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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Weekend Weather - Special Weather Statement for
Rain & Possible Breezy Conditions (Mason County PUD No. 3
Fifty
Years Later, Columbus Day Windstorm Still Ranks as Greatest (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
Congressman’s Cyber-Attack Warning Doesn’t Daunt
Port Angeles on Wi-Fi (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
California’s
Renewable-Energy Plans May Hinge on Presidential Race (Los Angeles Times, CA)
U-S
Struggles to Rescue Green Program Hit by Fraud (NY Times)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Weekend Weather - Special Weather Statement for Rain & Possible Breezy Conditions
- Dry Conditions Plus Arrival off Windy, Wet Weather May Mean Power, Roadway Issues
- Puget Sound Energy Crews Ready for First Storm of the Season - Utility urges public to be prepared as well
- Tribes Add Potent Voice against Plan for Pacific Northwest Coal Terminals
- Avista Requests Rate Hikes in Idaho
- Op/Ed - Why the U-S Needs a Networked Energy Grid
- Japan Utility Agrees Nuclear Crisis Was Avoidable
- After Fukushima: Canada’s Nuclear Ambitions
- Welcome Home, Salmon: Time to Get Out & See Returning Fish
- Puyallup Hatchery is Historic
- Anti-Fluoride Group Collects 43,236 Signatures in Fight for Portland Vote
- California’s Renewable-Energy Plans May Hinge on Presidential Race
- Riding the Crest of Energy’s Future
- For Solar Panel Industry, a Volley of Trade Cases
- The Pine Beetle Problem: Making Renewable Energy Lemonade from Biomass Lemons
- Utilities Need to Change to Promote Renewable Energy, Conference Told
- Massachusetts - Towns Grapple with Larger Solar Projects
- Wind Power Lowers Electricity Prices & How
- “Are You Fan Enough” Campaign Promotes Energy Efficient
- How’s That Big Carbon-Capture Push Going? Slowly. Too Slowly.
- U-S Struggles to Rescue Green Program Hit by Fraud
- How a Green Fuel Turned Slimy
- Homes Made Out of Milk Bottles; Networked Water Purifiers & Other Winners from the Clean Tech Open
- Congressman’s Cyber-Attack Warning Doesn’t Daunt Port Angeles on Wi-Fi
- Broadband Spectrum Auctions a ‘Mistake’
- Dark Social: Why Measuring User Engagement is Even Harder than You Think
- Washington State’s October Revenue Report Shows $36.6M Bump
- Rain’s Back & the Weekend Could Bring a Lot of It
- Fifty Years Later, Columbus Day Windstorm Still Ranks as Greatest
- 1962 Storm Wreaked Havoc in Seattle, Along West Coast
- Columbus Day Storm Remains a Fearsome Memory
- Justin Bieber’s Tacoma Dome ‘Theft’ Story Appears to be PR Stunt
WORD OF THE DAY
Deign
• \DAYN\ • Verb - To condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the
affront to one’s superiority that is involved: stoop: to condescend to give or
offer
Abernathy
was mortified, deign to tie his own shoes? That was beneath him (literally).
But even worse, having been coddled his entire life, dressed meticulously by
his manservant, Bill, Abernathy had not learned the smallest mystery of how
clothing worked. Buttons, zippers, belts, anything he wore was beyond his ken.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Weekend Weather - Special Weather Statement for
Rain & Possible Breezy Conditions (Mason County PUD No. 3
Dry Conditions Plus Arrival off Windy, Wet Weather
May Mean Power, Roadway Issues (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle)
Puget Sound Energy Crews Ready for First Storm of the
Season - Utility urges public to be prepared as well (Olympian, WA)
Tribes Add Potent Voice against Plan for Pacific Northwest
Coal Terminals (NY Times)
Avista Requests Rate Hikes in Idaho (Spokesman
Review, Spokane, WA)
Op/Ed - Why the U-S Needs a Networked Energy Grid (Washington
Post)
Japan Utility Agrees Nuclear Crisis Was Avoidable (Associated
Press)
After Fukushima: Canada’s Nuclear Ambitions (Financial
Post, Canada)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Welcome Home, Salmon: Time to Get Out & See
Returning Fish (Seattle Times)
Puyallup Hatchery is Historic (News Tribune, Tacoma,
WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Anti-Fluoride
Group Collects 43,236 Signatures in Fight for Portland Vote (Oregonian, Portland)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
California’s
Renewable-Energy Plans May Hinge on Presidential Race (Los Angeles Times, CA)
Riding
the Crest of Energy’s Future (Portland Tribune, OR)
For
Solar Panel Industry, a Volley of Trade Cases (NY Times)
The
Pine Beetle Problem: Making Renewable Energy Lemonade from Biomass Lemons (Renewable
Energy World)
Utilities
Need to Change to Promote Renewable Energy, Conference Told (Denver Business
Journal, CO)
Massachusetts
- Towns Grapple with Larger Solar Projects (Boston Globe, MA)
Wind
Power Lowers Electricity Prices & How (CleanTechnica)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
“Are You Fan Enough” Campaign Promotes Energy
Efficient (Northwest Public Radio)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
How’s
That Big Carbon-Capture Push Going? Slowly. Too Slowly. (Washington Post)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
U-S
Struggles to Rescue Green Program Hit by Fraud (NY Times)
How
a Green Fuel Turned Slimy (NY Times)
Homes
Made Out of Milk Bottles; Networked Water Purifiers & Other Winners from the
Clean Tech Open (GeekWire)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Congressman’s Cyber-Attack Warning Doesn’t Daunt
Port Angeles on Wi-Fi (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Broadband Spectrum Auctions a ‘Mistake’ (ZDNet News)
Dark Social: Why Measuring User Engagement is Even
Harder than You Think (GigaOM)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State’s October Revenue Report Shows
$36.6M Bump (Olympian, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Rain’s Back & the Weekend Could Bring a Lot of
It (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)
http://thedailyworld.com/sections/news/local/rain%E2%80%99s-back-and-weekend-could-bring-lot-it.html
Fifty
Years Later, Columbus Day Windstorm Still Ranks as Greatest (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
1962 Storm Wreaked Havoc in Seattle, Along West
Coast (KCPQ-TV, Tacoma/Seattle, WA)
Columbus Day Storm Remains a Fearsome Memory (Everett
Herald, WA)
Justin Bieber’s Tacoma Dome ‘Theft’ Story Appears to
be PR Stunt (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
DIVERSIONS
Ten States That Sell the Most Beer are Surprising
Giant Eyeball Washes Ashore in South Florida
Flambéd Squirrel Blamed for Building Fire
Bear Helps Itself to Bee Hive Honey near Carnation
SONG OF THE DAY
BJ
Thomas - Everybody Loves a Rain Song
Gene
Kelly - Singin’ in the Rain
