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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Port
Angeles Plans to Protest Electricity Rate Increases - “…This is an economic
assault on Port Angeles…” (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Small
Fires at Ice Harbor Dam Stop Power Production (Tri-City
Herald, WA)
Oregon
Wave Energy Plan Ready for Vote after Four Years of Work (Oregonian, Portland,
OR)
States, Tribes Differ on Columbia River Fish
Recovery (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Boeing Scrambles to Find Fix So Planes Can Fly
(Seattle Times, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Port Angeles Plans to Protest Electricity Rate Increases
- Small Fires at Ice Harbor Dam Stop Power Production
- Rotted Trees Taken Down to Keep Clallam County PUD Lights On
- Liz Anderson Leaves Communications Post at Grays Harbor PUD
- FERC Issues Final Rule on Annual Charges for Hydro Projects on Federal Lands
- U-S Launches 35-Year Quest for a New Yucca Mountain
- In Indiana, Debate over How ‘Trackers’ Shape Future Energy System
- States, Tribes Differ on Columbia River Fish Recovery
- U-S Environmentalists Challenged to Get Climate Change Laws through Congress
- Oregon Wave Energy Plan Ready for Vote after Four Years of Work
- Hydropower Efficiency Act Reintroduced to U-S House
- Fiddling on the Roof: Can $10 Million in Prize Money Spark a Solar Revolution?
- Port Angeles Gets Grant of Almost $500,000 from Bonneville Power Administration
- How Are We Doing on Energy Efficiency?
- Seattle Firm Seeks to Commercialize Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Methanol
- As Homes Get Greener, NEEA Works on the Next Green Thing
- Cable Industry Finally Admits Caps Not About Congestion - After Insisting For Years Caps Were About Congestion
- Rural Broadband 'Just Like Electricity' - You Have to Have it, Officials Say
- Washington State Governor Inslee: Extending Expiring Taxes Not an Increase
- Boeing Scrambles to Find Fix So Planes Can Fly
- Cold, Foggy Weather to Continue in Western Washington
- Oregon Fighter Jets Escort Flight into Sea-Tac Airport after FBI Receives Possible Threat Tip
- Small Bomb Explodes Outside Tacoma Corrections Office
- Dock on Washington State Coast Confirmed as Tsunami Debris
WORD OF THE DAY
Inchmeal • \INCH-meel\
• Adverb - Little-by-little, gradually
The clock’s inchmeal
advance seemed slower the closer it got to midnight thought little Timmy. “Christmas
will NEVER get here at this rate,” he thought longingly.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Port
Angeles Plans to Protest Electricity Rate Increases - “…This is an economic
assault on Port Angeles…” (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Small
Fires at Ice Harbor Dam Stop Power Production (Tri-City
Herald, WA)
Rotted
Trees Taken Down to Keep Clallam County PUD Lights On (KONP Radio, Port
Angeles, WA)
Liz
Anderson Leaves Communications Post at Grays Harbor PUD (KXRO Radio, Aberdeen,
WA)
FERC
Issues Final Rule on Annual Charges for Hydro Projects on Federal Lands (American Public Power Association)
U-S
Launches 35-Year Quest for a New Yucca Mountain (Forbes Magazine)
In
Indiana, Debate over How ‘Trackers’ Shape Future Energy System (Midwest Energy
News)
FISH & WILDLIFE
States, Tribes Differ on Columbia River Fish
Recovery (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
U-S
Environmentalists Challenged to Get Climate Change Laws through Congress (The
Guardian, UK)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Oregon
Wave Energy Plan Ready for Vote after Four Years of Work (Oregonian, Portland,
OR)
Hydropower
Efficiency Act Reintroduced to U-S House (Renewable Energy World)
Fiddling
on the Roof: Can $10 Million in Prize Money Spark a Solar Revolution? (Grist Online)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Port Angeles Gets Grant of Almost $500,000 from Bonneville
Power Administration (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
How Are We Doing on Energy Efficiency? (Grist
Online)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Seattle
Firm Seeks to Commercialize Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Methanol (Northwest Public Radio)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
As
Homes Get Greener, NEEA Works on the Next Green Thing (Sustainable Business
Oregon)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Cable Industry Finally Admits Caps Not About
Congestion - After Insisting For Years Caps Were About Congestion (Broadband
Reports)
Rural Broadband 'Just Like Electricity' - You Have to
Have it, Officials Say (Post Bulletin, Rochester, MN)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Governor Inslee: Extending Expiring
Taxes Not an Increase (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Boeing Scrambles to Find Fix So Planes Can Fly (Seattle
Times, WA)
Cold, Foggy Weather to Continue in Western
Washington (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Oregon Fighter Jets Escort Flight into Sea-Tac
Airport after FBI Receives Possible Threat Tip (Associated Press)
Small Bomb Explodes Outside Tacoma Corrections Office
(Associated Press)
Dock on Washington State Coast Confirmed as Tsunami
Debris (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
When
Subway's Footlong Isn't a Foot Long - More Like 11 Inches
'Dear
Abby’ Advice Columnist Dies at Age 94
Shades
of the Movie “Outsourced” – Sly Software Worker Outsources His Own Job
Amateur
Australian Prospector Finds Massive Gold Nugget
SONG OF THE DAY
Sly
& the Family Stone - Take my Advice
