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News Digest Word Cloud for March 10, 2014
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Wanapum Dam Stabilized, But Fish Passage &
Power Problems Remain Worries (Oregonian, Portland)
President’s Budget Request Includes $1 Billion
for Bureau of Rec; $17 Million Basin Salmon Recovery (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Major
Sewage Spill Contaminates Port Angeles Harbor (KONP
Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
Op/Ed:
‘Double Paying’ for Clean Energy Hurts Consumers (Olympian
- Paywall Advisory)
6.9-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Off Northern
California Coast (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Wanapum Dam Stabilized, But Fish Passage & Power Problems Remain Worries
- British Columbia: Peace River’s Site C Dam Not Approved, Yet BC Hydro Planning Two Work Camps
- Tacoma Could Gain State’s First Natural Gas Liquefaction Plant
- Clark Public Utilities Earns Recognition for Its Service
- Nuclear Plant Safety Improves Despite Lapses, Watchdog Group Says
- After Fukushima, Utilities Prepare for Worst
- Sequim Looks to Expand Utility Box Art Program; Designs, Sponsors Sought
- Eliminating Federal Ties Would Be Credit Negative for Tennessee Valley Authority, Moody’s Says
- Western Area Power Administration Seeks Comments on Draft Strategic Plan for the Next Ten Years
- Check Your Utility Bill for Fraud from This New Scam
- President’s Budget Request Includes $1 Billion for Bureau of Rec; $17 Million Basin Salmon Recovery
- BPA Letter Explains Coded-Wire Tag Funding Policy to Northwest
- Safeway & Kroger Won’t Sell Genetically Engineered Salmon
- Major Sewage Spill Contaminates Port Angeles Harbor
- Kalaloch’s Big Cedar Tree Split by March Storm
- Op/Ed: ‘Double Paying’ for Clean Energy Hurts Consumers
- Nippon Paper Mill Workers Back at Port Angeles Facility; Some Systems Still Coming Online
- Google Reaps Tax Breaks in $1.4 Billion Clean Energy Bet
- Solar Plants Threaten Tortoise, Greens Say
- Mapping the World One Small Hydropower Plant at a Time
- Energy Efficiency Ain’t Got No Respect
- New Baby, What’s the Cost
- Washington State Governor Inslee to GOP: Untwist Knickers over Carbon Standards
- California State Mission: Connecting Electric Vehicles to the Grid
- Idaho to Reimburse Schools That Skipped Wi-Fi Contract
- FCC Seeks Input on Boosting E-Rate Broadband Speeds
- Here’s What Lack Of Broadband Competition Looks Like In Map Form
- For Once, A Facebook Redesign You Shouldn’t Hate
- Facebook: Talking About ‘Us’ & ‘Them’
- Trust in the Internet ‘Now Missing’
- Public Comments: How Much Talk is Too Much?
- OP/Ed: Stop Dinging State Schools for Timber Money
- 6.9-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Off Northern California Coast
- Skokomish River Flooding Makes for Hazardous Driving Conditions
- Bible for Business-Site Selectors Overlooks Pacific Northwest
- Transit Ridership Reaches Highest Level since 1956
WORD OF THE DAY
Billingsgate • \BILL-lings-gayt\
• Noun - Coarsely abusive language
Frantically the lion sought to
scramble up the bole of the tree. Twice he leaped high enough to catch the
lowest branches with his paws but both times, he fell backward to the earth.
Each time he became more furious. His growls and roars were incessant and
horrible. All the time Tarzan sat grinning down upon him taunting him in jungle
billingsgate for his inability to reach him and mentally exulting that always,
Numa was wasting his already waning strength.
“Tarzan the Untamed”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Wanapum Dam Stabilized, But Fish Passage & Power
Problems Remain Worries (Oregonian, Portland)
British Columbia: Peace River’s Site C Dam Not
Approved, Yet BC Hydro Planning Two Work Camps (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
Tacoma Could Gain State’s First Natural Gas
Liquefaction Plant (Olympian - Paywall Advisory)
Clark Public Utilities Earns Recognition for Its
Service - Award puts utilities in the company of Apple, Amazon (Vancouver
Columbian, WA)
Nuclear Plant Safety Improves Despite Lapses,
Watchdog Group Says (Los Angeles Times, CA)
After Fukushima, Utilities Prepare for Worst (NY Times)
Sequim Looks to Expand Utility Box Art Program;
Designs, Sponsors Sought (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Eliminating Federal Ties Would Be Credit Negative
for Tennessee Valley Authority, Moody’s Says (American Public Power Association)
Western Area Power Administration Seeks Comments on
Draft Strategic Plan for the Next Ten Years (American Public Power Association)
Check Your Utility Bill for Fraud from This New
Scam (Forbes Magazine)
FISH & WILDLIFE
President’s Budget Request Includes $1 Billion for
Bureau of Rec; $17 Million Basin Salmon Recovery (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
BPA Letter Explains Coded-Wire Tag Funding Policy
to Northwest Congressional Delegation (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Safeway & Kroger Won’t Sell Genetically
Engineered Salmon (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Major
Sewage Spill Contaminates Port Angeles Harbor (KONP
Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
Kalaloch’s
Big Cedar Tree Split by March Storm (KBKW Radio,
Aberdeen, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Op/Ed:
‘Double Paying’ for Clean Energy Hurts Consumers (Olympian
- Paywall Advisory)
Nippon
Paper Mill Workers Back at Port Angeles Facility; Some Systems Still Coming
Online (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Google
Reaps Tax Breaks in $1.4 Billion Clean Energy Bet (Bloomberg News)
Solar
Plants Threaten Tortoise, Greens Say (Courthouse
News Service)
Mapping
the World One Small Hydropower Plant at a Time (Renewable
Energy World)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Energy
Efficiency Ain’t Got No Respect (Renewable
Energy World)
New Baby, What’s the Cost (Portland General
Electric)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Washington
State Governor Inslee to GOP: Untwist Knickers over Carbon Standards (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
California
State Mission: Connecting Electric Vehicles to the Grid (Sacramento Business
Journal, CA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Idaho to Reimburse Schools That Skipped Wi-Fi
Contract (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
FCC Seeks Input on Boosting E-Rate Broadband Speeds
(Multichannel News)
Here’s What Lack Of Broadband Competition Looks
Like In Map Form (Consumerist)
SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING
For Once, A Facebook Redesign You Shouldn’t Hate (Washington
Post)
Facebook: Talking About ‘Us’ & ‘Them’
(Facebook)
Trust in the Internet ‘Now Missing’ (British
Broadcasting Corporation)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Public Comments: How Much Talk is Too Much? (Seattle
Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
OP/Ed: Stop Dinging State Schools for Timber Money (Seattle
Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
GENERAL NEWS
6.9-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Off Northern
California Coast (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Skokomish River Flooding Makes for Hazardous
Driving Conditions (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Bible for Business-Site Selectors Overlooks Pacific
Northwest (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Transit Ridership Reaches Highest Level since 1956 (USA
Today)
DIVERSIONS
Thousands
of Bees Attack Woman in California
Seahawks:
Tacoma Furniture Store Pays Up for Percy Harvin’s Super Bowl Kick Return
Shelton’s
Paul Bunyan Statue is a Mysterious as its Fabled Namesake (Thurston Talks, Olympia, WA)
22
Incredible Images Show What the Future Looked Like 100 Years Ago
SONG OF THE DAY
Moody
Blues - Nights in White Satin (from the Album, Days of Future Passed)
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