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Minnesota Power's Great Northern Transmission Line received federal approval Wednesday when the U.S. Department of Energy issued a Presidential Permit allowing the transmission line to cross the international border between the United States and Canada. Lines in Minnesota will carry clean electricity generated by Manitoba Hydro.
Congressman Jim McDermott announced his retirement at the end of this year, leaving an open seat for Washington state's 7th Congressional District. Nine candidates are running to replace him and all nine were present at the candidate forum held by the League of Women Voters on Saturday at Shoreline City Hall.
An agreement was signed today creating a new partnership in carbon fiber recycling among the Composite Recycling Technology Center, Peninsula College and the Institute for Advanced Composite Manufacturing Innovation. Officials representing the three organizations signed memorandums of understanding following remarks by U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Mountlake Terrace, and representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy and the Port of Port Angeles in a packed room at the Composite Recycling Technology Center - referred to as CRTC - located at 2220 W. 18th St. In July 2015, the Port of Port Angeles was awarded a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to retrofit a facility to house CRTC.
This week a federal judge rejected a third party wanting in on the legal battle between the state of South Carolina and the U.S. Department of Energy over the construction of the Mixed-Oxide Fuel Fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site. And just one day after the judge's order, a scathing letter obtained by the Aiken Standard sent from the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz outlined a number of concerns with the lack of progress over MOX.