Thursday, February 23, 2012
Energy News Digest for February 23, 2012
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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.
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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Washington
State Trooper Shot, Killed on Traffic Stop near Gorst (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Oregon Legislature Ensures Facebook’s Prineville
Plant Doesn’t Face Higher Taxes (Oregonian, Portland)
Wind,
New Energy - Big Economic Windfall (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Following the Money: The Klamath Dams Are a
Massive Investment (Klamath Falls Herald & News)
Judge’s
Ruling Complicates Hydrofracking Issue in New York (NY Times)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Judge’s Ruling Complicates Hydrofracking Issue in New York
- This Time, No Big Shocks at Okanogan County Electric Co-Op Rate Meeting
- Oregon - Comparing Utility Companies: EWEB, SUB & EPUD
- Grays Harbor PUD Outlines Changes in Wake of 2007 Storm, Spradlin Suit
- Police Say Love Triangle Led to California Murder-Suicide near SMUD Offices
- California Power Plant Converts from Coal to Biomass
- Michigan Lawmaker: More Education Needed after Flint Senior Citizen Dies Days after Consumers Energy Turned Off His Electricity
- Ohio Resets American Electric Power Rate Case after Small-Business Complaints of Double-Digit Increases
- Utility Smart Meters Screwing Up Wireless Internet Service Providers, Home Routers
- Australian Alcoa Workers Offered Middle East Jobs
- Following the Money: The Klamath Dams Are a Massive Investment
- Mutated Idaho Trout Raise New Concerns near Mine Sites
- Sharks Have an Unexplained New Taste for Sea Otters
- Wind, New Energy - Big Economic Windfall
- Colorado Springs Utilities Board Becalms Wind Power Plans
- Judge Approves $370,000 in Solyndra Bonuses
- Update: ‘One Dead, One Missing’ after China Turbine Blaze
- Bringing Quicker, Easier Solar Power to Rural Africa
- The Quest for ‘Hydricity’
- Bonneville Power Administration Receives Distinguished Award for Industrial Energy Efficiency Efforts
- Will Your Kid Be Taught that Climate Change is a Hoax?
- Blogger Claims Unplugged Tesla Renders Car a ‘Brick’
- Vancouver, BC to Expand Electric Car Charging Stations
- Trade Battles Buffet Europe’s Green Efforts
- Oregon Legislature Ensures Facebook’s Prineville Plant Doesn’t Face Higher Taxes
- Is Google Plotting a FiOS TV Service?
- State Patrol Recommends Criminal Charges, Including Theft, Against Port Angeles City Finance Director
- Washington State Trooper Shot, Killed on Traffic Stop near Gorst
- Bremerton Eight-Year-Old Critical after School Shooting
- Fighter Jets Taking Over Puget Sound Skies Thursday
- Port of Shelton Looking into Logging John’s Prairie
- Community Development Block Grant Application for Shelton Senior Center Getting Closer
- North Mason Senior Center Community Development Block Grant Application Authorized
- Refinery Fire Could Boost Gas Prices in Washington
- Mason County Tax Statements Delayed
- In Tax Fight, Tribes Make, and Sell, Cigarettes
WORD OF THE DAY
Conflagration • \conn-fluh-GRAY-shun\ • Noun - 1:
fire; especially: a large disastrous fire 2: conflict, war.
“CRACK” the room dropped into an abrupt,
uncomfortable silence. Like the deep breath before a storm, the tension was
palpable. Eddie had no awareness that his derogatory remark about castanets,
and those who played with them, was about to unleash a conflagration of
invective from the firm’s Chief Executive Officer. A man well known throughout
the company as a rabid flamenco fan…especially of the sharp, clacking rhythm of
the highly polished granadillo wood instruments.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Judge’s
Ruling Complicates Hydrofracking Issue in New York (NY Times)
This
Time, No Big Shocks at Okanogan County Electric Co-Op Rate Meeting (Methow
Valley News, Twisp, WA)
Oregon
- Comparing Utility Companies: EWEB, SUB & EPUD (KEZI-TV, Eugene, OR)
Grays Harbor PUD Outlines Changes in Wake of 2007
Storm, Spradlin Suit (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
Police
Say Love Triangle Led to California Murder-Suicide near SMUD Offices
(Associated Press)
California
Power Plant Converts from Coal to Biomass (Bakersfield Californian, CA)
Michigan Lawmaker: More Education Needed after
Flint Senior Citizen Dies Days after Consumers Energy Turned Off His
Electricity (The Flint Journal – MI)
Ohio Resets American Electric Power Rate Case after
Small-Business Complaints of Double-Digit Increases (Columbus Business Journal,
OH)
Utility Smart Meters Screwing Up Wireless Internet
Service Providers, Home Routers - Charging Customers Fees to Disable Wireless
Functionality (Broadband Reports)
Australian Alcoa Workers Offered Middle East Jobs
(The Daily Telegraph, Australia)
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/saudi-offer-for-alcoa-workers/story-fn7ki14e-1226276446389
FISH & WILDLIFE
Following the Money: The Klamath Dams Are a
Massive Investment (Klamath Falls Herald & News)
Mutated
Idaho Trout Raise New Concerns near Mine Sites (NY Times)
Sharks Have an Unexplained New Taste for Sea
Otters (Wenatchee World, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Wind,
New Energy - Big Economic Windfall (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Colorado
Springs Utilities Board Becalms Wind Power Plans “…board members saying it was
just too expensive…” (Colorado Springs Gazette, CO)
Judge
Approves $370,000 in Solyndra Bonuses (USA Today)
Update:
‘One Dead, One Missing’ after China Turbine Blaze (ReCharge)
Bringing
Quicker, Easier Solar Power to Rural Africa (Christian
Science Monitor)
The
Quest for ‘Hydricity’ (NY Times)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Bonneville Power Administration Receives
Distinguished Award for Industrial Energy Efficiency Efforts (Bonneville Power
Administration)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Will
your kid be taught that climate change is a hoax? (Washington Post)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Blogger Claims Unplugged Tesla Renders Car a ‘Brick’
(SF Chronicle)
Vancouver,
BC to Expand Electric Car Charging Stations (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
Trade
Battles Buffet Europe’s Green Efforts (NY Times)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Oregon Legislature Ensures Facebook’s Prineville
Plant Doesn’t Face Higher Taxes (Oregonian, Portland)
Is Google Plotting a FiOS TV Service? (Gizmodo)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
State Patrol Recommends Criminal Charges, Including
Theft, Against Port Angeles City Finance Director (Peninsula Daily News, Port
Angeles, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Washington
State Trooper Shot, Killed on Traffic Stop near Gorst (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Bremerton
Eight-Year-Old Critical after School Shooting (Associated Press)
Fighter
Jets Taking Over Puget Sound Skies Thursday (KIRO
Broadcasting, Seattle)
Port
of Shelton Looking into Logging John’s Prairie (Mason Web TV)
Community
Development Block Grant Application for Shelton Senior Center Getting Closer
(Mason Web TV)
North
Mason Senior Center Community Development Block Grant Application Authorized
(Mason Web TV)
Refinery
Fire Could Boost Gas Prices in Washington (Associated Press)
Mason
County Tax Statements Delayed (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
In
Tax Fight, Tribes Make, and Sell, Cigarettes (NY Times)
DIVERSIONS
Indiana Lawmaker Munches Cookies to Counter Girl
Scout Remarks
Holy
Windfall, Batman! Man’s Childhood Comic Collection Fetches $3.5 Million
Venus, Jupiter, Moon Offer Dazzling Night Show
Christo’s Colorado Project Delayed at Least Till
2015 “Either those drapes go…or I do…”
SONG OF THE DAY
Diana
Krall - Fly Me to the Moon
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