Ex-Enron Boss Jeffrey Skilling's Sentence Cut to 14 Years (British Broadcasting Corporation)
Friday, June 21, 2013
Energy News Digest for June 21, 2013
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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
34 State Agencies to Close if Washington State
Budget Isn’t Passed (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
http://www.king5.com/news/local/34-state-agencies-to-close-if-WA-budget-is-not-passed-212357911.html
B-C Hydro Workers Allegedly Aided Pot Grow-Ops -
Accused of installing larger transformers at homes suspected of having grow-ops
(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Ex-Enron CEO Skilling Awaits Reduction of
Sentence (Associated Press)
Wyden:
Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement Is Too Expensive For Congress (Northwest
Public Radio)
Sockeye Run Raising Hopes for Fishing on Lake
Washington (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- B-C Hydro Workers Allegedly Aided Pot Grow-Ops
- Ex-Enron CEO Skilling Awaits Reduction of Sentence
- Portland General Electric Says Competitive Bidding Process for $1.3 Billion Investments Was Fair
- U-S Senator Wyden Threatens Legislative Action if FERC Does Not Rework Order on Regional Cost Allocation in the Pacific Northwest
- McNary - New Generators on an Old Dam
- Idaho - Wild Rose Park to Close during Construction at Black Canyon Diversion Dam
- Montana - Transmission Line Replacement Focus of Bonneville Power Administration Open Houses
- Five Energy Company Workers Shocked at Houston Building
- Tussle over Nuclear Plant Documents May Sink Nuclear Regulatory Commission Appointment
- Nuclear Power’s Future Includes Large & Small Reactors, Speakers Tell APPA Audience
- Long Island Power Authority to Be Gutted, Rates Frozen for Two Years under New Cuomo Plan
- Coal Industry Pins Hopes on Exports as U-S Market Shrinks
- Coal Exports Debate Heads to Washington D-C
- Governor of Maine Blacklists Newspapers after Criticism of Energy Policies
- NYC’s Storm Preparedness Means Rethinking How We Make & Use Energy
- Sockeye Run Raising Hopes for Fishing on Lake Washington
- Oregon - 25,000 Bumblebees Killed, Dropping from Trees in Wilsonville; Pesticide Suspected
- Marijuana Crops in California Threaten Forests & Wildlife
- Wyden: Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement Is Too Expensive for Congress
- Bonneville Power Administration Builds a New Wind Forecast
- Snohomish County PUD Wins Wind Power Award
- Walgreens to Add Over 200 Solar Panels to Stores
- Repowering Gives New Life to Old Wind Sites
- Beacon Power to Build a Flywheel Plant to Keep the Grid in Good Health
- Longview Begins Installing Energy-Efficient Bulbs in All Streetlights
- Energy Adviser: Installing Heat Pump Can Pay Off
- Thurston Energy Advises on Summer Energy Savings
- Apartment Energy Use Drops Nearly 40 Percent
- Seattle Adopts Plan for Going Carbon Neutral - But Will Pot Growers Get in the Way?
- Frequent Fires? New Tool Reveals Climate Impact by ZIP Code
- Op/Ed - Climate Change: Conservatives Make the Argument for a Carbon Tax
- This Chart Shows the Digital Divide Is Still a Real Problem
- Arizona Passes Data Center Tax Breaks
- Google Challenges Secret Court over Gag Order
- CenturyLink Adds Yet More Obnoxious Fees - $1.55 ‘Non Telecom Surcharge’ Pops Up on Bills
- Digital Cinema Boosts Vancouver Tech Firm
- Interview: Twitter Canada’s Kirstine Stewart on How to Tweet
- Investigator Says Clallam Community Development Director Falsified Documents
- 34 State Agencies to Close if Washington State Budget Isn’t Passed
- Improvements to State Route 3 in Shelton Begin Monday; Run through August
- Trucks Hitting Collapsed I-5 Bridge Documented for Decades
- 83 Died from Assisted Suicide in Washington State in 2012
- The Oregonian Announces Plans to Cut Daily Delivery, Slash Jobs
- DON’T Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em - Jury Convicts Scrap Metal Thief Who Set Off Everett Blast
- NOAA Drone Flying Experimentally Off Olympic Coast
- Beer Could Come Back to Old Olympia Brewery in Tumwater
WORD OF THE DAY
Comely
• \KUM-lee \ • Adjective - 1: pleasurably conforming to notions of good
appearance, suitability, or proportion 2: having a pleasing appearance: not
homely or plain
Solstice
• \SOLE-stuss\ • Noun - 1: either of the two points on the ecliptic at which
its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the
sun each year about June 22 and December 22. 2: the time of the sun’s passing a
solstice which occurs about June 22 to begin summer in the northern hemisphere
and about December 22 to begin winter in the northern hemisphere
Summer
arrives, the solstice in many areas of the Pacific Northwest showing its comely
face; framed in cerulean skies. Sadly for our town, it stole into lives cloaked
in gray, lowering clouds.
Bitter
much. Yeah.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
B-C Hydro Workers Allegedly Aided Pot Grow-Ops -
Accused of installing larger transformers at homes suspected of having grow-ops
(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Ex-Enron CEO Skilling Awaits Reduction of
Sentence (Associated Press)
Portland General Electric Says Competitive
Bidding Process for $1.3 Billion Investments Was Fair (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
U-S Senator Wyden Threatens Legislative Action if
FERC Does Not Rework Order on Regional Cost Allocation in the Pacific Northwest
(American Public Power Association)
McNary - New Generators on an Old Dam (Oregon
Public Broadcasting)
Idaho - Wild Rose Park to Close during
Construction at Black Canyon Diversion Dam (RenewablesBiz)
Montana - Transmission Line Replacement Focus of
Bonneville Power Administration Open Houses (KAJ-TV, Kalispell, MT)
Five Energy Company Workers Shocked at Houston
Building (Associated Press)
Tussle over Nuclear Plant Documents May Sink Nuclear
Regulatory Commission Appointment (NY Times)
Nuclear Power’s Future Includes Large & Small
Reactors, Speakers Tell APPA Audience (American Public
Power Association)
Long Island Power Authority to Be Gutted, Rates
Frozen for Two Years under New Cuomo Plan (New York Business Journal)
Coal Industry Pins Hopes on Exports as U-S Market
Shrinks (NY Times)
Coal Exports Debate Heads to Washington D-C (Northwest Public Radio)
Governor of Maine Blacklists Newspapers after
Criticism of Energy Policies (The Energy Collective)
NYC’s Storm Preparedness Means Rethinking How We
Make & Use Energy (Forbes Magazine)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Sockeye Run Raising Hopes for Fishing on Lake
Washington (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Oregon - 25,000 Bumblebees Killed, Dropping from
Trees in Wilsonville; Pesticide Suspected (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Marijuana Crops in California Threaten Forests &
Wildlife (NY Times)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Wyden:
Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement Is Too Expensive for Congress (Northwest
Public Radio)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Bonneville
Power Administration Builds a New Wind Forecast (Bonneville
Power Administration)
Snohomish
County PUD Wins Wind Power Award (Sky Valley News, Mount Vernon, WA)
Walgreens
to Add Over 200 Solar Panels to Stores (PennEnergy)
Repowering
Gives New Life to Old Wind Sites (Renewable Energy World)
Beacon
Power to Build a Flywheel Plant to Keep the Grid in Good Health (Forbes
Magazine)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Longview
Begins Installing Energy-Efficient Bulbs in All Streetlights (Longview Daily
News, WA)
Energy
Adviser: Installing Heat Pump Can Pay Off (Vancouver
Columbian, WA)
Thurston
Energy Advises on Summer Energy Savings (Thurston Talk)
Apartment
Energy Use Drops Nearly 40 Percent (The Energy Collective)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Seattle
Adopts Plan for Going Carbon Neutral - But Will Pot Growers Get in the Way? (Grist Online)
Frequent
Fires? New Tool Reveals Climate Impact by ZIP Code (Live Science)
Op/Ed
- Climate Change: Conservatives Make the Argument for a Carbon Tax (San Jose
Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_23502941/climate-change-conservatives-make-argument-carbon-tax
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
This Chart Shows the Digital Divide Is Still a Real
Problem (Mashable)
Arizona Passes Data Center Tax Breaks (Datacenter Dynamics)
Google Challenges Secret Court over Gag Order (Christian
Science Monitor)
CenturyLink Adds Yet More Obnoxious Fees - $1.55 ‘Non
Telecom Surcharge’ Pops Up on Bills (Broadband Reports)
Digital Cinema Boosts Vancouver Tech Firm
(Vancouver Columbian, WA)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Interview: Twitter Canada’s Kirstine Stewart on How
to Tweet (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Investigator Says Clallam Community Development Director
Falsified Documents (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
34 State Agencies to Close if Washington State
Budget Isn’t Passed (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
http://www.king5.com/news/local/34-state-agencies-to-close-if-WA-budget-is-not-passed-212357911.html
Improvements to State Route 3 in Shelton Begin Monday;
Run through August (Olympian, WA)
Trucks Hitting Collapsed I-5 Bridge Documented for
Decades (Associated Press)
83 Died from Assisted Suicide in Washington State
in 2012 (Associated Press)
The Oregonian Announces Plans to Cut Daily
Delivery, Slash Jobs (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
DON’T Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em - Jury Convicts
Scrap Metal Thief Who Set Off Everett Blast (Everett Herald, WA)
NOAA Drone Flying Experimentally Off Olympic Coast
(Northwest Public Radio)
Beer Could Come Back to Old Olympia Brewery in
Tumwater (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
First
Day of Summer: Seven Things You May Not Know About This Solstice
New
Outhouse Planned 10,000 Feet Up Mount Rainier
Lawn-Chair
Pilot Sets Saturday Liftoff - Battle Ground man hopes to float across Cascade
Range
Four
Hypnotic Wind-Powered Sculptures in Action
SONG OF THE DAY
The
First Class - Beach Baby 1974
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may not be available without forking over some cold hard credit card cash.
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Energy News Digest for June 20, 2013
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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
British Columbia’s Financial Honeymoon Ends with
Columbia River Treaty Anniversary - Payments from the U.S. that now average
$220 million will be up for negotiation (Vancouver Sun, B-C)
FERC Partially Accepts Order No. 1000 Filings for
ColumbiaGrid, Florida Regions (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)
Obama Readying Emissions Limits on Power Plants (NY Times)
Making
Energy Efficiency Attractive for Owners of Older Seattle Buildings (NY Times)
Budget Bill Would Make It Optional for California
Local Governments to Comply with Public Records Laws (Sacramento Bee, CA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- British Columbia’s Financial Honeymoon Ends with Columbia River Treaty Anniversary - Payments from the U.S. that now average $220 million will be up for negotiation
- FERC Partially Accepts Order No. 1000 Filings for ColumbiaGrid, Florida Regions
- BPA Welcomes Washington’s Newest PUD, Jefferson County
- Port Angeles City Council Plans Meeting on Electrical Utilities
- Tacoma Power - Sticky Wickets: Coatings Mitigate Butterfly Valve Leakage at Cushman No. 2
- Charges: Washington State’s Biggest Copper Thieves Undone by Gatorade
- 21 Individuals, Ten Utilities Win APPA Awards; 23 Earn Public Power Manager Certificates – Including Washington State Honorees
- FERC Affirms Open Access Rights for Qualifying Facilities in Complaint against the Oregon PUC
- Fitch 2013 Public Power Peer Study Notes Downward Trend On Debt Service Coverage, But Strong Liquidity In Sector
- Colville Confederated Tribes Open $51 Million Washington State Fish Hatchery
- Biosolids Debate Spreads
- Elwha Water Treatment Fix Expected by September
- California Solar Energy Initiative Is Ending: What Has It Left Behind?
- Wind Companies Blow Off Disputes
- Pennsylvania - $10,000 Worth of Copper Wire Taken from Somerset County Wind Turbines
- Wind-Wildlife Group Begins Building Bird-Death Database
- Black Clouds Hang over Spain’s Small Solar Farms
- Making Energy Efficiency Attractive for Owners of Older Seattle Buildings
- Age of the Internet of Everything: Automating Household Objects Via the Internet Now a Reality
- Get the Most Out of Your Home Appliances - Without Taking Them Apart
- Obama Readying Emissions Limits on Power Plants
- Need Carbon Credits? An Entire Forest Is Up for Grabs
- NC Senate Signs Off on Compromise Bill to Allow LEED Public Projects
- Best Time to Drive a Hybrid? When Traffic is Bad
- Chelan PUD Finishes Lake Wenatchee Fiber Rebuild
- OP/Ed - No Country for Slow Broadband
- Op/Ed Response - NY Times Leaves Industry Disclosure Out of Op-Ed Celebrating Broadband Mediocrity
- FCC Nominee Tom Wheeler Touts Telecom Industry Ties
- Having Problems with Your Netflix? You Can Blame Verizon
- ComEd Offers Customers Once-in-a-Lifetime Experiences in “Coolest Summer Ever” Promotion
- Steal This Idea, a Campaign Urges
- George Takei: Why We Care That His Facebook is ‘Fake’
- Budget Bill Would Make It Optional for California Local Governments to Comply with Public Records Laws
- Local Governments Spend Big to Lobby Washington State Legislature
- State Reconsiders Rule against Growing Marijuana Outdoors
- May Unemployment Lowest Since November 2008
- I-5 Skagit River Bridge Reopens Less Than 4 Weeks after Collapse
- Port of Shelton Starts Process to Surplus More Timber
- Visiting Energy Secretary Pledges Improvements in Hanford Cleanup
- Men Charged with Stealing $16,000 of Liquor since Privatization
WORDS OF THE DAY
Peccant
• \PECK-un\ • Adjective - 1: guilty of a moral offense: sinning 2: violating a
principle or rule: faulty
Habiliment
• \huh-BILL-uh-munt\ • Noun - 1: characteristic apparatus: trappings 2a: the
dress characteristic of an occupation or occasion - usually used in plural
Oh No! Captain Crunch's naval habiliment tags him as a Commander, not a Captain! Naval experts worldwide call for a court martial to punish his peccant behavior: impersonating an officer.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
British Columbia’s Financial Honeymoon Ends with Columbia
River Treaty Anniversary - Payments from the U.S. that now average $220 million
will be up for negotiation (Vancouver Sun, B-C)
FERC Partially Accepts Order No. 1000 Filings for
ColumbiaGrid, Florida Regions (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)
BPA Welcomes Washington’s Newest PUD, Jefferson
County (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Port Angeles City Council Plans Meeting on Electrical
Utilities (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Tacoma Power - Sticky Wickets: Coatings Mitigate
Butterfly Valve Leakage at Cushman No. 2 (HydroWorld)
Charges: Washington State’s Biggest Copper
Thieves Undone by Gatorade (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
21 Individuals, Ten Utilities Win APPA Awards; 23
Earn Public Power Manager Certificates – Including Washington State Honorees (American Public Power Association)
FERC Affirms Open Access Rights for Qualifying
Facilities in Complaint against the Oregon PUC (GTH Energy & Natural
Resources Law Blog)
Fitch 2013 Public Power Peer Study Notes Downward
Trend On Debt Service Coverage, But Strong Liquidity In Sector (American Public Power Association)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Colville Confederated Tribes Open $51 Million Washington
State Fish Hatchery (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Biosolids
Debate Spreads (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Elwha
Water Treatment Fix Expected by September (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
California
Solar Energy Initiative Is Ending: What Has It Left Behind? (The Energy
Collective)
Wind
Companies Blow Off Disputes (Philadelphia Business Journal, PA)
Pennsylvania
- $10,000 Worth of Copper Wire Taken from Somerset County Wind Turbines (Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review, PA)
Wind-Wildlife
Group Begins Building Bird-Death Database (Midwest Energy
News)
http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2013/06/20/wind-wildlife-group-begins-building-bird-death-database/
Black
Clouds Hang over Spain’s Small Solar Farms (Reuters)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Making
Energy Efficiency Attractive for Owners of Older Seattle Buildings (NY Times)
Age
of the Internet of Everything: Automating Household Objects Via the Internet Now
a Reality (National Post, Canada)
Get
the Most Out of Your Home Appliances - Without Taking Them Apart (Gizmodo)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Obama Readying Emissions Limits on Power Plants (NY Times)
Need
Carbon Credits? An Entire Forest Is Up for Grabs (Portland Business Journal, OR)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/real-estate-daily/2013/06/need-carbon-credits-an-entire-forest.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/real-estate-daily/2013/06/need-carbon-credits-an-entire-forest.html
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
NC
Senate Signs Off on Compromise Bill to Allow LEED Public Projects (Charlotte
Business Journal, NC)
Best
Time to Drive a Hybrid? When Traffic is Bad (Christian Science Monitor)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Chelan PUD Finishes Lake Wenatchee Fiber Rebuild (Wenatchee
World, WA)
OP/Ed - No Country for Slow Broadband (NY Times)
Op/Ed Response - NY Times Leaves Industry
Disclosure Out of Op-Ed Celebrating Broadband Mediocrity (Media Matters)
FCC Nominee Tom Wheeler Touts Telecom Industry Ties
(Washington Post)
Having Problems with Your Netflix? You Can Blame Verizon
(GigaOM)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
ComEd Offers Customers Once-in-a-Lifetime
Experiences in “Coolest Summer Ever” Promotion (Electric Energy Online - .9% Facebook
customer to like ratio)
Steal This Idea, a Campaign Urges (NY Times)
George Takei: Why We Care That His Facebook is ‘Fake’
(Christian Science Monitor)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Budget Bill Would Make It Optional for California Local
Governments to Comply with Public Records Laws (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Local Governments Spend Big to Lobby Washington
State Legislature (Seattle Times, WA)
State
Reconsiders Rule against Growing Marijuana Outdoors (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
May Unemployment Lowest Since November 2008 (South
Sound Business Examiner)
I-5 Skagit River Bridge Reopens Less Than 4 Weeks after
Collapse (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
Port of Shelton Starts Process to Surplus More
Timber (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Visiting Energy Secretary Pledges Improvements in
Hanford Cleanup (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Men Charged with Stealing $16,000 of Liquor since
Privatization (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
We
Don’t Know How to Handle the Fact That Cap’n Crunch Has Been Living a Lie
Urban
Outfitters Decides Maybe Prescription Pill Bottles as Shot Glasses Isn’t a
Great Idea
Men’s
Wearhouse Ousts Founder, Pitchman Zimmer
SONG OF THE DAY
Blues
Image - Ride Captain Ride
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may not be available without forking over some cold hard credit card cash. However,
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