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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Bonneville Power Administration’s Proposed Rate
Increase to Cost Grays Harbor PUD Millions (Aberdeen
Daily World, WA)
Damaged Electricity Transmission Pole near Dayton
Repaired – Power Restored to Nearly 2,100 Mason County PUD 3 Customers (Mason
County PUD No. 3)
Bonneville Power Administration, Benton PUD Award
Nearly $1 Million for Energy Efficiency (FierceEnergy)
Pacific
Power Puts Major Solar Project Online (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, WA)
Clark Public Utilities Wins New Water Right to
Serve Growth for Decades (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Bonneville Power Administration’s Proposed Rate Increase to Cost Grays Harbor PUD Millions
- Local Power Bills May Be Going Up Again Next Year
- Bonneville Power Administration’s Rate Hike Will Affect OTECC Customers
- Damaged Electricity Transmission Pole near Dayton Repaired – Power Restored to Nearly 2,100 Mason County PUD 3 Customers
- [Video] Mason County PUD 3 Linemen Working to Clear Damaged Power Pole Involved In Shelton-Matlock Road Outage
- Puget Sound Energy to Pay $250,000 Washington State Fine
- Puget Sound Energy Pulls the Plug on Big Benaroya Development in Des Moines
- Idaho - Judge Disqualified from Magic Reservoir Drawdown Case
- Hurricane Sandy - Electric Co-ops and Investor Owned Utilities near Repair Finish
- Long Island Lawmakers, Customers Angry as Blackouts Linger
- How Con Ed Turned New York City's Lights Back On
- North Carolina Supreme Court Set to Hear Duke Energy Rate Case
- Oregon Gillnet Fish Fight Turns to Commission
- Hood Canal Restoration Sought for $6.9 Million in Navy Funding
- 300,000 Invasive Trout Culled from Wyoming's Yellowstone Lake
- Idaho Power Biologists Find Healthy Sturgeon Population between Hells Canyon/Lower Granite Dams
- Clark Public Utilities Wins New Water Right to Serve Growth for Decades
- Pacific Power Puts Major Solar Project Online
- Analysis: Why Michigan’s Renewable Energy Amendment Failed
- Renewables to Rival Coal for Power Generation in 2035
- Bonneville Power Administration, Benton PUD Award Nearly $1 Million for Energy Efficiency
- Going Green Pays Off for Vancouver Business Park
- LED Replacements Hit Stores Empty of 100 Watt Light Bulbs
- Despite Business Opposition, California's Cap-And-Trade Auction Starts Wednesday
- Tacoma - Higher Click! Network Rates on the Table
- Rural Broadband Programs are Not 'Rational' Economically, Just 'Politically'
- Google Fiber Lights up a Startup Village in Kansas City, Kanas
- Forget Obamacare - Spam Emails May Cost Papa John's $250 Million
- Tim Sheldon in the Mix - State Senate Power-Sharing Proposed by Two Democrats
- Highway Campaign Signs Must Come Down by Friday
- Missing Email Message Raises Questions about How Oregon Lawmakers Archive Public Records
- U-S to Be World's Biggest Oil Producer by 2020, Energy Agency Says
- Idaho - Thieves Steal $25,000 in Copper Wire from Construction Site
- Tacoma: Union Representing Public Works Employees Buys Newspaper Ads Blasting Budget Cuts
WORD OF THE DAY
Dissemble • \duh-SEMM-bull\ • Verb - 1: to put on a
false appearance: to conceal facts, intentions, or feelings under some pretense
2: to hide (something) under a false appearance 3: to put on the appearance of:
simulate
“All in all, I think I dissembled well in that news
conference,” puffed the burly CEO to his attending flacks. Each of the four
public information officers barely heard their boss’s bloviating, each mentally
updating their resumes. Their flights from the floundering buggy whip company would
be epic…as three of them gained jobs with new automobile companies. The fourth
didn’t do all that well, as he had hitched his star to a newly formed silent
film studio.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Bonneville Power Administration’s Proposed Rate
Increase to Cost Grays Harbor PUD Millions (Aberdeen
Daily World, WA)
Local Power Bills May Be Going Up Again Next Year (KONP
Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
Bonneville Power Administration’s Rate Hike Will
Affect OTECC Customers (Lagrande Observer, OR)
Damaged Electricity Transmission Pole near Dayton
Repaired – Power Restored to Nearly 2,100 Mason County PUD 3 Customers (Mason
County PUD No. 3)
[Video] Mason County PUD 3 Linemen Working to Clear
Damaged Power Pole Involved In Shelton-Matlock Road Outage (Mason County PUD
No. 3)
Puget Sound Energy to Pay $250,000 Washington State
Fine (Associated Press)
Puget Sound Energy Pulls the Plug on Big Benaroya
Development in Des Moines (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Idaho - Judge Disqualified from Magic Reservoir
Drawdown Case (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Hurricane Sandy - Electric Co-ops and Investor
Owned Utilities near Repair Finish (Electric Co-op Today)
Long Island Lawmakers, Customers Angry as Blackouts
Linger (Washington Post)
How Con Ed Turned New York City's Lights Back On (CNN
Money)
North Carolina Supreme Court Set to Hear Duke
Energy Rate Case (Charlotte Business Journal, NC)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Oregon Gillnet Fish Fight Turns to Commission (Associated
Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Oregon-gillnet-fish-fight-turns-to-commission-4030681.php
Hood
Canal Restoration Sought for $6.9 Million in Navy Funding (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
300,000 Invasive Trout Culled from Wyoming's
Yellowstone Lake (Associated Press)
Idaho Power Biologists Find Healthy Sturgeon
Population between Hells Canyon/Lower Granite Dams (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Clark Public Utilities Wins New Water Right to
Serve Growth for Decades (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Op/Ed
- There’s No Reason to Turn up Your Nose at Recycled Water (Olympian, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Pacific
Power Puts Major Solar Project Online (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, WA)
Analysis:
Why Michigan’s Renewable Energy Amendment Failed (Midwest Energy News)
Renewables
to Rival Coal for Power Generation in 2035 (Bloomberg News)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Bonneville Power Administration, Benton PUD Award
Nearly $1 Million for Energy Efficiency (FierceEnergy)
Going Green Pays Off for Vancouver Business Park - Park
Plaza receives $136,000 rebate on HVAC system upgrades thanks to Clark Public
Utilities program (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
LED Replacements Hit Stores Empty of 100 Watt Light
Bulbs (Associated Press)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Despite
Business Opposition, California's Cap-And-Trade Auction Starts Wednesday (Sacramento Bee, CA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Tacoma - Higher Click! Network Rates on the Table (News
Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Rural Broadband Programs are Not 'Rational'
Economically, Just 'Politically' (TechZone 360)
Google Fiber Lights up a Startup Village in Kansas
City, Kanas (Kansas City Business Journal, MO)
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/blog/2012/11/google-fiber-lights-up-a-startup.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/blog/2012/11/google-fiber-lights-up-a-startup.html
Forget Obamacare - Spam Emails May Cost Papa John's
$250 Million (Portland Business Journal)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Tim Sheldon in the Mix - State Senate Power-Sharing
Proposed by Two Democrats (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Highway Campaign Signs Must Come Down by Friday (KING-TV,
Seattle)
Missing Email Message Raises Questions about How Oregon
Lawmakers Archive Public Records (Oregonian, Portland)
GENERAL NEWS
U-S to Be World's Biggest Oil Producer by 2020,
Energy Agency Says (Associated Press)
Idaho - Thieves Steal $25,000 in Copper Wire from Construction
Site (Associated Press)
Tacoma: Union Representing Public Works Employees
Buys Newspaper Ads Blasting Budget Cuts (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Omnishambles Named Word of the Year by Oxford
English Dictionary
Denmark Scraps Worlds First Fat Tax
Tower of London Intruder Walks Off with Keys
Police: Alleged Car Thief Made Food Deliveries
after Stealing Restaurant’s Car
SONG OF THE DAY
Hot
Butter – Popcorn
