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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Law Blows Clark PUD into Wind Energy Business - Utility currently reselling such power at a loss (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Transmission Lines Key to BPA Wind Power Plans (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Qwest Merger Has Telecoms on Edge - Vancouver-Area Providers Concerned About Effects on Customers (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
· Maryland
· Economy Sandbags Plans for Nuclear Reactors
· Transmission Lines Key to BPA Wind Power Plans
· Western Area Power Administration Agrees to Transmit from Two South Dakota
· Oregon
· Report: No Fines on Pacific Gas & Electric over Six-Year Period
· Colorado - Boulder
· Connecticut - State Electricity Prices Will Go Up if Vermont
· Kimberly Harris, President of Puget Sound Energy Included on List of Washington’s Top Influential Women
· Op/Ed - Meet the Environmental Movement’s Newest BFF: Wyoming
· Op/Ed - Smart Meters Are Here. Get over It
· Unusual Late Spike of Fall Chinook Crossing Bonneville
· Sockeye Return to Cle Elum River
· Scientists Enlist Seals in Hunt for Steelhead Ocean
· Volunteers Watch over Vaux’s Swifts Migratory Birds
· Skokomish Watershed - A River Will Re-Run Through It, This Winter
· Dioxin Hunt at Olympia
· Mason County PUD No. 1 Holding Hearing Tuesday on Hood Canal
· Corps Announces Delay in Columbia & Willamette River
· Port of Lewiston
· FEMA Delay in Chehalis River Basin
· Water as the New Oil
· Law Blows Clark PUD into Wind Energy Business
· Washington
· Oregon - Feds Backing Big Wind Farm near Arlington
· Nevada
· Martha Wyrsch: The Vortex inside Wind Turbine Maker Vestas
· Montana - Mineral Community Hospital
· The Energy Efficient Path to 100% Renewables
· North Mason School District
· Enviros Claim Feds Pulled Clean-Energy Plug on Property Assessed Clean Energy Programs
· Carbon Curbs by EPA Land
· EPA’s Impending Greenhouse Gas Regulations May Decrease Coal Market
· Ocean Carbon Sequestration: The World’s Best Bad Idea
· Op/Ed - What Will it Take to Tax Carbon?
· Poll: Buyers Confused, Wary about Electric Cars
· Chevy Volt Gets Rave Reviews at Debut in Tacoma
· Study Says Biofuels Demand Won’t be Met by Supplies
· Qwest Merger Has Telecoms on Edge
· Department of Ecology Looks at Quincy Area Data Center
· Ask.Com Rearms With New App, Growth Hopes
· Experts: Look Before You Leap into Cloud Computing
· New Web Code Draws Concern over Privacy Risks
· Wider Streets for Internet Traffic
· AT&T Launching Three Microsoft-Powered Phones
· Apple Plans to Offer iPhone on Verizon
· Washington State Employees on Unpaid Furlough Today
· Lightning Knocks Out Power at Large Ballard Lock
· Port Angeles to Allow Medical Marijuana Dispensary
· Everyone Should Test for the Invisible Natural Gas, Radon, in Their Homes
WORD OF THE DAY
Tendentious • \ten-DEN-shus\ • adjective - Marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view: biased
Yankees, Lakers, Cowboys – the big sports media seem to have a tendentious fascination with the foibles and successes of each of these franchises. Franchises which funnel tons o’ bucks into the gaping maw of the marketing machine and its beneficiaries.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Maryland - Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Project Is Dead (Baltimore Sun, MD)
Economy Sandbags Plans for Nuclear Reactors (NY Times)
Transmission Lines Key to BPA Wind Power Plans (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Western Area Power Administration Agrees to Transmit from Two South Dakota Wind Farms (Associated Press)
Oregon - New Transmission Lines ‘On Time, Under Budget’ (Curry County Reporter, OR)
Report: No Fines on Pacific Gas & Electric over Six-Year Period (Seattle Times)
Colorado - Boulder Willing to Let Xcel Franchise Lapse While it Studies Future Energy Options (Denver Post, CO)
Connecticut - State Electricity Prices Will Go Up if Vermont Shuts Down Power Plant in 2012 (Waterbury Republican American CT)
Kimberly Harris, President of Puget Sound Energy Included on List of Washington’s Top Influential Women (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Op/Ed - Meet the Environmental Movement’s Newest BFF: Wyoming (Seattle Times)
Op/Ed - Smart Meters Are Here. Get over It (Toronto Star, Ontario)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Unusual Late Spike of Fall Chinook Crossing Bonneville Has Run Numbers Back to Expectations (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Sockeye Return to Cle Elum River (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)
Scientists Enlist Seals in Hunt for Steelhead Ocean Hideout (Northwest Public Radio)
Volunteers Watch over Vaux’s Swifts Migratory Birds Due to Fears of Becoming an Endangered Species – Who, the volunteers or the birds? (Oregonian, Portland)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Skokomish Watershed - A River Will Re-Run Through It, This Winter (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Dioxin Hunt at Olympia’s Priest Point - Officials want to be sure popular beach isn’t health risk (Olympian, WA)
Mason County PUD No. 1 Holding Hearing Tuesday on Hood Canal Water Systems (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Corps Announces Delay in Columbia & Willamette River Dredging Project (Oregon Pubic Broadcasting)
Port of Lewiston in Business Slump “...chief critics are environmental groups which have been fighting to have four Snake River dams that make the port possible breached because they contend the dams kill wild salmon...” (Associated Press)
FEMA Delay in Chehalis River Basin Pleases Officials - Leaders happy for opportunity to discuss plan with agency (Olympian, WA)
Water as the New Oil - Should private companies control our most precious natural resource? (Newsweek Magazine)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Law Blows Clark PUD into Wind Energy Business - Utility currently reselling such power at a loss (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Washington’s Wind Power Windfall - The harnessing of Columbia Gorge winds has transformed the landscape & the lives of rural residents (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Oregon - Feds Backing Big Wind Farm near Arlington (Associated Press)
Nevada - Golden Eagles Could Stop Pah Rah Range Wind Farm (Reno Gazette Journal, NV)
Martha Wyrsch: The Vortex inside Wind Turbine Maker Vestas (Oregonian, Portland)
Montana - Mineral Community Hospital Wins Grant for Biomass Energy Plant (Clark Fork Chronicle, MT)
The Energy Efficient Path to 100% Renewables (Reuters)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
North Mason School District Receives Second Energy Grant (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, Wa)
Enviros Claim Feds Pulled Clean-Energy Plug on Property Assessed Clean Energy Programs (Courthouse News Service)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Carbon Curbs by EPA Land in Court Again (Wall Street Journal)
EPA’s Impending Greenhouse Gas Regulations May Decrease Coal Market (Casper Tribune, WY)
Ocean Carbon Sequestration: The World’s Best Bad Idea (Miller McCune)
Op/Ed - What Will it Take to Tax Carbon? (Christian Science Monitor)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Poll: Buyers Confused, Wary about Electric Cars (Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal)
Chevy Volt Gets Rave Reviews at Debut in Tacoma (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Study Says Biofuels Demand Won’t be Met by Supplies, (Houston Business Journal) http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2010/10/11/focus4.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Qwest Merger Has Telecoms on Edge - Vancouver-Area Providers Concerned About Effects on Customers (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Department of Ecology Looks at Quincy Area Data Center Generators (Wenatchee World, WA)
Ask.Com Rearms With New App, Growth Hopes (San Francisco Business Times)
Experts: Look Before You Leap into Cloud Computing (Washington Business Journal)
New Web Code Draws Concern over Privacy Risks (NY Times)
Wider Streets for Internet Traffic (NY Times)
AT&T Launching Three Microsoft-Powered Phones (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013131390_apustecmicrosoftphones1stldwritethru.html
Apple Plans to Offer iPhone on Verizon (NY Times)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Employees on Unpaid Furlough Today (KING-TV, Seattle)
GENERAL NEWS
Lightning Knocks Out Power at Large Ballard Lock (KING-TV, Seattle)
Port Angeles to Allow Medical Marijuana Dispensary (KING-TV, Seattle)
Everyone Should Test for the Invisible Natural Gas, Radon, in Their Homes (Oregonian, Portland)
DIVERSIONS
Armless Toe Pianist Wins ‘China’s Got Talent’
Over 52? Then you’re probably grumpy
Ohio Baby Arrives at 10:10 A.M. on 10/10/10
Woman Hits Funeral Home Robber With Urn
SONG OF THE DAY
The Beatles - When I’m Sixty-Four (will I be grumpy)
