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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Weather Eye: Winter Officially Starts Wednesday
(Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Survey Finds Consensus on Better Salmon Habitat
But Not On Dam Removal (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Salmon Forecasts Give Anglers Reason for
Additional Christmas Cheer (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
First
Wind Secures $210 Million for SE Washington State Wind Farm (Puget Sound
Business Journal, WA)
BC Hydro Not Complying With Customer Notifications
for Smart Meters: Privacy Commissioner (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- BC Hydro Not Complying With Customer Notifications for Smart Meters: Privacy Commissioner
- California – Pacific Gas & Electric Proposal OKs SmartMeter Opt-Out - For a Fee
- Grays Harbor PUD Adopts 2012 Budget – No Rate Increase Anticipated
- $1.5 Million Awarded to Families in Colorado Hydroelectric Plant Fire
- Employees Return To Scene of SoCal Edison Shooting - An Employee Killed Two Co-Workers & Himself Last Week
- California Utility Promises to do Better after Late November Windstorm Outages
- Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers, et. al. - Hooray For Hydropower?
- Melanie Dressel Named to Puget Sound Energy, Puget Energy Boards
- Stadium Goes Dark—Twice—During Monday Night Football Game in San Francisco
- How Natural Gas Planners Pulled a Quick One on Oregon
- Utilities in Power Squeeze as States Tie Mergers to Clean Energy
- Survey Finds Consensus on Better Salmon Habitat But Not on Dam Removal
- Salmon Forecasts Give Anglers Reason for Additional Christmas Cheer
- Thurston, Mason Counties Get $2 Million for Salmon Recovery
- Study of Hood River Steelhead Finds Natural Selection in Hatcheries Causes Rapid Productivity Declines in the Wild
- Washington State Board Removing Eagle from Critical Habitat List
- Bonneville Power Administration &Friends of the Columbia Gorge Reach Agreement on National Scenic Area Protection Measures
- Illuminating the Perils of Pollution, Nature’s Way
- First Wind Secures $210 Million for SE Washington State Wind Farm
- South Kitsap Students to Measure What’s Blowing in the Wind
- Google & KKR Investing In Development of California Solar Power Project
- Clean-Energy Households Poised to Pay Renewable Energy Tariff Like other Customers
- Missouri Initiative Seeks to Increase Renewable Energy
- United Kingdom - Queen Finally Goes Green as Windsor Castle Turns to Hydroelectric Power
- General Electric Says LEDs May Be 80% of Market by 2020
- European Parliament Eyes Boosting Carbon Prices
- Tigard-Based Agilyx Snares $25 Million Venture Capital Round
- South Dakota - Ethanol Plants Add to Pollution: Industry Tops in State for Toxic Emissions
- Grant PUD reduces Power penalty for Microsoft Data Center
- Google’s Ex-Green Energy Chief Lands at Facebook
- AT&T’s Bid for T-Mobile: It’s a Dead Deal
- Google & Bing Fight Off ‘Content Farms’ in Effort to Improve Online Searches
- Small Utilities Find Energy ‘Smarts’ in the Cloud
- Weather Eye: Winter Officially Starts Wednesday
- AP Data: States Shed Thousands of Public Employees
- Oregon mills claim Canadians drive down wood cost
- Blizzard Closes Highways from New Mexico to Kansas
- Despite an Unusual Run of Giant Earthquakes, The Northwest’s Risk Likely Unchanged
- Seattle Bans Plastic Bags, and Sets a Five Cent Charge for Paper
- Lawmakers Fight over Perceived Christmas Tree Tax
- Cougar Gold Cheese in High Demand
WORD OF THE DAY
Subterfuge • \SUB-terr-fyooj\ • Noun - 1: deception
by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade 2: a deceptive
device or stratagem
When racing with your luge
Beware of the subterfuge
Opponents may cheat
(Good Grief…what a HORRIBLE haiku!)
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
BC Hydro Not Complying With Customer Notifications
for Smart Meters: Privacy Commissioner (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
California – Pacific Gas & Electric Proposal
OKs SmartMeter Opt-Out - For a Fee (SF Chronicle)
Grays Harbor PUD Adopts 2012 Budget – No Rate
Increase Anticipated (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
$1.5 Million Awarded to Families in Colorado Hydroelectric
Plant Fire (Reuters)
Employees Return To Scene of SoCal Edison Shooting
- An Employee Killed Two Co-Workers & Himself Last Week (Associated Press)
California Utility Promises to do Better after Late
November Windstorm Outages (Associated Press)
Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers, et. al. - Hooray
For Hydropower? (Midwest Energy News)
Melanie Dressel Named to Puget Sound Energy, Puget
Energy Boards (Electric Light & Power)
Stadium Goes Dark—Twice—During Monday Night
Football Game in San Francisco (TIME Magazine)
How Natural Gas Planners Pulled a Quick One on
Oregon (Crosscut Seattle)
Utilities in Power Squeeze as States Tie Mergers to
Clean Energy (Bloomberg News)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Survey Finds Consensus on Better Salmon Habitat
But Not On Dam Removal (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Salmon Forecasts Give Anglers Reason for
Additional Christmas Cheer (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Thurston, Mason Counties Get $2 Million for
Salmon Recovery (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Study of Hood River Steelhead Finds Natural
Selection in Hatcheries Causes Rapid Productivity Declines in the Wild (Oregonian, Portland)
Washington State Board Removing Eagle from
Critical Habitat List (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
Bonneville Power Administration &Friends of
the Columbia Gorge Reach Agreement on National Scenic Area Protection Measures
(Bonneville Power Administration)
Illuminating the Perils of Pollution, Nature’s
Way (NY Times)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
First
Wind Secures $210 Million for SE Washington State Wind Farm (Puget Sound
Business Journal, WA)
South
Kitsap Students to Measure What’s Blowing in the Wind (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA – And, another 25 cents for Robert
Zimmerman)
Google
& KKR Investing In Development of California Solar Power Project (Associated
Press)
Clean-Energy
Households Poised to Pay Renewable Energy Tariff Like other Customers (Arizona
Republic, Phoenix)
Missouri
Initiative Seeks to Increase Renewable Energy (Bloomberg)
United
Kingdom - Queen Finally Goes Green as Windsor Castle Turns to Hydroelectric
Power (The Telegraph, UK)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
General Electric Says LEDs May Be 80% of Market by
2020 (Bloomberg)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
European
Parliament Eyes Boosting Carbon Prices (Associated Press)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Tigard-Based
Agilyx Snares $25 Million Venture Capital Round (Oregonian,
Portland)
South
Dakota - Ethanol Plants Add to Pollution: Industry Tops in State for Toxic
Emissions (Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, SD)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Grant PUD reduces Power penalty for Microsoft Data
Center (Columbia
Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Google’s Ex-Green Energy Chief Lands at Facebook
(Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, CA)
AT&T’s Bid for T-Mobile: It’s a Dead Deal (Seattle
Times)
Google & Bing Fight Off ‘Content Farms’ in
Effort to Improve Online Searches (Washington Post)
Small Utilities Find Energy ‘Smarts’ in the Cloud
(Green Bang)
GENERAL NEWS
Weather Eye: Winter Officially Starts Wednesday (Vancouver
Columbian, WA)
AP Data: States Shed Thousands of Public Employees (Associated
Press)
Oregon mills claim Canadians drive down wood cost (Associated
Press)
Blizzard Closes Highways from New Mexico to Kansas (Christian
Science Monitor)
Despite an Unusual Run of Giant Earthquakes, The
Northwest’s Risk Likely Unchanged (Oregonian, Portland)
Seattle Bans Plastic Bags, and Sets a Five Cent Charge
for Paper (NY Times)
Lawmakers Fight over Perceived Christmas Tree Tax (National
Public Radio)
Cougar Gold Cheese in High Demand (Olympian, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Man Finds $2,500 in House, Returns to Former Owners
Woman Caught Making Meth inside S. Tulsa Wal-Mart
Western WA Santa Mailman Fighting to Keep Suit On –
Follows complaint by fellow worker “It’s against the dress code”
War on Christmas Department - Climate Change Puts
Santa at Risk
SONG OF THE DAY
Three
Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come)
