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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
All
Indications Point to Possible Banner Sockeye Salmon Returns (Seattle Times, WA)
Oregon
Reins in Tax Credits for Clean Energy (Associated Press)
Chehalis
River Dam Remains Most Contentious Proposal (Aberdeen
Daily World, WA)
Sixty Years of Pacific Northwest Aluminum
(Associated Press)
Clark Public Utilities to Offer a Way to Track
Energy Use - Pilot program will launch this fall with 20,000 customers
(Vancouver Columbian, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Sixty Years of Pacific Northwest Aluminum
- Hundreds Celebrate Alcoa’s 60th in Wenatchee
- Snohomish PUD honored for Youngs Creek Hydro Project
- With a Clatskanie PUD Connection - Fitch Affirms Boise Kuna Irrigation District, ID
- Montana - Open the Gates: Projections for Kerr Dam Are Made
- BPA’s Oliver Discusses Energy Storage at MIT Enterprise Forum
- Texas Prepares for Soaring Power Demand, Urges Conservation
- er on High Voltage Transmission Lines
- Coal Export Terminals Would Bring Jobs, Execs Say
- Coal Clash Hits Close to Home
- Pacific Northwest Rail Lines Provide Routes for Coal Shipments to Asia
- All Indications Point to Possible Banner Sockeye Salmon Returns
- Many Happy Returns: Lots of Sockeye Counted at Ballard Locks
- Salmon Returning to Puget Sound Energy’s Baker/Marblemount Facilities
- Decline in Alaska’s King Salmon is Rooted in the Sea, Alaska State Biologists Say
- State Officials Try to Contain Western Alaska Salmon Revolt
- Acidic Step: Outsourcing Our Oysters
- Chehalis River Dam Remains Most Contentious Proposal
- Stakeholder Workshops Scheduled on Future Implementation of U-S/Canada Columbia River Treaty
- U-S Supreme Court: Can EPA Regulate Mud from Logging Roads?
- Oregon Reins in Tax Credits for Clean Energy
- Michigan Renewable Energy Ballot Debate Heats Up
- First Major U-S Solar Project Approved on Tribal Land
- Vestas Shuts Chinese Turbine Plant as Demand Cools
- Florida – City of Gainesville Looks for Ways to Limit Rate Impact of Biomass Plant
- Clark Public Utilities to Offer a Way to Track Energy Use
- Projects at Washington Prisons Save Energy, Create Jobs
- Vancouver Library Outshines Itself with LEED Gold
- Richland Goes Green to Save Green
- Global Warming Predicted to Raise Sea Level on West Coast Up to Four Feet in Places
- Editorial - Our Hydro-Powered State Awaits the Electric Model T
- Some Energy Investments Pay Off Faster than Others
- Does Kansas City Own the Business of Broadband?
- Top Ten Broadband Countries
- Why You Will Need a 300 Mbps Broadband Connection
- New Wi-Fi Standard Will Speed Up Video Streaming
- 30 Minutes or More: Why Web Content Keeps Getting Longer
- Ireland - Frustrated Customer Imprisoned Broadband Salesman
- Grays Harbor - Washington Gubernatorial Candidate Inslee Hits the Port, Energy Forum at Satsop
- Dem Front-Runner in Washington State’s 6th District; Five Republicans Vying for a Shot
- Belfair Goes Boom - Person Shooting at Fireworks Container Sets Off Huge Explosion
- Last Ecoterrorist Sentenced for University of Washington Horticulture Arson
- Federal Money Coming to Mason County
WORD OF THE DAY
Borborygmus • \bore-buh-RIGG-muss\ • Noun - Intestinal
rumbling caused by moving gas
The campfire meal had been a rousing success. Hot
dogs, potato salad, deviled eggs, and spicy baked beans. Alfred had a deep
fear, however, that his summer cook-out success was bound for a legendary end. The
frequency and volume of the various and sundry borborygmus reverberating from
his guests brought visions of the campfire scene from “Blazing Saddles.” “The
horror,” he muttered. “The horror.”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Sixty Years of Pacific Northwest Aluminum (Associated
Press)
Hundreds
Celebrate Alcoa’s 60th in Wenatchee (Wenatchee World, WA)
Snohomish PUD honored for Youngs Creek Hydro
Project (Mukilteo Beacon, WA)
With a Clatskanie PUD Connection - Fitch Affirms
Boise Kuna Irrigation District, ID (Arrowrock Hydroelectric Project) Revs at
'A-' (MarketWatch)
Montana - Open the Gates: Projections for Kerr Dam
Are Made (Polson Leader-Advertiser, MT)
BPA’s
Oliver Discusses Energy Storage at MIT Enterprise Forum (Bonneville Power
Administration)
Texas Prepares for Soaring Power Demand, Urges
Conservation (Reuters)
Austria – After Smoking High Test Weed, Woman Tries
to Cross River on High Voltage Transmission Lines (Austrian Times, AT)
THE COLUMBIAN NEWSPAPER FOCUSES ON PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAL PORTS
Coal
Export Terminals Would Bring Jobs, Execs Say - High unemployment fuels interest
in plans; permanence doubted (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Coal
Clash Hits Close to Home - Activists say promise of jobs doesn't balance
impacts on health, environment (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Pacific
Northwest Rail Lines Provide Routes for Coal Shipments to Asia (Vancouver
Columbian, WA)
FISH & WILDLIFE
All
Indications Point to Possible Banner Sockeye Salmon Returns (Seattle Times, WA)
Many
Happy Returns: Lots of Sockeye Counted at Ballard Locks (Seattle Times, WA)
Salmon
Returning to Puget Sound Energy’s Baker/Marblemount Facilities (News Tribune,
Tacoma, WA)
Decline
in Alaska’s King Salmon is Rooted in the Sea, Alaska State Biologists Say
(Sacramento Bee, CA)
State
Officials Try to Contain Western Alaska Salmon Revolt (Alaska Dispatch, AK)
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/state-officials-try-contain-western-alaska-salmon-revolt
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/state-officials-try-contain-western-alaska-salmon-revolt
Acidic
Step: Outsourcing Our Oysters (Seattle Times, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Chehalis
River Dam Remains Most Contentious Proposal (Aberdeen
Daily World, WA)
Stakeholder
Workshops Scheduled on Future Implementation of U-S/Canada Columbia River
Treaty (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
U-S
Supreme Court: Can EPA Regulate Mud from Logging Roads? (Associated Press)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Oregon
Reins in Tax Credits for Clean Energy (Associated Press)
Michigan
Renewable Energy Ballot Debate Heats Up (Associated Press)
First
Major U-S Solar Project Approved on Tribal Land (Renewable Energy World)
Vestas
Shuts Chinese Turbine Plant as Demand Cools (Reuters)
Florida
– City of Gainesville Looks for Ways to Limit Rate Impact of Biomass Plant
(Gainesville Sun, FL)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Clark Public Utilities to Offer a Way to Track
Energy Use - Pilot program will launch this fall with 20,000 customers (Vancouver
Columbian, WA)
Projects at Washington Prisons Save Energy, Create
Jobs (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Vancouver
Library Outshines Itself with LEED Gold (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Richland
Goes Green to Save Green (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Global
Warming Predicted to Raise Sea Level on West Coast Up to Four Feet in Places
(Oregonian, Portland, OR)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Editorial
- Our Hydro-Powered State Awaits the Electric Model T (News Tribune, Tacoma,
WA)
Some
Energy Investments Pay Off Faster than Others (Vancouver Sun, BC)
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Some+energy+investments+faster+than+others/6827251/story.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Does Kansas City Own the Business of Broadband?
(GigaOM)
Top Ten Broadband Countries (My Broadband)
Why You Will Need a 300 Mbps Broadband Connection
(Gigaom)
New Wi-Fi Standard Will Speed Up Video Streaming
(San Jose Mercury News, CA)
30 Minutes or More: Why Web Content Keeps Getting
Longer (GigaOM)
Ireland - Frustrated Customer Imprisoned Broadband
Salesman (The Independent, Ireland)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Grays
Harbor - Washington Gubernatorial Candidate Inslee Hits the Port, Energy Forum
at Satsop (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)
Dem
Front-Runner in Washington State’s 6th District; Five Republicans Vying for a
Shot (Seattle Times, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Belfair Goes Boom - Person Shooting at Fireworks
Container Sets Off Huge Explosion (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
Last
Ecoterrorist Sentenced for University of Washington Horticulture Arson (Associated
Press)
Federal
Money Coming to Mason County (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Bright
Red Cars Hit Most Often with Bird Droppings
Oregon
Probation Officer Answers Facebook Taunt, "Catch Me If You Can."
Nobody
Writes Anything Anymore, Says Study
TV
Remotes among Dirtiest Items in Hotels: Study
SONG OF THE DAY
The
Wiggles - Big Red Car
