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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
· Massive Rockslide near Ross Dam’s Powerhouse
· Tracking Electric Use Could Allow Utilities to Track You, Too
· Old Vs. New: Smart Grid & Real Time Electricity Metering
· The ‘Electromagnetically Hypersensitive’ Attack Smart Meters
· News Whiz - Re-Regulation Bills Will Impede Electricity Choice, Reduce Savings
· Greek Power Company Workers Strike
· DNA Analysis of Whale Poop Brings Surprising Results – It Has a Canadian Accent
· Free Lunch for Sea Lions Looks About Over
· LA Times Editorial - An Upstream Battle
· Feds Pledge Money for Declining Sage Grouse in West
· North Dakota
· State Budget May Limit Chehalis River
· Saving US Water & Sewer Systems Would be Costly
· Oregon - Christmas Valley
· Governors Seek Wind Energy Boost
· REVE Op/Ed - KATU-TV Swallows Fossil-Fuel Line on Wind Energy
· Canada - Proposed Metro Vancouver
· Marine Tidal Power Generating Clean Electricity
· Cash Rebates for Energy Efficient Appliances
· Get Cash for Your Clunky Appliances
· Tacoma
· Appliance Rebates Get Hot-And-Cold Response from Buyers
· California Stimulus Funds for Energy Efficiency May Go to Oregon
· Oregon - A Great State
· Midwest Electric Utilities Push Senate Climate Bill Co-Authors for More Allocations
· In Climate Change Scheme, Iron Enrichment of Seawater Could be Toxic
· Greenpeace Pokes Facebook over Data Center
· Greenpeace’s Hosting: Not ‘Truly Green’
· Canada
· Portland Ranked Greenest US
· Local High School Students Building
· Rain, Even Urine, Would Help Make Bullitt HQ Seattle’s ‘Greenest Building Ever’
· F.C.C. Says Adoption of New Broadband Plan Is Vital
· FCC Unveiling Sweeping National Broadband Plan
· FCC Plan Would Greatly Expand Broadband Internet Connections
· Q&A: FCC Chairman Talks about Broadband Goals
· China
· Tennessee
· Five Injured in Head-On Crash on Hwy 101 Near Shelton
· Search Continues in Olympia-Area Disappearance of Mom, Son
· Mastermind Sentenced in Tribal Casino Scheme
· Shelton
· Shoot-Out at Pot Activist’s Home Sparks Debate
· Oregon
· Bees in the City? New York May Let the Hives Come out of Hiding
WORD OF THE DAY
Anecdote • \ann-nick-DOTE\ • noun – a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident
The aging scientist creaked back into his easy chair, exulting in the rapt attention that his fresh-faced pupils gave him during evening story time. “Let me relate to you my favorite anecdote,” he slowly drawled. “It was late 1925; I was working on an antidote for laughing sickness for a particular patient. An amusing little antidote it was.” His droopy little moustache rose as he smirked at his modest joke...the students tittered nervously as they tried to parse the nuanced humor.
Anecdotal • \ann-nick-DOE-tull\ • adjective – 1a: of, relating to, or consisting of anecdotes 2: based on or consisting of reports or observations of usually unscientific observers 3: of, relating to, or being the depiction of a scene suggesting a story
WEATHER
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Massive Rockslide near Ross Dam’s Powerhouse (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
Tracking Electric Use Could Allow Utilities to Track You, Too (NY Times)
Old Vs. New: Smart Grid & Real Time Electricity Metering - The new smart electricity meter program should be an easy sell to consumers, but it’s not going over as planned (Christian Science Monitor)
The ‘Electromagnetically Hypersensitive’ Attack Smart Meters (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/The-Electromagnetically-Hypersensitive-Attack-Smart-Meters-107379
News Whiz - Re-Regulation Bills Will Impede Electricity Choice, Reduce Savings for Connecticut
Greek Power Company Workers Strike (Associated Press)
FISH & WILDLIFE
DNA Analysis of Whale Poop Brings Surprising Results – It Has a Canadian Accent “…the fish at the top of their menu is the…Chinook Salmon...and it turns out most of those, some 90 percent come from the Fraser River in British Columbia…” (NW Cable News)
Free Lunch for Sea Lions Looks About Over (The Oregonian, Portland
LA Times Editorial - An Upstream Battle over Chinook Salmon: Wildlife officials are killing feasting sea lions to conserve the endangered fish population
Feds Pledge Money for Declining Sage Grouse in West (Associated Press)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Saving US Water & Sewer Systems Would be Costly “…a significant water line bursts on average every two minutes somewhere in the country…” (NY Times)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Governors Seek Wind Energy Boost (Associated Press)
REVE Op/Ed - KATU-TV Swallows Fossil-Fuel Line on Wind Energy
Marine Tidal Power Generating Clean Electricity (The BBC, UK
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Cash Rebates for Energy Efficient Appliances (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Get Cash for Your Clunky Appliances (Everett
Cash for Appliances – Washington
Appliance Rebates Get Hot-And-Cold Response from Buyers (USA
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
In Climate Change Scheme, Iron Enrichment of Seawater Could be Toxic (NY Times)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Greenpeace’s Hosting: Not ‘Truly Green’ (Data Center Knowledge)
Rain, Even Urine, Would Help Make Bullitt HQ Seattle’s ‘Greenest Building Ever’ (Seattle
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
F.C.C. Says Adoption of New Broadband Plan Is Vital (NY Times)
FCC Unveiling Sweeping National Broadband Plan (Nat’l Public Radio)
FCC Plan Would Greatly Expand Broadband Internet Connections (Washington
Q&A: FCC Chairman Talks about Broadband Goals (Associated Press)
GA-GA OVER GOOGLE
GENERAL NEWS
Five Injured in Head-On Crash on Hwy 101 Near Shelton (KOMO-TV, Seattle
Search Continues in Olympia-Area Disappearance of Mom, Son (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
Mastermind Sentenced in Tribal Casino Scheme – Marks Included Washington State
Shoot-Out at Pot Activist’s Home Sparks Debate (KIRO-TV, Seattle
Bees in the City? New York
DIVERSIONS
Deer-Car Crashes in Rural New Hampshire
British Woman Faces Jail in Dubai
Condo Dustup over Girl’s Chalk Pictures Draws Ire - Resident Told to Erase Sidewalk Art
It’s in His Blood - Man Says Packers Loyalty Saved Life
SONG OF THE DAY
Eartha Kitt - I Want to be Evil
