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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for May 31, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Advocates for Klamath Dams’ Removal Rally in
Portland (Northwest Public Radio)
Sierra Club Calls For Puget Sound Energy to Stop
Using Coal Power (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Climate
Change Study: 82 Percent of California Native Fish Species Risk Extinction (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Oregon
State House Approves Energy-Efficiency Standards for Most TVs, Battery Chargers
(Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Japan Stops Imports after Genetically Modified
Wheat Found in Oregon (Associated Press)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Sierra Club Calls For Puget Sound Energy to Stop Using Coal Power
- Comment Sought on BPA Plan to Replace Montana Transmission Line
- Grant PUD Stretches Lines over Rocky Ford Creek
- Moody’s Assigns Aa1 Rating to BPA Backed Cowlitz Falls Hydro Debt - Outlook Stable
- Big Energy Conservation Project - Mason County PUD 3 Commission Report for May 28, 2013
- Tennessee Valley Authority Suffers Blow, Loses Biggest Customer
- New York - Owner Makes All-Out Push for Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant
- Watt’s Up With Grow Houses?
- Advocates for Klamath Dams’ Removal Rally in Portland
- Shellfisher Involved in Hood Canal Poaching Ring Starts Jail Sentence
- Washington State Congresswoman Herrera Beutler Calls On EPA to Protect Salmon from Alaska Mine Proposal
- Bristol Mine - The Biggest Environmental Decision Facing Obama You’ve Never Heard Of
- Frankensalmon Could Breed with Trout, Produce Frankentrout
- Yakima Basin Board Recognizes Salmon Recovery Efforts
- Electric Power Politics: Net-Metering Gets Nasty
- Is Solar at Risk of Becoming as Trusted as a Used Car Salesman?
- Oregon State House Approves Energy-Efficiency Standards for Most TVs, Battery Chargers
- Climate Change Study: 82 Percent of California Native Fish Species Risk Extinction
- Scientists Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gases by Breeding Fartless Cows
- Opponents Seek to Overturn Plastic Bag Ban in Shoreline
- Customers Steamed About ‘Toilet Water’ in Their Coffee
- Google Again Swears Google Fiber Not an Experiment
- Comcast: U-S the Global Leader on Broadband - Everything’s Great, And You Don’t Need 1 Gbps
- Q&A: Is It Safe to Use a Public Wi-Fi Network?
- NBA Player Uses Twitter to Score Date with Miss Tennessee
- Last Day Comes for Embattled Snohomish County Executive
- At Hastily Called Meeting, Pierce County Republicans Pick Muri to Replace Late Sen. Carrell
- Records: Washington State Lobbyists Often File Questionable Reports
- Japan Stops Imports after Genetically Modified Wheat Found in Oregon
- Not So Mellow About this Yellow: Olympic Peninsula Petition Urges Mandatory Control of Scotch Broom
- Silicon Valley, Help! — America’s Infrastructure Just Got a D+
- Measure of U-S Consumer Confidence at Six-Year High
- Ex-Microsoft Manager Plans to Create First U-S Marijuana Brand
WORD OF THE DAY
Onomatopoeia
• \ah-nuh-mah-tuh-PEE-uh\ • Noun - 1: the naming of a thing or action by a
vocal imitation of the sound associated with it 2: the use of words whose sound
suggests the sense.
Buzz
Snap-Crackle-Pop
Pow
Hiccup
Hiss
Bang
Burp
Zing
Zap
Examples
are a lot easier than using the tongue twisting word onomatopoeia!
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Sierra Club Calls For Puget Sound Energy to Stop
Using Coal Power (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Comment Sought on BPA Plan to Replace Montana Transmission
Line (KPAX TV, Missoula, MT)
Grant PUD Stretches Lines over Rocky Ford Creek
(iFiber One News, Ephrata, WA)
Moody’s Assigns Aa1 Rating to BPA Backed Cowlitz
Falls Hydro Debt - Outlook Stable (Moody’s Investors Service)
Big Energy Conservation Project - Mason County PUD
3 Commission Report for May 28, 2013 (Mason County PUD No. 3, Shelton, WA)
Tennessee Valley Authority Suffers Blow, Loses
Biggest Customer (Chattanooga Times Free Press, TN)
New York - Owner Makes All-Out Push for Indian
Point Nuclear Power Plant (NY Times)
Watt’s Up With Grow Houses? (Leesburg Daily
Commercial, FL)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Advocates for Klamath Dams’ Removal Rally in
Portland (Northwest Public Radio)
Shellfisher Involved in Hood Canal Poaching Ring
Starts Jail Sentence (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Washington State Congresswoman Herrera Beutler Calls
On EPA to Protect Salmon from Alaska Mine Proposal (Longview Daily News, WA)
Bristol Mine - The Biggest Environmental Decision
Facing Obama You’ve Never Heard Of (Washington
Post)
Frankensalmon Could Breed with Trout, Produce
Frankentrout (Grist Online)
Yakima Basin Board Recognizes Salmon Recovery
Efforts (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Electric
Power Politics: Net-Metering Gets Nasty (Forbes Magazine)
Is
Solar at Risk of Becoming as Trusted as a Used Car Salesman? (Renewable Energy
World)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Oregon
State House Approves Energy-Efficiency Standards for Most TVs, Battery Chargers
(Oregonian, Portland, OR)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Climate
Change Study: 82 Percent of California Native Fish Species Risk Extinction (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Scientists
Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gases by Breeding Fartless Cows (Grist Online)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Opponents
Seek to Overturn Plastic Bag Ban in Shoreline (KCPQ-TV,
Seattle, WA)
Customers
Steamed About ‘Toilet Water’ in Their Coffee (USA
Today)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Google Again Swears Google Fiber Not an Experiment (Broadband
Reports)
Comcast: U-S the Global Leader on Broadband - Everything’s
Great, And You Don’t Need 1 Gbps (Broadband Reports)
Q&A: Is It Safe to Use a Public Wi-Fi Network? (USA
Today)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
NBA Player Uses Twitter to Score Date with Miss
Tennessee (Mashable)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Last Day Comes for Embattled Snohomish County
Executive (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
At Hastily Called Meeting, Pierce County
Republicans Pick Muri to Replace Late Sen. Carrell (Washington Wire, Olympia,
WA)
Records: Washington State Lobbyists Often File
Questionable Reports (Associated Press)
GENERAL NEWS
Japan Stops Imports after Genetically Modified
Wheat Found in Oregon (Associated Press)
Not So Mellow About this Yellow: Olympic Peninsula Petition
Urges Mandatory Control of Scotch Broom (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles,
WA)
Silicon Valley, Help! — America’s Infrastructure
Just Got a D+ (Washington Post)
Measure of U-S Consumer Confidence at Six-Year High
(Associated Press)
Ex-Microsoft Manager Plans to Create First U-S
Marijuana Brand (Reuters)
DIVERSIONS
Boy,
10, Finds $10,000 in Kansas City Hotel Room
Man
Builds Working Car Out of Wood
Sonar Image May Show Amelia Earhart’s Plane
Arvind Mahankali Wins National Spelling Bee
SONG OF THE DAY
Twilight
Soundtrack - Bella’s Lullaby
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