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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Washington State Legislature Passes Budget Bill,
Adjourns Special Session (Olympian, WA)
Jefferson County PUD Gets $115 Million Loan for
Electrical System Buy (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Higher Wholesale Energy Costs & Renewable
Energy Purchases Prompt PUD 3 Electricity Rate Increase (Kitsap Peninsula
Business Journal, WA)
California State Officials Skeptical of Need for
Sea Lion Euthanizations (KXTV, Sacramento, CA)
Renewable
Sources of Power Survive, but in a Patchwork (NY Times)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Jefferson County PUD Gets $115 Million Loan for Electrical System Buy
- Jefferson County PUD Signs Historic $115.5 Million Loan Fax
- Higher Wholesale Energy Costs & Renewable Energy Purchases Prompt PUD 3 Electricity Rate Increase
- Mason County PUD 3 Rate Increase
- California - Sacramento OKs Funds to Speed Up Repairing Streetlights Ravaged by Copper Thieves
- California - Copper Thieves Blamed for San Lorenzo Strip Mall Fire
- California State Officials Skeptical of Need for Sea Lion Euthanizations
- Seattle City Light Cameras Capture Images of Skagit Wildlife
- Editorial - Columbia River Polluter Headed Toward Day of Reckoning
- Can Aquifer Recharge Save Money & Relieve Electricity Oversupply?
- Renewable Sources of Power Survive, but in a Patchwork
- eBay Covers Utah Data Center Roof with Solar Panels
- Denmark - Dong to Spend $795 Million Turning Fossil Plants to Wood
- Foremost Dairy Building Earns LEED Gold Status
- Rethinking On-Demand Energy Storage
- One-And-Done: Most Hybrid Owners Don't Buy Another
- Wireless Providers to Disable Stolen Phones
- Clearing Low Power FM Requests an FCC Priority
- Editorial - Agenda 21 Paranoia
- Washington State Legislature Passes Budget Bill, Adjourns Special Session
- Mason County Health Director Addresses Health Rankings
- Alcoa's Surprise First Quarter Profit Could Boost Wall Street
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Jefferson County PUD Gets $115 Million Loan for
Electrical System Buy (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Jefferson County PUD Signs Historic $115.5 Million
Loan Fax (Port Townsend Leader, WA)
Higher Wholesale Energy Costs & Renewable
Energy Purchases Prompt PUD 3 Electricity Rate Increase (Kitsap Peninsula
Business Journal, WA)
Mason County PUD 3
Rate Increase (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
California - Sacramento OKs Funds to Speed Up Repairing
Streetlights Ravaged by Copper Thieves (Sacramento Bee, CA)
California - Copper Thieves Blamed for San Lorenzo Strip
Mall Fire (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
FISH & WILDLIFE
California State Officials Skeptical of Need for
Sea Lion Euthanizations (KXTV, Sacramento, CA)
Seattle City Light Cameras Capture Images of Skagit
Wildlife (KING-TV, Seattle)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Editorial
- Columbia Polluter Headed Toward Day of Reckoning: An infamous Canadian
polluter is running out of excuses for facing accountability in court (Seattle Times)
Can
Aquifer Recharge Save Money & Relieve Electricity Oversupply? (Bonneville
Power Administration)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Renewable
Sources of Power Survive, but in a Patchwork (NY Times)
eBay
Covers Utah Data Center Roof with Solar Panels (GigaOM)
Denmark
- Dong to Spend $795 Million Turning Fossil Plants to Wood (Bloomberg – Look out
for that death from a single exposure!)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Foremost Dairy Building Earns LEED Gold Status (News
Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Rethinking On-Demand Energy Storage (GigaOM)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
One-And-Done:
Most Hybrid Owners Don't Buy Another (Northwest Cable News)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Wireless Providers to Disable Stolen Phones (Associated
Press)
Clearing Low Power FM Requests an FCC Priority (Courthouse
News Service)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Editorial - Agenda 21 Paranoia “…UN plot to turn
our electricity on and off, force us to give up our cars for bicycles, and make
us all live in cramped high-rises..” (Wichita Eagle, KS)
GENERAL NEWS
Washington State Legislature Passes Budget Bill,
Adjourns Special Session (Olympian, WA)
Mason County Health Director Addresses Health
Rankings (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Alcoa's Surprise First Quarter Profit Could Boost Wall
Street (Associated Press)
DIVERSIONS
Bathplug Is a Titanic Blunder - relatives of
victims of the Titanic have blasted a novelty bathplug called the Tubtanic
D'oh! “The Simpson’s” Groening Reveals the Location
of 'Real' Springfield
Shoplifting Suspect Strips Inside Store
