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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Op/Ed - BPA & Wind Developers: Federal Energy
Ruling is Wrong for Our Region (Oregonian, Portland)
Well Owners Want PacifiCorp to Pay More for Damage
Done by Removal of Condit Dam (Oregonian, Portland)
Editorial
- Who Controls Montana’s Rivers? (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/opinion/who-controls-montanas-rivers.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Grant County PUD Adds $1.5 Million for Fiber
Delivery (Columbia
Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Clean
Energy & Mass Transit - Casualties of the Payroll Tax Fight (Washington Post)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Op/Ed - BPA & Wind Developers: Federal Energy Ruling is Wrong for Our Region
- President signs Rep. Napolitano's Hoover Dam bill
- Hydropower Outlook 2012: Continued Large-scale Development in North America
- Mason PUD 3 - Tree Trimming on Cloquallum Road to begin Dec 27
- Lassen Municipal Utility District – 2012 Student Art Calendar Contest
- Mark Purdy: Power outage puts black mark on Candlestick
- Well Owners Want PacifiCorp to Pay More for Damage Done by Removal of Condit Dam
- Gresham, Oregon - Restoration Projects Bring Coho Back to Johnson Creek
- Pacific Northwest Tribes Propose Plan to Preserve Pacific Lamphrey
- In Great Lakes States, a Divide over the Asian Carp
- Editorial - Who Controls Montana’s Rivers?
- Approval of Ordinance on Belfair Sewer Delayed
- Belfair Water District Seeks $72,000 Re-imbursement from Former Employee
- Olympia’s Yauger Park Stormwater Complex Passes Test
- Clean Energy & Mass Transit - Casualties of the Payroll Tax Fight
- SolarWorld Persists With Trade Case against China, Rejecting Request to Withdraw Complaint
- Olympia, Lacey Need 19 More Green Power Enrollees
- Solar Power Advocate Takes to Edmonds Roof to Promote Cooperative
- Wisconsin's Biggest Wind Farm Goes Online
- Wind Industry Accused of Blowing Off Worker Safety Rule
- Op/Ed - Americans Want Renewable Energy. What's Stopping Them?
- United Kingdom Solar Plants Boom Ahead of Subsidies Cut
- Congress Keeps Incandescent Light Bulbs Burning, For Now
- Do Lighting Standard Delays Threaten Consumer Choice?
- Habitat for Humanity Focuses on Green Homes
- Scientists Mark 1/3 of a Century of Satellite Climate Data
- Are Electric Cars Losing Their Spark?
- Grant County PUD Adds $1.5 Million for Fiber Delivery
- Chelan PUD Fiber Upgrade Causes Hours-Long Internet Outage
- Oregon Congressman Greg Walden in Middle of Fight over 'Net Neutrality' & Communications Regulation
- Firefox, Google Renew Search Deal
- Forget Ethernet, Researchers Want Data Centers to Go Wireless
- Gregoire Signs Washington State Budget, Seeks Timeline on More Cuts
- Washington State Department Of Corrections Loses Most Jobs This Round
- Former Skamania County Auditor Faces Felony Charges
- Misuse of Funds Alleged - Western Washington University Admissions Director Fired
- Jobless Numbers Fall Throughout South Sound – Mason County Drops To 9.7 Percent
- Unemployment Fell in 43 States in November
- Nearly Five Percent Increase - City of Shelton Sewer Rate Hearing
- San Antonio Official T.C. Broadnax is Tacoma's Next City Manager
- University of Washington Ecoterror Arsonist Pleads Guilty
- Port of Shelton Port Meeting Didn't Go as Planned
- Police Need New Go-To Car after Ford Stops Making Crown Victorias
WORD OF THE DAY
Wreak • \REEK\ • Verb - 1: to cause the infliction
of (vengeance or punishment) 2: to give free play or course to (malevolent
feeling) 3: bring about, cause
“Good grief,” opined Samuel Morse to his illiterate assistant. “It’s
‘what hath God wrought,’ you ninny. Not, ‘what hath god wreaked’.”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Op/Ed - BPA & Wind Developers: Federal Energy
Ruling is Wrong for Our Region (Oregonian, Portland)
President signs Rep. Napolitano's Hoover Dam bill -
Five percent of the electricity will be set aside for use by "new
entities" including Native American tribes, irrigation districts, electric
cooperatives and others (Whittier Daily News, CA)
Hydropower Outlook 2012: Continued Large-scale
Development in North America (Renewable Energy World)
Mason PUD 3 - Tree Trimming on Cloquallum Road to
begin Dec 27 (Mason County PUD No. 3)
Lassen Municipal Utility District – 2012 Student
Art Calendar Contest (Lassen Municipal Utility District)
Mark Purdy: Power outage puts black mark on
Candlestick “…Santa Clara – new home for 49ers - Silicon Valley Power, has a
reliability rating "that ranks in the top quartile nationally, more than
four times better than the Bay Area county average…” (San Jose Mercury News,
CA)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Well Owners Want PacifiCorp to Pay More for
Damage Done by Removal of Condit Dam (Oregonian,
Portland)
Gresham, Oregon - Restoration Projects Bring Coho
Back to Johnson Creek
Pacific Northwest Tribes Propose Plan to Preserve
Pacific Lamphrey - Several hundred caught each year at Willamette Falls
(Portland Tribune, OR)
In Great Lakes States, a Divide over the Asian
Carp (NY Times)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Editorial
- Who Controls Montana’s Rivers? (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/opinion/who-controls-montanas-rivers.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Approval
of Ordinance on Belfair Sewer Delayed (Kitsap Sun,
Bremerton, WA)
Belfair
Water District Seeks $72,000 Re-imbursement from Former Employee (KMAS Radio,
Shelton, WA)
Olympia’s
Yauger Park Stormwater Complex Passes Test (Olympian, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Clean
Energy & Mass Transit - Casualties of the Payroll Tax Fight (Washington Post)
SolarWorld
Persists With Trade Case against China, Rejecting Request to Withdraw Complaint
(Oregonian, Portland)
Olympia,
Lacey Need 19 More Green Power Enrollees (Olympian, WA)
Solar
Power Advocate Takes to Edmonds Roof to Promote Cooperative (Everett Herald,
WA)
Wisconsin's
Biggest Wind Farm Goes Online (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, WI)
Wind
Industry Accused of Blowing Off Worker Safety Rule (Fair Warning)
Op/Ed
- Americans Want Renewable Energy. What's Stopping Them? (The Energy
Collective)
United
Kingdom Solar Plants Boom Ahead of Subsidies Cut (Reuters)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Congress
Keeps Incandescent Light Bulbs Burning, For Now (Everett Herald, WA)
Do
Lighting Standard Delays Threaten Consumer Choice? (The Energy Collective)
Habitat
for Humanity Focuses on Green Homes (Sustainable
Business Oregon)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Scientists
Mark 1/3 of a Century of Satellite Climate Data (USA
Today)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Are
Electric Cars Losing Their Spark? (USA Today)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Grant County PUD Adds $1.5 Million for Fiber
Delivery (Columbia
Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Chelan PUD Fiber Upgrade Causes Hours-Long Internet
Outage (Wenatchee World, WA)
Oregon Congressman Greg Walden in Middle of Fight
over 'Net Neutrality' & Communications Regulation (Oregonian, Portland)
Firefox, Google Renew Search Deal (Washington Post)
Forget Ethernet, Researchers Want Data Centers to
Go Wireless (GigaOM)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Gregoire
Signs Washington State Budget, Seeks Timeline on More Cuts (Associated Press)
Washington State Department Of Corrections Loses
Most Jobs This Round (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Former Skamania County Auditor Faces Felony Charges
- Accused of racking up thousands of dollars of travel expenses and then
shredding documents relating to his expenditures (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Misuse of Funds Alleged - Western Washington
University Admissions Director Fired (Associated Press)
GENERAL NEWS
Jobless Numbers Fall Throughout South Sound – Mason
County Drops To 9.7 Percent (South Sound Business Examiner)
Unemployment Fell in 43 States in November (Associated
Press)
Nearly Five Percent Increase - City of Shelton Sewer
Rate Hearing (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
San Antonio Official T.C. Broadnax is Tacoma's Next
City Manager (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
University of Washington Ecoterror Arsonist Pleads
Guilty (Associated Press)
Port of Shelton Port Meeting Didn't Go as Planned (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
Police Need New Go-To Car after Ford Stops Making
Crown Victorias (Everett Herald, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Pragmatic - Merriam Webster's Word of the Year
Ferndale Miracle Accepted by Vatican
Schnmo to Lambo & Back Again - Man Crashes
Lamborghini Six Hours after Winning It
Orson Welles’ Academy Award for ‘Citizen Kane’ Screenplay
Auctioned for $861,000
SONG OF THE DAY
Citizen
Kane Suite - Soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann
