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News Digest Word Cloud for May 30, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
FERC Chairman, a Champion of Green Power, to Step
Down (Midwest Energy News)
Berkshire Unit in $5.6 Billion Deal for Nevada’s
Largest Electric Utility (NY Times)
California
- Two Injured When Boiler Blows at Ione Biomass Plant (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Utilities Want a Piece of the FCC’s $4.5 Billion
Rural Broadband Push (GreenTech Media - Tacoma PUD?)
Energy
Management Keeps Washington Plant Kilowatts Ahead of Competition (Bonneville Power Administration)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- FERC Chairman, a Champion of Green Power, to Step Down
- Berkshire Unit in $5.6 Billion Deal for Nevada’s Largest Electric Utility
- Cowlitz PUD Commissioners Announce 15-Member Rate Advisory Panel
- Mason County PUD 3 - Planned Power Outage Thursday for Twanoh Falls Area
- No Tall Tale: Power Poles Are Growing, Thanks To Our Appetite for Cable, Bandwidth, Electricity
- Op/Ed - Orcas Power & Light: The Next Chapter
- Montana - Judge Approves City of Great Falls' Settlement with Southern Montana Electric
- Specialist Lowers the Boom on Pacific Gas & Electric
- North American Electric Reliability Corporation Releases Reports to Identify Reliability Performance, Trends
- Feds Want Power Grid Plans for Solar Flares
- Survey: Many Americans Don't Know What Fracking Is
- Here’s Why 1.2 Billion People Still Don’t Have Access to Electricity
- Columbia Steelhead "Strongholds''
- Idaho Power Shutters Portions of C-J Strike Dam to Fishing
- Saving the Teanaway River: Hit your iPhones
- Skokomish Tribe’s Potlatch Waste Water Treatment Plant Update
- Cooling Water from Northeast U-S Power Plants Keeps Rivers Warmer
- California - Two Injured When Boiler Blows at Ione Biomass Plant
- Wyoming Company Plans 300-Turbine Wind Farm near Wheatland, Chugwater
- Solar-Rental Options Open Doors for Homeowners
- Parker Hannifin Joins Snohomish PUD Energy Storage Project
- Pennsylvania - In Peco Dispute, Solar Homeowners Wouldn't Give Up
- Ontario to Change Green Energy Law after World Trade Organization Ruling
- Energy Management Keeps Washington Plant Kilowatts Ahead of Competition
- This Innovative Web Site is a Good Place to be for Energy-Minded Homeowners
- Mason County PUD 3’s Landing Site on “A Good Place to Be.”
- Did the UK Sign Up to 20 Percent Renewable Energy By Mistake?
- Anti-LEED Bill Pulled from North Carolina Senate Committee Review
- Utilities Want a Piece of the FCC’s $4.5 Billion Rural Broadband Push
- Science, Politics & the Optics of Broadband
- Dropbox Goes Down for Many Users Worldwide
- Texas to Offer Tax Breaks to Data Center Operators
- Dish Tops Sprint's Bid for Clearwire Ahead of Vote
- With Windows 8.1, Microsoft Goes Retro - And Says “Uncle”
- Americans Talk, Surf More than Europeans on Cells
- Nasdaq is Fined $10 Million Over Mishandled Facebook Public Offering
- Washington State Senator Mike Carrell Of Lakewood Dies At Age 69
- Inmate Assaults Washington State Corrections Center Staff
- Construction Crews Installing Stormwater Pipes in Downtown Shelton
- Tree-Trimming Scam Leaves Mess in Yard, Empty Pockets
WORD OF THE DAY
Efflorescence
• \eff-luh-RESS-suns\ • Noun - 1a: the action or process of developing and
unfolding as if coming into flower b: an instance of such development c:
fullness of manifestation: culmination 2: the period or state of flowering 3:
the process or product of efflorescing chemically
“Blink
and its gone,” bellowed the intergalactic Master Gardener to his well-behaved
minions, trailing behind him like so many ducklings as they trekked across the
plans of Minubious-Two on their way to observe the once millennial efflorescence
of the “scavenging blink-flower.” Unfortunately for the group, their attention
at the exact time of flowering was diverted at the worst time, as one of the sentient
talking dogs of Canis Carnivora barked “squirrel” at a small rodent running
across the remote mountain trail.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
FERC Chairman, a Champion of Green Power, to Step
Down (Midwest Energy News)
Berkshire Unit in $5.6 Billion Deal for Nevada’s
Largest Electric Utility (NY Times)
Cowlitz PUD Commissioners Announce 15-Member Rate
Advisory Panel (Longview Daily News, WA)
Mason County PUD 3 - Planned Power Outage
Thursday for Twanoh Falls Area (Mason County PUD No. 3, Shelton, WA)
No Tall Tale: Power Poles Are Growing, Thanks To
Our Appetite for Cable, Bandwidth, Electricity (My Edmonds News, WA)
Op/Ed - Orcas Power & Light: The Next Chapter
(Island Sounder, Eastsound, WA)
Montana - Judge Approves City of Great Falls'
Settlement with Southern Montana Electric (Great Falls Tribune, MT)
Specialist Lowers the Boom on Pacific Gas &
Electric (Courthouse News Service)
North American Electric Reliability Corporation
Releases Reports to Identify Reliability Performance, Trends (Transmission
& Distribution World)
Feds Want Power Grid Plans for Solar Flares (Courthouse
News Service)
Survey: Many Americans Don't Know What Fracking
Is (U-S News & World Report)
Here’s Why 1.2 Billion People Still Don’t Have
Access to Electricity (Washington Post)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Columbia Steelhead "Strongholds'' (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Idaho Power Shutters Portions of C-J Strike Dam to
Fishing (Associated Press)
Saving the Teanaway River: Hit your iPhones
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Skokomish
Tribe’s Potlatch Waste Water Treatment Plant Update (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/news/news-page/58200-potlatch-waste-water-treatment-plant-update
Cooling
Water from Northeast U-S Power Plants Keeps Rivers Warmer (Environmental
Monitor)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
California
- Two Injured When Boiler Blows at Ione Biomass Plant (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Wyoming
Company Plans 300-Turbine Wind Farm near Wheatland, Chugwater (Casper
Star-Tribune, WY)
Solar-Rental
Options Open Doors for Homeowners (Tri-City
Herald, WA)
Parker
Hannifin Joins Snohomish PUD Energy Storage Project (American Public Power Association)
Pennsylvania
- In Peco Dispute, Solar Homeowners Wouldn't Give Up (Individual.Com)
Ontario
to Change Green Energy Law after World Trade Organization Ruling (Globe &
Mail, Canada)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Energy
Management Keeps Washington Plant Kilowatts Ahead of Competition (Bonneville Power Administration)
This
Innovative Web Site is a Good Place to be for Energy-Minded Homeowners (Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, WA)
Mason
County PUD 3’s Landing Site on “A Good Place to Be.”
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Did
the UK Sign Up to 20 Percent Renewable Energy By Mistake? (The Energy Collective)
Anti-LEED
Bill Pulled from North Carolina Senate Committee Review (Charlotte Business Journal,
NC)
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blog/going_green/2013/05/anti-leed-bill-pulled-nc-senate.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blog/going_green/2013/05/anti-leed-bill-pulled-nc-senate.html
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Utilities Want a Piece of the FCC’s $4.5 Billion
Rural Broadband Push (GreenTech Media - Tacoma PUD?)
Science, Politics & the Optics of Broadband (GigaOM)
Dropbox Goes Down for Many Users Worldwide
(Mashable)
Texas to Offer Tax Breaks to Data Center Operators
(Dallas Business Journal, TX)
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2013/05/29/texas-to-offer-tax-breaks-to-data.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2013/05/29/texas-to-offer-tax-breaks-to-data.html
Dish Tops Sprint's Bid for Clearwire Ahead of Vote (Associated
Press)
With Windows 8.1, Microsoft Goes Retro - And Says
“Uncle” (Seattle Times, WA)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Americans Talk, Surf More than Europeans on Cells (Associated
Press)
Nasdaq is Fined $10 Million Over Mishandled
Facebook Public Offering (NY Times)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Senator Mike Carrell Of Lakewood
Dies At Age 69 (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Inmate Assaults Washington State Corrections Center
Staff (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Construction
Crews Installing Stormwater Pipes in Downtown Shelton (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Tree-Trimming Scam Leaves Mess in Yard, Empty
Pockets (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
DIVERSIONS
Ants
Ringing Doorbell Disturb German Woman's Sleep
Ten
Scripps National Spelling Bee Words You'd Definitely Mess Up
Huge Asteroid 1998 QE2 Sails by Earth on Friday
Scientists
say newly discovered woolly mammoth blood boosts cloning prospects
SONG OF THE DAY
Eumir
Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra
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