Energy News Digest for October 8, 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)

• Alcoa Stock Up After Surprise Profit
• PenLight to Hold off Increase until April
• Gunshots Cause Castle Rock Power Outage
• Dam's Lock Closure Hurts Northwest Shippers But Could Have Been Far Worse
• Hydropower Allocation Triggers New York Plant Expansion
• Texas Power Suppliers Facing Wind Challenges
• Governors Adopt Energy Road Map for Midwest
• Looking for Salmon Success? Better Converge On the Cowlitz
• Columbia Basin Brimming With Steelhead
• Editorial - Regional Plan for Steelhead Recovery Is Right Approach
• Darigold Ammonia Leak Kills Fish in Issaquah Creek
• Is Someone Targeting Ducks In Lake Washington?
• State Of The Beaver
• Alaska: Habitat for Sea Otters
• Pacific Seafood to Appeal Oregon Plant Waste Fine
• A Researcher in Our Back Yard
• Olympia Man Pursuing Biomass Plant in Longview
• Clark County Students Learn About Ethanol by Producing It
• Something New Under the Sun, A Way to Finance Solar Power
• Maryland Energy Administration Stops Solar Incentives
• States Have the Wind at Their Backs in the Offshore Debate
• Replica Sword Brandished At Wind Turbine Inquiry
• Australia to Launch Trades in Renewables Certificates
• Idaho Is In the Vanguard for Energy-Efficient Building Codes
• Ohio Delays Potentially Evil Expensive Light Bulb Program
• Westar Unveils Offering Free Programmable Thermostats in Kansas
• Chimney, Fireplace Should Be Checked Before Winter Sets In
• Green Tech Execs Press for Climate Change Bill
• Changing Alliances Shape Climate-Change Debate
• White House Aid Urges Cap-And-Trade System
• ‘Forest Offsets’ Would Aid Bottom Line, Report Finds
• America's Greenest Colleges
• Saudis Ask for Aid If World Cuts Dependence on Oil
• Snohomish County Puts Plug-In Prius to the Test
• Washington State's 'Pirates' ship too dirty for California
• Tacoma's Click! Cable Television Bills May Rise Twice In 2010
• FCC Chairman Warns of 'Looming Spectrum Crisis'
• Justice Department Examining IBM's Computer Market Conduct
• E-Mail Passwords Leak Not Limited to Hotmail
• 100 Arrested in Online Fraud Crackdown
• Google, Amazon Top Public Cloud Surveys
• Shelton Elk Hunter and Others Held at Gunpoint near Brinnon
• 21-Year-Old Brinnon Man -- brother of elk hunter detained by tribal police -- Dies In Unrelated Highway Crash
• State Auditor Says Port of Shelton Did Not Comply with Open Public Meetings Act
• Evergreen Professor on Leave in Wake of School Trips to Chile
• Flu Strikes Tenino Schools Hard
• Providence St. Peter Hospital Workers Plan 1-Day Strike
• Builders To Take Campaign-Finance Lawsuit To Trial
• Did Olympia Extortion Plot Inspire Blackmail Attempt On Letterman?
• Gun-Toting Pa. Soccer Mom, Husband Found Shot Dead
• Crash of Lunar Probe to Bring Out Amateur Astronomers
• NASA Downgrades Threat of Large Asteroid

WORD OF THE DAY

Crick • \KRIK\ • noun – A painful spasmodic condition of muscles (as of the neck or back)

After four hours of craning his neck to install overhead can lights in his kitchen, Mel complained that he had “more cricks in his neck than a teen-aged boy watching the girls on a Brazilian beach.”

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

Alcoa Stock Up After Surprise Profit “…The company, which has curtailed metal production by more than 20 percent and cut its workforce by about 30 percent…said there were signs that key markets are stabilizing…” (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSTRE5965T920091008?feedType=nl&feedName=usbusinessearly

PenLight to Hold off Increase until April (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/908211.html

Gunshots Cause Castle Rock Power Outage - Police Are Looking For Whoever Shot Electrical Equipment (KPTV-TV, Portland, OR)
http://www.kptv.com/news/21233763/detail.html

Dam's Lock Closure Hurts Northwest Shippers But Could Have Been Far Worse (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/10/post_1.html

Hydropower Allocation Triggers New York Plant Expansion - The low-cost power will boost the production of batteries for electric vehicles (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/10/hydropower-allocation-triggers-new-york-plant-expansion?cmpid=rss

Texas Power Suppliers Facing Wind Challenges - A doubling of wind-generated electric capacity will alter operations of every power plant in the state (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE59701B20091008

Governors Adopt Energy Road Map for Midwest (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI)
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/business/63689297.html

FISH & WILDLIFE

Looking for Salmon Success? Better Converge On the Cowlitz - Large number of Coho and Chinook returning (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/outdoors/letstalkfishing/story/996684.html

Columbia Basin Brimming With Steelhead (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091008/SPORTS/710089962/1008/SPORTS02

Walla Walla Union Bulletin Editorial - Regional Plan for Steelhead Recovery Is Right Approach: This is the type of effort needed across the Pacific Northwest.
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/10/07/opinion/daily_editorial/091007editorial01.txt

Darigold Ammonia Leak Kills Fish in Issaquah Creek (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010025374_webfishkill08m.html?syndication=rss

Is Someone Targeting Ducks In Lake Washington? (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_100709WAB-duck-attacks-kirkland-KC.1f5dd2b1b.html?rss?npc

State Of The Beaver - Here in the Beaver State, Castor canadensis is both loathed and loved, even apart from his role as a university mascot (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/sevendays/21024701-35/story.csp

Alaska: Habitat for Sea Otters (Associated Press)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/us/08brfs-HABITATFORSE_BRF.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Pacific Seafood to Appeal Oregon Plant Waste Fine (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/07/financial/f183252D72.DTL&feed=rss.business

A Researcher in Our Back Yard - Washington Sea Grant’s Teri King combines research with education to drive home the water-quality protection message (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/oct/07/researcher-our-back-yard/?partner=RSS

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Olympia Man Pursuing Biomass Plant in Longview (Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/10/08/area_news/doc4acd4bbf40cc2963201452.txt

Clark County Students Learn About Ethanol by Producing It (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20091008/NEWS02/710089948/

Something New Under the Sun, A Way to Finance Solar Power (Oregon Public Radio)
http://news.opb.org/article/5985-something-new-under-sun-way-finance-solar-power/

Maryland Energy Administration Stops Solar Incentives (Washington Business Journal)
http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/10/05/daily75.html?ana=from_rss

States Have the Wind at Their Backs in the Offshore Debate (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/10/08/08climatewire-states-have-the-wind-at-their-backs-in-the-o-69324.html

United Kingdom - Replica Sword Brandished At Wind Turbine Inquiry (Hull Daily Mail, UK)
http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/environment/Replica-sword-brandished-turbine-inquiry/article-1400029-detail/article.html

Australia to Launch Trades in Renewables Certificates (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/oct/08/australia-renewable-certificates

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Idaho Is In the Vanguard for Energy-Efficient Building Codes (Idaho Statesman, Boise, ID)
http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/928816.html

Ohio Public Utilities Commission Delays Potentially Evil Expensive Light Bulb Program (Consumerist – Note: Comment section may contain PG-13 Language)
http://consumerist.com/5376681/ohio-public-utilities-commission-delays-potentially-evil-expensive-light-bulb-program

Westar Unveils Offering Free Programmable Thermostats in Kansas (Yahoo! Finance)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Westar-unveils-offering-free-apf-2195991931.html?x=0&.v=1

Chimney, Fireplace Should Be Checked Before Winter Sets In (Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH)
http://www.cleveland.com/insideout/index.ssf/2009/10/chimney_fireplace_should_be_ch.html

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Green Tech Execs Press for Climate Change Bill (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13510349

Changing Alliances Shape Climate-Change Debate (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/07/BUN51A20MQ.DTL&feed=rss.news

White House Aid Urges Cap-And-Trade System (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/07/AR2009100702090.html?wprss=rss_politics

‘Forest Offsets’ Would Aid Bottom Line, Report Finds - Companies could cut emissions more cheaply by saving rainforests (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/08/forest-offsets-would-aid-bottom-line-report-finds/

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

America's Greenest Colleges - As the U.S. becomes greener, some colleges and universities are leading the way (Forbes Magazine – Note: report needs to distinguish offsets or “indulgences” from actual green energy purchases)
http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/07/greenest-colleges-harvard-business-energy-evergreen.html

Saudis Ask for Aid If World Cuts Dependence on Oil (Seattle Times – This is a joke, right?)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010021692_apasclimatetalkssaudisinneed.html?syndication=rss

Snohomish County Puts Plug-In Prius to the Test (Everett Herald, WA)
http://heraldnet.com/article/20091008/NEWS01/710089882

Washington State's 'Pirates' ship too dirty for Calif.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2010021075_ladywashington08m.html?syndication=rss

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Tacoma's Click! Cable Television Bills May Rise Twice In 2010 (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/908735.html

FCC Chairman Warns of 'Looming Spectrum Crisis' (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/07/financial/f130123D15.DTL&feed=rss.business

Justice Department Examining IBM's Computer Market Conduct (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13514515

E-Mail Passwords Leak Not Limited to Hotmail (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/181337.asp?source=pimail

100 Arrested in Online Fraud Crackdown (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/technology/internet/08phish.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Google, Amazon Top Public Cloud Surveys (Information Week)
http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220301599&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News

GENERAL NEWS

Shelton Elk Hunter And Others Held At Gunpoint: Local men were acting legally in Brinnon, say state and county law officials (Port Townsend Leader, WA)
http://www.ptleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=36&SubSectionID=55&ArticleID=25332&TM=43167.45

21-Year-Old Brinnon Man -- brother of elk hunter detained by tribal police -- Dies In Unrelated Highway Crash (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20091008/news/310089994

State Auditor Says Port of Shelton Did Not Comply with Open Public Meetings Act (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=333:port-of-shelton-did-not-comply-with-open-public-meetings-act&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50

Evergreen Professor on Leave in Wake of School Trips to Chile (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2010021166_chile08m.html?syndication=rss

Flu Strikes Tenino Schools Hard - There have been a couple of cases of confirmed seasonal flu, many students home sick (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/996618.html

Providence St. Peter Hospital Workers Plan 1-Day Strike (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/business/story/996651.html

Builders To Take Campaign-Finance Lawsuit To Trial - At issue is money that backed Dino Rossi (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/996605.html

Did Olympia Extortion Plot Inspire Blackmail Attempt On Letterman? (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21233875/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_7am&tmi=sea_7am_1_09000110082009&ts=H

Gun-Toting Pa. Soccer Mom, Husband Found Shot Dead (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/nationworld/story/996544.html

Crash of Lunar Probe to Bring Out Amateur Astronomers (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13507258

NASA Downgrades Threat of Large Asteroid (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2256182~NASA_downgrades_threat_of_large_asteroid.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines

ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS

What's Up, Doc? Radioactive Rabbit Poop at Hanford (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/410808_radioactivepoop5.html?source=rss

Irish School Asks Pupils to Bring Own Toilet Roll
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE59558I20091006?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews

Go Before You Go? Flush Before You Fly?
http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/181333.asp?source=pimail

Cage Fighters in Drag Wallop Drunken Duo
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091007/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_drag

SONG OF THE DAY

Leif Garret - I Was Made For Dancing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hihp_Jjdnsg

Energy News Digest for October 7, 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)

• Op/Ed – Jefferson PUD Discussing Electric Facilities Sale with PSE
• Grays Harbor PUD Wins Appeal for Disaster Funds
• Eugene Water & Electric Board Boosts Residential Power Rates 4.5 Percent
• Portland City Leaders Oppose Portland General Electric's Future Power Plan
• Dalles Lock Closure Could Have Been Worse
• Florida - One Man Electrocuted, another Injured Working on Tree
• Asbestos Claims - Federal Case against San Diego Utility Dropped
• Alcoa to Kick off Earnings Season
• Lots of Dead Fish along Sultan River Mean Good Year for Pinks
• Steelhead Recovery Plan Out
• Dressed for Success - Northwest Salmon Advocates Make the Rounds in D.C.
• Op/Ed - Dam Removal: Small Steps & Giant Leaps
• Op/Ed - For Wild Salmon, More Business as Usual
• Victims of Budget Cuts - A Sad Die-Off of Salmon Festivals
• Reward Offered In Long Beach Seabird Killings
• Oregon - Land Purchases for Wapato Lake Unit of Refuge Is Coming Along
• Clean Bill Of Health for Nisqually Shellfish Area
• Fish Workers To Live On Sea Farms
• Chelan PUD to Area Developers: Show Us the Water First
• Chelan PUD Is Working Up Plan to Cut Waste ... In the Water
• Vancouver Yacht Builder Sails Into Renewable Energy
• Renewable Energy Could Be Future Of Clark County Manufacturing
• $2 Million State Biomass Grant Will Let Port Townsend Paper Create Jobs
• Flathead Electric Coop: Geothermal Energy Testing Planned For Lake County
• Wyoming - Plan Could Boost Use of Vented Coal Mine Methane
• Op/Ed - Energy infrastructure: Time to Walk the Line
• Is the German Renewable Energy Industry in Jeopardy?
• Colorado Company Looks to Salvage Nebraska Ethanol Plants
• Seattle City Light Offers Customers Microsoft "Hohm" Connections
• Google & the Energy Detective Join Forces
• Why Google’s PowerMeter Gadget Partnership Is a Big Power Play
• NCS Power: Future Bright for Efficient Light Fixtures
• Ohio Utility To Distribute Energy-Efficient Light Bulbs, But Not for Free
• So Who Left the Lights on? This System Knows
• Senate Dems Opening to Nuclear as Path to GOP Support for Federal Climate Bill
• Nuclear Power: An Inconvenient Solution?
• Over the Summer, a Spread of Thicker Arctic Ice
• Activists Sue Texas to Restrict Greenhouse Gases
• Fish & Wildlife Creates Climate Change Job
• Study Says Natural Gas to Play Key Role in Cutting Carbon Dioxide
• ‘Cleantech’ Could Be Economy’s Next Boom
• Time Magazine’s Heroes of the Environment 2009
• Giants in Cattle Industry Agree to Help Fight Deforestation
• Mason County Commission Terminates Fairgrounds Lease
• Port of Shelton Urged to Keep Blame for Fairgrounds Closure on Mason County
• Future of Mason County Fair Uncertain
• Olympic National Park to Close Hurricane Ridge's Sunrise Snowplay Area for Good
• Man Accused of Firing Gun Outside Narrows League High School Football Game
• Second Letter with Unknown Powder Sent to Seattle Times
• Study Says Drivers Not Distracted By Texting
• Tumwater Business Vandalized

WORD OF THE DAY

Finesse • \fin-ESS \ • noun & verb – 1: refinement or delicacy of workmanship, structure, or texture 2: skillful handling of a situation: adroit maneuvering 3: the withholding of one's highest card or trump in the hope that a lower card will take the trick because the only opposing higher card is in the hand of an opponent who has already played

Bertie’s gambit needed all the finesse he could muster. The concert venue was lightly packed on the big night. Although he knew that he could muscle his way past the pencil-necked backstage security guard, he was less sure that he could talk his way past Shaun Cassidy’s business manager for an exclusive interview for the local weekly’s “Star Spotlight” section.

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

Port Townsend Leader Op/Ed - PUD Discussing Electric Facilities Sale with PSE
http://www.ptleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=5&SubSectionID=5&ArticleID=25350

Grays Harbor PUD Wins Appeal for Disaster Funds (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2009/10/07/local_news/doc4accd74adf2ff294495047.txt

Eugene Water & Electric Board Boosts Residential Power Rates 4.5 Percent (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/21258669-46/story.csp

Portland City Leaders Oppose Portland General Electric's Future Power Plan (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/10/portland_city_leaders_oppose_p.html

Dalles Lock Closure Could Have Been Worse (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/995465.html

Florida - One Man Electrocuted, another Injured Working on Tree (Gainesville Sun, FL)
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20091006/ARTICLES/910069938/-1/MAGAZINE?Title=One-man-electrocuted-another-injured-working-on-tree

Asbestos Claims - Federal Case Against San Diego Utility Dropped (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2255745~Federal_case_against_San_Diego_utility_dropped.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines

Alcoa to Kick off Earnings Season - The aluminum maker will report after the close (MSN Money)
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/market-dispatches.aspx?post=1309329

FISH & WILDLIFE

Lots of Dead Fish along Sultan River Mean Good Year for Pinks (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091007/NEWS01/710079720

Steelhead Recovery Plan Out - The federal plan is intended to help restore steelhead populations over 35,000 square miles in Oregon & Washington (Walla Walla Union Bulletin, WA)
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/10/06/local_news/091006local06.txt

Dressed for Success - Northwest Salmon Advocates Make the Rounds in D.C.
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/northwest_salmon_advocates_mak.html

Oregonian Op/Ed - Dam Removal: Small Steps & Giant Leaps
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/10/dam_removal_small_steps_and_gi.html

Oregonian Op/Ed - For Wild Salmon, More Business as Usual
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/10/for_wild_salmon_more_business.html

Victims of Budget Cuts - A Sad Die-Off of Salmon Festivals (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/10/a_sad_die-off_of_salmon_festiv.html

Reward Offered In Long Beach Seabird Killings (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_100609WAB-longbeach-seabirds-killed-SW.1eefcdc37.html?rss

Oregon - Land Purchases for Wapato Lake Unit of Refuge Is Coming Along: Bonneville Power Administration could be part of funding package (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2009/10/land_purchases_for_wapato_lake.html

Clean Bill Of Health for Nisqually Shellfish Area - Efforts of neighbors, officials pay off in lifting of restrictions that had been in effect since 1992 (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/995475.html

Fish Workers To Live On Sea Farms - Workers could soon be living on moored barges under plans to extend salmon farming further off the Scottish coast. (British Broadcasting Corporation)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8293241.stm

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Chelan PUD to Area Developers: Show Us the Water First (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/oct/06/pud-to-area-developers-show-us-the-water-first/

Chelan PUD Is Working Up Plan to Cut Waste ... In the Water (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/oct/06/puds-working-up-plan-to-cut-waste-in-the-water/

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Vancouver Yacht Builder Sails Into Renewable Energy (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20091007/BIZ01/710079958/RECS++Yacht+builder+sails+into+renewable+energy

Renewable Energy Could Be Future Of Clark County Manufacturing - Field holds promise, but is not yet proven, experts caution (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/article/20091007/BIZ01/710079951/Renewable+energy+could+be+future+of+county+manufacturing

$2 Million State Biomass Grant Will Let Port Townsend Paper Create Jobs (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20091007/news/310079992

Montana – Flathead Electric Coop: Geothermal Energy Testing Planned For Lake County (KAJ-TV, Kalispell, MT)
http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=11273413

Wyoming - Plan Could Boost Use of Vented Coal Mine Methane (Billings Gazette, MT)
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_68eeaaba-b2f6-11de-ac84-001cc4c002e0.html

Blue Oregon Op/Ed - Energy infrastructure: Time to Walk the Line
http://www.blueoregon.com/2009/10/energy-infrastructure-time-to-walk-the-line.html?cid=6a00d8341c2c3f53ef0120a620a678970c

Is the German Renewable Energy Industry in Jeopardy? (Renewable Energy World)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/10/is-the-german-renewable-energy-industry-in-jeopardy?cmpid=rss

Colorado Company Looks to Salvage Nebraska Ethanol Plants (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/06/financial/f090313D66.DTL&feed=rss.business

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Seattle City Light Offers Customers Microsoft "Hohm" Connections (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/energy/archives/181314.asp?source=rss

Google & the Energy Detective Join Forces (NY Times)
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/google-and-the-energy-detective-join-forces/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Why Google’s PowerMeter Gadget Partnership Is a Big Power Play (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/10/06/why-googles-powermeter-gadget-partnership-is-a-big-power-play/

NCS Power: Future Bright for Efficient Light Fixtures (Columbian, Vancouver, WA)
http://columbian.com/article/20091007/BIZ01/710079962/-1/BIZ

Ohio Utility To Distribute Energy-Efficient Light Bulbs, But Not for Free “…The utility will charge average users 60 cents a month extra on their electric bills for the next three years -- $21.60 all together. That covers the cost of the bulbs, their delivery, plus other charges…” (Mansfield News-Journal, OH)
http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20091007/UPDATES01/91007004

So Who Left the Lights on? This System Knows (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/realestate/commercial/07meter.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Senate Dems Opening to Nuclear as Path to GOP Support for Federal Climate Bill (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/10/07/07climatewire-senate-dems-opening-to-nuclear-as-path-to-go-28815.html

Nuclear Power: An Inconvenient Solution? (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/gwmCarbonEmissions/idUS305571454120091006

Over the Summer, a Spread of Thicker Arctic Ice (NY Times)
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/spread-of-thicker-arctic-ice-seen-last-summer/?hp

Activists Sue Texas to Restrict Greenhouse Gases (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/06/financial/f212332D85.DTL&feed=rss.business

Fish & Wildlife Creates Climate Change Job (Associated Press)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/744320.html

Study Says Natural Gas to Play Key Role in Cutting Carbon Dioxide (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN06439884

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

‘Cleantech’ Could Be Economy’s Next Boom - Momentum around clean energy reminds some of Internet’s early days (MSNBC)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33198138/ns/technology_and_science-future_of_energy/

Time Magazine’s Heroes of the Environment 2009
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1924149_1924151,00.html

Giants in Cattle Industry Agree to Help Fight Deforestation (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/world/americas/07deforest.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

GENERAL NEWS

Mason County Commission Terminates Fairgrounds Lease (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=323:mason-county-commission-terminates-fairgrounds-lease&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50

Port of Shelton Urged to Keep Blame for Fairgrounds Closure on Mason County (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=324:port-urged-to-keep-blame-for-fairgrounds-closure-on-county-&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50

Future of Mason County Fair Uncertain - Commission trims expenses with cancellation of fairgrounds lease (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/995484.html

Olympic National Park to Close Hurricane Ridge's Sunrise Snowplay Area for Good (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20091007/news/310079985

Tacoma - Man Accused of Firing Gun Outside Narrows League High School Football Game (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/63650347.html

Second Letter with Unknown Powder Sent to Seattle Times (Associated Press)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/63644767.html

Study Says Drivers Not Distracted By Texting (South Florida Business Journal)
http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2009/10/05/daily42.html?ana=from_rss

Tumwater Business Vandalized - Someone damages, steals heavy equipment over weekend (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/995487.html

ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS

'Art Theft' Smells Fishy, Investigators Say
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/06/BA581A1R2I.DTL&feed=rss.news

Roadshow: Drivers Beware: It's Deer-Mating Season
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13498429

Owls on the Attack in the Suburbs
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_100609ANB-owl-attacks-mercer-island-KC.1f06ffff3.html?rss

Man upset at closed Miami Taco Bell shoots worker
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010010633_apustacobellshooting.html?syndication=rss

SONG OF THE DAY

Shaun Cassidy - Hey Deanie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXn4aOVK-Ng

Energy News Digest for October 6, 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)

• City Approves John's Prairie Water Latecomers' Agreement with PUD 3
• Montana - Storm Hits Mountain Areas Hardest; Power Knocked Out for Many
• Arcing Wires Blamed for Explosion in Bellingham
• Tiny Temblor Rumbles near Mossyrock Dam
• Montana - Report May Come In November for Great Falls Energy Venture
• Op/Ed: Fall River Electric Replies to Customer's Questions
• During Wildfires - San Diego Utility Pushes Rural Shut-Off Plan
• California - Diablo Canyon Power Plant Safely Shuts Down Unit Two
• Gov't to Consumers: Break on Winter Heating Costs
• RTI Data Distribution Service Selected for Upgrade of Grand Coulee Control System
• The Worm: Band promotes Grant County, Including Grant PUD
• Editorial - We Will Pay True Cost of Klamath Dams
• Killer Whales Heading South
• Report: North America to Install 40,000 Wind Turbines by 2015 (hmm, what is it about that year that sounds soooo familiar?)
• Ellensburg Company Harnesses the Wind Installing Residential Wind Turbines
• Editorial - Can Baker Ride The Biomass Wave?
• Stanwood Students Earn Snohomish PUD Grant to Power Farm Equipment with Solar Panel
• Rating a Home’s Energy Efficiency
• Renewable Energy Credits Are Not Carbon Dioxide Offsets: U.S. Expert
• Apple to Leave U.S. Chamber of Commerce over Global-Warming Views
• New Report Details Costs of Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Op/Ed - A Code Too Far: Building codes have finally gone too far
• Obama Puts Government on Greenhouse-Gas Diet
• NTIA Hands Out First Broadband Stimulus Grants
• Thousands of Hotmail Passwords Posted Online
• Is Cloud Computing The Hotel California Of Tech?
• Ecology Director Jay Manning Named Gregoire's Chief of Staff
• Ecology Chief, Point Man in Upper Kittitas Well Ban, Moves to Governor's Staff
• Dog Fighting Operation Suspected in Graham
• Shelton City Commission Considering Cutting Four Positions
• Boeing Will Take $1 Billion Charge in Quarter
• Poll Says Seattle, Washington State Are Popular Places to Live
• Is Manufacturing Overcapacity a Threat to the Global Recovery?
• Montana City's Jail Deal Delayed amid Controversy
• DUST STORM: NASA Satellite Captures Image of Yesterday's Dust Storm
• Neighboring Planets to Be Noticeable in Pre-Dawn Sky
• Shelton Grad (and Mason PUD 3 employee) Bowls Perfect Game

WORD OF THE DAY

Saurian • \SOAR-ee-un\ • noun – Any of a suborder (Sauria) of reptiles including the lizards and in older classifications the crocodiles and various extinct forms (as the dinosaurs and ichthyosaurs) that resemble lizards.

Bradley dreaded his weekly encounters with his ponderous, slow-talking supervisor. As he stalked into the boss’s lair, he always had an impression of a huge, saurian beast occupying the creaking, leather chair behind the fortress-like oak desk. Brad often wondered what would happen if he tossed a chicken carcass into the room before entering. Would it be gone when he took his seat, the poultry juices running down the chin of his mentor?

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

City Approves John's Prairie Water Latecomers' Agreement with PUD 3 (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=316:city-approves-johns-prairie-water-latecomers-agreement-with-pud-3&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50

Montana - Storm Hits Mountain Areas Hardest; Power Knocked Out for Many: Snow passes 3 feet in places (Billings Gazette)
http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_3ec2d8ca-b23c-11de-a3a4-001cc4c03286.html

Arcing Wires Blamed for Explosion in Bellingham (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/63569722.html

Tiny Temblor Rumbles near Mossyrock Dam (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
http://www.kelaam.com/pages/localnews?Tiny-Temblor-Rumbles-near-Mossyrock-Dam=1&blockID=79268&feedID=410

Montana - Report May Come In November for Great Falls Energy Venture (Great Falls Tribune, MT)
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20091006/NEWS01/910060314

Montana - Yellowstone News Op/Ed: Fall River Electric Replies to Customer's Questions
http://www.westyellowstonenews.com/articles/2009/10/05/opinions/opinion1.txt

During Wildfires - San Diego Utility Pushes Rural Shut-Off Plan (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/05/state/n091953D30.DTL&feed=rss.business

California - Diablo Canyon Power Plant Safely Shuts Down Unit Two (KSBY-TV, San Luis Obispo, CA)
http://www.ksby.com/Global/story.asp?S=11256331

Gov't to Consumers: Break on Winter Heating Costs (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2010009739_apuswinterheating.html?syndication=rss

RTI Data Distribution Service Selected for Upgrade of Grand Coulee Dam’s Control System (BusinessWire)
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091006005276&newsLang=en

The Worm: Band promotes Grant County, Including Grant PUD (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/oct/05/the-worm-band-promotes-grant-county/

FISH & WILDLIFE

Astorian Editorial - We Will Pay True Cost of Klamath Dams: This monumental negotiation carries meaning for Columbia-Snake dams
http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=392&ArticleID=64621

Killer Whales Heading South - Pod that was in South Sound spotted off California coast (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/994323.html

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Report: North America to Install 40,000 Wind Turbines by 2015 (Power Engineering)
http://pepei.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=6&ARTICLE_ID=369727&C=INDUS&dcmp=rss

Ellensburg Company Harnesses the Wind Installing Residential Wind Turbines (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=11262550

Baker City Herald Editorial - Can Baker Ride The Biomass Wave?
http://www.bakercityherald.com/Editorials/Can-Baker-ride-the-biomass-wave

Stanwood Students Earn Snohomish PUD Grant to Power Farm Equipment with Solar Panel (Everett Herald, WA)
http://heraldnet.com/article/20091006/NEWS01/708179781

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Rating a Home’s Energy Efficiency - A new tool can help buyers gauge their future utility expenses (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/business/20198052-41/story.csp

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Renewable Energy Credits Are Not Carbon Dioxide Offsets: U.S. Expert (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE5943YC20091005

Apple to Leave U.S. Chamber of Commerce over Global-Warming Views (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13492186

New Report Details Costs of Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/06/AR2009100600018.html?wprss=rss_business

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Op/Ed - A Code Too Far: Building codes have finally gone too far.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/forthright/archives/181140.asp?from=blog_last3

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

Obama Puts Government on Greenhouse-Gas Diet (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2010005190_apusobamagreenhousegases.html?syndication=rss

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

NTIA Hands Out First Broadband Stimulus Grants - California, Indiana, North Carolina and Vermont (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/NTIA-Hands-Out-First-Broadband-Stimulus-Grants-104827

Thousands of Hotmail Passwords Posted Online (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/181057.asp?source=pimail

Is Cloud Computing The Hotel California Of Tech? (C/NET News)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10367052-16.html?tag=nl.e703

GENERAL NEWS

Ecology Director Jay Manning Named Gregoire's Chief of Staff (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politicsnorthwest/2010005243_department_of_ecology_director.html?syndication=rss

Ecology Chief, Point Man in Upper Kittitas Well Ban, Moves To Governor's Staff (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/10/05/ecology-chief-point-man-in-upper-kittitas-well-ban-moves-to-governor-s-staff

Dog Fighting Operation Suspected in Graham (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_100509WAB-graham-dog-fighting-KC.1eaa1e1a3.html?rss

Shelton City Commission Considering Cutting Four Positions (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=318:city-commission-considering-cutting-four-positions&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50

Boeing Will Take $1 Billion Charge in Quarter (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/business/07boeing.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Poll Says Seattle, Washington State Are Popular Places to Live (Puget Sound Business Journal)
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/10/05/daily5.html?ana=from_rss

Is Manufacturing Overcapacity a Threat to the Global Recovery? (Time Magazine)
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1928261,00.html

Montana City's Jail Deal Delayed amid Controversy (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ifOx0LPKy5B_0KAyPHyNTEqdQz6QD9B59NN80

DUST STORM: NASA Satellite Captures Image of Yesterday's Dust Storm (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/743453.html

Neighboring Planets to Be Noticeable in Pre-Dawn Sky (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/05/neighboring-planets-be-noticeable-week/

Shelton Grad (and Mason PUD 3 employee) Bowls Perfect Game (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=321:shelton-grad-bowls-perfect-game-a-results-from-high-school-sports-played-monday-10509&catid=38:sports&Itemid=56

ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS

Hotel Survival - with George Egg
http://digs.by/Tfp

Weather Eye: Caterpillars Call for Milder Winter
http://columbian.com/article/20091006/NEWS02/710069964/

Shroud Of Turin Called Medieval Fake - Italian debunkers say relic man-made
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/06/shroud-of-turin-called-medieval-fake/

Md. Driving Lesson Ends With Van in Bedroom
http://www.kirotv.com/automotive/21215099/detail.html

Students Sign On For Beatles Degree - Master of the Arts Degree Focuses on Beatles Music, History (And NO, it isn’t an Evergreen program)
http://www.kirotv.com/education/21213591/detail.html

SONG OF THE DAY

Eagles – Hotel California
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zT3LzXzhJo

Energy News Digest for October 5, 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)

• Editorial - Portland General Electric’s Boardman Plant: Bad Air, Worse Energy Policy
• Snake River Dam Crossings Return to Normal
• Lock at the Dalles Dam to Remain Closed
• Energy Secretary Says State in Line for $42.7 Million
• Grant PUD to Talk Rate Increases, Initiatives
• Lewis County - Alleged Drunk Driver Hits Pole, Survives Live Wires
• Residents (Including Chelan PUD Employees) to Be Honored for Heroism
• Heating Aid Could Fall Short of Needs
• Push For Liquefied Natural Gas Pipeline from Oregon’s Coos Bay
• California - Meters or Rate Hike?
• NorthWestern Energy Wants to Delay Montana Rate Case
• Op/Ed – Pacific Gas & Electric Partnering On ‘Smart Grid’
• Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Chief Resigns
• Two Connecticut Natural Gas Companies Forbidden to Lay off Employees
• Navajos, Hopis Shun Environmentalists over Coal Plant Plans
• Texas - $20,000 Error on Electric Bill Gives McKinney Woman a Jolt
• Judge Extends Deadline for Columbia River Salmon Plan Responses
• Editorial - End to the Klamath War
• Sockeye Salmon Spawning In Upper Cle Elum River Basin First Time In 100 Years
• Game On! Cooler Weather Rallies Near-Record Steelhead Run
• 2009 Steelhead Survival Rates Lower Granite-To- Below Bonneville ‘Significantly Higher’
• Scarcity of King Salmon Hurt Alaskan Fishermen
• Big Pink Salmon Run Helped Some but Not All Whatcom County Fishers
• Corps Sets Lake Pend Oreille Level for Spawning Season
• Solar-Powered Pump Keeps Cattle Out of Salmon Streams
• Kitsap’s Aquifers End ‘Water Year’ On Historically Low Note
• Water Flow from Dams to Increase in Elwha River
• Downstream From Green River Dam, Valley Residents & Businesses Prepare for Worst
• Water Canal Sparks Skepticism, Lawsuits in California
• Carolinas Water Fight Gets Supreme Court Spotlight
• Cowlitz PUD Looks at Green Future
• Snohomish-Based Business Converts Landfill Waste into Electricity
• Unexpected Tariff on Solar Panels May Further Strain U.S.-China Trade Relations
• Oregon - SolarWorld to Add Production Step in Hillsboro
• As Wind Farm Plans Spread, Wyoming Considers Nature of Wind Rights
• Clean-Energy Investments Off 22 Percent
• New Hampshire - Area Hydroelectric Plants Contribute Toward Record Output
• United Kingdom - Bad Tidings for Scottish Wave Power
• Biofuels Producers Warn They Are Going to Fall Far Short of Federal Mandates
• Energy-Efficient LED Bulbs to Light U.S. Homes
• $39.95 for an Energy-Efficient Light Bulb?
• Energy-Saving Options for Home Appliances
• Burying CO2: Fix or folly?
• Walruses Suffer Substantial Losses as Sea Ice Erodes
• Puget Sound Energy Joins the Electric Vehicle Project
• Oregon to Get 2,000 Electric Car Charging Stations
• In Green Portland, High Schools Lag On Environmental Education
• Get Everyone in US Online, High-Level Panel Says
• Editorial - Google & the Problem with ‘Net Neutrality’
• Spam Growth Surpasses ‘Storm’ Virus
• Mason County Forest Products Sued For Sex Discrimination & Retaliation
• Sunday Winds Bring Eastern Washington Dust, Blackouts
• Washington Lawmakers Warned Of Pension Shortfall
• Oregon Prison Springs Eco-Saboteur ‘Free’ By Mistake, Then Takes Him Back
• Mail on Saturday Could Get Sacked
• ‘Olympian’ Newspaper Name Trademark Challenged
• Trick-Or-Treat Bags May Be Lighter This Year
• Smell Has Some Cities Ripping Out Ginkgo Trees

WORD OF THE DAY

Fox Fire • \FOX-fire\ • noun – An eerie phosphorescent light (as of decaying wood); also: a luminous fungus (as Armillaria mellea) that causes decaying wood to glow

As Beauregard forged his way into the Appalachian wilderness in search of the mysterious witch of the Peaks of Otter, he thanked his lucky stars that on this moonless night that his way was being lit by the wan glow of fox fire.

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

Oregonian Editorial - Portland General Electric’s Boardman Plant: Bad Air, Worse Energy Policy
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf/2009/10/pges_boardman_plant_bad_air_wo.html

Snake River Dam Crossings Return to Normal (Walla Walla Union Bulletin, WA)
http://union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/10/02/local_news/091002local06riverdam.txt

Lock at the Dalles Dam to Remain Closed (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/740100.html

Energy Secretary Says State in Line for $42.7 Million (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009991710_chu03m.html?syndication=rss

Grant PUD to Talk Rate Increases, Initiatives (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2009/10/02/news/doc4ac64023dde32078012489.txt

Lewis County - Alleged Drunk Driver Hits Pole, Survives Live Wires (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/10/02/news/doc4ac643a294e27114474590.txt

Area Residents to Be Honored by Governor for Heroism - Includes Chelan County PUD employees (Wenatchee World, WA)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2009/oct/03/area-residents-to-be-honored-by-governor-for/

Heating Aid Could Fall Short of Needs (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2009-10-04-heating-aid_N.htm?csp=34

Push for Liquefied Natural Gas Pipeline from Oregon’s Coos Bay (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/04/MNGM19SPCT.DTL&feed=rss.business

California - Meters or Rate Hike? PG&E Explains Soaring Energy Bills (Bakersfield Californian, CA)
http://www.bakersfield.com/news/business/economy/x2067559241/Meters-or-rate-hike-PG-E-explains-soaring-energy-bills

NorthWestern Energy Wants to Delay Montana Rate Case (Associated Press)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/NorthWestern-Energy-wants-to-apf-306363442.html?x=0&.v=1

SF Chronicle Op/Ed – Pacific Gas & Electric Partnering On ‘Smart Grid’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/05/EDVH1A0BCU.DTL&feed=rss.opinion

Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Chief Resigns (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2248908~LA_Department_of_Water_and_Power_chief_resigns.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines

Two Connecticut Natural Gas Companies Forbidden to Lay off Employees - DPUC’s Unprecedented Move Questioned By Some (Hartford Courant, CT)
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-dpuc-layoffban.artoct05,0,2076775.story

Navajos, Hopis Shun Environmentalists over Coal Plant Plans (Phoenix Business Journal, AZ)
http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2009/09/28/daily92.html?ana=from_rss

Texas - $20,000 Error on Electric Bill Gives McKinney Woman a Jolt (Dallas Morning News, TX)
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/industries/energy/stories/DN-bigbill_04bus.ART0.State.Edition1.3cf560c.html

FISH & WILDLIFE

Judge Extends Deadline for Columbia River Salmon Plan Responses (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009991057_aporsalmondams.html

NY Times Editorial - End to the Klamath War
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/opinion/04sun3.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Sockeye Salmon Spawning In Upper Cle Elum River Basin First Time In 100 Years (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
http://www.cbbulletin.com/358400.aspx

Game On! Cooler Weather Rallies Near-Record Steelhead Run (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/04/game-on/

2009 Steelhead Survival Rates Lower Granite-To- Below Bonneville ‘Significantly Higher’ (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
http://www.cbbulletin.com/358402.aspx

Scarcity of King Salmon Hurt Alaskan Fishermen “…managers…suspect changes in ocean conditions are mostly to blame…” (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/business/03salmon.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Big Pink Salmon Run Helped Some but Not All Whatcom County Fishers (Bellingham Herald, WA)
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/102/story/1097489.html

Corps Sets Lake Pend Oreille Level for Spawning Season (Associated Press)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/04/corps-sets-lakes-level-for-spawning-season/

Solar-Powered Pump Keeps Cattle Out of Salmon Streams (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091005/NEWS01/710059873/-1/RSS02

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Kitsap’s Aquifers End ‘Water Year’ On Historically Low Note (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/oct/03/kitsaps-aquifers-end-water-year-on-low-note/

Water Flow from Dams to Increase in Elwha River (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20091004/news/310049981

Downstream From Green River Dam, Valley Residents & Businesses Prepare for Worst (Seattle Tmes)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009996264_valley04m.html

Water Canal Sparks Skepticism, Lawsuits in California (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2249771~Water_canal_sparks_skepticism__lawsuits_in_Calif_.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines

Carolinas Water Fight Gets Supreme Court Spotlight - Justices will consider Charlotte & Duke’s interests in legal battle (Charlotte Business Journal)
http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2009/10/05/story15.html?ana=from_rss

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Cowlitz PUD Looks at Green Future (Daily News, Longview, WA)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/10/04/area_news/doc4ac827fc3ee0d293121493.txt

Powered By Trash - Snohomish-based business converts landfill waste into electricity (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091005/BIZ/710059959

Unexpected Tariff on Solar Panels May Further Strain U.S.-China Trade Relations (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13472974

Oregon - SolarWorld to Add Production Step in Hillsboro (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/10/solarworld_to_add_production_s.html

As Wind Farm Plans Spread, Wyoming Considers Nature of Wind Rights (Billings Gazette)
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_ec2dcedc-b0f4-11de-9aa2-001cc4c03286.html

Clean-Energy Investments Off 22 Percent (Associated Press)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/03/clean-energy-investments-off-22-percent/

New Hampshire - Area Hydroelectric Plants Contribute Toward Record Output for Public Service (Laconia Citizen, NH)
http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091005/GJNEWS02/710059917/-1/CITNEWS

United Kingdom - Bad Tidings for Scottish Wave Power (The Herald, UK)
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/bad-tidings-for-scottish-wave-power-1.923861

Biofuels Producers Warn They Are Going to Fall Far Short of Federal Mandates (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/10/05/05climatewire-biofuels-producers-warn-they-are-going-to-fa-82387.html

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Energy-efficient LED bulbs to light U.S. homes (LA Times, CA)
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/10/led-green-technology.html

$39.95 for an Energy-Efficient Light Bulb? It’s a Deal, Says Maker Lemnis Lighting (Los Angeles Times, CA)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lightbulb3-2009oct03,0,3065254.story

Energy-Saving Options for Home Appliances (Belleville News-Democrat, IL)
http://www.bnd.com/business/story/953036.html

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Burying CO2: Fix or folly? (Edmonton Journal, Alberta)
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Burying+folly/2064972/story.html

Walruses Suffer Substantial Losses as Sea Ice Erodes (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/science/earth/03walrus.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

News Release - Puget Sound Energy Joins the Electric Vehicle Project (BusinessWire)
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091002005507&newsLang=en

Oregon to Get 2,000 Electric Car Charging Stations (Portland Business Journal)
http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/09/28/daily57.html?ana=from_rss

In Green Portland, High Schools Lag On Environmental Education (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/10/in_green_portland_high_schools.html

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Get Everyone in US Online, High-Level Panel Says (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009995660_apusinformingcitizens.html?syndication=rss

Wall Street Journal Editorial - Google & the Problem with ‘Net Neutrality’
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703628304574452951795911162.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Spam Growth Surpasses ‘Storm’ Virus (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13473506

GENERAL NEWS

Mason County Forest Products Sued For Sex Discrimination & Retaliation (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://masoncountydailynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=307:mason-county-forest-products-sued-for-sex-discrimination-and-retaliation&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50

Sunday Winds Bring Eastern Washington Dust, Blackouts - Eight people injured in pileup on I-90; Avista, Kootenai Electric report outages (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/05/winds-bring-dust-blackouts/

Washington Lawmakers Warned Of Pension Shortfall (Associated Press)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=11246979

Oregon Prison Springs Eco-Saboteur ‘Free’ By Mistake, Then Takes Him Back (Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/freedoms_just_another_word_for.html

Mail on Saturday Could Get Sacked (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/02/AR2009100205630.html?wprss=rss_business

‘Olympian’ Newspaper Name Trademark Challenged - Athletics Entity Files Protest (Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/993266.html

Trick-Or-Treat Bags May Be Lighter This Year (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091005/BIZ/710059963/-1/RSS03

Smell Has Some Cities Ripping Out Ginkgo Trees (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010002137_apusstinkytrees.html?syndication=rss

ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS

No Tiptoeing Through the Tulips – Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/arts/music/30ukulele.html

Man Gets 2 Yrs for Swiping Car on First Date
http://www.kirotv.com/automotive/21184876/detail.html

US Woman’s Message in Bottle Turns Up In France
http://www.kirotv.com/news/21184855/detail.html

University of Florida Officials Remove Zombie Plan From Site
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091002/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_zombie_emergency_plan;_ylt=AgF2eJv3y2gpOwnGWAHSeDXtiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTMxZG0yYXAzBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMDAyL3VzX29kZF96b21iaWVfZW1lcmdlbmN5X3BsYW4EcG9zAzgEc2VjA3luX2FydGljbGVfc3VtbWFyeV9saXN0BHNsawNub2pva2V1Zm9mZmk-

SONG OF THE DAY

The Police - Message in a Bottle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeQ2yXE1mpU

Energy News Digest for October 2, 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)

• 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