ArticleID=97892&SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48
Congressmen Question NOAA Head on Snake River Dam Removal (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/congressman_questions_noaa_hea.html
Idaho Statesman Editorial - Obama Did Little for Dam Breaching Advocates
http://www.idahostatesman.com/editorial/story/902713.html
Gregoire, Obama Administration Ink $40.5M Salmon Deal - Oregon, which is suing over federal dam plan, left out in the cold (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090917/NEWS02/709179949/Gregoire++Obama+administration+ink+$40.5M+salmon+deal
News Release - Washington State Signs Agreement with Federal Action Agencies - Improvements promote Columbia River estuary, a key nursery for fish (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1582/326582/
Fishery: It's Only a Test - Research project explores ways to catch more hatchery fish & fewer wild salmon & steelhead (Daily Astorian, OR)
http://www.dailyastorian.com/Main.asp?SectionID=2&ArticleID=64115
Pink Fishing Winding Down, But Coho Picking Up Slack (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/outdoors/story/973526.html
That’s my Tribe - Salmon People Feast: Cowlitz Tribal Gatherings Offer Traditional as well as Multi-Cultural Foods (Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/09/16/life/doc4ab12c62b4836236057640.txt
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Scientist Won’t ID Beaches That Tested Positive for Bacteria (Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2009/09/16/local_news/doc4ab124990d31b460543084.txt
Toxic Soup Danger in Green River Flood Threat (KIRO Radio, Seattle)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=213382
Puget Sound-Area Organizations Join to Fight Water Pollution (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/973458.html
Shellfish Gathering Closed In Bellingham Harbor (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009880753_apwabellinghamshellfish.html?syndication=rss
Obama's Ocean Task Force to Recommend New Policy (Associated Press)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2222404~Obama_s_ocean_task_force_to_recommend_new_policy.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
Weevils get to work in Capitol Lake - Milfoil: Aquatic bug used in fight against invasive plant (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/973440.html
Comments Favor Name Proposal for ‘Salish Sea’ (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/882628.html
RENEWABLE & ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Peninsula Gateway Editorial - Harvest Wind an Impressive Energy Project (Gig Harbor)
http://www.gateline.com/opinion/story/5112.html
State Could Shine As Solar Hub (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090917/BIZ01/709179983/-1/BIZ
United Kingdom - Caithness Man Killed In Accident at Wind Farm (The Press & Journal, UK)
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1400260?UserKey=
Michigan - New Program Pays Biomass Plant Suppliers (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i4kkYcH25RUuxdNcEsfar8GN3_VgD9AOLAN00
Tucson Electric Power Plans Vast Solar Power Plants (Arizona Daily Star)
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/biz-topheadlines/309323.php
New York - Residential Windmill Gives Man Independence from Electric Bills (Star Gazette, Elmira, NY)
http://www.stargazette.com/article/20090916/NEWS01/909160398/Residential+windmill+gives+man+independence+from+electric+bills
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Obama Administration Pushes Climate Talks into 2010 (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/09/17/17climatewire-obama-administration-pushes-climate-talks-in-22433.html
Climate Bill Drifts Into a Potomac Fog (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/09/17/17climatewire-climate-bill-drifts-into-a-potomac-fog-96749.html
Another Health-Care Casualty: The Cap-&-Trade Bill (Time Magazine)
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1924295,00.html
Cap-&-Trade Memos Fire up the Skeptics (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/16/AR2009091603524.html?wprss=rss_business
A Few Western Glaciers Growing; What's Up With That? (Oregon Public Radio)
http://news.opb.org/article/5822-few-western-glaciers-growing-whats/
World’s Oceans Were Warmest on Record in June through August (Bloomberg)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=abvAze6O9_d0
Dong Energy: 'Clean' Denmark's Dirty Secret - State-owned Dong Energy trades on its green image at home while outsourcing the dirty end of its energy portfolio with coal-fired power stations elsewhere in Europe (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2009/sep/17/greenwash-dong-energy
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Wall Street Journal Op/Ed - Energy 'Sprawl' & the Green Economy: We're about to destroy the environment in the name of saving it
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574404762971139026.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Carbon Footprint - Will Eugene Green Its Sooty Foot? (Eugene Weekly, OR)
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2009/09/17/coverstory.html
College Students Protest Coal Use on Campuses (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gVCVG4hH1GoEOQI8lf3shK-JgOVAD9AOO4P81
I.B.M. Sets Out to Make a City in Iowa ‘Smarter’ (NY Times)
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/the-smartest-us-city-is-dubuque/
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Cable Beating Telcos in Phone Service - According to latest study by J.D. Power & Associates (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Cable-Beating-Telcos-In-Phone-Service-104505
Florida - Comcast, Springfield Cable Disagreement Leads to Arrest (News Herald, Panama City, FL)
http://www.newsherald.com/news/springfield-77508-arrest-cable.html
Google Updates Browser, Plans to Gain Share (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE58E5KJ20090915?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology
GENERAL NEWS
School Bus Hit In Belfair, Driver & Kids Unhurt (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/973375.html
Judge Accused of Assuming Clerk's ID to Attack Opponent (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_091609WAB-AP-municipal-judge-investigated-TP.1873ddc93.html?rss
Venture Bank Stock Likely Has No Value - Letter to shareholders says all value believed gone (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/973439.html
DIVERSIONS
Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary Dies
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/mary-travers-of-peter-paul-and-mary-dies/?partner=rss&emc=rss
'Laugh-In' actor Henry Gibson dies at 73
http://www.examiner.com/a-2220875~_Laugh_In__actor_Henry_Gibson_dies_at_73.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
Snuggie among New Styles at Fashion Week
http://www.kirotv.com/money/20927124/detail.html
Australian Cat Strays 2,400 Miles, Returns Home
http://www.kirotv.com/family/20941067/detail.html
Pool Ball Lays Out Would-Be Robber
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/882624.html
SONGS OF THE DAY
Peter Paul & Mary - Day Is Done (Mary Travers, R.I.P.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U9bKhXyNGg&feature=related
Phoebe Snow - Poetry Man (Henry Gibson, R.I.P.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OxTVxGhHFM
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Jefferson PUD Prepares to Go to Community on Bid to Acquire Electrical Service
• Dam Tourism: Nation's Highest-Wattage Hydroelectric Wonders Are In Washington
• New Jersey - Nation's Oldest Nuclear Plant Showing Its Age
• Panel Says Electrical Grid Vulnerable To Terrorist Attack
• Natural Gas Prices Set To Slump
• Shares of Itron Rise on Stimulus View
• Audit: King Co. Utilities Wasting Tens of Millions
• Hastings Says Dam Removal Alternative Is Political
• Feds Push For Salmon Recovery
• Congressmen Question NOAA Head on Snake River Dam Removal
• Editorial - Obama Did Little for Dam Breaching Advocates
• Gregoire, Obama Administration Ink $40.5M Salmon Deal
• Washington State Signs Agreement with Federal Action Agencies
• Fishery: It's Only a Test
• Pink Fishing Winding Down, But Coho Picking Up Slack
• That’s my Tribe - Salmon People Feast: Cowlitz Tribal Gatherings
• Scientist Won’t ID Beaches That Tested Positive for Bacteria
• Toxic Soup Danger in Green River Flood Threat
• Puget Sound-Area Organizations Join to Fight Water Pollution
• Shellfish Gathering Closed In Bellingham Harbor
• Obama's Ocean Task Force to Recommend New Policy
• Weevils get to work in Capitol Lake – Milfoil
• Comments Favor Name Proposal for ‘Salish Sea’
• Editorial - Harvest Wind an Impressive Energy Project
• State Could Shine As Solar Hub
• United Kingdom - Caithness Man Killed In Accident at Wind Farm
• Michigan - New Program Pays Biomass Plant Suppliers
• Tucson Electric Power Plans Vast Solar Power Plants
• New York - Residential Windmill Gives Man Independence from Electric Bills
• Obama Administration Pushes Climate Talks into 2010
• Climate Bill Drifts Into a Potomac Fog
• Another Health-Care Casualty: The Cap-&-Trade Bill
• Cap-&-Trade Memos Fire up the Skeptics
• A Few Western Glaciers Growing; What's Up With That?
• World’s Oceans Were Warmest on Record in June through August
• Dong Energy: 'Clean' Denmark's Dirty Secret
• Op/Ed - Energy 'Sprawl' & the Green Economy
• Carbon Footprint - Will Eugene Green Its Sooty Foot?
• College Students Protest Coal Use on Campuses
• I.B.M. Sets Out to Make a City in Iowa ‘Smarter’
• Cable Beating Telcos in Phone Service
• Florida - Comcast, Springfield Cable Disagreement Leads to Arrest
• Google Updates Browser, Plans to Gain Share
• School Bus Hit In Belfair, Driver & Kids Unhurt
• Judge Accused of Assuming Clerk's ID to Attack Opponent
• Venture Bank Stock Likely Has No Value
WORD OF THE DAY
Proffer • \PRAH-fer\ • verb - To present for acceptance: tender, offer
I proffer this verse
Henry Gibson said mildly
Rest in peace my friend
WEATHER
Shelton Forecast & Weather Alerts
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/mapclick.php?textfield1=47.213805&textfield2=-123.113412&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=shelton%2c%20wa%2c%20usa
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Jefferson PUD Prepares to Go to Community on Bid to Acquire Electrical Service (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090917/news/309179992
Dam Tourism: Nation's Highest-Wattage Hydroelectric Wonders Are In Washington (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2009880632_nwwdams17.html
New Jersey - Nation's Oldest Nuclear Plant Showing Its Age (Associated Press)
http://www.lakewyliepilot.com/427/story/468103.html
Panel Says Electrical Grid Vulnerable To Terrorist Attack (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2009-09-16-electrical-grid-attack_N.htm
Natural Gas Prices Set To Slump: Expert (Commodity Online)
http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Natural-gas-prices-set-to-slump-Expert-21154-3-1.html
Shares of Itron Rise on Stimulus View (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009887116_apusitronmover.html?syndication=rss
Audit: King Co. Utilities Wasting Tens of Millions (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/179318.asp?source=pimail
FISH & WILDLIFE
Hastings Says Dam Removal Alternative Is Political (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/882785.html
Feds Push For Salmon Recovery - Plan includes: habitat, harvest activities, hatchery production, hydropower operations (East Oregonian, Pendleton, OR)
http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&ArticleID=97892&SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48
Congressmen Question NOAA Head on Snake River Dam Removal (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/congressman_questions_noaa_hea.html
Idaho Statesman Editorial - Obama Did Little for Dam Breaching Advocates
http://www.idahostatesman.com/editorial/story/902713.html
Gregoire, Obama Administration Ink $40.5M Salmon Deal - Oregon, which is suing over federal dam plan, left out in the cold (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090917/NEWS02/709179949/Gregoire++Obama+administration+ink+$40.5M+salmon+deal
News Release - Washington State Signs Agreement with Federal Action Agencies - Improvements promote Columbia River estuary, a key nursery for fish (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1582/326582/
Fishery: It's Only a Test - Research project explores ways to catch more hatchery fish & fewer wild salmon & steelhead (Daily Astorian, OR)
http://www.dailyastorian.com/Main.asp?SectionID=2&ArticleID=64115
Pink Fishing Winding Down, But Coho Picking Up Slack (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/outdoors/story/973526.html
That’s my Tribe - Salmon People Feast: Cowlitz Tribal Gatherings Offer Traditional as well as Multi-Cultural Foods (Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/09/16/life/doc4ab12c62b4836236057640.txt
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Scientist Won’t ID Beaches That Tested Positive for Bacteria (Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2009/09/16/local_news/doc4ab124990d31b460543084.txt
Toxic Soup Danger in Green River Flood Threat (KIRO Radio, Seattle)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=213382
Puget Sound-Area Organizations Join to Fight Water Pollution (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/973458.html
Shellfish Gathering Closed In Bellingham Harbor (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009880753_apwabellinghamshellfish.html?syndication=rss
Obama's Ocean Task Force to Recommend New Policy (Associated Press)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2222404~Obama_s_ocean_task_force_to_recommend_new_policy.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
Weevils get to work in Capitol Lake - Milfoil: Aquatic bug used in fight against invasive plant (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/973440.html
Comments Favor Name Proposal for ‘Salish Sea’ (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/882628.html
RENEWABLE & ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Peninsula Gateway Editorial - Harvest Wind an Impressive Energy Project (Gig Harbor)
http://www.gateline.com/opinion/story/5112.html
State Could Shine As Solar Hub (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090917/BIZ01/709179983/-1/BIZ
United Kingdom - Caithness Man Killed In Accident at Wind Farm (The Press & Journal, UK)
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1400260?UserKey=
Michigan - New Program Pays Biomass Plant Suppliers (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i4kkYcH25RUuxdNcEsfar8GN3_VgD9AOLAN00
Tucson Electric Power Plans Vast Solar Power Plants (Arizona Daily Star)
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/biz-topheadlines/309323.php
New York - Residential Windmill Gives Man Independence from Electric Bills (Star Gazette, Elmira, NY)
http://www.stargazette.com/article/20090916/NEWS01/909160398/Residential+windmill+gives+man+independence+from+electric+bills
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Obama Administration Pushes Climate Talks into 2010 (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/09/17/17climatewire-obama-administration-pushes-climate-talks-in-22433.html
Climate Bill Drifts Into a Potomac Fog (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/09/17/17climatewire-climate-bill-drifts-into-a-potomac-fog-96749.html
Another Health-Care Casualty: The Cap-&-Trade Bill (Time Magazine)
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1924295,00.html
Cap-&-Trade Memos Fire up the Skeptics (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/16/AR2009091603524.html?wprss=rss_business
A Few Western Glaciers Growing; What's Up With That? (Oregon Public Radio)
http://news.opb.org/article/5822-few-western-glaciers-growing-whats/
World’s Oceans Were Warmest on Record in June through August (Bloomberg)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=abvAze6O9_d0
Dong Energy: 'Clean' Denmark's Dirty Secret - State-owned Dong Energy trades on its green image at home while outsourcing the dirty end of its energy portfolio with coal-fired power stations elsewhere in Europe (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2009/sep/17/greenwash-dong-energy
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Wall Street Journal Op/Ed - Energy 'Sprawl' & the Green Economy: We're about to destroy the environment in the name of saving it
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574404762971139026.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Carbon Footprint - Will Eugene Green Its Sooty Foot? (Eugene Weekly, OR)
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2009/09/17/coverstory.html
College Students Protest Coal Use on Campuses (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gVCVG4hH1GoEOQI8lf3shK-JgOVAD9AOO4P81
I.B.M. Sets Out to Make a City in Iowa ‘Smarter’ (NY Times)
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/the-smartest-us-city-is-dubuque/
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Cable Beating Telcos in Phone Service - According to latest study by J.D. Power & Associates (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Cable-Beating-Telcos-In-Phone-Service-104505
Florida - Comcast, Springfield Cable Disagreement Leads to Arrest (News Herald, Panama City, FL)
http://www.newsherald.com/news/springfield-77508-arrest-cable.html
Google Updates Browser, Plans to Gain Share (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE58E5KJ20090915?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology
GENERAL NEWS
School Bus Hit In Belfair, Driver & Kids Unhurt (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/973375.html
Judge Accused of Assuming Clerk's ID to Attack Opponent (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_091609WAB-AP-municipal-judge-investigated-TP.1873ddc93.html?rss
Venture Bank Stock Likely Has No Value - Letter to shareholders says all value believed gone (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/973439.html
DIVERSIONS
Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary Dies
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/mary-travers-of-peter-paul-and-mary-dies/?partner=rss&emc=rss
'Laugh-In' actor Henry Gibson dies at 73
http://www.examiner.com/a-2220875~_Laugh_In__actor_Henry_Gibson_dies_at_73.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
Snuggie among New Styles at Fashion Week
http://www.kirotv.com/money/20927124/detail.html
Australian Cat Strays 2,400 Miles, Returns Home
http://www.kirotv.com/family/20941067/detail.html
Pool Ball Lays Out Would-Be Robber
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/882624.html
SONGS OF THE DAY
Peter Paul & Mary - Day Is Done (Mary Travers, R.I.P.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U9bKhXyNGg&feature=related
Phoebe Snow - Poetry Man (Henry Gibson, R.I.P.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OxTVxGhHFM
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Energy News Digest for September 16, 2009
All the links in today’s news digest lead to current stories. Please note that some media organizations update their web sites regularly, which may result in broken links in the future.
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Montana - BPA Transmission Line Rebuild on Schedule
• City of Port Angeles Takes Wholesale Power Hike
• Including SnoPUD - Two Local Hydro Projects Get Funding From DOE
• Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Project Faces 'Fierce' Competition
• San Diego - Wildfire Prevention Plan to Pull Plug on Power
• West Virginia Still Weighing Tax on New High-Voltage Power Lines
• Minnesota - Xcel Takes Bid for Expanded Nuclear Plant to Judge
• Homeless Nuclear Waste
• EPA To Place Limits On Power Plant Water Pollution
• Oregonian Editorial - It's Time to Get Columbia Salmon Out Of the Courtroom
• Obama Administration Submits Salmon Plan
• The Obama Administration Reveals Its Salmon Plan
• Dam Breaching in Latest Version of Federal Salmon Plan
• Obama Administration Puts Forward Salmon Plan
• Obama Administration Gives Court New Adaptive Management Plan To Bolster 2008 Salmon BiOp
• Obama Follows Bush on Salmon Recovery
• Oh, Rocky - Salmon decision gets mixed, predictable reactions
• Obama Administration Affirms Science in Salmon Plan for Columbia-Snake Rivers
• News Release - Obama Administration Follows Flawed Bush Salmon Plan
• Obama Administration Sticks with the Bush Approach on Columbia River Salmon
• New Northwest Salmon Plan Modifies Bush Approach
• Preliminary Tests Yield Possible Cause of Death for Dozens of Birds
• Killer Whales Die without King Salmon
• Columbia River & Tributary Fish Checks
• Media Advisory - This Thursday, BPA Takes Kids Wading In Icicle Creek
• Comment Sought On Condit Dam Removal
• Washington State Releases Clean Spokane River Plan
• California - Schwarzenegger Orders More Renewable Energy - His Way
• Ferndale Company to Make Cutting-Edge Fuel from Wood
• Oregon - Ocean Dunes Development Gets Green Light
• Maryland Turning To Offshore Wind Energy
• Wind-Farm Lease Buyouts Coming To New York
• A Major Price Drop for Solar Panels
• Colorado Electric Coop Offers Unique Solar Leasing Program
• Canada - Tidal Power Project Approved For Bay of Fundy
• Whole Foods Completes Major Purchase of Renewable Energy Credits
• Faulty Wind Turbines Costly To Minnesota Family
• White House Is Prepared to Set First National Limits on Greenhouse Gases
• 2010? Reid's Comments Add Uncertainty to Climate Vote's Timing
• Obama Admin: Cap & Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 per Year
• Electric Cars May Be Closer To Charging Up Auto Market
• Climate Change Depresses Beer Drinkers
• Chattanooga: EPB fiber optics available to 17,000 homes
• Comcast Raises Cable Modem Rental Fee
• After Outcry, T-Mobile Drops Paper Billing Fee
• Washington State's Jobless Rate Resumes Its Climb: 9.2% for August
• Port Of Kalama Wine Bottle Plant Shutting Down
• Chewy Chicken Feet May Quash a Trade War
WORD OF THE DAY
Sternutation • \ster-nyuh-TAY-shun\ • noun - The act, fact, or noise of sneezing
Matt was caught between the devil & the deep blue sea. On one hand, the occasional sternutation from the other side of the wall rattled the pictures on his “vanity wall.” On the other hand, the sneezes from across the office reached a high frequency that changed the channel on his remote-controlled radio.
WEATHER
Shelton Forecast & Weather Alerts
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/mapclick.php?textfield1=47.213805&textfield2=-123.113412&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=shelton%2c%20wa%2c%20usa
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Montana - BPA Transmission Line Rebuild on Schedule (The Western News, Libby, MT)
http://www.thewesternnews.com/articles/2009/09/15/news/doc4aafc7ab476b2729162948.txt
City of Port Angeles Takes Wholesale Power Hike (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.konp.com/local/5099
Including SnoPUD - Two Local Hydro Projects Get Funding From DOE (Daily Journal of Commerce)
http://www.djc.com/news/en/12010078.html
Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Project Faces 'Fierce' Competition (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009878988_apusgaspipelineproject.html?syndication=rss
San Diego - Wildfire Prevention Plan to Pull Plug on Power (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/16/BAPO19K5QN.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
West Virginia Still Weighing Tax on New High-Voltage Power Lines (Fort Mills Times, SC)
http://www.fortmilltimes.com/124/story/760833.html
Minnesota - Xcel Takes Bid for Expanded Nuclear Plant to Judge (The Electricity Forum)
http://www.electricityforum.com/news/sep09/Xcellookstoexpandnuclearstorageatfacility.html
Homeless Nuclear Waste - Some 60,000 metric tons of radioactive waste is stored at nuclear power plants across the country, awaiting federal action that’s already a decade late (Christian Science Monitor)
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/09/15/homeless-nuclear-waste/
EPA To Place Limits On Power Plant Water Pollution (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009871081_apuspowerplantpollution.html?syndication=rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Oregonian Editorial - It's Time to Get Columbia Salmon Out Of the Courtroom “…the new administration took a long, hard look at the plan to restore Columbia salmon, & was impressed by what it saw…”
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/09/its_time_to_get_columbia_salmo.html
Obama Administration Submits Salmon Plan - The Obama administration says it will be more aggressive in protecting declining Pacific Northwest salmon runs & will study breaching some dams as a last resort in a long-awaited management plan (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009870855_apussalmondams.html?syndication=rss
Obama Speeds Effort to Save Salmon, Renews Dam-Removal Option (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/obama_administration_adds_an_i.html
Dam Breaching in Latest Version of Federal Salmon Plan - White House: Study considers action ‘last resort’ if runs reach decline trigger (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/881239.html
Obama Administration Puts Forward Salmon Plan (Oregon Public Radio)
http://news.opb.org/article/5818-obama-administration-puts-forward-salmon-plan/
Obama Administration Gives Court New Adaptive Management Plan To Bolster 2008 Salmon BiOp (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
http://www.cbbulletin.com/355765.aspx
Obama Follows Bush on Salmon Recovery (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/us/politics/16salmon.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Oh, Rocky - Salmon decision gets mixed, predictable reactions (Idaho Statesman, Boise, ID)
http://www.idahostatesman.com/environment/story/900969.html
News Release - Obama Administration Affirms Science in Salmon Plan for Columbia-Snake Rivers (Northwest River Partners)
http://www.masonpud3.org/newsdisplay.aspx?newsid=594
News Release - Obama Administration Follows Flawed Bush Salmon Plan Despite Scientific, Economic & Legal Failings - Administration avoids sound science & legal guidance (Earth Justice, et. al.)
http://www.earthjustice.org/news/press/2009/us-commerce-department-follows-flawed-bush-salmon-plan-despite-scientific-economic-and-legal-failings.html
Obama Administration Sticks with the Bush Approach on Columbia River Salmon (Crosscut Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2009/09/15/science-environment/19237/
New Northwest Salmon Plan Modifies Bush Approach - Monitoring could trigger dam removals in Washington State. Some conservationists aren't satisfied (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-salmon-dams16-2009sep16,0,3655234.story
Washington Coast - Preliminary Tests Yield Possible Cause of Death for Dozens of Birds: Hypothermia (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090916/news/309169991
Killer Whales Die without King Salmon (Discovery Channel)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/16/killer-whale-salmon.html
Columbia River & Tributary Fish Checks (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/reeltimenorthwest/2009872830_columbia_river_and_tributary_f_1.html
Media Advisory - This Thursday, BPA Takes Kids Wading In Icicle Creek (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1582/325856/
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Comment Sought On Condit Dam Removal (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090916/NEWS02/909159984/
Washington State Releases Clean Spokane River Plan - Big cuts in phosphorus proposed (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/16/state-releases-clean-river-plan/
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
California - Schwarzenegger Orders More Renewable Energy - His Way (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-power16-2009sep16,0,3412344.story
Ferndale Company to Make Cutting-Edge Fuel from Wood (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/410148_sky15.html?source=rss
Oregon - Ocean Dunes development gets green light (Siuslaw News, Florence, OR)
http://www.thesiuslawnews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2622
Maryland Turning To Offshore Wind Energy - State considers huge turbines off Ocean City, launches impact study (Baltimore Sun, MD)
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/bal-md.windmill16sep16,0,7774897.story
Wind-Farm Lease Buyouts Coming To New York (Press Republican, Plattsburg, NY)
http://www.pressrepublican.com/0100_news/local_story_257225219.html
A Major Price Drop for Solar Panels - Solar power has suddenly become more affordable. (Christian Science Monitor)
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/09/14/a-major-price-drop-for-solar-panels/
Colorado Electric Coop Offers Unique Solar Leasing Program (Cooler Planet)
http://solar.coolerplanet.com/News/9150902-colorado-electric-coop-offers-unique-solar-leasing-program.aspx
Canada - Tidal Power Project Approved For Bay of Fundy: Most Extreme Tides in the World (Globe & Mail)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/tidal-power-project-approved-for-bay-of-fundy/article1288762/
Whole Foods Completes Major Purchase of Renewable Energy Credits (Austin Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2009/09/14/daily20.html?ana=from_rss
Faulty Wind Turbines Costly To Minnesota Family (WCCO Radio, Minneapolis, MN)
http://wcco.com/local/faulty.wind.turbines.2.1186107.html
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
White House Is Prepared to Set First National Limits on Greenhouse Gases (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/15/AR2009091503146.html?wprss=rss_politics
2010? Reid's Comments Add Uncertainty to Climate Vote's Timing (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/09/16/16climatewire-2010-reids-comments-add-uncertainty-to-clima-48964.html
Obama Admin: Cap & Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 per Year (CBS News)
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/15/taking_liberties/entry5314040.shtml
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Electric Cars May Be Closer To Charging Up Auto Market (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009873449_electriccars16.html
Climate Change Depresses Beer Drinkers (New Scientist)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327253.400-climate-change-depresses-beer-drinkers.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Chattanooga: EPB fiber optics available to 17,000 homes (Times Free Press, Chattanooga, TN)
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/sep/15/chattanooga-epb-fiber-optics-available-17000-homes/?breakingnews
Comcast Raises Cable Modem Rental Fee - Market by market, beginning this fall (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Raises-Cable-Modem-Rental-Fee-104477
After Outcry, T-Mobile Drops Paper Billing Fee (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/15/financial/f142734D24.DTL&feed=rss.business
GENERAL NEWS
Washington State's Jobless Rate Resumes Its Climb: 9.2% for August (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009871427_webjobs15.html?syndication=rss
Port Of Kalama Wine Bottle Plant Shutting Down (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/971713.html
Chewy Chicken Feet May Quash a Trade War (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/business/global/16chickens.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
Hybrid Man-Eating Pythons? Florida Is On Alert.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0915/p02s01-usgn.html
Fake Cop Arrested After Stopping Mayor
http://www.kirotv.com/politics/20924752/detail.html
Universal Reveals Details of New Harry Potter Park
http://www.kirotv.com/travelgetaways/20921703/detail.html
Town Left in the Dark for Two Months
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE58E5GB20090915?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
Train Misses Drunken Teen Napping On Track
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE58D4LB20090914?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
SONG OF THE DAY
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Montana - BPA Transmission Line Rebuild on Schedule
• City of Port Angeles Takes Wholesale Power Hike
• Including SnoPUD - Two Local Hydro Projects Get Funding From DOE
• Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Project Faces 'Fierce' Competition
• San Diego - Wildfire Prevention Plan to Pull Plug on Power
• West Virginia Still Weighing Tax on New High-Voltage Power Lines
• Minnesota - Xcel Takes Bid for Expanded Nuclear Plant to Judge
• Homeless Nuclear Waste
• EPA To Place Limits On Power Plant Water Pollution
• Oregonian Editorial - It's Time to Get Columbia Salmon Out Of the Courtroom
• Obama Administration Submits Salmon Plan
• The Obama Administration Reveals Its Salmon Plan
• Dam Breaching in Latest Version of Federal Salmon Plan
• Obama Administration Puts Forward Salmon Plan
• Obama Administration Gives Court New Adaptive Management Plan To Bolster 2008 Salmon BiOp
• Obama Follows Bush on Salmon Recovery
• Oh, Rocky - Salmon decision gets mixed, predictable reactions
• Obama Administration Affirms Science in Salmon Plan for Columbia-Snake Rivers
• News Release - Obama Administration Follows Flawed Bush Salmon Plan
• Obama Administration Sticks with the Bush Approach on Columbia River Salmon
• New Northwest Salmon Plan Modifies Bush Approach
• Preliminary Tests Yield Possible Cause of Death for Dozens of Birds
• Killer Whales Die without King Salmon
• Columbia River & Tributary Fish Checks
• Media Advisory - This Thursday, BPA Takes Kids Wading In Icicle Creek
• Comment Sought On Condit Dam Removal
• Washington State Releases Clean Spokane River Plan
• California - Schwarzenegger Orders More Renewable Energy - His Way
• Ferndale Company to Make Cutting-Edge Fuel from Wood
• Oregon - Ocean Dunes Development Gets Green Light
• Maryland Turning To Offshore Wind Energy
• Wind-Farm Lease Buyouts Coming To New York
• A Major Price Drop for Solar Panels
• Colorado Electric Coop Offers Unique Solar Leasing Program
• Canada - Tidal Power Project Approved For Bay of Fundy
• Whole Foods Completes Major Purchase of Renewable Energy Credits
• Faulty Wind Turbines Costly To Minnesota Family
• White House Is Prepared to Set First National Limits on Greenhouse Gases
• 2010? Reid's Comments Add Uncertainty to Climate Vote's Timing
• Obama Admin: Cap & Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 per Year
• Electric Cars May Be Closer To Charging Up Auto Market
• Climate Change Depresses Beer Drinkers
• Chattanooga: EPB fiber optics available to 17,000 homes
• Comcast Raises Cable Modem Rental Fee
• After Outcry, T-Mobile Drops Paper Billing Fee
• Washington State's Jobless Rate Resumes Its Climb: 9.2% for August
• Port Of Kalama Wine Bottle Plant Shutting Down
• Chewy Chicken Feet May Quash a Trade War
WORD OF THE DAY
Sternutation • \ster-nyuh-TAY-shun\ • noun - The act, fact, or noise of sneezing
Matt was caught between the devil & the deep blue sea. On one hand, the occasional sternutation from the other side of the wall rattled the pictures on his “vanity wall.” On the other hand, the sneezes from across the office reached a high frequency that changed the channel on his remote-controlled radio.
WEATHER
Shelton Forecast & Weather Alerts
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/mapclick.php?textfield1=47.213805&textfield2=-123.113412&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=shelton%2c%20wa%2c%20usa
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Montana - BPA Transmission Line Rebuild on Schedule (The Western News, Libby, MT)
http://www.thewesternnews.com/articles/2009/09/15/news/doc4aafc7ab476b2729162948.txt
City of Port Angeles Takes Wholesale Power Hike (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.konp.com/local/5099
Including SnoPUD - Two Local Hydro Projects Get Funding From DOE (Daily Journal of Commerce)
http://www.djc.com/news/en/12010078.html
Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Project Faces 'Fierce' Competition (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009878988_apusgaspipelineproject.html?syndication=rss
San Diego - Wildfire Prevention Plan to Pull Plug on Power (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/16/BAPO19K5QN.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
West Virginia Still Weighing Tax on New High-Voltage Power Lines (Fort Mills Times, SC)
http://www.fortmilltimes.com/124/story/760833.html
Minnesota - Xcel Takes Bid for Expanded Nuclear Plant to Judge (The Electricity Forum)
http://www.electricityforum.com/news/sep09/Xcellookstoexpandnuclearstorageatfacility.html
Homeless Nuclear Waste - Some 60,000 metric tons of radioactive waste is stored at nuclear power plants across the country, awaiting federal action that’s already a decade late (Christian Science Monitor)
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/09/15/homeless-nuclear-waste/
EPA To Place Limits On Power Plant Water Pollution (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009871081_apuspowerplantpollution.html?syndication=rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Oregonian Editorial - It's Time to Get Columbia Salmon Out Of the Courtroom “…the new administration took a long, hard look at the plan to restore Columbia salmon, & was impressed by what it saw…”
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/09/its_time_to_get_columbia_salmo.html
Obama Administration Submits Salmon Plan - The Obama administration says it will be more aggressive in protecting declining Pacific Northwest salmon runs & will study breaching some dams as a last resort in a long-awaited management plan (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009870855_apussalmondams.html?syndication=rss
Obama Speeds Effort to Save Salmon, Renews Dam-Removal Option (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/obama_administration_adds_an_i.html
Dam Breaching in Latest Version of Federal Salmon Plan - White House: Study considers action ‘last resort’ if runs reach decline trigger (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/881239.html
Obama Administration Puts Forward Salmon Plan (Oregon Public Radio)
http://news.opb.org/article/5818-obama-administration-puts-forward-salmon-plan/
Obama Administration Gives Court New Adaptive Management Plan To Bolster 2008 Salmon BiOp (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
http://www.cbbulletin.com/355765.aspx
Obama Follows Bush on Salmon Recovery (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/us/politics/16salmon.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Oh, Rocky - Salmon decision gets mixed, predictable reactions (Idaho Statesman, Boise, ID)
http://www.idahostatesman.com/environment/story/900969.html
News Release - Obama Administration Affirms Science in Salmon Plan for Columbia-Snake Rivers (Northwest River Partners)
http://www.masonpud3.org/newsdisplay.aspx?newsid=594
News Release - Obama Administration Follows Flawed Bush Salmon Plan Despite Scientific, Economic & Legal Failings - Administration avoids sound science & legal guidance (Earth Justice, et. al.)
http://www.earthjustice.org/news/press/2009/us-commerce-department-follows-flawed-bush-salmon-plan-despite-scientific-economic-and-legal-failings.html
Obama Administration Sticks with the Bush Approach on Columbia River Salmon (Crosscut Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2009/09/15/science-environment/19237/
New Northwest Salmon Plan Modifies Bush Approach - Monitoring could trigger dam removals in Washington State. Some conservationists aren't satisfied (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-salmon-dams16-2009sep16,0,3655234.story
Washington Coast - Preliminary Tests Yield Possible Cause of Death for Dozens of Birds: Hypothermia (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090916/news/309169991
Killer Whales Die without King Salmon (Discovery Channel)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/16/killer-whale-salmon.html
Columbia River & Tributary Fish Checks (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/reeltimenorthwest/2009872830_columbia_river_and_tributary_f_1.html
Media Advisory - This Thursday, BPA Takes Kids Wading In Icicle Creek (Bonneville Power Administration)
http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1582/325856/
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Comment Sought On Condit Dam Removal (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090916/NEWS02/909159984/
Washington State Releases Clean Spokane River Plan - Big cuts in phosphorus proposed (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/16/state-releases-clean-river-plan/
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
California - Schwarzenegger Orders More Renewable Energy - His Way (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-power16-2009sep16,0,3412344.story
Ferndale Company to Make Cutting-Edge Fuel from Wood (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/410148_sky15.html?source=rss
Oregon - Ocean Dunes development gets green light (Siuslaw News, Florence, OR)
http://www.thesiuslawnews.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2622
Maryland Turning To Offshore Wind Energy - State considers huge turbines off Ocean City, launches impact study (Baltimore Sun, MD)
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/bal-md.windmill16sep16,0,7774897.story
Wind-Farm Lease Buyouts Coming To New York (Press Republican, Plattsburg, NY)
http://www.pressrepublican.com/0100_news/local_story_257225219.html
A Major Price Drop for Solar Panels - Solar power has suddenly become more affordable. (Christian Science Monitor)
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/09/14/a-major-price-drop-for-solar-panels/
Colorado Electric Coop Offers Unique Solar Leasing Program (Cooler Planet)
http://solar.coolerplanet.com/News/9150902-colorado-electric-coop-offers-unique-solar-leasing-program.aspx
Canada - Tidal Power Project Approved For Bay of Fundy: Most Extreme Tides in the World (Globe & Mail)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/tidal-power-project-approved-for-bay-of-fundy/article1288762/
Whole Foods Completes Major Purchase of Renewable Energy Credits (Austin Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2009/09/14/daily20.html?ana=from_rss
Faulty Wind Turbines Costly To Minnesota Family (WCCO Radio, Minneapolis, MN)
http://wcco.com/local/faulty.wind.turbines.2.1186107.html
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
White House Is Prepared to Set First National Limits on Greenhouse Gases (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/15/AR2009091503146.html?wprss=rss_politics
2010? Reid's Comments Add Uncertainty to Climate Vote's Timing (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/09/16/16climatewire-2010-reids-comments-add-uncertainty-to-clima-48964.html
Obama Admin: Cap & Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 per Year (CBS News)
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/15/taking_liberties/entry5314040.shtml
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Electric Cars May Be Closer To Charging Up Auto Market (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009873449_electriccars16.html
Climate Change Depresses Beer Drinkers (New Scientist)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327253.400-climate-change-depresses-beer-drinkers.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Chattanooga: EPB fiber optics available to 17,000 homes (Times Free Press, Chattanooga, TN)
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/sep/15/chattanooga-epb-fiber-optics-available-17000-homes/?breakingnews
Comcast Raises Cable Modem Rental Fee - Market by market, beginning this fall (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Raises-Cable-Modem-Rental-Fee-104477
After Outcry, T-Mobile Drops Paper Billing Fee (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/15/financial/f142734D24.DTL&feed=rss.business
GENERAL NEWS
Washington State's Jobless Rate Resumes Its Climb: 9.2% for August (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009871427_webjobs15.html?syndication=rss
Port Of Kalama Wine Bottle Plant Shutting Down (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/971713.html
Chewy Chicken Feet May Quash a Trade War (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/business/global/16chickens.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
Hybrid Man-Eating Pythons? Florida Is On Alert.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0915/p02s01-usgn.html
Fake Cop Arrested After Stopping Mayor
http://www.kirotv.com/politics/20924752/detail.html
Universal Reveals Details of New Harry Potter Park
http://www.kirotv.com/travelgetaways/20921703/detail.html
Town Left in the Dark for Two Months
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE58E5GB20090915?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
Train Misses Drunken Teen Napping On Track
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE58D4LB20090914?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
SONG OF THE DAY
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs
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