Energy News Digest for January 22, 2013

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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES

Research: West Coast Salmon Runs Fluctuated Hugely Even Before Commercial Fishing Started (Columbia Basin Bulletin)

http://www.cbbulletin.com/424595.aspx

Electric Supply Adequate as Idaho Power Mulls Coal Plant Closures (Idaho Statesman, Boise)

http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2013/01/22/rockybarker/electric_supply_adequate_idaho_power_mulls_coal_plant_closures

Wind Power Still in Limbo Despite Renewed Tax Break (Seattle Times, WA)

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020179874_windpowerxml.html?prmid=4939

Chelan PUD Needs Five Months to Fix Storm-Damaged Lake Wenatchee Fiber (Wenatchee World, WA)

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2013/jan/21/pud-needs-five-months-to-fix-lake-wenatchee-fiber/

Grays Harbor PUD, Greater Grays Harbor Partner for Energy Audits (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)

http://thedailyworld.com/sections/news/local/pud-greater-grays-harbor-partner-energy-audits.html

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)

• Electric Supply Adequate as Idaho Power Mulls Coal Plant Closures
• U-S Power Regulator to Fine Deutsche Bank Unit over California Energy Trading
• PDC Complaint Details Case against Fired Cowlitz PUD General Manager
• Bonneville Power Administration CEO Speaks at Mason County PUD 3
• Montana - U-S Senator Encourages New BPA Administrator to Bring “Montana Values” to Post
• Montana - Yellowstone Valley to Leave Bankrupt Co-Op
• Public Power Council Names Officers for Executive Committee
• Report: Energy Secretary Steven Chu to Leave, End Of a Green Era
• FERC Approves Settlement on Controversial 2012 Performance Audit of NERC
• Your Utility’s Focus for 2013? Cyber Security
• A Startup Emerges to Use Wireless Mesh& the Cloud to Fight Energy Theft
• Research: West Coast Salmon Runs Fluctuated Hugely Even Before Commercial Fishing Started
• Gray Whale Found Dead in Bremerton
• Scientist: Beaches Grow as Elwha Dams Are Removed
• Even as Season Winds Down, Eagles Line Skagit River
• Canada’s Teck Metals to Appeal U-S Court Ruling That Company Liable for Contaminating Columbia
• Director Leaving Puget Sound Partnership after Brief Tenure
• To Ease Drought on the Mississippi, Look Upstream
• Wind Power Still in Limbo Despite Renewed Tax Break
• Big Bet on Wyoming Wind: Phil Anschutz’s Latest $9 Billion Idea
• U-S Installed Record 13.2 Gigawatts of Wind Energy in 2012
• The Green False Claim Most Companies Are Making Without Realizing It
• History - All-electric Rupert High Opened to National Acclaim
• Grays Harbor PUD, Greater Grays Harbor Partner for Energy Audits
• LEDs Emerge as a Popular ‘Green’ Lighting
• In Chicago, Seeking the Next Bright Ideas in Energy Efficiency
• Obama Pledges in Inaugural to Respond to ‘The Threat of Climate Change’
• ‘The Electric Car is Not Dead,’ Says GM Chief
• There’s a Hole in My Plastic-Bag Law
• Chelan PUD Needs Five Months to Fix Storm-Damaged Lake Wenatchee Fiber
• FCC Pushes for Gigabit Broadband in All 50 States by 2015
• Google Eyeing Seattle Expansion?
• Mixed Response to Comcast in Expanding Net Access
• Op/Ed - Expanding Wireless Spectrum Can Address Rural Health-Care Disparities
• School District Refinancing in Washington State Saved $1.1 Billion
• Kilmer Focuses On Jobs, and On Congress Not Doing Its Job
• Potential Sniper Targeted Cars Traveling through Pierce County
• Harstine Island Wood Theft - Massive Big Leaf Maple Theft on Washington State Parks Land
• Three Month Outlook Forecasts Chilly Winter Ahead
• Maloofs Agree to Sell NBA’s Sacramento Kings to Seattle Group
• Awards Given at Annual Shelton-Mason County Chamber Gala

WORD OF THE DAY

Contrite • \KAHN-trite\ • Adjective - Feeling or showing sorrow & remorse for a sin or shortcoming

The looming darkness in the corner drawing room made the lighting in “film noir” movies look downright sunny. Bud was on his knees, begging forgiveness from the mob Don, his contrite attitude belying his seething inner anger. Regardless his personal danger of “sleeping with the fishes,” he knew he was missing a rerun of his inexplicably favorite television show, ‘Alf.’ However, the darkness of the room kept him from seeing the hands of the watch on his hairy wrist; “how long,” he wondered…”How long?”

SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/mapclick.php?textfield1=47.213805&textfield2=-123.113412&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=shelton%2c%20wa%2c%20usa

ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES

Electric Supply Adequate as Idaho Power Mulls Coal Plant Closures (Idaho Statesman, Boise)

http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2013/01/22/rockybarker/electric_supply_adequate_idaho_power_mulls_coal_plant_closures

U-S Power Regulator to Fine Deutsche Bank Unit over California Energy Trading (Reuters)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/22/us-ferc-deutschebank-wsj-idUSBRE90L07P20130122

PDC Complaint Details Case against Fired Cowlitz PUD General Manager (Longview Daily News, WA)

http://tdn.com/news/local/ea4be678-6396-11e2-aefb-0019bb2963f4.html

Bonneville Power Administration CEO Speaks at Mason County PUD 3 (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)

http://masonwebtv.com/archives/9024

Montana - U-S Senator Encourages New BPA Administrator to Bring “Montana Values” to Post (U-S Max Senator Baucus, MT)

http://www.baucus.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1211

Montana - Yellowstone Valley to Leave Bankrupt Co-Op (Great Falls Tribune, MT)

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20130122/NEWS01/301220002/Yellowstone-Valley-leave-bankrupt-co-op

Public Power Council Names Officers for Executive Committee (American Public Power Association)

http://energynewsfeed.blogspot.com/2013/01/public-power-council-names-officers-for.html

Report: Energy Secretary Steven Chu to Leave, End Of a Green Era (Gigaom)

http://gigaom.com/2013/01/18/report-energy-secretary-steven-chu-to-leave-end-of-a-green-era/

FERC Approves Settlement on Controversial 2012 Performance Audit of NERC (American Public Power Association)

http://www.naylornetwork.com/app-ppd/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=203763&issueID=26934

Your Utility’s Focus for 2013? Cyber Security (The Energy Collective)

http://theenergycollective.com/ecsjessica/172781/utility-focus-2013-cyber-security-smart-grid

A Startup Emerges to Use Wireless Mesh& the Cloud to Fight Energy Theft (GigaOM)

http://gigaom.com/2013/01/21/a-startup-emerges-to-use-wireless-mesh-and-the-cloud-to-fight-energy-theft/

FISH & WILDLIFE

Research: West Coast Salmon Runs Fluctuated Hugely Even Before Commercial Fishing Started (Columbia Basin Bulletin)

http://www.cbbulletin.com/424595.aspx

Gray Whale Found Dead in Bremerton (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020182275_apwadeadwhale.html

Scientist: Beaches Grow as Elwha Dams Are Removed (Associated Press)

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Scientist-Beaches-grow-as-Elwha-dams-are-removed-187672681.html

Even as Season Winds Down, Eagles Line Skagit River (Everett Herald, WA)

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20130119/NEWS01/701199950

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

Canada’s Teck Metals to Appeal U-S Court Ruling That Company Liable for Contaminating Columbia (Columbia Basin Bulletin)

http://www.cbbulletin.com/424587.aspx

Director Leaving Puget Sound Partnership after Brief Tenure (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2013/jan/18/director-leaving-puget-sound-partnership-after/

To Ease Drought on the Mississippi, Look Upstream (Bloomberg News)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-21/to-ease-drought-on-the-mississippi-look-upstream.html

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Wind Power Still in Limbo Despite Renewed Tax Break (Seattle Times, WA)

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020179874_windpowerxml.html?prmid=4939

Big Bet on Wyoming Wind: Phil Anschutz’s Latest $9 Billion Idea (Denver Post, CO)

http://business-news.thestreet.com/denver-post/story/big-bet-wyoming-wind-phil-anschutzs-latest-9-billion-idea/1

U-S Installed Record 13.2 Gigawatts of Wind Energy in 2012 (Forbes Magazine)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddwoody/2013/01/18/u-s-installed-record-13-2-gigawatts-of-wind-energy-in-2012/

The Green False Claim Most Companies Are Making Without Realizing It (Electric Light & Power)

http://www.elp.com/news/2013/01/21/united-states-the-green-false-claim-most-companies-are-making-without-realizing-it.html

History - All-electric Rupert High Opened to National Acclaim (Twin Falls Times-News, ID)

http://magicvalley.com/news/local/mini-cassia/all-electric-rupert-high-opened-to-national-acclaim/article_9deba00c-63f0-11e2-85db-001a4bcf887a.html

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Grays Harbor PUD, Greater Grays Harbor Partner for Energy Audits (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)

http://thedailyworld.com/sections/news/local/pud-greater-grays-harbor-partner-energy-audits.html

LEDs Emerge as a Popular ‘Green’ Lighting (New York Times, NY)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/business/leds-emerge-as-a-popular-green-lighting.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

In Chicago, Seeking the Next Bright Ideas in Energy Efficiency (Midwest Energy News)

http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2013/01/22/in-chicago-seeking-the-next-bright-ideas-in-energy-efficiency/

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Obama Pledges in Inaugural to Respond to ‘The Threat of Climate Change’ (Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-pledges-in-inaugural-to-respond-to-the-threat-of-climate-change/2013/01/21/f408b832-63ee-11e2-889b-f23c246aa446_story.html

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

‘The Electric Car is Not Dead,’ Says GM Chief (Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2013/0118/The-electric-car-is-not-dead-says-GM-chief

There’s a Hole in My Plastic-Bag Law (Grist Online)

http://grist.org/news/theres-a-hole-in-my-plastic-bag-law/

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Chelan PUD Needs Five Months to Fix Storm-Damaged Lake Wenatchee Fiber (Wenatchee World, WA)

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2013/jan/21/pud-needs-five-months-to-fix-lake-wenatchee-fiber/

FCC Pushes for Gigabit Broadband in All 50 States by 2015 (CNET News)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57564815-38/fcc-pushes-for-gigabit-broadband-in-all-50-states-by-2015/

Google Eyeing Seattle Expansion? (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/01/18/google-eyeing-seattle-expansion.html

Mixed Response to Comcast in Expanding Net Access (New York Times, NY)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/business/media/comcast-internet-essentials-brings-access-to-low-income-homes.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Op/Ed - Expanding Wireless Spectrum Can Address Rural Health-Care Disparities (Seattle Times, WA)

http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2020166445_saileshchutaniopedxml.html

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE

School District Refinancing in Washington State Saved $1.1 Billion (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Report-School-district-refinancing-saved-11-billion-187683441.html

Kilmer Focuses On Jobs, and On Congress Not Doing Its Job (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2013/jan/19/kilmer-focuses-on-jobs-and-on-congress-not-doing/

GENERAL NEWS

Potential Sniper Targeted Cars Traveling through Pierce County (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)

http://mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=2180514

Harstine Island Wood Theft - Massive Big Leaf Maple Theft on Washington State Parks Land (Northwest Public Radio)

http://nwpr.org/post/massive-big-leaf-maple-theft-washington-state-parks-land

Three Month Outlook Forecasts Chilly Winter Ahead (Northwest Public Radio)

http://nwpr.org/post/three-month-outlook-forecasts-chilly-winter-ahead

Maloofs Agree to Sell NBA’s Sacramento Kings to Seattle Group (Northwest Cable News)

http://www.nwcn.com/news/187865331.html

Awards Given at Annual Shelton-Mason County Chamber Gala (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.com/news/news-page/48166-awards-given-at-annual-gala

DIVERSIONS

Explorer’s Rare Scotch Returned to Antarctic Stash

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/20/explorers-rare-scotch-returned-to-antarctic-stash/

Wanted: Surrogate for Neanderthal Baby

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/510071/wanted-surrogate-for-neanderthal-baby/

Cheese Fire Causes Traffic Meltdown in Norway Tunnel

http://news.yahoo.com/cheese-fire-causes-traffic-meltdown-norway-tunnel-151218290.html

Rotten Eggs Stench Reaches UK after French Gas Leak

http://news.yahoo.com/gas-leak-causes-strong-odor-paris-western-france-024755078--finance.html

SONG OF THE DAY

Susan Tedeschi - Little by Little

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hasFcyk8Iq0

Energy News Digest for January 18, 2013

The energy news digest will be perambulating around the back yard this weekend pondering landscape opportunities…or the lack thereof…over this coming three day weekend. It will return already tired in anticipation of future work on Tuesday with a new edition.

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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES

Port Angeles Plans to Protest Electricity Rate Increases - “…This is an economic assault on Port Angeles…” (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20130118/news/301189986/port-angeles-plans-to-protest-electricity-rate-increases

Small Fires at Ice Harbor Dam Stop Power Production (Tri-City Herald, WA)

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/01/17/2240349/small-fires-at-ice-harbor-dam.html

Oregon Wave Energy Plan Ready for Vote after Four Years of Work (Oregonian, Portland, OR)

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/01/oregon_wave_energy_plan_ready.html

States, Tribes Differ on Columbia River Fish Recovery (Vancouver Columbian, WA)

http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/jan/17/states-tribes-differ-columbia-fish-recovery/

Boeing Scrambles to Find Fix So Planes Can Fly (Seattle Times, WA)

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020158380_787interimfixxml.html

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)

• Port Angeles Plans to Protest Electricity Rate Increases
• Small Fires at Ice Harbor Dam Stop Power Production
• Rotted Trees Taken Down to Keep Clallam County PUD Lights On
• Liz Anderson Leaves Communications Post at Grays Harbor PUD
• FERC Issues Final Rule on Annual Charges for Hydro Projects on Federal Lands
• U-S Launches 35-Year Quest for a New Yucca Mountain
• In Indiana, Debate over How ‘Trackers’ Shape Future Energy System
• States, Tribes Differ on Columbia River Fish Recovery
• U-S Environmentalists Challenged to Get Climate Change Laws through Congress
• Oregon Wave Energy Plan Ready for Vote after Four Years of Work
• Hydropower Efficiency Act Reintroduced to U-S House
• Fiddling on the Roof: Can $10 Million in Prize Money Spark a Solar Revolution?
• Port Angeles Gets Grant of Almost $500,000 from Bonneville Power Administration
• How Are We Doing on Energy Efficiency?
• Seattle Firm Seeks to Commercialize Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Methanol
• As Homes Get Greener, NEEA Works on the Next Green Thing
• Cable Industry Finally Admits Caps Not About Congestion - After Insisting For Years Caps Were About Congestion
• Rural Broadband 'Just Like Electricity' - You Have to Have it, Officials Say
• Washington State Governor Inslee: Extending Expiring Taxes Not an Increase
• Boeing Scrambles to Find Fix So Planes Can Fly
• Cold, Foggy Weather to Continue in Western Washington
• Oregon Fighter Jets Escort Flight into Sea-Tac Airport after FBI Receives Possible Threat Tip
• Small Bomb Explodes Outside Tacoma Corrections Office
• Dock on Washington State Coast Confirmed as Tsunami Debris

WORD OF THE DAY

Inchmeal • \INCH-meel\ • Adverb - Little-by-little, gradually

The clock’s inchmeal advance seemed slower the closer it got to midnight thought little Timmy. “Christmas will NEVER get here at this rate,” he thought longingly.

SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/mapclick.php?textfield1=47.213805&textfield2=-123.113412&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=shelton%2c%20wa%2c%20usa

ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES

Port Angeles Plans to Protest Electricity Rate Increases - “…This is an economic assault on Port Angeles…” (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20130118/news/301189986/port-angeles-plans-to-protest-electricity-rate-increases

Small Fires at Ice Harbor Dam Stop Power Production (Tri-City Herald, WA)

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/01/17/2240349/small-fires-at-ice-harbor-dam.html

Rotted Trees Taken Down to Keep Clallam County PUD Lights On (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)

http://www.konp.com/local/8437

Liz Anderson Leaves Communications Post at Grays Harbor PUD (KXRO Radio, Aberdeen, WA)

http://kxro.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/liz-anderson-leaves-grays-harbor-pud/

FERC Issues Final Rule on Annual Charges for Hydro Projects on Federal Lands (American Public Power Association)

http://www.naylornetwork.com/app-ppd/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=203771&issueID=26934

U-S Launches 35-Year Quest for a New Yucca Mountain (Forbes Magazine)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2013/01/17/us-launches-35-year-quest-for-a-new-yucca-mountain/

In Indiana, Debate over How ‘Trackers’ Shape Future Energy System (Midwest Energy News)

http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2013/01/17/in-indiana-debate-over-how-trackers-shape-future-energy-system/

FISH & WILDLIFE

States, Tribes Differ on Columbia River Fish Recovery (Vancouver Columbian, WA)

http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/jan/17/states-tribes-differ-columbia-fish-recovery/

WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT

U-S Environmentalists Challenged to Get Climate Change Laws through Congress (The Guardian, UK)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/17/us-environmental-groups-climate-change-legislation

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Oregon Wave Energy Plan Ready for Vote after Four Years of Work (Oregonian, Portland, OR)

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/01/oregon_wave_energy_plan_ready.html

Hydropower Efficiency Act Reintroduced to U-S House (Renewable Energy World)

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/01/hydropower-efficiency-act-reintroduced-to-u-s-house?cmpid=WNL-Friday-January18-2013

Fiddling on the Roof: Can $10 Million in Prize Money Spark a Solar Revolution? (Grist Online)

http://grist.org/climate-energy/fiddling-on-the-roof-can-10-million-in-prize-money-spark-a-solar-revolution/

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Port Angeles Gets Grant of Almost $500,000 from Bonneville Power Administration (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20130118/news/301189987/port-angeles-gets-grant-of-almost-500000-from-utility-company

How Are We Doing on Energy Efficiency? (Grist Online)

http://grist.org/climate-energy/how-are-we-doing-on-energy-efficiency/

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

Seattle Firm Seeks to Commercialize Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Methanol (Northwest Public Radio)

http://nwpr.org/post/seattle-firm-seeks-commercialize-carbon-dioxide-conversion-methanol

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

As Homes Get Greener, NEEA Works on the Next Green Thing (Sustainable Business Oregon)

http://www.sustainablebusinessoregon.com/articles/2013/01/as-homes-get-greener-neea-works-on.html

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Cable Industry Finally Admits Caps Not About Congestion - After Insisting For Years Caps Were About Congestion (Broadband Reports)

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Cable-Industry-Finally-Admits-Caps-Not-About-Congestion-122791

Rural Broadband 'Just Like Electricity' - You Have to Have it, Officials Say (Post Bulletin, Rochester, MN)

http://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/rural-broadband-just-like-electricity---you-have-to/article_54ac9aaf-19c2-512d-b30a-a640da3d1955.html

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE

Washington State Governor Inslee: Extending Expiring Taxes Not an Increase (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Inslee-Extending-expiring-taxes-not-an-increase-187373491.html

GENERAL NEWS

Boeing Scrambles to Find Fix So Planes Can Fly (Seattle Times, WA)

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020158380_787interimfixxml.html

Cold, Foggy Weather to Continue in Western Washington (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)

http://mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=2178894

Oregon Fighter Jets Escort Flight into Sea-Tac Airport after FBI Receives Possible Threat Tip (Associated Press)

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/01/oregon_fighter_jets_escort_fli.html

Small Bomb Explodes Outside Tacoma Corrections Office (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020158390_apwacorrectionsofficebomb.html

Dock on Washington State Coast Confirmed as Tsunami Debris (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Dock-on-Wash-coast-confirmed-as-tsunami-debris-187333331.html

DIVERSIONS

When Subway's Footlong Isn't a Foot Long - More Like 11 Inches

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-subway-footlong-size-20130118,0,4441636.story

'Dear Abby’ Advice Columnist Dies at Age 94

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/01/17/2240103/dear-abby-advice-columnist-dies.html

Shades of the Movie “Outsourced” – Sly Software Worker Outsources His Own Job

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/18/5123280/sly-software-worker-outsources.html

Amateur Australian Prospector Finds Massive Gold Nugget

http://news.yahoo.com/amateur-australian-prospector-finds-massive-gold-nugget-064151366.html

SONG OF THE DAY

Sly & the Family Stone - Take my Advice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lerzTxtIS3U

Energy News Digest for January 17, 2013

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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES

Bill Drummond Named as New Bonneville Power Administration Administrator (Bonneville Power Administration)

http://www.bpa.gov/news/newsroom/Pages/DOE-Names-Bill-Drummond-As-New-Bonneville-Power-Administration-Administrator.aspx

Bonneville Power Administration Celebrates 75 Years (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/news/news-page/47782-bonneville-power-administration-celebrates-75-years

Public Utility Marks 75 Years of Serving Clark County (Vancouver Columbian, WA)

http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/jan/17/public-utility-marks-75-years-of-serving-clark-cou/

Grant County, REC Silicon Agree to End Three-Year Tax Dispute (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)

http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/business/article_57d90928-6018-11e2-9982-001a4bcf887a.html

Air Stagnation Advisory in Effect for Mason County (National Weather Service, Seattle)

http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=WAZ511&warncounty=WAC045&firewxzone=WAZ654&local_place1=&product1=Air+Stagnation+Advisory

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)

• Bill Drummond Named as New Bonneville Power Administration Administrator
• Montanan Bill Drummond to Lead Bonneville Power Administration
• Public Power Council Applauds Decision on New BPA Administrator
• Bonneville Power Administration Celebrates 75 Years
• Public Utility Marks 75 Years of Serving Clark County
• Comment Meetings Set over Pacific Power’s Selah-Vantage Power Line
• Wahkiakum PUD Discontinues Westend Meetings
• California – Pacific Gas & Electric Clarifies 'Lost Its Way' Ad Campaign
• State Audit Rips California Utilities Commission for Fund Errors
• U-S Natural Gas Supplies Shrank Last Week
• PJM Interconnection - Breaking New Ground on Grid Rules
• DOE Issues New Strategy for Nuclear Waste That Would Require Federal Legislation; Calls for Some Interim Storage by 2021
• Rains Bring Some Relief to Depleted Reservoirs of Brazil’s Hydroelectric Plants
• Research Helps Design Fish-Friendlier Hydropower Turbines
• Ducks Unlimited Isn’t a Hunting Club; It’s All About Wetlands, Waterfowl
• Grant County, REC Silicon Agree to End Three-Year Tax Dispute
• Minnesota - Feds Decide Goodhue County Wind Project's Eagle Toll is OK
• Florida - City of Gainesville Paid Law Firm Close to $1 Million on Biomass-Related Fees
• Portland’s Kilowatt Crackdown Enlists More Than 50 Buildings
• World Warm Last Year, But Not Like Record U-S Heat
• Soot Is No. 2 Global-Warming Culprit, Study Finds
• German Man Builds Device to Suck Electricity from Power Lines, Other People
• An Inquiry Into Discolored Snow
• Extension Cord Fire Stops Royal Slope’s Grant PUD Fiber Service
• Ask.com Has Found the Answer to a Strong Comeback
• Supreme Court Hears Argument on the FCC’s Authority to Rule on Cellphone Towers
• Grant County PUD to Install a Tait Trunked Digital Mobile Radio Network
• Inslee Sworn In as Washington State Governor, Promises ‘Disruptive Change’
• A State Divided: As Washington Becomes More Liberal, Republicans Push Back
• Sleeping in Congress: Fewer Freshmen Bunk in Offices
• Air Stagnation Advisory in Effect for Mason County
• Fliers Losing Faith in Boeing Dreamliner
• Economist: Drop in Washington State Jobless Rate May Be Misleading
• McCleary Investment Could Create 400 Jobs by 2014
• 20th Anniversary for Mason Transit
• North Kitsap Firefighter's Expulsion from Union Exposes Rift with Ambulance Company
• Change in the Air for Blizzard of Winter Weather Terms
• Photos: Snake River Becomes Field Of Ice During Cold Snap

WORD OF THE DAY

Vernissage • \vare-nuh-SAZH\ • Noun - A private showing or preview of an art exhibition.

“This here is a private party,” growled the pair of eyes under beetled brows that peered through the darkened slit in the password-protected underground art gallery. Dilton gulped nervously, his Adams apple bobbing up and down his throat like a rabbit running under a rug. He did have an invitation to the nefarious vernissage of black-market “Peanuts” etchings…but a note eating shrub had filched it (with the password) from him.

SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/mapclick.php?textfield1=47.213805&textfield2=-123.113412&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=shelton%2c%20wa%2c%20usa

ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES

Bill Drummond Named as New Bonneville Power Administration Administrator (Bonneville Power Administration)

http://www.bpa.gov/news/newsroom/Pages/DOE-Names-Bill-Drummond-As-New-Bonneville-Power-Administration-Administrator.aspx

Montanan Bill Drummond to Lead Bonneville Power Administration (Associated Press)

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/viewart/20130117/NEWS01/301170008/Montanan-Bill-Drummond-lead-Bonneville-Power-Administration

Public Power Council Applauds Decision on New BPA Administrator (Public Power Council - News Release)

http://energynewsfeed.blogspot.com/2013/01/public-power-council-applauds-decision.html

Bonneville Power Administration Celebrates 75 Years (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/news/news-page/47782-bonneville-power-administration-celebrates-75-years

Public Utility Marks 75 Years of Serving Clark County (Vancouver Columbian, WA)

http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/jan/17/public-utility-marks-75-years-of-serving-clark-cou/

Comment Meetings Set over Pacific Power’s Selah-Vantage Power Line (Yakima Herald, WA)

http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/latestlocalnews/739821-8/comment-meetings-set-over-selah-vantage-power-line

Wahkiakum PUD Discontinues Westend Meetings (Wahkiakum Eagle, Skamokawa, WA)

http://www.waheagle.com/news/article.exm/2013-01-17_pud_discontinues_westend_meetings

California – Pacific Gas & Electric Clarifies 'Lost Its Way' Ad Campaign (SF Chronicle, CA)

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/PG-amp-E-clarifies-lost-its-way-ad-campaign-4200006.php

State Audit Rips California Utilities Commission for Fund Errors (Sacramento Bee, CA)

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/17/5120339/state-audit-rips-california-utilities.html

U-S Natural Gas Supplies Shrank Last Week (Associated Press)

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/01/17/2239854/us-natural-gas-supplies-shrank.html

PJM Interconnection - Breaking New Ground on Grid Rules (New York Times, NY)

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/breaking-new-ground-in-grid-rules/?partner=rss&emc=rss

DOE Issues New Strategy for Nuclear Waste That Would Require Federal Legislation; Calls for Some Interim Storage by 2021 (American Public Power Association)

http://www.naylornetwork.com/app-ppd/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=203458&issueID=26933

Rains Bring Some Relief to Depleted Reservoirs of Brazil’s Hydroelectric Plants (Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/rains-bring-some-relief-to-depleted-reservoirs-of-brazils-hydroelectric-plants/2013/01/15/01065afc-5f36-11e2-9dc9-bca76dd777b8_story.html

FISH & WILDLIFE

Research Helps Design Fish-Friendlier Hydropower Turbines (Northwest Public Radio)

http://nwpr.org/post/research-helps-design-fish-friendlier-turbines

Ducks Unlimited Isn’t a Hunting Club; It’s All About Wetlands, Waterfowl (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/jan/13/ducks-unlimited-isnt-a-hunting-club-its-all-about/

RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Grant County, REC Silicon Agree to End Three-Year Tax Dispute (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)

http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/business/article_57d90928-6018-11e2-9982-001a4bcf887a.html

Minnesota - Feds Decide Goodhue County Wind Project's Eagle Toll is OK (Minneapolis Star-Tribune, MN)

http://www.startribune.com/local/187232171.html?refer=y&refer=y

Florida - City of Gainesville Paid Law Firm Close to $1 Million on Biomass-Related Fees (Gainesville Sun, FL)

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20130115/ARTICLES/130119768?tc=ar

CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY

Portland’s Kilowatt Crackdown Enlists More Than 50 Buildings (Portland Business Journal, OR)

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/real-estate-daily/2013/01/kilowatt-crackdown-enlists-more-than.html

CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT

World Warm Last Year, But Not Like Record U-S Heat (Associated Press)

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/science/article/World-warm-last-year-but-not-like-record-US-heat-4195738.php

Soot Is No. 2 Global-Warming Culprit, Study Finds (Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2013/0115/Soot-is-No.-2-global-warming-culprit-study-finds-video

BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI

German Man Builds Device to Suck Electricity from Power Lines, Other People (The Atlantic)

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2013/01/german-man-builds-device-suck-electricity-power-lines-other-people/4406/

An Inquiry Into Discolored Snow (New York Times, NY)

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/an-inquiry-into-discolored-snow/?partner=rss&emc=rss

TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Extension Cord Fire Stops Royal Slope’s Grant PUD Fiber Service (Crescent Bar Chronicle, WA)

http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/crescent_bar_chronicle/news/article_8a6129ce-5c40-11e2-8861-001a4bcf887a.html

Ask.com Has Found the Answer to a Strong Comeback (USA Today)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/talkingtech/2013/01/16/askcom-profits-from-questions/1834013/

Supreme Court Hears Argument on the FCC’s Authority to Rule on Cellphone Towers (New York Times, NY)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/business/supreme-court-hears-argument-on-cellphone-towers.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Grant County PUD to Install a Tait Trunked Digital Mobile Radio Network (SF Chronicle, CA)

http://www.sfgate.com/business/prweb/article/Public-Utility-District-Washington-to-install-a-4199217.php

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE

Inslee Sworn In as Washington State Governor, Promises ‘Disruptive Change’ (Seattle Times, WA)

http://seattletimes.com/html/politics/2020149415_inaugurationinsleexml.html

A State Divided: As Washington Becomes More Liberal, Republicans Push Back (TIME Magazine)

http://nation.time.com/2013/01/15/a-state-divided-as-washington-becomes-more-liberal-republicans-push-back/

Sleeping in Congress: Fewer Freshmen Bunk in Offices (USA Today)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2013/01/17/congress-couch-caucus-armey/1841941/

GENERAL NEWS

Air Stagnation Advisory in Effect for Mason County (National Weather Service, Seattle)

http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=WAZ511&warncounty=WAC045&firewxzone=WAZ654&local_place1=&product1=Air+Stagnation+Advisory

Fliers Losing Faith in Boeing Dreamliner (USA Today)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2013/01/16/fliers-losing-faith-dreamliner/1566404/

Economist: Drop in Washington State Jobless Rate May Be Misleading (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2013/01/16/economist-drop-in-wa-jobless-rate-may.html

McCleary Investment Could Create 400 Jobs by 2014 (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)

http://kbkw.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5036

20th Anniversary for Mason Transit (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://masoncountydailynews.com/news/news-page/47784-20th-anniversary-for-mason-tranist

North Kitsap Firefighter's Expulsion from Union Exposes Rift with Ambulance Company (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2013/jan/16/north-kitsap-firefighters-expulsion-from-union/

Change in the Air for Blizzard of Winter Weather Terms (Associated Press)

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020149829_apusweatherjargon.html

Photos: Snake River Becomes Field Of Ice During Cold Snap (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)

http://www.keprtv.com/news/local/Snake-River-Idaho-Ice-187305121.html

DIVERSIONS

Three-legged dog caught stealing from New Zealand supermarket becomes TV star

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/9806582/Three-legged-dog-caught-stealing-from-New-Zealand-supermarket-becomes-TV-star.html

Nearly 30 Police Called on to Break Up Baby Shower Brawl

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/nearly-30-police-called-break-baby-shower-brawl-030430827.html

Ohio Ex-Teacher Sues, Says She Fears Young Kids

http://news.yahoo.com/ohio-ex-teacher-sues-says-she-fears-young-175446818.html

This Is Why You Flush Them: Fisherman Catches Massive Goldfish

http://now.msn.com/mike-martin-michigan-fisherman-catches-giant-goldfish

SONG OF THE DAY

Donny Osmond - Go Away Little Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS9E1zr0t10