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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Manipulation of California Energy Market Gives
Consumers a Jolt (Los Angeles Times, CA)
Electric
Co-ops Rally against Obama DOE Plan for Power Marketing Administrations (The
Hill, Washington, DC)
Salmon Spotted Upstream of Breached Condit Dam
Site on White Salmon River (Associated Press)
The
$55 Million Question: Will Port Townsend Paper's Cogeneration Turn a Profit?
(Port Townsend Leader, WA)
Washington State Hospitals Well Represented in 2012
“Most Wired” Hospital Report (Hospitals and Health Networks Magazine)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Manipulation of California Energy Market Gives Consumers a Jolt
- Electric Co-ops Rally against Obama DOE Plan for Power Marketing Administrations
- Mason County PUD 3 Reaches 33 Consecutive Years of State Audits with No Findings
- Editorial – Thurston County Voters Need Accurate, Complete Information on Public Power
- Eugene Water & Electric Board Survey: Customers Want Reliable Service
- Customers Rank Seattle City Light Among the Best U-S Utilities
- Oregon Tech Renewable Energy Engineering Students Bring Electricity to Tanzanian Villages
- July 24 – Planned Power Outage for Strong Road Area
- Clark Public Utilities Board Race Draws Crowded Field
- Pacific Gas & Electric Ads - Utility 'Lost Its Way'
- CEO Switch: Duke Energy Seeks Delay in Testimony
- U-S Senators Spar with Power Industry: Is It Safe From Cyberattack?
- Few Options for Replacing Copper
- Op/Ed - Tree Down: The Ethics of Being a Neighbor
- Salmon Spotted Upstream of Breached Condit Dam Site on White Salmon River
- Get Eye to Eye with Thousands of Salmon a Day at Rocky Reach Dam
- Alaskan Salmon Evolve Along With the Climate
- Pacific Northwest Lawmakers Say Tsunami Debris Grants Not Enough
- Poll Finds Water Quality Pacific Northwest Residents Top Concern
- Illegal Aquatic Weed Treatment Fuels Controversy at Haven Lake in North Mason
- 19th District Legislators Support Potential Dam on Chehalis River
- Washougal Company Lands Toutle River Spillway Contract
- Vancouver Island Sewage Project Overruns, If Any, Will Fall to Local Taxpayers
- The $55 Million Question: Will Port Townsend Paper's Cogeneration Turn a Profit?
- Science Group Grades Sacramento-Area Utilities on Clean Energy
- The Potential of Plug-N-Play Solar
- Renewable Energy Corporation Receives Global Customer Value Enhancement Award from Frost & Sullivan for Solar Industry
- Utilities Embracing Smart Thermostats to Help Manage Grids
- South Carolina Rural Energy Efficiency Effort Goes National
- The Air Conditioner: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of 110 Years Beating the Heat
- U-S Leads the World in Cutting CO2 Emissions - So Why Aren’t We Talking About It?
- Editorial - Not So Fast on Blaming Global Warming
- Poor Corn Crop Will Have Major Impact on Ethanol Market
- Washington State Hospitals Well Represented in 2012 “Most Wired” Hospital Report
- Google Fiber to Launch Next Week
- Is Broadband Must-Have Resource for Economic Recovery?
- Meet the Company Building AOL’s Micro Data Centers
- Five Fun Data Center Facts from the Uptime Institute
- Washington State to Unveil Voter Registration on Facebook
- Connie Schultz Hopes for ‘Teaching Moment’ on Conservative Blogger’s Failed Gotcha
- Former Mason County Fish Hatchery Manager Sentenced for Voyeurism
- Highway 3 Slide Repairs near Shelton Begin Monday
- Shell: An Embarrassing Start to Arctic Drilling
- Potlatch State Park Plays Host to ShellFest 2012
- NASA's Mars Rover May Be in for Blind Landing
- Lawn Chair Balloonists Recount Harrowing Flight over Oregon
WORD OF THE DAY
Calliope • \kuh-LIE-uh-pee\ • Noun - 1: the Greek
Muse of heroic poetry 2: a keyboard musical instrument resembling an organ and
consisting of a series of whistles sounded by steam or compressed air.
Calliope was in a funk. Resting her chin atop her
shapely hands, she looked down from the heavens upon a scene of utter chaos: a
musician madly hammering away at the keys of a steam-powered organ making the
most unlikely sounds. “Great,” she opined. “If they were going to name an
instrument after me, couldn’t they have made is something really cool, like a
ukulele?”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Manipulation of California Energy Market Gives
Consumers a Jolt (Los Angeles Times, CA)
Electric
Co-ops Rally against Obama DOE Plan for Power Marketing Administrations (The
Hill, Washington, DC)
Mason County PUD 3 Reaches 33 Consecutive Years of
State Audits with No Findings (Mason County PUD No. 3)
Editorial – Thurston County Voters Need Accurate,
Complete Information on Public Power (Olympian, WA)
Eugene Water & Electric Board Survey: Customers
Want Reliable Service - Results indicate ratepayers favor a balanced approach
to solving a budget crunch (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
Customers Rank Seattle City Light Among the Best U-S
Utilities (Electric Energy Online)
Oregon Tech Renewable Energy Engineering Students
Bring Electricity to Tanzanian Villages (Oregon Tech)
July 24 – Planned Power Outage for Strong Road Area
(Mason County PUD No. 3)
Clark Public Utilities Board Race Draws Crowded
Field (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Pacific Gas & Electric Ads - Utility 'Lost Its
Way' (SF Chronicle, CA)
CEO Switch: Duke Energy Seeks Delay in Testimony (Associated
Press)
U-S Senators Spar with Power Industry: Is It Safe
From Cyberattack? (Christian Science Monitor)
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0717/Senators-spar-with-power-industry-Is-it-safe-from-cyberattack
Few Options for Replacing Copper (Electric Co-op
Today)
Op/Ed - Tree Down: The Ethics of Being a Neighbor (Washington
Post)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Salmon Spotted Upstream of Breached Condit Dam
Site on White Salmon River (Associated Press)
Get Eye to Eye with Thousands of Salmon a Day at
Rocky Reach Dam (North Central Washington TV)
Alaskan Salmon Evolve Along With the Climate (NY
Times)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Pacific
Northwest Lawmakers Say Tsunami Debris Grants Not Enough (Northwest Public
Radio)
Poll
Finds Water Quality Pacific Northwest Residents Top Concern (Northwest Public
Radio)
Illegal
Aquatic Weed Treatment Fuels Controversy at Haven Lake in North Mason (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
19th
District Legislators Support Potential Dam on Chehalis River (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)
Washougal
Company Lands Toutle River Spillway Contract (Longview Daily News, WA)
Vancouver
Island Sewage Project Overruns, If Any, Will Fall to Local Taxpayers (Victoria
Times Colonist, BC)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
The
$55 Million Question: Will Port Townsend Paper's Cogeneration Turn a Profit?
(Port Townsend Leader, WA)
Science
Group Grades Sacramento-Area Utilities on Clean Energy (Sacramento Bee, CA)
The
Potential of Plug-N-Play Solar (GigaOM)
Renewable
Energy Corporation Receives Global Customer Value Enhancement Award from Frost
& Sullivan for Solar Industry (MarketWatch)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Utilities Embracing Smart Thermostats to Help
Manage Grids (GigaOM)
South Carolina Rural Energy Efficiency Effort Goes
National (Associated Press)
The Air Conditioner: The Good, the Bad & the
Ugly of 110 Years Beating the Heat (Washington Post)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
U-S
Leads the World in Cutting CO2 Emissions - So Why Aren’t We Talking About It? (Grist Online)
Editorial
- Not So Fast on Blaming Global Warming (Washington
Post)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Poor
Corn Crop Will Have Major Impact on Ethanol Market (The Energy Collective)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Washington State Hospitals Well Represented in 2012
“Most Wired” Hospital Report (Hospitals and Health Networks Magazine)
Google Fiber to Launch Next Week (GigaOM)
Is Broadband Must-Have Resource for Economic
Recovery? (CNBC)
Meet the Company Building AOL’s Micro Data Centers (GigaOM)
Five Fun Data Center Facts from the Uptime
Institute (GigaOM)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State to Unveil Voter Registration on
Facebook (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Connie Schultz Hopes for ‘Teaching Moment’ on
Conservative Blogger’s Failed Gotcha (Washington Post)
GENERAL NEWS
Former Mason County Fish Hatchery Manager Sentenced
for Voyeurism (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Highway 3 Slide Repairs near Shelton Begin Monday
(Mason Web-TV, Shelton, WA)
Shell: An Embarrassing Start to Arctic Drilling
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2012/07/17/shell-an-embarrassing-start-to-arctic-drilling/
Potlatch State Park Plays Host to ShellFest 2012 (KBKW
Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
NASA's Mars Rover May Be in for Blind Landing (Reuters)
Lawn
Chair Balloonists Recount Harrowing Flight over Oregon (Associated Press)
DIVERSIONS
Mayor of Alaska Village Walks on Four Paws
Darth Vader Interviews 12-Year-Old Anakin (Note:
There may be some PG-13 content in this video)
NYC Bus Driver Catches Girl Who Fell from
Third-Story Window
Graphic Novel Stars Nicola Tesla, Inventor of AC
Power & An Oddball Physicist
SONG OF THE DAY
Delta
Queen Calliope Music Playoff
