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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Intalco Gets Long-Awaited Ten-Year Power Deal for
Ferndale-Area Smelter (Bellingham Herald, WA)
Washington State Patrol Asks Drivers to Prepare for
Rainy Weather (Olympian, WA)
Special Weather Statement Issued for Northwest
Oregon & Southwest Washington (National Weather Service)
Salmon Make a Comeback in California (NBC News -
Video Starts On Page Load)
Final
Word on China Solar Duties Due (The Energy Collective)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Intalco Gets Long-Awaited Ten-Year Power Deal for Ferndale-Area Smelter
- News Release - Bonneville Power Administration Proposal Extends Alcoa Contract Ten Years: Proposal subject to public review
- Alcoa cuts demand outlook, posts $143M loss – China Slowdown, Payment over Bribe Allegation
- Tacoma Utilities Proposes Power, Water Rate Hikes
- Bonneville Power Administration Overcomes Challenging Weather & Unusually Low Energy Prices to Make Annual Treasury Payment in Full & On Time
- Common Ground: Public Power History Will Be Discussed in Wenatchee Wednesday
- Editorial - Public Power Week Was No Gimme
- Natural Gas Pipeline Meeting Announced for Chehalis
- Montana Wholesale Co-Op's Offshoot Reorganizes
- Smart Meter Fires: Can the Power Industry Manage the Risks?
- Salmon Make a Comeback in California
- Phase 2 of Belfair Sewer Rejected
- Judge to Consider Cross-Border Columbia River Pollution Case
- Final Word on China Solar Duties Due
- Wyoming - Interior Department Authorizes Chokecherry & Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project Site
- No Wind Tax Credit Could Mean Fewer Jobs
- Another Round of Layoffs at Colorado Vestas Plant
- Energy Trust Releases Tool for Calculating Wind Energy Potential
- German Renewable Surcharge to Rise by 47 Percent
- LED Trail Blazes into Emerging Lighting Market
- How Does a $59.95 Duct Cleaning Result in a $1529 Bill?
- Electric Cars Letting off Too Much Steam
- T5 Plans Oregon Data Center
- Greenpeace & Data Centers: A Tough Love
- Is Mobile Broadband a Luxury or Human Right?
- Washington State Public Lands Candidates Trade Words in Yakima
- Valley Fire Captain Fired over Using Work Computer for Religious Emails
- Washington State Patrol Asks Drivers to Prepare for Rainy Weather
- Special Weather Statement Issued for Northwest Oregon & Southwest Washington
- Wildfire Crews Face Tight Funds, Longer Season
WORD OF THE DAY
Lenticular
• \len-TICK-yuh-lerr\ • Adjective - 1: having the shape of a double-convex lens
2: of or relating to a lens 3: provided with or utilizing lenticules
Check
out these cool pictures of lenticular clouds over Mount Rainier:
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Intalco Gets Long-Awaited Ten-Year Power Deal for
Ferndale-Area Smelter (Bellingham Herald, WA)
News Release - Bonneville Power Administration
Proposal Extends Alcoa Contract Ten Years: Proposal subject to public review
(Bonneville Power Administration)
Alcoa cuts demand outlook, posts $143M loss – China
Slowdown, Payment over Bribe Allegation (Associated Press)
Tacoma Utilities Proposes Power, Water Rate Hikes (News
Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Bonneville Power Administration Overcomes
Challenging Weather & Unusually Low Energy Prices to Make Annual Treasury
Payment in Full & On Time (Bonneville Power Administration)
Common Ground: Public Power History Will Be
Discussed in Wenatchee Wednesday (Wenatchee World, WA)
Editorial - Public Power Week Was No Gimme (Wenatchee
World, WA)
Natural Gas Pipeline Meeting Announced for Chehalis
(KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
Montana Wholesale Co-Op's Offshoot Reorganizes
(Helena Independent Record, MT)
Smart Meter Fires: Can the Power Industry Manage
the Risks? (The Energy Collective)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Salmon Make a Comeback in California (NBC News -
Video Starts On Page Load)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Phase
2 of Belfair Sewer Rejected (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Judge to Consider Cross-Border Columbia River
Pollution Case (Northwest Public Radio)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Final
Word on China Solar Duties Due (The Energy Collective)
Wyoming
- Interior Department Authorizes Chokecherry & Sierra Madre Wind Energy
Project Site (Associated Press)
No
Wind Tax Credit Could Mean Fewer Jobs (Northwest Public Radio)
Another
Round of Layoffs at Colorado Vestas Plant (Denver Business Journal, CO)
Energy
Trust Releases Tool for Calculating Wind Energy Potential (Sustainable Business Oregon)
German
Renewable Surcharge to Rise by 47 Percent (Reuters)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
LED Trail Blazes into Emerging Lighting Market (Sustainable
Business Oregon)
How Does a $59.95 Duct Cleaning Result in a $1529
Bill? (The Consumerist)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Electric
Cars Letting off Too Much Steam (EnergyBiz Insider)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
T5 Plans Oregon Data Center (Atlanta Business
Chronicle, GA)
Greenpeace & Data Centers: A Tough Love (Data
Center Dynamics)
Is Mobile Broadband a Luxury or Human Right? (CNN
Money)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Public Lands Candidates Trade
Words in Yakima (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Valley Fire Captain Fired over Using Work Computer
for Religious Emails (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Washington State Patrol Asks Drivers to Prepare for
Rainy Weather (Olympian, WA)
Special Weather Statement Issued for Northwest
Oregon & Southwest Washington (National Weather Service)
Wildfire Crews Face Tight Funds, Longer Season (SF
Chronicle)
DIVERSIONS
Huge Cannabis Plant Found in Elderly Couple's
Garden - Flea Market Plant Thrived
Depressed? It Could Be All the Sunshine
Electricity Museum Hopes to Juice Interest with
MegaZapper
SONG OF THE DAY
John
Fogerty - Change in the Weather
