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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Grant PUD Board Names Webb Interim General Manager
(Wenatchee World, WA)
Texas
- Austin's $2.3 Billion Biomass Deal No Longer Sweet (Sustainable Business Oregon)
Four County Commissions Share Concerns over
Oregon Gillnet Ban Initiative (Coast River Business Journal, Astoria, OR)
Study:
Coastal Oregon Waters Slightly Caffeinated (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Seattle Divvies Up Network, Ending Big Broadband
Plan (Seattle Times)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Grant PUD Board Names Webb Interim General Manager
- Douglas & Grant PUD Crews Head to Wind-Whipped Ferry County to Help
- Internal Affairs: At Least Pacific Gas & Electric Customers Aren't Paying for Those Pricey Commercials
- California - Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Middle Fork American River Hydroelectric Project
- Four County Commissions Share Concerns over Oregon Gillnet Ban Initiative
- Op/Ed - Gill-Netting Initiative: Oregon Voters Get Opportunity to Protect Wildlife
- Baker Lake Sockeye Fishery a Mixed Bag of Success
- Bird Watchers - ODFW to Launch Unmanned Drone on Oregon Coast
- Three Northwest States Launch Feral Pig Campaign
- Washington State Shellfish at Risk
- Odd-Colored Lobsters Baffle Scientists, Fisherman
- Study: Coastal Oregon Waters Slightly Caffeinated
- Cruise Ships Must Cut Air Pollution, Including on Seattle-Alaska Sailings
- Tsunami Debris Off WA Coast May be Japanese Barge
- Texas - Austin's $2.3 Billion Biomass Deal No Longer Sweet
- Nova Scotia Power Customers Could Face Biomass Bill
- Offshore Wind Farms Will be Encouraged in Tracts Along the East Coast
- Editorial – The Very Serious People of Energy
- Energy Conservation Turns to Bragging Rights
- Eight Ways to Stop Wasting Money & Energy
- Op/Ed - Biofuel Crops Are a Bad Idea
- Seattle Divvies Up Network, Ending Big Broadband Plan
- FairPoint to Extend Broadband to 53 Vermont Towns
- Is a Computer Worm Causing Iranian Nuclear Facilities to Blast AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck’ At Night?
- Washington State Employees’ Union Files Grievance over Health Account
- Jay Inslee, Candidate for WA Governor, Chats with Grist about Clean Energy & Coal Ports
- Washington State DOC Sued over 2009 Suicide at Shelton Prison
- Shelton Burger King Stabbing Update
- Trapped Horse Rescued from Well near Shelton
- Governor Declares Emergency in 16 Washington State Counties over Storm Damage
- Spokane Newspaper to Comply with Anonymous Comment Ruling
- Tenino Mayor Asks Councilman to Step Down over $140,000 Bill
- Sayonara: Suzuki Helps Yankees Beat Mariners
WORD OF THE DAY
Contretemps • \KONT-truh-tawm\ • Noun - 1: an
inopportune or embarrassing occurrence or situation 2: dispute, argument
What Abernathy viewed as a minor contretemps was
seen as a very big deal on the professional tiddlywinks circuit. “Using a metal
chip to flip the tokens into the cup,’ huffed Bradbury J. Sykes – who
emphasized his diatribe by thumping his small, sweaty fist on the felt covered
table, the multi colored chips bouncing like so much popcorn - “Why it’s an
outrage…an outrage I tell you.”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Grant PUD Board Names Webb Interim General Manager (Wenatchee
World, WA)
Douglas & Grant PUD Crews Head to Wind-Whipped
Ferry County to Help (Wenatchee World, WA)
Internal Affairs: At Least Pacific Gas &
Electric Customers Aren't Paying for Those Pricey Commercials (San Jose Mercury
News, CA)
California - Draft Environmental Impact Statement
for the Middle Fork American River Hydroelectric Project (Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Four County Commissions Share Concerns over Oregon
Gillnet Ban Initiative (Coast River Business Journal, Astoria, OR)
Op/Ed - Gill-Netting Initiative: Oregon Voters
Get Opportunity to Protect Wildlife (Oregonian,
Portland)
Baker Lake Sockeye Fishery a Mixed Bag of Success;
The Topic of a State Meeting Later Today (Seattle Times)
Bird Watchers - ODFW to Launch Unmanned Drone on
Oregon Coast (Northwest Public Radio)
Three Northwest States Launch Feral Pig Campaign (Associated
Press)
Washington State Shellfish at Risk - A panel is
looking at how to respond to a new threat to the state's shellfish (Crosscut
Seattle)
Odd-Colored Lobsters Baffle Scientists, Fisherman
(Christian Science Monitor)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Study:
Coastal Oregon Waters Slightly Caffeinated (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Cruise
Ships Must Cut Air Pollution, Including on Seattle-Alaska Sailings (Seattle Times)
Tsunami Debris Off WA Coast May be Japanese Barge
(Associated Press)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Texas
- Austin's $2.3 Billion Biomass Deal No Longer Sweet (Sustainable Business Oregon)
Nova
Scotia Power Customers Could Face Biomass Bill (Halifax Chronicle Herald, NS)
Offshore
Wind Farms Will be Encouraged in Tracts Along the East Coast (Washington Post)
Editorial
– The Very Serious People of Energy (NY Times)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Energy Conservation Turns to Bragging Rights (Bend
Bulletin, OR)
Eight
Ways to Stop Wasting Money & Energy (U-S News & World Report)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Op/Ed
- Biofuel Crops Are a Bad Idea (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Seattle Divvies Up Network, Ending Big Broadband
Plan (Seattle Times)
FairPoint to Extend Broadband to 53 Vermont Towns -
Broadband to reach unserved neighborhoods across Vermont (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Is a Computer Worm Causing Iranian Nuclear Facilities
to Blast AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck’ At Night? (Gawker)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Employees’ Union Files Grievance
over Health Account - Union says its due $17.7 million (Olympian, WA)
Jay Inslee, Candidate for WA Governor, Chats with
Grist about Clean Energy & Coal Ports (Grist Online)
GENERAL NEWS
Washington State DOC Sued over 2009 Suicide at
Shelton Prison (Olympian, WA)
Shelton Burger King Stabbing Update (KMAS Radio,
Shelton, WA)
Trapped Horse Rescued from Well near Shelton (KOMO-TV,
Seattle)
Governor Declares Emergency in 16 Washington State
Counties over Storm Damage (Associated Press)
Spokane Newspaper to Comply with Anonymous Comment
Ruling (Associated Press)
Tenino Mayor Asks Councilman to Step Down over $140,000
Bill (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
Sayonara: Suzuki Helps Yankees Beat Mariners (Associated
Press)
DIVERSIONS
Sally Ride, First U-S Woman in Space, Dies at 61
A Guy Started a Fire on a Nuclear Submarine to
Leave Work Early
Navy Radio Might Be Crippling Connecticut Garage
Doors
Internet Flowchart Explains Why You Never Get
Anything Done
SONG OF THE DAY
Kate
Bush - Rocket Man
