The Power Of One Election And America’s Energy Future, Hour Two
In the next four years, the United States will have one fundamental energy policy challenge: How to make the country more self-sufficient. Listen to stories about the next frontiers of energy...
View Article$178 Million Smart Grid Project Launches In Northwest
The University of Washington got its launch Wednesday as the country's biggest testing ground for smart grid technology.Smart grid is a catch-all term for something power providers are still trying to...
View ArticleNew Report: Coal Terminal Means Traffic In Seattle
Government agencies have begun the environmental review process for the largest proposed coal export terminal in the Northwest. It would be located near Bellingham, Washington.If it’s built, the...
View ArticleNew Science Teams To Tackle Hanford Plant's Vexing Challenges
RICHLAND, Wash. – Energy Secretary Steven Chu is bolstering the scientific brain power at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation’s waste treatment plant. A memo released to employees Thursday says the aim is...
View ArticleAre You A Business? Seattle City Light Wants To Give You Money
Seattle City Light has an unexpected pot of money on its hands. The utility says it needs to give away $5 million before the end of the year.The money is earmarked for businesses that want to become...
View ArticleSierra Club Wants Coal Out Of PSE's Stocking
Puget Sound Energy owns and operates a coal-fired power plant out of Billings, Montana, that the Sierra Club calls "the dirtiest coal plant in the West." The Colstrip Plant meets EPA emission standards...
View ArticleSea Trial Leaves Shell's Arctic Oil-Spill Gear "Crushed Like A Beer Can"
UPDATE on Congressional interest in this story here.Shell Oil has been building and testing equipment designed for the Arctic Ocean here in Puget Sound. In September, a key test of underwater oil-spill...
View ArticleUPDATE: Congressman Seeks Answers In Arctic Oil-Spill Gear's Failure
A KUOW investigation has led a top congressman to demand answers about Shell Oil's underwater accident this fall in Puget Sound.As we reported on Friday, an underwater test near Anacortes left Shell's...
View ArticleAmory Lovins On Reinventing Fire
Energy expert Amory Lovins outlines a path to eliminate use of oil and coal in the United States by the year 2050 in his new book "Reinventing Fire." Lovins says the path will grow the US economy by...
View ArticleShell Ready To Try Again With Rebuilt Oil-Spill Dome
The Arctic Challenger left Puget Sound's Bellingham Bay Wednesday night and arrived at a deep-water anchorage near Anacortes, Wash., Thursday morning. The barge is part of Shell Oil’s fleet of vessels...
View ArticleMayor McGinn Calls On Seattle To Divest From Fossil Fuels
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn wants the city to get its money out of fossil fuels. He has called on the city’s two main retirement funds to divest millions of dollars invested in oil and gas companies.
View ArticleIdaho Power Uses Cloud Seeding To Enhance Winter Snowpack
Cloud seeding has been around for decades. It started out as a way to make rain for growing crops. But these days in the Mountain West, it’s used as a way to make more snow. Idaho Power is seeding...
View ArticleShell's Seattle-Bound Oil Rig Evacuated, Lost, Recovered In Gulf Of Alaska
A floating oil rig that was abandoned on Saturday in heavy seas in the Gulf of Alaska is being towed away from land — a second time.
View ArticleShell’s Beached Kulluk Oil Rig Towed To Safe Harbor
A shipwrecked oil rig that was bound for Seattle has been floated off the rocks and towed to a safe harbor in the Gulf of Alaska. A fleet of nine ships accompanied Shell Oil’s Kulluk drill rig on the...
View ArticleInterior Dept., Coast Guard To Probe Shell’s Arctic Drilling Mishaps
The Obama administration launched a sweeping inquiry into Shell Oil’s Arctic drilling program on Tuesday. The probe, to be completed within 60 days, will look at the company’s mishaps in Alaska and in...
View ArticleAddressing Climate Change In The Northwest
Energy expert AmoryLovins says the United States can replace all oil and coal by the year 2050, without nuclear power, new federal taxes or subsidies, or new inventions. At the same time, we can grow...
View ArticleNorthwest On Verge Of Becoming Pacific Crude Oil Gateway
ABERDEEN, Wash. – The Northwest is on the verge of becoming a gateway for crude oil. Three different developers have plans to use docks on Grays Harbor, Washington to transfer crude oil from trains to...
View ArticleShell's Arctic Vessels: To Asia For Major Repairs, Anacortes Area For Tests
UPDATE: Shell plans to use three tugs to tow the damaged Kulluk oil rig to Dutch Harbor in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, where it will await a longer trip to an unnamed Asian drydock. Shell and the US...
View ArticleThe Price Of North Dakota's Oil Boom
North Dakota is booming. The state's unemployment rate is just 3.2 percent — well below the national average of 7.9 percent. Officials are trying to keep pace with a population surge brought on by oil...
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