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Utilities Sector

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    Chau Phan, Ex-Seattle Public Utility Employee, Arrested for Allegedly Stealing $1 Million From City Coffers

    Former Seattle Public Utility employee Chau Phan, 44, was arrested yesterday for allegedly transferring public utility money from water main projects to his own bank account, then blowing the money. The Seattle Police Department says the money had been re-routed over the course of five years. SPD sa ... More >>

  • News

    October 19, 2011

    CleanScapes' Trash Talk

    The garbage upstart gets bigger, and gains a few enemies.

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    CleanScapes, Not Such an Underdog Any More, Pisses Off Competitors in the Garbage Biz

    ​Earlier this week, we reported that CleanScapes--Seattle's brash, eco-minded upstart in the trash hauling business--is merging with a San Francisco company so that it can expand into recycling and composting. Judging from the reaction we've gotten over the last few days, it looks like the bat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Bonneville Power Administration Says Northwest Has Too Much Energy; Orders Wind Farms Cut Off Grid

    ​The massive amount of snow that fell in the Pacific Northwest this winter means more than skiers and snowboarders being able to ride in June. It also means that the region's electricity supply--heavily augmented by hydroelectric power--has more energy than it knows what to do with. The solu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    House Approves Plan to Wean Washington Off Coal By Closing Centralia Power Plant

    Image source​This spring in Washington, black is out and green is in. The state's House of Representatives voted to reform the state's medical marijuana law yesterday, and they also approved a deal to shutter the state's only coal-fired power plant by 2025. The coal legislation is being hailed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    Woodland Gas System Farts on City

    ​So it apparently smells like horrible ass in Woodland right now.

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Alaska Air CEO Bill Ayer Said to Be Under Investigation By SEC For Insider Trading

    ​Bloomberg reports that the head of a famously God-fearing airline is getting the Martha Stewart treatment by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Alaska Air CEO Bill Ayer sat on the board of Puget Energy in 2008, the same year one of Alaska's biggest investors, the NY-based hedge fund Dona ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2010

    Christian Rizzo

    ​Bloomberg reports that the head of a famously God-fearing airline is getting the Martha Stewart treatment by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Alaska Air CEO Bill Ayer sat on the board of Puget Energy in 2008, the same year one of Alaska's biggest investors, the NY-based hedge fund Dona ... More >>

  • News

    September 22, 2010

    Nuclear Power Plants Are Due for a Makeover

    The industry seeks to retire the "flour mill" look.

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    Nuclear Reactors to Get a Whole Lot Prettier

    ​Back in March, Laura Onstot wrote a cover story about the people trying to bring about the dawn of a new nuclear age and the image problems still associated with atomic energy. World Nuclear Association (WNA) director-general John Ritch understands those image problems. Which is why, when ind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Union-Friendly Homeowners Want to Know: How Do I Honor a Garbage Strike?

    Should homeowners let "scabs" pick up their garbage?​If you're anything of a labor sympathizer, you know there's one inviolable rule to follow: Never cross a picket line. Normally, that works out just fine. If, say, Safeway workers go on strike, you can always go to the QFC. But what do you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    Who Will Pick Up Seattle's Garbage If the Collectors Go On Strike?

    That's not fresh cut roses you're smelling. ​Baseball. Sunshine. The smell from an overflowing garbage can lilting on the breeze as its contents sit rotting in the sun. Obviously, no one would include the latter on a list of things they're looking forward to this spring. But if the garbage co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Bill Gates and Toshiba to Build Nuclear Reactors (Maybe)

    Toshiba, the company that brought you this awesome tape player in the Eighties, wants to build nuclear reactors.​Now that Bill Gates is only the second richest human on the planet, he needs some help funding his crazy schemes. His latest, as we reported in our cover story last week, is a plan ... More >>

  • News

    March 17, 2010

    Atom's Eve

    While environmentalists squabble, nuclear power is on the rise.

  • Calendar

    January 13, 2010

    Bailey Russel

    While environmentalists squabble, nuclear power is on the rise.

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Tonight: The Books, Municipal Waste

    The Books​Municipal Waste at El Corazon, 7 p.m., $15, all ages Municipal Waste rides the New Wave of Thrash. The Books at the Triple Door, 7 and 9:30 p.m., $15, 7 p.m. show all ages Otherworldly dream music you wouldn't mind hearing in an elevator.

  • Calendar

    November 18, 2009

    Municipal Waste

    The Books​Municipal Waste at El Corazon, 7 p.m., $15, all ages Municipal Waste rides the New Wave of Thrash. The Books at the Triple Door, 7 and 9:30 p.m., $15, 7 p.m. show all ages Otherworldly dream music you wouldn't mind hearing in an elevator.

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2009

    Cheap White Inventory

    For local skiers, March was one of the best months in memory. Crystal Mountain reports that, "We received 144 inches of snow; this is the most snow we've received in March in 15 years!" But snow is an asset not just for ski areas, but for the City of Seattle, too. And the city recently issued an od ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    New Recycling Regs Promise Hours of Dumpster Fun!

    If you're like me, and I'm sure you're smarter than that, recycling already seems awfully complicated. Sorting the simple stuff--glass, paper, cardboard--I get. Yard waste? Not a big challenge. But here comes a whole new set of recycling edicts from Seattle Public Utilities, which just sent out a pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2008

    `Whoops' Powers Up - Just 25 Years Late

    If you're like me, and I'm sure you're smarter than that, recycling already seems awfully complicated. Sorting the simple stuff--glass, paper, cardboard--I get. Yard waste? Not a big challenge. But here comes a whole new set of recycling edicts from Seattle Public Utilities, which just sent out a pr ... More >>

  • News

    February 27, 2008

    Supreme Court Sides With Big Trash

    Little guy gets rubbed out.

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2008

    Supreme Court Backs Big Garbage

    Little guy gets rubbed out.

  • News

    February 13, 2008

    Short Fuse: Jorge Carrasco's Polarizing Tenure at the Top of City Light

    Rates are stable, but some maintain Carrasco's changes haven't helped the culture of a beleaguered City Light.

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2007

    Garbage Man Wins Seattle

    Rates are stable, but some maintain Carrasco's changes haven't helped the culture of a beleaguered City Light.

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2007

    Big Win For Garbage Man

    Rates are stable, but some maintain Carrasco's changes haven't helped the culture of a beleaguered City Light.

  • News

    August 1, 2007

    Seattle City Light Wants You to "Green Up" by Paying Extra

    Is this ecologically sound or a waste of good intentions?

  • News

    June 27, 2007

    Georgetown Prevails in Fight Against Trash

    Is this ecologically sound or a waste of good intentions?

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2007

    Dumped On No Mo'

    Is this ecologically sound or a waste of good intentions?

  • News

    June 20, 2007

    Is Georgetown About to Get Trashed?

    Residents of the working-class, South End neighborhood say they've been dumped on enough.

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2006

    Maria: Do Something!

    Residents of the working-class, South End neighborhood say they've been dumped on enough.

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2006

    Triumph Over Enron

    Residents of the working-class, South End neighborhood say they've been dumped on enough.

  • News

    May 31, 2006

    Georgetown Garbage War

    Once again, residents of an aggrieved Seattle neighborhood are facing off against a city bureaucracy.

  • News

    December 14, 2005

    Clean-Energy Frenzy

    As the Northwest struggles with soaring fuel and electricity prices, corporate executives and entrepreneurs are joining politicians and activists to develop cleaner, smarter, and self-reliant energy sources.

  • News

    May 25, 2005

    The Drought of 2005

    Mountain snowpack is scant, so Seattle utilities have carefully measured and managed every drop of water.

  • News

    November 17, 2004

    Political Capital

    The conservative Building Industry Association of Washington uses insurance revenue from municipalities to help finance political activity.

  • News

    February 18, 2004

    Danger, High Voltage

    A new superintendent faces old problems at burned-out City Light: $1.5 billion of debt and a contradictory mandate.

  • News

    February 5, 2003

    City Hall's Power Trip

    Seattle City Light Superintendent Gary Zarker must explain soaring rates and massive debt to a cranky Seattle City Council. It's not his fault, he says. And he might be right.

  • News

    June 5, 2002

    It's raining shoes

    Seattle City Light Superintendent Gary Zarker must explain soaring rates and massive debt to a cranky Seattle City Council. It's not his fault, he says. And he might be right.

  • News

    April 10, 2002

    "Didn't the state . . . pass anti-bully legislation? If it can apply to schoolchildren, why not to corporations (which are acting like schoolchildren)?"

    Seattle City Light Superintendent Gary Zarker must explain soaring rates and massive debt to a cranky Seattle City Council. It's not his fault, he says. And he might be right.

  • News

    April 10, 2002

    Bad energy

    Washington's senators are in the thick of the battle over a national energy bill.

  • News

    February 13, 2002

    Crackling electricity

    Puget Sound Energy wants to raise your electric bill.

  • News

    January 23, 2002

    News Clips— Seattle & Enron

    Puget Sound Energy wants to raise your electric bill.

  • News

    December 12, 2001

    Cleaning house?

    Puget Sound Energy wants to raise your electric bill.

  • News

    November 28, 2001

    News Clips— Water worries

    Puget Sound Energy wants to raise your electric bill.

  • News

    August 22, 2001

    Water balloons

    Apartment renters pay water bills even though no one can measure how much they use.

  • News

    January 31, 2001

    Power trip

    Don't believe the hype. The lights won't be going out in seattle. Beyond the inescapable fact that our legendarily cheap northwest electricity won't be that cheap anymore, there's good to come from our latest energy crisis.

  • News

    January 24, 2001

    Crazy energy

    Politicians struggle to solve an energy crisis they helped create.

  • News

    November 24, 1999

    One percent solution

    Pageler heads off mayor's proposed arts funding boost.

  • News

    March 31, 1999

    Snow job?

    Is a proposal to ban all fishing nets from Puget Sound supposed to save salmon or sports fisherfolk?

  • News

    September 16, 1998

    Green or greed?

    As Boeing appears intent on environmentalism, activists are skittish.

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