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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Grand Coulee Dam’s Aging Generators Getting Big
Upgrades (Associated Press)
Puget Sound Energy Customers May See Price Hike to
Pay for January Storm Damage (KING-TV, Seattle)
Pend Oreille PUD Announces New General Manager
(Pend Oreille PUD, Newport, WA)
Agency Says Eastern Steller Sea Lions Recovering
(Associated Press)
Report: Wind Company Vestas Eyed by Chinese Rival
(Oregon Public Broadcasting)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Grand Coulee Dam’s Aging Generators Getting Big Upgrades
- Puget Sound Energy Customers May See Price Hike to Pay for January Storm Damage
- Pend Oreille PUD Announces New General Manager
- Power Plant Issues: Neighbors Sue Idaho County to Block Nuclear Energy Plant
- ‘Smart’ Meters Crossroads
- Oregon - Where Clean Energy Abounds, a Push to Ship Coal
- EPA Wants Full Review of Oregon Coal Export Project
- California - Burglar Electrocuted When Trying To Steal Copper Wire, Deputies
- Florida - Electrical Accident Leaves Suwannee Valley Electric Co-Op Employee Hospitalized
- Hydroelectric Power Seen Expanding 15% from Upgrading US Dams
- Agency Says Eastern Steller Sea Lions Recovering
- Bigger Salmon Runs, More Places to Fish Bolster Springer Fans
- Idaho Salmon Season Opening; Chinook Fashionably Late
- ODFW to Begin Hazing Cormorants on Oregon Coast
- Clark Public Utilities to host Earth Day EcoFair
- Mason County Denies Code Change for Connecting to Belfair Sewer
- Report: Wind Company Vestas Eyed by Chinese Rival
- Utility Exec to Feds: Save Our Wind Energy Tax Break, Or Else
- Clean-Energy Subsidies Are Vanishing. What Should Replace Them?
- Refundable Federal Tax Credit Could Remove Barrier to Community Wind
- America Could Power a City on All the Small-Scale Hydroelectric Power We’re Not Harvesting
- Get Energy Conservation Tips at Snohomish PUD’s Earth Day Event
- Apple Contests Greenpeace’s Coal-fired Data Center Claims
- Verizon to Auction Spectrum Worth Billions
- Washington State Unemployment Rate Stays Flat at 8.3 Percent
- South Kitsap, Mason County Fire Levies Passing Handily
- Chelan, Douglas Voters Approve Arena Bailout Plan
WORD OF THE DAY
Bedizen• \bih-DYE-zun\ • verb - To dress or adorn
gaudily
To bedizen one’s self = Beau Brummel, Lady Gaga, a
child with unmatched “Geranimals”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Grand Coulee Dam’s Aging Generators Getting Big
Upgrades (Associated Press)
Puget Sound Energy Customers May See Price Hike to
Pay for January Storm Damage (KING-TV, Seattle)
Pend Oreille PUD Announces New General Manager
(Pend Oreille PUD, Newport, WA)
Power Plant Issues: Neighbors Sue Idaho County to
Block Nuclear Energy Plant (Associated Press)
‘Smart’ Meters Crossroads - Eugene Water &
Electric Board is on the cusp of key decisions about overhauling how it
measures consumption (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
Oregon - Where Clean Energy Abounds, a Push to Ship
Coal (NY Times)
EPA Wants Full Review of Oregon Coal Export Project
(Associated Press)
California - Burglar Electrocuted When Trying To
Steal Copper Wire, Deputies Say (San Bernardino Sun, CA)
Florida - Electrical Accident Leaves Suwannee
Valley Electric Co-Op Employee Hospitalized (Suwannee Democrat, FL)
Hydroelectric Power Seen Expanding 15% from
Upgrading US Dams (Bloomberg)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Agency Says Eastern Steller Sea Lions Recovering (Associated
Press)
Bigger Salmon Runs, More Places to Fish Bolster
Springer Fans (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
Idaho Salmon Season Opening; Chinook Fashionably
Late (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
ODFW to begin hazing cormorants on Oregon coast
(KCBY-TV, North Bend, OR)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Clark
Public Utilities to host Earth Day EcoFair (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Mason
County Denies Code Change for Connecting to Belfair Sewer; Directs Staff to
Create New Proposal (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Report:
Wind Company Vestas Eyed by Chinese Rival (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Utility
Exec to Feds: Save Our Wind Energy Tax Break, Or Else (Fortune Magazine)
Clean-Energy
Subsidies Are Vanishing. What Should Replace Them? (Washington Post)
Refundable
Federal Tax Credit Could Remove Barrier to Community Wind (Renewable Energy
World)
America
Could Power a City on All the Small-Scale Hydroelectric Power We’re Not
Harvesting (Grist Online)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Get Energy Conservation Tips at Snohomish PUD’s
Earth Day Event (Snohomish County Business Journal, Everett, WA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Apple Contests Greenpeace’s Coal-fired Data Center
Claims (PC World Business)
Verizon to Auction Spectrum Worth Billions (Associated
Press)
GENERAL NEWS
Washington State Unemployment Rate Stays Flat at
8.3 Percent (Associated Press)
South Kitsap, Mason County Fire Levies Passing
Handily (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Chelan, Douglas Voters Approve Arena Bailout Plan (Associated
Press)
DIVERSIONS
Strike Could Kill Off Twinkies, Ding Dongs
Man Protests Airport Security – Naked (and it ain’t
pretty…)
Forest Service in Quandary about Colorado Frozen
Cows
What Color Is Your Space Needle? For the 50th
anniversary, the Needle is going classic orange
SONG OF THE DAY
Chicago
- I’m a Man
