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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Wind
Production Exceeds Hydro in Pacific Northwest for the First Time Tuesday (Idaho
Statesman, Boise)
Bonneville
Power Administration Wind Curtailments Trailing 2011 Levels - Oversupply
Management Protocol Still Pending (RenewablesBiz)
JPMorgan Energy-Trading Unit Admits Errors in FERC
Filing (Bloomberg News)
Fairness of Portland General Electric Bids to
Acquire More Electricity Questioned (Oregonian, Portland)
First Snow of the Season Dusts Pacific Northwest
Mountains (KING-TV, Seattle)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- JPMorgan Energy-Trading Unit Admits Errors in FERC Filing
- Fairness of Portland General Electric Bids to Acquire More Electricity Questioned
- Port Angeles Utility Rates, Including Electricity, Going Up
- Port Angeles Electricity Director to Resign November 5 - Headed to Ellensburg
- 'Smart Meters' At Issue in Franklin PUD Race
- Owner Worries Puget Sound Energy Upgrades Might Harm Her Horses
- Grant PUD Archaeology Days Draws More Than 600
- Engineering The Future - Experts Promote Careers as Engineers of All Types to Vancouver iTech Prep Students
- U-S Natural Gas Supplies Grew Last Week
- $8 Natural Gas: We're Right on Schedule
- House Republicans Call for Study of Federal Energy Subsidies
- Oregon’s Measure 81 Prompts Gill-Netting Changes before It Comes to a Vote
- Op/Ed - Conservation, Cooperation Are Keys to Salmon Recovery
- Idaho Town Struggles with Clean Water Act Requirements
- Oregon - Judge Stops Bend from Construction on $70 Million Water Project
- Simple Ways to Save Money on Your Water Bill
- Wind Production Exceeds Hydro in Pacific Northwest for the First Time Tuesday
- Bonneville Power Administration Wind Curtailments Trailing 2011 Levels - Oversupply Management Protocol Still Pending
- Wind-Energy Surge a Boon for Port of Longview
- Solar Home Projects Booming in Western Washington
- Church, Property Owner Make Solar Energy Cost-Effective
- California - Oroville Co-Generation Plant Closing
- News Release - Efficiency Connections Northwest Generates New Ideas on Energy Efficiency
- Energy Efficiency May Run out of Gas
- To Conserve Energy - Conserve Water
- Columbia River Red Algae Could Counter Global Warming Effects
- If Green Roofs & Rain Gardens Are So Great, Why Aren’t There More?
- Newly Discovered Super-Advanced Biocarbon Device: Anchovy Poop!
- Wyoming Studies Ways to Increase Broadband Access
- Sprint Moves to Buy Additional Stake in Clearwire, Gaining Majority
- RagingWire Wins OK to Build Virginia Data Center
- Washington State Auditor Sonntag to Work at Mission after Retiring
- Seattle Times to Advertise for McKenna on Its Own Dime
- First Snow of the Season Dusts Pacific Northwest Mountains
- 20,000 Feet of Copper Wire Stolen from Olympia Streetlights
- Wire Thefts in Tumwater
WORD OF THE DAY
Envisage
• \in-VIZ-idge\ • Verb - 1: to view or regard in a certain way 2: to have a
mental picture of especially in advance of realization
“Close
your eyes,” intoned the hypnotist in his deep, sepulchral voice. “Imagine you
are in your happy place, only you; happy and relaxed,” the voice rumbled.
Bertie was probably not in the place the soothing hypnotist hoped to envisage.
Bert’s happy place was the mosh pit before the stage of a young version of the “Boomtown
Rats” rasping out a live version of “I Don’t Like Mondays.”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
JPMorgan Energy-Trading Unit Admits Errors in FERC
Filing (Bloomberg News)
Fairness of Portland General Electric Bids to
Acquire More Electricity Questioned (Oregonian, Portland)
Port Angeles Utility Rates, Including Electricity,
Going Up (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
Port Angeles Electricity Director to Resign November
5 - Headed to Ellensburg (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
'Smart Meters' At Issue in Franklin PUD Race (Tri-City Herald, WA)
Owner Worries Puget Sound Energy Upgrades Might
Harm Her Horses (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
Grant PUD Archaeology Days Draws More Than 600
(North Central Washington TV)
Engineering The Future - Experts Promote Careers as
Engineers of All Types to Vancouver iTech Prep Students (Vancouver Columbian,
WA)
U-S Natural Gas Supplies Grew Last Week (Associated
Press)
$8 Natural Gas: We're Right on Schedule (Forbes
Magazine)
House Republicans Call for Study of Federal Energy
Subsidies (American Public Power Association)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Oregon’s Measure 81 Prompts Gill-Netting Changes
before It Comes to a Vote (Oregonian, Portland)
Op/Ed - Conservation, Cooperation Are Keys to
Salmon Recovery (Daily Astorian, OR)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Idaho
Town Struggles with Clean Water Act Requirements (Northwest Public Radio)
Oregon
- Judge Stops Bend from Construction on $70 Million Water Project (Oregon
Public Broadcasting)
Simple
Ways to Save Money on Your Water Bill (U-S News & World Report)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Wind
Production Exceeds Hydro in Pacific Northwest for the First Time Tuesday (Idaho
Statesman, Boise)
Bonneville
Power Administration Wind Curtailments Trailing 2011 Levels - Oversupply
Management Protocol Still Pending (RenewablesBiz)
Wind-Energy
Surge a Boon for Port of Longview (Longview Daily News, WA)
Solar Home Projects Booming in Western Washington (KING-TV,
Seattle)
Church,
Property Owner Make Solar Energy Cost-Effective (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
California
- Oroville Co-Generation Plant Closing (Oroville Mercury-Record, CA)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
News Release - Efficiency Connections Northwest
Generates New Ideas on Energy Efficiency (NW Energy Efficiency Alliance)
Energy Efficiency May Run out of Gas (Forbes
Magazine)
To Conserve Energy - Conserve Water (Forbes
Magazine)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Columbia
River Red Algae Could Counter Global Warming Effects (Oregonian, Portland)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
If
Green Roofs & Rain Gardens Are So Great, Why Aren’t There More? (Oregon
Public Broadcasting)
Newly
Discovered Super-Advanced Biocarbon Device: Anchovy Poop! (Grist Online)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Wyoming Studies Ways to Increase Broadband Access (Wyoming
Tribune-Eagle, Cheyenne)
Sprint Moves to Buy Additional Stake in Clearwire,
Gaining Majority (Washington Post)
RagingWire Wins OK to Build Virginia Data Center (Sacramento
Bee, CA)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Auditor Sonntag to Work at Mission
after Retiring (Olympian, WA)
Seattle Times to Advertise for McKenna on Its Own
Dime
GENERAL NEWS
First Snow of the Season Dusts Pacific Northwest
Mountains (KING-TV, Seattle)
20,000 Feet of Copper Wire Stolen from Olympia
Streetlights (Olympian, WA)
Wire Thefts in Tumwater (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Watch Stunning Time-Lapse of Shuttle Endeavour’s
Los Angeles Journey
Science Says: There’s No Such Thing as a
Five-Second Rule
NY Brothers Wait Years to Claim $5 Million Lottery
Prize
Florida Man Sues Venezuela over Simon Bolivar's
Hair, Letters
SONG OF THE DAY
Revolution
- The Beatles
Stone
Temple Pilots – Revolution
