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HOT
SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Geologists
Identify New Earthquake Faults near Bellingham (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Cowlitz PUD Reaches Contract Deal With Electrical Workers Union
(Longview Daily News, WA)
Here It Comes: Sediment Starts to Really Hit the Elwha (Seattle Times)
Klamath Wildlife Refuge - A Rough Patch for Western Waterfowl (NY
Times)
Thanks to NoaNet - Odessa Receives High-Speed Internet Service (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
NEWS
HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Cowlitz PUD Reaches Contract Deal With Electrical Workers Union
- Puget Sound Energy Should Do the Math & Show Its Work - Coal liabilities put Washington ratepayers at risk
- Mason County PUD 3 Begins Producing In-House Videos to Inform Customers
- Bonneville Power Administration Helps Colville Tribe Members Reconnect with their Heritage
- Alaska - Grant Lake Hydro Studies Set for Summer
- US Natural Gas Supplies Grew Last Week
- India Struggles to Deliver Enough Electricity for Growth
- Landslide Risk at Three Gorges Dam Reservoir Cited in China
- Here It Comes: Sediment Starts to Really Hit the Elwha
- Klamath Wildlife Refuge - A Rough Patch for Western Waterfowl
- Rain Garden Reality Check
- Minnesota - Rural Electric Customers Pay the Price for Renewable Energy Mandate
- Op/Ed - Cleaner, Cheaper Energy Technologies
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District Develops Smart Grid
- Arkansas - Groups Fail in Attempt to Have Court Overturn Energy Conservation Incentives
- Climate Change: How Prepared is the Pacific Northwest?
- As Extreme Weather Events Increase, So Does Acceptance of Climate Science
- Federal Spending on Cleantech is 'Falling Off a Cliff'
- Thanks to NoaNet - Odessa Receives High-Speed Internet Service
- Delaware - Home Condemned after Comcast Truck Crashes into Parked Cars, Porch
- At Verizon, DSL Slows But FiOS Internet Booms
- Office of Minority & Women Business Enterprises - Shape Up Now or Risk Being Broken Up, Gregoire Tells Troubled Agency
- Leaving the Washington State Capitol - Senator Val Stevens Never Wavered from Her Views
- Geologists Identify New Earthquake Faults near Bellingham
- What Do Heavy Railroad Cars Have to Do with Earthquakes?
WORD
OF THE DAY
Atavism • \AT-tuh-viz-zum\
• Noun - 1a: recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an
ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination b: recurrence of or
reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity 2: one that
manifests atavism: throwback.
Brett loved his
office, especially the aquarium he made out of the new computer monitor
lovingly placed in his office by the company’s IT mavens. Brett’s atavism was
blatantly on display for any technology-savvy employee to see: a 1947
Royal-Standard typewriter, which had the name “Betsy,” and was referred to as
an instant print-out word processor.
SHELTON
FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY
& UTILITY ISSUES
Cowlitz PUD Reaches Contract Deal With Electrical Workers Union (Longview
Daily News, WA)
Puget Sound Energy Should Do the Math & Show Its Work - Coal
liabilities put Washington ratepayers at risk (Sightline Daily)
Mason
County PUD 3 Begins Producing In-House Videos to Inform Customers (Mason Web
TV, Shelton, WA)
Bonneville Power Administration Helps Colville Tribe Members Reconnect with
their Heritage (Bonneville Power Administration)
Alaska - Grant Lake Hydro Studies Set for Summer (Homer News, AK)
US Natural Gas Supplies Grew Last Week (Seattle Times)
India Struggles to Deliver Enough Electricity for Growth (NY Times)
Landslide Risk at Three Gorges Dam Reservoir Cited in China (NY Times)
FISH
& WILDLIFE
Here It Comes: Sediment Starts to Really Hit the Elwha (Seattle Times)
Klamath Wildlife Refuge - A Rough Patch for Western Waterfowl (NY
Times)
WATER
& THE ENVIRONMENT
Rain Garden
Reality Check (Sightline Daily)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE
ENERGY
Minnesota - Rural
Electric Customers Pay the Price for Renewable Energy Mandate (Watchdog)
Op/Ed - Cleaner,
Cheaper Energy Technologies (The Hill)
CONSERVATION
& EFFICIENCY
Sacramento Municipal Utility District Develops Smart Grid (Electric
Light & Power)
Arkansas - Groups Fail in Attempt to Have Court Overturn Energy
Conservation Incentives (Associated Press)
CLIMATE
CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Climate Change:
How Prepared is the Pacific Northwest? (Northwest Public Radio)
As Extreme
Weather Events Increase, So Does Acceptance of Climate Science (Christian Science
Monitor)
BARREL
O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Federal Spending
on Cleantech is 'Falling Off a Cliff' (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
TECHNOLOGY
& TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Thanks to NoaNet - Odessa Receives High-Speed Internet Service (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Delaware - Home Condemned after Comcast Truck Crashes into Parked Cars,
Porch (Delaware Online)
At Verizon, DSL Slows But FiOS Internet Booms (GigaOM)
POLITICS
& GOVERNANCE
Office of Minority & Women Business Enterprises - Shape Up Now or
Risk Being Broken Up, Gregoire Tells Troubled Agency (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Leaving the Washington State Capitol - Senator Val Stevens Never Wavered
from Her Views (Everett Herald, WA)
GENERAL
NEWS
Geologists
Identify New Earthquake Faults near Bellingham (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
What Do Heavy Railroad Cars Have to Do with Earthquakes? (KING-TV, Seattle)
DIVERSIONS
‘American Bandstand’ Icon Dick Clark Dies
Thief Posts a Photo of Himself Stealing Gas from a POLICE CAR on
Facebook; Gets Arrested
Living Batteries? How Clams Can Power Up an Electric Motor
SONG
OF THE DAY
Les Elgart &
Barry Manilow - Bandstand Boogie - American Bandstand Theme - 1954 & 1975
