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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Report Says Bonneville Power Administration Vulnerable
to Cyber Intruders (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
Lightning-Caused Electrical Substation Damage
Causes Port Angeles Emergency, City Says (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles,
WA)
New
Wind Project Proposed for Oregon’s Morrow County (Oregonian,
Portland)
Inability
to Ink Land Deal for Belfair Sewer Project Skyrockets Cost for Mason County (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Lesser Known than Spotted Owl, Murrelet Impacting
Logging Too (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Report Says Bonneville Power Administration Vulnerable to Cyber Intruders
- Lightning-Caused Electrical Substation Damage Causes Port Angeles Emergency, City Says
- Relay Work Will Keep Juice Flowing from Grand Coulee Dam Power Plant
- Pacific Northwest Hydro Forced to Take a Dive for Wind
- U-S House Natural Resources Committee to Hold Pasco Field Hearing on ‘Saving Our Dams’ Legislation
- Idaho Power Plans Hearings on Proposed Power Line
- Judge Removes Anti-Coal Initiative from Whatcom County Ballot
- Dead Tree Starts Fire at Power Line in Chelan County
- JPMorgan Chase Denies Manipulating California's Electricity Market
- Federal Court Re-Energizes Fight for Nuclear-Waste Repository
- PUD 3 Offices to be Closed Midday Thursday
- Texas - Electric Crews Keeping Power On after Copper Thefts
- In India, As Much As 40% of Electricity is Not Paid For
- Energy Aid: U-S Releases $280 Million for Two Key Pakistan Dam Projects
- Lesser Known than Spotted Owl, Murrelet Impacting Logging Too
- Rabbits Ravage Seabird Populations on Destruction Island
- Dam Gone, Nature Rebuilds Elwha River Beach
- Editorial - Blaming Orcas for Cuts in California Farm Water is Silly
- Zoo-Raised Turtles Released to Protected Western Washington Ponds, Including Mason County
- Inability to Ink Land Deal for Belfair Sewer Project Skyrockets Cost for Mason County
- Clallam County Forum Tuesday on Carlsborg Sewer Cost
- Owners of Artificially Made Lake Chelan Property Await Fate in Court
- Replacing Water Meters to Cut Costs Across Texas
- New Wind Project Proposed for Oregon’s Morrow County
- Op/Ed - Idaho: Energy Future Rests in the Hands of Three Appointed Umpires
- Wind Energy Development Stalls in Transmission ‘Bottleneck’ of New Mexico
- Arizona - Solar-Project Hopes Dimmed by Gilbert Town Council
- Wal-Mart Winds Up Wind Power in California
- Wi-Fi Helps Appliances Think for Themselves
- NASA Scientist Ties Heat Waves to Global Warming
- Oregon - Eugene Buys Climate Change
- Eastern Montana Farmers' Ability to Manage Soil Key as Climate Changes
- Rising Sea Levels Seen As Threat to Vancouver, B-C
- Twenty Leaders in On-Site Renewable Energy Technology – Portland, OR on the List
- Massachusetts Utility Regulators OK Pilot Energy Program – Electric Cars as Batteries for the Grid
- Ending Blackouts, One Solar Lamp at a Time
- Google Moves Fast on Broadband Revolution
- You Can't Use Google's Broadband to Justify National Broadband
- California County Tries to Roll Out Wireless Broadband to Farms
- Apple Appears to Have Started Building Its Data Center Fuel Cell Project
- Mason County Ballots Due Tomorrow
- Man Drowns in Spencer Lake North of Shelton – Identity Not Released
- Don't Sweat It: Record Heat Ends in Western Washington, Giving Cooler Start to Week
- Well-Attended Potlatch Energizes Squaxin Island Tribal Members
- Troopers: Texting Aberdeen Driver Nearly Lost His Head in Crash
- Questions about Conflict of Interest after McCleary Firefighter's Arrest
- Mars Rover Curiosity Lands on the Red Planet
WORD OF THE DAY
Scarlet
Pimpernel - • \SCAR-lut – PIMP-per-nell\ • Noun - 1: a European pimpernel
(Anagallis arvensis) naturalized in North America and having scarlet, white, or
purplish flowers that close in cloudy weather 2: a person who rescues others
from mortal danger by smuggling them across a border.
See
“Leslie Howard,” The Scarlet Pimpernel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel_%281934_film%29
"We
seek him here, we seek him there
Those
Frenchies seek him everywhere!
Is
he in heaven? Or is he in hell?
That
demmed Elusive (Scarlet) Pimpernel?"
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Report Says Bonneville Power Administration Vulnerable
to Cyber Intruders (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
Lightning-Caused Electrical Substation Damage
Causes Port Angeles Emergency, City Says (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles,
WA)
Relay Work Will Keep Juice Flowing from Grand Coulee
Dam Power Plant (Bonneville Power Administration)
Pacific Northwest Hydro Forced to Take a Dive for
Wind (Forbes Magazine)
U-S House Natural Resources Committee to Hold Pasco
Field Hearing on ‘Saving Our Dams’ Legislation (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Idaho Power Plans Hearings on Proposed Power Line (Associated
Press)
Judge Removes Anti-Coal Initiative from Whatcom
County Ballot (Associated Press)
Dead Tree Starts Fire at Power Line in Chelan
County (North Central Washington TV)
JPMorgan Chase Denies Manipulating California's Electricity
Market (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Federal Court Re-Energizes Fight for Nuclear-Waste
Repository (Seattle Times)
PUD 3 Offices to be Closed Midday Thursday (Mason
Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Texas - Electric Crews Keeping Power On after
Copper Thefts (KTRE-TV, Nacogdoches, TX)
In India, As Much As 40% of Electricity is Not Paid
For (USA Today)
Energy Aid: U-S Releases $280 Million for Two Key Pakistan
Dam Projects (International Herald Tribune)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Lesser Known than Spotted Owl, Murrelet Impacting
Logging Too (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Rabbits Ravage Seabird Populations on Destruction
Island (Seattle Times)
Dam Gone, Nature Rebuilds Elwha River Beach (Seattle
Times)
Editorial - Blaming Orcas for Cuts in California Farm
Water is Silly (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Zoo-Raised Turtles Released to Protected Western
Washington Ponds, Including Mason County (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Inability
to Ink Land Deal for Belfair Sewer Project Skyrockets Cost for Mason County (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Clallam
County Forum Tuesday on Carlsborg Sewer Cost (KONP
Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
Owners
of Artificially Made Lake Chelan Property Await Fate in Court (Seattle Times)
Replacing
Water Meters to Cut Costs Across Texas (NY Times)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
New
Wind Project Proposed for Oregon’s Morrow County (Oregonian,
Portland)
Op/Ed
- Idaho: Energy Future Rests in the Hands of Three Appointed Umpires (Idaho
Statesman, Boise)
Wind
Energy Development Stalls in Transmission ‘Bottleneck’ of New Mexico (Albuquerque
Journal, NM)
Arizona
- Solar-Project Hopes Dimmed by Gilbert Town Council (Arizona Republic,
PHoneix, AZ)
Wal-Mart
Winds Up Wind Power in California (Forbes Magazine)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Wi-Fi Helps Appliances Think for Themselves (Seattle
Times)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
NASA
Scientist Ties Heat Waves to Global Warming (USA Today)
Oregon
- Eugene Buys Climate Change: A telephone poll survey finds that the
vast majority of respondents say humans are causing global warming (Eugene
Register-Guard, OR)
Eastern
Montana Farmers' Ability to Manage Soil Key as Climate Changes (The Missoulian,
MT)
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/eastern-montana-farmers-ability-to-manage-soil-key-as-climate/article_4d700d28-df40-11e1-86a8-001a4bcf887a.html
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/eastern-montana-farmers-ability-to-manage-soil-key-as-climate/article_4d700d28-df40-11e1-86a8-001a4bcf887a.html
Rising
Sea Levels Seen As Threat to Vancouver, B-C - City Could Lose Neighborhoods,
Planner Warns (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Twenty
Leaders in On-Site Renewable Energy Technology – Portland, OR on the List (Smart
Planet)
Massachusetts
Utility Regulators OK Pilot Energy Program – Electric Cars as Batteries for the
Grid (Associated Press)
Ending
Blackouts, One Solar Lamp at a Time (NY Times)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Google Moves Fast on Broadband Revolution (The
Guardian, UK)
You Can't Use Google's Broadband to Justify
National Broadband (Forbes Magazine)
California County Tries to Roll Out Wireless
Broadband to Farms (Government Technology)
Apple Appears to Have Started Building Its Data
Center Fuel Cell Project (GigaOM)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Mason County Ballots Due Tomorrow (KMAS Radio,
Shelton, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Man Drowns in Spencer Lake North of Shelton –
Identity Not Released (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Don't Sweat It: Record Heat Ends in Western
Washington, Giving Cooler Start to Week (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Well-Attended Potlatch Energizes Squaxin Island Tribal
Members (Olympian, WA)
Troopers: Texting Aberdeen Driver Nearly Lost His
Head in Crash (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
Questions about Conflict of Interest after McCleary
Firefighter's Arrest (KING-TV, Seattle)
Mars Rover Curiosity Lands on the Red Planet (USA
Today)
DIVERSIONS
Vertical Skydiving World Record Broken in Illinois
It’s So Hot in Oklahoma that This Squirrel Melted
Long Island Man May Have Faked Own Drowning to
Claim Life Insurance
How to Keep Strangers from Sitting Next to You: A
Study
SONG OF THE DAY
The
Police – Don’t Stand So Close to Me
