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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for September 26, 2014
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Frontier Communications Outage Frustrating Redmond
Businesses (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
A
Carbon Tax Would Push Washington State’s Gasoline Prices Higher (Crosscut
Seattle)
Repairs Continuing at Wanapum Dam - Goal to fill
pool part of the way by end of the year (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Richland
Considers LED Lights for Developments (Tri-City
Herald, WA)
Solar
Advocates Fight Utilities over Grid Access (National Public Radio)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Repairs Continuing at Wanapum Dam - Goal to fill pool part of the way by end of the year
- Editorial: The Next Big Challenge at BPA
- Germany’s Energy Mix: Getting Out of Gas; Germany’s Reliance on Russian Gas Is Falling
- Autonomous Robots Could Repair Electrical Networks in a Power Outage
- Interior Secretary Visits Oregon Sage Grouse Project
- Washington State’s Salmon Recovery Funding Board Tours Methow
- Previously in the News Digest: ‘Salmon Cannon’ Gets Test Drive
- Solar Advocates Fight Utilities over Grid Access
- The Straight Poop: What Happens When a City Dweller Visits Dairy Digesters on the Oregon Coast?
- United Kingdom: Tidal Power Firm Signs Deal to Sell Electricity to EDF Energy
- Richland Considers LED Lights for Developments
- Study: Small Towns Can Save Big with Efficiency, Renewables
- A Carbon Tax Would Push Washington State’s Gasoline Prices Higher
- Will Portland’s Population Explode with Climate Change Refugees?
- Can Amazon’s Secret Lab Design a Smarter Home?
- Frontier Communications Outage Frustrating Redmond Businesses
- 43% of Companies Had a Data Breach in the Past Year
- South Korea’s Gigabit Broadband Woes Should Serve as Object Lesson for FCC Regulators
- Narendra Modi, the Social Media Politician
- Airport Parking Company Apologizes for Using a Man’s Death as a Marketing Hook
- Top 10 Stop-Motion Artists Doing Brilliant Work for Brands on Vine
- Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
- Eric Holder Resigns, Setting Up Fight over Successor
- Charge: Port of Seattle Manager Siphoned Public Money Despite $84K Salary
- Magnitude 6.2 Earthquake Rattles Alaska
- U-S Attorney General Questions Whether Marijuana Should be in Same Legal Category as Heroin
- El Nino & Warm Water ‘Blob’ Affecting Northwest Weather
- Long-Lived Atmospheric River Hits the Northwest
- Forest Service Chief Says No, You Won’t be Charged to Take Photos
- 70 Years Ago: First Full-Scale Nuclear Reactor at Hanford Starts Up
- Vancouver, WA Pot Farmer Plans Mobile Marijuana-Processing Business
- Mason County Committee Selects Agency to Promote Local Tourism
Götterdämmerung
• \gher-ter-DEM-uh-roong\ Noun • A collapse (as of a society or regime) marked
by catastrophic violence & disorder; broadly: downfall.
In
what became known as “The Little Götterdämmerung,” Bartholomew’s habanero-frosted
cupcakes were a hit at Melody’s retirement party for exactly two seconds. The
stampeding rush for the water fountains resulted in carnage that would affect
the small company’s workers’ compensation insurance for years to come.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Repairs Continuing at Wanapum Dam - Goal to fill
pool part of the way by end of the year (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Editorial: The Next Big Challenge at BPA (Oregonian,
Portland)
Germany’s Energy Mix: Getting Out of Gas; Germany’s
Reliance on Russian Gas Is Falling (The Economist Magazine)
Autonomous Robots Could Repair Electrical
Networks in a Power Outage (Mashable)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Interior Secretary Visits Oregon Sage Grouse
Project (Associated Press)
Washington State’s Salmon Recovery Funding Board
Tours Methow (Methow Valley News, Twisp, WA)
Previously in the News Digest: ‘Salmon Cannon’
Gets Test Drive (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Solar
Advocates Fight Utilities over Grid Access (National Public Radio)
The
Straight Poop: What Happens When a City Dweller Visits Dairy Digesters on the Oregon
Coast? (Sustainable Business Oregon)
United
Kingdom: Tidal Power Firm Signs Deal to Sell Electricity to EDF Energy (The
Guardian, UK)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Richland
Considers LED Lights for Developments (Tri-City
Herald, WA)
Study:
Small Towns Can Save Big with Efficiency, Renewables (Midwest Energy News)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
A
Carbon Tax Would Push Washington State’s Gasoline Prices Higher (Crosscut
Seattle)
Will
Portland’s Population Explode with Climate Change Refugees? (Oregonian, Portland)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Can
Amazon’s Secret Lab Design a Smarter Home? (Christian Science Monitor)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Frontier Communications Outage Frustrating Redmond Businesses
(KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
43% of Companies Had a Data Breach in the Past Year
(USA Today)
South Korea’s Gigabit Broadband Woes Should Serve as
Object Lesson for FCC Regulators (Network World)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Narendra Modi, the Social Media Politician (NY
Times)
Airport Parking Company Apologizes for Using a Man’s
Death as a Marketing Hook - ‘Don’t be late & end up in a crate’ (AdWeek)
Top 10 Stop-Motion Artists Doing Brilliant Work for
Brands on Vine (AdWeek)
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds (Consumerist)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Eric Holder Resigns, Setting Up Fight over Successor
(NY Times)
Charge: Port of Seattle Manager Siphoned Public
Money Despite $84K Salary (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Magnitude 6.2 Earthquake Rattles Alaska (Associated Press)
U-S Attorney General Questions Whether Marijuana
Should be in Same Legal Category as Heroin (Vox)
El Nino & Warm
Water ‘Blob’ Affecting Northwest Weather (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Long-Lived Atmospheric River Hits the Northwest (Cliff
Mass Weather Blog)
Forest Service
Chief Says No, You Won’t be Charged to Take Photos (Northwest Public Radio)
70 Years Ago: First
Full-Scale Nuclear Reactor at Hanford Starts Up (Northwest Public Radio)
Vancouver, WA Pot Farmer Plans Mobile
Marijuana-Processing Business (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Mason County Committee Selects Agency to Promote
Local Tourism (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Winnie
the Pooh Was Based on a Real Bear That Participated in WWI
The
Toilet Seat Stadium & Other Unfortunate Designs
Couple’s
Wedding Day Saved by Strangers from Craigslist
Connecticut
Man Arrested after Driving Stolen Car to Meeting with Cops
SONG OF THE DAY
Kenny
Loggins with Jim Messina - House at Pooh Corner
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