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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Research: West Coast Salmon Runs Fluctuated
Hugely Even Before Commercial Fishing Started (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Electric Supply Adequate as Idaho Power Mulls
Coal Plant Closures (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
Wind
Power Still in Limbo Despite Renewed Tax Break (Seattle
Times, WA)
Chelan PUD Needs Five Months to Fix Storm-Damaged
Lake Wenatchee Fiber (Wenatchee World, WA)
Grays Harbor PUD, Greater Grays Harbor Partner for
Energy Audits (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Electric Supply Adequate as Idaho Power Mulls Coal Plant Closures
- U-S Power Regulator to Fine Deutsche Bank Unit over California Energy Trading
- PDC Complaint Details Case against Fired Cowlitz PUD General Manager
- Bonneville Power Administration CEO Speaks at Mason County PUD 3
- Montana - U-S Senator Encourages New BPA Administrator to Bring “Montana Values” to Post
- Montana - Yellowstone Valley to Leave Bankrupt Co-Op
- Public Power Council Names Officers for Executive Committee
- Report: Energy Secretary Steven Chu to Leave, End Of a Green Era
- FERC Approves Settlement on Controversial 2012 Performance Audit of NERC
- Your Utility’s Focus for 2013? Cyber Security
- A Startup Emerges to Use Wireless Mesh& the Cloud to Fight Energy Theft
- Research: West Coast Salmon Runs Fluctuated Hugely Even Before Commercial Fishing Started
- Gray Whale Found Dead in Bremerton
- Scientist: Beaches Grow as Elwha Dams Are Removed
- Even as Season Winds Down, Eagles Line Skagit River
- Canada’s Teck Metals to Appeal U-S Court Ruling That Company Liable for Contaminating Columbia
- Director Leaving Puget Sound Partnership after Brief Tenure
- To Ease Drought on the Mississippi, Look Upstream
- Wind Power Still in Limbo Despite Renewed Tax Break
- Big Bet on Wyoming Wind: Phil Anschutz’s Latest $9 Billion Idea
- U-S Installed Record 13.2 Gigawatts of Wind Energy in 2012
- The Green False Claim Most Companies Are Making Without Realizing It
- History - All-electric Rupert High Opened to National Acclaim
- Grays Harbor PUD, Greater Grays Harbor Partner for Energy Audits
- LEDs Emerge as a Popular ‘Green’ Lighting
- In Chicago, Seeking the Next Bright Ideas in Energy Efficiency
- Obama Pledges in Inaugural to Respond to ‘The Threat of Climate Change’
- ‘The Electric Car is Not Dead,’ Says GM Chief
- There’s a Hole in My Plastic-Bag Law
- Chelan PUD Needs Five Months to Fix Storm-Damaged Lake Wenatchee Fiber
- FCC Pushes for Gigabit Broadband in All 50 States by 2015
- Google Eyeing Seattle Expansion?
- Mixed Response to Comcast in Expanding Net Access
- Op/Ed - Expanding Wireless Spectrum Can Address Rural Health-Care Disparities
- School District Refinancing in Washington State Saved $1.1 Billion
- Kilmer Focuses On Jobs, and On Congress Not Doing Its Job
- Potential Sniper Targeted Cars Traveling through Pierce County
- Harstine Island Wood Theft - Massive Big Leaf Maple Theft on Washington State Parks Land
- Three Month Outlook Forecasts Chilly Winter Ahead
- Maloofs Agree to Sell NBA’s Sacramento Kings to Seattle Group
- Awards Given at Annual Shelton-Mason County Chamber Gala
WORD OF THE DAY
Contrite
• \KAHN-trite\ • Adjective - Feeling or showing sorrow & remorse for a sin
or shortcoming
The
looming darkness in the corner drawing room made the lighting in “film noir”
movies look downright sunny. Bud was on his knees, begging forgiveness from the
mob Don, his contrite attitude belying his seething inner anger. Regardless his
personal danger of “sleeping with the fishes,” he knew he was missing a rerun
of his inexplicably favorite television show, ‘Alf.’ However, the darkness of
the room kept him from seeing the hands of the watch on his hairy wrist; “how
long,” he wondered…”How long?”
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Electric Supply Adequate as Idaho Power Mulls
Coal Plant Closures (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
U-S Power Regulator to Fine Deutsche Bank Unit over
California Energy Trading (Reuters)
PDC Complaint Details Case against Fired Cowlitz
PUD General Manager (Longview Daily News, WA)
Bonneville Power Administration CEO Speaks at Mason
County PUD 3 (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Montana
- U-S Senator Encourages New BPA Administrator to Bring “Montana Values” to
Post (U-S Max Senator Baucus, MT)
Montana - Yellowstone Valley to Leave Bankrupt
Co-Op (Great Falls Tribune, MT)
Public Power Council Names Officers for Executive
Committee (American Public Power Association)
Report: Energy Secretary Steven Chu to Leave, End
Of a Green Era (Gigaom)
FERC
Approves Settlement on Controversial 2012 Performance Audit of NERC (American Public Power Association)
Your Utility’s Focus for 2013? Cyber Security (The
Energy Collective)
A Startup Emerges to Use Wireless Mesh& the
Cloud to Fight Energy Theft (GigaOM)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Research: West Coast Salmon Runs Fluctuated
Hugely Even Before Commercial Fishing Started (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Gray Whale Found Dead in Bremerton (Associated Press)
Scientist: Beaches Grow as Elwha Dams Are Removed
(Associated Press)
Even as Season Winds Down, Eagles Line Skagit
River (Everett Herald, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Canada’s
Teck Metals to Appeal U-S Court Ruling That Company Liable for Contaminating
Columbia (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Director
Leaving Puget Sound Partnership after Brief Tenure (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
To
Ease Drought on the Mississippi, Look Upstream (Bloomberg News)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Wind
Power Still in Limbo Despite Renewed Tax Break (Seattle
Times, WA)
Big
Bet on Wyoming Wind: Phil Anschutz’s Latest $9 Billion Idea (Denver Post, CO)
U-S
Installed Record 13.2 Gigawatts of Wind Energy in 2012 (Forbes Magazine)
The
Green False Claim Most Companies Are Making Without Realizing It (Electric Light
& Power)
History
- All-electric Rupert High Opened to National Acclaim (Twin Falls Times-News,
ID)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Grays Harbor PUD, Greater Grays Harbor Partner for
Energy Audits (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)
LEDs Emerge as a Popular ‘Green’ Lighting (New York
Times, NY)
In Chicago, Seeking the Next Bright Ideas in Energy
Efficiency (Midwest Energy News)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Obama
Pledges in Inaugural to Respond to ‘The Threat of Climate Change’ (Washington Post)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
‘The
Electric Car is Not Dead,’ Says GM Chief (Christian Science Monitor)
There’s
a Hole in My Plastic-Bag Law (Grist Online)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Chelan PUD Needs Five Months to Fix Storm-Damaged Lake
Wenatchee Fiber (Wenatchee World, WA)
FCC Pushes for Gigabit Broadband in All 50 States by
2015 (CNET News)
Google Eyeing Seattle Expansion? (Puget Sound
Business Journal, WA)
Mixed Response to Comcast in Expanding Net Access (New
York Times, NY)
Op/Ed - Expanding Wireless Spectrum Can Address
Rural Health-Care Disparities (Seattle Times, WA)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
School District Refinancing in Washington State Saved
$1.1 Billion (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Kilmer Focuses On Jobs, and On Congress Not Doing
Its Job (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Potential Sniper Targeted Cars Traveling through Pierce
County (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Harstine Island Wood Theft - Massive Big Leaf Maple
Theft on Washington State Parks Land (Northwest Public Radio)
Three Month Outlook Forecasts Chilly Winter Ahead (Northwest
Public Radio)
Maloofs Agree to Sell NBA’s Sacramento Kings to Seattle
Group (Northwest Cable News)
Awards Given at
Annual Shelton-Mason County Chamber Gala (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Explorer’s
Rare Scotch Returned to Antarctic Stash
Wanted:
Surrogate for Neanderthal Baby
Cheese
Fire Causes Traffic Meltdown in Norway Tunnel
Rotten
Eggs Stench Reaches UK after French Gas Leak
SONG OF THE DAY
Susan
Tedeschi - Little by Little
