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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Warm
Winter, Cold Reality for Portland General Electric Bottom Line (Portland
Business Journal, OR)
Jefferson
County: A Tussle over PUD Privilege Taxes – Fire District Wants PUD Tax Money
County Kept (Port Townsend Leader, WA)
An
Active Oregon Volcano Could House a New Renewable Energy Lab (Portland Business
Journal, OR)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/sbo/2015/04/an-active-oregon-volcano-could-house-a-new.html
Twitter
Trading Halted after Shares Plunge on Leaked Earnings (SF Chronicle)
Brinnon Man Dies after Collision at East Anthony
Road Intersection North of Shelton (KBKW Radio,
Aberdeen, WA)
http://kbkw.com/brinnon-man-dies-after-collision-at-east-anthony-road-intersection-north-of-shelton/
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Warm Winter, Cold Reality for Portland General Electric Bottom Line
- Jefferson County: A Tussle over PUD Privilege Taxes – Fire District Wants PUD Tax Money County Kept
- Streamflow Dropped at Merwin Dam to Save Water for Fall
- Fitch Affirms Tacoma’s Electric System Revenue Bonds at ‘AA-’; Outlook Stable
- Fitch Rates Grays Harbor County PUD’s Electric Revenue Bonds ‘A’; Outlook Stable
- Alaska: Power Plant Fire Knocks Out Electricity in Emmonak
- Spring Has Sprung & So Have Power Scams
- Feds Urge Immigrant Victims of Scams to Speak Out
- Biggest Coal Exporter Says Climate Change Won’t Strand Assets
- Will the Quadrennial Energy Review Change Anything?
- Top Ten Things You Didn’t Know about Hydropower
- Disbelief over State Plan to Spray Neurotoxin into Oyster Beds
- King County Taking Insurers to Court Again over Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Don’t Blame Drought for Higher Water Rates in Seattle
- California Dems Won’t Fast-Track New Reservoirs
- Builders Flood Congress to Block Obama’s Bid to Regulate Creeks
- An Active Oregon Volcano Could House a New Renewable Energy Lab
- Utility Buy-In Fuels a Boom in Colorado Community Solar
- U-S Energy Demand Slows Except for Industrial, Commercial Sectors
- Port Townsend’s First Retail Marijuana Shop Due to Open Next Month
- Cannabis Farm Gets OK’d by Washington State, Kittitas County
- Sunnyside Bans Marijuana after More than Year of Indecision
- Editorial: Legalized Marijuana – Unforeseen Consequences
- Four Marijuana Plants Require Huge Amounts of Electricity
- California Governor Issues Executive Order to Aggressively Reduce Greenhouse Gases by 2030
- Scientists & Religious Leaders Discuss Climate Change at Vatican
- Amazon: 1% of Tree Species Store 50% of Region’s Carbon
- Oregon Brewers Tasked with Turning Sewage into Suds
- T-Mobile Likely to Bump Out Sprint, Become Third-Largest Carrier as Customer Growth Continues
- Using Comcast Data: One Arrested, Ten Wanted in $1.2 Million Identity Theft Scheme
- American Airlines Planes Grounded by iPad app Error
- AT&T Bills 83 Year Old $24,298 for AOL Dial Up
- Twitter Trading Halted after Shares Plunge on Leaked Earnings
- How One Tweet Wiped $8 Billion Off Twitter’s Value
- Data Analysis Proves That Some Brands Are Really Good At Twitter
- We Already Knew Legacy Media Had a Problem – These Two Charts Are Really Depressing
- Bud Light Apologizes after ‘Up For Whatever’ Slogan Misses Mark, Causes Social Media Uproar
- ‘Seinfeld’ Reruns Headed to Hulu in Rich Deal
- Indicted Washington State Auditor to Begin Unpaid Leave
- Brinnon Man Dies after Collision at East Anthony Road Intersection North of Shelton
- Details: Simpson/Sierra Pacific Industries Deal
- Sierra Pacific’s Shelton Mill Acquisition Won’t Change Things for Aberdeen Mill
- Mason General Hospital Board Approves Shelton Pool Agreement; School Board Needs More Time
- Hupp Running for Shelton Port Commission
- Hero Teacher Speaks Out About Stopping North Thurston Gunman
- Scrap Metal Laws Still Not Deterring Thieves
- NFL Gives Up Tax-Exempt Status, Calls It a ‘Distraction’
Alliumphile
• \ALLEY-yum-file\ • noun – A lover of garlic
Alfredo
was a walking, talking, breathing, fume emitting, advertisement for garlic. As
the town’s resident alliumphile, he was often requested to walk on the other
side of the street…especially after his morning breakfast of twenty (count-’em,
twenty) cloves of pickled elephant garlic. His olfactory-challenged wife had no
idea what the fuss was about.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Warm
Winter, Cold Reality for Portland General Electric Bottom Line (Portland
Business Journal, OR)
Jefferson
County: A Tussle over PUD Privilege Taxes – Fire District Wants PUD Tax Money
County Kept (Port Townsend Leader, WA)
Streamflow
Dropped at Merwin Dam to Save Water for Fall (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Fitch
Affirms Tacoma’s Electric System Revenue Bonds at ‘AA-’; Outlook Stable
(BusinessWire)
Fitch
Rates Grays Harbor County PUD’s Electric Revenue Bonds ‘A’; Outlook Stable
(BusinessWire)
Alaska:
Power Plant Fire Knocks Out Electricity in Emmonak (Alaska Dispatch)
Spring
Has Sprung & So Have Power Scams (Electric Co-op
Today)
Feds
Urge Immigrant Victims of Scams to Speak Out (Inquirer.Net)
Biggest
Coal Exporter Says Climate Change Won’t Strand Assets (Bloomberg News)
Will
the Quadrennial Energy Review Change Anything? (Morning Consult)
Top
Ten Things You Didn’t Know about Hydropower (Breaking Energy)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Disbelief over State Plan to Spray Neurotoxin
into Oyster Beds (Seattle Times, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
King
County Taking Insurers to Court Again over Brightwater Wastewater Treatment
Plant (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Don’t
Blame Drought for Higher Water Rates in Seattle (Crosscut Seattle)
California
Dems Won’t Fast-Track New Reservoirs (Courthouse News Service)
Builders
Flood Congress to Block Obama’s Bid to Regulate Creeks (Bloomberg News)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
An
Active Oregon Volcano Could House a New Renewable Energy Lab (Portland Business
Journal, OR)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/sbo/2015/04/an-active-oregon-volcano-could-house-a-new.html
Utility
Buy-In Fuels a Boom in Colorado Community Solar (Utility Dive)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
U-S
Energy Demand Slows Except for Industrial, Commercial Sectors (U-S Energy
Information Administration)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Port
Townsend’s First Retail Marijuana Shop Due to Open Next Month (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Cannabis
Farm Gets OK’d by Washington State, Kittitas County (Ellensburg Daily Record,
WA)
Sunnyside
Bans Marijuana after More than Year of Indecision (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Editorial:
Legalized Marijuana – Unforeseen Consequences (The Daily Astorian, OR)
Four
Marijuana Plants Require Huge Amounts of Electricity (Energy Manager Today)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
California
Governor Issues Executive Order to Aggressively Reduce Greenhouse Gases by 2030
(Associated Press)
Scientists
& Religious Leaders Discuss Climate Change at Vatican (NY Times)
Amazon:
1% of Tree Species Store 50% of Region’s Carbon (British
Broadcasting Corporation)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Oregon
Brewers Tasked with Turning Sewage into Suds (Associated
Press)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
T-Mobile
Likely to Bump Out Sprint, Become Third-Largest Carrier as Customer Growth
Continues (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Using
Comcast Data: One Arrested, Ten Wanted in $1.2 Million Identity Theft Scheme
(Tri-City Herald, WA)
American
Airlines Planes Grounded by iPad app Error (British
Broadcasting Corporation)
AT&T
Bills 83 Year Old $24,298 for AOL Dial Up (Broadband
Reports)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter
Trading Halted after Shares Plunge on Leaked Earnings (SF Chronicle)
How One Tweet Wiped $8 Billion Off Twitter’s Value (British
Broadcasting Corporation)
Data
Analysis Proves That Some Brands Are Really Good At Twitter (Consumerist)
We Already Knew Legacy Media Had a Problem – These
Two Charts Are Really Depressing (Washington Post)
Bud
Light Apologizes after ‘Up For Whatever’ Slogan Misses Mark, Causes Social
Media Uproar (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
‘Seinfeld’ Reruns Headed to Hulu in Rich Deal (USA
Today)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Indicted Washington State Auditor to Begin Unpaid Leave (Associated Press)
GENERAL NEWS
Brinnon Man Dies after Collision at East Anthony
Road Intersection North of Shelton (KBKW Radio,
Aberdeen, WA)
http://kbkw.com/brinnon-man-dies-after-collision-at-east-anthony-road-intersection-north-of-shelton/
Details: Simpson/Sierra
Pacific Industries Deal (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Sierra Pacific’s Shelton Mill Acquisition Won’t Change Things for Aberdeen
Mill (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)
Mason General Hospital Board Approves Shelton
Pool Agreement; School Board Needs More Time (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Hupp Running for Shelton Port Commission (Mason
Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Hero Teacher Speaks Out About Stopping North
Thurston Gunman (Northwest Public Radio)
Scrap Metal Laws Still Not Deterring Thieves (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
NFL Gives Up Tax-Exempt Status, Calls It a ‘Distraction’
(KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Fed
Up Professor Flunks Entire Class
You
Can Now Rent a Chicken to Get the Freshest of Fresh Eggs
Brewer
Replaces Athletes’ Missing Teeth with Implants That Double as Bottle Openers
Would
You Pay $80 a Pound for Coffee? Starbucks Thinks You Will
SONG OF THE DAY
Alice
Cooper - School’s Out
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