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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for April 24, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Tri-Cities Nuclear Power Plant Shutdown worth
Analysis, Says Doctors Group (Portland Business Journal,
OR)
Google Contemplates New Data Centers in the Dalles
(Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Klamath Basin Scientists Get Apology from Federal
Agency over Bias Claim (Associated Press)
Newsrooms May Revisit Security after Associated
Press Hacking (USA Today)
Mason County PUD 3 Looking for Real Estate Broker
(Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Tri-Cities Nuclear Power Plant Shutdown worth Analysis, Says Doctors Group
- Fact Sheet on Columbia Generating Station
- Port Townsend Lays Off City Finance Director to Cut Costs; He Moves to Jefferson PUD
- Jefferson PUD’s First Electric Bills Still Tied to Puget Sound Energy
- Mason County PUD 3 Looking for Real Estate Broker
- Commissioners May Vote McMaster to be Cowlitz PUD General Manager
- Tacoma Power Crew Gets Kudos for Creative Mossyrock Dam Solution
- Tillamook PUD to Appeal Denial of Power Line
- Mason County PUD 3 Commission Report for April 23, 2013
- Dirty War - A Rancorous Scrap over Plans to Send American Coal to Asia
- Southern Montana Power Co-Op Trustee Fights $46 Million Claim
- South Carolina - Berkeley Man Electrocuted at Electric Substation
- Support for Hydroelectric Power is Strong, Wyden & McMorris Rodgers Tell National Hydropower Association Audience
- Electricity Theft: A Bigger Issue Than You Think
- Klamath Basin Scientists Get Apology from Federal Agency over Bias Claim
- Catch Trout on Opening Day of Fishing Season
- Why Are Bee Swarms Popping Up in Oregon?
- Basin Water Supply Forecast At 96 Percent of Average
- California Failed to Spend $455 Million on Water Projects
- Editorial - California Water Funds Go Unspent, Even with Tainted Taps
- Elwha River Reborn Red? More on “Beautiful Clouds of Goo”
- U.S. States Turning Against Renewable Portfolio Standards as Gas Plunges
- United Kingdom - Why is the National Trust Investing in Renewables While Fighting a Wind Farm?
- Reality Check - Is British Columbia's Carbon Tax Green or Not?
- Cloning Takes California's Ancient Redwood Trees Abroad
- Washington State Fines to Protect Electric Vehicle Parking Spots
- Drive On: Electric Cars Sure to Fail as Taxis
- Scotland - Helius Set to Receive Subsidies for Whisky Waste-to-Power Plant
- Google Contemplates New Data Centers in the Dalles
- Facebook Plans Iowa Data Center to Help Support Instagram
- Average U-S Connection Speed Now 7.4 Mbps – U-S Now Eighth Place for Average Connection Speed
- Op/Ed - Broadband Internet Connection for All Residents is Essential
- Newsrooms May Revisit Security after Associated Press Hacking
- A Solar Fred/"Spinal Tap" Solar Guerrilla Marketing Tip: 11
- Baucus, Powerful Montana Democrat, Will Leave Senate
- Ron Wyden is Wonkish, Optimistic, Idiosyncratic - And About to be Very Powerful
- Mason County Funding Measures Passing
- Mason County Jail Inmate Commits Suicide
WORD OF THE DAY
Vexatious
• \vex-ay-shuss\ • Adjective - 1a: causing vexation: distressing b: intended to
harass 2: full of disorder or stress: troubled
“I
am NOT paranoid or a vexatious litigator. Did my mother tell you that? Or maybe
my brother; he never liked me, that weasel,” bellowed the whiskered,
barrel-chested jailhouse lawyer to the judge in his case. “Everyone has wronged
me, or will wrong me sometime in my life. This is just my way of protecting my
rights.”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Tri-Cities Nuclear Power Plant Shutdown worth
Analysis, Says Doctors Group (Portland Business Journal,
OR)
Fact Sheet on Columbia Generating Station (Energy
Northwest)
Port Townsend Lays Off City Finance Director to
Cut Costs; He Moves to Jefferson PUD (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Jefferson PUD’s First Electric Bills Still Tied
to Puget Sound Energy - Public utility swamped with Port Townsend calls about
usage details (Port Townsend Leader, WA)
Mason County PUD 3 Looking for Real Estate Broker
(Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Commissioners May Vote McMaster to be Cowlitz PUD
General Manager (Longview Daily News, WA)
Tacoma Power Crew Gets Kudos for Creative
Mossyrock Dam Solution (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
Tillamook PUD to Appeal Denial of Power Line
(Tillamook Headlight Herald, OR)
Mason County PUD 3 Commission Report for April
23, 2013 (Mason County PUD No. 3, Shelton, WA)
Dirty War - A Rancorous Scrap over Plans to Send
American Coal to Asia (The Economist Magazine)
Southern Montana Power Co-Op Trustee Fights $46
Million Claim (Missoulian, MT)
South Carolina - Berkeley Man Electrocuted at
Electric Substation (WCIV-TV, Charleston, SC)
Support for Hydroelectric Power is Strong, Wyden
& McMorris Rodgers Tell National Hydropower Association Audience (Renewable
Energy World)
Electricity Theft: A Bigger Issue Than You Think
(Forbes Magazine)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Klamath Basin Scientists Get Apology from Federal
Agency over Bias Claim (Associated Press)
Catch Trout on Opening Day of Fishing Season
(Thurston Talks, Olympia, WA)
Why Are Bee Swarms Popping Up in Oregon?
(KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Basin
Water Supply Forecast At 96 Percent of Average; Several Oregon Basins Facing
Drought Condition (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
California
Failed to Spend $455 Million on Water Projects (USA
Today)
Editorial
- California Water Funds Go Unspent, Even with Tainted Taps (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Elwha
River Reborn Red? More on “Beautiful Clouds of Goo” (Seattle Times, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
U.S.
States Turning Against Renewable Portfolio Standards as Gas Plunges (Renewable
Energy World)
United
Kingdom - Why is the National Trust Investing in Renewables While Fighting a
Wind Farm? (The Guardian, UK)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Reality
Check - Is British Columbia's Carbon Tax Green or Not? (Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation)
Cloning
Takes California's Ancient Redwood Trees Abroad (USA
Today)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Washington
State Fines to Protect Electric Vehicle Parking Spots (Associated Press)
Drive
On: Electric Cars Sure to Fail as Taxis (USA Today)
Scotland
- Helius Set to Receive Subsidies for Whisky Waste-to-Power Plant (Bloomberg
News)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Google Contemplates New Data Centers in the Dalles
(Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Facebook Plans Iowa Data Center to Help Support
Instagram (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Average U-S Connection Speed Now 7.4 Mbps – U-S Now
Eighth Place for Average Connection Speed (Broadband Reports)
Op/Ed - Broadband Internet Connection for All
Residents is Essential (Sacramento Bee, CA)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Newsrooms May Revisit Security after Associated
Press Hacking (USA Today)
A Solar Fred/"Spinal Tap" Solar Guerrilla
Marketing Tip: 11 (Renewable Energy World)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Baucus, Powerful Montana Democrat, Will Leave
Senate (NY Times)
Ron Wyden is Wonkish, Optimistic, Idiosyncratic -
And About to be Very Powerful (Washington Post)
GENERAL NEWS
Mason County Funding Measures Passing (Mason Web
TV, Shelton, WA)
Mason County Jail Inmate Commits Suicide (Mason Web
TV, Shelton, WA)
Mason County Unemployment Drops in March (Mason Web
TV, Shelton, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Captioner
Sorry for Calling Actress Zoey Deschanel Bomb Suspect
One
Way Ticket - Mars One Opens Applications for Red Planet Settlers
‘Holy
Grail’ of Video Games Valued at $38,000 Bought at Goodwill for $8
Oops!
New York's Suffolk County Accidentally Defaults on Debt
SONG OF THE DAY
Mark
Knopfler - Going Home, Theme from “Local Hero”
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