Energy News Digest for February 25, 2010

All the links in today’s news digest lead to current stories. Please note that some media organizations update their web sites regularly, which may result in broken links in the future.

To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)

·         Jefferson PUD Electrical Power Decision Expected in a Month

·         Jefferson PUD: No Decision Yet on Public Power Issue

·         Oregon Lawmakers Pass Restrictions on Energy Tax Credits

·         Energy NW to Sell Bonds

·         Olympian Editorial - We Must Keep Nuclear Power as Viable Option

·         Vermont Senate Votes to Close Nuclear Plant

·         Vermont - Records Show Tritium Leak Reaches State Land

·         Ruptured Pipes Create Extra Work for Contractor on Cowlitz PUD Building Expansion

·         Portland General Electric Reports 2009 Financial Results

·         Great Falls Mayor Wants More Direct Oversight of Electric City Power

·         California - Report Confirms Plane Crashed After Hitting Power Lines

·         United Kingdom – Telegraph Editorial: There’s a Blackout Coming

·         Orca Whale Kills SeaWorld Worker

·         Killer Orca Has Violent Past, Ties to Northwest

·         Feds Predict Better Year for California Salmon

·         Columbia River 2010 Fall Chinook Returns Look Good on Paper

·         Community Meeting Monday to Discuss Salmon Enhancement Project on Skokomish River

·         Editorial – California Water Plan Would Hurt State’s Salmon Fishery

·         Groups to Rally for Bull Trout Protections

·         Fishermen Rally at US Capitol for More Generous Catch Limits

·         Pacific NW Delegation Members Back $200 Million Proposal for Columbia Cleanup

·         Concerns Build Over Washington State’s Water Supplies

·         EPA Begins Yakima Valley Groundwater Sampling

·         California Water Diversion Plan ‘A Work in Progress,’ Feinstein Says

·         Report Says Contamination from Coal Ash Waste Is Worse Than EPA Says

·         Whatcom County Votes Emergency Moratorium on Wind Power

·         Oregon - Comments Sought On Wave Energy Project

·         Columbia Basin College Goes Solar

·         Idaho - Micron Clears Way for Solar Venture in Nampa

·         Idaho Plans to Install Solar Panels on Schools

·         SF Chronicle Editorial - Solar Bill Will Help California’s Energy Future

·         General Electric GE Bullish on British Columbia’s Green Power Sector

·         Michigan - Officials Largely in Favor of Biomass Plant

·         Florida - Supply of Wood to Fuel Biomass Plant Still Under Scrutiny

·         Trash Power? US Communities Use Landfills to Produce Energy

·         Deere Mulls Possible Sale of Wind Energy Business

·         BPA Announces Funding Opportunity to Help Manage Electricity Use

·         Why Climate Change Is Dead in the Senate - GOP is focused on cheap domestic energy

·         Wyoming Formation Could Hold 50 Years of CO2

·         Scientists Examine Causes for Lull in Warming

·         Study Says at Least Theoretically - Numerically Speaking - We Could Get All US Electricity from Wind Power

·         Seattle Times Op/Ed - Lawmakers Should Bring Back Construction Jobs by Spurring Data-Center Industry

·         Wenatchee World Editorial - Data Centers & the Big Refund

·         FCC Proposes $16 Billion-Plus for Public Safety Wireless Networks

·         Qwest Hits Users with New ‘Convenience Fees’

·         AT&T Faster Than Verizon, Sprint in 3G Wireless Performance Test

·         Facebook Friends Austin, But It’s Complicated

·         Allyn Bank Robbed a Second Time by the Same Guy

·         Missing Camper Found Dead in Deschutes River

·         Highway Three - SR 3 - Belfair Bypass: Alternatives Outreach

·         G.M. to Close Hummer After Sale Collapse

WORD OF THE DAY

Proscribe • \proh-SCRIBE\ • verb - 1: outlaw *2: to condemn or forbid as harmful or unlawful

Jolene joyfully traipsed across the law, unaware that she had crossed into the dog’s off-leash area of the park. For barefoot revelers, it was the only proscribed area of “Dog Bomb Park,” for obvious and unspoken reasons.

WEATHER

Shelton Forecast & Weather Alerts

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/mapclick.php?textfield1=47.213805&textfield2=-123.113412&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=shelton%2c%20wa%2c%20usa

ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES

Jefferson PUD Electrical Power Decision Expected in a Month (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20100225/news/302259986

Jefferson PUD: No Decision Yet on Public Power Issue (Port Townsend Leader, WA

http://www.ptleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=36&SubSectionID=55&ArticleID=26383

Oregon Lawmakers Pass Restrictions on Energy Tax Credits - Bill plugs an estimated $100 million budget hole (Salem Statesman-Journal, OR)

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100224/LEGISLATURE/2240418/1042/STATE

New York State Paying More for Appropriations-Backed Bond Issue - Energy Northwest plans to sell about $475 million of bonds through Goldman Sachs Group (Business Week)

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-25/new-york-state-paying-more-for-appropriations-backed-bond-issue.html

Olympian Editorial - We Must Keep Nuclear Power as Viable Option

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/02/25/1151166/we-must-keep-nuclear-power-as.html

Vermont Senate Votes to Close Nuclear Plant (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/us/25nuke.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Vermont - Records Show Tritium Leak Reaches State Land (Rutland Herald, VT)

http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100224/NEWS02/2240336/1003/NEWS02

Ruptured Pipes Create Extra Work for Contractor on Cowlitz PUD Building Expansion (The Daily News, Longview, WA)

http://www.tdn.com/news/local/04adcc46-2184-11df-aad6-001cc4c03286.html

Portland General Electric Reports 2009 Financial Results (Market Wire)

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/portland-general-electric-reports-2009-financial-results-and-revises-2010-earnings-guidance-2010-02-25?reflink=MW_news_stmp

Great Falls Mayor Wants More Direct Oversight of Electric City Power (Great Falls Tribune, MT)

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20100225/NEWS01/2250306/1002/Mayor-wants-more-direct-oversight-of-Electric-City-Power

California - Report Confirms Plane Crashed After Hitting Power Lines (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2011179760_apusplanehitshouse.html?syndication=rss

United Kingdom – Telegraph Editorial: There’s a Blackout Coming - unless someone sees the light

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/benedict-brogan/7309946/Theres-a-blackout-coming-unless-someone-sees-the-light.html

FISH & WILDLIFE

Orca Whale Kills SeaWorld Worker (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/24/us/AP-US-SeaWorld-Death.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Killer Orca Has Violent Past, Ties to Northwest (KIRO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.kirotv.com/news/22661995/detail.html

Feds Predict Better Year for California Salmon (Associated Press)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/24/state/n153758S41.DTL&feed=rss.news

Columbia River 2010 Fall Chinook Returns Look Good on Paper (Seattle Times)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/reeltimenorthwest/2011177341_columbia_river_2010_fall_chino.html

Community Meeting Monday to Discuss Salmon Enhancement Project on Skokomish River (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/1449-community-meeting-to-discuss-salmon-enhancement-project-on-skokomish-river-monday-

Salem Statesman Journal Editorial – California Water Plan Would Hurt State’s Salmon Fishery

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100225/OPINION/2250322/1049

Groups to Rally for Bull Trout Protections (Associated Press)

http://www.examiner.com/a-2494090~Groups_to_rally_for_bull_trout_protections.html?cid=rss-Idaho_Headlines

Fishermen Rally at US Capitol for More Generous Catch Limits (Oregon Public Broadcasting)

http://news.opb.org/article/6793-fishermen-rally-us-capitol-more-generous-catch-limits/

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Pacific NW Delegation Members Back $200 Million Proposal for Columbia Cleanup (Oregon Public Radio)

http://news.opb.org/article/6790-nw-delegation-members-back-200-million-proposal-columbia-cleanup/

Concerns Build Over Washington State’s Water Supplies (KUOW Radio, Seattle)

http://kuow.org/program.php?id=19530

EPA Begins Yakima Valley Groundwater Sampling (Associated Press)

http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=12044428

California Water Diversion Plan ‘A Work in Progress,’ Feinstein Says (Sacramento Bee, CA)

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/02/25/2563087/water-diversion-feinstein.html

Report Says Contamination from Coal Ash Waste Is Worse Than EPA Says (Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0224/Report-Contamination-from-coal-ash-waste-is-worse-than-EPA-says

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Whatcom County Votes Emergency Moratorium on Wind Power (Bellingham Herald, WA)

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2010/02/25/1309385/whatcom-county-votes-emergency.html

Oregon - Comments Sought On Wave Energy Project (The Umpqua Post, Reedsport, OR)

http://www.theumpquapost.com/articles/2010/02/24/business/doc4b8467bdad7c3956313206.txt

Columbia Basin College Goes Solar (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)

http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=12040303

Idaho - Micron Clears Way for Solar Venture in Nampa (Idaho Press-Tribune, Nampa, ID)

http://www.idahopress.com/news/article_d70e2a08-21a4-11df-b72d-001cc4c002e0.html

Idaho Plans to Install Solar Panels on Schools (NW Public Radio)

http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=6890

SF Chronicle Editorial - Solar Bill Will Help California’s Energy Future

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/25/ED7T1C63QA.DTL&feed=rss.opinion

General Electric GE Bullish on British Columbia’s Green Power Sector (Vancouver Sun, BC)

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/bullish+province+green+power+sector/2611009/story.html

Michigan - Officials Largely in Favor of Biomass Plant (The Record-Eagle, Traverse City, MI)

http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/3894191

Florida - Supply of Wood to Fuel Biomass Plant Still Under Scrutiny (The Gainesville Sun, FL)

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100224/ARTICLES/100229681/1004/LIVING?Title=Supply-of-wood-to-fuel-biomass-plant-still-under-scrutiny

Trash Power? US Communities Use Landfills to Produce Energy (USA Today)

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/02/trash-power-us-communities-use-landfills-to-produce-energy/1

Deere Mulls Possible Sale of Wind Energy Business (Associated Press)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/25/financial/f090759S46.DTL&feed=rss.business

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

BPA Announces Funding Opportunity to Help Manage Electricity Use (Bonneville Power Administration)

http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1582/486995/

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Why Climate Change Is Dead in the Senate - GOP is focused on cheap domestic energy (Newsweek Magazine)

http://www.newsweek.com/id/234137?from=rss

Wyoming Formation Could Hold 50 Years of CO2 (KTVQ-TV, Billings, MT)

http://www.ktvq.com/news/report-wyo-formation-could-hold-50-years-of-co2/

Scientists Examine Causes for Lull in Warming (Reuters)

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET-Cetera/Scientists-examine-causes-for-lull-in-warming/articleshow/5616841.cms

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

Study Says at Least Theoretically - Numerically Speaking - We Could Get All US Electricity from Wind Power (Investigate West)

http://invw.org/2010/02/study-at-least-theoretically-numerically-speaking-we-could-get-all-u-s-electricity-from-wind-power/

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Seattle Times Op/Ed - Lawmakers Should Bring Back Construction Jobs by Spurring Data-Center Industry

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2011177710_guest25johnson.html?syndication=rss

Wenatchee World Editorial - Data Centers & the Big Refund

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/feb/24/data-centers-and-the-big-refund/

FCC Proposes $16 Billion-Plus for Public Safety Wireless Networks (Associated Press)

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14469522

Qwest Hits Users with New ‘Convenience Fees’ - ‘Pay us so you can pay us,’ insists telco (Broadband Reports)

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Qwest-Hits-Users-With-New-Convenience-Fees-107068

AT&T Faster Than Verizon, Sprint in 3G Wireless Performance Test (USA Today)

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2010/02/att-beats-verizon-and-others-in-3g-performance-test/1

Facebook Friends Austin, But It’s Complicated (GigaOM)

http://gigaom.com/2010/02/25/facebook-friends-austin-but-its-complicated/

GENERAL NEWS

Allyn Bank Robbed a Second Time by the Same Guy (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/1447-allyn-bank-robbed-a-second-time-by-the-same-guy-pictures-now-posted

Missing Camper Found Dead in Deschutes River (Olympian, WA)

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/02/24/1150776/missing-camper-found-dead-in-deschutes.html

Highway Three - SR 3 - Belfair Bypass: Alternatives Outreach (Washington State Department of Transportation)

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr3/belfairbypass/

G.M. to Close Hummer After Sale Collapses (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/business/25hummer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

DIVERSIONS

Icelandic Couple Sued Over ‘Ugly’ Kitchen in NY

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/25/financial/f074945S17.DTL&feed=rss.news

Can Social Networking Invite Burglars? Site Shows How Much Personal Information Is Available Online

http://www.kirotv.com/technology/22666563/detail.html

Customer Dubbed Poor Tipper Refused Service

http://www.kirotv.com/money/22655961/detail.html

Man Sues For $25,000 over Hot Dog Injury - Kansas City Royals Mascot Threw Hot Dog

http://www.kirotv.com/sports/22649851/detail.html

140-Year-Old Hot Dog Discovered - Found encased in ice underneath restaurant

http://www.wwlp.com/dpps/news/strange/140-year-old-hot-dog-discovered-jgr_3251637

SONG OF THE DAY

Miles Davis Quartet - My Funny Valentine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS2BUr83O-8

Energy News Digest for February 24, 2010

All the links in today’s news digest lead to current stories. Please note that some media organizations update their web sites regularly, which may result in broken links in the future.

To subscribe, email jmyer@masonpud3.org

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)

·         Jefferson PUD Could Decide This Week on Public Power Issue

·         Contractor to Pay for Defects at Rocky Reach Dam

·         Grant PUD Rate Increases Start Monday - Increase Helps Fund Mandatory Projects

·         Senate Budget Drops Sales Tax Break on Coal for Centralia Power Plant

·         Chelan PUD to Improve Power Line That Supplies Wenatchee

·         Mason PUD 3 to Conduct Tree Trimming on Highway 302

·         Oregonian Editorial - Where You Fellas Going With All Those Tax Credits?

·         Idacorp Profit Grows in 4Q, Company Sets 2010 Guidance

·         TransAlta Q4 Profit Declines 16%

·         New Warrant Obtained in Connecticut Power Plant Explosion Probe

·         Congressman Hastings supports lawsuit over Nuke Waste Site at Yucca Mountain

·         Spanish Town’s Bid to Welcome Nuclear Waste Site Divides Region

·         Skepticism Meets Vermont Nuke Plant’s Cheap-Power Gift

·         A Future for Fusion? Supporters Say It Isn’t a Question of If, But When

·         International Markets Lift Iberdrola

·         New York - KeySpan Electricity Antitrust Complaint Settled

·         Orca Whales - New Calf Spotted With L Pod

·         Fish & Wildlife Director’s Death Prompts Week Delay in Sage Grouse Decision

·         45-Day Sentence for Killing Birds on Long Beach, WA

·         Squaxin Tribe Asks Gregoire to Order Ecology to Halt Johns Creek Well Drilling

·         Waiting to Inhale: Deep-Ocean Low-Oxygen Zones Spreading to Shallower Coastal Waters

·         Federal Study Indicates Wave Technologies Could Harm Marine Resources

·         Clean, Cheap Power from Fuel Cells in a Box?

·         Bloom Energy Claims a New Fuel Cell Technology

·         Reaping the Whirlwind? Europe’s Big Wind Subsidy Race

·         Increased Costs Are Blowin’ in the Wind

·         Alaska - Small Wind Farm Pays Big

·         Renewable Energy Corp - Norwegian Solar Firm Expected to Raise Equity

·         Germany to Cut Solar Photovoltaic Incentives by 16% from July

·         3TIER Completes REmapping the World

·         Geothermal Energy Receives U.S. Cash, but Hits Roadblocks

·         Oregon - Car-Charging Station Has Sticker Shock on Cost

·         Hiring Freezes Hamper Federal Weatherization Plan

·         For a More Energy-Efficient Home, Ample Insulation Is Key

·         California - Menlo Park to Get LED Bulbs in Almost 500 Street Lamps

·         Senate Battles EPA in Greenhouse Gas Showdown

·         UN Climate Talks to Resume in April in Germany

·         Cleaner Heat, Free (Or Nearly Free) for the Asking

·         Facebook Takes Heat Over Coal-Fired Power in Its Prineville Data Center

·         Protestors Take to Facebook to Protest Facebook – Over Data Center Power Source

·         Q&A With Google’s ‘Green Energy Czar’ on Sustainable Computing

·         Greening Deserts for Carbon Credits

·         Okanogan County Phones out After Lines Cut by Contractor

·         FCC: Lower the Price, & Millions More Will Have Broadband

·         FCC Finds Broadband Is Expensive, People Are Strange, Uneducated

·         “I Also Want a Pony” - Appleton May be Google Test Market for Broadband Internet

·         Why Twitter Is Cuddling Up to Yahoo

·         Baltimore Wants to Know Why They Aren’t Worthy of FiO

·         Verizon: Watch What We Say, Not What We Do

·         Intel Discloses ‘Sophisticated’ Hacker Attack

·         Olympia Councilman Hyer Charged, Says He Tried to Grow Pot but Failed

·         Investigator Says Former Clallam County Cashier Stole at Least $617,467

·         Port of Shelton Reduces Estimation on Fairgrounds’ Buildings

·         Energy Department Outlines Options for Nuclear Waste Cleanup at Hanford

·         Copper Wire Thieves Hit Tri-City Farms Again

·         City of Tacoma Settles in Open Meetings Lawsuit

·         Obama Zeros in on Law Professor for 9th Circuit Post

WORD OF THE DAY

Interloper • \inter-LOPE-err\ • noun - One that interlopes an illegal or unlicensed trader b: one that intrudes in a place or sphere of activity

The “flatlanders” were viewed with suspicion by the locals, seen as interlopers in local affairs. Anyone trying to worm themselves into local issues and controversy were carpetbaggers until at least two generations had passed.

WEATHER

Shelton Forecast & Weather Alerts

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/mapclick.php?textfield1=47.213805&textfield2=-123.113412&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=shelton%2c%20wa%2c%20usa

ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES

Jefferson PUD Could Decide This Week on Public Power Issue (Port Townsend Leader, WA)

http://www.ptleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=36&SubSectionID=55&ArticleID=26354

Contractor to Pay for Defects at Rocky Reach Dam (Wenatchee World, WA)

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/feb/23/contractor-to-pay-for-defects-at-dam/

Grant PUD Rate Increases Start Monday - Increase Helps Fund Mandatory Projects (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)

http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2010/02/23/news/doc4b8459c755be4366754590.txt

Senate Budget Drops Sales Tax Break on Coal for Centralia Power Plant (Olympian, WA)

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/02/24/1149487/senate-budget-drops-sales-tax.html

Chelan PUD to Improve Power Line That Supplies Wenatchee (Wenatchee World, WA)

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/feb/23/chelan-pud-to-improve-power-line-that-supplies/

Mason PUD 3 to Conduct Tree Trimming on Highway 302 (Mason County PUD No. 3)

http://www.masonpud3.org/Newsdisplay.aspx?NewsID=688

Oregonian Editorial - Where You Fellas Going With All Those Tax Credits?

http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/02/where_you_fellas_going_with_al.html

Idacorp Profit Grows in 4Q, Company Sets 2010 Guidance (Associated Press)

http://www.examiner.com/a-2490228~Idacorp_profit_grows_in_4Q__co__sets_2010_guidance.html?cid=rss-Idaho_Headlines

TransAlta Q4 Profit Declines 16% (RTT News)

http://www.rttnews.com/ArticleView.aspx?Id=1221283&SMap=1

New Warrant Obtained in Connecticut Power Plant Explosion Probe (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2011171783_apctpowerplantexplosion.html?syndication=rss

Congressman Hastings supports lawsuit over Nuke Waste Site at Yucca Mountain (Associated Press)

http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=12027030

Spanish Town’s Bid to Welcome Nuclear Waste Site Divides Region (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/world/europe/24iht-waste.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Skepticism Meets Vermont Nuke Plant’s Cheap-Power Gift (Associated Press)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/23/financial/f135742S97.DTL&feed=rss.business

A Future for Fusion? Supporters Say It Isn’t a Question of If, But When (Wall Street Journal)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704107204575039330758722368.html

International Markets Lift Iberdrola (Financial Times of London, UK)

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b8bcc1c0-212e-11df-a6b2-00144feab49a.html

New York - KeySpan Electricity Antitrust Complaint Settled (Courthouse News Service)

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/02/24/24993.htm

FISH & WILDLIFE

Orca Whales - New Calf Spotted With L Pod (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/feb/23/new-calf-spotted-l-pod/?partner=RSS

Fish & Wildlife Director’s Death Prompts Week Delay in Sage Grouse Decision (Idaho Statesman, Boise, ID)

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/02/23/1091928/fish-and-wildlife-directors-death.html

45-Day Sentence for Killing Birds on Long Beach, WA (KIRO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=288645

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Squaxin Tribe Asks Gregoire to Order Ecology to Halt Johns Creek Well Drilling - Flows vital to salmon, say tribal leaders (Olympian, WA)

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/02/24/1149501/tribe-asks-gregoire-to-order-ecology.html

Waiting to Inhale: Deep-Ocean Low-Oxygen Zones Spreading to Shallower Coastal Waters (Scientific American)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=low-oxygen-ocean-coastal

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Federal Study Indicates Wave Technologies Could Harm Marine Resources (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/02/24/24greenwire-wave-technologies-could-harm-marine-resources-95837.html

Clean, Cheap Power from Fuel Cells in a Box? (USA Today)

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-02-24-fuel-cell_N.htm

Bloom Energy Claims a New Fuel Cell Technology (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/business/energy-environment/24bloom.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Reaping the Whirlwind? Europe’s Big Wind Subsidy Race (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/02/24/24climatewire-reaping-the-whirlwind-europes-big-wind-subsi-80468.html

Increased Costs Are Blowin’ in the Wind (Oregon Catalyst – another 25 cents for Bobby Zimmerman)

http://www.oregoncatalyst.com/index.php/archives/3075-Increased-Costs-Are-Blowin-in-the-Wind.html

Alaska - Small Wind Farm Pays Big (Alaska Dispatch)

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/dispatches/energy/4177-small-wind-farm-pays-big

Renewable Energy Corp - Norwegian Solar Firm Expected to Raise Equity through Rights Issue (Edmonton Journal, Alberta)

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Norwegian+solar+firm+expected+raise+equity+through+rights+issue/2601803/story.html

Germany to Cut Solar Photovoltaic Incentives by 16% from July (REVE)

http://www.evwind.es/noticias.php?id_not=4252

3TIER Completes REmapping the World - Release of global solar dataset marks final milestone of initiative (Renewable Energy World)

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/3tier/news/article/2010/02/3tier-completes-remapping-the-world?cmpid=rss

Geothermal Energy Receives U.S. Cash, but Hits Roadblocks (Vancouver Sun, BC)

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Geothermal+energy+receives+cash+hits+roadblocks/2606481/story.html

Oregon - Car-Charging Station Has Sticker Shock on Cost (Ashland Daily Tidings, OR)

http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20100223%2FNEWS02%2F2230315&utm_source=AllTodaysNewsRSS

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Hiring Freezes Hamper Federal Weatherization Plan (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/science/earth/24weatherize.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

For a More Energy-Efficient Home, Ample Insulation Is Key (Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Eco-renovation/2010/0223/For-a-more-energy-efficient-home-ample-insulation-is-key

California - Menlo Park to Get LED Bulbs in Almost 500 Street Lamps (San Jose Mercury News, CA)

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14459714?nclick_check=1

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Senate Battles EPA in Greenhouse Gas Showdown (Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0223/Senate-battles-EPA-in-greenhouse-gas-showdown

UN Climate Talks to Resume in April in Germany (Associated Press)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/23/international/i044532S97.DTL&feed=rss.news

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

Cleaner Heat, Free (Or Nearly Free) for the Asking - to the wood-heat holdouts go the spoils. (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/02/24/1083829/cleaner-heat-free-or-nearly-free.html

Facebook Takes Heat Over Coal-Fired Power in Its Prineville Data Center (The Oregonian, Portland)

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/02/facebook_wakes_up_to.html

Protestors Take to Facebook to Protest Facebook – Over Data Center Power Source (Oregon Public Broadcasting)

http://news.opb.org/article/6784-protestors-take-facebook-protest-facebook/

Q&A With Google’s ‘Green Energy Czar’ on Sustainable Computing (The Oregonian, Portland)

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/02/qa_with_googles_green_energy_c.html

Greening Deserts for Carbon Credits (Renewable Energy World)

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/02/greening-deserts-for-carbon-credits?cmpid=rss

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Okanogan County Phones out After Lines Cut by Contractor (Wenatchee World, WA)

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/feb/23/okanogan-county-phones-out-after-lines-cut-by/

FCC: Lower the Price, & Millions More Will Have Broadband (Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0223/FCC-Lower-the-price-and-millions-more-will-have-broadband

FCC Finds Broadband Is Expensive, People Are Strange, Uneducated (Broadband Reports)

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Finds-Broadband-Is-Expensive-People-Are-Strange-Uneducated-107028

“I Also Want a Pony” - Appleton May be Google Test Market for Broadband Internet (WFRV-TV, Green Bay, WI)

http://www.wfrv.com/news/local/story/Appleton-may-be-Google-test-market-for-broadband/YsF-OuDlzUqnrH0_97cNJQ.cspx

Why Twitter Is Cuddling Up to Yahoo (Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/0224/Why-Twitter-is-cuddling-up-to-Yahoo

Baltimore Wants to Know Why They Aren’t Worthy of FiOS - Verizon denies redlining, says their focus is simply elsewhere (Broadband Reports)

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Baltimore-Wants-To-Know-Why-They-Arent-Worthy-Of-FiOS-107050

Verizon: Watch What We Say, Not What We Do - Carrier is dedicated to ubiquitous broadband, except when they aren’t (Broadband Reports)

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Watch-What-We-Say-Not-What-We-Do-107029

Intel Discloses ‘Sophisticated’ Hacker Attack (Associated Press)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/24/BUIJ1C5VLR.DTL&feed=rss.business

GENERAL NEWS

Olympia Councilman Hyer Charged, Says He Tried to Grow Pot but Failed (KOMO-TV, Seattle)

http://www.komonews.com/news/85135377.html

Investigator Says Former Clallam County Cashier Stole at Least $617,467 (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20100224/NEWS/302249987

Upgrade Costs Lower than Expected - Port of Shelton Reduces Estimation on Fairgrounds’ Buildings (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.net/news/1442-port-reduces-estimation-on-fairgrounds-buildings

Energy Department Outlines Options for Nuclear Waste Cleanup at Hanford (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/feb/24/hanfords-risks-are-large/

Copper Wire Thieves Hit Tri-City Farms Again (Tri-City Herald, WA)

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/02/23/913220/crime-copper-wire-thieves-hit.html

City of Tacoma Settles in Open Meetings Lawsuit - News Tribune alleged board decided on applicants in secret (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/02/23/1082194/city-of-tacoma-settles-in-open.html

Obama Zeros in on Law Professor for 9th Circuit Post (Los Angeles Times, CA)

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-obama-judges24-2010feb24,0,29782.story?track=rss

DIVERSIONS

Illinois State Police: Man Made His Bed of Weed

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/State-Police-Man-Made-His-Bed-of-Weed-85019572.html

Dog Chases Seagull off 300-Foot Cliff - Spaniel Survives Fall

http://www.kirotv.com/family/22646917/detail.html

Didn’t Pass the Smell Test - California Agency Gives Waterless Urinals the Flush

http://www.examiner.com/a-2489921~Calif__agency_gives_waterless_urinals_the_flush.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines

New York - No Brownies at Bake Sales, but Doritos May be O.K.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/no-brownies-at-bake-sales-but-doritos-may-be-o-k/?partner=rss&emc=rss

SONG OF THE DAY

Larry Groce - Junk Food Junkie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH9u35cK4iQ