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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for April 3, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Washington
Republicans Declare Victory on Inslee’s Climate Change Bill (Northwest Public Radio)
Testing Free Wi-Fi Zones in Downtown Poulsbo –
Kitsap PUD pilot program installs antennas that tap into fiber optic broadband
network (Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal, WA)
‘Unusual Mortality Event’ Is Declared For the
California Sea Lion (Los Angeles Times, CA)
BP
to Sell U-S Wind Business in Retreat to Fossil Fuels (Bloomberg News)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-03/bp-to-sell-u-s-wind-buiness-in-retreat-to-fossil-fuels.html
SoloPower’s
California Job Cuts Arrive Amid Company Restructuring (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Few Hitches in Jefferson County Energy Switch
- Tillamook Signs Order Denying PUD Line
- Open Houses Cover Next Leg of Columbia River Treaty Deliberations
- Environmental Groups Announce Plan to Sue Rail & Coal Companies Under Clean Water Act
- Puget Sound Energy Releases 2013 Draft Resource Plan
- Thieves Steal Record Amount of Copper Wire from Light Poles along Interstate in Salt Lake City
- Copper Theft: A Worldwide, And Sometimes Lethal, Epidemic
- Abundance of Natural Gas Isn’t Fueling Job Growth
- British Regulator Fines Electricity Supplier SSE 10.5 Million Pounds ($16 Million) for Misleading Customers
- Drunk Idiot Dangles Upside Down from Power Cables
- ‘Unusual Mortality Event’ Is Declared For the California Sea Lion
- States Delay Commercial Fishing for Columbia River Spring Chinook
- Chelan County PUD Preparing for Avian Visitors
- Below-Average Runoff Forecast for Lake Chelan
- BP to Sell U-S Wind Business in Retreat to Fossil Fuels
- SoloPower’s California Job Cuts Arrive Amid Company Restructuring
- States Show Folly of Energy Mandates
- North Carolina - Cut Your Electric Bill: Repeal the Mandate!
- NRG Rolls Out Solar Pergola to Target Residential Market
- Washington D-C Government Eyes Wind for a Third of Its Electricity Supply
- Eight Myths About Wind Energy
- Why Your Energy Company Wants You to Use Less Energy
- City of Aspen’s Electric Energy Usage Dropping Faster than Expected – It may be working too well
- Classes Use Energy Dashboard to Study Conservation
- Washington Republicans Declare Victory on Inslee’s Climate Change Bill
- In Seattle - A Building Not Just Green, but Practically Self-Sustaining
- Seattle’s Green Stormwater Goals
- Testing Free Wi-Fi Zones in Downtown Poulsbo
- Who Knew? Fiber is Also Good for a Telco’s Health
- The Cellphone Turns 40 Today
- SEC Weighs In On Social Media as a Market Mover
- As Facebook Matures, Is It Losing Its Edge?
- Daily World Will Reduce Home Delivery to Three Days
- Study: More Young Adults Tuning Out Terrestrial Radio While Driving
- Washington State Bill Would Allow Bosses to Seek Facebook Passwords
- Vancouver, WA Man Identified in High-Rise California Graffiti Death
- Police: Bold Vandals Putting Themselves, Cleaning Crews in Danger
- Hanford Treatment Plant for Waste in Nuclear Cleanup Has Design Flaws, Panel Says
- State Farm Could Add 2,000 Jobs in Tacoma This Year
- Five Years after Financial Crisis, Survey Highlights Gains in Savings & Investing Discipline
- Which States Show Love to Small Businesses?
WORD OF THE DAY
Puce
• \PYOOS\ • - A dark red that is yellower
and less strong than cranberry, paler and slightly yellower than average
garnet, bluer, less strong, and slightly lighter than pomegranate, and bluer
and paler than average wine.
Word
Origin (Merriam Webster Dictionary Online): Puce entered English from French,
where puce translates as “flea.” The relationship between the flea and the
color is complicated but almost certainly one connection is the flea's hunger
for blood.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Few Hitches in Jefferson County Energy Switch (Peninsula
Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Tillamook
Signs Order Denying PUD Line (Tillamook Headlight Herald, OR)
http://www.tillamookheadlightherald.com/news_paid/article_903b0bf0-9bd6-11e2-9ac2-0019bb2963f4.html
http://www.tillamookheadlightherald.com/news_paid/article_903b0bf0-9bd6-11e2-9ac2-0019bb2963f4.html
Open
Houses Cover Next Leg of Columbia River Treaty Deliberations (Capital Press)
Environmental
Groups Announce Plan to Sue Rail & Coal Companies Under Clean Water Act (Northwest Public Radio)
Puget
Sound Energy Releases 2013 Draft Resource Plan (Electric Light & Power)
Thieves
Steal Record Amount of Copper Wire from Light Poles along Interstate in Salt
Lake City (Associated Press)
Copper
Theft: A Worldwide, And Sometimes Lethal, Epidemic (MacLeans, Canada)
Abundance
of Natural Gas Isn’t Fueling Job Growth (Albuquerque Business First, NM)
British
Regulator Fines Electricity Supplier SSE 10.5 Million Pounds ($16 Million) for
Misleading Customers (Associated Press)
Drunk
Idiot Dangles Upside Down from Power Cables (Gizmodo – Note PG 13 Language in
Comment Section)
FISH & WILDLIFE
‘Unusual Mortality Event’ Is Declared For the
California Sea Lion (Los Angeles Times, CA)
States Delay Commercial Fishing for Columbia
River Spring Chinook (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Chelan County PUD Preparing for Avian Visitors (Wenatchee World, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Below-Average
Runoff Forecast for Lake Chelan – Chelan County PUD expects to hit May
elevation target for lake recreation (Wenatchee
World, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
BP
to Sell U-S Wind Business in Retreat to Fossil Fuels (Bloomberg News)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-03/bp-to-sell-u-s-wind-buiness-in-retreat-to-fossil-fuels.html
SoloPower’s
California Job Cuts Arrive Amid Company Restructuring (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
States
Show Folly of Energy Mandates (Politico)
North
Carolina - Cut Your Electric Bill: Repeal the Mandate! (Carolina Journal,
Durham, NC)
NRG
Rolls Out Solar Pergola to Target Residential Market (Forbes Magazine)
Washington
D-C Government Eyes Wind for a Third of Its Electricity Supply (Washington
Business Journal, D-C)
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/2013/04/dc-government-eyes-wind-for-a-third.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/2013/04/dc-government-eyes-wind-for-a-third.html
Eight
Myths About Wind Energy (Renewable Energy World)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Why
Your Energy Company Wants You to Use Less Energy - It may even pay you (a
little) if you do (U-S News & World Report)
City
of Aspen’s Electric Energy Usage Dropping Faster than Expected – It may be
working too well (Aspen Daily News, CO)
Classes
Use Energy Dashboard to Study Conservation (Cornell Chronicle, Ithaca, NY)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Washington
Republicans Declare Victory on Inslee’s Climate Change Bill (Northwest Public Radio)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
In
Seattle - A Building Not Just Green, but Practically Self-Sustaining (NY Times)
Seattle’s
Green Stormwater Goals - How to manage polluted runoff six times better?
(Sightline Daily)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Testing Free Wi-Fi Zones in Downtown Poulsbo –
Kitsap PUD pilot program installs antennas that tap into fiber optic broadband
network (Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal, WA)
Who Knew? Fiber is Also Good for a Telco’s Health (GigaOM)
The Cellphone Turns 40 Today (Gizmodo)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
SEC Weighs In On Social Media as a Market Mover (Portland
Business Journal, OR)
As Facebook Matures, Is It Losing Its Edge? (USA
Today)
Daily World Will Reduce Home Delivery to Three Days
(Aberdeen Daily World, WA)
Study: More Young Adults Tuning Out Terrestrial
Radio While Driving (Mashable)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Bill Would Allow Bosses to Seek Facebook
Passwords (Associated Press)
GENERAL NEWS
Vancouver,
WA Man Identified in High-Rise California Graffiti Death (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Police:
Bold Vandals Putting Themselves, Cleaning Crews in Danger (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Hanford
Treatment Plant for Waste in Nuclear Cleanup Has Design Flaws, Panel Says (NY Times)
State
Farm Could Add 2,000 Jobs in Tacoma This Year (Puget
Sound Business Journal, WA)
Five
Years after Financial Crisis, Survey Highlights Gains in Savings &
Investing Discipline (Associated Press)
Which
States Show Love to Small Businesses? (Washington Post)
DIVERSIONS
Dalai
Lama Ticket Scalpers Inviting Bad Karma
Ready
For a One-Way Trip to Mars? A Dutch company wants to send four people, selected
via reality-show-style elimination, on a permanent trip to the Red Planet in
2022
Rogue
Releases Beer Made from Beard Yeast
Ring
That May Have Inspired Tolkien Goes On Show
SONG OF THE DAY
Paul
McCartney & Wings - Venus & Mars & Rock Show
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