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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
El Nino May Cool US This Summer, Cutting
Electricity Demand (Bloomberg News)
Alaska Salmon Group Will Continue Certification
of Sustainable Harvest (Associated Press)
Clean-Energy
Requirements Targeted by American Legislative Exchange Council, Grover Norquist
(Bloomberg News)
Lobbyists Give Legislature a C- in New Elway Poll
(Seattle Times)
Washington’s Statewide Whooping Cough Outbreak
Worst in over 60 Years (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- El Nino May Cool US This Summer, Cutting Electricity Demand
- NRECA Updates Pole Attachment Guide
- Three Members Still Want to Leave Southern Montana Electric Co-Op
- Mason County PUD 3 Tree Trimming Now Through May
- Co-Ops Rise to New Challenges - Serving Small Areas Doesn’t Make Problems Smaller
- Mason County Has Threatened Shellfish Areas
- Alaska Salmon Group Will Continue Certification of Sustainable Harvest
- Catching a Legacy as Issaquah Salmon Hatchery Turns 75
- Whale that Died in Puget Sound Ate Golf Ball – Calling Cosmo Kramer
- On the Elwha, a Lunar Landscape Emerges
- Clean-Energy Requirements Targeted by American Legislative Exchange Council, Grover Norquist
- Maine Regulators Pave Way for US Tidal Power
- Solar Hot Water Heaters
- Five Reasons Why California Cities Will Build One Million Solar Roofs & 12 Distributed GW by 2020
- California - Pacific Gas & Electric Customers Can Pay More to be Greener
- US DOE Funding to Develop Plug-And-Play Home Solar Energy Systems
- Op/Ed - Generating Green Energy
- A Jones for Osmosis: New Potential for Power in Rivers’ Flow to Sea
- Apple Stores Targeted by Greenpeace Activists
- Apple’s North Carolina Data Center: Transparency & the Pressure to Go Green
- The Future of TV Isn’t TV, It’s Broadband
- Lobbyists Give Legislature a C- in New Elway Poll
- Washington’s Statewide Whooping Cough Outbreak Worst in over 60 Years
- Mason County Unemployment up Slightly
- Belfair Water District Makes Interim Manager Permanent
- Summary of North Mason Community Voice Meeting on Highway 3 Widening
WORD OF THE DAY
Cahoot
• \kuh-HOOT\ • Noun - Partnership, league — usually used in plural
The rebellion was well under way. The IS department was in cahoots with
the accountants to have a weekly “pizza day.” Their efforts were thwarted by
the human resources department, which offered a “haggis day” instead, replete with
coupons for Mac’s “Haggis Hut.” The accounts payable accountant was not amused.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
El Nino May Cool US This Summer, Cutting
Electricity Demand (Bloomberg News)
NRECA Updates Pole Attachment Guide (Electric Co-op
Today)
Three Members Still Want to Leave Southern Montana
Electric Co-Op (Great Falls Tribune, MT)
Mason County PUD 3 Tree Trimming Now Through May (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
Co-Ops Rise to New Challenges - Serving Small Areas
Doesn’t Make Problems Smaller (EnergyBiz)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Mason County Has Threatened Shellfish Areas - Hood
Canal, Oakland Bay, Pickering Passage & Rocky Bay (Mason Web TV, Shelton,
WA)
Alaska Salmon Group Will Continue Certification
of Sustainable Harvest (Associated Press)
Catching a Legacy as Issaquah Salmon Hatchery
Turns 75 (Issaquah Press, WA)
Whale that Died in Puget Sound Ate Golf Ball –
Calling Cosmo Kramer (Associated Press)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
On
the Elwha, a Lunar Landscape Emerges (Seattle Times)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Clean-Energy
Requirements Targeted by American Legislative Exchange Council, Grover Norquist
(Bloomberg News)
Maine
Regulators Pave Way for US Tidal Power (Associated Press)
Solar
Hot Water Heaters (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Five
Reasons Why California Cities Will Build One Million Solar Roofs & 12
Distributed GW by 2020 (Forbes Magazine)
California
- Pacific Gas & Electric Customers Can Pay More to be Greener (SF
Chronicle)
US
DOE Funding to Develop Plug-And-Play Home Solar Energy Systems (Electric Light &
Power)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Op/Ed - Generating Green Energy (Islands Sounder,
Eastsound, WA)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
A
Jones for Osmosis: New Potential for Power in Rivers’ Flow to Sea (Renewable
Energy World)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Apple Stores Targeted by Greenpeace Activists (San
Jose Mercury News, CA)
Apple’s North Carolina Data Center: Transparency &
the Pressure to Go Green (GigaOM)
The Future of TV Isn’t TV, It’s Broadband (GigaOM)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Lobbyists Give Legislature a C- in New Elway Poll (Seattle
Times)
GENERAL NEWS
Washington’s Statewide Whooping Cough Outbreak
Worst in over 60 Years (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
Mason County Unemployment up Slightly (Mason Web
TV, Shelton, WA)
Belfair
Water District Makes Interim Manager Permanent (Kitsap
Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Summary of North Mason Community Voice Meeting on
Highway 3 Widening (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Stuck Train Horn Bellows for Hours in Portland
Long Island Mom Fired After Donating Kidney to Her
Boss
Heart Attack Grill Strikes Again, another Customer
Hospitalized
Huge Rodent Found In England - ‘I’ve Never Seen a
Rat as Big’
SONG OF THE DAY
Steep
Canyon Rangers & Steve Martin
