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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Price of Salmon Spiking Amid Recent Sea Lice Outbreaks
(Consumerist)
Oregon Solar Policies Rated Fourth Best in Nation, But Could
Fade Next Year (Portland Business Journal, OR)
Relatives Criticize Pacific Gas & Electric for 2010
Pipeline Blast That Killed Eight (SF Chronicle)
British Columbia: Federal Court Dismisses First Nations’
Challenge of Peace River Dam (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Trump Taps Net Neutrality Critic to Lead the FCC (Washington
Post)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- British Columbia: Federal Court Dismisses First Nations’ Challenge of Peace River Dam
- Relatives Criticize Pacific Gas & Electric for 2010 Pipeline Blast That Killed Eight
- Reports: Trump to Name LaFleur to Head FERC
- Lineman Dies While Making Repairs in Oklahoma Panhandle
- Florida: Tallahassee Storm Damage Underscores Need for Utility Improvements
- Hydrostor Seeks $1 Billion in Contracts to Replace Peaking Plants with Compressed Air Storage
- B-C Hydro Debt Puts Credit Rating at Risk
- Price of Salmon Spiking Amid Recent Sea Lice Outbreaks
- South Sound Tribes Eligible for Disaster Funding Because of Poor Fishing
- Nisqually Reach Purchase Protects Salmon Habitat
- Oregon Solar Policies Rated Fourth Best in Nation, But Could Fade Next Year
- Montana PURPA Battle Returns to PSC Jurisdiction After FERC Ruling
- Off Long Island, Wind Power Tests the Waters
- The Cost of Wind & Solar Intermittency
- Washington D-C Centric: Need a New Heating System? Here’s How to Get the Best Deal
- In California, a Legal Battle Over Carbon Emission Auctions
- Centers for Disease Control Cancels Upcoming Climate Conference, Won’t Say Why
- Trump Taps Net Neutrality Critic to Lead the FCC
- Yahoo Delays Its Sale to Verizon Until the Second Quarter
- Senate Committee Indefinitely Delays Votes on Rick Perry, Ryan Zinke
- Washington State Republicans Get Two EPA ‘Beachhead’ Posts
- Trump Abandons Trans-Pacific Partnership, Obama’s Signature Trade Deal
- Fill the Truck 2 a Big Success in Mason County
- Thousands Protest Abortion at Washington State Capitol During March for Life
Draconian • \drack-CONE-ee-un\ • Adjective – Of, relating
to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been
framed by him 2: cruel; also: severe.
“I know that you’re upset about the lunch thefts from the
lunchroom ‘fridge,” whined the CEO’s assistant. “But I think that blood tests
and retina scans to get into the icebox are a little draconian.”
Draco was the first legislator of ancient Athens, Greece,
7th century BC. He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by
a written code to be enforced only by a court. Because of its harshness, this
code also gave rise to the term “draconian”.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
British Columbia: Federal Court Dismisses First Nations’ Challenge
of Peace River Dam (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Relatives Criticize Pacific Gas & Electric for 2010
Pipeline Blast That Killed Eight (SF Chronicle)
Reports: Trump to Name LaFleur to Head FERC (Utility Dive)
Lineman Dies While Making Repairs in Oklahoma Panhandle (Associated
Press)
Florida: Tallahassee Storm Damage Underscores Need for
Utility Improvements (Tallahassee Democrat, FL)
Hydrostor Seeks $1 Billion in Contracts to Replace Peaking
Plants with Compressed Air Storage (Utility Dive)
B-C Hydro Debt Puts Credit Rating at Risk (Victoria Times
Colonist, BC)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Price of Salmon Spiking Amid Recent Sea Lice Outbreaks (Consumerist)
South Sound Tribes Eligible for Disaster Funding Because of
Poor Fishing (Olympian, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Nisqually Reach Purchase Protects Salmon Habitat (News
Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Oregon Solar Policies Rated Fourth Best in Nation, But Could
Fade Next Year (Portland Business Journal, OR)
Montana PURPA Battle Returns to PSC Jurisdiction After FERC Ruling
(Utility Dive)
Off Long Island, Wind Power Tests the Waters (NY Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/business/energy-environment/offshore-wind-energy-long-island.html
The Cost of Wind & Solar Intermittency (Forbes Magazine)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Washington D-C Centric: Need a New Heating System? Here’s How
to Get the Best Deal (Washington Post)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
In California, a Legal Battle Over Carbon Emission Auctions
(Christian Science Monitor)
Centers for Disease Control Cancels Upcoming Climate
Conference, Won’t Say Why (Christian Science Monitor)
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2017/0124/CDC-cancels-upcoming-climate-conference-won-t-say-why
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Trump Taps Net Neutrality Critic to Lead the FCC (Washington
Post)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Yahoo Delays Its Sale to Verizon Until the Second Quarter (NY
Times)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Senate Committee Indefinitely Delays Votes on Rick Perry,
Ryan Zinke (NBC News)
Washington State Republicans Get Two EPA ‘Beachhead’ Posts (Northwest
Public Radio)
Trump Abandons Trans-Pacific Partnership, Obama’s Signature
Trade Deal (NY Times)
GENERAL NEWS
Fill the Truck 2 a Big Success in Mason County (KMAS Radio, Shelton,
WA)
Thousands Protest Abortion at Washington State Capitol During
March for Life (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
SPECIAL SAUCE; LETTUCE, CHEESE – DIVERSIONS
McDonald’s to Give Away 10,000 Bottles of Big Mac Sauce
Skittles Scattered Across Highway Were Destined for Cattle
Feed: Mars Investigating
Two Galaxies Got into a Fight & the Result Was
Breathtaking
Disabled Rooster Loves His New Wheelchair
SONG OF THE DAY
Clint Black – Galaxy Song
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