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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Third Highest Count of Pink Salmon in the Columbia
River System Since at Least 1938 (Seattle Times)
Washington State Lands Commissioner: All Trust Lands
at Risk in Okanogan PUD Case (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Washington State Considers Including Hydro as a
Renewable Under Renewable Portfolio Standard (IB Times, Green Economy)
Arson Destroys Sports Complex at Shelton High -
Damage Totals About $300,000 (Olympian, WA)
Hurricane Irene - Municipal Utilities Shine in
Storm: Outages Were Resolved Quickly (Boston Globe, MA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
Washington State Lands Commissioner: All Trust
Lands at Risk in Okanogan PUD Case
Oregon - Eugene Water & Electric Board Yes New
Five Percent Rate Boost
Bonneville Power Administration to Switch to
Two-Tier Rate System in October
Bonneville Power Administration Responds to US Rep
Herrera Beutler Letter on Power Line
Ceremony Set for Cushman Hydro Project Agreement
Georgetown Lake: Montana Dam to Produce Power for
First Time in Two Decades
Hurricane Irene - Municipal Utilities Shine in
Storm: Outages Were Resolved Quickly
Power Companies Go on Defensive in Darkened Eastern
US
Colorado - Pro-Electricity Municipalization
Campaign Kicks Off Friday in Boulder
North Carolina - Lineworker a Hazardous, But
Rewarding Job
Broken Windows & Nuclear Plants – Vermont
Governor Touts Jobs from Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plant
Third Highest Count of Pink Salmon in the Columbia
River System Since at Least 1938
Deschutes River Fires Up Summer Steelhead Anglers
United Kingdom - Sea Eagles ‘Could Target Children’
Washington State Considers Including Hydro as a
Renewable Under Renewable Portfolio Standard
Op/Ed – Downtown Vancouver, WA No Place for Biomass
Plant
Snohomish County PUD to Drill Nearly a Mile Deep in
Search Of Geothermal Power
SolarWorld Consolidates US Manufacturing in
Hillsboro, Oregon
California - Businesses Put Wind to Work
Natural Gas as Alternative Energy? New Pennsylvania
Bill Says Yes
Everything I Need to Know About Tidal Energy
Generation
Florida - County Wants More Info on Gainesville
Regional Utilities’ Biomass Plant
How Utilities & Home-Builders are Teaming Up to
Boost Solar
Germany Hits New Green-Power Milestone
Why the Smart Grid is Taking So Long
Editorial - California Utility Fee, If Extended,
Can’t be Blank Check
Top 26 Stealth Home Energy Hogs
Tri-Cities - Powers Winery, Vineyard Embraces the
Sun
AAA Offers Charging of Electric Car Batteries
Italy’s KITEnergy Converts High Altitude Winds to
Electricity
Arson Destroys Sports Complex at Shelton High -
Damage Totals About $300,000
Port Townsend Fire May Have Been Sparked by Kids
with Fireworks
Duckabush Fire Expected to Burn for Days
Oregon & Washington Fires Creating Hazy
Conditions
All Mason County Schools in Session This Week
Postal Service Faces Possible Default
Historic Heat for September
WORDS OF THE DAY
From Merriam Webster’s Ten Most Confused Words:
Flak/Flack
If you're getting shot at by antiaircraft guns, or
receiving unfriendly criticism, are you taking flak or flack?
Answer:
Flak
How to Remember It:
Although flack is an established variant, the more
foreign-looking flak is the original spelling and the better choice. Flak was
originally a German acronym for Fliegerabwehrkanonen – from FLieger
("flyer") + Abwehr ("defense") + Kanonen ("cannons")
– which basically means "antiaircraft gun."
That use of flak in English dates back to 1938. In
the decades after the war it took on its civilian meaning of
"criticism."
(A flack, meanwhile, is a PR agent or someone who
provides publicity.)
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Washington State Lands Commissioner: All Trust
Lands at Risk in Okanogan PUD Case (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Oregon - Eugene Water & Electric Board Yes New Five
Percent Rate Boost: Based on moves by the BPA (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
Bonneville Power Administration to Switch to
Two-Tier Rate System in October (The Hermiston Herald, OR)
Bonneville Power Administration Responds to US Rep Herrera
Beutler Letter on Power Line (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Ceremony Set for Cushman Hydro Project Agreement (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
Georgetown Lake: Montana Dam to Produce Power for
First Time in Two Decades (Associated Press)
Hurricane Irene - Municipal Utilities Shine in Storm:
Outages Were Resolved Quickly (Boston Globe, MA)
Power Companies Go on Defensive in Darkened Eastern
US - Some power companies in the East are going on the defensive against
criticism over the tens of thousands of lingering power outages nearly a week
after Hurricane Irene swept up the coast (Associated Press)
Colorado - Pro-Electricity Municipalization
Campaign Kicks Off Friday in Boulder (Boulder Daily Camera, CO)
http://www.dailycamera.com/energy/ci_18815863
http://www.dailycamera.com/energy/ci_18815863
North Carolina - Lineworker a Hazardous, But
Rewarding Job (Jackson Daily News, NC)
http://www.jdnews.com/news/power-94695-energy-workers.html
http://www.jdnews.com/news/power-94695-energy-workers.html
Broken
Windows & Nuclear Plants – Vermont Governor Touts Jobs from Decommissioning
of Nuclear Power Plant (The Energy Collective)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Third Highest Count of Pink Salmon in the Columbia
River System Since at Least 1938 (Seattle Times)
Deschutes River Fires Up Summer Steelhead Anglers
(Oregonian, Portland)
United Kingdom - Sea Eagles ‘Could Target
Children’: Game keepers in Scotland have raised concerns that sea eagles could
mistakenly target small children when hunting their natural quarry (The
Telegraph, UK)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Washington
State Considers Including Hydro as a Renewable Under Renewable Portfolio
Standard (IB Times, Green Economy)
Op/Ed
– Downtown Vancouver, WA No Place for Biomass Plant (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Snohomish
County PUD to Drill Nearly a Mile Deep in Search Of Geothermal Power
SolarWorld
Consolidates US Manufacturing in Hillsboro, Oregon (Sustainable Business Oregon)
California
- Businesses Put Wind to Work (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Natural
Gas as Alternative Energy? New Pennsylvania Bill Says Yes (Pittsburgh Business
Journal, PA)
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/blog/energy/2011/09/gas-as-alternative-energy-new-pa-bill.html
Everything
I Need to Know About Tidal Energy Generation (Green Diary)
Florida
- County Wants More Info on Gainesville Regional Utilities’ Biomass Plant
(Gainesville Sun, FL)
How
Utilities & Home-Builders are Teaming Up to Boost Solar (Green Biz)
Germany
Hits New Green-Power Milestone (Christian Science Monitor)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Why the Smart Grid is Taking So Long (The Energy
Collective)
Editorial - California Utility Fee, If Extended,
Can’t be Blank Check: Fee helps fund projects including energy efficiency,
research & development, & emerging technology (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Top 26 Stealth Home Energy Hogs (Forbes Magazine)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Tri-Cities
- Powers Winery, Vineyard Embraces the Sun (Bellingham Herald, WA)
AAA
Offers Charging of Electric Car Batteries (Sacramento Bee,
CA)
Italy’s
KITEnergy Converts High Altitude Winds to Electricity (Forbes Magazine)
GENERAL NEWS
Arson Destroys Sports Complex at Shelton High - Damage
Totals About $300,000 (Olympian, WA)
Port Townsend Fire May Have Been Sparked by Kids with
Fireworks (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/news/local/15-acre-wildfire-threatening-homes-near-Port-Townsend-129273493.html
Duckabush Fire Expected to Burn for Days (Peninsula
Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Oregon & Washington Fires Creating Hazy
Conditions (KPQ Radio, Wenatchee, WA)
All Mason County Schools in Session This Week (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
Postal Service Faces Possible Default (KIRO
Broadcasting, Seattle)
Historic Heat for September (KIRO Broadcasting,
Seattle)
DIVERSIONS
Dog Sets World Record for Longest Ears
Is (Cursive) Handwriting a Dying Art Form?
Man Beats & Robs Coworker, Offers Him $100 to
Not Press Charges, Police Say
The World Still Thinks Americans Are “Coolest” –
Poll
SONG OF THE DAY
Heart
- Crazy On You, Live (Dig Nancy’s Guitar Intro…Awesome)
