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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Cleanup Lawsuit against Boardman Coal-Fired Plant Can Go To Trial
• Teen Climbs Power Poll to Take Pictures, Hits Wire, Gets Badly Burned
• Next Week is Public Power Week
• Natural-Gas Prices Tumble 8 Percent on Huge Supply
• Portland General Electric PGE Sells $150M in Corporate Bonds
• Pacific Gas & Electric PG&E to Buy Solar, Natural Gas Power
• Texas - San Antonio Nears Key Vote on Nuclear Expansion
• Google Looks to Help Decrepit Grid Survive the Strain of Plug-in Vehicles
• Post Op/Ed – Come Back, Salmon
• Restoration Project Begins on California’s San Joaquin River
• Bracing Lessons for Northwest Fisheries ... From the Northeast
• Oregon - Pelicans Almost Outnumber Humans
• Preserving the Flathead’s Fisheries
• Lewis County Flood Control Hopes Pinned on ‘Multi-Pronged Effort’
• Lake Powell Cleanup Nearly Complete
• As House OK's Big Water Bill, Sen. Feinstein Spills Plans For Even Bigger Legislation
• Clark County Sewer District Earns National Accreditation
• Clallam County Solar Tour Offers Free Workshops
• Solar Energy Advocates Say Yes To Offshore Drilling…For A Price
• Canada - Auction 'Robust' For Canadian Hydro
• Wisconsin Utility Customers to Foot the Bill for Minnesota Wind Farm
• Oregon to Get $9.5 Million for Energy Conservation
• Op/Ed - Let There Be (Incandescent) Light
• Passive-House Retrofit Gets Going In Southeast Portland
• Ways to Conserve during Energy Awareness Month
• Dayton Power & Light Company’s Tips to Stay Warm for Less
• EPA Air Crackdown Hits Oregon Factories, Hospitals, Even Colleges
• Climate Change Issue Takes Center Stage
• U.S. Carbon Rules Threaten Refinery Expansions, Industry Says
• Climate Summit Delegates Like California's Planned Carbon Trading Market
• Climate Talks Stall On Targets, Finance - U.N.
• George Will - The Myth of Consensus on Climate Change
• Changing Temperatures Threaten National Parks
• Southeast Drought Study Ties Water Shortage to Population, Not Global Warming
• New Buzzword - The Economics of Climate Stabilization
• Increasingly, States Push for E-Waste Recycling
• The Trade-Offs That Come With Going Green
• NHL Team's Nuke Ads Irk Environmentalists
• Study: U.S. Fifteenth In Broadband Quality
• Clearwire Launches in Salem, Oregon
• Google Refines Search Results to Counter Microsoft
• Pain at the Pipe: Latency Matters
• Despite the Hype, There’s No Rush to Cloud Computing Yet
• Rackspace Hires Key Personnel for Cloud Division
• Washington State May Close 2 Prisons to Cut Costs
• Saga of Former St. Edwards Church Continues
• Feast on Fall Bounty at OysterFest - Gifts from the sea
• Los Angeles Times & Washington Post Break Up News Service
WORD OF THE DAY
Depilation • \dep-uh-LAY-shun\ • noun – The removal of hair, wool, or bristles by chemical or mechanical methods
Boris was a big, burly, bear like man in every way. He almost didn’t need to wear a shirt, so covered was his torso with brown curly hair. The word “depilation” was not in his vocabulary. That was, until the fateful day that he took the dangerous job at the “Nair” factory stirring the huge vats of bubbling goo.
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
Cleanup Lawsuit against Boardman Coal-Fired Plant Can Go To Trial (Associated Press)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/738451.html
Teen Climbs Power Poll to Take Pictures, Hits Wire, Gets Badly Burned (Tampa Bay Tribune, FL)
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/accidents/article1040866.ece
Next Week is Public Power Week (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=294:next-week-is-public-power-week-&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
Natural-Gas Prices Tumble 8 Percent on Huge Supply (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009984814_naturalgas02.html
Portland General Electric PGE Sells $150M in Corporate Bonds (Portland Business Journal)
http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/09/28/daily41.html?ana=from_rss
Pacific Gas & Electric PG&E to Buy Solar, Natural Gas Power (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/01/BUPD19VV4J.DTL&feed=rss.business
Texas - San Antonio Nears Key Vote on Nuclear Expansion (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE5905ZG20091001
Google Looks to Help Decrepit Grid Survive the Strain of Plug-in Vehicles (Daily Tech)
http://www.dailytech.com/Google+Looks+to+Help+Decrepit+Grid+Survive+the+Strain+of+Plugin+Vehicles/article16383.htm
FISH & WILDLIFE
Huffington Post Op/Ed – Come Back, Salmon
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-pope/come-back-salmon_b_306689.html
Restoration Project Begins on California’s San Joaquin River (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/01/national/a171120D61.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
Bracing Lessons for Northwest Fisheries ... From the Northeast (Crosscut Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2009/10/02/science-environment/19251/
Oregon - Pelicans Almost Outnumber Humans: Comments sought on taking species off protection list (Daily Astorian, OR)
http://www.dailyastorian.com/Main.asp?SectionID=2&ArticleID=64510
Preserving the Flathead’s Fisheries (Flathead Beacon, Kalispell, MT)
http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/preserving_the_flatheads_fisheries/13302/
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Lewis County Flood Control Hopes Pinned on ‘Multi-Pronged Effort’ (Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/10/01/news/doc4ac4e544c738a988041937.txt
Lake Powell Cleanup Nearly Complete - New rules & an aggressive public information campaign mean human waste disposal is no longer a big problem at Lake Powell (Arizona Daily Sun, Flagstaff, AZ)
http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2009/10/02/news/20091002_front_204821.txt
As House OK's Big Water Bill, Sen. Feinstein Spills Plans For Even Bigger Legislation (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/2225053.html
Clark County Sewer District Earns National Accreditation (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20091002/NEWS02/910019988/
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Clallam County Solar tour offers free workshops (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20091002/news/310029985
Solar Energy Advocates Say Yes To Offshore Drilling…For A Price (South Florida Business Journal)
http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2009/09/28/daily64.html?ana=from_rss
Canada - Auction 'Robust' For Canadian Hydro (Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/fp/Auction+robust+Canadian+Hydro/1977568/story.html
Wisconsin Utility Customers to Foot the Bill for Minnesota Wind Farm (KARE-TV, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN)
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=825710
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Oregon to Get $9.5 Million for Energy Conservation (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/10/oregon_to_get_95_million_for_e.html
Washington Post Op/Ed - Let There Be (Incandescent) Light
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100104254.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
Passive-House Retrofit Gets Going In Southeast Portland (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/hg/index.ssf/2009/09/passive_house_retrofit_underwa.html
Ways to Conserve during Energy Awareness Month - This October, feel good by reducing energy consumption in your home (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&rss=1&id=119693
Dayton Power & Light Company’s Tips to Stay Warm for Less (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&rss=1&id=119620
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
EPA Air Crackdown Hits Oregon Factories, Hospitals, Even Colleges (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/09/epa_air_crack_down_hits_oregon.html
Climate Change Issue Takes Center Stage (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5941-climate-change-issue-takes-center-stage/
U.S. Carbon Rules Threaten Refinery Expansions, Industry Says (Bloomberg)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aRyU_JvqsDx0
Climate Summit Delegates Like California's Planned Carbon Trading Market (Los Angeles Times, CA)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-climate2-2009oct02,0,3269860.story
Climate Talks Stall On Targets, Finance - U.N. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSP453183
George Will - The Myth of Consensus on Climate Change
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009984083_will02.html?syndication=rss
Changing Temperatures Threaten National Parks - Study says mandatory limits on pollution should be set (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/901540.html
Southeast Drought Study Ties Water Shortage to Population, Not Global Warming (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/science/earth/02drought.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
New Buzzword - The Economics of Climate Stabilization (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/the-economics-of-climate-stabilization/
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Increasingly, States Push for E-Waste Recycling (Associated Press)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13462618?nclick_check=1
The Trade-Offs That Come With Going Green (The Salem News, Beverly, MA)
http://www.salemnews.com/pulife/local_story_275000726.html?keyword=secondarystory
NHL Team's Nuke Ads Irk Environmentalists (Associated Press)
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1261971.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Study: U.S. Fifteenth In Broadband Quality (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Study-US-Fifteenth-In-Broadband-Quality-104776
Clearwire Launches in Salem, Oregon (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Clearwire-Launches-In-Salem-Oregon-104790
Google Refines Search Results to Counter Microsoft (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009982492_apustecgooglesearchoptions.html?syndication=rss
Pain at the Pipe: Latency Matters (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/10/01/pain-at-the-pipe-latency-matters/
Despite the Hype, There’s No Rush to Cloud Computing Yet (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/10/02/despite-the-hype-theres-no-rush-to-cloud-computing-yet/
Rackspace Hires Key Personnel for Cloud Division (San Antonio Business Journal)
http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2009/09/28/daily38.html?ana=from_rss
GENERAL NEWS
Washington State May Close 2 Prisons to Cut Costs (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009985028_doc02m.html?syndication=rss
Saga of Former St. Edwards Church Continues (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=287:saga-of-former-st-edwards-church-continues&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
Feast on Fall Bounty at OysterFest - Gifts from the sea: Shelton celebration puts shucking skills to the test (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/entertainment/story/901603.html
Los Angeles Times & Washington Post Break up News Service (Associated Press)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/business/media/02post.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
Mule Deer or Yule Deer? Buck Draped With Décor
http://www.examiner.com/a-2246600~Mule_deer_or_Yule_deer__Buck_draped_with_decor.html?cid=rss-Montana_Headlines
Real-Life Money Pit? Idaho High Court Sides with Hanks in Home Lawsuit
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/63220327.html
Woman Has Chronic Hiccups for 4 Years
http://www.kirotv.com/health/21180819/detail.html
1,200-Pound Pumpkin Shatters NC Record
http://www.kirotv.com/family/21180971/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
ABBA - Money, Money, Money
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o16uVon2NRQ
Friday, October 2, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Energy News Digest for October 1, 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)
• Douglas County PUD Rates To Jump In January
• Okanogan Electric Co-Op's New Rate Structure Raises Questions
• Energy: Strategies, Policy & Best Practices for the Northwest
• Montana – Columbia Falls Aluminum Company Hopeful for Long-Term BPA Deal
• Areva Moving VA Nuclear Fuel Operation to Richland
• Natural Gas Stockpiles Rise to Highest Level Ever
• Arizona - Salt River Project Marks 100 Years of Power from Roosevelt Dam
• California - Opposition Grows To New Carlsbad Beachfront Power Plant
• South Carolina - Duke, Santee Cooper Nuclear Plans Charged Up
• A Sure Sign of Fall: Chinook in Our Rivers
• Net Catch May Indicate Big Columbia Coho Return
• NOAA Issues Plan to Protect Columbia River Steelhead
• News Release - NOAA’s Fisheries Service Issues Recovery Plan for Mid-Columbia Steelhead
• Study Takes Long-Term, Diversified View of Salmon Issues
• Editorial - Opening the Klamath “…Four dams on the Snake River in Washington State are being eyed for demolition…”
• Sacramento River - Obama Administration Vows Second Look At Protections for Delta
• Is the Pacific Salmon Fishery Collapsing or Sustainable?
• Coho Proving to Be Strong Biters
• Dates Set For What Should Be another Gangbuster Coastal Razor Clam Season
• Waters Flow Again At Nisqually River Estuary
• California - Flows to Restore San Joaquin River Start Today
• Officials Called to Conference on California Drought
• King County Sewage Treatment Plant Gets New Permit, But With Strings
• Editorial - Renewable Energy Mandates Will Be Bad News for Ratepayers In the Long Run
• Want To Try Solar Power? Now’s The Time
• World's Largest Wind Farm Opens in West Texas
• Duke Wind-Power Facility in Wyoming Now Online
• Washington Corrections Center For Women Receives Cash For Conservation
• Sacramento - Energy Use Falls When Neighbors Compete
• EPA Moves to Regulate Smokestack Greenhouse Gases
• Montana - Climate Legislation Worries Electric Cooperatives
• Electric Cooperatives Flood Senate Offices with Half-A-Million Postcards
• Senate Climate Bill Drops "Cap & Trade" Term
• Op/Ed - Northwest Is Poised To Lead In Developing Electric-Car Transition
• ViaSat to Buy Wild Blue Satellite Provider of High-Speed Internet for $568M
• North Mason School District Leads the Way on Social Networking
• U.S. Moves to Lessen Its Oversight of Internet
• Work Begins on National E-Health Record Network
• Should Airlines Let Passengers Make Calls Via Wi-Fi?
• Is Bing Losing Its Wow Factor?
• Oops! Mizzou Sells Phones without Wiping Memory
• Small Quake near Shelton
• Could El Nino Spare Northwest From Harsh Winter?
• Editorial - Public Can Help Shape Management of Natural Resources
• Mystery of Mt. Rainier Survey Marker Melts Away
WORD OF THE DAY
Pukka • \PUCK-uh\ • adjective - Genuine, authentic; also: first-class
“Bully for you!” barked Teddy at his wildland companion. Teddy’s response was sparked by a quick shove to the tush after he became stuck in the afternoon climb to the top of Half-Dome in Yosemite. “You are a pukka companion.”
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
Douglas County PUD Rates To Jump In January (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/sep/30/douglas-county-pud-rates-to-jump-in-january/#c1379
Okanogan Electric Co-Op's New Rate Structure Raises Questions (Methow Valley News, WA)
http://www.methowvalleynews.com/story.php?id=2186
Energy: Strategies, Policy & Best Practices for the Northwest (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/energy/archives/180628.asp?source=rss
Montana – Columbia Falls Aluminum Company Hopeful for Long-Term BPA Deal (Hungry Horse News, MT)
http://www.flatheadnewsgroup.com/articles/2009/10/01/hungryhorsenews/news/news_8746797132_02.txt
Areva Moving VA Nuclear Fuel Operation to Richland (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009974010_apwaarevaconsolidation.html?syndication=rss
Natural Gas Stockpiles Rise to Highest Level Ever (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009981881_apapfnusnaturalgasstorage.html?syndication=rss
Arizona - Salt River Project Marks 100 Years of Power from Roosevelt Dam (Phoenix Business Journal)
http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2009/09/28/daily23.html?ana=from_rss
California - Opposition Grows To New Carlsbad Beachfront Power Plant (San Diego News Tribune, CA)
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/sep/29/bn29energy-in-carlsbad/
South Carolina - Duke, Santee Cooper Nuclear Plans Charged Up (Independent Mail, Anderson, SC)
http://www.independentmail.com/news/2009/sep/29/duke-santee-cooper-nuclear-plans-charged/
FISH & WILDLIFE
A Sure Sign of Fall: Chinook in Our Rivers (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/oct/01/a-sure-sign-of-fall-chinook-in-our-rivers/
Net Catch May Indicate Big Columbia Coho Return (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20091001/SPORTS04/710019934/AL+THOMAS++Net+catch+may+indicate+big+Columbia+coho+return
NOAA Issues Plan to Protect Columbia River Steelhead (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009982246_apwasteelheadrecovery.html?syndication=rss
News Release - NOAA’s Fisheries Service Issues Recovery Plan for Mid-Columbia Steelhead (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090930_columbiasteelhead.html
Study Takes Long-Term, Diversified View of Salmon Issues (Mount Shasta News, CA)
http://www.mtshastanews.com/news/x1991994365/Study-takes-long-term-diversified-view-of-salmon-issues
SF Chronicle Editorial - Opening the Klamath “…Four dams on the Snake River in Washington State are being eyed for demolition…” (What!?)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/30/EDML19V308.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
Sacramento River - Obama Administration Vows Second Look At Protections for Delta (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2222165.html
Is the Pacific Salmon Fishery Collapsing or Sustainable? (Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Pacific+salmon+fishery+collapsing+sustainable/2049806/story.html
Coho Proving to Be Strong Biters (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090930/SPORTS/709309648/1008/SPORTS02
Dates Set For What Should Be another Gangbuster Coastal Razor Clam Season (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/reeltimenorthwest/2009975669_dates_set_for_what_should_be_a.html?syndication=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Waters Flow Again At Nisqually River Estuary - Twelve-Year Restoration Effort Cost $12 Million (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/988863.html
California - Flows to Restore San Joaquin River Start Today (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/30/MN6M19V6IQ.DTL&feed=rss.news
Officials Called to Conference on California Drought (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009974116_apuscaliforniawaterwoes.html?syndication=rss
King County Sewage Treatment Plant Gets New Permit, But With Strings (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/410662_permit30.html?source=rss
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Daily News Editorial - Renewable Energy Mandates Will Be Bad News for Ratepayers In the Long Run
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/10/01/editorial/doc4ac3d97632268063967144.txt
Want To Try Solar Power? Now’s The Time (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091001/LIVING03/710019940
World's Largest Wind Farm Opens in West Texas (Dallas Morning News, TX)
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-wind_01bus.State.Edition1.ddb4af.html
Duke Wind-Power Facility in Wyoming Now Online (Denver Business Journal)
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2009/09/28/daily65.html?ana=from_rss
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Washington Corrections Center For Women Receives Cash For Conservation – PenLight in the spotlight (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/partners/gatelinegigharbor/story/899520.html
Sacramento - Energy Use Falls When Neighbors Compete (Christian Science Monitor)
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/09/30/energy-use-falls-when-neighbors-compete/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
EPA Moves to Regulate Smokestack Greenhouse Gases (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009978289_apusepagreenhousegases.html?syndication=rss
Montana - Climate Legislation Worries Electric Cooperatives (Great Falls Tribune, MT)
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20091001/BUSINESS/910010305
Electric Cooperatives Flood Senate Offices with Half-A-Million Postcards (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&rss=1&id=119511
Senate Climate Bill Drops "Cap & Trade" Term (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009975483_apusclimaterebranding.html?syndication=rss
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Seattle Times Op/Ed - Northwest Is Poised To Lead In Developing Electric-Car Transition
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009975818_guest01marshall.html?syndication=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
ViaSat to Buy Wild Blue Satellite Provider of High-Speed Internet for $568M (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009976898_apustecviasatwildblue.html?syndication=rss
North Mason School District Leads the Way on Social Networking (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/30/north-mason-school-district-leads-the-way-on/?partner=RSS
U.S. Moves to Lessen Its Oversight of Internet (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/technology/internet/01icann.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Work Begins on National E-Health Record Network (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2009970203_apusmederecords.html?syndication=rss
Should Airlines Let Passengers Make Calls Via Wi-Fi? (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-09-28-wi-fi-cellphones-airlines_N.htm
Is Bing Losing Its Wow Factor? (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/10/01/is-bing-losing-its-wow-factor/
Oops! Mizzou Sells Phones without Wiping Memory (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009970689_apuscellphonesmissouri.html?syndication=rss
GENERAL NEWS
Small Quake near Shelton (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=285:small-quake-near-shelton&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
Could El Nino Spare Northwest From Harsh Winter? (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_093009WAB-winter-weather-prediction-SW.1d081955a.html?rss
Olympian Editorial - Public Can Help Shape Management of Natural Resources
http://www.theolympian.com/opinion/story/988917.html
Mystery of Mt. Rainier Survey Marker Melts Away (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009977050_rainiershrinking01m.html
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
Bank Robbery Foiled By Penmanship
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009976664_aporrobberswriting1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
What The? Tourism Group Changes Name - Old Name's Initials Formed Crude Acronym
http://www.kirotv.com/travelgetaways/21165120/detail.html
Bangladesh Awards Farmer Who Killed 83,000 Rats - Man Collects Tails For Proof
http://www.kirotv.com/money/21158372/detail.html
Cops: Angry Woman Fries, Eats Goldfish
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21158231/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHWeuQyFouo&feature=related
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Douglas County PUD Rates To Jump In January
• Okanogan Electric Co-Op's New Rate Structure Raises Questions
• Energy: Strategies, Policy & Best Practices for the Northwest
• Montana – Columbia Falls Aluminum Company Hopeful for Long-Term BPA Deal
• Areva Moving VA Nuclear Fuel Operation to Richland
• Natural Gas Stockpiles Rise to Highest Level Ever
• Arizona - Salt River Project Marks 100 Years of Power from Roosevelt Dam
• California - Opposition Grows To New Carlsbad Beachfront Power Plant
• South Carolina - Duke, Santee Cooper Nuclear Plans Charged Up
• A Sure Sign of Fall: Chinook in Our Rivers
• Net Catch May Indicate Big Columbia Coho Return
• NOAA Issues Plan to Protect Columbia River Steelhead
• News Release - NOAA’s Fisheries Service Issues Recovery Plan for Mid-Columbia Steelhead
• Study Takes Long-Term, Diversified View of Salmon Issues
• Editorial - Opening the Klamath “…Four dams on the Snake River in Washington State are being eyed for demolition…”
• Sacramento River - Obama Administration Vows Second Look At Protections for Delta
• Is the Pacific Salmon Fishery Collapsing or Sustainable?
• Coho Proving to Be Strong Biters
• Dates Set For What Should Be another Gangbuster Coastal Razor Clam Season
• Waters Flow Again At Nisqually River Estuary
• California - Flows to Restore San Joaquin River Start Today
• Officials Called to Conference on California Drought
• King County Sewage Treatment Plant Gets New Permit, But With Strings
• Editorial - Renewable Energy Mandates Will Be Bad News for Ratepayers In the Long Run
• Want To Try Solar Power? Now’s The Time
• World's Largest Wind Farm Opens in West Texas
• Duke Wind-Power Facility in Wyoming Now Online
• Washington Corrections Center For Women Receives Cash For Conservation
• Sacramento - Energy Use Falls When Neighbors Compete
• EPA Moves to Regulate Smokestack Greenhouse Gases
• Montana - Climate Legislation Worries Electric Cooperatives
• Electric Cooperatives Flood Senate Offices with Half-A-Million Postcards
• Senate Climate Bill Drops "Cap & Trade" Term
• Op/Ed - Northwest Is Poised To Lead In Developing Electric-Car Transition
• ViaSat to Buy Wild Blue Satellite Provider of High-Speed Internet for $568M
• North Mason School District Leads the Way on Social Networking
• U.S. Moves to Lessen Its Oversight of Internet
• Work Begins on National E-Health Record Network
• Should Airlines Let Passengers Make Calls Via Wi-Fi?
• Is Bing Losing Its Wow Factor?
• Oops! Mizzou Sells Phones without Wiping Memory
• Small Quake near Shelton
• Could El Nino Spare Northwest From Harsh Winter?
• Editorial - Public Can Help Shape Management of Natural Resources
• Mystery of Mt. Rainier Survey Marker Melts Away
WORD OF THE DAY
Pukka • \PUCK-uh\ • adjective - Genuine, authentic; also: first-class
“Bully for you!” barked Teddy at his wildland companion. Teddy’s response was sparked by a quick shove to the tush after he became stuck in the afternoon climb to the top of Half-Dome in Yosemite. “You are a pukka companion.”
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
Douglas County PUD Rates To Jump In January (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/sep/30/douglas-county-pud-rates-to-jump-in-january/#c1379
Okanogan Electric Co-Op's New Rate Structure Raises Questions (Methow Valley News, WA)
http://www.methowvalleynews.com/story.php?id=2186
Energy: Strategies, Policy & Best Practices for the Northwest (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/energy/archives/180628.asp?source=rss
Montana – Columbia Falls Aluminum Company Hopeful for Long-Term BPA Deal (Hungry Horse News, MT)
http://www.flatheadnewsgroup.com/articles/2009/10/01/hungryhorsenews/news/news_8746797132_02.txt
Areva Moving VA Nuclear Fuel Operation to Richland (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009974010_apwaarevaconsolidation.html?syndication=rss
Natural Gas Stockpiles Rise to Highest Level Ever (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009981881_apapfnusnaturalgasstorage.html?syndication=rss
Arizona - Salt River Project Marks 100 Years of Power from Roosevelt Dam (Phoenix Business Journal)
http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2009/09/28/daily23.html?ana=from_rss
California - Opposition Grows To New Carlsbad Beachfront Power Plant (San Diego News Tribune, CA)
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/sep/29/bn29energy-in-carlsbad/
South Carolina - Duke, Santee Cooper Nuclear Plans Charged Up (Independent Mail, Anderson, SC)
http://www.independentmail.com/news/2009/sep/29/duke-santee-cooper-nuclear-plans-charged/
FISH & WILDLIFE
A Sure Sign of Fall: Chinook in Our Rivers (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/oct/01/a-sure-sign-of-fall-chinook-in-our-rivers/
Net Catch May Indicate Big Columbia Coho Return (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20091001/SPORTS04/710019934/AL+THOMAS++Net+catch+may+indicate+big+Columbia+coho+return
NOAA Issues Plan to Protect Columbia River Steelhead (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009982246_apwasteelheadrecovery.html?syndication=rss
News Release - NOAA’s Fisheries Service Issues Recovery Plan for Mid-Columbia Steelhead (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090930_columbiasteelhead.html
Study Takes Long-Term, Diversified View of Salmon Issues (Mount Shasta News, CA)
http://www.mtshastanews.com/news/x1991994365/Study-takes-long-term-diversified-view-of-salmon-issues
SF Chronicle Editorial - Opening the Klamath “…Four dams on the Snake River in Washington State are being eyed for demolition…” (What!?)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/30/EDML19V308.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
Sacramento River - Obama Administration Vows Second Look At Protections for Delta (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2222165.html
Is the Pacific Salmon Fishery Collapsing or Sustainable? (Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Pacific+salmon+fishery+collapsing+sustainable/2049806/story.html
Coho Proving to Be Strong Biters (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090930/SPORTS/709309648/1008/SPORTS02
Dates Set For What Should Be another Gangbuster Coastal Razor Clam Season (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/reeltimenorthwest/2009975669_dates_set_for_what_should_be_a.html?syndication=rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Waters Flow Again At Nisqually River Estuary - Twelve-Year Restoration Effort Cost $12 Million (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/988863.html
California - Flows to Restore San Joaquin River Start Today (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/30/MN6M19V6IQ.DTL&feed=rss.news
Officials Called to Conference on California Drought (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009974116_apuscaliforniawaterwoes.html?syndication=rss
King County Sewage Treatment Plant Gets New Permit, But With Strings (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/410662_permit30.html?source=rss
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Daily News Editorial - Renewable Energy Mandates Will Be Bad News for Ratepayers In the Long Run
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/10/01/editorial/doc4ac3d97632268063967144.txt
Want To Try Solar Power? Now’s The Time (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091001/LIVING03/710019940
World's Largest Wind Farm Opens in West Texas (Dallas Morning News, TX)
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-wind_01bus.State.Edition1.ddb4af.html
Duke Wind-Power Facility in Wyoming Now Online (Denver Business Journal)
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2009/09/28/daily65.html?ana=from_rss
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Washington Corrections Center For Women Receives Cash For Conservation – PenLight in the spotlight (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/partners/gatelinegigharbor/story/899520.html
Sacramento - Energy Use Falls When Neighbors Compete (Christian Science Monitor)
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/09/30/energy-use-falls-when-neighbors-compete/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
EPA Moves to Regulate Smokestack Greenhouse Gases (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009978289_apusepagreenhousegases.html?syndication=rss
Montana - Climate Legislation Worries Electric Cooperatives (Great Falls Tribune, MT)
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20091001/BUSINESS/910010305
Electric Cooperatives Flood Senate Offices with Half-A-Million Postcards (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&rss=1&id=119511
Senate Climate Bill Drops "Cap & Trade" Term (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009975483_apusclimaterebranding.html?syndication=rss
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Seattle Times Op/Ed - Northwest Is Poised To Lead In Developing Electric-Car Transition
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009975818_guest01marshall.html?syndication=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
ViaSat to Buy Wild Blue Satellite Provider of High-Speed Internet for $568M (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009976898_apustecviasatwildblue.html?syndication=rss
North Mason School District Leads the Way on Social Networking (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/30/north-mason-school-district-leads-the-way-on/?partner=RSS
U.S. Moves to Lessen Its Oversight of Internet (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/technology/internet/01icann.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Work Begins on National E-Health Record Network (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2009970203_apusmederecords.html?syndication=rss
Should Airlines Let Passengers Make Calls Via Wi-Fi? (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-09-28-wi-fi-cellphones-airlines_N.htm
Is Bing Losing Its Wow Factor? (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/10/01/is-bing-losing-its-wow-factor/
Oops! Mizzou Sells Phones without Wiping Memory (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009970689_apuscellphonesmissouri.html?syndication=rss
GENERAL NEWS
Small Quake near Shelton (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=285:small-quake-near-shelton&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
Could El Nino Spare Northwest From Harsh Winter? (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_093009WAB-winter-weather-prediction-SW.1d081955a.html?rss
Olympian Editorial - Public Can Help Shape Management of Natural Resources
http://www.theolympian.com/opinion/story/988917.html
Mystery of Mt. Rainier Survey Marker Melts Away (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009977050_rainiershrinking01m.html
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
Bank Robbery Foiled By Penmanship
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009976664_aporrobberswriting1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
What The? Tourism Group Changes Name - Old Name's Initials Formed Crude Acronym
http://www.kirotv.com/travelgetaways/21165120/detail.html
Bangladesh Awards Farmer Who Killed 83,000 Rats - Man Collects Tails For Proof
http://www.kirotv.com/money/21158372/detail.html
Cops: Angry Woman Fries, Eats Goldfish
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21158231/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHWeuQyFouo&feature=related
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Energy News Digest for September 30, 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 Officials Approve Rate Increase
• Lock At the Dalles Dam On Columbia River Shut Down
• Avista Reaches Settlement in Oregon Natural Gas Rate Request
• Farmers Protest Idaho Falls Power’s Planned Transmission Line
• Op/Ed - Dialogue Key to Idaho Power Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Project
• Liquefied Natural Gas Opponents Make Their Case for Recall of Clatsop Commissioners
• China Orders Crackdown On Industrial Overcapacity
• Mississippi Steel Offered Low-Cost New York Hydro-Power Deal
• Big Utilities Pull Back on Coal Plant Plans
• Deal Would Remove Klamath River Dams to Aid Salmon
• Utility Agrees To Terms for Removing Klamath Dams
• Utility Agrees To Removal of 4 Klamath River Dams
• Landmark Agreement to Remove 4 Klamath River Dams
• Could Klamath Dam Removal Deal Set Future Precedent?
• Strong Fish Returns Allow Six Eastern Washington Rivers to Open for Hatchery Steelhead
• Elwha River Turns Red for Pre-Dam Removal Test
• Fed Stimulus Money Helping Prep Lower Elwha for Dam Removal
• Shovelnose Sturgeon Proposed For Listing
• House Dust in Washing Machines Might Be Chemically Polluting Puget Sound
• Colorado Governor Says Western Water Policies Must Change
• Canadian Ferries To Stop Dumping Sewage Into Ocean
• Editorial - Cities on Right Path to Deal with Water Issues
• Alternative Energy Projects Stumble on a Need for Water
• Clallam County PUD Sets Annual Solar Tour
• Clean Energy on Display at Saturday's Kitsap Solar Tour
• Chinese company takes over Hoku Scientific
• San Francisco tilts toward wind power
• As Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb Sales Fall, More Incentives Urged
• Contest for Brightest Idea in Light-Bulb Makeover
• Oregon Rep. Wu Introduces Bills to Encourage Energy Efficient Buildings
• Climate Control Debate Heats Up In Senate
• U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Faces Revolt over Its Opposition to Global Warming Legislation
• What Ever Happened to the Ozone Layer? Is there still a hole in it?
• Snohomish County Fleet To Burn Cleaner Fuel
• From Turbines & Straw, Danish Self-Sufficiency
• Some Coffee Shops Crack Down On Free Wi-Fi
• Borders Books to Offer Free WiFi Starting Next Month
• FCC’s Broadband Plan: A Need for (Actual) Speed
• FCC: We're halfway Done with National Broadband Plan
• Verizon: Metered Broadband Is Coming
• Traffic during Belfair Sewer Construction Will Be Horrible
• Driver in Belfair Crash Jailed, Passengers Released from Hospital
• El Niño Should Mean Drier Seattle Winter, But Maybe Not
• Strange Twists in Capture of Alleged Metal Thief
• Alexander to Step Down as WA Chief Justice
WORD OF THE DAY
Pabulum • \PAB-yuh-lum\ • noun – 1: food; especially: a suspension or solution of nutrients in a state suitable for absorption *2: intellectual sustenance 3: something (as writing or speech) that is insipid, simplistic, or bland
As far as literary content is concerned, the scrawling writing efforts of the kindergarten student were considered mere pabulum by her adult relatives. Her parents, on the other hand, custom-framed the alphabetic efforts of the tot and hung the creation next to their Franklin Mint replica of the Declaration of Independence.
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
Cowlitz PUD Officials Approve Rate Increase (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/09/30/area_news/doc4ac2ae28952f5543394061.txt
Lock At the Dalles Dam On Columbia River Shut Down (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/987598.html
Avista Reaches Settlement in Oregon Natural Gas Rate Request (Yahoo! Finance)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Avista-Reaches-Settlement-in-prnews-141626221.html?x=0&.v=1
Farmers Protest Idaho Falls Power’s Planned Transmission Line (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/986926.html
East Oregonian Op/Ed - Dialogue Key to Idaho Power Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Project
http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=14&SubSectionID=50&ArticleID=98441
Liquefied Natural Gas Opponents Make Their Case For Recall Of Clatsop Commissioners (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/09/lng_opponents_make_their_case.html
China Orders Crackdown On Industrial Overcapacity - new aluminum production projects are banned for three years (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iL02QM067VXDWSLRj1mWOPVeS5LwD9B1JCTO0
Mississippi Steel Offered Low-Cost New York Hydro-Power Deal (Business First of Buffalo)
http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2009/09/28/daily20.html?ana=from_rss
Big Utilities Pull Back on Coal Plant Plans (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/big-utilities-pull-back-on-coal-plant-plans/
FISH & WILDLIFE
Deal Would Remove Klamath River Dams to Aid Salmon (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/deal_would_remove_klamath_rive.html
Utility Agrees To Terms for Removing Klamath Dams (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/62868162.html
Utility Agrees To Removal of 4 Klamath River Dams (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-klamath30-2009sep30,0,3525101.story
Landmark Agreement to Remove 4 Klamath River Dams (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/09/30/30greenwire-landmark-agreement-to-remove-4-klamath-river-d-72992.html
Could Klamath Dam Removal Deal Set Future Precedent? (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5931-could-klamath-dam-removal-deal-set-future-precedent/
Strong Fish Returns Allow Six Eastern Washington Rivers to Open for Hatchery Steelhead (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/reeltimenorthwest/2009967645_strong_fish_returns_allow_six.html?syndication=rss
Elwha River Turns Red for Pre-Dam Removal Test (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090930/news/309309990
Fed Stimulus Money Helping Prep Lower Elwha for Dam Removal (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.konp.com/local/5133
Shovelnose Sturgeon Proposed For Listing (Associated Press)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2241895~Shovelnose_sturgeon_proposed_for_listing.html?cid=rss-Montana_Headlines
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
House Dust in Washing Machines Might Be Chemically Polluting Puget Sound (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/410626_badchemicals29.html?source=rss
Colorado Governor Says Western Water Policies Must Change (Associated Press)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/29/colo-gov-western-water-policies-must-change/
Canadian Ferries To Stop Dumping Sewage Into Ocean – now, if you can just get Victoria to stop it… (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/Ferries+stop+dumping+sewage+into+ocean/2046993/story.html
Olympian Editorial - Cities on Right Path to Deal with Water Issues
http://www.theolympian.com/opinion/story/987556.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Alternative Energy Projects Stumble on a Need for Water (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/business/energy-environment/30water.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Clallam County PUD Sets Annual Solar Tour (Sequim Gazette, WA)
http://www.sequimgazette.com/gazettetop/articleDetail.exm/Index/article/2009-09-30_Clallam_County_PUD_sets_annual_solar_tour/
Clean Energy on Display at Saturday's Kitsap Solar Tour (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/29/clean-energy-on-display-at-saturdays-kitsap-tour/?partner=RSS
Chinese company takes over Hoku Scientific - Takeover gives Hoku money to finish building plant in Pocatello, Idaho (Pacific Business News)
http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2009/09/28/daily21.html?ana=from_rss
San Francisco tilts toward wind power (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/29/MNAO19U159.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
As Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb Sales Fall, More Incentives Urged (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/as-cfl-sales-fall-more-incentives-urged/
Contest for Brightest Idea in Light-Bulb Makeover (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009968878_lightbulbprize30.html
Oregon Rep. Wu Introduces Bills to Encourage Energy Efficient Buildings (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5920-rep-wu-introduces-bills-encourage-energy-efficient-buildings/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Climate Control Debate Heats Up In Senate (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58S5X320090930?feedType=nl&feedName=ustopnewsearly
U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Faces Revolt over Its Opposition to Global Warming Legislation (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13447658
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
What Ever Happened to the Ozone Layer? Is there still a hole in it? (Slate Magazine)
http://www.slate.com/id/2229859/?from=rss
Snohomish County Fleet To Burn Cleaner Fuel - Vehicles will rely more on biodiesel, ethanol & electricity, & electric-vehicle charging stations (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090929/NEWS01/709299872/-1/RSS02
From Turbines & Straw, Danish Self-Sufficiency (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/world/europe/30samso.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Some Coffee Shops Crack Down On Free Wi-Fi (Nat’l Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113134753&ft=1&f=2
Borders Books to Offer Free WiFi Starting Next Month (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009967745_apusborderswifi.html?syndication=rss
FCC’s Broadband Plan: A Need for (Actual) Speed (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/09/29/fccs-broadband-plan-a-need-for-actual-speed/
FCC: We're halfway Done with National Broadband Plan - It could cost between $20 & $350 billion to get job done (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Were-Halfway-Done-With-National-Broadband-Plan-104715
Verizon: Metered Broadband Is Coming - As long as consumers are stupid enough to allow it (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Metered-Broadband-Is-Coming-104713
GENERAL NEWS
Traffic during Belfair Sewer Construction Will Be Horrible (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=276:traffic-during-belfair-sewer-construction-will-be-horrible&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
Driver in Belfair Crash Jailed, Passengers Released from Hospital (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/29/driver-in-belfair-crash-jailed-passengers-from/?partner=RSS
El Niño Should Mean Drier Seattle Winter, But Maybe Not (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009969444_elnino30m.html
Strange Twists in Capture of Alleged Metal Thief (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21153900/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_1_09000109302009&ts=H
Alexander to Step Down as WA Chief Justice (Associated Press)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=218688
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
'First Clown in Space' Has Serious Goals
http://www.kirotv.com/entertainment/20688549/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_1_09000109302009&ts=H
Police: Teen Uses Fork to Brand Friend
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21151688/detail.html
Elephants Find Recession Work Washing Cars - Car Wash Promises Not To Get Cars Clean
http://www.kirotv.com/travelgetaways/21156464/detail.html
Ailing Chicken Leaves Behind Giant Egg
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21136512/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Melanie Safka - Brand New Key
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr9rtQbijR8&feature=related
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Cowlitz PUD Officials Approve Rate Increase
• Lock At the Dalles Dam On Columbia River Shut Down
• Avista Reaches Settlement in Oregon Natural Gas Rate Request
• Farmers Protest Idaho Falls Power’s Planned Transmission Line
• Op/Ed - Dialogue Key to Idaho Power Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Project
• Liquefied Natural Gas Opponents Make Their Case for Recall of Clatsop Commissioners
• China Orders Crackdown On Industrial Overcapacity
• Mississippi Steel Offered Low-Cost New York Hydro-Power Deal
• Big Utilities Pull Back on Coal Plant Plans
• Deal Would Remove Klamath River Dams to Aid Salmon
• Utility Agrees To Terms for Removing Klamath Dams
• Utility Agrees To Removal of 4 Klamath River Dams
• Landmark Agreement to Remove 4 Klamath River Dams
• Could Klamath Dam Removal Deal Set Future Precedent?
• Strong Fish Returns Allow Six Eastern Washington Rivers to Open for Hatchery Steelhead
• Elwha River Turns Red for Pre-Dam Removal Test
• Fed Stimulus Money Helping Prep Lower Elwha for Dam Removal
• Shovelnose Sturgeon Proposed For Listing
• House Dust in Washing Machines Might Be Chemically Polluting Puget Sound
• Colorado Governor Says Western Water Policies Must Change
• Canadian Ferries To Stop Dumping Sewage Into Ocean
• Editorial - Cities on Right Path to Deal with Water Issues
• Alternative Energy Projects Stumble on a Need for Water
• Clallam County PUD Sets Annual Solar Tour
• Clean Energy on Display at Saturday's Kitsap Solar Tour
• Chinese company takes over Hoku Scientific
• San Francisco tilts toward wind power
• As Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb Sales Fall, More Incentives Urged
• Contest for Brightest Idea in Light-Bulb Makeover
• Oregon Rep. Wu Introduces Bills to Encourage Energy Efficient Buildings
• Climate Control Debate Heats Up In Senate
• U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Faces Revolt over Its Opposition to Global Warming Legislation
• What Ever Happened to the Ozone Layer? Is there still a hole in it?
• Snohomish County Fleet To Burn Cleaner Fuel
• From Turbines & Straw, Danish Self-Sufficiency
• Some Coffee Shops Crack Down On Free Wi-Fi
• Borders Books to Offer Free WiFi Starting Next Month
• FCC’s Broadband Plan: A Need for (Actual) Speed
• FCC: We're halfway Done with National Broadband Plan
• Verizon: Metered Broadband Is Coming
• Traffic during Belfair Sewer Construction Will Be Horrible
• Driver in Belfair Crash Jailed, Passengers Released from Hospital
• El Niño Should Mean Drier Seattle Winter, But Maybe Not
• Strange Twists in Capture of Alleged Metal Thief
• Alexander to Step Down as WA Chief Justice
WORD OF THE DAY
Pabulum • \PAB-yuh-lum\ • noun – 1: food; especially: a suspension or solution of nutrients in a state suitable for absorption *2: intellectual sustenance 3: something (as writing or speech) that is insipid, simplistic, or bland
As far as literary content is concerned, the scrawling writing efforts of the kindergarten student were considered mere pabulum by her adult relatives. Her parents, on the other hand, custom-framed the alphabetic efforts of the tot and hung the creation next to their Franklin Mint replica of the Declaration of Independence.
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
Cowlitz PUD Officials Approve Rate Increase (The Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/09/30/area_news/doc4ac2ae28952f5543394061.txt
Lock At the Dalles Dam On Columbia River Shut Down (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/987598.html
Avista Reaches Settlement in Oregon Natural Gas Rate Request (Yahoo! Finance)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Avista-Reaches-Settlement-in-prnews-141626221.html?x=0&.v=1
Farmers Protest Idaho Falls Power’s Planned Transmission Line (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/986926.html
East Oregonian Op/Ed - Dialogue Key to Idaho Power Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Project
http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=14&SubSectionID=50&ArticleID=98441
Liquefied Natural Gas Opponents Make Their Case For Recall Of Clatsop Commissioners (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/09/lng_opponents_make_their_case.html
China Orders Crackdown On Industrial Overcapacity - new aluminum production projects are banned for three years (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iL02QM067VXDWSLRj1mWOPVeS5LwD9B1JCTO0
Mississippi Steel Offered Low-Cost New York Hydro-Power Deal (Business First of Buffalo)
http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2009/09/28/daily20.html?ana=from_rss
Big Utilities Pull Back on Coal Plant Plans (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/big-utilities-pull-back-on-coal-plant-plans/
FISH & WILDLIFE
Deal Would Remove Klamath River Dams to Aid Salmon (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/deal_would_remove_klamath_rive.html
Utility Agrees To Terms for Removing Klamath Dams (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/62868162.html
Utility Agrees To Removal of 4 Klamath River Dams (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-klamath30-2009sep30,0,3525101.story
Landmark Agreement to Remove 4 Klamath River Dams (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/09/30/30greenwire-landmark-agreement-to-remove-4-klamath-river-d-72992.html
Could Klamath Dam Removal Deal Set Future Precedent? (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5931-could-klamath-dam-removal-deal-set-future-precedent/
Strong Fish Returns Allow Six Eastern Washington Rivers to Open for Hatchery Steelhead (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/reeltimenorthwest/2009967645_strong_fish_returns_allow_six.html?syndication=rss
Elwha River Turns Red for Pre-Dam Removal Test (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090930/news/309309990
Fed Stimulus Money Helping Prep Lower Elwha for Dam Removal (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.konp.com/local/5133
Shovelnose Sturgeon Proposed For Listing (Associated Press)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2241895~Shovelnose_sturgeon_proposed_for_listing.html?cid=rss-Montana_Headlines
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
House Dust in Washing Machines Might Be Chemically Polluting Puget Sound (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/410626_badchemicals29.html?source=rss
Colorado Governor Says Western Water Policies Must Change (Associated Press)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/29/colo-gov-western-water-policies-must-change/
Canadian Ferries To Stop Dumping Sewage Into Ocean – now, if you can just get Victoria to stop it… (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/Ferries+stop+dumping+sewage+into+ocean/2046993/story.html
Olympian Editorial - Cities on Right Path to Deal with Water Issues
http://www.theolympian.com/opinion/story/987556.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Alternative Energy Projects Stumble on a Need for Water (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/business/energy-environment/30water.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Clallam County PUD Sets Annual Solar Tour (Sequim Gazette, WA)
http://www.sequimgazette.com/gazettetop/articleDetail.exm/Index/article/2009-09-30_Clallam_County_PUD_sets_annual_solar_tour/
Clean Energy on Display at Saturday's Kitsap Solar Tour (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/29/clean-energy-on-display-at-saturdays-kitsap-tour/?partner=RSS
Chinese company takes over Hoku Scientific - Takeover gives Hoku money to finish building plant in Pocatello, Idaho (Pacific Business News)
http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2009/09/28/daily21.html?ana=from_rss
San Francisco tilts toward wind power (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/29/MNAO19U159.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
As Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb Sales Fall, More Incentives Urged (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/as-cfl-sales-fall-more-incentives-urged/
Contest for Brightest Idea in Light-Bulb Makeover (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009968878_lightbulbprize30.html
Oregon Rep. Wu Introduces Bills to Encourage Energy Efficient Buildings (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5920-rep-wu-introduces-bills-encourage-energy-efficient-buildings/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Climate Control Debate Heats Up In Senate (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58S5X320090930?feedType=nl&feedName=ustopnewsearly
U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Faces Revolt over Its Opposition to Global Warming Legislation (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13447658
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
What Ever Happened to the Ozone Layer? Is there still a hole in it? (Slate Magazine)
http://www.slate.com/id/2229859/?from=rss
Snohomish County Fleet To Burn Cleaner Fuel - Vehicles will rely more on biodiesel, ethanol & electricity, & electric-vehicle charging stations (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090929/NEWS01/709299872/-1/RSS02
From Turbines & Straw, Danish Self-Sufficiency (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/world/europe/30samso.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Some Coffee Shops Crack Down On Free Wi-Fi (Nat’l Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113134753&ft=1&f=2
Borders Books to Offer Free WiFi Starting Next Month (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009967745_apusborderswifi.html?syndication=rss
FCC’s Broadband Plan: A Need for (Actual) Speed (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/09/29/fccs-broadband-plan-a-need-for-actual-speed/
FCC: We're halfway Done with National Broadband Plan - It could cost between $20 & $350 billion to get job done (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Were-Halfway-Done-With-National-Broadband-Plan-104715
Verizon: Metered Broadband Is Coming - As long as consumers are stupid enough to allow it (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Metered-Broadband-Is-Coming-104713
GENERAL NEWS
Traffic during Belfair Sewer Construction Will Be Horrible (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=276:traffic-during-belfair-sewer-construction-will-be-horrible&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
Driver in Belfair Crash Jailed, Passengers Released from Hospital (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/29/driver-in-belfair-crash-jailed-passengers-from/?partner=RSS
El Niño Should Mean Drier Seattle Winter, But Maybe Not (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009969444_elnino30m.html
Strange Twists in Capture of Alleged Metal Thief (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21153900/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_1_09000109302009&ts=H
Alexander to Step Down as WA Chief Justice (Associated Press)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=218688
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
'First Clown in Space' Has Serious Goals
http://www.kirotv.com/entertainment/20688549/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_1_09000109302009&ts=H
Police: Teen Uses Fork to Brand Friend
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21151688/detail.html
Elephants Find Recession Work Washing Cars - Car Wash Promises Not To Get Cars Clean
http://www.kirotv.com/travelgetaways/21156464/detail.html
Ailing Chicken Leaves Behind Giant Egg
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21136512/detail.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Melanie Safka - Brand New Key
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr9rtQbijR8&feature=related
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Energy News Digest for September 29, 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)
• Groups Appeal Permit for TransAlta’s Centralia Coal Plant
• Fatal Marysville Crash Knocks Out Power
• Chelan PUD Expects another Tough Year
• Centralia Utilities Want Rental Customers to Pay Up
• Benton PUD Takes Lead by Installing 'Smart Meters'
• India Launches Probe into Power Plant Accident That Killed 41 Workers
• Southern California Edison Shuts San Onofre Reactor
• Feds Rule TVA Contractor Fired Browns Ferry Worker for Raising Concerns about Nuclear Safety
• 1,000 Jobs Lost At Uranium Enrichment Plant
• Germany Eyes Nuclear Revival
• Wholesale Power - Tri-State Sued By Five Nebraska Members Who Allege Overcharging
• PECO: Storms Caused 67% of Power Outages during Summer Season
• Editorial - Fed’s Salmon Plan As Good As It Will Get
• Op/Ed - Facing the Facts on the Future of Northwest Salmon
• Op/Ed - We Need to both Help Salmon & Produce Cleaner Energy
• Idaho officials to pay hatchery spill fine
• Steelheading Opens Tuesday On Upper Columbia
• Leaky Green River Dam Causes Flood Worries in Seattle Area
• California Water Interests Argue New State Dam Proposals
• Clatskanie Ethanol Plant Will Be Sold
• Alternate-Energy Scramble On Across West
• PacifiCorp Looks to Renewables for Future Power Needs in Idaho
• Solar Plan Ignites Some Environmental Concerns
• Companies Race to Develop Utility-Scale Power Storage
• Reminder: Amish Heater Is Still No Miracle
• Avista Launches Video Contest to Show How Every Little Bit Adds Up
• Exelon Leaves U.S. Chamber over Climate Dispute
• Learn How to Go Green at Renewable Living Fair
• Who Knew? Home-Rolled Fiber Lowers Cable Rates
• Ex-Enron Broadband Exec Gets 16 Months in Prison
• Wireless Lobbyists Step Up Defensive against Net Neutrality
• Microsoft, Google Clash over E-Mail Dominance
• Metered Broadband Is the Future: Verizon CTO
• Social Networks, Blogs Grab Bigger Share of Web
• Five Kids Hurt In Belfair Crash Weren't Wearing Seat Belts
• Mason County to Terminate Port Lease for Fairgrounds
• Recession, Seasonal Slowdown Force Mason County’s Skokomish Casino to Fold
• Feast on Fall Bounty at OysterFest
• 1.2 Million Visitors to Puyallup Fair
• Narrows League Welcomes Four
• Suspected Wedding Crashers Arrested In Indiana Theft
WORD OF THE DAY
Glaucous • \GLAW-kus\ • adjective - 1a: of a pale yellow-green color *b: of a light bluish-gray or bluish-white color 2: having a powdery or waxy coating that gives a frosted appearance and tends to rub off
It was almost like living inside “Plato’s Cave” thought Alexandra. The glaucos finish on the conference room windows almost allowed you to see what was going on inside the inner sanctum. The hazy view left her speculating about the activities in which the shadowy figures moving about were engaged.
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
Groups Appeal Permit for TransAlta’s Centralia Coal Plant (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009960141_apwatransaltacentralia.html?syndication=rss
Fatal Marysville Crash Knocks Out Power (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_092809WAB-fatal-marysville-crash-SW.1c4c68348.html?rss?npc
Chelan PUD Expects another Tough Year (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/sep/29/chelan-pud-expects-another-tough-year/
Centralia Utilities Want Rental Customers to Pay Up (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
http://www.kelaam.com/pages/localnews?Centralia-Utilities-Want-Rental-Customer=1&blockID=77618&feedID=410
Benton PUD Takes Lead by Installing 'Smart Meters' (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/yahoonews/story/725595.html
India Launches Probe into Power Plant Accident That Killed 41 Workers (Power Engineering)
http://pepei.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=6&ARTICLE_ID=369498&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss
Southern California Edison Shuts San Onofre Reactor (Los Angeles Business)
http://losangeles.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2009/09/28/daily3.html?ana=from_rss
Feds Rule TVA Contractor Fired Browns Ferry Worker for Raising Concerns about Nuclear Safety (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&rss=1&id=119279
1,000 Jobs Lost At Uranium Enrichment Plant (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009959604_apusuraniumplant.html?syndication=rss
Germany Eyes Nuclear Revival (United Press International)
http://www.upi.com/Energy_Resources/2009/09/28/Germany-eyes-nuclear-revival/UPI-14571254168521/
Wholesale Power - Tri-State Sued By Five Nebraska Members Who Allege Overcharging (Denver Business Journal)
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2009/09/28/daily18.html?ana=from_rss
PECO: Storms Caused 67% of Power Outages during Summer Season (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&rss=1&id=119359
FISH & WILDLIFE
News Tribune Editorial - Fed’s Salmon Plan As Good As It Will Get
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/897329.html
Oregonian Op/Ed - Facing the Facts on the Future of Northwest Salmon
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/09/facing_the_facts_on_the_future.html
Eugene Register Guard Op/Ed - We Need to both Help Salmon & Produce Cleaner Energy
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/opinion/20641308-46/story.csp#ID:20641308
Idaho officials to pay hatchery spill fine (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/986613.html
Steelheading Opens Tuesday On Upper Columbia - Fish managers encourage anglers to harvest bountiful hatchery fish (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/28/steelheading-opens-tuesday-upper-columbia/
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Leaky Green River Dam Causes Flood Worries in Seattle Area (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009958881_apusleakydam.html?syndication=rss
California Water Interests Argue New State Dam Proposals (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/28/MNRO19SUMN.DTL&feed=rss.news
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Clatskanie Ethanol Plant Will Be Sold (Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/09/29//area_news/doc4ac0f85d2ac07513762126.txt
Alternate-Energy Scramble On Across West (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009958817_aputrushtoalternateenergy.html?syndication=rss
PacifiCorp Looks to Renewables for Future Power Needs in Idaho (Hydro World)
http://www.hydroworld.com/index/display/news_display/s-135792122.html
Solar Plan Ignites Some Environmental Concerns (Nat’l Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112860913&ft=1&f=2
Companies Race to Develop Utility-Scale Power Storage (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/09/28/28greenwire-companies-race-to-develop-utility-scale-power-25857.html
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Reminder: Amish Heater Is Still No Miracle (Consumerist – Note: some comments may include PG-13 language…)
http://consumerist.com/5369400/reminder-amish-heater-is-still-no-miracle
Avista Launches Video Contest to Show How Every Little Bit Adds Up (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&rss=1&id=119324
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Exelon Leaves U.S. Chamber over Climate Dispute (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/09/28/28greenwire-exelon-leaves-us-chamber-over-climate-dispute-74577.html
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Learn How to Go Green at Renewable Living Fair (Everett Herald, WA)
http://heraldnet.com/article/20090929/NEWS01/709299878
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Who Knew? Home-Rolled Fiber Lowers Cable Rates (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Who-Knew-HomeRolled-Fiber-Lowers-Cable-Rates-104703
Ex-Enron Broadband Exec Gets 16 Months in Prison (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009958648_apusenronbroadband.html?syndication=rss
Wireless Lobbyists Step Up Defensive against Net Neutrality (Washington Post)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2009/09/the_wireless_industry_has_been.html
Microsoft, Google Clash over E-Mail Dominance (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2009960755_lacityhall29.html
Metered Broadband Is the Future: Verizon CTO (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/09/29/metered-broadband-is-the-future-verizon-cto/
Social Networks, Blogs Grab Bigger Share of Web (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/09/28/daily11.html?ana=from_rss
GENERAL NEWS
Five Kids Hurt In Belfair Crash Weren't Wearing Seat Belts (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/theblotter/2009964042_five_children_injured_in_van_c.html?syndication=rss
Mason County to Terminate Port Lease for Fairgrounds (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=268:mason-county-to-terminate-port-lease-for-fairgrounds&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
Recession, Seasonal Slowdown Force Mason County’s Skokomish Casino to Fold (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/28/recession-seasonal-slowdown-force-mason-county/?partner=RSS
Feast on Fall Bounty at OysterFest - Shelton celebration puts shucking skills to the test (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/living/story/986424.html
1.2 Million Visitors to Puyallup Fair (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009964124_webfair29m.html?syndication=rss
Narrows League Welcomes Four - Conference increases with Thurston County additions (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/highschoolsports/story/986346.html
Suspected Wedding Crashers Arrested In Indiana Theft (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009964043_apusweddingcashstolen.html?syndication=rss
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
Long Island Doctor’s Swine-Flu Rap Unexpectedly Awesome
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/09/long_island_doctor_brings_the.html
Man Sues Bank of America for "1,784 Billion, Trillion Dollars" (heck, why not a gazillion?)
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE58O4SC20090925?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
Doctor Charged With Stealing Patient's Rolex
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-28-rolex_N.htm?csp=34
Four-Legged Colbert Wins Dog Photo Contest
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/09/28/colbert.dog.wins.contest/index.html?eref=ib_us
Phone Off? Hugh Jackman Stops Broadway Show for Ringing
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE58S02J20090929?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest
SONG OF THE DAY
Culture Club - Time (Clock of the Heart)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tI1_KlO6xI
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Groups Appeal Permit for TransAlta’s Centralia Coal Plant
• Fatal Marysville Crash Knocks Out Power
• Chelan PUD Expects another Tough Year
• Centralia Utilities Want Rental Customers to Pay Up
• Benton PUD Takes Lead by Installing 'Smart Meters'
• India Launches Probe into Power Plant Accident That Killed 41 Workers
• Southern California Edison Shuts San Onofre Reactor
• Feds Rule TVA Contractor Fired Browns Ferry Worker for Raising Concerns about Nuclear Safety
• 1,000 Jobs Lost At Uranium Enrichment Plant
• Germany Eyes Nuclear Revival
• Wholesale Power - Tri-State Sued By Five Nebraska Members Who Allege Overcharging
• PECO: Storms Caused 67% of Power Outages during Summer Season
• Editorial - Fed’s Salmon Plan As Good As It Will Get
• Op/Ed - Facing the Facts on the Future of Northwest Salmon
• Op/Ed - We Need to both Help Salmon & Produce Cleaner Energy
• Idaho officials to pay hatchery spill fine
• Steelheading Opens Tuesday On Upper Columbia
• Leaky Green River Dam Causes Flood Worries in Seattle Area
• California Water Interests Argue New State Dam Proposals
• Clatskanie Ethanol Plant Will Be Sold
• Alternate-Energy Scramble On Across West
• PacifiCorp Looks to Renewables for Future Power Needs in Idaho
• Solar Plan Ignites Some Environmental Concerns
• Companies Race to Develop Utility-Scale Power Storage
• Reminder: Amish Heater Is Still No Miracle
• Avista Launches Video Contest to Show How Every Little Bit Adds Up
• Exelon Leaves U.S. Chamber over Climate Dispute
• Learn How to Go Green at Renewable Living Fair
• Who Knew? Home-Rolled Fiber Lowers Cable Rates
• Ex-Enron Broadband Exec Gets 16 Months in Prison
• Wireless Lobbyists Step Up Defensive against Net Neutrality
• Microsoft, Google Clash over E-Mail Dominance
• Metered Broadband Is the Future: Verizon CTO
• Social Networks, Blogs Grab Bigger Share of Web
• Five Kids Hurt In Belfair Crash Weren't Wearing Seat Belts
• Mason County to Terminate Port Lease for Fairgrounds
• Recession, Seasonal Slowdown Force Mason County’s Skokomish Casino to Fold
• Feast on Fall Bounty at OysterFest
• 1.2 Million Visitors to Puyallup Fair
• Narrows League Welcomes Four
• Suspected Wedding Crashers Arrested In Indiana Theft
WORD OF THE DAY
Glaucous • \GLAW-kus\ • adjective - 1a: of a pale yellow-green color *b: of a light bluish-gray or bluish-white color 2: having a powdery or waxy coating that gives a frosted appearance and tends to rub off
It was almost like living inside “Plato’s Cave” thought Alexandra. The glaucos finish on the conference room windows almost allowed you to see what was going on inside the inner sanctum. The hazy view left her speculating about the activities in which the shadowy figures moving about were engaged.
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
Groups Appeal Permit for TransAlta’s Centralia Coal Plant (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009960141_apwatransaltacentralia.html?syndication=rss
Fatal Marysville Crash Knocks Out Power (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_092809WAB-fatal-marysville-crash-SW.1c4c68348.html?rss?npc
Chelan PUD Expects another Tough Year (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/sep/29/chelan-pud-expects-another-tough-year/
Centralia Utilities Want Rental Customers to Pay Up (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
http://www.kelaam.com/pages/localnews?Centralia-Utilities-Want-Rental-Customer=1&blockID=77618&feedID=410
Benton PUD Takes Lead by Installing 'Smart Meters' (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/yahoonews/story/725595.html
India Launches Probe into Power Plant Accident That Killed 41 Workers (Power Engineering)
http://pepei.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=6&ARTICLE_ID=369498&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss
Southern California Edison Shuts San Onofre Reactor (Los Angeles Business)
http://losangeles.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2009/09/28/daily3.html?ana=from_rss
Feds Rule TVA Contractor Fired Browns Ferry Worker for Raising Concerns about Nuclear Safety (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&rss=1&id=119279
1,000 Jobs Lost At Uranium Enrichment Plant (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009959604_apusuraniumplant.html?syndication=rss
Germany Eyes Nuclear Revival (United Press International)
http://www.upi.com/Energy_Resources/2009/09/28/Germany-eyes-nuclear-revival/UPI-14571254168521/
Wholesale Power - Tri-State Sued By Five Nebraska Members Who Allege Overcharging (Denver Business Journal)
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2009/09/28/daily18.html?ana=from_rss
PECO: Storms Caused 67% of Power Outages during Summer Season (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&rss=1&id=119359
FISH & WILDLIFE
News Tribune Editorial - Fed’s Salmon Plan As Good As It Will Get
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/897329.html
Oregonian Op/Ed - Facing the Facts on the Future of Northwest Salmon
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/09/facing_the_facts_on_the_future.html
Eugene Register Guard Op/Ed - We Need to both Help Salmon & Produce Cleaner Energy
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/opinion/20641308-46/story.csp#ID:20641308
Idaho officials to pay hatchery spill fine (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/986613.html
Steelheading Opens Tuesday On Upper Columbia - Fish managers encourage anglers to harvest bountiful hatchery fish (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/28/steelheading-opens-tuesday-upper-columbia/
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Leaky Green River Dam Causes Flood Worries in Seattle Area (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009958881_apusleakydam.html?syndication=rss
California Water Interests Argue New State Dam Proposals (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/28/MNRO19SUMN.DTL&feed=rss.news
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Clatskanie Ethanol Plant Will Be Sold (Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/09/29//area_news/doc4ac0f85d2ac07513762126.txt
Alternate-Energy Scramble On Across West (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009958817_aputrushtoalternateenergy.html?syndication=rss
PacifiCorp Looks to Renewables for Future Power Needs in Idaho (Hydro World)
http://www.hydroworld.com/index/display/news_display/s-135792122.html
Solar Plan Ignites Some Environmental Concerns (Nat’l Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112860913&ft=1&f=2
Companies Race to Develop Utility-Scale Power Storage (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/09/28/28greenwire-companies-race-to-develop-utility-scale-power-25857.html
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Reminder: Amish Heater Is Still No Miracle (Consumerist – Note: some comments may include PG-13 language…)
http://consumerist.com/5369400/reminder-amish-heater-is-still-no-miracle
Avista Launches Video Contest to Show How Every Little Bit Adds Up (Electric Energy Online)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&rss=1&id=119324
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Exelon Leaves U.S. Chamber over Climate Dispute (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/09/28/28greenwire-exelon-leaves-us-chamber-over-climate-dispute-74577.html
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Learn How to Go Green at Renewable Living Fair (Everett Herald, WA)
http://heraldnet.com/article/20090929/NEWS01/709299878
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Who Knew? Home-Rolled Fiber Lowers Cable Rates (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Who-Knew-HomeRolled-Fiber-Lowers-Cable-Rates-104703
Ex-Enron Broadband Exec Gets 16 Months in Prison (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009958648_apusenronbroadband.html?syndication=rss
Wireless Lobbyists Step Up Defensive against Net Neutrality (Washington Post)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2009/09/the_wireless_industry_has_been.html
Microsoft, Google Clash over E-Mail Dominance (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2009960755_lacityhall29.html
Metered Broadband Is the Future: Verizon CTO (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/09/29/metered-broadband-is-the-future-verizon-cto/
Social Networks, Blogs Grab Bigger Share of Web (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/09/28/daily11.html?ana=from_rss
GENERAL NEWS
Five Kids Hurt In Belfair Crash Weren't Wearing Seat Belts (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/theblotter/2009964042_five_children_injured_in_van_c.html?syndication=rss
Mason County to Terminate Port Lease for Fairgrounds (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=268:mason-county-to-terminate-port-lease-for-fairgrounds&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
Recession, Seasonal Slowdown Force Mason County’s Skokomish Casino to Fold (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/28/recession-seasonal-slowdown-force-mason-county/?partner=RSS
Feast on Fall Bounty at OysterFest - Shelton celebration puts shucking skills to the test (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/living/story/986424.html
1.2 Million Visitors to Puyallup Fair (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009964124_webfair29m.html?syndication=rss
Narrows League Welcomes Four - Conference increases with Thurston County additions (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/highschoolsports/story/986346.html
Suspected Wedding Crashers Arrested In Indiana Theft (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009964043_apusweddingcashstolen.html?syndication=rss
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
Long Island Doctor’s Swine-Flu Rap Unexpectedly Awesome
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/09/long_island_doctor_brings_the.html
Man Sues Bank of America for "1,784 Billion, Trillion Dollars" (heck, why not a gazillion?)
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE58O4SC20090925?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
Doctor Charged With Stealing Patient's Rolex
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-28-rolex_N.htm?csp=34
Four-Legged Colbert Wins Dog Photo Contest
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/09/28/colbert.dog.wins.contest/index.html?eref=ib_us
Phone Off? Hugh Jackman Stops Broadway Show for Ringing
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE58S02J20090929?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest
SONG OF THE DAY
Culture Club - Time (Clock of the Heart)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tI1_KlO6xI
Monday, September 28, 2009
Energy News Digest for September 28, 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)
• Power Deal Deadline Looms for Ferndale-Area Smelter
• Op/Ed - Tom Karier: Energy Saving Begins with Us
• Op/Ed - The New Northwest Power Plan Is Good Start, But Needs to Attack Coal Plants
• Avista Holding Public Hearings On Rate Increase
• Cowlitz PUD Moving Along on Automated Meter Installations
• Fitch Affirms Tacoma Power at 'A+'; Outlook Stable
• Mylar Balloons Caused West Bremerton Power Outage
• Idaho - A Power Plant in Keizer?
• Heating Oil Prices Cool Down As Winter Approaches
• E.P.A. Ordered to Reconsider New Mexico Tribe’s Coal Power Plant Permit
• Editorial - Bill Grant: Nuclear Power Revisited
• Delaware - Decouple: Success of Programs in California Is Cited
• Want Cheaper Electricity? Maryland Co-Op Seeks More Customers
• Florida - Glades Electric Cooperative Slashes Power Bills
• Texas - Retail Electricity Providers Often Offer Lower Rates, Survey Finds
• Virginia - Suffolk Couple Struggles to Get Electricity in Dream House
• Redden Wants BiOp Challengers' Views on Obama Adaptive Management Plan
• Editorial - Salmon Strategy Reflects Cautious Federal Efforts
• Columnist - Long History of 'Fish Fights' Likely Won't End Anytime Soon
• Big Upper Columbia Steelhead Return Prompts Expanded Hatchery Fishery
• Klamath Dam Removal Settlement Expected This Week
• Killer Whales Love to Dine on Puget Sound’s Chinook Salmon
• Bird Die-Off Slows At Idaho Reservoir
• Canada - Sea Lions at Victoria's Race Rocks Injured by Debris, Boats
• Washington State Indian Tribes: Hunters without Borders
• Op/Ed - Gregoire on Target with River Management
• Water Rights Dust-Up - Man, 93, says he was pushed
• Shipping Trash from Hawaii to Mainland to Begin
• Tour Shines On Local Solar Efforts
• Op/Ed - U.S. Must Take Lead in Renewable Energy
• China's Wind Farms Come With a Catch: Coal Plants
• Slowing Wind Farm Blades Reduces Bat Deaths
• Massachusetts - Wind Turbines Will Hit the Highway
• Floating Turbines Open Wind Potential
• Solar Power, Without All Those Panels
• Minnesota - Wood Heat, a '70s Idea, Catches Fire Again
• Report Touts Minnesota's Energy Policy as Model for Nation
• Better Building Energy Codes: It's Not Rocket Science
• LED Technology - Micron to Develop Efficient Lighting Products
• Ben & Jerry's, GE Work on Greener Freezers for US
• US Says Climate Bill Might Not Pass in Time
• Costly Carbon Cuts - Proposed Strategies Would Hurt the Most Vulnerable
• Another Utility Leaves U.S. Chamber over Climate Policy
• California - Top State Emitters of Greenhouse Gases Face Fees
• Op/Ed - On Energy, We’re Finally Walking the Walk
• Op/Ed - Health-Care Debate Too Mild For You? Wait For Climate-Change Politics
• California's 'Green' Ink-Cartridge Recycling Fails To Cut Pollution, Or Costs
• Wyoming Glass Pile Shows Recycling Challenge
• Tulalips’ Broadband Investment Cuts Costs
• Editorial - The FCC's Heavy Hand
• Huge Australian Broadband Project Begins
• 'Broadband for America': Same Lobbying Crap. New Name
• Fall Weather on the Way
• Boeing to test military airplane over Hood Canal
• Mason County United Way Campaign Under Way
• Nickels Wants To Cut 300 Jobs, Use Rainy Day Fund
• Driven to Distraction - Truckers Insist on Keeping Computers in the Cab
• Plutonium Shortage Could Stall Space Exploration
WORD OF THE DAY
Deke • \DEEK\ • verb - To fake (an opponent) out of position (as in ice hockey)
Barnard thought it was always a figure of speech. That is, until he stepped onto the court to play one-on-one with the star point guard from the local community college. It was halfway down court, Bernie thought he was doing a passable job guarding the 5’ 2” phenom, when his opponent deked left and blew by him on the right for an easy layup. A definite draft to the nether regions was the clue…as Bernie looked back to the timeline and saw his athletic supporter laying on the court.
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
Power Deal Deadline Looms for Ferndale-Area Smelter (Bellingham Herald, WA)
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/latestheadlines/story/1086654.html
Spokesman Review Op/Ed - Tom Karier: Energy Saving Begins with Us
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/27/energy-saving-begins-with-us/
Seattle Times Op/Ed - The New Northwest Power Plan Is Good Start, But Needs to Attack Coal Plants
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009944636_guest28beres.html
Avista Holding Public Hearings On Rate Increase - Utility, state commission won’t have details on proposals (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/25/avista-holding-public-hearings-rate-increase/
Cowlitz PUD Moving Along on Automated Meter Installations (Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/09/28/area_news/doc4abfb676b6411619523208.txt
Fitch Affirms Tacoma Power at 'A+'; Outlook Stable (Yahoo! Finance)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Fitch-Affirms-Tacoma-Power-at-bw-3996793788.html?x=0&.v=1
Mylar Balloons Caused West Bremerton Power Outage (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/25/power-out-much-west-bremerton/?partner=RSS
Idaho - A Power Plant in Keizer? (Keizer Times, ID)
http://www.keizertimes.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=11791
Heating Oil Prices Cool Down As Winter Approaches (Associated Press)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/896229.html
E.P.A. Ordered to Reconsider New Mexico Tribe’s Coal Power Plant Permit (Associated Press)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/science/earth/27plant.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Star Tribune Editorial - Bill Grant: Nuclear Power Revisited. The elephant in the room: there's still nowhere to put that toxic waste
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/61519562.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsZ
Delaware - Decouple: Success of Programs in California Is Cited (News Journal, Wilmington, DE)
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090928/BUSINESS/909280308/1003/business
Want Cheaper Electricity? Maryland Co-Op Seeks More Customers (Baltimore Business Journal)
http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/09/28/story7.html?ana=from_rss
Florida - Glades Electric Cooperative Slashes Power Bills (Tampa Tribune, FL)
http://www2.highlandstoday.com/content/2009/sep/27/lc-glades-electric-cooperative-slashes-power-bills/
Texas - Retail Electricity Providers Often Offer Lower Rates, Survey Finds (IstockAnalyst)
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/3509009
Virginia - Suffolk Couple Struggles to Get Electricity in Dream House (Virginia Pilot, Hampton Roads, VA)
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/09/couple-struggles-get-electricity-their-dream-house
FISH & WILDLIFE
Redden Wants BiOp Challengers' Views on Obama Adaptive Management Plan by Oct. 2 (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
http://www.cbbulletin.com/357628.aspx
East Oregonian Editorial - Salmon Strategy Reflects Cautious Federal Efforts
http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=14&SubSectionID=50&ArticleID=98292
Daily News Columnist - Long History of 'Fish Fights' Likely Won't End Anytime Soon
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/09/27/focus/doc4abeae0e45881859342749.txt
Big Upper Columbia Steelhead Return Prompts Expanded Hatchery Fishery to Protect Wild Fish (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
http://www.cbbulletin.com/357626.aspx
Klamath Dam Removal Settlement Expected This Week (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5906-klamath-dam-removal-settlement-expected-week/
Killer Whales Love to Dine on Puget Sound’s Chinook Salmon - which could further endanger their future (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/post_7.html
Bird Die-Off Slows At Idaho Reservoir (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/985749.html
Canada - Sea Lions at Victoria's Race Rocks Injured by Debris, Boats (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/lions+Victoria+Race+Rocks+injured+debris+boats/2037349/story.html
Washington State Indian Tribes: Hunters without Borders (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090927/NEWS01/709279880/-1/RSS02
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Othello Outlook Op/Ed - Gregoire on Target with River Management
http://othellooutlook.com/?p=4975
Water Rights Dust-Up - Man, 93, says he was pushed, breaking his hip in water rights confrontation (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/26/water-rights-dust-up/
Shipping Trash from Hawaii to Mainland to Begin (Associated Press)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=11200911
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Tour Shines On Local Solar Efforts - Learn about energy-savvy devices at annual showcase (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/partners/theolympian/story/896030.html
SF Chronicle Op/Ed - U.S. Must Take Lead in Renewable Energy
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/26/INQH19QRKL.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
China's Wind Farms Come With a Catch: Coal Plants (Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125409730711245037.html
Slowing Wind Farm Blades Reduces Bat Deaths (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/09/25/calgary-bat-deaths-alberta-wind-farms.html
Massachusetts - Wind Turbines Will Hit the Highway (Berkshire Eagle, MA)
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_13424444
Floating Turbines Open Wind Potential (Cape Cod Times, MA)
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090927/NEWS/909279988
Solar Power, Without All Those Panels (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/business/27novel.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Minnesota - Wood Heat, a '70s Idea, Catches Fire Again (Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN)
http://www.startribune.com/business/61529702.html?elr=KArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr
Report Touts Minnesota's Energy Policy as Model for Nation (St. Cloud Times, MN)
http://www.sctimes.com/article/20090927/NEWS01/109270015/1009/Report-touts-Minnesota-s-energy-policy-as-model-for-nation
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Better Building Energy Codes: It's Not Rocket Science (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/mnGreenBuildings/idUS169294379920090925
LED Technology - Micron to Develop Efficient Lighting Products (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/983723.html
Ben & Jerry's, GE Work on Greener Freezers for US (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ggMd2JSCQGlMS7UOtKLXBXn7trBwD9AVOQPG3
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
US Says Climate Bill Might Not Pass in Time (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i7hP2g0kyiepKq9-cVavDQwIQpAAD9AVQA0O0
Costly Carbon Cuts - Proposed Strategies Would Hurt the Most Vulnerable (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/27/AR2009092701444.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
Another Utility Leaves U.S. Chamber over Climate Policy (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/09/25/25greenwire-another-utility-leaves-us-chamber-over-climate-2910.html
California - Top State Emitters of Greenhouse Gases Face Fees (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/25/MN6O19SPHD.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
News Tribune Op/Ed - On Energy, We’re Finally Walking the Walk
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/othervoices/story/895111.html
Seattle Times Op/Ed - Health-Care Debate Too Mild For You? Wait For Climate-Change Politics
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009944391_krugman261.html
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
California's 'Green' Ink-Cartridge Recycling Fails To Cut Pollution, Or Costs (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2212196.html
Wyoming Glass Pile Shows Recycling Challenge (Associated Press)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/28/glass-pile-shows-recycling-challenge/
TELECOMMUNICATIONS & TECHNOLOGY
Tulalips’ Broadband Investment Cuts Costs - The Internet exchange could serve rural areas if the tribe gets stimulus funding (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090928/BIZ/709289958/-1/RSS03
Washington Post Editorial - The FCC's Heavy Hand: Federal regulators should not be telling Internet service providers how to run their businesses
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/27/AR2009092703026.html?nav=rss_opinions
Huge Australian Broadband Project Begins (Tech.Blorge)
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/09/27/huge-australian-broadband-project-begins/
'Broadband for America': Same Lobbying Crap. New Name - Meet the cable & phone industry’s latest Astroturf attempt (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Broadband-For-America-Same-Lobbying-Crap-New-Name-104658
GENERAL NEWS
Fall Weather on the Way (KIRO Radio, Seattle)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=218128
Boeing to test military airplane over Hood Canal (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/62210637.html
Mason County United Way Campaign Under Way (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=248:united-way-campaign-under-way&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
Nickels Wants To Cut 300 Jobs, Use Rainy Day Fund (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/410532_budget25.html?source=rss
Driven to Distraction - Truckers Insist on Keeping Computers in the Cab (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/technology/28truckers.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Plutonium Shortage Could Stall Space Exploration (Nat’l Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113223613&ft=1&f=3
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
Lucy of 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' fame dies
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2009958104_apeubritainbeatleslucy.html?syndication=rss
Ten Ways to Enjoy Doing Nothing (see number five)
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/09/21/rs.10ways.enjoy.doing.nothing/index.html
Monkey See, Monkey Sue? Firm's Name Spawns Lawsuit
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/25/financial/f085924D68.DTL&feed=rss.business
Employee Injured in Robbery Attempt Loses Job
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6080324/
SONG OF THE DAY
The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7F2X3rSSCU
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• Power Deal Deadline Looms for Ferndale-Area Smelter
• Op/Ed - Tom Karier: Energy Saving Begins with Us
• Op/Ed - The New Northwest Power Plan Is Good Start, But Needs to Attack Coal Plants
• Avista Holding Public Hearings On Rate Increase
• Cowlitz PUD Moving Along on Automated Meter Installations
• Fitch Affirms Tacoma Power at 'A+'; Outlook Stable
• Mylar Balloons Caused West Bremerton Power Outage
• Idaho - A Power Plant in Keizer?
• Heating Oil Prices Cool Down As Winter Approaches
• E.P.A. Ordered to Reconsider New Mexico Tribe’s Coal Power Plant Permit
• Editorial - Bill Grant: Nuclear Power Revisited
• Delaware - Decouple: Success of Programs in California Is Cited
• Want Cheaper Electricity? Maryland Co-Op Seeks More Customers
• Florida - Glades Electric Cooperative Slashes Power Bills
• Texas - Retail Electricity Providers Often Offer Lower Rates, Survey Finds
• Virginia - Suffolk Couple Struggles to Get Electricity in Dream House
• Redden Wants BiOp Challengers' Views on Obama Adaptive Management Plan
• Editorial - Salmon Strategy Reflects Cautious Federal Efforts
• Columnist - Long History of 'Fish Fights' Likely Won't End Anytime Soon
• Big Upper Columbia Steelhead Return Prompts Expanded Hatchery Fishery
• Klamath Dam Removal Settlement Expected This Week
• Killer Whales Love to Dine on Puget Sound’s Chinook Salmon
• Bird Die-Off Slows At Idaho Reservoir
• Canada - Sea Lions at Victoria's Race Rocks Injured by Debris, Boats
• Washington State Indian Tribes: Hunters without Borders
• Op/Ed - Gregoire on Target with River Management
• Water Rights Dust-Up - Man, 93, says he was pushed
• Shipping Trash from Hawaii to Mainland to Begin
• Tour Shines On Local Solar Efforts
• Op/Ed - U.S. Must Take Lead in Renewable Energy
• China's Wind Farms Come With a Catch: Coal Plants
• Slowing Wind Farm Blades Reduces Bat Deaths
• Massachusetts - Wind Turbines Will Hit the Highway
• Floating Turbines Open Wind Potential
• Solar Power, Without All Those Panels
• Minnesota - Wood Heat, a '70s Idea, Catches Fire Again
• Report Touts Minnesota's Energy Policy as Model for Nation
• Better Building Energy Codes: It's Not Rocket Science
• LED Technology - Micron to Develop Efficient Lighting Products
• Ben & Jerry's, GE Work on Greener Freezers for US
• US Says Climate Bill Might Not Pass in Time
• Costly Carbon Cuts - Proposed Strategies Would Hurt the Most Vulnerable
• Another Utility Leaves U.S. Chamber over Climate Policy
• California - Top State Emitters of Greenhouse Gases Face Fees
• Op/Ed - On Energy, We’re Finally Walking the Walk
• Op/Ed - Health-Care Debate Too Mild For You? Wait For Climate-Change Politics
• California's 'Green' Ink-Cartridge Recycling Fails To Cut Pollution, Or Costs
• Wyoming Glass Pile Shows Recycling Challenge
• Tulalips’ Broadband Investment Cuts Costs
• Editorial - The FCC's Heavy Hand
• Huge Australian Broadband Project Begins
• 'Broadband for America': Same Lobbying Crap. New Name
• Fall Weather on the Way
• Boeing to test military airplane over Hood Canal
• Mason County United Way Campaign Under Way
• Nickels Wants To Cut 300 Jobs, Use Rainy Day Fund
• Driven to Distraction - Truckers Insist on Keeping Computers in the Cab
• Plutonium Shortage Could Stall Space Exploration
WORD OF THE DAY
Deke • \DEEK\ • verb - To fake (an opponent) out of position (as in ice hockey)
Barnard thought it was always a figure of speech. That is, until he stepped onto the court to play one-on-one with the star point guard from the local community college. It was halfway down court, Bernie thought he was doing a passable job guarding the 5’ 2” phenom, when his opponent deked left and blew by him on the right for an easy layup. A definite draft to the nether regions was the clue…as Bernie looked back to the timeline and saw his athletic supporter laying on the court.
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
Power Deal Deadline Looms for Ferndale-Area Smelter (Bellingham Herald, WA)
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/latestheadlines/story/1086654.html
Spokesman Review Op/Ed - Tom Karier: Energy Saving Begins with Us
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/27/energy-saving-begins-with-us/
Seattle Times Op/Ed - The New Northwest Power Plan Is Good Start, But Needs to Attack Coal Plants
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009944636_guest28beres.html
Avista Holding Public Hearings On Rate Increase - Utility, state commission won’t have details on proposals (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/25/avista-holding-public-hearings-rate-increase/
Cowlitz PUD Moving Along on Automated Meter Installations (Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/09/28/area_news/doc4abfb676b6411619523208.txt
Fitch Affirms Tacoma Power at 'A+'; Outlook Stable (Yahoo! Finance)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Fitch-Affirms-Tacoma-Power-at-bw-3996793788.html?x=0&.v=1
Mylar Balloons Caused West Bremerton Power Outage (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/25/power-out-much-west-bremerton/?partner=RSS
Idaho - A Power Plant in Keizer? (Keizer Times, ID)
http://www.keizertimes.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=11791
Heating Oil Prices Cool Down As Winter Approaches (Associated Press)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/896229.html
E.P.A. Ordered to Reconsider New Mexico Tribe’s Coal Power Plant Permit (Associated Press)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/science/earth/27plant.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Star Tribune Editorial - Bill Grant: Nuclear Power Revisited. The elephant in the room: there's still nowhere to put that toxic waste
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/61519562.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsZ
Delaware - Decouple: Success of Programs in California Is Cited (News Journal, Wilmington, DE)
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090928/BUSINESS/909280308/1003/business
Want Cheaper Electricity? Maryland Co-Op Seeks More Customers (Baltimore Business Journal)
http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/09/28/story7.html?ana=from_rss
Florida - Glades Electric Cooperative Slashes Power Bills (Tampa Tribune, FL)
http://www2.highlandstoday.com/content/2009/sep/27/lc-glades-electric-cooperative-slashes-power-bills/
Texas - Retail Electricity Providers Often Offer Lower Rates, Survey Finds (IstockAnalyst)
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/3509009
Virginia - Suffolk Couple Struggles to Get Electricity in Dream House (Virginia Pilot, Hampton Roads, VA)
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/09/couple-struggles-get-electricity-their-dream-house
FISH & WILDLIFE
Redden Wants BiOp Challengers' Views on Obama Adaptive Management Plan by Oct. 2 (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
http://www.cbbulletin.com/357628.aspx
East Oregonian Editorial - Salmon Strategy Reflects Cautious Federal Efforts
http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=14&SubSectionID=50&ArticleID=98292
Daily News Columnist - Long History of 'Fish Fights' Likely Won't End Anytime Soon
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/09/27/focus/doc4abeae0e45881859342749.txt
Big Upper Columbia Steelhead Return Prompts Expanded Hatchery Fishery to Protect Wild Fish (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
http://www.cbbulletin.com/357626.aspx
Klamath Dam Removal Settlement Expected This Week (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5906-klamath-dam-removal-settlement-expected-week/
Killer Whales Love to Dine on Puget Sound’s Chinook Salmon - which could further endanger their future (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/post_7.html
Bird Die-Off Slows At Idaho Reservoir (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/985749.html
Canada - Sea Lions at Victoria's Race Rocks Injured by Debris, Boats (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/lions+Victoria+Race+Rocks+injured+debris+boats/2037349/story.html
Washington State Indian Tribes: Hunters without Borders (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090927/NEWS01/709279880/-1/RSS02
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Othello Outlook Op/Ed - Gregoire on Target with River Management
http://othellooutlook.com/?p=4975
Water Rights Dust-Up - Man, 93, says he was pushed, breaking his hip in water rights confrontation (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/26/water-rights-dust-up/
Shipping Trash from Hawaii to Mainland to Begin (Associated Press)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=11200911
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Tour Shines On Local Solar Efforts - Learn about energy-savvy devices at annual showcase (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/partners/theolympian/story/896030.html
SF Chronicle Op/Ed - U.S. Must Take Lead in Renewable Energy
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/26/INQH19QRKL.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
China's Wind Farms Come With a Catch: Coal Plants (Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125409730711245037.html
Slowing Wind Farm Blades Reduces Bat Deaths (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/09/25/calgary-bat-deaths-alberta-wind-farms.html
Massachusetts - Wind Turbines Will Hit the Highway (Berkshire Eagle, MA)
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_13424444
Floating Turbines Open Wind Potential (Cape Cod Times, MA)
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090927/NEWS/909279988
Solar Power, Without All Those Panels (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/business/27novel.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Minnesota - Wood Heat, a '70s Idea, Catches Fire Again (Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN)
http://www.startribune.com/business/61529702.html?elr=KArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr
Report Touts Minnesota's Energy Policy as Model for Nation (St. Cloud Times, MN)
http://www.sctimes.com/article/20090927/NEWS01/109270015/1009/Report-touts-Minnesota-s-energy-policy-as-model-for-nation
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Better Building Energy Codes: It's Not Rocket Science (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/mnGreenBuildings/idUS169294379920090925
LED Technology - Micron to Develop Efficient Lighting Products (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/983723.html
Ben & Jerry's, GE Work on Greener Freezers for US (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ggMd2JSCQGlMS7UOtKLXBXn7trBwD9AVOQPG3
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
US Says Climate Bill Might Not Pass in Time (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i7hP2g0kyiepKq9-cVavDQwIQpAAD9AVQA0O0
Costly Carbon Cuts - Proposed Strategies Would Hurt the Most Vulnerable (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/27/AR2009092701444.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
Another Utility Leaves U.S. Chamber over Climate Policy (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/09/25/25greenwire-another-utility-leaves-us-chamber-over-climate-2910.html
California - Top State Emitters of Greenhouse Gases Face Fees (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/25/MN6O19SPHD.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
News Tribune Op/Ed - On Energy, We’re Finally Walking the Walk
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/othervoices/story/895111.html
Seattle Times Op/Ed - Health-Care Debate Too Mild For You? Wait For Climate-Change Politics
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009944391_krugman261.html
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
California's 'Green' Ink-Cartridge Recycling Fails To Cut Pollution, Or Costs (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2212196.html
Wyoming Glass Pile Shows Recycling Challenge (Associated Press)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/28/glass-pile-shows-recycling-challenge/
TELECOMMUNICATIONS & TECHNOLOGY
Tulalips’ Broadband Investment Cuts Costs - The Internet exchange could serve rural areas if the tribe gets stimulus funding (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090928/BIZ/709289958/-1/RSS03
Washington Post Editorial - The FCC's Heavy Hand: Federal regulators should not be telling Internet service providers how to run their businesses
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/27/AR2009092703026.html?nav=rss_opinions
Huge Australian Broadband Project Begins (Tech.Blorge)
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/09/27/huge-australian-broadband-project-begins/
'Broadband for America': Same Lobbying Crap. New Name - Meet the cable & phone industry’s latest Astroturf attempt (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Broadband-For-America-Same-Lobbying-Crap-New-Name-104658
GENERAL NEWS
Fall Weather on the Way (KIRO Radio, Seattle)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=218128
Boeing to test military airplane over Hood Canal (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/62210637.html
Mason County United Way Campaign Under Way (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=248:united-way-campaign-under-way&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
Nickels Wants To Cut 300 Jobs, Use Rainy Day Fund (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/410532_budget25.html?source=rss
Driven to Distraction - Truckers Insist on Keeping Computers in the Cab (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/technology/28truckers.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Plutonium Shortage Could Stall Space Exploration (Nat’l Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113223613&ft=1&f=3
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
Lucy of 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' fame dies
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2009958104_apeubritainbeatleslucy.html?syndication=rss
Ten Ways to Enjoy Doing Nothing (see number five)
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/09/21/rs.10ways.enjoy.doing.nothing/index.html
Monkey See, Monkey Sue? Firm's Name Spawns Lawsuit
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/25/financial/f085924D68.DTL&feed=rss.business
Employee Injured in Robbery Attempt Loses Job
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6080324/
SONG OF THE DAY
The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7F2X3rSSCU
Friday, September 25, 2009
Energy News Digest for September 25, 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)
• PSE Natural-Gas Rates Will Fall; Power Rates Will Increase
• Northwest Power and Conservation Council to Hold Sept. 30 Hearing
• Fall Chinook Count Huge At Bonneville
• Salmon Litigants Promise Responses to Obama Plan
• Op/Ed - Wide Support for Dam Removal
• See Survey That Shows Exactly The Opposite
• Shrunken West Coast Fishing Fleet to Shrink Further
• Op/Ed - Why Feinstein Seeks Review of San Joaquin River Delta Findings
• State of Oregon Sends Fish Passage Money to Clean Up Road Runoff
• Lewis County Eagle Nest Removal Would Be a First
• School Drinking Water Contains Toxins
• Chelan PUD, State Give Solar Energy a Boost
• Avista Calls for Additional Renewable Energy
• Clean-Energy Jobs Touch off Bidding Wars between States
• Recession Causes Drop In U.S. Wind Installations
• Self-Interest - Global Wind Leaders Push Climate Legislation
• $3.1 Billion - California Sets Biggest Energy Efficiency Plan
• New Groups Revive the Debate over Causes of Climate Change
• California Clean-Air Program Designed To Boost Forests
• Carbon Disclosure Project: Con Edison Ranks Again as a Top Performer
• Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper
• How Much Broadband Do We Need?
• FCC To Examine Wireless Broadband Demands
• Worker Killed At Olympia Area Cider Mill
• Smoke from Two Oregon Wildfires Reaches Into Canada
• North Mason Chamber Members Reject Proposal to Add 'Kitsap' Label
• Forbes ranks Washington State No. 2 for Business
WORD OF THE DAY
Epigone • \EPP-ih-gōne \ • noun – Follower, disciple; also: an inferior imitator
Mariana was determined to exceed the glory of the previous mail delivery person in the office. Unfortunately, her inability to organize the mail by name and location doomed her forever as a pale epigone of her predecessors.
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
PSE Natural-Gas Rates Will Fall; Power Rates Will Increase (Olympian, WA – decreased BPA subsidy)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/981803.html
Northwest Power and Conservation Council to Hold Sept. 30 Hearing (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/energy/archives/180240.asp?source=rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Fall Chinook Count Huge At Bonneville (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090924/SPORTS04/709249926/Allen+Thomas+column++Fall+chinook+count+huge+at+Bonneville
Salmon Litigants Promise Responses to Obama Plan (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5894-salmon-litigants-promise-responses-obama-plan/
Spokesman Review Op/Ed - Wide Support for Dam Removal
http://www.spokesman.com/letters/2009/sep/25/many-oppose-latest-columbia-snake-salmon-plan/
See Survey That Shows Exactly The Opposite (NW River Partners: Links to 7.6 MB PDF File - Only 6% cited removing dams as a factor to help salmon; 71% agree that removing the lower Snake River dams would be an extreme solution.)
http://www.nwriverpartners.org/images/pdfs/pollresultssummary4-09.pdf
Shrunken West Coast Fishing Fleet to Shrink Further (KUOW Radio, Seattle)
http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=18473
SF Chronicle Op/Ed - Why Feinstein Seeks Review of San Joaquin River Delta Findings
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/25/EDK619SBTF.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
State of Oregon Sends Fish Passage Money to Clean Up Road Runoff (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5895-odot-sends-fish-passage-money-clean-road-runoff/
Lewis County Eagle Nest Removal Would Be a First - Chehalis Aerie Would Be First in State to Be Taken Down Since Bird Was Removed From Endangered Species List (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/09/25/news//doc4abbb6b5b98d8585354053.txt
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
School Drinking Water Contains Toxins (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009942499_apustoxicwaterschools.html?syndication=rss
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Chelan PUD, State Give Solar Energy a Boost (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/sep/24/pud-state-give-solar-energy-a-boost/
Avista Calls for Additional Renewable Energy (PR NewsWire)
http://sev.prnewswire.com/oil-energy/20090924/SF8151924092009-1.html
Clean-Energy Jobs Touch off Bidding Wars between States (USA Today – is there just one winner in this, or do we all get “participation trophies?”)
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/environment/2009-09-24-energy-jobs-incentives-states_N.htm
Recession Causes Drop In U.S. Wind Installations
http://pepei.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=6&ARTICLE_ID=369414&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss
Self-Interest - Global Wind Leaders Push Climate Legislation (Associated Press)
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/global-wind-leaders-push-climate-legislation-1.1473828
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
$3.1 Billion - California Sets Biggest Energy Efficiency Plan (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58N70520090924
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
New Groups Revive the Debate over Causes of Climate Change (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092404797.html?hpid=sec-business
Carbon Sequestration: California Clean-Air Program Designed To Boost Forests (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2235238~Calif__clean_air_program_designed_to_boost_forests.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
Carbon Disclosure Project: Con Edison Ranks Again as a Top Performer (Electric Energy Online – Ahem, see Public Utilities, Pacific Northwest…)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&rss=1&id=119072
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper - Soft Toilet Paper's Hard on the Earth, But Will We Sit for the Alternative? (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/23/AR2009092304711.html?wprss=rss_business
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
How Much Broadband Do We Need? (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/09/24/how-much-broadband-do-we-need/
FCC To Examine Wireless Broadband Demands (Washington Post)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2009/09/fcc_asks_if_enough_spectrum_fo.html
GENERAL NEWS
Worker Killed At Olympia Area Cider Mill - Police say man shot ex-girlfriend, self (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/982247.html
Smoke from Two Oregon Wildfires Reaches Into Canada (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5883-smoke-two-oregon-wildfires-reaches-canada/
39-30 Vote - North Mason Chamber Members Reject Proposal to Add 'Kitsap' Label (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/24/north-mason-chamber-members-reject-kitsap-label/?partner=RSS
Forbes ranks Washington State No. 2 for Business (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090925/BIZ01/709259967/-1/BIZ
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
At 19 Pounds - Giant Baby Draws Spectators to Indonesian Hospital
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009938511_apasindonesiagiantbaby.html?syndication=rss
Pomeranians and Put Bulls, Oh My! Judge Orders Pomeranian to Leave Town
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009937980_apusoddpomeranianbanned.html?syndication=rss
Bob Dylan to Release Christmas Album for Charity
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009936445_apunmusicbobdylan.html?syndication=rss
It's A Mystery: Whose $100 Bills Rained On Sunnyvale Recycling Workers?
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13419175
Pilot Allegedly Buzzed Ex-Girlfriend's House
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/24/BABN19S3AT.DTL&feed=rss.news
SONG OF THE DAY
Eric Burdon and the Animals - Sky Pilot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gL3HTlfW0A
To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
• PSE Natural-Gas Rates Will Fall; Power Rates Will Increase
• Northwest Power and Conservation Council to Hold Sept. 30 Hearing
• Fall Chinook Count Huge At Bonneville
• Salmon Litigants Promise Responses to Obama Plan
• Op/Ed - Wide Support for Dam Removal
• See Survey That Shows Exactly The Opposite
• Shrunken West Coast Fishing Fleet to Shrink Further
• Op/Ed - Why Feinstein Seeks Review of San Joaquin River Delta Findings
• State of Oregon Sends Fish Passage Money to Clean Up Road Runoff
• Lewis County Eagle Nest Removal Would Be a First
• School Drinking Water Contains Toxins
• Chelan PUD, State Give Solar Energy a Boost
• Avista Calls for Additional Renewable Energy
• Clean-Energy Jobs Touch off Bidding Wars between States
• Recession Causes Drop In U.S. Wind Installations
• Self-Interest - Global Wind Leaders Push Climate Legislation
• $3.1 Billion - California Sets Biggest Energy Efficiency Plan
• New Groups Revive the Debate over Causes of Climate Change
• California Clean-Air Program Designed To Boost Forests
• Carbon Disclosure Project: Con Edison Ranks Again as a Top Performer
• Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper
• How Much Broadband Do We Need?
• FCC To Examine Wireless Broadband Demands
• Worker Killed At Olympia Area Cider Mill
• Smoke from Two Oregon Wildfires Reaches Into Canada
• North Mason Chamber Members Reject Proposal to Add 'Kitsap' Label
• Forbes ranks Washington State No. 2 for Business
WORD OF THE DAY
Epigone • \EPP-ih-gōne \ • noun – Follower, disciple; also: an inferior imitator
Mariana was determined to exceed the glory of the previous mail delivery person in the office. Unfortunately, her inability to organize the mail by name and location doomed her forever as a pale epigone of her predecessors.
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
PSE Natural-Gas Rates Will Fall; Power Rates Will Increase (Olympian, WA – decreased BPA subsidy)
http://www.theolympian.com/breakingnews/story/981803.html
Northwest Power and Conservation Council to Hold Sept. 30 Hearing (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/energy/archives/180240.asp?source=rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
Fall Chinook Count Huge At Bonneville (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090924/SPORTS04/709249926/Allen+Thomas+column++Fall+chinook+count+huge+at+Bonneville
Salmon Litigants Promise Responses to Obama Plan (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5894-salmon-litigants-promise-responses-obama-plan/
Spokesman Review Op/Ed - Wide Support for Dam Removal
http://www.spokesman.com/letters/2009/sep/25/many-oppose-latest-columbia-snake-salmon-plan/
See Survey That Shows Exactly The Opposite (NW River Partners: Links to 7.6 MB PDF File - Only 6% cited removing dams as a factor to help salmon; 71% agree that removing the lower Snake River dams would be an extreme solution.)
http://www.nwriverpartners.org/images/pdfs/pollresultssummary4-09.pdf
Shrunken West Coast Fishing Fleet to Shrink Further (KUOW Radio, Seattle)
http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=18473
SF Chronicle Op/Ed - Why Feinstein Seeks Review of San Joaquin River Delta Findings
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/25/EDK619SBTF.DTL&feed=rss.opinion
State of Oregon Sends Fish Passage Money to Clean Up Road Runoff (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5895-odot-sends-fish-passage-money-clean-road-runoff/
Lewis County Eagle Nest Removal Would Be a First - Chehalis Aerie Would Be First in State to Be Taken Down Since Bird Was Removed From Endangered Species List (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/09/25/news//doc4abbb6b5b98d8585354053.txt
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
School Drinking Water Contains Toxins (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009942499_apustoxicwaterschools.html?syndication=rss
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Chelan PUD, State Give Solar Energy a Boost (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/sep/24/pud-state-give-solar-energy-a-boost/
Avista Calls for Additional Renewable Energy (PR NewsWire)
http://sev.prnewswire.com/oil-energy/20090924/SF8151924092009-1.html
Clean-Energy Jobs Touch off Bidding Wars between States (USA Today – is there just one winner in this, or do we all get “participation trophies?”)
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/environment/2009-09-24-energy-jobs-incentives-states_N.htm
Recession Causes Drop In U.S. Wind Installations
http://pepei.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=6&ARTICLE_ID=369414&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss
Self-Interest - Global Wind Leaders Push Climate Legislation (Associated Press)
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/global-wind-leaders-push-climate-legislation-1.1473828
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
$3.1 Billion - California Sets Biggest Energy Efficiency Plan (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58N70520090924
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
New Groups Revive the Debate over Causes of Climate Change (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092404797.html?hpid=sec-business
Carbon Sequestration: California Clean-Air Program Designed To Boost Forests (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2235238~Calif__clean_air_program_designed_to_boost_forests.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines
Carbon Disclosure Project: Con Edison Ranks Again as a Top Performer (Electric Energy Online – Ahem, see Public Utilities, Pacific Northwest…)
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/?page=show_news&rss=1&id=119072
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper - Soft Toilet Paper's Hard on the Earth, But Will We Sit for the Alternative? (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/23/AR2009092304711.html?wprss=rss_business
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
How Much Broadband Do We Need? (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/09/24/how-much-broadband-do-we-need/
FCC To Examine Wireless Broadband Demands (Washington Post)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2009/09/fcc_asks_if_enough_spectrum_fo.html
GENERAL NEWS
Worker Killed At Olympia Area Cider Mill - Police say man shot ex-girlfriend, self (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/982247.html
Smoke from Two Oregon Wildfires Reaches Into Canada (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
http://news.opb.org/article/5883-smoke-two-oregon-wildfires-reaches-canada/
39-30 Vote - North Mason Chamber Members Reject Proposal to Add 'Kitsap' Label (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/sep/24/north-mason-chamber-members-reject-kitsap-label/?partner=RSS
Forbes ranks Washington State No. 2 for Business (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20090925/BIZ01/709259967/-1/BIZ
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
At 19 Pounds - Giant Baby Draws Spectators to Indonesian Hospital
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009938511_apasindonesiagiantbaby.html?syndication=rss
Pomeranians and Put Bulls, Oh My! Judge Orders Pomeranian to Leave Town
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009937980_apusoddpomeranianbanned.html?syndication=rss
Bob Dylan to Release Christmas Album for Charity
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009936445_apunmusicbobdylan.html?syndication=rss
It's A Mystery: Whose $100 Bills Rained On Sunnyvale Recycling Workers?
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13419175
Pilot Allegedly Buzzed Ex-Girlfriend's House
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/24/BABN19S3AT.DTL&feed=rss.news
SONG OF THE DAY
Eric Burdon and the Animals - Sky Pilot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gL3HTlfW0A
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