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Salmon fight back against pollution

Salmon’s got a problem with all the garbage and toxins people throw into his home so he has a simple solution to fight pollution. Check out People For Puget Sound and Visual Media Group’s Earth Day Everyday video for a good laugh.

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BC Environmentalists criticize Site C dam proposal

CBC reports on a proposed dam project that local tribes and environmental groups say would destroy farmlands, displace wildlife and release unacceptable amounts of greenhouse gasses.

NW Energy Coalition member organizations Sierra Club of B.C. and the David Suzuki Foundation are featured in the article which you can find here.

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Clearing Up column favors efficiency over nukes

Clearing Up, the Northwest energy industry’s must-read weekly publication, last week published an opinion column in which longtime contributor Jude Noland lists many problems likely to derail any “nuclear renaissance” — including the high costs, waste-disposal problems and safety issues.

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How did Clean and Affordable Energy do this session in Washington State?

The 2010 legislative session has finally come to a close and it’s time to take inventory on how clean and affordable energy policies fared in Olympia. Read on to see where we stand…

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Keeping our information nicely chilled: Green datacenters on the rise

Tech Blog Ars Technica has an extensive article about how energy efficient technologies, both old and new, are helping to reduce the energy consumption of the datacenters powering the modern world.

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Seattle Times Editorial Board: Water over the dam works for salmon

A recent Seattle Times Editorial urges the Obama administration to listen to fisheries scientists and biologists who want to keep spilling water over dams in the Columbia and Snake river basins to aid salmon migration.

Read the full Editorial online.

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Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan, Part II

The Transformer: A cheaper bright future

The region’s new power and conservation plan closely tracks NW Energy Coalition’s Bright Future analysis and provides an even lower consumer cost estimate for achieving our clean energy vision…

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Helena Independant Record: Energy efficiency key to clean energy future

Coalition staffer Diego Rivas and director Sara Patton make the case in the Helena Independent Record that energy efficiency is the key to meeting the Northwest’s new power needs over the next two decades. They highlight the assertion in the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s Sixth Power Plan, released last month, “that the region can and should meet the lion’s share — 85 percent — of new power needs with energy efficiency costing far less than power from any new generating facility. For western Montana, this means saving about 200 average megawatts, an amount equal to its projected load growth.”

Read the full opinion piece here.

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Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan, Part I

The Transformer – Energy efficiency brings good things to life

The new official power and conservation plan for the Northwest confirms that more than enough inexpensive energy efficiency is availability to meet most new electricity needs.

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Energy Matters Update – March 16, 2010

Moving the region toward a Bright Future: The new Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan

Every five years the region’s official power planning agency, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, produces a new 20-year forecast of growing electricity needs and a prescription for meeting them. The recently approved Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan charts an aggressive clean energy path for our region’s future.

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Greenest building in Seattle planned

The Seattle Times is running a story on how the Bullit Foundation, a Coalition funder, is preparing to build a new headquarters that would also serve as a showplace for cutting-edge green engineering and architecture.

Read the full article online.

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Wash. Leg Review: Some Enviro Bills Live, Others Die

KPLU’s Liam Moriarty has a short report on the Washington state legislative session and the fate of several environmental bills, including some authored or supported by the NW Energy Coalition. Listen online.

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