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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
DOE Should Scrap PMA Proposals, Get a Fresh Start,
APPA Tells House Hearing (American Public Power Association)
Seattle City Light Seeks OK to Raise Rates -
Electricity rates would increase 10 percent, on average, over the next two
years (Seattle Times)
Company Proposes Natural Gas Fired Plant at
Hermiston to Back Up Wind Turbines (Associated Press)
People for Puget Sound to Disband (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Bonneville Dam Plans Re-Enactment of FDR Dedication
to Celebrate 75th Anniversary Saturday (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Bonneville Dam Plans Re-Enactment of FDR Dedication to Celebrate 75th Anniversary Saturday
- Seattle City Light Seeks OK to Raise Rates
- Oregon – Springfield Utility Board Expected to Approve Electricity Rate Hike Wednesday
- Thurston County Public-Power Answers Offered at Presentation
- Local Stakeholders Deeply Concerned Chu Memo Could Raise Prices on American Families, Small Businesses & Family Farms
- DOE Should Scrap PMA Proposals, Get a Fresh Start, APPA Tells House Hearing
- Portland General Electric Considering 15 New Power-Generation Projects
- Data Centers Could Suck Up Ten Percent of Northwestern Power by 2030
- Public Notice: PUD 3 Seeks Inclusion in Mason County’s Hazard Mitigation Plan for Natural Disasters through the Annex Process
- Mason County PUD 3 Commission Report for September 11, 2012
- Certain Nuclear Power Plants to Get a Pass on Testing
- Energy Infrastructure: Critical to Economic Momentum
- Plentiful Fall Chinook, Savvy Tribal Fishermen Hit the Columbia River for Peak of the Migration
- Scientists Release List of World’s 100 Most Threatened Species
- People for Puget Sound to Disband
- Dike Removal Project Brings Water to Willapa Bay Refuge
- Cowlitz County Joins Legal Fight against Washington State’s Stormwater Rules
- Brightwater Sewer Plant Lawsuit Goes to Trial; King County Seeking $155 Million
- Portland Officials Estimate Fluoride Project Will Raise Rates by Less Than One Percent Initially
- Company Proposes Natural Gas Fired Plant at Hermiston to Back Up Wind Turbines
- Chain Stores Said to Lead Firms in Use of Sun Power
- First Solar Signs New Deal with Pacific Gas & Electric on Power Plant
- Predicting Wave Power Could Double Marine-Based Energy
- Jobs on the Line as Wind Tax Credit Hangs in the Breeze
- Google Data: Voters May Not Care About Solyndra
- San Francisco Clean-Energy Program May Mean Profits for Shell Oil
- Oregon Sustainability Center Lives on as Potential Partner Steps Forward
- In Defense of the Chevy Volt: How Much Does It Really Cost GM?
- Stimulus-Funded Project Irks Some Rural Telecoms in Colorado
- Utah - Utopia Close to Running Out of Cash? Though Options Remain for Beleaguered Fiber Network
- GoDaddy Says Its Troubles Were Not Hacker-Related
- Verizon Told Stop Claiming Cable Broadband Is Slow
- An ‘Appearance Problem’ at Port of Seattle
- Surplus Campaign Funds Become an Issue in Washington State’s Lt. Governor Race
- Multiple Fires Still Burning Across Eastern Washington State
- Northwest Firefighters Maxed Out, National Resources Called to Battle Big Blazes
- North Mason High School Brush Fire
- More Hazing Investigated at Capital High School in Olympia
- Mason County Dedicates Expansion at Latimer’s Landing
- U-S Envoy to Libya Is Killed in Attack
WORD OF THE DAY
Jocose
• \joh-KOHSS\ • Adjective - 1: given to joking: merry 2: characterized by
joking: humorous
Wine
flowed like water, and humorous anecdotes were shared around the dinner table
as Fred’s jocose uncle blew through town for one of his legendary visits. Each
year he brought a veritable smorgasbord of new jokes and stories he was
ferrying secretly across the nation’s heartland to New York City…items that
inevitably showed up on the “Jack Benny Radio Show.” Little did his family know
the dark side of the joke business, as these laugh bombs were extracted from “clown
farms” hidden away in the vast wastelands of northern Nevada, near the Ruby
Lake Wildlife Refuge.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Bonneville Dam Plans Re-Enactment of FDR
Dedication to Celebrate 75th Anniversary Saturday (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Seattle City Light Seeks OK to Raise Rates - Electricity
rates would increase 10 percent, on average, over the next two years (Seattle
Times)
Oregon – Springfield Utility Board Expected to Approve
Electricity Rate Hike Wednesday (Eugene Register Guard, OR)
Thurston County Public-Power Answers
Offered at Presentation (Olympian, WA)
Local Stakeholders Deeply Concerned Chu
Memo Could Raise Prices on American Families, Small Businesses & Family
Farms (U-S House Natural Resources Committee)
DOE Should Scrap PMA Proposals, Get a Fresh Start,
APPA Tells House Hearing (American Public Power Association)
Portland General Electric Considering 15
New Power-Generation Projects (Sustainable Business Oregon)
Data Centers Could Suck Up Ten Percent of
Northwestern Power by 2030 (GigaOM)
Public Notice: PUD 3 Seeks Inclusion in
Mason County’s Hazard Mitigation Plan for Natural Disasters through the Annex
Process (Mason County PUD No. 3)
Mason County PUD 3 Commission Report for
September 11, 2012 (Mason County PUD No. 3)
Certain Nuclear Power Plants to Get a Pass on
Testing (Courthouse News Service)
Energy Infrastructure: Critical to Economic
Momentum (Forbes Magazine)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Plentiful Fall Chinook, Savvy Tribal
Fishermen Hit the Columbia River for Peak of the Migration (Oregonian,
Portland, OR)
Scientists Release List of World’s 100 Most
Threatened Species (Christian Science Monitor)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
People for Puget Sound to Disband (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Dike Removal Project Brings Water to
Willapa Bay Refuge (Longview Daily News, WA)
Cowlitz County Joins Legal Fight against
Washington State’s Stormwater Rules (Longview Daily News, WA)
Brightwater Sewer Plant Lawsuit Goes to
Trial; King County Seeking $155 Million (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle)
Portland Officials Estimate Fluoride Project
Will Raise Rates by Less Than One Percent Initially (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Company Proposes Natural Gas Fired Plant at
Hermiston to Back Up Wind Turbines (Associated Press)
Chain Stores Said to Lead Firms in Use of
Sun Power (NY
Times)
First
Solar Signs New Deal with Pacific Gas & Electric on Power Plant (Phyoenix
Business Journal, AZ)
Predicting Wave Power Could Double
Marine-Based Energy (Alaska Native News)
Jobs
on the Line as Wind Tax Credit Hangs in the Breeze (Midwest Energy News)
http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2012/09/12/jobs-on-the-line-as-wind-tax-credit-hangs-in-the-breeze/
Google
Data: Voters May Not Care About Solyndra (U-S News & World Report)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
San Francisco Clean-Energy Program May Mean
Profits for Shell Oil (SF Chronicle)
Oregon Sustainability Center Lives on as
Potential Partner Steps Forward (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
In Defense of the Chevy Volt: How Much Does
It Really Cost GM? (Christian
Science Monitor)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
In
One City, Signing Up for Internet Becomes a Civic Cause (NY Times)
Stimulus-Funded Project Irks Some Rural
Telecoms in Colorado (Denver Business Journal, CO)
Utah - Utopia Close to Running Out of Cash? Though
Options Remain for Beleaguered Fiber Network (Broadband Reports)
GoDaddy Says Its Troubles Were Not
Hacker-Related (NY
Times)
Verizon Told Stop Claiming Cable Broadband
Is Slow (MultiChannel News)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
An ‘Appearance Problem’ at Port of Seattle (Seattle
Post-Intelligencer)
Surplus Campaign Funds Become an Issue in Washington
State’s Lt. Governor Race (Yakima Herald-Republic,
WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Multiple Fires Still Burning Across Eastern Washington
State (Associated Press)
Northwest Firefighters Maxed Out, National
Resources Called to Battle Big Blazes (Oregonian, Portland,
OR)
North Mason High School Brush Fire (KMAS Radio,
Shelton, WA)
More Hazing Investigated at Capital High School in
Olympia (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle)
Mason County Dedicates Expansion at Latimer’s
Landing (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
U-S Envoy to Libya Is Killed in Attack (NY Times)
DIVERSIONS
Men Caught Smuggling Monkeys in Their
Underwear
Mammoth Fragments from Siberia Raise
Cloning Hopes
How Duct Tape Fixes the World
Watch: Gorgeous Time Lapse Video of Pacific
Northwest
http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2012/09/11/watch-gorgeous-timelapse-video-of-pacific-northwest/
SONG OF THE DAY
Eric
Clapton - Change the World
