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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
As Utility Crews Scramble, 1.4 Million Remain
without Power after Storm (Christian Science Monitor)
Bonneville Power Administration, Central Washington
Utilities to Build $14 Million Power Line (Associated Press)
Rate Hikes in Store for Seattle City Light
Customers under Six-Year Plan (KING-TV, Seattle)
Global
Warming No Longer Americans’ Top Environmental Concern, Poll Finds (Washington Post)
Clackamas
River Water Ratepayers Suffer Consequence of Board Members’ Behavior (Oregonian, Portland)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Bonneville Power Administration, Central Washington Utilities to Build $14 Million Power Line
- Rate Hikes in Store for Seattle City Light Customers under Six-Year Plan
- Chelan PUD Approves 10-Year Plan for Power Supply - Also Votes to Withdraw from NoaNet
- Avista Wants to Drop Natural Gas Rebates
- California – Pacific Gas & Electric Seeks More Than $2 Billion Rate Increase
- Pacific Gas & Electric’s California Rate Plan Would Cost 15.6% More Typically
- Chief Engineers Reunite, Reminisce For Bonneville Power Administration’s 75th Anniversary
- Potential Poltergeist - Natural Gas Supplies under Cemeteries Raises Money, Moral Questions
- As Utility Crews Scramble, 1.4 Million Remain without Power after Storm
- Why Is It Taking So Long to Get Power Back? Actually, It’s Not
- How the ‘Derecho’ Storm Came to be Such A Surprise to the Mid-Atlantic
- Editorial - Powerful Storm Exposes Lack of Disaster Preparedness
- Editorial - Have You Given a Hug to Your Local Utility Worker Today?
- Oregon Ban on Gillnetting Appears Headed to November Ballot
- Conservationists Sue over White Salmon River-Area Proposal
- Oregon Suspends Logging amid Marbled Murrelet Lawsuit
- Clackamas River Water Ratepayers Suffer Consequence of Board Members’ Behavior
- Regional Water Planning - Jefferson PUD Happy over Ruling by Appellate Court
- City of Shelton to Dredge Downtown Creeks
- Aberdeen Biomass Hums Along without Controversy
- Second Air Monitoring Station for Port Angeles Unlikely, State Agency Says
- Snohomish County PUD’s Planet Power Supports Six New Solar & School Projects
- Rural Oregon Businesses Win Grants for Renewable Energy Projects
- U-S Completes Environmental Review for Largest Wind Farm
- Massachusetts, Rhode Island Wind Area Closer to Development
- Why wind farms sometimes pay to get rid of power
- California - Oroville Swapping Street Lights for Energy-Saving LEDs
- Oregon - LaGrande School District Aims to Lower Its Energy Bills
- IBM Energy Efficiency Program Saves $43 Million
- An Illuminating Article – Finding Lighting Alternatives to Incandescent Bulbs
- Global Warming No Longer Americans’ Top Environmental Concern, Poll Finds
- This U-S Summer is ‘What Global Warming Looks Like’
- Congressional Budget Office - Carbon Capture Efforts Aren’t Going So Well
- Green Crusader Accused of Making Stuff Up
- U-S Lawmakers Voice Concern over Cloud-Computing Outages from Eastern Storm
- Wireless Carriers’ Disaster Plans Tested After Eastern U-S Storm
- Internet Service Providers Recover from Weekend Storm
- Is it Time for More Off-Grid Options for Data Centers?
- Co-ops Offer Assistance on Broadband
- United Kingdom - Broadband Deal Puts Country Areas in Line for Economic Boom
- City of Shelton to Split Planning & Public Works
- Washington State Targets Bugs to Avoid Colorado-Like Wildfire Disaster
- Coal Train Derails in Columbia River Gorge
- Hall Equities Submits Shelton Hills Application
- Columbia River Bridge Planners Sued Over Height
- Conservation Renews Portraits of Founding Fathers
WORD OF THE DAY
Volant
• \VOE-lunt\ • Adjective - 1: having the wings extended as if in flight - used
of a heraldic bird 2: flying or capable of flying 3: quick, nimble
Famous
last words of the backwoods flight enthusiast, his arms out flung like a volent
bird, feathers fluttering on his arms where he had pasted them in preparation
of this early morning experiment, his knees trembling at the edge of a steep
cliff: “Hey Buford, watch this!”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Bonneville Power Administration, Central Washington
Utilities to Build $14 Million Power Line (Associated Press)
Rate Hikes in Store for Seattle City Light Customers
under Six-Year Plan (KING-TV, Seattle)
Chelan PUD Approves 10-Year Plan for Power Supply -
Also Votes to Withdraw from NoaNet (North Central Washington TV)
Avista Wants to Drop Natural Gas Rebates (Associated
Press)
California – Pacific Gas & Electric Seeks More
Than $2 Billion Rate Increase (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Pacific Gas & Electric’s California Rate Plan
Would Cost 15.6% More Typically (SF Chronicle, CA)
Chief Engineers Reunite, Reminisce For Bonneville
Power Administration’s 75th Anniversary (Bonneville Power
Administration)
Potential Poltergeist - Natural Gas Supplies under
Cemeteries Raises Money, Moral Questions (Associated Press)
PHOENIX RISING – EASTERN U-S STORM AFTERMATH
As Utility Crews Scramble, 1.4 Million Remain without
Power after Storm (Christian Science Monitor)
Why Is It Taking So Long to Get Power Back? Actually,
It’s Not (Christian Science Monitor)
How the ‘Derecho’ Storm Came to be Such A Surprise to
the Mid-Atlantic (Christian Science Monitor)
Editorial - Powerful Storm Exposes Lack of Disaster
Preparedness (Washington Post)
Editorial - Have You Given a Hug to Your Local
Utility Worker Today? (Staunton News Leader, VA)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Oregon Ban on Gillnetting Appears Headed to November
Ballot (Oregonian, Portland)
Conservationists Sue over White Salmon River-Area
Proposal (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Oregon Suspends Logging amid Marbled Murrelet
Lawsuit (Oregonian, Portland)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Clackamas
River Water Ratepayers Suffer Consequence of Board Members’ Behavior (Oregonian, Portland)
Regional
Water Planning - Jefferson PUD Happy over Ruling by Appellate Court (Peninsula
Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
City of Shelton to Dredge Downtown Creeks (Mason
Web TV, Shelton, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Aberdeen
Biomass Hums Along without Controversy - Sales of lumber is down; sale of
electricity is up (Port Townsend Leader, WA)
Second
Air Monitoring Station for Port Angeles Unlikely, State Agency Says (Peninsula
Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Snohomish
County PUD’s Planet Power Supports Six New Solar & School Projects (Edmonds
Beacon, WA)
Rural
Oregon Businesses Win Grants for Renewable Energy Projects (Oregonian, Portland)
U-S
Completes Environmental Review for Largest Wind Farm (Bloomberg News)
Massachusetts,
Rhode Island Wind Area Closer to Development (Associated Press)
Why
wind farms sometimes pay to get rid of power (Midwest Energy News)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
California - Oroville Swapping Street Lights for
Energy-Saving LEDs (Oroville Mercury Register, CA)
Oregon - LaGrande School District Aims to Lower Its
Energy Bills (LaGrande Observer, OR)
IBM energy efficiency program saves $43 million
(Electric Light & Power)
An Illuminating Article – Finding Lighting
Alternatives to Incandescent Bulbs (Clean Tech Blog)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Global
Warming No Longer Americans’ Top Environmental Concern, Poll Finds (Washington Post)
This
U-S Summer is ‘What Global Warming Looks Like’ (Associated Press)
Congressional
Budget Office - Carbon Capture Efforts Aren’t Going So Well (Washington Post)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Green
Crusader Accused of Making Stuff Up (Courthouse News Service)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
U-S Lawmakers Voice Concern over Cloud-Computing
Outages from Eastern Storm (Associated Press)
Wireless Carriers’ Disaster Plans Tested After Eastern
U-S Storm (USA Today)
Internet Service Providers Recover from Weekend
Storm - As Frontier Has Generators Stolen During Repair Efforts (Broadband
Reports)
Is it Time for More Off-Grid Options for Data
Centers? (GigaOM)
Co-ops Offer Assistance on Broadband (Electric
Co-op Today)
United Kingdom - Broadband Deal Puts Country Areas
in Line for Economic Boom (Yorkshire Post)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
City of Shelton to Split Planning & Public
Works (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Washington State Targets Bugs to Avoid Colorado-Like
Wildfire Disaster (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle)
Coal Train Derails in Columbia River Gorge (Associated
Press)
Hall Equities Submits Shelton Hills Application
(Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Columbia River Bridge Planners Sued Over Height (Associated
Press)
Conservation Renews Portraits of Founding Fathers (Associated
Press)
DIVERSIONS
Reports: Actor, Director Andy Griffith Has Died
Woman Engaged to Neighborhood Storms Seattle City
Council Meeting with Wedding Announcement
Olympia
Brewery Cherubs, Planter Removed as a Precaution
Talking
Urinal Cakes Target Drunk Drivers
SONG OF THE DAY
Sixty Years of Rock N’ Roll Summed Up in 100 Famous
Guitar Riffs – This is AWSOME!
