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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Alaskans Wonder Where the King Salmon Have Gone
(Associated Press)
Snohomish
PUD Geothermal Energy Project a Bust after Drilling Hits Bedrock (Everett
Herald, WA)
Union Resident Drowns Friday in Hood Canal (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
Op/Ed - Mason County PUD 1 & PUD 3 Oppose
Washington, DC Tinkering with Pacific Northwest Energy System (Mason County PUD
No. 3)
Union Resident Drowns Friday in Hood Canal (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Op/Ed - Mason County PUD 1 & PUD 3 Oppose Washington, DC Tinkering with Pacific Northwest Energy System
- Editorial - Montanans Can't Be Guinea Pigs for Energy Plans
- The Future of the Grid: Why Modernizing our Nation's Aging Grid is Critical
- Editorial - Hydropower: Tapping Our Local Energy
- Maryland - PSC Rejects Most of Pepco Rate Increase Request - Cites the company's history of substandard performance
- Hot Weather=Hot Profits - American Electric Power Profit Rises for Second Quarter
- Texas Struggles to Keep Up with Power Demand
- Electric Bill Prepay Eases Summer Bill Shock
- We're Headed to $8 Natural Gas
- U-S Utilities May Return to Coal as Natural Gas Prices Rise
- Pedernales Co-op Loses Bid to Collect $250,000 from Insurer over Thefts by Former General Manager
- NRG Energy to Buy GenOn in $1.7 Billion Stock Deal
- Improper Installation? - Judge Nixes Lawsuit over Soldier's Electrocution in Iraq
- Alaskans Wonder Where the King Salmon Have Gone
- 2011 Avian Predation Report: Cormorants Consume 20 Million Salmonids, Terns Take 4.8 Million
- Skeptical Idaho Ranchers Mark Salmon Project's 20th Year
- Idaho, Tribe Break Ground on New Sockeye Hatchery
- Klamath River - Tea Party Blocks Pact to Restore a West Coast River
- Twelve-Foot Sturgeon Caught near Chilliwack Weighed 1,100 Pounds
- Solution for Plight of Columbia River Basin Irrigators May be Near
- Snohomish PUD Geothermal Energy Project a Bust after Drilling Hits Bedrock
- Washington State Board Forgives Portion of Alternative Energy Loan to Grays Harbor PUD
- Maine Company Leading Way as Tidal Energy Comes of Age
- Five Smart Energy Projects with Big Potential
- Bremerton’s Distributed Energy Management: Cleantech Open 2012 Semifinalist
- Washington State, Environmentalists Clash over Cutting Refineries' Greenhouse Gases
- Op/Ed - Why We Need a National Carbon Fee & Dividend
- Widespread Drought Is Likely to Worsen
- The Greenest Commercial Building on Earth Rises in Seattle
- 'Green' Home Brings in Nine Percent More Green, California Study Finds
- Report Highlights Clean Energy Might of Small Cities
- California is Nation's Key Player in Electric Vehicle Sales & Development
- Faraday Cage? Wi-Fi Lawsuit against Portland Public Schools Dismissed by Federal Judge
- Complacent Telcos Deliver Americans Third Rate Broadband Service at High Prices
- Low Income Residents Want to Share Google Fiber - But Google Turns Down Proposal
- Crowded Field Seeks to Oust Washington State’s Lt. Gov. Owen
- Washington State’s Sixth District House Seat: Candidates Reveal Strategies for Finding Consensus
- Embattled Pacific Mayor: 'It's Mutiny. It's Mutiny.'
- Hidden California State Parks Funds Spark Outrage
- Union Resident Drowns Friday in Hood Canal
- NCAA Fines Penn State $60 Million, Strips Victories
- Chief Joseph War Shirt Auctions for $877,500
- Fight over Grays Harbor County Superior Court Security Has Cost $277,000
- We’re All Clowns Today - Obituary: "J.P. Patches," Seattle's Beloved TV Clown
WORD OF THE DAY
Welkin
• \WELL-kin\ • Noun - 1a: the vault of the sky: firmament b: heaven 2: the
upper atmosphere
“Your
praises will reach the welkin for sure, my lord,” whined the simpering jester
to his imposing, whiskered king. “Foregoing hosiery in the hot weather will
surely catch on with the gentry.” “Forsooth, get ready for a hairy summer,” the
jester murmured to himself.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Op/Ed - Mason County PUD 1 & PUD 3 Oppose
Washington, DC Tinkering with Pacific Northwest Energy System (Mason County PUD
No. 3)
Editorial - Montanans Can't Be Guinea Pigs for Energy
Plans (Great Falls Tribune, MT)
The Future of the Grid: Why Modernizing our
Nation's Aging Grid is Critical (Natural Resources Defense Council)
Editorial - Hydropower: Tapping Our Local Energy
(Baker City Herald, OR)
Maryland - PSC Rejects Most of Pepco Rate Increase
Request - Cites the company's history of substandard performance (WTOP Radio,
Washington, DC)
http://www.wtop.com/46/2952841/PSC-rejects-most-of-Pepco-rate-increase
http://www.wtop.com/46/2952841/PSC-rejects-most-of-Pepco-rate-increase
Hot Weather=Hot Profits - American Electric Power
Profit Rises for Second Quarter (Bloomberg News)
Texas Struggles to Keep Up with Power Demand
(KEYE-TV, Austin, TX)
Electric Bill Prepay Eases Summer Bill Shock
(Electric Co-op Today)
We're Headed to $8 Natural Gas (Forbes Magazine)
U-S Utilities May Return to Coal as Natural Gas
Prices Rise (CNBC)
Pedernales Co-op Loses Bid to Collect $250,000 from
Insurer over Thefts by Former General Manager (Austin American-Statesman, TX)
NRG Energy to Buy GenOn in $1.7 Billion Stock Deal (Associated
Press)
Improper Installation? - Judge Nixes Lawsuit over
Soldier's Electrocution in Iraq (Courthouse News Service)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Alaskans Wonder Where the King Salmon Have Gone (Associated
Press)
2011 Avian Predation Report: Cormorants Consume
20 Million Salmonids, Terns Take 4.8 Million (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Skeptical Idaho Ranchers Mark Salmon Project's
20th Year (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
Idaho, Tribe Break Ground on New Sockeye Hatchery
(Associated Press)
Klamath River - Tea Party Blocks Pact to Restore
a West Coast River (NY Times)
Twelve-Foot Sturgeon Caught near Chilliwack
Weighed 1,100 Pounds (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Solution
for Plight of Columbia River Basin Irrigators May be Near (Columbia Basin
Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Snohomish
PUD Geothermal Energy Project a Bust after Drilling Hits Bedrock (Everett
Herald, WA)
Washington
State Board Forgives Portion of Alternative Energy Loan to Grays Harbor PUD (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)
Maine
Company Leading Way as Tidal Energy Comes of Age (Portland Press-Herald, ME)
Five
Smart Energy Projects with Big Potential (GigaOM)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Bremerton’s Distributed Energy Management:
Cleantech Open 2012 Semifinalist (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Washington
State, Environmentalists Clash over Cutting Refineries' Greenhouse Gases (Seattle Times)
Op/Ed
- Why We Need a National Carbon Fee & Dividend (Seattle Times)
Widespread
Drought Is Likely to Worsen (NY Times)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
The
Greenest Commercial Building on Earth Rises in Seattle (Crosscut Seattle)
http://crosscut.com/2012/07/23/architecture/109684/greenest-commercial-building-earth-rises-seattle/
'Green'
Home Brings in Nine Percent More Green, California Study Finds (Seattle Times)
Report
Highlights Clean Energy Might of Small Cities (Sustainable
Business Oregon)
California
is Nation's Key Player in Electric Vehicle Sales & Development (Sacramento Bee, CA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Faraday Cage? Wi-Fi Lawsuit against Portland Public
Schools Dismissed by Federal Judge (Oregonian, Portland)
Complacent Telcos Deliver Americans Third Rate
Broadband Service at High Prices (Forbes Magazine)
Low Income Residents Want to Share Google Fiber - But
Google Turns Down Proposal (Broadband Reports)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Crowded Field Seeks to Oust Washington State’s Lt.
Gov. Owen (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018743210_apwalieutenantgovernor4thldwritethru.html
Washington State’s Sixth District House Seat:
Candidates Reveal Strategies for Finding Consensus (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Embattled Pacific Mayor: 'It's Mutiny. It's
Mutiny.' (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
Hidden California State Parks Funds Spark Outrage (Sacramento
Bee, CA)
GENERAL NEWS
Union Resident Drowns Friday in Hood Canal (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
NCAA Fines Penn State $60 Million, Strips Victories
(Associated Press)
Chief Joseph War Shirt Auctions for $877,500 (Associated
Press)
Fight over Grays Harbor County Superior Court
Security Has Cost $277,000 (Associated Press)
We’re All Clowns Today - Obituary: "J.P.
Patches," Seattle's Beloved TV Clown (Seattle Times)
DIVERSIONS
Space Smells Like Seared Steak, Hot Metal,
Astronauts Report
Tony Robbins Event Leaves 21 Burned after They Walk
on Hot Coals
New Corporate Bonding Tactic: Juice Cleanse - Because
nothing says 'team spirit' like subsisting on 1,200 calories!
Mom Hacks into School Computer System, Changes Her
Kids’ Grades
SONG OF THE DAY
Brook
Adams – Walkin’ on Water
