Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Energy News Digest for October 15, 2014


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Hot Shots – Today’s Top Five Stories

Snow Forecast in Cascades High Country (KHQ-TV, Spokane, WA)

Pacific County PUD Sets Policy on New Large-Load Customers as Pot Farms Take Root (Chinook Observer, Long Beach, WA – Paywall Advisory)

Idaho Power’s Vital Boardman-To-Hemingway Transmission Line Wrestles with Permitting (Utility Dive)

The Risks of Cheap Water (NY Times)

Study: Recent Sea Level Rise is Highest in 6,000 Years (USA Today)

News Highlights (Details Below)
  1. Pacific County PUD Sets Policy on New Large-Load Customers as Pot Farms Take Root
  2. Idaho Power’s Vital Boardman-To-Hemingway Transmission Line Wrestles with Permitting
  3. Power Outage Leads to Chlorine Dioxide Leak, Evacuation at Wauna Mill
  4. Tacoma Utility Increases Proposed at City Budget Meeting
  5. Peace River: British Columbia Gives Environmental Green Light to $7.9-Billion Site C Dam Project
  6. Mason PUD 3 Commission Report – October 14, 2014 Business Meeting
  7. Snohomish PUD Low-Income & Senior Energy Assistance
  8. Skagit PUD Receives Clean Audit for 2013
  9. Preserving Tax-Exempt Status of Municipal Bonds is Vital to the Utility Sector, APPA & Others Tell DOE
  10. What Congress Should Know about EPA’s Control over Electric Power
  11. Acing Your Bucket Truck Inspection
  12. The Risks of Cheap Water
  13. OneEnergy Renewables Raises $5 Million in Funding
  14. Is Solar Power About to Go through the Roof?
  15. Study: Recent Sea Level Rise is Highest in 6,000 Years
  16. Infographic on EPA Regulation Matrix
  17. Washington State Computer Network Goes on Blink, Stopping Email & Other Service at Agencies for Nearly Four Hours
  18. Idaho Broadband Case Remains Unsettled
  19. Google Earnings Will Depend on Wringing More from Mobile Advertisers
  20. Virgin America’s Six Hour Preroll Ad Is Creepy, Warholian & Sort of Brilliant
  21. Watch Shelton-Mason County Chamber Candidates’ Forum
  22. Former Seattle Mayor’s Office Press Secretary Files Discrimination Claim against City
  23. Snow Forecast in Cascades High Country
  24. FCC Approves Sale of KGY AM to Catholic Broadcasting Group
  25. ‘Word Gap’ Chasm for Kids: 30 Million Words
Word of the Day

Hoodwink • \HOOD-wink\ • verb – to deceive by false appearance: dupe

(Use hoodwink in your own sample sentence: it’s fun! Insert your very own cynical comment about government, energy trading shenanigans, pet peeves and other issues here)

A now-obsolete sense of the word “wink” is “to close one’s eyes,” and “hoodwink” once meant to cover the eyes of someone, such as a prisoner, with a hood or blindfold. (“Hoodwink” was also once a name for the game of blindman’s buff.) This 16th-century term soon came to be used figuratively for veiling the truth.

Energy & Utility Issues

Pacific County PUD Sets Policy on New Large-Load Customers as Pot Farms Take Root (Chinook Observer, Long Beach, WA – Paywall Advisory)

Idaho Power’s Vital Boardman-To-Hemingway Transmission Line Wrestles with Permitting (Utility Dive)

Power Outage Leads to Chlorine Dioxide Leak, Evacuation at Wauna Mill (Longview Daily News, WA)

Tacoma Utility Increases Proposed at City Budget Meeting (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)

Peace River: British Columbia Gives Environmental Green Light to $7.9-Billion Site C Dam Project (Globe & Mail, Canada)

Mason PUD 3 Commission Report – October 14, 2014 Business Meeting (Mason County PUD 3, Shelton, WA)

Snohomish PUD Low-Income & Senior Energy Assistance (Snohomish Times, WA)

Skagit PUD Receives Clean Audit for 2013 (Skagit Valley Herald, Mt Vernon, WA)

Preserving Tax-Exempt Status of Municipal Bonds is Vital to the Utility Sector, APPA & Others Tell DOE (American Public Power Association)

What Congress Should Know about EPA’s Control over Electric Power (Roll Call, Washington, DC)

Acing Your Bucket Truck Inspection (ADT Trucking Info)

Water & Environment

The Risks of Cheap Water (NY Times)

Renewable/Alternative Energy

OneEnergy Renewables Raises $5 Million in Funding (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)

Is Solar Power About to Go through the Roof? (Electric Co-op Today)

Climate Change Sequestration Vault

Study: Recent Sea Level Rise is Highest in 6,000 Years (USA Today)

Infographic on EPA Regulation Matrix (Action.Coop)

Technology & Telecommunications

Washington State Computer Network Goes on Blink, Stopping Email & Other Service at Agencies for Nearly Four Hours (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)

Idaho Broadband Case Remains Unsettled (Idaho Statesman, Boise)

Social Media & Marketing

Google Earnings Will Depend on Wringing More from Mobile Advertisers (NY Times)

Virgin America’s Six Hour Preroll Ad Is Creepy, Warholian & Sort of Brilliant (AdWeek)

Politics & Governance

Watch Shelton-Mason County Chamber Candidates’ Forum (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)

Former Seattle Mayor’s Office Press Secretary Files Discrimination Claim against City (Crosscut Seattle)

General News

Snow Forecast in Cascades High Country (KHQ-TV, Spokane, WA)

FCC Approves Sale of KGY AM to Catholic Broadcasting Group (Olympian - Paywall Advisory)

‘Word Gap’ Chasm for Kids: 30 Million Words (KOIN-TV, Portland, OR)

Diversions

Renton High School Student Sues over ‘F’ Grade

Woman Sent to Jail over Overgrown Yard

New Florida Million-Dollar Home Has Nice View, But Built on Wrong Lot

Drunken Santa Zombie Enters St. Paul Home

Song of the Day

Dr. John - Right Place, Wrong Time

Links & Paywall Advisory

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