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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Northwest Power & Conservation Council -
Pacific Northwest Likely to Continue Producing More Electricity than it Needs
Spring, Early Summer (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Insulation Can’t Hold Back Rising Energy Prices -
New insulation saves money, but energy prices are rising (Seattle Times)
Seattle Gets the Street View on the Quality of Its
Lights (NY Times)
Lower Part of Elwha to be “Re-Channeled” This
Week (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
Is It Winter’s Last Gasp? More Pacific Northwest
Storms Expected (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Northwest Power & Conservation Council - Pacific Northwest Likely to Continue Producing More Electricity than it Needs Spring, Early Summer
- Montana - Nobody’s In Charge at Meeting of Bankrupt Power Co-Op
- Natural Gas Falls on Spell of Balmy US Weather
- Alaska - Wartsila Wins $106 Million Dual-Fuel Power Plant Order from Matanuska Electric Association
- Op/Ed - The Draft Alaska Southeast Integrated Resource Plan is Fatally Flawed
- San Diego Gas & Electric Launches Smart Grid Privacy Initiative
- Smart Meters to Dominate Electricity Regulation by 2016
- Texas – Look Up: Mover Deserves Damages after Power Line Injury
- Lower Part of Elwha to be “Re-Channeled” This Week
- Early “Wish List” for Puget Sound Fisheries Comes Out at Washington State Fish & Wildlife Salmon Season Setting Meeting
- Oregon - Hatchery Salmon from McKenzie Planted in Coast Fork
- Studies of Geoduck Farms Show Limited Effects on Habitat
- Officials Will Show Skokomish River Restoration Plans
- On West Coast, Looking for Flotsam of a Disaster
- Washington State Biomass Study
- Slicing Silicon Thinner to Cut the Price of Solar Cells
- Vestas Not So Green After All
- Wind Energy Set to Grow Six-Fold in California, But Concerns Also Rise
- Palouse Community Center Honors Its Friend with Renewable Energy
- Insulation Can’t Hold Back Rising Energy Prices
- Seattle Gets the Street View on the Quality of Its Lights
- Consumer Reports: Light Bulb Buying Guide
- Washington State Employees’ March to Savings
- Efficiency Standards to Save Americans More than $1 Trillion by 2035
- Biomass Won’t Solve Climate Change Either
- California Ready to Cut Greenhouse Gases. Next, Doing It.
- Solyndra Is Blamed as Clean-Energy Loan Program Stalls
- As Web Booms, So Does Demand for Data Centers
- Dish Closes on Two Purchases Key to Broadband Plans
- Yahoo Sues Facebook over Patents
- Is It Helpful to Use the Homeless as a Walking Broadband Connection?
- Special Session: Washington State Leaders Discuss Plans for New Budget
- Hargrove, Angel Exit Race for 6th District Congressional Seat
- Columnist - Quitting on Your Constituents: Jay Inslee Does a Sarah Palin
- How Powerful is a Political Yard Sign?
- Is It Winter’s Last Gasp? More Pacific Northwest Storms Expected
- Eastern Washington State Wind Gusts Could Reach 50 MPH Today
- Sentence for ‘Millennium Bomber’ Ahmed Ressam Overturned - “Too Lenient”
- Suspect in Montesano Courthouse Assault Appears Before Judge
- Mason County Government Revenues on the Decline
- Forest Service Defends Western US Road Closures at Hearing
- Apollo to Buy Great Wolf for $5 per Share
WORD OF THE DAY
Quietus • \kwye-EE-tuss\ • Noun - 1: final
settlement 2: removal from activity; especially: death 3: something that quiets
or represses
Threats of a dress code
Quietus for poor dresser
No “flip flops” allowed
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Northwest Power & Conservation Council -
Pacific Northwest Likely to Continue Producing More Electricity than it Needs
Spring, Early Summer (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Montana - Nobody’s In Charge at Meeting of Bankrupt
Power Co-Op (Billings Gazette, MT)
Natural Gas Falls on Spell of Balmy US Weather (Associated
Press)
Alaska - Wartsila Wins $106 Million Dual-Fuel Power
Plant Order from Matanuska Electric Association (Electric Light & Power)
Op/Ed - The Draft Alaska Southeast Integrated
Resource Plan is Fatally Flawed (Juneau Empire, AK)
San Diego Gas & Electric Launches Smart Grid
Privacy Initiative (Electric Light & Power)
Smart Meters to Dominate Electricity Regulation by
2016 (Phoenix Business Journal, AZ)
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2012/03/10/smart-meters-to-dominate-electricity.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2012/03/10/smart-meters-to-dominate-electricity.html
Texas – Look Up: Mover Deserves Damages after Power
Line Injury (Courthouse News Service)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Lower Part of Elwha to be “Re-Channeled” This
Week (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
Early “Wish List” for Puget Sound Fisheries Comes
Out at Washington State Fish & Wildlife Salmon Season Setting Meeting (Seattle Times)
Oregon - Hatchery Salmon from McKenzie Planted in
Coast Fork (KVAL-TV, Eugene, OR)
Studies of Geoduck Farms Show Limited Effects on
Habitat (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Officials
Will Show Skokomish River Restoration Plans (Kitsap Sun,
Bremerton, WA)
On
West Coast, Looking for Flotsam of a Disaster (NY Times)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Washington
State Biomass Study (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Slicing
Silicon Thinner to Cut the Price of Solar Cells (NY Times)
Vestas
Not So Green After All - Administration has to subsidize “green” technologies
to get consumers to purchase (Greeley Gazette, CO)
Wind
Energy Set to Grow Six-Fold in California, But Concerns Also Rise (East County
Magazine, San Diego, CA)
Palouse
Community Center Honors Its Friend with Renewable Energy (Moscow-Pullman Daily
News, ID)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Insulation Can’t Hold Back Rising Energy Prices - New
insulation saves money, but energy prices are rising (Seattle Times)
Seattle Gets the Street View on the Quality of Its
Lights (NY Times)
Consumer Reports: Light Bulb Buying Guide (Consumer
Reports)
Washington State Employees’ March to Savings (March
to Savings)
Efficiency Standards to Save Americans More than $1
Trillion by 2035 (The Energy Collective)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Biomass
Won’t Solve Climate Change Either (Forbes Magazine)
California
Ready to Cut Greenhouse Gases. Next, Doing It. (Christian
Science Monitor)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Solyndra
Is Blamed as Clean-Energy Loan Program Stalls (NY Times)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
As Web Booms, So Does Demand for Data Centers (Gigaom)
Dish Closes on Two Purchases Key to Broadband Plans
(Associated Press)
Yahoo Sues Facebook over Patents (Associated Press)
Is It Helpful to Use the Homeless as a Walking
Broadband Connection? (GigaOM)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Special Session: Washington State Leaders Discuss
Plans for New Budget (Olympian, WA)
Hargrove, Angel Exit Race for 6th District
Congressional Seat (Olympian, WA)
Columnist - Quitting on Your Constituents: Jay
Inslee Does a Sarah Palin (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
How Powerful is a Political Yard Sign? (National
Public Radio)
GENERAL NEWS
Is It Winter’s Last Gasp? More Pacific Northwest Storms
Expected (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Eastern Washington State Wind Gusts Could Reach 50 MPH
Today (Associated Press)
Sentence for ‘Millennium Bomber’ Ahmed Ressam
Overturned - “Too Lenient” (Associated Press)
Suspect in Montesano Courthouse Assault Appears
Before Judge (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
Mason County Government Revenues on the Decline (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
City of Shelton Explains Not Pursuing COPS Grant
(Mason Web TV)
Forest Service Defends Western US Road Closures at
Hearing (Associated Press)
Apollo to Buy Great Wolf for $5 per Share (Associated
Press)
DIVERSIONS
Craziest Tax Deductions
Woman Who Buys Ring, Plans Wedding is Accused of
Stalking
Egyptian Lawmaker Resigns after Nose-Job Scandal –
Claimed bruises & bandages were from an assault
Science Explains Why the Color Pink Doesn’t Exist
SONG OF THE DAY
The
Flaming Lips - Do You Realize
