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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Op/Ed
- Now Biomass is the Environment’s Enemy? (Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal)
Mason County PUD 3 Settles into New Home - Johns
Prairie Operations Center offers expanded space for customer-centered service (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Radiation from Japan’s Damaged Reactors Posed
Little Risk in Oregon Despite Portland ‘Hotspot’ (Oregonian, Portland)
How
Green Are Electric Cars? Depends on Where You Plug In (NY Times)
Lake Cushman Killing - Wife’s Last Words: ‘Why
Don’t You Just Shoot Me?’ (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Mason County PUD 3 Settles into New Home
- Radiation from Japan’s Damaged Reactors Posed Little Risk in Oregon Despite Portland ‘Hotspot’
- Montana - Beartooth Electric Co-op Seeks to Nullify SME Contract
- Pennsylvania - Just Don’t Call It a ‘Smart Meter’; PECO Has Begun Installations
- Washington State Not Ready for Implications of British Columbia Pipeline Expansion
- Natural Gas Explosion – Pacific Gas & Electric Makes $70 Million Payment to San Bruno
- Washington State Plan to Fend Off Mussels Gets Lake Mead Test
- Salmon May Soon Spawn Again in Elk Flats
- Nez Perce Tribe Releases Lampreys in Wallowa River
- Grant County PUD Delivers Salmon Lesson - Provides Tour of Priest Rapids Hatchery
- Marine Mammals Coming Back to the Salish Sea
- Op/Ed - Now Biomass is the Environment’s Enemy?
- Biomass, Geothermal Replacing Coal on Campuses
- Green Groups Sue to Stop California Wind Project that Threatens Condor
- Price of Solar Panels Continues to Drop, Damaging Companies’ Profits
- Wal-Mart Solar Power Count Hits 100 in US
- Take Me Out to the Renewably-Powered Ballgame
- Public Utilities Commission May Decide California’s Fight over Net-Metering
- United Kingdom - Ministers Preparing to Veto Wind Farms
- New Navy Center Identifies Energy Savings
- Saving $1 Trillion in Energy Costs
- The Glaciers Are Still Shrinking – And Rapidly
- Himalayan Glaciers Growing Despite Global Warming - Glaciers in parts of the greater Himalayas are growing despite the worldwide trend of ice melting due to warmer temperatures, a study has found
- Warming Takes Toll on Utah Snow & It Looks to Get Worse
- NOAA Temperature Record “Adjustments” Could Account for Almost All “Warming” Since 1973
- How Green Are Electric Cars? Depends on Where You Plug In
- Oregon - Lincoln City to Look at ‘Quick-Charge’ Option
- How Green is a Parking Lot? New Efforts to Test Infrastructure
- Portland Markets Its Solar-Powered Public Toilet
- Hybrid Tubular Solar Panels Create Electricity & Hot Water
- Telecoms’ Push Puts Expectation of Home Phone Line at Risk
- Ask an Expert: Why Twitter is Great for Small Business
- Washington State Ecology Employee Accused of Embezzlement
- McMorris Rodgers Could Balance Republican Ticket - Some predict she would complement Romney as VP
- With Lax Oversight, Mismanaged Oregon Towns Veer Toward Insolvency
- Lake Cushman Killing - Wife’s Last Words: ‘Why Don’t You Just Shoot Me?’
- Belfair Water District Customers Welcome New Guard
- Everett’s Kimberly-Clark Paper Mill Shuts down for Good
- Economy Has Habitat Doing More Rehabbing
- Don’t Wait for Social Security Check in the Mail
- Crap or Collectibles? Old Cars Prompt Dispute on the Chehalis
WORD OF THE DAY
Piquant • \PEEK-unt\ • Adjective - 1: agreeably
stimulating to the palate; especially: spicy 2: engagingly provocative; also:
having a lively arch charm
When the local dining editor said the local hash
house’s five-alarm chili had a “piquant personality, just right for a cold
winter’s repast,” what he really meant was that the meal had the volcanic
characteristic of drinking hot magma.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Mason County PUD 3 Settles into New Home - Johns
Prairie Operations Center offers expanded space for customer-centered service (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Radiation from Japan’s Damaged Reactors Posed
Little Risk in Oregon Despite Portland ‘Hotspot’ (Oregonian, Portland)
Montana - Beartooth Electric Co-op Seeks to Nullify
SME Contract (Great Falls Tribune, MT)
Pennsylvania - Just Don’t Call It a ‘Smart Meter’; PECO
Has Begun Installations (Philadelphia Inquirer, PA)
Washington State Not Ready for Implications of
British Columbia Pipeline Expansion (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Natural Gas Explosion – Pacific Gas & Electric Makes
$70 Million Payment to San Bruno (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Washington State Plan to Fend Off Mussels Gets Lake
Mead Test (Associated Press)
Salmon May Soon Spawn Again in Elk Flats (Cannon
Beach Gazette, OR)
Nez Perce Tribe Releases Lampreys in Wallowa
River (Wenatchee World, WA)
Grant County PUD Delivers Salmon Lesson - Provides
Tour of Priest Rapids Hatchery (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Marine Mammals Coming Back to the Salish Sea - The
shared inland waters of Juan de Fuca Strait, B.C.’s Strait of Georgia, &
Washington State’s Puget Sound may once again approach its former greatness (Victoria
Times Colonist, BC)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Op/Ed
- Now Biomass is the Environment’s Enemy? (Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal)
Biomass,
Geothermal Replacing Coal on Campuses (Midwest Energy News)
Green
Groups Sue to Stop California Wind Project that Threatens Condor (Forbes
Magazine)
Price
of Solar Panels Continues to Drop, Damaging Companies’ Profits (San Jose
Mercury News, CA)
Wal-Mart
Solar Power Count Hits 100 in US (Earth Techling)
Take
Me Out to the Renewably-Powered Ballgame (Scientific American)
Public
Utilities Commission May Decide California’s Fight over Net-Metering (Renewable
Energy World)
United
Kingdom - Ministers Preparing to Veto Wind Farms - Ministers are preparing to
veto major new wind farms in the British countryside & cut back their
subsidies, according to senior Whitehall sources (The Telegraph, UK)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/9205837/Ministers-preparing-to-veto-windfarms.html
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
New Navy Center Identifies Energy Savings (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Saving $1 Trillion in Energy Costs (Electric Co-op
Today)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT (“Ball of CONFUSION” EDITION)
The
Glaciers Are Still Shrinking – And Rapidly (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/15/glaciers-shrinking-rapidly
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/15/glaciers-shrinking-rapidly
Himalayan
Glaciers Growing Despite Global Warming - Glaciers in parts of the greater
Himalayas are growing despite the worldwide trend of ice melting due to warmer temperatures,
a study has found (The Telegraph, UK)
Warming
Takes Toll on Utah Snow & It Looks to Get Worse (Salt Lake Tribune, UT)
NOAA
Temperature Record “Adjustments” Could Account for Almost All “Warming” Since 1973
(Tucson Citizen, AZ)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
How
Green Are Electric Cars? Depends on Where You Plug In (NY Times)
Oregon
- Lincoln City to Look at ‘Quick-Charge’ Option (Coast River Business Journal,
Astoria, OR)
How
Green is a Parking Lot? New Efforts to Test Infrastructure (Idaho Statesman,
Boise)
Portland
Markets Its Solar-Powered Public Toilet (Associated Press)
Hybrid
Tubular Solar Panels Create Electricity & Hot Water (Laser Focus World)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Telecoms’ Push Puts Expectation of Home Phone Line at
Risk (Seattle Times)
Ask an Expert: Why Twitter is Great for Small
Business (USA Today)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Ecology Employee Accused of
Embezzlement (Olympian, WA)
McMorris Rodgers Could Balance Republican Ticket - Some
predict she would complement Romney as VP (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
With Lax Oversight, Mismanaged Oregon Towns Veer
Toward Insolvency (Oregonian, Portland)
GENERAL NEWS
Lake Cushman Killing - Wife’s Last Words: ‘Why Don’t
You Just Shoot Me?’ (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Belfair Water District Customers Welcome New Guard (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Everett’s Kimberly-Clark Paper Mill Shuts down for
Good (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Kimberly-Clark-paper-mill-officially-closes-its-doors-147535885.html
Economy Has Habitat Doing More Rehabbing (Associated
Press)
Don’t Wait for Social Security Check in the Mail (Associated
Press)
Crap or Collectibles? Old Cars Prompt Dispute on the
Chehalis (KING-TV, Seattle)
DIVERSIONS
1962
Classmates Did a Fair Job of Predicting 21st-Century Life
Please Don’t Live-Tweet Your 12 Hour Wedding
Proposal
‘Dead’ Hamster Digs Itself Out of Grave - Pet Rodent
Resurrected
Deputies: Man Attacks Girlfriend with Ukulele over $10
SONG OF THE DAY
Moody
Blues - Nights in White Satin (From the album “Days of Future Passed”)
