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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
How Hard is it
to Dismantle 150 Nuclear Reactors? Europe’s About to Find Out (Washington Post)
After 45 Year Hiatus,
Migrating Salmon Return to Upper Deschutes (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Douglas PUD to Seek Two 6-Percent Rate Hikes by
2013 (Wenatchee World, WA)
Arctic Ocean
Mega-Algae-Bloom: Scientists’ Eyes Popped & Jaws Dropped (Los Angeles
Times, CA)
High Gas Prices Hurt Local Economy (Seattle Times)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- BPA Transmission Upgrades - Subbing Out Poles to Begin Monday
- Douglas PUD to Seek Two 6-Percent Rate Hikes by 2013
- Portland General Electric Solicits Bids for New Power
- Eagles Knock Out Power in Port Angeles
- Hydro bill moves forward in U-S House of Representatives
- Coal’s Share of Generation Drops to 34%
- How Hard is it to Dismantle 150 Nuclear Reactors? Europe’s About to Find Out
- Court Forces a Rethinking of Nuclear Fuel Storage
- Op/Ed - New Mexico Wants Nuclear Waste Repository
- FERC Gives PJM Ammunition in Dispute over Line Worker’s Injuries
- Editorial - Natural Gas, by the Book
- After 45 Year Hiatus, Migrating Salmon Return to Upper Deschutes
- Study Looks at Fraser River Sockeye Decline, Stresses Competition with Pink Salmon
- Stillaguamish Tribe Looks at Pharmaceutical Effects on Fish
- New Life Emerges as Elwha River Dams Come Down
- A Damned Dam on the Penobscot River
- Shellfish Harvesting Resumes in Penn Cove after Sinking
- Warm Temperatures Mean Strong, Cold Rivers
- Belfair Water System Customers Still Advised to Boil Water
- Caught on Tape! Undersea Volcano Erupts Off Northwest Coast
- Record Investment in Renewable Energy in 2011
- Editorial - A Cloudy Future for the Solar Industry in Idaho? Or Supply & Demand?
- Vestas CEO Sees U-S Market Down 80 Percent in 2013
- California Likely to Set Energy Standards for Consumer Electronics
- Snohomish PUD Nets Award for Excellence in Energy Efficiency
- Out for Blood: Energy Vampires Taking a Bite Out of Companies’ Profits
- Efficient Water Heater Insulation Puts Dollars Back In Your Pocket – But it Depends
- Arctic Ocean Mega-Algae-Bloom: Scientists’ Eyes Popped & Jaws Dropped
- Montana – U-S Senator Tester Takes Concerns over Rural Broadband Internet Access Straight to
- The U-S Broadband Internet Initiative Involves More Than We Imagined
- AT&T Working to Kill South Carolina Community Broadband
- Debunking Rumors of an Internet Takeover
- Washington State Workers Checking Signatures on Gay Marriage Referendum 74 Petitions
- Greg Nickels Faces Uphill Battle in Comeback Race for Secretary of State
- Accountant Accused of Stealing $2.8 Million from Franklin County
- Wins, Losses with New Olympia City Hall
- High Gas Prices Hurt Local Economy
- Washington State Man Accused of Shooting Hitchhiker Writing ‘Kindness’ Book
- Belfair Water to Hold Hearing on Annexation
- River Users Say Planned Columbia Bridge Too Low
- Discrimination Alive & Well In Public Works Projects
WORD OF THE DAY
Beneficent
• \bih-NEFF-ih-sent\ • Adjective - 1: doing or producing good; especially:
performing acts of kindness & charity 2: beneficial
Beneficent:
see United Way
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
BPA Transmission
Upgrades - Subbing Out Poles to Begin Monday: The 90-mile-long BPA power line
is only three years younger than the Bonneville Dam itself (Eugene
Register-Guard, OR)
Douglas PUD to Seek Two 6-Percent Rate Hikes by
2013 (Wenatchee World, WA)
Portland General
Electric Solicits Bids for New Power (Oregonian, Portland)
Eagles Knock Out
Power in Port Angeles (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
Hydro bill moves
forward in U-S House of Representatives (American public Power Association)
Coal’s Share of
Generation Drops to 34% (American Public Power Association)
How Hard is it
to Dismantle 150 Nuclear Reactors? Europe’s About to Find Out (Washington Post)
Court Forces a
Rethinking of Nuclear Fuel Storage (NY Times)
Op/Ed - New Mexico Wants Nuclear Waste Repository
(Casper Tribune, Wy)
http://trib.com/opinion/columns/new-mexico-wants-nuclear-waste-repository/article_930f8e1a-302f-5452-87fe-683028800d7e.html
http://trib.com/opinion/columns/new-mexico-wants-nuclear-waste-repository/article_930f8e1a-302f-5452-87fe-683028800d7e.html
FERC Gives PJM Ammunition in Dispute over Line
Worker’s Injuries (SNL Financial)
Editorial -
Natural Gas, by the Book (NY Times)
FISH & WILDLIFE
After 45 Year
Hiatus, Migrating Salmon Return to Upper Deschutes (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Study Looks at
Fraser River Sockeye Decline, Stresses Competition with Pink Salmon (Columbia
Basin Bulletin)
Stillaguamish
Tribe Looks at Pharmaceutical Effects on Fish (Northwest Indian Fisheries
Commission)
New Life Emerges
as Elwha River Dams Come Down (Seattle Times)
A Damned Dam on
the Penobscot River (National Public Radio)
Shellfish
Harvesting Resumes in Penn Cove after Sinking (KOMO-TV,
Seattle)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Warm
Temperatures Mean Strong, Cold Rivers (Wenatchee World, WA)
Belfair Water
System Customers Still Advised to Boil Water (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Caught on Tape!
Undersea Volcano Erupts Off Northwest Coast (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Record
Investment in Renewable Energy in 2011 (Associated Press)
Editorial - A
Cloudy Future for the Solar Industry in Idaho? Or Supply & Demand? (Idaho
Statesman, Boise, ID)
Vestas CEO Sees
U-S Market Down 80 Percent in 2013 (Reuters)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
California
Likely to Set Energy Standards for Consumer Electronics (San Jose Mercury News,
CA)
Snohomish PUD
Nets Award for Excellence in Energy Efficiency (Lake Stevens Journal, WA)
Out
for Blood: Energy Vampires Taking a Bite Out of Companies’ Profits (Phoenix
Business Journal, AZ)
Efficient Water Heater Insulation Puts Dollars Back
In Your Pocket – But it Depends (Christian Science Monitor)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Arctic Ocean
Mega-Algae-Bloom: Scientists’ Eyes Popped & Jaws Dropped (Los Angeles
Times, CA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Montana – U-S
Senator Tester Takes Concerns over Rural Broadband Internet Access Straight to
President (Political News)
The U-S Broadband
Internet Initiative Involves More Than We Imagined (Washington Times, DC)
AT&T Working
to Kill South Carolina Community Broadband - Despite Being Largely Uninterested
in Serving Those Customers (Broadband Reports)
Debunking Rumors
of an Internet Takeover (NY Times)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State
Workers Checking Signatures on Gay Marriage Referendum 74 Petitions (Seattle Times)
Greg Nickels
Faces Uphill Battle in Comeback Race for Secretary of State (Seattle Times)
Accountant Accused of Stealing $2.8 Million from
Franklin County - Had Criminal Past (Associated Press)
Wins, Losses
with New Olympia City Hall - $54 million: It’s nice to have, but not all the
promises made during planning have been fulfilled (Olympian, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
High Gas Prices
Hurt Local Economy (Seattle Times)
Washington State Man Accused of Shooting Hitchhiker
Writing ‘Kindness’ Book (Associated Press)
Belfair Water to
Hold Hearing on Annexation (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
River Users Say
Planned Columbia Bridge Too Low (Associated Press)
Discrimination
Alive & Well In Public Works Projects (KING-TV,
Seattle)
DIVERSIONS
Mister Rogers Goes Viral in PBS Remix Of ‘Garden of
Your Mind’
Hungry Jack
Syrup Truck Spills onto Buttermilk Pike
Cost to lunch
with Warren Buffett: $3.5 million
Cops: Woman
Shoplifted & Cooked Meth Inside Wal-Mart
SONG OF THE DAY
Bach
– Air (Adaptation of the he second movement from Johann Sebastian Bach’s
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major)
