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News Digest Word Cloud for March 7, 2014
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Too Many Gawkers Spur Closing of Shoreline near
Cracked Wanapum Dam on Columbia River (Associated Press)
Washington State Supreme Court Weighs Uses of
Public Lands in Okanogan PUD Power Line Case (Methow Valley News, Twisp, WA)
Confederated
Salish & Kootenai Tribes to Pay $18.3M for Kerr Dam; New Name Planned (The
Missoulian, MT)
Anticipated Salmon Run Could Overwhelm Fraser River
This Summer, Experts Say (Globe & Mail, Canada)
Tribes
Challenge Snohomish PUD Tidal Turbine Proposal (South Whidbey Record, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Too Many Gawkers Spur Closing of Shoreline near Cracked Wanapum Dam on Columbia River
- Grant PUD Commissioners Updated on Cracked Wanapum Spillway
- Power Production Stopped at Chelan PUD’s Rock Island Dam
- Washington State Supreme Court Weighs Uses of Public Lands in Okanogan PUD Power Line Case
- Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes to Pay $18.3M for Kerr Dam; New Name Planned
- Michael Ferrier, Mason PUD 1 Lineman Provides Aid to Disaster
- Lewis County PUD Hires New Human Resources Manager
- Alaska: Interior Electric Co-Op Golden Valley Electric Association Scrambling for Fuel Source
- Maryland: Electric Customers Opting Out of Smart Meters May Be Shocked by Monthly Charges
- EPA Chief Says New U-S Energy Rules Won’t Hobble Business
- Anticipated Salmon Run Could Overwhelm Fraser River This Summer, Experts Say
- Great Salmon Season Projected
- Full Water Supply Predicted for Yakima Basin Irrigators
- Blasting On Hold at Glines Canyon as Elwha River Flows Ten Times Normal
- A Dry California Town Struggles to Save Its Water Supply
- Tribes Challenge Snohomish PUD Tidal Turbine Proposal
- SoloPower Systems Further In the Red after Missing another Payment on $10 Million State Loan
- Solar Panel Maker Is First to Default in China’s Domestic Bond Market
- Benton City LED Lights are Going In
- Climate Consultant Refutes Fuel Cost Increase Assumption
- City of Beaverton Commits to 100% Wind Power
- Can Solar Power Help Marijuana Growers?
- In Tennessee, Four Bills Seek to Reverse Restrictions on Public Broadband
- Texas: Thought of Comcast Merger Scares AT&T into Expanding Gigabit Fiber Service
- Ohio: Holding Your Breath for Google Fiber? Local Network Plans to Offer Speeds Just as Fast
- Kansas City Locals Annoyed by Google Fiber Cabinet Placement
- New Scam Targets Netflix Subscribers
- FCC Seeks Limits on TV Stations, to Curb Cable Costs
- Getty to Let Bloggers and Others Use Photos Free
- Bizarre New Sleep Disorder on the Rise: Sleep Texting
- British Energy Company’s Gassy PSA Is Fracking Hilarious
- North Mason School Leader David Peterson Selected as Next Nampa, Idaho Superintendent
- We “Spring Ahead” Sunday Morning
- Pacific Ocean Smackdown: El Niño versus Polar Vortex?
- Albertsons Merges with Safeway
- Editorial: Simpson Hands Off Its Pulp Mill with Honor
- Judge Dismisses Sequim Woman’s Olympic National Park Shutdown Ticket
WORD OF THE DAY
Vortex
• \VORE-tex\ • Noun - A mass of spinning air, liquid, etc., that pulls things
into its center.
Unwittingly,
the small shop owner’s new lighting created a vortex of controversy. The
vintage theater sign, it’s hundreds of blinking and chasing incandescent
lights, was unveiled in the trendy hipster neighborhood to the hoots of
environmental purists. “You’re killing the planet,” shouted one fellow…his
full-length leather coat’s collar flopping around his neck, interfering with
his cellphone, various pockets engorged with electronic devices emitting high
levels of RF, their batteries packed chock full of a chemical stew that could
kill an elephant if released into the environment.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Too Many Gawkers Spur Closing of Shoreline near
Cracked Wanapum Dam on Columbia River (Associated Press)
Grant
PUD Commissioners Updated on Cracked Wanapum Spillway (Columbia Basin Herald,
Moses Lake, WA)
Power Production Stopped at Chelan PUD’s Rock
Island Dam (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/business/energy/article/Power-production-stopped-at-Rock-Island-5297277.php
Washington State Supreme Court Weighs Uses of
Public Lands in Okanogan PUD Power Line Case (Methow Valley News, Twisp, WA)
Confederated
Salish & Kootenai Tribes to Pay $18.3M for Kerr Dam; New Name Planned (The
Missoulian, MT)
Michael Ferrier, Mason PUD 1 Lineman Provides Aid
to Disaster (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Lewis County PUD Hires New Human Resources
Manager (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
Alaska: Interior Electric Co-Op Golden Valley
Electric Association Scrambling for Fuel Source (Alaska Journal of Commerce)
Maryland: Electric Customers Opting Out of Smart Meters
May Be Shocked by Monthly Charges (Gaithersburg Gazette, MD)
EPA Chief Says New U-S Energy Rules Won’t Hobble
Business (Reuters)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Anticipated Salmon Run Could Overwhelm Fraser
River This Summer, Experts Say (Globe & Mail, Canada)
Great Salmon Season Projected (Peninsula Daily
News, Port Angeles, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Full
Water Supply Predicted for Yakima Basin Irrigators (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Blasting
On Hold at Glines Canyon as Elwha River Flows Ten Times Normal (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
A
Dry California Town Struggles to Save Its Water Supply (NY Times)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Tribes
Challenge Snohomish PUD Tidal Turbine Proposal (South Whidbey Record, WA)
SoloPower
Systems Further In the Red after Missing another Payment on $10 Million State
Loan (Oregonian, Portland)
Solar
Panel Maker Is First to Default in China’s Domestic Bond Market (NY Times)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Benton City LED Lights are Going In (KNDO/KNDU-TV,
Tri Cities, WA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Climate
Consultant Refutes Fuel Cost Increase Assumption (News
Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
City
of Beaverton Commits to 100% Wind Power (North America Wind Power)
Can
Solar Power Help Marijuana Growers? (Renewable
Energy World)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
In Tennessee, Four Bills Seek to Reverse
Restrictions on Public Broadband (Ars Technica)
Texas: Thought of Comcast Merger Scares AT&T
into Expanding Gigabit Fiber Service (Consumerist)
Ohio: Holding Your Breath for Google Fiber? Local Network
Plans to Offer Speeds Just as Fast (Cincinnati Business Courier, OH)
http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2014/03/07/holding-your-breath-for-google-fiber.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2014/03/07/holding-your-breath-for-google-fiber.html
Kansas City Locals Annoyed by Google Fiber Cabinet
Placement (Broadband Reports)
New Scam Targets Netflix Subscribers (KIRO Broadcasting,
Seattle, WA)
FCC Seeks Limits on TV Stations, to Curb Cable Costs
(NY Times)
SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING
Getty to Let Bloggers and Others Use Photos Free (NY
Times)
Bizarre New Sleep Disorder on the Rise: Sleep
Texting (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
British Energy Company’s Gassy PSA Is Fracking
Hilarious (Mashable – Note: flatulence humor…lots of it!)
GENERAL NEWS
North Mason School Leader David Peterson Selected as
Next Nampa, Idaho Superintendent (Idaho Press Tribune, Nampa)
We “Spring Ahead” Sunday Morning (KELA Radio,
Centralia, WA)
Pacific Ocean Smackdown: El Niño versus Polar
Vortex? (Christian Science Monitor)
Albertsons Merges with Safeway (KIRO Broadcasting,
Seattle, WA)
Editorial: Simpson Hands Off Its Pulp Mill with
Honor (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Judge Dismisses Sequim Woman’s Olympic National
Park Shutdown Ticket (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Dufur
Five-Year-Old’s Pet Rooster Can Stay ‘For Now’ (livestock issues in Dufer?
Really?)
Welcome
to Southwest Airlines - Passenger Upset over No First Class Seating Diverts
Plane to Portland
One
In Ten Americans Think HTML Is an STD, Study Finds
Is
Stonehenge Just a Giant Glockenspiel? (For ancient aliens? J)
SONG OF THE DAY
Harry
Nilsson - Put the Lime in the Coconut
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