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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Economic
Uncertainty Puts the Brakes on Pacific Northwest Wind Power Industry (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Steller Sea Lions Pick Up Their Fish Take below
Bonneville Dam (Oregonian, Portland)
Utilities Meeting, Exceeding Clean-Energy Goals -
I-397: Report Gives Data on Four Counties (Olympian, WA)
Study: Rural Broadband in Serious Trouble - And It’s
Not Getting Better Anytime Soon (Broadband Reports)
September
Tied for World’s Warmest September on Record (USA
Today)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Utilities Meeting, Exceeding Clean-Energy Goals - I-397: Report Gives Data on Four Counties
- PUD 3 Flashback - Sept 13: Mason County PUD 3 Exceeds Energy Efficiency Goals in Washington State Renewable Energy Law
- Electricity Restored to 450 Mason County PUD 3 Customers on North Shore Road West of Belfair – Outage Related to Tree & Mudslide
- Puget Sound Energy Takes Power Outages by Storm
- Oregon - Eugene Water & Electric Board Weighs New Rate Hikes
- Tree Cutting Accident - Airway Heights Inmate Electrocuted While on Work-Release
- Yelm Mayor Says He Won’t Back Thurston County Public Power Measure
- Steller Sea Lions Pick Up Their Fish Take below Bonneville Dam
- Squirrel Population Explosion Creates Problems for Fruit Growers, Homeowners
- Economic Uncertainty Puts the Brakes on Pacific Northwest Wind Power Industry
- Petitions from Wind Projects Denied by Idaho Commission
- Yes, Virginia, People Are Buying Wind Turbines
- Renewable Energy Corporation Warns that Third Quarter Losses Loom for Solar & Silicon Units
- Alaska - Biomass Considered for Rural Electric Power Generation
- States Agree on Energy Efficiency despite Political Differences: American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
- September Tied for World’s Warmest September on Record
- Legality of Tesla Stores under Fire in Oregon, Elsewhere
- Study: Rural Broadband in Serious Trouble - And It’s Not Getting Better Anytime Soon
- Grays Harbor County Metal Thieves Suspected in Flood-Warning Vandalism
WORD OF THE DAY
Surfeit
• \SERR-futt\ • Noun - 1: an overabundant supply: excess 2: an intemperate or
immoderate indulgence in something 3: disgust caused by excess
“Look
at that wall of water,” enthused the fresh-faced dam operator to his grizzled
mentor. The multi-colored monitor showed the anticipated surfeit of pure water
power barreling down the watercourse from the upper reaches of the sprawling
river basin. “Better get ready,” drawled the elder operator in a carefully
practiced cadence.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Utilities Meeting, Exceeding Clean-Energy Goals - I-397:
Report Gives Data on Four Counties (Olympian, WA)
PUD 3 Flashback - Sept 13: Mason County PUD 3
Exceeds Energy Efficiency Goals in Washington State Renewable Energy Law (Mason
County PUD No. 3)
Electricity Restored to 450 Mason County PUD 3 Customers
on North Shore Road West of Belfair – Outage Related to Tree & Mudslide (Mason
County PUD No. 3)
Puget Sound Energy Takes Power Outages by Storm
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Oregon - Eugene Water & Electric Board Weighs
New Rate Hikes - The utility asks to raise electric rates 8 percent and water
rates 30 percent (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
Tree Cutting Accident - Airway Heights Inmate
Electrocuted While on Work-Release (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Yelm Mayor Says He Won’t Back Thurston County
Public Power Measure (Nisqually Valley News, Yelm, WA)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Steller Sea Lions Pick Up Their Fish Take below
Bonneville Dam (Oregonian, Portland)
Squirrel Population Explosion Creates Problems
for Fruit Growers, Homeowners (Associated Press)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Economic
Uncertainty Puts the Brakes on Pacific Northwest Wind Power Industry (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Petitions
from Wind Projects Denied by Idaho Commission (Power Engineering)
Yes,
Virginia, People Are Buying Wind Turbines (Smart Planet)
Renewable
Energy Corporation Warns that Third Quarter Losses Loom for Solar & Silicon
Units (ReCharge News)
Alaska
- Biomass Considered for Rural Electric Power Generation (Fairbanks News-Miner,
AK)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
States Agree on Energy Efficiency despite Political
Differences: American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (American Public
Power Association)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
September
Tied for World’s Warmest September on Record (USA
Today)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Legality
of Tesla Stores under Fire in Oregon, Elsewhere (Sustainable
Business Oregon)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Study: Rural Broadband in Serious Trouble - And It’s
Not Getting Better Anytime Soon (Broadband Reports)
GENERAL NEWS
Grays Harbor County Metal Thieves Suspected in
Flood-Warning Vandalism (Olympian, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Irony
Alert - Chinese-Made Pirate Costumes Seized by U-S Customs in Seattle
Australia - Man Says Bar Ruled His Mullet Did Not
Make Cut
Seahawk Tweets to Tom Brady after Beating Him: ‘U
Mad Bro?’
Girl Sticks Head Out of Train Window, Narrowly
Missing Oncoming Train
SONG OF THE DAY
Albert
Hammond - I’m a Train
