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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Mason County Shooting Victim Identified (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
Tahuya Peninsula Roads Returning to Normal (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
California Farmers Want Orcas Taken Off
Endangered-Species List (Seattle Times)
Washington State Program to Recycle Mercury Lights
(Associated Press)
The
Rise & Fall of the U-S Wind Industry, In One Chart (Washington Post)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Op/Ed - Co-Ops Put Democracy to Work
- New York Utility Wants Its $770,000 Hydroelectric Special Assessment Back
- How to Avoid the Next Sandy Meltdown
- California Farmers Want Orcas Taken Off Endangered-Species List
- Scientists Want New Name for Transient Orcas
- Washington State Governor to Announce Action on Ocean Acidity
- Poulsbo Home Flooded with Raw Sewage – Again
- The Rise & Fall of the U-S Wind Industry, In One Chart
- VIDEO - PUD 3 Shows Where the Wind Energy in its Power Mix Comes From
- Portland General Electric Receives Bids for 39 Renewable Energy Projects
- Solar Power Plants Burden the Counties That Host Them in California
- Spain Expands Renewables with Wave-Powered Electricity Plant
- Washington State Program to Recycle Mercury Lights
- Check out this news release from 2008! PUD 3 to Provide for Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb Recycling
- United Nations Says Thawing Permafrost to Boost Global Warming
- Toilets Use Rainwater in New Government Building in Seattle
- New Gym Turns Workouts into Watts
- Bitter Struggle over Internet Regulation to Dominate Global Summit
- Cyber Monday Sales Finish Strong
- Google’s Name Used in Bogus Report of $400 Million Acquisition
- Facebook Privacy Chain Letter Resurfaces
- Washington State Considers Private Bids for Mail, Web Work; Printer is Next
- Mason County Shooting Victim Identified
- Tahuya Peninsula Roads Returning to Normal
- Private Study Sees Some Job Loss with Wild Olympics Legislation
- Washington State Refineries Processing Crude from North Dakota, Montana
- Mason County Commission - Bloomfield Farewell Reception
- Thieves Targeting City of Vancouver’s Metal Storm Drain Grates
- Colville Tree for U-S Capitol Christmas in 2013
- Moon Rocks Discovered in Minnesota, But More Rocks Missing
WORD OF THE DAY
Sederunt
• \sud-DEER-unt\ • Noun - A prolonged sitting (as for discussion)
“Call
it what you will,” puffed the indignant visitor to the ‘progressive marketing’
party of his assertive neighbor. “A pow-wow, party, sederunt, intimate affair; it’s
all the same to me, a hard-sell campaign for you.”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Video – The Green Economy 126 “Hydro Power” - Don &
Andrew find out how hydroelectric power is green by visiting Bonneville Dam on
the Columbia River (The Green Economy)
Op/Ed - Co-Ops Put Democracy to Work (Coeur d’Alene
Press, ID)
New York Utility Wants Its $770,000 Hydroelectric
Special Assessment Back (Courthouse News Service)
How to Avoid the Next Sandy Meltdown (CNN Money)
FISH & WILDLIFE
California Farmers Want Orcas Taken Off
Endangered-Species List (Seattle Times)
Scientists Want New Name for Transient Orcas (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Washington
State Governor to Announce Action on Ocean Acidity (Associated Press)
Poulsbo
Home Flooded with Raw Sewage – Again (KOMO-TV,
Seattle)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
The
Rise & Fall of the U-S Wind Industry, In One Chart (Washington Post)
VIDEO
- PUD 3 Shows Where the Wind Energy in its Power Mix Comes From (Mason County
PUD No. 3)
Portland
General Electric Receives Bids for 39 Renewable Energy Projects (Sustainable Business Oregon)
Solar
Power Plants Burden the Counties That Host Them in California (Governing)
Spain
Expands Renewables with Wave-Powered Electricity Plant (National Public Radio)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Washington State Program to Recycle Mercury Lights (Associated
Press)
Check out this news release from 2008! PUD 3 to
Provide for Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb Recycling (Mason County PUD No. 3)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
United
Nations Says Thawing Permafrost to Boost Global Warming (Associated Press)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Toilets
Use Rainwater in New Government Building in Seattle (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle)
New
Gym Turns Workouts into Watts (CNN)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Bitter Struggle over Internet Regulation to
Dominate Global Summit (Reuters)
Cyber Monday Sales Finish Strong (USA Today)
Google’s Name Used in Bogus Report of $400 Million
Acquisition (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/rss/ci_22068355
http://www.mercurynews.com/rss/ci_22068355
Facebook Privacy Chain Letter Resurfaces (Washington
Post)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Considers Private Bids for Mail,
Web Work; Printer is Next (Olympian, WA)
Washington State’s Past Governors’ Advice to Inslee:
Move Quickly (Seattle Times)
GENERAL NEWS
Mason County Shooting Victim Identified (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
Tahuya Peninsula Roads Returning to Normal (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Private Study Sees Some Job Loss with Wild
Olympics Legislation (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Washington State Refineries Processing Crude from
North Dakota, Montana (Associated Press)
Mason County Commission - Bloomfield Farewell
Reception (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Thieves Targeting City of Vancouver’s Metal Storm
Drain Grates (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Colville Tree for U-S Capitol Christmas in 2013 (Spokesman
Review, Spokane, WA)
Moon Rocks Discovered in Minnesota, But More Rocks
Missing (Christian Science Monitor)
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/1127/Moon-rocks-discovered-in-Minnesota-but-more-rocks-missing
DIVERSIONS – ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER
On Average the Stones Are Older Than U-S Supreme
Court
Pot Institute Formed at Humboldt State University
Alligators Found Guarding Olympia Marijuana Grow
The Onion Strikes Again - Kim Jong Eun as ‘Sexiest
Man Alive’? Chinese News Site Falls for an Onion Story on the Supreme Leader.
SONG OF THE DAY
John
Lennon - Beautiful Boy
