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the links in today’s news digest lead to current stories. Please note that some
media organizations update their web sites regularly, which may result in
broken links in the future.
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Energy
Northwest near Richland Has Big Year in 2012 (Tri-City
Herald, WA)
Oregon
Tops Nation in New Clean Jobs Index (Sustainable Business Oregon)
Washington State’s December 2012 Jobless Rates
Released (South Sound Business Examiner)
Short Spring Chinook Season Likely in Lower
Columbia (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Grant
County PUD Seeks Input on Transmission Line (iFiber One News, Ephrata, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Energy Northwest near Richland Has Big Year in 2012
- Grant County PUD Seeks Input on Transmission Line
- Clallam PUD Commissioner Stable after Driving Off U-S 101, Crashing into Woodpile
- Planned Outage for Mason County PUD 1 Customers
- Alaska Energy Overview
- APPA Urges Feds to Reconsider, Approve NERC Definition of Bulk Electric System
- House Energy & Commerce Committee Approves McMorris Rodgers-DeGette Hydropower Bill
- New York Utility Union Gets Some Relief in Work Van Issue
- TransCanada Accidentally Emails Its Internal Media Information to Reporters
- Short Spring Chinook Season Likely in Lower Columbia
- Geoduck Harvest Returns to Whidbey Island after Long Hiatus
- Feds Release Plan for Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbits
- Florida Holds Contest to Kill Invasive Burmese Pythons
- Bremerton Water Plant on Union River Receives Engineering Award
- Arlington Students Turn Solar Power into Action
- Gallery: OMSI Exhibit Illuminates Region’s Renewable Energy
- Sting Operations Reveal Mafia Involvement in Renewable Energy
- Why India’s Waste-to-Energy Industry Won’t Catch Fire
- Oregon Tops Nation in New Clean Jobs Index
- Google Remains Vague on Google Fiber Expansion - Yet Continues to Insist Deployment is ‘Not a Hobby’
- Top 10: Where to Find the World’s Fastest Internet
- U-S House of Representatives Votes to Suspend Debt Limit
- Democrats in Washington Senate Slam Majority for Pam Roach Leak Investigation
- Public Naming Rights Bill Under Consideration
- Washington State’s December 2012 Jobless Rates Released
- Major Lowland Snowfall Not Likely for Rest of the Winter
- City of Shelton Approves Overflow Project for Canyon Creek
- Smoking Gun? 787 Battery Blew Up in ‘06 Lab Test, Burned Down Building
- Evergreen State College - Group Pushes for More Guns on Olympia College Campus
- School: Frustrated Parent Posts Alarming Facebook Message
WORD OF THE DAY
Fanfaronade
• \fan-fare-uh-NAYD\ • Noun - Empty boasting: bluster
Molly
chuckled under her breath at the discomfiture of her sweaty, dough-faced
opponent in the hard knuckled game of mumbley peg. Bertie’s fanfaronade about
his penknife throwing prowess was about to face the acid test…his bare foot,
its few straggling hairs wafting in the cold winter breeze, almost begged to be
pierced in the first throw…which never came, thanks to Bert’s unfortunate, yet
opportune fainting spell.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Energy
Northwest near Richland Has Big Year in 2012 (Tri-City
Herald, WA)
Grant
County PUD Seeks Input on Transmission Line (iFiber One News, Ephrata, WA)
Clallam
PUD Commissioner Stable after Driving Off U-S 101, Crashing into Woodpile (Peninsula
Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Planned Outage for Mason County PUD 1
Customers (KMAS Radio,
Shelton, WA)
Alaska Energy Overview (Juneau Empire, AK)
APPA
Urges Feds to Reconsider, Approve NERC Definition of Bulk Electric System (American Public Power Association)
House
Energy & Commerce Committee Approves McMorris Rodgers-DeGette Hydropower
Bill (Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers)
New
York Utility Union Gets Some Relief in Work Van Issue - Had allowed low-voltage
workers to keep company vans at homes during off-duty hours for more than 15
years (Courthouse News Service)
TransCanada
Accidentally Emails Its Internal Media Information to Reporters (Grist Online)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Short Spring Chinook Season Likely in Lower Columbia
(Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Geoduck Harvest Returns to Whidbey Island after
Long Hiatus (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Feds Release Plan for Columbia Basin Pygmy
Rabbits (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Feds-release-plan-for-Columbia-Basin-pygmy-rabbits-188152911.html
Florida Holds Contest to Kill Invasive Burmese Pythons
(Seattle Times, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Bremerton
Water Plant on Union River Receives Engineering Award (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Arlington
Students Turn Solar Power into Action (Arlington Times, WA)
Gallery:
OMSI Exhibit Illuminates Region’s Renewable Energy (Sustainable Business
Oregon)
Sting
Operations Reveal Mafia Involvement in Renewable Energy (Washington Post)
Why
India’s Waste-to-Energy Industry Won’t Catch Fire (New York Times, NY)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Oregon
Tops Nation in New Clean Jobs Index (Sustainable Business Oregon)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Google Remains Vague on Google Fiber Expansion - Yet
Continues to Insist Deployment is ‘Not a Hobby’ (Broadband Reports)
Top 10: Where to Find the World’s Fastest Internet
(Bloomberg News)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
U-S House of Representatives Votes to Suspend Debt
Limit (Washington Post)
Democrats in Washington Senate Slam Majority for Pam
Roach Leak Investigation (Northwest Public Radio)
Public Naming
Rights Bill Under Consideration (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Washington State’s December 2012 Jobless Rates
Released (South Sound Business Examiner)
Major Lowland Snowfall Not Likely for Rest of the
Winter (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
City of Shelton Approves Overflow Project for
Canyon Creek (Mason Web-TV, Shelton, WA)
Smoking Gun? 787 Battery Blew Up in ‘06 Lab Test,
Burned Down Building (Seattle Times, WA)
Evergreen State College - Group Pushes for More
Guns on Olympia College Campus (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
School: Frustrated Parent Posts Alarming Facebook Message
(KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Scientist:
I’m NOT Seeking a Mom for a Neanderthal
Chinese
Workers Revolt over Two-Minute Toilet Breaks
U-S
Congress - Pritchard’s ‘Chick Pic’ Gets Passed to DelBene, Then Kilmer; With Heck
Awaiting
Inconceivable:
Flight Attendants Ask Passenger to Remove ‘Intimidating’ Inigo Montoya T-Shirt
SONG OF THE DAY
Van
Morrison – Wavelength
