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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP
FIVE STORIES
Bonneville
Power Administration: Whistle-Blower Alleges Senior Manager Sanctioned
Discrimination against Veterans (Oregonian,
Portland)
Green Energy Could Crash the U-S
Power Grid (Business Insider, Australia)
Hold Onto
Your Hats: Congress Wants to Tackle the Telecommunications Laws Again (GigaOm)
Fall Freeze Is Coming, Are You Prepared? (KOMO TV,
Seattle, WA)
Heating Companies Say Emergency Calls Have
Skyrocketed (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
(Details Below)
- Bonneville Power Administration: Whistle-Blower Alleges Senior Manager Sanctioned Discrimination against Veterans
- Chelan PUD Budget Approved
- Eugene Water & Electric Board Approves Rate Increases
- United Kingdom: Councils Generate Own Power to Take on the Big Six Energy Firms
- Still Waters of Mirror Pond's Future Moving Again
- Green Energy Could Crash the U-S Power Grid
- Mason PUD 3 Conservation on KMAS Radio - Daybreak December 3
- New Evidence that More Efficient Houses are More Valuable Houses
- Shari's Restaurant Chain Wins Sustainability Award
- New LEED Standards Mean Reduced Project Times
- PSEG Partners with the NFL Environmental Program to Provide Green Energy for Super Bowl XLVIII
- Hold Onto Your Hats: Congress Wants to Tackle the Telecommunications Laws
- Email Scam Costs Three Washington Companies $1.65 Million, FBI
- Pacific County Now Has Verizon 4G
- Gary Locke for President?
- Fall Freeze Is Coming, Are You Prepared?
- Heating Companies Say Emergency Calls Have Skyrocketed
- New Effort Forms over Olympic National Forest
- Root Rot Threatens Christmas Trees in Oregon, U-S
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY
ISSUES
Bonneville
Power Administration: Whistle-Blower Alleges Senior Manager Sanctioned
Discrimination against Veterans (Oregonian,
Portland)
Chelan PUD Budget Approved (Wenatchee World, WA)
Eugene Water & Electric Board Approves Rate
Increases (Eugene Register Guard, OR)
United Kingdom: Councils Generate Own Power to Take
on the Big Six Energy Firms (The Guardian, UK)
WATER & THE
ENVIRONMENT
Still Waters of Mirror Pond's Future
Moving Again (Oregon Public Radio)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE
ENERGY
Green Energy Could Crash the U-S
Power Grid (Business Insider, Australia)
CONSERVATION &
EFFICIENCY
Mason PUD 3 Conservation on KMAS Radio - Daybreak
December 3 (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
New Evidence that More Efficient Houses are More
Valuable Houses (The Energy Collective)
BARREL O’ GREEN
POTPOURRI
Shari's
Restaurant Chain Wins Sustainability Award (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
New LEED Standards Mean Reduced
Project Times (Triangle Business Journal)
PSEG
Partners with the NFL Environmental Program to Provide Green Energy for Super
Bowl XLVIII (PR Newswire)
TECHNOLOGY &
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Hold Onto
Your Hats: Congress Wants to Tackle the Telecommunications Laws Again (GigaOm)
Email
Scam Costs Three Washington Companies $1.65 Million, FBI Says (Puget Sound
Business Journal, WA)
Pacific County Now Has Verizon 4G (KXRO Radio,
Aberdeen, WA)
POLITICS &
GOVERNANCE
Gary Locke for President? (KIRO Broadcasting,
Seattle, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Fall Freeze Is Coming, Are You Prepared? (KOMO TV,
Seattle, WA)
Heating Companies Say Emergency Calls Have
Skyrocketed (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
New Effort Forms over Olympic National Forest (Associated
Press)
Root Rot Threatens Christmas Trees in Oregon, U-S (Associated
Press)
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12th Man Flag to Fly High Above San Francisco Sunday
Cat Lost for 16 Months Reunited with Owners
SONG OF THE DAY
Star Wars - Imperial March
