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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Opponents of Thurston PUD Taking over Electricity
Service Form Political Action Committee (Olympian, WA)
April-September
Basin Runoff Predicted to be Tenth Best in 52 Years; La Nina Dissipates in
April (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Truth Needle: Inslee’s Claims About Renewable
Energy & Initiative 937 Half True (Seattle Times)
Union River Restoration Seen as Key to Summer
Chum Salmon Return (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Washington State Board Upholds Microsoft Data
Center Permit (Columbia
Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Opponents of Thurston PUD Taking over Electricity Service Form Political Action Committee
- Columbia River - How America’s Most Powerful River Fuels Hope
- University of Idaho Student to Create Columbia River Treaty Model
- Op/Ed - Roll on Columbia!
- BC Hydro Awash in Private Power – British Columbia Producers Running Flat Out
- Op/Ed – Power Marketing Administrations: Working to Ensure Those Who Pay the Co-op Costs, Receive the Benefits
- Contingency Plan for Southern California Power Back on Track
- Japanese Government to Ask for Electricity Conservation to Help in Absence of Nuclear Generation
- Japan Assembly Agrees to Restart Nuclear Reactors, Hurdles Remain
- Plan to Cut Tube Wear Falls Short at California Nuclear Power Plant
- Opposition to Smart Meters Slows $29 Billion Upgrade of US Grid
- Vermont Utilities See Growing ‘Smart Meter’ Opposition
- Sierra Club vs. Natural Gas – “…not long ago, the Sierra Club pushed natural gas as an alternative to coal. It would be a bridge to renewable energy…”
- DEED Board Awards $416,635 for New Research Projects, Scholarships
- Customers Split over Pepco Tree Pruning in Maryland, Washington, DC
- Union River Restoration Seen as Key to Summer Chum Salmon Return
- Porpoise Deaths Raise Alarms About Health of Puget Sound
- Famed Whidbey Island Shellfish in Jeopardy after Boat Fire, Sinking
- California Sea Lion Numbers in Lower Columbia This Year Far Below 2003’s Peak Count
- Baby Animals Wrongly Saved, Left at Shelters
- Cabela’s $1-Million Fish Could be Lurking in a Washington Waterway
- April-September Basin Runoff Predicted to be Tenth Best in 52 Years
- Truth Needle: Inslee’s Claims About Renewable Energy & Initiative 937 Half True
- California - Solar Industry, Utilities Clash over Proposal to Change the Way “Net Metering” is Calculated
- Op/Ed - Would You Pay More for Renewable Power? …You Already Do
- Energy Conference Coming to Town Kalispell
- Mexican Wind Energy Boom Plays Out on Gusty Shores
- High School Athletic Departments Get Creative in Raising Money to Improve Facilities
- Global Warming Threatens Pine Forests, Forcing Federal Officials to Shift Strategy
- Op/Ed - Our Environmental Challenge
- Seattle Team Second in Green-Building Contest
- Still Dirtier than Coal? Community Trumping Polluters
- Washington State Board Upholds Microsoft Data Center Permit
- Oregon’s Wired Libraries Are a Digital Delight
- West Virginia’s Incompetent Handling of Broadband Stimulus Money
- Yahoo CEO Thompson Forced Out After Four Months
- The Race is on to Fill Washington State’s New 1st Congressional District
- Seattle’s PubliCola Political Web Site Shuts Down
- Motorcyclist from Shelton Killed in Head-on Crash near McCleary
- Rafter Who Died on Green River Identified as Everett City Councilman
- Mason County Hiker Loses Glasses - Rescued After Being Lost in Woods Four Days
- Thieves Strip 70,000 Pounds of Copper Wire from Light Rail Track
- Washington State Ferries Considers Using Natural Gas as Fuel
- Mason County Politics - Candidate Filing Week
- Forbes: Microsoft Boss ‘Worst CEO’ at Large Public Company
WORD OF THE DAY
Hiatus
• \high-AYT-us\ • Noun - 1: a break in or as if in a material object: gap b: a
gap or passage in an anatomical part or organ 2a: an interruption in time or continuity:
break; especially: a period when something (as a program or activity) is
suspended or interrupted b: the occurrence of two vowel sounds without pause or
intervening consonantal sound
Frank’s
hiatus was due to his treatment of a hiatal hernia.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Opponents of Thurston PUD Taking over Electricity
Service Form Political Action Committee (Olympian, WA –
Thanks to a single donor)
Columbia River - How America’s Most Powerful River
Fuels Hope (Bonneville Power Administration)
University of Idaho Student to Create Columbia
River Treaty Model (Associated Press)
Op/Ed - Roll on Columbia! (Kitsap Peninsula
Business Journal)
BC Hydro Awash in Private Power – British Columbia Producers
Running Flat Out (Vancouver Sun, BC)
Op/Ed – Power Marketing Administrations: Working to
Ensure Those Who Pay the Co-op Costs, Receive the Benefits (Roanoke Rapids
Daily Herald, NC)
Contingency Plan for Southern California Power Back
on Track (Los Angeles Times, CA)
Japanese Government to Ask for Electricity
Conservation to Help in Absence of Nuclear Generation (Bellingham Herald, WA)
Japan Assembly Agrees to Restart Nuclear Reactors,
Hurdles Remain (Reuters)
Plan to Cut Tube Wear Falls Short at California
Nuclear Power Plant (Associated Press)
Opposition to Smart Meters Slows $29 Billion
Upgrade of US Grid (Bloomberg News)
Vermont Utilities See Growing ‘Smart Meter’
Opposition (Associated Press)
Sierra Club vs. Natural Gas – “…not long ago, the
Sierra Club pushed natural gas as an alternative to coal. It would be a bridge
to renewable energy…” (Natural Resource Report)
DEED Board Awards $416,635 for New Research
Projects, Scholarships (American Public Power Association)
Customers
Split over Pepco Tree Pruning in Maryland, Washington, DC (Washington Business
Journal, DC)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Union River Restoration Seen as Key to Summer
Chum Salmon Return (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Porpoise Deaths Raise Alarms About Health of Puget
Sound (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
Famed Whidbey Island Shellfish in Jeopardy after
Boat Fire, Sinking (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
California Sea Lion Numbers in Lower Columbia
This Year Far Below 2003’s Peak Count (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Baby Animals Wrongly Saved, Left at Shelters (Spokesman
Review, Spokane, WA)
Cabela’s $1-Million Fish Could be Lurking in a
Washington Waterway (Seattle Times)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
April-September
Basin Runoff Predicted to be Tenth Best in 52 Years; La Nina Dissipates in
April (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Truth Needle: Inslee’s Claims About Renewable
Energy & Initiative 937 Half True (Seattle Times)
California
- Solar Industry, Utilities Clash over Proposal to Change the Way “Net Metering”
is Calculated (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Op/Ed
- Would You Pay More for Renewable Power? …You Already Do (New Hampshire
Watchdog)
Energy
Conference Coming to Town Kalispell (Daily Interlake, Kalispell, MT)
Mexican
Wind Energy Boom Plays Out on Gusty Shores (Reuters)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
High School Athletic Departments Get Creative in
Raising Money to Improve Facilities (Twin Falls Times-News, ID)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Global
Warming Threatens Pine Forests, Forcing Federal Officials to Shift Strategy (Washington Post)
Op/Ed
- Our Environmental Challenge (Juneau Empire, AK)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Seattle
Team Second in Green-Building Contest (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Still
Dirtier than Coal? Community Trumping Polluters - Grassroots movements stop
biomass incinerators in two counties, one still at risk (Pacific Free Press)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Washington State Board Upholds Microsoft Data
Center Permit (Columbia
Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Oregon’s Wired Libraries Are a Digital Delight (Oregonian,
Portland)
West Virginia’s Incompetent Handling of Broadband
Stimulus Money - $22k Routers Used in Tiny Libraries, Hardware Sitting Unused
in Storage (Broadband Reports)
Yahoo CEO Thompson Forced Out After Four Months (Associated
Press)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
The Race is on to Fill Washington State’s New 1st Congressional
District (Seattle Times)
Seattle’s PubliCola Political Web Site Shuts Down
(Puget Sound Business Journal)
GENERAL NEWS
Motorcyclist from Shelton Killed in Head-on Crash near
McCleary (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Rafter Who Died on Green River Identified as Everett
City Councilman (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Mason County Hiker Loses Glasses - Rescued After
Being Lost in Woods Four Days (KCPQ-TV, Seattle/Tacoma, WA)
Thieves Strip 70,000 Pounds of Copper Wire from
Light Rail Track (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
Washington State Ferries Considers Using Natural
Gas as Fuel (Associated Press)
Mason County Politics - Candidate Filing Week (Mason
Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Forbes: Microsoft Boss ‘Worst CEO’ at Large Public
Company (Portland Business Journal, OR)
DIVERSIONS
Bass player Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn dies in Tokyo
Self-Described Satanist Allegedly Removed Cemetery
Markers…To Bless Them
Washington State Man Bitten by Rattlesnake at Idaho
Wal-Mart
SONG OF THE DAY
Wilson
Pickett - In the Midnight Hour
