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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Bill Drummond Named as New Bonneville Power
Administration Administrator (Bonneville Power Administration)
Bonneville Power Administration
Celebrates 75 Years (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Public Utility
Marks 75 Years of Serving Clark County (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Grant
County, REC Silicon Agree to End Three-Year Tax Dispute (Columbia Basin Herald,
Moses Lake, WA)
Air
Stagnation Advisory in Effect for Mason County (National Weather Service,
Seattle)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Bill Drummond Named as New Bonneville Power Administration Administrator
- Montanan Bill Drummond to Lead Bonneville Power Administration
- Public Power Council Applauds Decision on New BPA Administrator
- Bonneville Power Administration Celebrates 75 Years
- Public Utility Marks 75 Years of Serving Clark County
- Comment Meetings Set over Pacific Power’s Selah-Vantage Power Line
- Wahkiakum PUD Discontinues Westend Meetings
- California – Pacific Gas & Electric Clarifies 'Lost Its Way' Ad Campaign
- State Audit Rips California Utilities Commission for Fund Errors
- U-S Natural Gas Supplies Shrank Last Week
- PJM Interconnection - Breaking New Ground on Grid Rules
- DOE Issues New Strategy for Nuclear Waste That Would Require Federal Legislation; Calls for Some Interim Storage by 2021
- Rains Bring Some Relief to Depleted Reservoirs of Brazil’s Hydroelectric Plants
- Research Helps Design Fish-Friendlier Hydropower Turbines
- Ducks Unlimited Isn’t a Hunting Club; It’s All About Wetlands, Waterfowl
- Grant County, REC Silicon Agree to End Three-Year Tax Dispute
- Minnesota - Feds Decide Goodhue County Wind Project's Eagle Toll is OK
- Florida - City of Gainesville Paid Law Firm Close to $1 Million on Biomass-Related Fees
- Portland’s Kilowatt Crackdown Enlists More Than 50 Buildings
- World Warm Last Year, But Not Like Record U-S Heat
- Soot Is No. 2 Global-Warming Culprit, Study Finds
- German Man Builds Device to Suck Electricity from Power Lines, Other People
- An Inquiry Into Discolored Snow
- Extension Cord Fire Stops Royal Slope’s Grant PUD Fiber Service
- Ask.com Has Found the Answer to a Strong Comeback
- Supreme Court Hears Argument on the FCC’s Authority to Rule on Cellphone Towers
- Grant County PUD to Install a Tait Trunked Digital Mobile Radio Network
- Inslee Sworn In as Washington State Governor, Promises ‘Disruptive Change’
- A State Divided: As Washington Becomes More Liberal, Republicans Push Back
- Sleeping in Congress: Fewer Freshmen Bunk in Offices
- Air Stagnation Advisory in Effect for Mason County
- Fliers Losing Faith in Boeing Dreamliner
- Economist: Drop in Washington State Jobless Rate May Be Misleading
- McCleary Investment Could Create 400 Jobs by 2014
- 20th Anniversary for Mason Transit
- North Kitsap Firefighter's Expulsion from Union Exposes Rift with Ambulance Company
- Change in the Air for Blizzard of Winter Weather Terms
- Photos: Snake River Becomes Field Of Ice During Cold Snap
WORD OF THE DAY
Vernissage
• \vare-nuh-SAZH\ • Noun - A private showing or preview of an art exhibition.
“This
here is a private party,” growled the pair of eyes under beetled brows that
peered through the darkened slit in the password-protected underground art
gallery. Dilton gulped nervously, his Adams apple bobbing up and down his
throat like a rabbit running under a rug. He did have an invitation to the nefarious
vernissage of black-market “Peanuts” etchings…but a note eating shrub had
filched it (with the password) from him.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Bill Drummond Named as New Bonneville Power
Administration Administrator (Bonneville Power Administration)
Montanan Bill Drummond to Lead Bonneville Power
Administration (Associated Press)
Public Power Council Applauds Decision on New BPA
Administrator (Public Power Council - News Release)
Bonneville Power
Administration Celebrates 75 Years (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Public Utility
Marks 75 Years of Serving Clark County (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Comment Meetings Set over Pacific Power’s Selah-Vantage
Power Line (Yakima Herald, WA)
Wahkiakum PUD Discontinues Westend Meetings
(Wahkiakum Eagle, Skamokawa, WA)
California – Pacific Gas & Electric Clarifies
'Lost Its Way' Ad Campaign (SF Chronicle, CA)
State Audit Rips California Utilities Commission for
Fund Errors (Sacramento Bee, CA)
U-S Natural Gas Supplies Shrank Last Week (Associated
Press)
PJM Interconnection - Breaking New Ground on Grid
Rules (New York Times, NY)
DOE Issues New Strategy for Nuclear Waste That
Would Require Federal Legislation; Calls for Some Interim Storage by 2021 (American
Public Power Association)
Rains Bring Some Relief to Depleted Reservoirs of
Brazil’s Hydroelectric Plants (Washington Post)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Research Helps
Design Fish-Friendlier Hydropower Turbines (Northwest Public Radio)
Ducks Unlimited Isn’t a Hunting Club; It’s All
About Wetlands, Waterfowl (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Grant
County, REC Silicon Agree to End Three-Year Tax Dispute (Columbia Basin Herald,
Moses Lake, WA)
Minnesota
- Feds Decide Goodhue County Wind Project's Eagle Toll is OK (Minneapolis Star-Tribune,
MN)
Florida
- City of Gainesville Paid Law Firm Close to $1 Million on Biomass-Related Fees
(Gainesville Sun, FL)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Portland’s Kilowatt Crackdown Enlists More Than 50
Buildings (Portland Business Journal, OR)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
World
Warm Last Year, But Not Like Record U-S Heat (Associated
Press)
Soot
Is No. 2 Global-Warming Culprit, Study Finds (Christian Science Monitor)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
German
Man Builds Device to Suck Electricity from Power Lines, Other People (The
Atlantic)
An
Inquiry Into Discolored Snow (New York Times, NY)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Extension Cord Fire Stops Royal Slope’s Grant PUD Fiber
Service (Crescent Bar Chronicle, WA)
Ask.com Has Found the Answer to a Strong Comeback (USA
Today)
Supreme Court Hears Argument on the FCC’s Authority
to Rule on Cellphone Towers (New York Times, NY)
Grant County PUD to Install a Tait Trunked Digital
Mobile Radio Network (SF Chronicle, CA)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Inslee Sworn In as Washington State Governor,
Promises ‘Disruptive Change’ (Seattle Times, WA)
A State Divided: As Washington Becomes More
Liberal, Republicans Push Back (TIME Magazine)
Sleeping in Congress: Fewer Freshmen Bunk in
Offices (USA Today)
GENERAL NEWS
Air
Stagnation Advisory in Effect for Mason County (National Weather Service,
Seattle)
Fliers Losing Faith
in Boeing Dreamliner (USA Today)
Economist: Drop in Washington
State Jobless Rate May Be Misleading (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
McCleary Investment Could Create 400 Jobs by 2014
(KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
20th Anniversary for
Mason Transit (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
North Kitsap Firefighter's
Expulsion from Union Exposes Rift with Ambulance Company (Kitsap Sun,
Bremerton, WA)
Change in the Air for
Blizzard of Winter Weather Terms (Associated Press)
Photos: Snake River
Becomes Field Of Ice During Cold Snap (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Three-legged dog caught stealing from New Zealand
supermarket becomes TV star
Nearly 30 Police Called on to Break Up Baby Shower
Brawl
Ohio Ex-Teacher Sues, Says She Fears Young Kids
This Is Why You Flush Them: Fisherman Catches
Massive Goldfish
SONG OF THE DAY
Donny
Osmond - Go Away Little Girl
