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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
California Blackouts Possible this Summer with Nuke
Plant Offline (Associated Press)
Rise in Sea Lion Shootings Sparks Federal
Investigation (Longview Daily News, WA)
Oil Shortage Was Staged, Analyst Says: State’s
Refiners Cut Production after Fire, Pocketed Millions (Wenatchee World, WA)
Washington
State’s Legacy Biomass Law Takes Effect (KBKW Radio,
Aberdeen, WA)
Embattled
Climate Expert Back at Pacific Institute (SF Chronicle)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- California Blackouts Possible this Summer with Nuke Plant Offline
- U-S Nuclear Output Falls after Indian Point 2 in New York Shuts Down
- Moving From Square One on Nuclear Waste
- Money Spent on Infrastructure Creates Jobs Now, Invests in the Future
- Coal Down, Clean Tech Up in Electric Utility Survey
- States Ranked on Energy Costs - SBE Council Releases “Energy Cost Index 2012”
- Smart Meters Steadily Spread Across United States
- “Stop Smart Meters” Sample Letter to Utility
- Oregon - City Utility Spending Under Fire
- Rise in Sea Lion Shootings Sparks Federal Investigation
- Tacoma Power’s Salkum Hatchery Visitor Center Opens
- U-S Braces for Tsunami Debris, But Impact Unclear
- Phosphorus Clean-Up Mandate Could Merge Chelan PUD, Cashmere Sewer Systems
- Mayor Signs Key Agreement with Snohomish County PUD to Transfer Marysville Water Service in Sunnyside-Soper Hill Area
- Sewage Sludge Piling Up in Albany, Three Years after Treatment Plant Upgrade
- Washington State’s Legacy Biomass Law Takes Effect
- CEO Says Vestas Learning to Live with Low Growth
- How to Survive the Solar Inverter Shake-Out
- Six Ways Software Rules the Clean Power Economy
- Clean & Green: Replacing Your Old Showerhead is a Double Win
- Amazon Starts Selling Nest Learning Thermostat, Also
- Ontario Failing to Live Up to Its Energy Conservation Promises: Watchdog
- Embattled Climate Expert Back at Pacific Institute
- U-S Cities Trail Latin America in Climate Change Efforts
- Eco-Friendly Vehicles Draining State Road Repair Budgets
- Electric Car Fuel Savings at a Glance
- Check Out This 100-Year-Old Electric Car
- Pie in the Sky: Aluminum Eyed as Possible Future Fuel Source
- Major Broadband Network Expansion to Connect Millions of Ohioans
- Big Data Needs May Create Thousands of Tech Jobs
- The FCC Noses Under the Broadband Internet Tent
- Cable, Telecoms See Data Caps as Future Success
- Oregon No. 8 for Social Media Job Postings
- Electric Utilities Consider the Cloud
- Cassidy: Google, Dropbox, iCloud - Silicon Valley Has Created My Own Personal Cloud of Confusion
- Oil Shortage Was Staged, Analyst Says: State’s Refiners Cut Production after Fire, Pocketed Millions
- Gas Prices Down Nearly 11 Cents This Week
- Oil Price Tumbles on Weak Economy
- Mediation Set in Belfair Water Manager Severance Dispute
- Five Staffers on Highway 520 Project Being Suspended Without Pay after Alcohol Investigation
- Weather Center: 50 Percent Chance of El Nino Later this Year
- U-S Smashes Record for Hottest Spring Ever
- Sonics Fans Vow to Reclaim History from Oklahoma City
WORD OF THE DAY
Dalliance
• \DAH-lee-unts\ • Noun - An act of dallying: as a: play; especially: amorous
play b: frivolous action: trifling
Head
in hands, the local politician knew his career was over. His youthful
indiscretions, fast cars, fast women, rock and roll music and cheap booze, were
nothing like his latest blow: a brief dalliance with Zoroastrianism, which in
his “Bible Belt” small town was frowned, looked down, and jumped upon.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
California Blackouts Possible this Summer with Nuke
Plant Offline (Associated Press)
U-S Nuclear Output Falls after Indian Point 2 in New
York Shuts Down – See notes about Columbia Generating Station (Bloomberg News)
Moving From Square One on Nuclear Waste (NY Times)
Money Spent on Infrastructure Creates Jobs Now,
Invests in the Future “...Grand Coulee Dam & the Columbia Basin Project
changed the region. Variations on those themes around the country helped the
nation recover & prosper…” (Seattle Times)
Coal Down, Clean Tech Up in Electric Utility Survey
(Grist Online)
States Ranked on Energy Costs - SBE Council
Releases “Energy Cost Index 2012” (Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Council)
Energy Cost Index 2012: Ranking the States (Small
Business & Entrepreneurship Council – Links to PDF File)
Smart Meters Steadily Spread Across United States
(Earth Techling)
“Stop Smart Meters” Sample Letter to Utility (Stop
Smart Meters – This is really worth a read.)
Oregon - City Utility Spending Under Fire - Critics
charge Forest Grove is violating law that restricts funds (Forest Grove
News-Times, OR)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Rise in Sea Lion Shootings Sparks Federal Investigation
(Longview Daily News, WA)
Tacoma Power’s Salkum Hatchery Visitor Center
Opens (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
U-S
Braces for Tsunami Debris, But Impact Unclear (Associated Press)
Phosphorus
Clean-Up Mandate Could Merge Chelan PUD, Cashmere Sewer Systems (Wenatchee
World, WA)
Mayor
Signs Key Agreement with Snohomish County PUD to Transfer Marysville Water
Service in Sunnyside-Soper Hill Area (Lake Stevens Journal, WA)
Sewage
Sludge Piling Up in Albany, Three Years after Treatment Plant Upgrade (Associated
Press)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Washington
State’s Legacy Biomass Law Takes Effect (KBKW Radio,
Aberdeen, WA)
CEO
Says Vestas Learning to Live with Low Growth (Reuters)
How
to Survive the Solar Inverter Shake-Out (Forbes Magazine)
Six
Ways Software Rules the Clean Power Economy (GigaOM)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Clean & Green: Replacing Your Old Showerhead is
a Double Win (Christian Science Monitor)
Amazon Starts Selling Nest Learning Thermostat, Also
(GigaOM)
Ontario Failing to Live Up to Its Energy
Conservation Promises: Watchdog (Winnipeg Free Press, Ontario)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Embattled
Climate Expert Back at Pacific Institute (SF Chronicle)
U-S
Cities Trail Latin America in Climate Change Efforts (USA Today)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Eco-Friendly
Vehicles Draining State Road Repair Budgets (U-S News & World Report)
Electric
Car Fuel Savings at a Glance (Associated Press)
Check
Out This 100-Year-Old Electric Car (Grist Online)
Pie
in the Sky: Aluminum Eyed as Possible Future Fuel Source (Christian Science Monitor – Now, isn’t this ironic…)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Major Broadband Network Expansion to Connect
Millions of Ohioans (Cincinnati Business Courier, OH)
Big Data Needs May Create Thousands of Tech Jobs (National
Public Radio)
The FCC Noses Under the Broadband Internet Tent
(Forbes Magazine)
Cable, Telecoms See Data Caps as Future Success (Washington
Post)
Oregon No. 8 for Social Media Job Postings (Portland
Business Journal, OR)
Electric Utilities Consider the Cloud (Electric
Light & Power)
Cassidy: Google, Dropbox, iCloud - Silicon Valley Has
Created My Own Personal Cloud of Confusion (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
GENERAL NEWS
Oil Shortage Was Staged, Analyst Says: State’s Refiners
Cut Production after Fire, Pocketed Millions (Wenatchee World, WA)
Gas Prices Down Nearly 11 Cents This Week (News
Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Oil Price Tumbles on Weak Economy (Associated Press)
Mediation Set in Belfair Water Manager Severance
Dispute (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Five Staffers on Highway 520 Project Being
Suspended Without Pay after Alcohol Investigation (Seattle Times)
Weather Center: 50 Percent Chance of El Nino Later
this Year (Reuters)
U-S Smashes Record for Hottest Spring Ever (Associated
Press)
Sonics Fans Vow to Reclaim History from Oklahoma
City (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle)
DIVERSIONS
Orvillecopter, the Stuffed Helicopter Cat, Sparks
Global Outrage
Kidnapping Call Leads Police to Sneaky Lovers
Word Misspelled on Maryland High School’s Diplomas
Texting
Idaho Driver Hits Parked Patrol Car
Bob
Welch Dies: Former Fleetwood Mac Guitarist, ‘Ebony Eyes’ Singer
SONG OF THE DAY
Bob
Welch - Precious Love
