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THE NEWS DIGEST WORD CLOUD (JUST BECAUSE I CAN)
Energy News Digest word cloud for February 26,
2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Seamless Transition Promised in Jefferson County
PUD Electrical Service Takeover (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Storm Costs Approach $3 Million for Chelan PUD
(Wenatchee World, WA)
Columbia Managers Dial Back Flows For Spawning
Chum to Save Water for Upper Spring Chinook (The Dalles Chronicle, OR)
Is the U-S Losing the Broadband Race? As it Turns
Out, We Look a Lot Like Danica Patrick (Forbes Magazine)
U-S Senate Schedules Confirmation Hearing on Sally
Jewell’s Nomination as Interior Secretary (Associated Press)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Seamless Transition Promised in Jefferson County PUD Electrical Service Takeover
- Storm Costs Approach $3 Million for Chelan PUD
- No School at Sehome High Tuesday after Transformer Explodes
- Bonneville Power Administration to Update Vancouver City Council on I-5 Corridor Reinforcement Project
- Energy Northwest - The First Amendment Bombs Nuclear Energy by Accident
- Moody’s Downgrades Chelan PUD Debt over Revenue Volatility – But Improves Outlook to Stable
- Texas - Live Wire Electrocutes Kids in Back Yard
- American Electric Power Agrees to Close Three Coal Plants in Emissions Settlement
- National Rural Electric Co-op Association Concerned with FERC Rulings
- Hints from Heloise: Play It Safe Around Electricity
- Energy Revolution Promises to Transform East Africa
- Columbia Managers Dial Back Flows For Spawning Chum to Save Water for Upper Spring Chinook
- The Pinniped Watch: So Far, Only One Sea Lion at Bonneville, Stellers Less Abundant than Past Years
- Pesticides & Pacific Salmon: The Long & Winding Litigation Road Gets Longer as the Fourth Circuit Strikes Down NMFS’s Biological Opinion
- California Oyster Farm Facing Shutdown Wins Reprieve
- Fluoride Referendum Qualifies for Portland’s May 2014 Ballot
- Grant County, REC Silicon Settle Property Tax Fight
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District to Study Residential, Commercial Use of Solar
- A Dam in the Wilderness, a Legislature Out of Control, And Rep. Lindsey Holmes
- Missouri - Clean Energy Advocates Cry Foul over Hydropower Legislation
- Blazing Tires Will No Longer Power Illinois Homes
- On Our Radar: Prison Term for Biodiesel Fraud
- This Billboard Sucks Water Out of the Air & Delivers It to Families Below
- Is the U-S Losing the Broadband Race? As it Turns Out, We Look a Lot Like Danica Patrick
- Millions Said to Be Wasted on U-S Broadband Expansion
- Colorado - Eagle-Net Broadband Controversy Set for Congressional Hearings
- Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10 Browser Coming to Windows 7 PCs
- Yahoo Renews Debate over Working from Home
- U-S Senate Schedules Confirmation Hearing on Sally Jewell’s Nomination as Interior Secretary
- Partial Merger of Mason County Fire Districts Nine & Six Hits Snag
- Washington State Senate Explores Shift to 401(K)-Style Plans
- Charges over Olympian’s Inappropriate Child Images Dismissed Due to Unlawful Search
- C. Everett Koop, Former Surgeon General, Dies at Age 96
WORD OF THE DAY
Pugilism
• \PEW-juh-liz-um\ • Noun – Boxing
“The
sweet science,” mused a young Howard Cosell. “Seems like pugilism is more of a
sweat science…”
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Seamless Transition Promised in Jefferson County PUD
Electrical Service Takeover (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Storm Costs Approach $3 Million for Chelan PUD (Wenatchee
World, WA)
No School at Sehome High Tuesday after Transformer
Explodes (Bellingham Herald, WA)
Bonneville Power Administration to Update Vancouver
City Council on I-5 Corridor Reinforcement Project (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Energy Northwest - The First Amendment Bombs
Nuclear Energy by Accident (Forbes Magazine)
Moody’s Downgrades Chelan PUD Debt over Revenue
Volatility – But Improves Outlook to Stable (Wenatchee World, WA)
Texas - Live Wire Electrocutes Kids in Back Yard (Courthouse News Service)
American
Electric Power Agrees to Close Three Coal Plants in Emissions Settlement (Washington Post)
National Rural Electric Co-op Association Concerned
with FERC Rulings - Asking for a clarification or rehearing of its final rule
on a revised Bulk Electric System definition (Electric Co-op Today)
Hints from Heloise: Play It Safe Around
Electricity (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Energy Revolution Promises to Transform East
Africa (British Broadcasting Corporation)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Columbia Managers Dial Back Flows For Spawning
Chum to Save Water for Upper Spring Chinook (The Dalles Chronicle, OR)
The Pinniped Watch: So Far, Only One Sea Lion at
Bonneville, Stellers Less Abundant than Past Years (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Pesticides & Pacific Salmon: The Long &
Winding Litigation Road Gets Longer as the Fourth Circuit Strikes Down NMFS’s
Biological Opinion (GTH Energy & Natural Resources Law Blog)
California Oyster Farm Facing Shutdown Wins
Reprieve (Courthouse News Service)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Fluoride
Referendum Qualifies for Portland’s May 2014 Ballot (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Grant
County, REC Silicon Settle Property Tax Fight (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses
Lake, WA)
Sacramento
Municipal Utility District to Study Residential, Commercial Use of Solar
(Sacramento Business Journal, CA)
A
Dam in the Wilderness, a Legislature Out of Control, And Rep. Lindsey Holmes
(Alaska Dispatch)
Missouri
- Clean Energy Advocates Cry Foul over Hydropower Legislation (KOLR-TV,
Springfield, MO)
Blazing
Tires Will No Longer Power Illinois Homes (Grist Online)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
On
Our Radar: Prison Term for Biodiesel Fraud (NY Times)
This
Billboard Sucks Water Out of the Air & Delivers It to Families Below (Grist Online)
http://grist.org/living/this-billboard-sucks-water-out-of-the-air-and-delivers-it-to-families-below/
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Is the U-S Losing the Broadband Race? As it Turns
Out, We Look a Lot Like Danica Patrick (Forbes Magazine)
Millions Said to Be Wasted on U-S Broadband
Expansion (Bloomberg News)
Colorado - Eagle-Net Broadband Controversy Set for
Congressional Hearings (Denver Business Journal, CO)
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2013/02/25/eagle-net-controversy-set-for.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2013/02/25/eagle-net-controversy-set-for.html
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10 Browser Coming to Windows
7 PCs (Associated Press)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Yahoo Renews Debate over Working from Home (Albuquerque
Business First, NM)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
U-S Senate Schedules Confirmation Hearing on Sally
Jewell’s Nomination as Interior Secretary (Associated Press)
GENERAL NEWS
Partial Merger of Mason
County Fire Districts Nine & Six Hits Snag (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Washington State Senate Explores Shift to
401(K)-Style Plans (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Charges over Olympian’s Inappropriate Child Images
Dismissed Due to Unlawful Search (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
C. Everett Koop,
Former Surgeon General, Dies at Age 96 (Associated Press)
DIVERSIONS
Awesome
Thermochromic Jeans Changes Colors with Heat
Bear
Grylls Seeks Adventure in Latest Air New Zealand Video
Just
How Incomprehensibly Massive Is the Universe? (Hint: Even Bigger Than That)
Total
Perspective Vortex – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Honey,
It’s Electric: Bees Sense Charge on Flowers
SONG OF THE DAY
Eric
Idle - The Galaxy Song
