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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Bill to Promote Small Hydropower Projects Heads
to Obama (Tri-City Herald, WA)
Northwest
Utilities Add Muscle to Fight for Customers in Columbia River Treaty Talks (Columbia
River Treaty Group)
Port Angeles Fiber-Optic Internet Firm Considering
Sale - Had recently completed Port Angeles’ $2.7 million Metro-Net system
(Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
U-S
Senator Wyden Seeks to Make Waves with Energy Bill (Sustainable Business
Oregon)
Protecting Salmon from Sea Lions: Progress is
Elusive (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Bill to Promote Small Hydropower Projects Heads to Obama
- A Big Boost for Small Hydro: Senate Sends Two Bills Promoting Small & Conduit Hydro to President Obama's Desk
- Op/Ed: Congress Agrees on Hydropower
- Downgrade Alert for Portland General Electric
- Oregon: Springfield Utility Board Utility to Replace Power Poles in Three-Year Project
- Young Man Climbing Tree in Everett Gets Jolt from Power Line
- Montana: Electricity Options to be Weighed - Obtaining New Power Supplier on City of Great Falls Agenda
- Kentucky: Nuclear Seen as an Option for State
- Less Nuclear Energy Means More Coal, Natural Gas - And Carbon Emissions
- Fitch Sounds Warning on Net Metering
- North Carolina Also Denies Alcoa Water Certificate for Yadkin Project, Hampering Federal Relicensing Effort
- Boulder City Council to Vote on a Future without Xcel
- In Wisconsin’s North Woods, Utility Makes Case for Buried Lines
- Protecting Salmon from Sea Lions: Progress is Elusive
- Warm Springs Tribes, Oregon Fish & Wildlife Try to Resurrect Hood River's Spring Chinook Run
- Salmon, Steelhead Spawning Again near Soda Springs Dam
- White Salmon River Reborn after Dam Removal
- Shellfish Industry Lobs Bomb at Sea Otters
- Two Washington State Men Accused of Illegally Selling Caviar, Steelhead, Salmon
- States Seek Federal Crackdown on Mussel Invaders
- Northwest Utilities Add Muscle to Fight for Customers in Columbia River Treaty Talks
- Op/Ed: What Needs to Change in the U-S - Canada Columbia River Treaty
- U-S Senator Wyden Seeks to Make Waves with Energy Bill
- Op/Ed - Montana Needs Fair Access to Renewable Energy Markets
- Newly Available Wind Power Often Has No Place to Go
- Seattle Aquarium to Moonlight as Solar Power Provider
- Solar Energy & the WECC: Beefing Up the Western U-S Grid
- The Evolution of Photovoltaic Waste in Europe
- The Battle over the Smart Connected Thermostat Rages On
- Governors of 13 States Back Obama Climate Change Plan to Limit Carbon Dioxide
- Climate Change Pushing Marine Life towards the Poles, Says Study
- Port Angeles Fiber-Optic Internet Firm Considering Sale
- NoaNet Deploys 100G on Washington Middle-Mile Fiber-Optic Network
- CBS Blackout Puts Start-Up Aereo in the Spotlight
- Time Warner Cable Directing Blocked CBS Users to Aereo
- Duly Noted: Cable TV Faces a Crossroads
- If You Could Actually See Wi-Fi, This is What It Would Look Like
- Top Ten U-S Newspapers Ranked by Digital Circulation
- Celebrating Infographics: A 1944 Electromagnetic Radiation Poster Makes Learning Retro Chic
- Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Buying Washington Post for $250 Million
- Belfair Bicyclist Dies in Crash
- Colockum Tarps Wildfire Was Human Caused
- Mason County’s Primary Ballots Due
- Thieves Strip Wiring from Kelso Pedestrian Path Light Poles
- Washington State’s Marijuana Consultant Shares Ideas on Pot Regulations
- Sun's Magnetic Field "Is About to Flip", Warns NASA
WORD OF THE DAY
Contraband
• \KAHN-truh-band\ • Noun - 1: illegal or prohibited traffic in goods:
smuggling 2: goods or merchandise whose importation, exportation, or possession
is forbidden; also: smuggled goods 3: a slave who during the American Civil War
escaped to or was brought within the Union lines.
Amber
was the face of “Barty’s Biscuits for Health,” the foremost health food product
in the small town of Weezy-Breath in Brandyvine on the Barrel, Devon. Unbeknownst
to the strict diet police in the excruciatingly clean and painfully bright
factory, Amber hid a dark and whiskery secret in her bottom left desk drawer
(the one that shrieked horribly when opened). A stash of contraband Hostess
Twinkies languished there, biding its time.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Bill to Promote Small Hydropower Projects Heads to
Obama (Tri-City Herald, WA)
A Big Boost for Small Hydro: Senate Sends Two
Bills Promoting Small & Conduit Hydro to President Obama's Desk (GTH Energy
& Natural Resources Law Blog)
Op/Ed: Congress Agrees on Hydropower (Wenatchee World, WA)
Downgrade Alert for Portland General Electric
(Trading Charts)
Oregon: Springfield Utility Board Utility to
Replace Power Poles in Three-Year Project (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
Young
Man Climbing Tree in Everett Gets Jolt from Power Line (Seattle Times - Paywall Advisory)
Montana:
Electricity Options to be Weighed - Obtaining New Power Supplier on City of
Great Falls Agenda (Great Falls Tribune, MT)
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20130805/NEWS01/308050023/Electricity-options-weighed-Obtaining-new-power-supplier-city-agenda
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20130805/NEWS01/308050023/Electricity-options-weighed-Obtaining-new-power-supplier-city-agenda
Kentucky: Nuclear Seen as an Option for State
(Park City Daily News, KY)
http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/local/nuclear-seen-as-an-option-for-state/article_00dd752f-1485-5eab-8ce5-27be36fa3013.html
http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/local/nuclear-seen-as-an-option-for-state/article_00dd752f-1485-5eab-8ce5-27be36fa3013.html
Less Nuclear Energy Means More Coal, Natural Gas
- And Carbon Emissions (Forbes Magazine)
Fitch Sounds Warning on Net Metering (American Public Power Association)
North Carolina Also Denies Alcoa Water
Certificate for Yadkin Project, Hampering Federal Relicensing Effort (Charlotte
Business Journal, NC)
Boulder
City Council to Vote on a Future without Xcel (Denver Business Journal, CO)
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/earth_to_power/2013/08/boulder-city-council-to-vote-on-future.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/earth_to_power/2013/08/boulder-city-council-to-vote-on-future.html
In Wisconsin’s North Woods, Utility Makes Case
for Buried Lines (Midwest Energy News)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Protecting Salmon from Sea Lions: Progress is
Elusive (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Warm Springs Tribes, Oregon Fish & Wildlife
Try to Resurrect Hood River's Spring Chinook Run (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Salmon, Steelhead Spawning Again near Soda
Springs Dam (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
White Salmon River Reborn after Dam Removal
(Salem Statesman Journal, OR)
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20130804/GREEN/308040016/White-Salmon-River-reborn-after-dam-removal
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20130804/GREEN/308040016/White-Salmon-River-reborn-after-dam-removal
Shellfish Industry Lobs Bomb at Sea Otters (Courthouse
News Service)
Two Washington State Men Accused of Illegally
Selling Caviar, Steelhead, Salmon (Everett Herald, WA)
States Seek Federal Crackdown on Mussel Invaders (USA Today)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Northwest
Utilities Add Muscle to Fight for Customers in Columbia River Treaty Talks
(Columbia River Treaty Group)
Op/Ed: What Needs to Change in the U-S - Canada
Columbia River Treaty- A modernized Columbia River Treaty should recognize the
new realities of our environment (Seattle Times -
Paywall Advisory)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
U-S
Senator Wyden Seeks to Make Waves with Energy Bill (Sustainable Business
Oregon)
Op/Ed
- Montana Needs Fair Access to Renewable Energy Markets (Bozeman Chronicle, MT)
Newly
Available Wind Power Often Has No Place to Go (Kansas City Star, MO)
Seattle
Aquarium to Moonlight as Solar Power Provider (KOMO-TV,
Seattle, WA)
Solar
Energy & the WECC: Beefing Up the Western U-S Grid (Renewable Energy World)
The
Evolution of Photovoltaic Waste in Europe (Renewable Energy World)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
The
Battle over the Smart Connected Thermostat Rages On (GigaOM)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Governors
of 13 States Back Obama Climate Change Plan to Limit Carbon Dioxide (American Public Power Association)
Climate
Change Pushing Marine Life towards the Poles, Says Study (The Guardian, UK)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Port Angeles Fiber-Optic Internet Firm Considering
Sale - Had recently completed Port Angeles’ $2.7 million Metro-Net system (Peninsula
Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
NoaNet Deploys 100G on Washington Middle-Mile
Fiber-Optic Network (Lightwave)
CBS Blackout Puts Start-Up Aereo in the Spotlight (USA
Today)
Time Warner Cable Directing Blocked CBS Users to
Aereo (Broadband Reports)
Duly Noted: Cable TV Faces a Crossroads (New York
Business Journal)
If You Could Actually See Wi-Fi, This is What It
Would Look Like (GigaOM)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Top Ten U-S Newspapers Ranked by Digital
Circulation (Mashable)
Celebrating Infographics: A 1944 Electromagnetic
Radiation Poster Makes Learning Retro Chic (Gizmodo)
GENERAL NEWS
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Buying Washington Post
for $250 Million (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Belfair Bicyclist Dies in Crash (Mason Web TV,
Shelton, WA)
Colockum Tarps Wildfire Was Human Caused (Wenatchee
World, WA)
Mason County’s Primary Ballots Due (Mason Web TV,
Shelton, WA)
Thieves Strip Wiring from Kelso Pedestrian Path
Light Poles (Longview Daily News, WA)
Washington State’s Marijuana Consultant Shares
Ideas on Pot Regulations (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
Sun's Magnetic Field "Is About to Flip",
Warns NASA (Yahoo! News)
DIVERSIONS
Connecticut
Boy: I Was Cheated over 'Jeopardy!' Spelling
Sidney
Rice Visits Seahawks Fan’s Barbecue on Trip to Switzerland
iPhone
Thief Posts Picture on Victim's Facebook Page
Bring
on the ‘Frankenburger’
SONG OF THE DAY
The
Edgar Winter Group – Frankenstein
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