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News Digest Word Cloud for March 27, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Pacific
Northwest Regional Water Supply Forecast All about Timing (Bonneville Power Administration)
Montana - U-S Senator Tester Discusses Murky CFAC
Future “…he was able to get BPA to come to terms requested by Glencore, but the
international commodities trading company would balk, citing other economic
reasons such as low aluminum prices…” (The Daily Interlake, Kalispell, MT)
Energy
Company: Oregon Wave Buoy May Be Not be Done in 2013 (The World, Coos Bay, OR)
EPA
Survey of Rivers & Streams Finds More than Half in Poor Shape (Oregonian,
Portland, OR)
Santa Clara Uses Smart Meters to Create Citywide
Free Wi-Fi - Santa Clara, a California city of 118,000, is replacing electric
meters with smart meters. In the process, the city is creating a free Wi-Fi
network - and a window on the future? (Christian Science Monitor)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Pacific Northwest Regional Water Supply Forecast All about Timing
- Montana - U-S Senator Tester Discusses Murky CFAC Future
- Franklin PUD Electric Rates to Go Up in May
- Grant County PUD to Build $7.6 Million Building for Offices, Interpretive Center
- Congrats to Chelan & Douglas PUDs - Ninety Public Power Utilities Receive APPA’s RP3 Award at Florida Conference
- Editorial - Utility Hedging Needs to be Reviewed
- Renewed Interest - And Criticism - For Small Modular Reactors
- Wisconsin - Kewaunee Nuke Plant to Lay Off More Than 600
- U-S Congressman Hastings Reintroduces Legislation to Address Salmon-Threatening Sea Lions
- EPA Survey of Rivers & Streams Finds More than Half in Poor Shape
- Water Treatment Problems Put Elwha Dam Removal on Hold until Summer
- New Mexico Farmers Seek ‘Priority Call’ as Drought Persists
- Energy Company: Oregon Wave Buoy May Be Not be Done in 2013
- Vestas Vies with GE for Wind Market Lead in Rival Studies
- Washington State Lawmakers Hear from Global Warming Skeptic
- State of New York Tells Investors That Climate Change May Hurt Its Finances
- Surge of Electric-Vehicle Charging Stations Coming to Kitsap County
- Fuel from Carbon Dioxide: Is It Too Good to be True?
- Santa Clara Uses Smart Meters to Create Citywide Free Wi-Fi
- Internet Slowed by ‘Biggest Cyber-Attack in History’
- Chinook Observer in the Spotlight - Looking For ‘Oxygen,’ Small Papers Erect Digital Pay Walls
- Will That Tweet Get You Fired? This App Warns You
- It’s the Perfect Time to Fix Our Roads & Bridges
- Armed Tacoma Man Surrenders after Hours-Long Standoff
- 20 Percent Sewer Rate Increase Approved by City of Shelton Commission
- Mason County Unemployment Rises Again
- Lewis County Officials Battle with Homeowner over Piles of Junk
- Colville Tribe’s Plywood Mill in Omak to Reopen
- Beer Industry worth $4.3B to Washington State, Report Says
WORD OF THE DAY
Makebate
• \MAYK-bayt\ • Noun - One that excites contention & quarrels.
Makebate
on the prowl
Glencore
in the crosshairs now
Aluminum
woes
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Pacific
Northwest Regional Water Supply Forecast All about Timing (Bonneville Power Administration)
Montana - U-S Senator Tester Discusses Murky CFAC
Future “…he was able to get BPA to come to terms requested by Glencore, but the
international commodities trading company would balk, citing other economic
reasons such as low aluminum prices…” (The Daily Interlake, Kalispell, MT)
Franklin PUD Electric Rates to Go Up in May (Tri-City Herald, WA)
Grant County PUD to Build $7.6 Million Building for
Offices, Interpretive Center (Ifiber One News, Ephrata, WA)
Congrats to Chelan & Douglas PUDs - Ninety Public
Power Utilities Receive APPA’s RP3 Award at Florida Conference (American Public Power Association)
Editorial - Utility Hedging Needs to be Reviewed (Spokesman
Review, Spokane, WA)
Renewed Interest - And Criticism - For Small
Modular Reactors (Midwest Energy News)
Wisconsin - Kewaunee Nuke Plant to Lay Off More
Than 600 (Milwaukee Business Journal, WI)
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2013/03/27/kewaunee-nuke-plant-to-lay-off-more.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2013/03/27/kewaunee-nuke-plant-to-lay-off-more.html
FISH & WILDLIFE
U-S Congressman Hastings Reintroduces Legislation
to Address Salmon-Threatening Sea Lions (U-S Representative Doc Hastings)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
EPA
Survey of Rivers & Streams Finds More than Half in Poor Shape (Oregonian, Portland,
OR)
Water
Treatment Problems Put Elwha Dam Removal on Hold until Summer (KONP Radio, Port
Angeles, WA)
New
Mexico Farmers Seek ‘Priority Call’ as Drought Persists (NY Times)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Energy
Company: Oregon Wave Buoy May Be Not be Done in 2013 (The World, Coos Bay, OR)
Vestas
Vies with GE for Wind Market Lead in Rival Studies (Renewable Energy World)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Washington
State Lawmakers Hear from Global Warming Skeptic (Associated
Press)
State
of New York Tells Investors That Climate Change May Hurt Its Finances (NY Times)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Surge
of Electric-Vehicle Charging Stations Coming to Kitsap County (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Fuel
from Carbon Dioxide: Is It Too Good to be True? (Christian Science Monitor)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Santa Clara Uses Smart Meters to Create Citywide
Free Wi-Fi - Santa Clara, a California city of 118,000, is replacing electric
meters with smart meters. In the process, the city is creating a free Wi-Fi
network - and a window on the future? (Christian Science Monitor)
Internet Slowed by ‘Biggest Cyber-Attack in History’
(Silicon Valley Business Journal, CA)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Chinook Observer in the Spotlight - Looking For ‘Oxygen,’
Small Papers Erect Digital Pay Walls (National
Public Radio)
Will That Tweet Get You Fired? This App Warns You
(Mashable)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
It’s the Perfect Time to Fix Our Roads &
Bridges (Bloomberg News)
GENERAL NEWS
Armed Tacoma Man Surrenders after Hours-Long
Standoff (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
20 Percent Sewer Rate Increase Approved by City of
Shelton Commission (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Mason County Unemployment Rises Again (Mason Web-TV,
Shelton, WA)
Lewis County Officials Battle with Homeowner over
Piles of Junk (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Colville Tribe’s Plywood Mill in Omak to Reopen (Puget
Sound Business Journal, WA)
Beer Industry worth $4.3B to Washington State,
Report Says (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Woman
Opts Out of Powerball Pool, but Co-Workers Give Her Cut Anyway
Woman
Returns $30,000 She Found in Donated Clothes
Man
Wins $8,000 after Disney ‘Small World’ Breakdown
Russia
Storing 119 Million Gallons of Snow for Winter Olympics
SONG OF THE DAY
Poco
- Indian Summer
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