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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for September 9, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
NoaNet: Over the Rivers & Through the Woods -
How a Non-Profit Telecom Company Connected Rural Washington State with Fiber
(OSP)
Salmon Heading to Spawn Past Elwha River Dam Site
(KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Army Corps Shrinks Endangered Species Review for
Columbia River Coal Project (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Earmarks on the Rise Again in Olympia - Legislators
steered more than $170 million in the state’s capital budget toward special
projects (Seattle Times - Paywall Advisory)
Editorial:
Energy - Sweden Sets a Good Example (Wenatchee
World, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Army Corps Shrinks Endangered Species Review for Columbia River Coal Project
- Oregon: BPA’s Lowell-Oakridge Power Line Due for 500 New Poles - Critters, Weather Cited
- California: Edison Crews Start Putting Transmission Lines Underground in Chino Hills
- Grant PUD Names Photo Contest Winners
- Op/Ed: Why I Believe that Nuclear Energy is the Safest Form of Energy
- Massachusetts: Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant Foes Cry Foul
- Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant Closure in 2014 Will Challenge New England Energy Markets
- When Should Nuclear Power Plants Die?
- Massachusetts: Governor Patrick Heading to Canada for Energy Confab - Lookin’ for some sweet hydropower
- Meters Don’t Cause Fires, Poorly Installed Meters Cause Fires
- Salmon Heading to Spawn Past Elwha River Dam Site
- Big Fall Chinook Numbers Crossing Bonneville: Early Arrivals Or Run Larger Than Predicted?
- Idaho: Dam’s Removal Should Boost Steelhead Trout
- Oregon: Men Cited for Snagging Salmon from Hatchery
- Canoe Journey Spotlights Plight of Columbia River Salmon
- Editorial: Energy - Sweden Sets a Good Example
- Wild Horse Wind Farm Tour Goes Up a Turbine
- SolarWorld Breaks Ground on More Than 500 KW of Solar Carports at Four California Parks
- Tennessee Valley Authority Launches Community Solar Initiative
- Rhode Island: Developer Seeks to Use Ancient Technology to Draw Energy from Pawtuxet River
- Report: Saving Water Saves Energy & Vice Versa
- New Research Pins Some Extreme Weather Events on Climate Change
- Scientists Studying Solar Radiation Management as a Way to Cool Planet
- Conservative Wins Australia by Landslide; Declares End to Climate Change ‘Crap’
- Mid-Columbia Drivers Charged Up About Benefits of Electric Cars
- Electric Cars Vs. Plug-In Hybrids: What’s the Difference?
- NoaNet: Over the Rivers & Through the Woods
- Ephrata: This Town Has America’s Fastest Internet
- Idaho Alters School Wi-Fi Deal Under Pressure from Lawmakers
- Worries That Microsoft Is Growing Too Tricky to Manage
- Earmarks on the Rise Again in Olympia
- Seriously, How Does a Cannabis Business Deposit, Move or Bank Its Money
- Times: Study Finds Drivers in State Busy on Cellphones, Texting
- Cable Thefts Can Leave Snohomish County Victims Unable to Call 911
- Summer Storm: National Weather Service Forecasters Nail Difficult Forecast with High Resolution Modeling Program
- Technology Is Out There to Better Predict Storms, But Not Everyone Has Access
- Credit Unions Fight to Keep Tax-Exempt Status
- Satsop Courts Hollywood to Use Old Nuke Plant for Filming
- A Quest to Save AM Before It’s Lost in the Static
WORD OF THE DAY
Per
Contra • \per-KAHN-truh\ • adverb - 1a: on the contrary b: by way of contrast 2:
as an offset
“You
may think I like your plan in this case,” murmured the well-coifed attorney to
his fresh-faced intern, “but per contra I think it will eventually fail.” The
strategy was to trick the witness with word association to force a confession.
The problem was that the witness had an iron-clad alibi. He had been iron-clad
in a prison cell in Pawtucket the night of the Twinkie burglary.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Army Corps Shrinks Endangered Species Review for Columbia
River Coal Project (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Oregon: BPA’s Lowell-Oakridge Power Line Due for 500
New Poles - Critters, Weather Cited (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
California: Edison Crews Start Putting
Transmission Lines Underground in Chino Hills (Southern California Public
Radio)
Grant PUD Names Photo Contest Winners (Columbia
Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Op/Ed: Why I Believe that Nuclear Energy is the
Safest Form of Energy (The Energy Collective)
Massachusetts: Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant Foes
Cry Foul (Cape Cod Online, MA)
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant Closure in 2014 Will
Challenge New England Energy Markets (U-S Energy Information Administration)
When Should Nuclear Power Plants Die? (Forbes
Magazine)
Massachusetts: Governor Patrick Heading to Canada
for Energy Confab - Lookin’ for some sweet hydropower (Boston Globe, MA)
Meters Don’t Cause Fires, Poorly Installed Meters
Cause Fires (Chicago Business Journal, IL)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Salmon Heading to Spawn Past Elwha River Dam Site
(KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Big Fall Chinook Numbers Crossing Bonneville:
Early Arrivals Or Run Larger Than Predicted? (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Idaho: Dam’s Removal Should Boost Steelhead Trout
(Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Oregon: Men Cited for Snagging Salmon from
Hatchery (KGW TV, Portland, OR)
Canoe Journey Spotlights Plight of Columbia River
Salmon (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/2013/sep/08/canoe-journey-spotlights-plight-columbia-salmon/
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Editorial:
Energy - Sweden Sets a Good Example (Wenatchee
World, WA)
Wild
Horse Wind Farm Tour Goes Up a Turbine (Yakima Herald-Republic,
WA)
SolarWorld
Breaks Ground on More Than 500 KW of Solar Carports at Four California Parks (CIOL)
http://www.ciol.com/ciol/news/195018/solarworld-breaks-ground-500-kw-solar-carports-california-parks
Tennessee
Valley Authority Launches Community Solar Initiative (Chattanooga Times Free Press,
TN)
Rhode
Island: Developer Seeks to Use Ancient Technology to Draw Energy from Pawtuxet
River (Providence Journal, RI)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Report:
Saving Water Saves Energy & Vice Versa (KCET-TV, Los Angeles, CA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
New
Research Pins Some Extreme Weather Events on Climate Change (Christian Science
Monitor)
Scientists
Studying Solar Radiation Management as a Way to Cool Planet (Washington Post)
Conservative
Wins Australia by Landslide; Declares End to Climate Change ‘Crap’ (Bizpac Insider)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Mid-Columbia
Drivers Charged Up About Benefits of Electric Cars (Tri-City Herald, WA)
Electric
Cars Vs. Plug-In Hybrids: What’s the Difference? (Christian Science Monitor)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
NoaNet: Over the Rivers & Through the Woods - How
a Non-Profit Telecom Company Connected Rural Washington State with Fiber (OSP)
Ephrata: This Town Has America’s Fastest Internet (Broadband
Reports)
Idaho Alters School Wi-Fi Deal Under Pressure from
Lawmakers (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Worries That Microsoft Is Growing Too Tricky to
Manage (NY Times)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Earmarks on the Rise Again in Olympia - Legislators
steered more than $170 million in the state’s capital budget toward special
projects (Seattle Times - Paywall Advisory)
Seriously, How Does a Cannabis Business Deposit,
Move or Bank Its Money (Washington State Wire, Olympia, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Times: Study Finds Drivers in State Busy on
Cellphones, Texting (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Cable Thefts Can Leave Snohomish County Victims
Unable to Call 911 (Everett Herald, WA)
Summer Storm: National Weather Service Forecasters
Nail Difficult Forecast with High Resolution Modeling Program (Oregonian, Portland,
OR)
Technology Is Out There to Better Predict Storms,
But Not Everyone Has Access (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Credit Unions Fight to Keep Tax-Exempt Status (Everett Herald, WA)
Satsop Courts Hollywood to Use Old Nuke Plant for
Filming (Seattle Times - Paywall Advisory)
A Quest to Save AM Before It’s Lost in the Static (NY
Times)
DIVERSIONS
Baby
Wasn’t Only One Crying at Seattle Baptism Beat Down
Dallas
Zoo to Raise Cheetah Cubs with a Labrador Puppy
Droopy
Beijing Duck Gets a Breath of Fresh Air
‘Fastest
Loop of Manhattan’ Driver Arrested
SONG OF THE DAY
John
Fogerty & the Blue Ridge Rangers - Change in the Weather
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