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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
A
Rogue Climate Experiment Outrages Scientists – Iron Dumping Scientist in the
Pacific (NY Times)
Apple Starts Work on Massive Prineville Data Center
(Oregonian, Portland)
Snohomish
PUD Harvests Power with New Hydropower Project (Everett Herald, WA)
Apple Starts Work on Massive Prineville Data Center
(Oregonian, Portland)
Forecast Predicts Drier Than Normal Winter for
Pacific Northwest (Northwest Public Radio)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- To Keep or to Export? The Pacific Northwest’s Natural Gas Debate
- Why Natural Gas Isn't Likely to Solve Our Energy Woes
- Grant County PUD Presents 2013 Budget
- Regulators Rule Again Against Proposed Idaho Dam on Bear River
- Fitch Affirms Klickitat PUD's Bonds at 'A-' - Outlook Negative
- Otter Signs Order to Keep Idaho Energy Office Open
- History of Depression, Bonneville Power Administration Topic of Lecture
- New York Reviews Higher Energy Costs after Deregulation
- Dedham Couple Wins $150,000 Lawsuit against Bangor Hydro – Dispute over Lot Cleared of Trees
- More to Meters Than Meets the Eye
- Making Hydroelectric Turbines
- Oregon - Poor Runs Put Youngs River Off-Limits for Salmon, Steelhead
- Clean Water Act at 40: Is It Failing to Meet New Pollution Challenges?
- Water Permit Denied for Mine near Oregon’s Rogue River
- Columbia Riverkeeper Tests Toxics in Fish Destined for Fishermen's Tables
- Snohomish PUD Harvests Power with New Hydropower Project
- Tests Seek to Harness Power of Oregon Volcano
- Gallery: Oregon Tech Students 'Solarize' Tanzania
- Renewable Portfolio Standard - Is Michigan’s Constitution the Right Place for Energy Policy?
- A Rogue Climate Experiment Outrages Scientists – Iron Dumping Scientist in the Pacific
- Americans Increasingly Believe in Global Warming, Yale Report Says
- A Web Tool for All You Need to Know About Small Wind Energy
- Apple Starts Work on Massive Prineville Data Center
- Google Isn't the First Company to Accidentally Release Earnings Ahead of Time
- Two-Thirds Use Social Networking for Political, Civic Activities
- 81 Percent General Election Turnout Expected in Washington State
- Seattle Times Reporters Protest Newspaper’s Partisan Campaign Ads
- Should Politicians Be Buying Facebook Ads?
- Forecast Predicts Drier Than Normal Winter for Pacific Northwest
- Construction Companies Sued by Taylor Bridge Fire Victims
- Op/Ed - Why the Wildfires Still Rage
- Hackers of Burlington's Bank Account Traced Overseas
- Kootenai County Sheriff’s Home Burglarized by Copper Thieves
- Washington State Farmers Bust Records for Values of Six Crops
- Meteor Shower at Peak This Weekend: Will Weather Cooperate?
WORD OF THE DAY
Hew
• \HYOO\ • Verb - 1: to cut or fell with blows (as of an ax) 2: to give shape
to with or as if with an ax 3: to conform or to adhere
The
logger’s mighty thews;
Rocking
the limbs of the towering fir as the ax hews into the woody heart;
“Am
I cutting down the right tree? Did I hew
to my foreman’s orders,” the
axe-man pondered as the fibers began to split and the trunk started it’s
thunderous descent.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
To Keep or to Export? The Pacific Northwest’s
Natural Gas Debate (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Why
Natural Gas Isn't Likely to Solve Our Energy Woes (Christian Science Monitor)
Grant County PUD Presents 2013 Budget (Columbia Basin
Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Regulators Rule Again Against Proposed Idaho Dam on
Bear River (Associated Press)
Fitch Affirms Klickitat PUD's Bonds at 'A-' - Outlook
Negative (BusinessWire)\
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121018006306/en/Fitch-Affirms-Klickitat-PUDs-WA-Electric-Sys
Otter Signs Order to Keep Idaho Energy Office Open (Idaho
Statesman, Boise)
History of Depression, Bonneville Power
Administration Topic of Lecture (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
New York Reviews Higher Energy Costs after
Deregulation (Associated Press)
Dedham Couple Wins $150,000 Lawsuit against Bangor
Hydro – Dispute over Lot Cleared of Trees (Predict Wallstreet)
More to Meters Than Meets the Eye (The Energy
Collective)
Making Hydroelectric Turbines (Mother Earth News)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Oregon - Poor Runs Put Youngs River Off-Limits for
Salmon, Steelhead (Salem Statesman Journal, OR)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Clean
Water Act at 40: Is It Failing to Meet New Pollution Challenges? (Christian Science Monitor)
Water
Permit Denied for Mine near Oregon’s Rogue River (Associated Press)
Columbia Riverkeeper Tests Toxics in Fish
Destined for Fishermen's Tables (Oregonian,
Portland)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Snohomish
PUD Harvests Power with New Hydropower Project (Everett Herald, WA)
Tests
Seek to Harness Power of Oregon Volcano (Associated Press)
Gallery:
Oregon Tech Students 'Solarize' Tanzania (Portland Business Journal, OR)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2012/10/18/gallery-oregon-tech-students.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2012/10/18/gallery-oregon-tech-students.html
Renewable
Portfolio Standard - Is Michigan’s Constitution the Right Place for Energy
Policy? (Midwest Energy News)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
A
Rogue Climate Experiment Outrages Scientists – Iron Dumping Scientist in the
Pacific (NY Times)
Americans
Increasingly Believe in Global Warming, Yale Report Says (Los Angeles Times,
CA)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
A
Web Tool for All You Need to Know About Small Wind Energy (Forbes Magazine)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Apple Starts Work on Massive Prineville Data Center
(Oregonian, Portland)
Google Isn't the First Company to Accidentally
Release Earnings Ahead of Time (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Two-Thirds Use Social Networking for Political,
Civic Activities (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
81 Percent General Election Turnout Expected in Washington
State (Associated Press)
Seattle Times Reporters Protest Newspaper’s
Partisan Campaign Ads (Associated Press)
Should Politicians Be Buying Facebook Ads?
(Mashable)
GENERAL NEWS
Forecast Predicts Drier Than Normal Winter for
Pacific Northwest (Northwest Public Radio)
Construction Companies Sued by Taylor Bridge Fire
Victims (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Op/Ed - Why the Wildfires Still Rage (NY Times)
Hackers of Burlington's Bank Account Traced
Overseas (KING-TV, Seattle)
Kootenai County Sheriff’s Home Burglarized by
Copper Thieves (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Washington State Farmers Bust Records for Values of
Six Crops (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Meteor Shower at Peak This Weekend: Will Weather
Cooperate? (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
DIVERSIONS
God’s Cue Ball - Moon's Origin Confirmed in Early Earth
Collision
Lost Boy Kept Warm by Puppies
Washington State High School Kicker Makes 67-Yard
Field Goal
SONG OF THE DAY
Heart
- Kick It Out
