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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Canada Kept Detection of Salmon Virus Secret (Seattle Times,
WA)
High-Speed Internet Tapped for Olympic Peninsula by August
2013 - Thanks NoaNet, Public Utilities (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Trustee Appointed to Run Southern Montana Electric, Members
Want Audit (Associated Press)
Climate Change: 2011 Temperatures the Hottest Ever During La
Nina (Christian Science Monitor)
Clear, Cold Weather Forecast for Washington State
(Associated Press)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Trustee Appointed to Run Southern Montana Electric, Members Want Audit
- Oregon - Obama's Power Line Team to Visit Idaho Power Transmission Project
- Clallam PUD Staff Propose Three Percent Electric Rate Increase
- Oklahoma - Rounding Up Bills Helps Pay Bills
- EPA Said to Give Power Companies Options to Delay Pollution Rule
- Canada Kept Detection of Salmon Virus Secret
- Editorial – Federal Judge Redden Set a Course on the Columbia River
- Oregon - Experimental Island, Imported Terns May Help Control Carp in Malheur Lake
- China's First Salmon Farm Could Affect Market for Alaska Seafood
- Banks Lake Being Refilled After 30 Foot Drawdown
- Portland Leaders Cheer Decision to Let City Avoid Treating Bull Run Water, Saving Ratepayers Millions
- Oregon - Christmas Valley: 'Backscatter Radar' Site to be Used for Solar Power Installation
- Oregon - Korean Solar Manufacturer Scouting Three Lane County Sites
- Private Dollars Revive a Solar Panel Plan for Military Housing
- Is the window closing for South Dakota’s wind industry?
- US Sees Renaissance in Energy Efficiency, Led by Congress & Big Business
- Climate Change: 2011 Temperatures the Hottest Ever During La Nina
- Ask the Experts: How Do Tax Credits for Electric Vehicles Work?
- High-Speed Internet Tapped for Olympic Peninsula by August 2013 - Thanks NoaNet, Public Utilities
- Oregon - Rackspace Nears Deal to Build a $100 Million Data Center in Morrow County
- FCC Inches toward the Broadband Future with USF Reform
- The 'Bandwidth Hog' is a Myth - Caps Don't Really Address Truly Disruptive Users
- Rhapsody Marks Ten Tumultuous Years of Music Streaming
- Tacoma City Council Names Five Finalists for City Manager’s Job
- Sponsor: $42M Wenatchee Arena Bailout Plan in Trouble
- Clear, Cold Weather Forecast for Washington State
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Aberdeen
- Belfair Residents Pack Meeting Over Sewer Project, Costs
- Government Gets More Aggressive to Curtail Wood Stove Smoke
- Home Heating Fires – A Burning Issue
- Victim's Family Slams Oregon Governor Over Death Penalty
- Occupy Demonstrators Turn to Boarded-Up
- Shelton’s First Friday & Christmas Parade
WORD OF THE DAY
Fascicle - /FASS-ih-kull/ - Noun - 1: a small or slender
bundle 2: one of the divisions of a book published in parts
It must have been a tension-packed month for readers in the
early 1900’s who waited patiently for the next thrilling chapter of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s
“Tarzan” series. Especially since each chapter was doled out in a serial
fashion…until the fascicles were bound together in the books they eventually
became.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Trustee Appointed to Run Southern Montana Electric, Members
Want Audit (Associated Press)
Oregon - Obama's Power Line Team to Visit Idaho Power
Transmission Project (Baker City Herald, OR)
Clallam PUD Staff Propose Three Percent Electric Rate
Increase (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Oklahoma - Rounding Up Bills Helps Pay Bills (Pryor Daily
Times, Pryor Creek, OK)
EPA Said to Give Power Companies Options to Delay Pollution
Rule (Bloomberg)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Canada Kept Detection of Salmon Virus Secret (Seattle Times,
WA)
Editorial – Federal Judge Redden Set a Course on the Columbia
River (Seattle Times, WA)
Oregon - Experimental Island, Imported Terns May Help
Control Carp in Malheur Lake (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
China's First Salmon Farm Could Affect Market for Alaska Seafood
(Alaska Dispatch)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Banks Lake Being Refilled After 30 Foot Drawdown (Columbia
Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Portland Leaders Cheer Decision to Let City Avoid Treating Bull
Run Water, Saving Ratepayers Millions (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Oregon - Christmas Valley: 'Backscatter Radar' Site to be
Used for Solar Power Installation (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Oregon - Korean Solar Manufacturer Scouting Three Lane
County Sites (Portland Business Journal, OR)
Private Dollars Revive a Solar Panel Plan for Military
Housing (NY Times)
Is the window closing for South Dakota’s wind industry? (Midwest
Energy News)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
US Sees Renaissance in Energy Efficiency, Led by Congress &
Big Business (Christian Science Monitor)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Climate Change: 2011 Temperatures the Hottest Ever During La
Nina (Christian Science Monitor)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Ask the Experts: How Do Tax Credits for Electric Vehicles
Work? (Sacramento Bee, CA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
High-Speed Internet Tapped for Olympic Peninsula by August 2013
- Thanks NoaNet, Public Utilities (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Oregon - Rackspace Nears Deal to Build a $100 Million Data
Center in Morrow County (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
FCC Inches toward the Broadband Future with USF Reform (GigaOM)
The 'Bandwidth Hog' is a Myth - Caps Don't Really Address
Truly Disruptive Users (Broadband Reports)
Rhapsody Marks Ten Tumultuous Years of Music Streaming (Puget
Sound Business Journal, WA)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Tacoma City Council Names Five Finalists for City Manager’s
Job (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Sponsor: $42M Wenatchee Arena Bailout Plan in Trouble (KOMO-TV,
Seattle)
GENERAL NEWS
Clear, Cold Weather Forecast for Washington State (Associated
Press)
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Aberdeen (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen,
WA)
Belfair Residents Pack Meeting over Sewer Project, Costs (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
Government Gets More Aggressive to Curtail Wood Stove Smoke
(Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Home Heating Fires – A Burning Issue (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen,
WA)
Victim's Family Slams Oregon Governor Over Death Penalty (Associated
Press)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Victims-family-slams-Oregon-gov-over-death-penalty-134760418.html
Occupy Demonstrators Turn to Boarded-Up Homes (Associated
Press)
Shelton’s First Friday & Christmas Parade (KMAS Radio,
Shelton, WA)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER - DIVERSIONS
Jacob, Sophia Top List of State’s Baby Names
Portland Mom Gives Birth, Didn't Know She Was Pregnant
Police Called after Woman Yells 'Boring!' During Symphony
Man Choked for Letting Phone Ring at Seattle Theater
SONG OF THE DAY
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Silence Is Golden
