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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
FERC Suspends JPMorgan Unit’s Power-Trading
Authority (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
Study: U-S Power Grid Vulnerable to Terrorist
Attack (USA Today)
Get Ready For a Lot of Rain (KING-TV, Seattle)
Grant
County, REC Silicon to Negotiate Tax Assessments (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses
Lake, WA)
President
Obama Says Climate Change to Take Backseat to Economy (Politico)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- FERC Suspends JPMorgan Unit’s Power-Trading Authority
- Bonneville Power Administration Increase May Bring Snohomish PUD Rate Boost
- No Rate Increases in Lewis County PUD Budget - Ratepayers May Pay More in 2014 As Utility Costs Go Up
- Power Rates to Rise in Pacific Northwest
- Lake Limerick - Mason County PUD 3 Beginning Four-Week Tree Trimming Project
- Study: U-S Power Grid Vulnerable to Terrorist Attack
- Mass Hysteria! Thousands Seen Dying if Terrorists Attack U-S Power Grid
- Con Ed: Sorry About Sandy, Get Ready for Rate Increases
- New York - Long Island Power Authority Executive Mike Hervey Resigns
- Lack of Electricians Delays NY Recovery from Sandy
- Power Merger Rankles Vermont's Smaller Utilities
- Demystifying Electricity Pricing
- Oregon - Salmon Deal: Put Premium on Saving Jobs
- Oregon State University Study Urges Massive Grazing Cuts
- Grant County, REC Silicon to Negotiate Tax Assessments
- Google Invests $75 Million in Iowa Wind Farm
- Poo to Power - Benson Biofuels Company is Fined for Air Pollution
- Energy Adviser: LEDs Light Holidays Efficiently
- Norpac, Longview Fibre Honored for Conservation Projects
- President Obama Says Climate Change to Take Backseat to Economy
- California Unlikely to Spur Federal Emissions Cap Soon
- Green Building to Surge amid New LEDs & Smart Windows
- Germany Has Built Clean Energy Economy U-S Rejected in 80s
- Boosting 'Clean Heat' with Better Wood Stoves
- Where has the Love Gone - Portland Commuters Are Driving More, Taking Transit Less
- Faster Mobile Speeds Heading to Tri-Cities
- U-S Broadband’s New Reality: Slowing Growth
- How Do You Know if Your Broadband Meter is Accurate?
- Backlash on Facebook 'Promoted Posts' Feature; But is it Fair?
- Washington's McMorris Rodgers to be House's 4th-Ranking Republican
- Oregon Congressman Gets Republican Leadership Post
- Washington State Legislature – Mike Armstrong Concedes 12th District Seat to Brad Hawkins
- Washington State Budget Outlook Predicts Shortfall
- 'Clear & Present Danger': New Petition for Washington Secession
- Get Ready For a Lot of Rain
- Washington State Unemployment Rate Drops to 8.2 Percent
- British Petroleum to Pay $4.5 Billion in Gulf Spill Agreement
- Refineries Ran While 'Offline,' Pushing Up Gas Prices, Report Says
- Marketing Mason County; TV Commercials Unveiled
- FBI Agent Who Alerted Congressman Reichert to Petraeus Scandal Once Worked Here
- Spokane Area Residents Targeted by Scrap Metal Scam
WORD OF THE DAY
Unwieldy
• \un-WEEL-dee\ • Adjective - Not easily managed, handled, or used (as because
of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness): cumbersome.
The
tall ship’s crew had all they could handle. One of the cannons had sprung from
its carriage and began rolling across the deck, its vast weight and bulk turning
into a mindless, unwieldy thing…bouncing on its trunnions; thumping its way
from gunwale to gunwale as the ship tossed across the green, frothy waves that
drenched the seamen each time they got close to securing the pig-headed piece
of brass.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
FERC Suspends JPMorgan Unit’s Power-Trading
Authority (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
Bonneville Power Administration Increase May Bring Snohomish
PUD Rate Boost (Everett Herald, WA)
No Rate Increases in Lewis County PUD Budget - Ratepayers
May Pay More in 2014 As Utility Costs Go Up (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
Power Rates to Rise in Pacific Northwest (Electric
Co-op Today)
Lake Limerick - Mason County PUD 3 Beginning
Four-Week Tree Trimming Project (Olympian, WA)
Study: U-S Power Grid Vulnerable to Terrorist
Attack (USA Today)
Mass Hysteria! Thousands Seen Dying if Terrorists
Attack U-S Power Grid (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
Con Ed: Sorry About Sandy, Get Ready for Rate
Increases (New York Business Journal, NY)
New York - Long Island Power Authority Executive Mike
Hervey Resigns (American Public Power Association)
Lack of Electricians Delays NY Recovery from Sandy
(MSN News)
Power Merger Rankles Vermont's Smaller Utilities
(Burlington Free Press, VT)
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20121115/BUSINESS08/311150008/Power-merger-rankles-Vermont-s-smaller-utilities
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20121115/BUSINESS08/311150008/Power-merger-rankles-Vermont-s-smaller-utilities
Demystifying Electricity Pricing (Boston Globe, MA)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Oregon - Salmon Deal: Put Premium on Saving Jobs
(Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Oregon
State University Study Urges Massive Grazing Cuts (Albany
Democrat-Herald, OR)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Grant
County, REC Silicon to Negotiate Tax Assessments (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses
Lake, WA)
Google
Invests $75 Million in Iowa Wind Farm (ABC News)
Poo
to Power - Benson Biofuels Company is Fined for Air Pollution (Minneapolis Star-Tribune,
MN)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Energy Adviser: LEDs Light Holidays Efficiently (Vancouver
Columbian, WA)
Norpac, Longview Fibre Honored for Conservation
Projects (Longview Daily News, WA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
President
Obama Says Climate Change to Take Backseat to Economy (Politico)
California
Unlikely to Spur Federal Emissions Cap Soon (Associated Press)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Green
Building to Surge amid New LEDs & Smart Windows (USA Today)
Germany
Has Built Clean Energy Economy U-S Rejected in 80s (Bloomberg News)
Boosting
'Clean Heat' with Better Wood Stoves (Baltimore Sun, MD)
Where
has the Love Gone - Portland Commuters Are Driving More, Taking Transit Less
(Oregon Public Broadcasting)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Faster Mobile Speeds Heading to Tri-Cities (KNDU-TV,
Tri-Cities, WA)
U-S Broadband’s New Reality: Slowing Growth (GigaOM)
How Do You Know if Your Broadband Meter is
Accurate? (GigaOM)
Backlash on Facebook 'Promoted Posts' Feature; But is
it Fair? (Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, CA)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington's McMorris Rodgers to be House's 4th-Ranking
Republican (KING-TV, Seattle)
Oregon Congressman Gets Republican Leadership Post
(Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Washington State Legislature – Mike Armstrong Concedes
12th District Seat to Brad Hawkins (Wenatchee World, WA)
Washington State Budget Outlook Predicts Shortfall (Associated
Press)
'Clear & Present Danger': New Petition for Washington
Secession (KING-TV, Seattle)
GENERAL NEWS
Get Ready For a Lot of Rain (KING-TV, Seattle)
Washington State Unemployment Rate Drops to 8.2
Percent (Associated Press)
British Petroleum to Pay $4.5 Billion in Gulf Spill
Agreement - The oil giant will also plead guilty to 11 felony counts (USA
Today)
Refineries Ran While 'Offline,' Pushing Up Gas
Prices, Report Says (KING-TV, Seattle)
Marketing Mason County; TV Commercials Unveiled
(Mason Web-TV, Shelton, WA)
FBI Agent Who Alerted Congressman Reichert to Petraeus
Scandal Once Worked Here (KCPQ-TV, Seattle/Tacoma, WA)
Spokane Area Residents Targeted by Scrap Metal Scam
(Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
DIVERSIONS
A Plumaged Pilgrimage: How Wild Turkeys Came to the
Pacific Northwest
Free Samples, a Look Back: Brown & Haley Celebrates
100 Years this Saturday
Doppelganger Central - Idaho Couple to Stand Trial for
Alleged Fake Cancer Story
SONG OF THE DAY
The
Archies (Ron Dante) – Sugar, Sugar
