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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Bonneville Power Administration Proposes 9.6
Percent Wholesale Rate Hike - Clark Public Utilities among customers that could
be paying more (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
NW Power Utilities Turn Focus to Energy Efficiency
(Northwest Public Radio)
http://nwpr.org/post/nw-power-utilities-turn-focus-energy-efficiency
http://nwpr.org/post/nw-power-utilities-turn-focus-energy-efficiency
Op/Ed
- How Wind Energy is Helping Our State: The federal Production Tax Credit that
supports wind-energy investment deserves extension (Seattle Times)
California
Carbon ‘Crippled’ by Buyer Hesitation: Energy Markets (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
“Neutral Winter” Forecast Could Mean Surprise
Storms (KING-TV, Seattle)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Bonneville Power Administration Proposes 9.6 Percent Wholesale Rate Hike
- News Release - Bonneville Power Administration Proposes Rate Increase to Bolster Federal Power & Transmission Systems
- Rate Hikes Brewing for Grant PUD Customers
- Chelan PUD Water, Sewer Customers Will Pay More in 2013 - Electricity Rates Unchanged
- Major Electrical Accident May Disable Washington Ferry for Years
- Snohomish PUD to Save $11 Million with Bond Refinancing
- Fitch Rates Clark County Public Utilities Bonds “A+”, Outlook Stable
- Official Backs Studying Quake Risks at Nuclear Power Plants
- U-S Energy Secretary Announces Plan to Get Hanford Vit Plant on Track
- Drunk Driver Knocks Out Power to Hundreds of Kennewick Homes
- Superstorm Sandy: Hundreds of Thousands Still Without Power
- Op/Ed - California: Reading Your Marin Clean Energy Power Bill
- Fish & Wildlife to Consider Puget Sound Octopus Harvesting Bans
- Aggressive Owls Attacking People at Local State Parks
- Op/Ed - How Wind Energy is Helping Our State
- Does Michigan’s Clean-Energy Loss Mean that Greens Are Outgunned at the State Level?
- NW Power Utilities Turn Focus to Energy Efficiency
- California Carbon ‘Crippled’ by Buyer Hesitation: Energy Markets
- Climate Change is Making Your Coffee More Expensive
- U-S Weather Was Cooler Than Average in October
- Three Warning Signs America is Losing the Global Clean Energy Race
- Subscriber Data from Internet Service Providers
- Twitter Mistakenly Resets Large Amount of User Passwords
- Australia Abandons Mandatory Internet Filter Plan
- Watkins Concedes in Washington State Auditor Race
- Washington State Races - Link to Current Ballot Counts
- Oregon’s U-S Senator Wyden Poised to Chair Energy, Natural Resources Committee
- Didn’t We See This Before? - Gregoire headed for President Obama’s Cabinet?
- “Neutral Winter” Forecast Could Mean Surprise Storms
- Snow Falls in Spokane; Maybe More this Weekend
- Legal Marijuana Vote Raises Possibility of Weed Tourism
- ‘Magic’ Mushrooms Could Mean Prison for Hoquiam Grower
WORD OF THE DAY
Kaput
• \ku-PUT\ • Adjective - 1: utterly finished, defeated, or destroyed 2: unable
to function: useless 3: hopelessly outmoded
I
love word origins. Here’s the origin of kaput via Merriam-Webster Dictionary
online:
“Kaput”
originated with a card game called piquet that has been popular in France for
centuries. French players originally used the term “capot” to describe both big
winners and big losers. To win all twelve tricks in a hand was called “faire
capot” (“to make capot”), but to lose them all was known as “être capot” (“to
be capot”). German speakers adopted “capot,” but respelled it “kaputt,” and
used it only for losers. When English speakers borrowed the word from German,
they started using “kaput” for things that were broken, useless, or destroyed.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Bonneville Power Administration Proposes 9.6
Percent Wholesale Rate Hike - Clark Public Utilities among customers that could
be paying more (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Bonneville Power Administration Proposes 9.6
Percent Rate Increase (Longview Daily News, WA)
News Release - Bonneville Power Administration
Proposes Rate Increase to Bolster Federal Power & Transmission Systems (Bonneville
Power Administration)
Rate Hikes Brewing for Grant PUD Customers (Wenatchee
World, WA)
Chelan PUD Water, Sewer Customers Will Pay More in
2013 - Electricity Rates Unchanged (Wenatchee World, WA)
Major Electrical Accident May Disable Washington Ferry
for Years - Lockout/Tagout Procedures Alleged (KING-TV, Seattle)
Snohomish PUD to Save $11 Million with Bond
Refinancing (Lake Stevens Journal, WA)
Fitch Rates Clark County Public Utilities Bonds “A+”,
Outlook Stable (Reuters)
Official Backs Studying Quake Risks at Nuclear
Power Plants (Associated Press)
U-S Energy Secretary Announces Plan to Get Hanford Vit
Plant on Track (Tri-City Herald, WA)
Drunk Driver Knocks Out Power to Hundreds of Kennewick
Homes (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Superstorm Sandy: Hundreds of Thousands Still
Without Power (Associated Press)
Op/Ed - California: Reading Your Marin Clean Energy
Power Bill (Marin County Independent Journal, CA)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Fish & Wildlife to Consider Puget Sound Octopus
Harvesting Bans (Seattle Times)
Aggressive Owls Attacking People at Local State
Parks (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Aggressive-owls-attacking-people-at-local-state-parks-178012581.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Op/Ed
- How Wind Energy is Helping Our State: The federal Production Tax Credit that
supports wind-energy investment deserves extension (Seattle Times)
Does
Michigan’s Clean-Energy Loss Mean that Greens Are Outgunned at the State Level?
(Grist Online)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
NW Power Utilities Turn Focus to Energy Efficiency
(Northwest Public Radio)
http://nwpr.org/post/nw-power-utilities-turn-focus-energy-efficiency
http://nwpr.org/post/nw-power-utilities-turn-focus-energy-efficiency
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
California
Carbon ‘Crippled’ by Buyer Hesitation: Energy Markets (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
Climate
Change is Making Your Coffee More Expensive (Washington Post)
U-S
Weather Was Cooler Than Average in October (USA Today)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Three
Warning Signs America is Losing the Global Clean Energy Race (Forbes Magazine)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Subscriber Data from Internet Service Providers (Bloomberg
BusinessWeek)
Twitter Mistakenly Resets Large Amount of User
Passwords (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Australia Abandons Mandatory Internet Filter Plan (Associated
Press)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Watkins Concedes in Washington State Auditor Race (Associated
Press)
Washington State Races - Link to Current Ballot Counts
(Washington Secretary of State)
Oregon’s U-S Senator Wyden Poised to Chair Energy,
Natural Resources Committee (Northwest Public Radio)
Didn’t We See This Before? - Gregoire headed for
President Obama’s Cabinet? (KING-TV, Seattle)
GENERAL NEWS
“Neutral Winter” Forecast Could Mean Surprise
Storms (KING-TV, Seattle)
Snow Falls in Spokane; Maybe More this Weekend (KING-TV,
Seattle)
Legal Marijuana Vote Raises Possibility of Weed
Tourism (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
‘Magic’ Mushrooms Could Mean Prison for Hoquiam Grower
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
DIVERSIONS
Charles Darwin Gets 4,000 Write-In Votes against Georgia
Congressman
Run Over By a Combine, Man Survives
USC Football’s Student Manager Fired for
Intentionally Deflating Game Balls
PETA Billboards Compare Eating Turkeys to Eating
Family Dog
SONG OF THE DAY
Get
Down - Gilbert O'Sullivan
