Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Energy News Digest for June 15, 2016

SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS

Weather Forecast for June 15, 2016

HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES

Columbia Salmon Fishing Gets Easier Thursday – Marks the second consecutive year of record-for-the-date sockeye salmon returns over Bonneville Dam (Oregonian, Portland)

Judge Denies Pacific Gas & Electric Request to Dismiss Charges over Pipeline Safety (SF Chronicle)

Avista Gets Award for Restoration Work after Windstorm (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)

Portland Will Levy ‘Digital Equity’ Fee on Google Fiber (Oregonian, Portland)

Three Surprising Brain Facts Marketers Should Know about Email (AdWeek)

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
  • Judge Denies Pacific Gas & Electric Request to Dismiss Charges over Pipeline Safety
  • Avista Gets Award for Restoration Work after Windstorm
  • First New U-S Nuclear Reactor in Almost Two Decades Set to Begin Operating
  • Feds Announce $82 Million for Nuclear Energy Research
  • Trio of High-Profile Energy Cases Expected to Spark Wave of Litigation
  • Columbia Salmon Fishing Gets Easier Thursday – Marks the second consecutive year of record-for-the-date sockeye salmon returns over Bonneville Dam
  • Olympic National Forest Celebrates Skokomish Watershed Restoration
  • Seattle: Wallingford Community Council Full of S— with P**p Concerns?
  • Personalized Power Usage? There’s an App for That
  • Portland Will Levy ‘Digital Equity’ Fee on Google Fiber
  • Portland Approves its First Google Fiber ‘Hut’
  • Court Backs Rules Treating Internet as Utility, Not Luxury
  • Q&A: What Is Net Neutrality – Why Does It Matter?
  • Rep: Upselling Ruins Comcast’s Customer Service Reform Efforts
  • Three Surprising Brain Facts Marketers Should Know about Email
  • Dueling Income Tax Proposals Divide Olympia Council
  • Florida: Boy Snatched by Gator is Presumed Dead; Disney Beaches Close
  • Washington State Work Release Inmate Caught In South Dakota – Heading To Shelton Corrections
  • Murder Charges Dropped against One Brother in Rural Washington Killings
  • Including Washington, Oregon, Idaho – Ten States with the Fastest Job Growth in 2016
  • British Columbia: Falling Tree Branch Lands in B-C Supreme Court
WORD OF THE DAY

Kaput • \ku-PUT\ • Adjective - 1: utterly finished, defeated, or destroyed 2: unable to function: useless 3: hopelessly outmoded

I love word origins. Here’s the origin of kaput via Merriam-Webster Dictionary online:

“Kaput” originated with a card game called piquet that has been popular in France for centuries. French players originally used the term “capot” to describe both big winners and big losers. To win all twelve tricks in a hand was called “faire capot” (“to make capot”), but to lose them all was known as “ĂȘtre capot” (“to be capot”). German speakers adopted “capot,” but respelled it “kaputt,” and used it only for losers. When English speakers borrowed the word from German, they started using “kaput” for things that were broken, useless, or destroyed.

ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES

Judge Denies Pacific Gas & Electric Request to Dismiss Charges over Pipeline Safety (SF Chronicle)

Avista Gets Award for Restoration Work after Windstorm (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)

First New U-S Nuclear Reactor in Almost Two Decades Set to Begin Operating (The Energy Collective)

Feds Announce $82 Million for Nuclear Energy Research (Associated Press)

Trio of High-Profile Energy Cases Expected to Spark Wave of Litigation (American Public Power Association)

FISH & WILDLIFE

Columbia Salmon Fishing Gets Easier Thursday – Marks the second consecutive year of record-for-the-date sockeye salmon returns over Bonneville Dam (Oregonian, Portland)

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Olympic National Forest Celebrates Skokomish Watershed Restoration (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)

Seattle: Wallingford Community Council Full of S— with P**p Concerns? (Publicola)

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Personalized Power Usage? There’s an App for That (USA Today)

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Portland Will Levy ‘Digital Equity’ Fee on Google Fiber (Oregonian, Portland)

Portland Approves its First Google Fiber ‘Hut’ (Broadband Reports)

Court Backs Rules Treating Internet as Utility, Not Luxury (NY Times)

Q&A: What Is Net Neutrality – Why Does It Matter? (Associated Press)

Rep: Upselling Ruins Comcast’s Customer Service Reform Efforts (Broadband Reports)

MARKETING & MEDIA

Three Surprising Brain Facts Marketers Should Know about Email (AdWeek)

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE

Dueling Income Tax Proposals Divide Olympia Council (Olympian - Paywall Advisory)

GENERAL NEWS

Florida: Boy Snatched by Gator is Presumed Dead; Disney Beaches Close (Associated Press)

Washington State Work Release Inmate Caught In South Dakota – Heading To Shelton Corrections (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

Murder Charges Dropped against One Brother in Rural Washington Killings (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)

Including Washington, Oregon, Idaho – Ten States with the Fastest Job Growth in 2016 (Christian Science Monitor)

British Columbia: Falling Tree Branch Lands in B-C Supreme Court (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)

FLYING FIGS – DIVERSIONS

Kitten ‘Travels 300 Miles’ in Navy Pilot’s Car Bumper

Drunk Customer Returns to Restaurant the Next Day to Take Back $1,000 Tip

Russian Sues Ex-Girlfriend for Money He Spent On Her

Monkey Triggers Nationwide Blackout in Kenya

SONG OF THE DAY

The Proclaimers – I Would Walk 500 Miles

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