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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for April 23, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Shots Fired at Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts
Bar Nuclear Plant (WBIR-TV, Knoxville, TN)
California Faces Big Power Shortage - The strain on
the grid could be reminiscent of 2000 & 2001 blackouts (Associated Press)
Washington
State Company Plans Five Wind Turbines Off Coos Bay (Associated Press)
Officials Project Largest Fall Columbia River
Chinook Salmon Run in Years (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Sediment
Woes for Port Angeles Water Treatment Facility Put Elwha Dam Removal on Hold (Northwest Public Radio)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Shots Fired at Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant
- California Faces Big Power Shortage
- Grant County PUD’s Shore Plan Approved
- Editorial - Obama’s Plan to Sell Federal Power Agency is a Mistake
- Clean Canadian Hydroelectricity for NYC? $2.2 Billion Electric Pipeline Gets State Approval
- Boulder Issues RFP for Independent Firm to Evaluate Plan to Form a Municipal Utility
- Wisconsin - Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant Shutdown Cost is Nearly $1 Billion
- Editorial - Europe is Becoming a Green-Energy Basket Case
- Officials Project Largest Fall Columbia River Chinook Salmon Run in Years
- Salmon Fishing Won’t Be ‘Lights Out’
- Are Cormorants Eating the Salmon? Oregon Will Kill Some to Find Out
- Cormorant Management Bill Debuts in Oregon Legislature
- Genetically Modified Salmon Blocked in Seattle
- Sediment Woes for Port Angeles Water Treatment Facility Put Elwha Dam Removal on Hold
- Montana - Water Rights Tear at an Indian Reservation
- Washington State Company Plans Five Wind Turbines Off Coos Bay
- SoloPower Will Suspend Portland Operations in June; Lay Off 29
- Whitefish Company Turns Industrial Waste into Electricity
- Solar Power Shopping? Here Are Some Tips
- Renewable Power’s Green Vs. Green Battles Continue
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s Smart Grid Now Has Real-Time Statistics for Customers
- Nest Unleashes the Power of Its Smart Thermostat with Data-Driven Services
- U-S Senators Reintroduce Energy Efficiency Bill
- Ask Umbra: Watts Up with Light Bulbs?
- Peer-Reviewed Survey Finds Majority of Scientists Skeptical of Global Warming Crisis
- Inside the Bullitt Center, Earth’s Greenest Building – Solar array slightly larger than Mason PUD 3’s sun-power
- City Of Tumwater Challenges Its Residents & Businesses to Become the Greenest Town in the Puget Sound Region
- Earth Day Pictures: Extreme Green Buildings
- Utah - Area UTOPIA Cities Feel Vindicated by Provo’s Deal with Google
- Finding Google Fiber in Your Own Back Yard
- Rural California Finally Gets Broadband Internet, Still Waiting for Second Gold Rush – Using “White Space” for Wireless Service
- Reuters Deputy Social Media Editor Matthew Keys Says He Was Dismissed
- Washington State Senate Oks Lowering School Levy Cap
- Washington State’s Gender-Neutral Bill Does Away with ‘Freshmen,’ ‘Penmanship’
- Oregon - At Campaign Event for Levy, Sheriff Frees Inmates
- Is The Evidence for Austerity Based on an Excel Spreadsheet Error?
- North Mason, Grapeview School Bond Ballots Due Tuesday
- Anarchists Gathering at Evergreen State College Halted after Incident Involving Citizen-Journalist from Mason County
- Washington State Ferry Hyak to be Converted to Hybrid Power
- ‘Cinnamon Challenge’ Fad Could Result in Lung Damage
WORD OF THE DAY
Diaphanous
• \dye-AFF-fuh-ness\ • Adjective - 1: characterized by such fineness of texture
as to permit seeing through 2: characterized by extreme delicacy of form:
ethereal 3: insubstantial, vague
Diaphanous
cloth,
Covered,
yet fully revealed
Vaguely
hidden charms
Of
cheese, that is…
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Shots Fired at Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts
Bar Nuclear Plant (WBIR-TV, Knoxville, TN)
California Faces Big Power Shortage - The strain
on the grid could be reminiscent of 2000 & 2001 blackouts (Associated Press)
Grant County PUD’s Shore Plan Approved (Columbia
Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Editorial - Obama’s Plan to Sell Federal Power
Agency is a Mistake (Walla Walla Union Bulletin, WA)
Clean Canadian Hydroelectricity for NYC? $2.2
Billion Electric Pipeline Gets State Approval (The Energy Collective)
Boulder Issues RFP for Independent Firm to
Evaluate Plan to Form a Municipal Utility (American Public
Power Association)
Wisconsin - Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant Shutdown
Cost is Nearly $1 Billion (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, WI)
Editorial - Europe is Becoming a Green-Energy
Basket Case (Washington Post)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Officials Project Largest Fall Columbia River Chinook
Salmon Run in Years (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Salmon Fishing Won’t Be ‘Lights Out’ (Eugene
Register-Guard, OR)
Are Cormorants Eating the Salmon? Oregon Will
Kill Some to Find Out (Associated Press)
Cormorant Management Bill Debuts in Oregon Legislature
(Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Genetically Modified Salmon Blocked in Seattle (KXRO
Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Sediment
Woes for Port Angeles Water Treatment Facility Put Elwha Dam Removal on Hold (Northwest Public Radio)
Montana
- Water Rights Tear at an Indian Reservation (NY
Times)
Thirsty
States Take Water Battle to Supreme Court (National
Public Radio)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Washington
State Company Plans Five Wind Turbines Off Coos Bay (Associated Press)
SoloPower
Will Suspend Portland Operations in June; Lay Off 29 (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Whitefish
Company Turns Industrial Waste into Electricity (The Missoulian, MT)
Solar
Power Shopping? Here Are Some Tips (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Renewable
Power’s Green Vs. Green Battles Continue (Politico)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Sacramento
Municipal Utility District’s Smart Grid Now Has Real-Time Statistics for
Customers (American Public Power Association)
Nest
Unleashes the Power of Its Smart Thermostat with Data-Driven Services (Gigaom)
U-S
Senators Reintroduce Energy Efficiency Bill (American Public
Power Association)
Ask
Umbra: Watts Up with Light Bulbs? (Grist Online)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Peer-Reviewed
Survey Finds Majority of Scientists Skeptical of Global Warming Crisis (Forbes
Magazine)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Inside
the Bullitt Center, Earth’s Greenest Building – Solar array slightly larger
than Mason PUD 3’s sun-power (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
City
Of Tumwater Challenges Its Residents & Businesses to Become the Greenest
Town in the Puget Sound Region (Thurston Talk, Olympia, WA)
Earth
Day Pictures: Extreme Green Buildings (National Geographic Magazine)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Utah - Area UTOPIA Cities Feel Vindicated by Provo’s
Deal with Google (Ogden Standard Examiner, UT)
Finding Google Fiber in Your Own Back Yard (GigaOM)
Rural California Finally Gets Broadband Internet,
Still Waiting for Second Gold Rush – Using “White Space” for Wireless Service
(Gizmodo)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Reuters Deputy Social Media Editor Matthew Keys Says
He Was Dismissed (Reuters)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Senate Oks Lowering School Levy
Cap (Associated Press)
Washington State’s Gender-Neutral Bill Does Away with
‘Freshmen,’ ‘Penmanship’ (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Oregon - At Campaign Event for Levy, Sheriff Frees
Inmates (Associated Press)
Is The Evidence for Austerity Based on an Excel Spreadsheet
Error? (Washington Post)
GENERAL NEWS
North Mason, Grapeview School Bond Ballots Due Tuesday
(Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Anarchists Gathering at Evergreen State College Halted
after Incident Involving Citizen-Journalist from Mason County (Associated
Press)
Washington
State Ferry Hyak to be Converted to Hybrid Power (KOMO-TV,
Seattle, WA)
‘Cinnamon Challenge’ Fad Could Result in Lung
Damage (USA Today)
DIVERSIONS
Runaway
Bride Refuses to Return $72,000 in Gifts: Lawsuit
We
Say YES to This Wedding Dress Made Out of Reused Bread Bag Ties
Port
Angeles Students Spurn School Dances over Tightened Rules
Circus
Tiger in Bathroom a Shock to Woman
SONG OF THE DAY
Jefferson
Starship - Ride the Tiger
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