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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Rural Washington Broadband Effort Gets $40 Million in Fed Funds – Chelan PUD, Okanogan PUD, Hood Canal Telephone & Cascade Networks (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Bonneville Power Administration Updates Alternatives for New Power Line (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Mason County PUD No. 3 Awards Bid for Extending City of Shelton Water to John’s Prairie (KMAS Radio, Shelton , WA
Sockeye Counts Beat Past Year’s Records (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
· Bonneville Power Administration Updates Alternatives for New Power Line
· Bonneville Power Administration Identifies New Potential Routes for Proposed Power Line
· Avista Profit Dips Slightly in Second Quarter
· Mason County PUD No. 3 Awards Bid for Extending City of Shelton Water to John’s Prairie
· Fallout Begins After Senate’s Failure to Act on Energy, Oil Spill
· Environmental Groups Defend Tactics After Climate Bill’s Demise
· Greens Debating Tactics Instead of Ideas
· California
· BP Collecting Millions in Government Stimulus Funds for California
· Sockeye Counts Beat Past Year’s Records
· Salmon Action Heating Up in Puget Sound
· Elwha River Dams to Start Coming Down Next Year, Dicks is Told
· Yakima
· Enviros Question Port of Portland Dredge Spoil Dumping on West Hayden Island
· Editorial - Estuary is the Solution for Olympia ’s Capitol Lake
· Group Seeks Opinion on New Water Standards for Fish & Wildlife
· HaloSource Taps Developing World’s Growing Need for Clean Water
· Yakima-Tieton Canal
· Mason County
· Meeting Set in Opposition to Blue Mountain
· Montana
· Installing Wind Turbines on Lake Erie Could Generate Thousands of Jobs
· Michigan - Oceana County Wind
· Tilting With Wind Turbines - A Legal War over Patents Slows Industry Growth
· Federal Stimulus - $2.75 Million Will Go to Idaho School
· Tennessee Valley
· Wally’s World - Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week, Wallace Broecker Predicted Decades of Dangerous Climate Change Caused by Humans
· UN Panel Says New Taxes Needed for a Climate Fund
· Carpooling Down, Even With Green Awareness Up
· Oregon Sustainability Center
· Seattle
· Tully’s Owner Faces Single-Use Eco-Dilemma
· Colorado
· Rural Washington Broadband Effort Gets $40 Million in Fed Funds – Chelan PUD, Okanogan PUD, Hood Canal Telephone & Cascade Networks
· Feds Offer Chelan PUD $25 Million for Fiber
· Oregon - Federal Program to Expand Columbia County
· Warm Springs Reservation Set for High-Speed Upgrade
· Oregon
· Not so Neutral - Google & Verizon near Deal on Pay Tiers for Web
· FCC Draws Fire over Talks with Internet, Telecom Giants on ‘Net Neutrality’
· Did Net Neutrality Just Get Knifed in the Back?
· Google Kills Wave, It’s Collaboration Tool
· Montana
· Portland
· California - Neighbors Take Wireless Antenna Battle
· Washington State
· Unions spend to $180,000 to oust Washington State Incumbent Senator Berkey
· Benton County Limits Internet for County Workers
· Dark-Horse Entrant in Race to Build Air Force Refueling Tankers Files Protest
· Intense Heat Wave Bakes 18 States from Texas to New York
· British Columbia - Forest Fires Contributing to Poor Air Quality over Metro Vancouver
WORD OF THE DAY
Colloquy • \CALL-uh-kwee\ • noun - 1: conversation, dialogue *2: a high-level serious discussion: conference
Sitting in the nose-bleed section at the local college’s basketball arena, Dwight had a birds-eye view of the balding referees huddled at mid-court, holding forth a colloquy as to whether the game-winning three-point shot hit the rim before the buzzer. Dwight could not resist a short laugh seeing the three domed heads bowed together at the center circle. “This is what a mamma eagle must see when she circles to her nest, her gestating eggs grouped together in the intertwined sticks.”
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Bonneville Power Administration Updates Alternatives for New Power Line (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Bonneville Power Administration Identifies New Potential Routes for Proposed Power Line (Bonneville Power Administration)
Avista Profit Dips Slightly in Second Quarter (Spokesman-Review, Spokane , WA
Mason County PUD No. 3 Awards Bid for Extending City of Shelton Water to John’s Prairie (KMAS Radio, Shelton , WA
Fallout Begins After Senate’s Failure to Act on Energy, Oil Spill (NY Times)
Environmental Groups Defend Tactics After Climate Bill’s Demise (Politico)
Greens Debating Tactics Instead of Ideas (NY Times)
BP Collecting Millions in Government Stimulus Funds for California Power Plant (California
FISH & WILDLIFE
Sockeye Counts Beat Past Year’s Records (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Salmon Action Heating Up in Puget Sound (Seattle
Elwha River Dams to Start Coming Down Next Year, Dicks is Told (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles , WA
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Editorial - Estuary is the Solution for Olympia ’s Capitol Lake
Group Seeks Opinion on New Water Standards for Fish & Wildlife (Courthouse News Service)
HaloSource Taps Developing World’s Growing Need for Clean Water (Seattle Times)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Meeting Set in Opposition to Blue Mountain Wind Turbines (Walla Walla
Installing Wind Turbines on Lake Erie Could Generate Thousands of Jobs, Study Says (Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH)
Tilting With Wind Turbines - A Legal War over Patents Slows Industry Growth (NY Times)
Federal Stimulus - $2.75 Million Will Go to Idaho School Solar Projects (Spokesman-Review, Spokane , WA
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Tennessee Valley Authority Hires Energy ‘Superstar’ Bob Balzar - Until This Summer Ran Seattle City Light’s Conservation Program (The Tennessean, Nashville
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Wally’s World - Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week, Wallace Broecker Predicted Decades of Dangerous Climate Change Caused by Humans (Foreign Policy)
UN Panel Says New Taxes Needed for a Climate Fund (USA
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Carpooling Down, Even With Green Awareness Up (USA
Tully’s Owner Faces Single-Use Eco-Dilemma (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Colorado Candidate Warns of Bicycle Plot “…bringing the city under United Nations control by promoting bike riding & other sustainability measures…” (NY Times)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Rural Washington Broadband Effort Gets $40 Million in Fed Funds – Chelan PUD, Okanogan PUD, Hood Canal Telephone & Cascade Networks (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Feds Offer Chelan PUD $25 Million for Fiber - Utility mulls huge grant; $10 million more needed to finish network (Wenatchee World, WA)
Warm Springs Reservation Set for High-Speed Upgrade (Oregon
Oregon Nets $17 Million for Broadband Expansion (Portland Business Journal) http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2010/08/02/daily32.html
Not so Neutral - Google & Verizon near Deal on Pay Tiers for Web (NY Times)
FCC Draws Fire over Talks with Internet, Telecom Giants on ‘Net Neutrality’ (Washington
Did Net Neutrality Just Get Knifed in the Back? (GigaOM)
Google Kills Wave, It’s Collaboration Tool (NY Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2012531739_apmtpyramidschemeaccusation.html
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Unions spend to $180,000 to oust Washington State Incumbent Senator Berkey (Everett Herald, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Dark-Horse Entrant in Race to Build Air Force Refueling Tankers Files Protest (Washington
Intense Heat Wave Bakes 18 States from Texas to New York (USA
DIVERSIONS
Wife Sees Husband’s 2nd Wedding on Facebook
Snohomish Teen Finds $650 Under Couch Cushions
Dead Man Gets Parking Ticket in Seattle
Man Cited for Hitting Pancake Mascot
SONG OF THE DAY
The Fifth Dimension – Wedding Bell
