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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for June 13, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Casting
a Constitutional Cloud on In-State Renewable Preferences, Seventh Circuit
Upholds Transmission Cost-Spreading (GTH Energy & Natural Resources Law
Blog)
Snohomish PUD Dam Proposed on Skykomish River
near Index (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Fish Nets Found to Kill Large Numbers of Birds (NY Times)
Obama
Administration Quietly Raises ‘Carbon Price’ as Costs to Climate Increase
(Bloomberg News)
Heroin Overdose Deaths on the Rise in Washington
State (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Snohomish PUD Dam Proposed on Skykomish River near Index
- Includes Benton REA - Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Funding for Projects to Boost Rural Electric Grid Efficiency & Reliability
- Portland General Electric Prices Share Offering at $29.50
- Mason County PUD 3 Named 2012 Conservation Steward of the Year
- Tennessee Valley Authority Shelves Work at Alabama Nuclear Plant amid Industry Struggle
- Exelon Blames ‘Subsidized’ Wind, Markets for Derailing Nuclear Projects
- How ‘Green’ is Your Power?
- U-S Natural Gas Supplies Grew Last Week
- U-S House of Representatives Approves Public Power Risk Management Act
- Federal Agencies to Update Power Grid
- Explainer: Capacity Factor
- Fish Nets Found to Kill Large Numbers of Birds
- Bonneville Power Administration - Colville Tribes to celebrate opening of Chief Joseph Hatchery
- Editorial - If Dams Don’t Kill Them, What Does?
- A whale of a find near Ocean Shores
- Ranchers in the Upper Klamath Are Having Their Irrigation Shut Off
- City of Aberdeen Will Sell Timber to Pay for Water Meter Replacement Project
- Casting a Constitutional Cloud on In-State Renewable Preferences, Seventh Circuit Upholds Transmission Cost-Spreading
- How Green Does Utah Go? State Panel to Decide
- California Solar Power Hitting Records
- Vermont - Net Metering a Victim of Its Own Success for Some Rural Utilities
- Report: Wind Energy May Be Harmful to Your Health
- Germany - Tilting at Windmills
- Cold Cash for a Warm Home - An Update on Thurston Energy’s Rebate Program
- Efficiency Exchange 2013: Good Things Go Better Together
- Slideshow - Energy Savings Myths
- Obama Administration Quietly Raises ‘Carbon Price’ as Costs to Climate Increase
- China is Testing Out Cap-And-Trade - But Will it Actually Work?
- Cheaper Ways to Capture Carbon Dioxide
- Hydrogen Hiccup - Amateur Science Project Goes Boom, Sends Man to Hospital
- City of Tacoma’s Click! Cable Rates Soon to Rise
- Clearwire Board Backs Dish Network Offer over Sprint Merger
- Utah Home to NSA’s New Mega-Warehouse for Data
- Gatekeepers of Cable TV Try to Stop Intel
- Switch to HDTV Went Quicker Than to Color TV
- Hog Fuel or Health Care? Washington State Senate Considering 14 More Tax Loopholes
- Bill To Require Oregonians to Pay Sales Tax in Washington Passes House
- Heroin Overdose Deaths on the Rise in Washington State
- Average Wage in Washington State Cracks $50,000 for the First Time
- Last Year’s Dry Summer Could Be Hurting Trees Now
- Oregon Lumber Business Finds Success in Diversifying
- After Shelton Schooling - 27 Trooper Cadets Graduate From Patrol Academy in Olympia Ceremony
- Costco & Gasoline: Are You Really Saving at the Pump?
WORD OF THE DAY
Cranial
• \KRAY-nee-ull\ • Adjective - Of or relating to the skull or cranium
“Boy
howdy,” exclaimed the small child in a high piping voice to his nearby parents.
“That guy’s cranial capacity must be huge.” The hulking scientist, the first Neanderthal
clone, loomed over the diminutive observer, his huge melon casting a shadow
across the boy’s face. “Yes, it is huge,” he said in quiet undertones, “and my
biological computing capacity is amazing by any measure. Now, if I could just
do something about these incredibly irritating eye ridges.”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Snohomish PUD Dam Proposed on Skykomish River near
Index (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Includes Benton REA - Agriculture Secretary
Vilsack Announces Funding for Projects to Boost Rural Electric Grid Efficiency &
Reliability (US Department of Agriculture)
Portland General Electric Prices Share Offering at
$29.50 (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Mason County PUD 3 Named 2012 Conservation
Steward of the Year (Mason County PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Tennessee Valley Authority Shelves Work at
Alabama Nuclear Plant amid Industry Struggle (Washington
Post)
Exelon Blames ‘Subsidized’ Wind, Markets for
Derailing Nuclear Projects (Midwest Energy News)
How ‘Green’ is Your Power? Many states &
their destination cities have reasons to re-think how they are powered (Christian
Science Monitor)
U-S Natural Gas Supplies Grew Last Week (Associated Press)
U-S House of Representatives Approves Public
Power Risk Management Act (American Public Power
Association)
Federal Agencies to Update Power Grid (Courthouse
News Service)
Explainer: Capacity Factor (KCET-TV, Burbank, CA)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Fish Nets Found to Kill Large Numbers of Birds (NY Times)
Bonneville Power Administration - Colville Tribes
to celebrate opening of Chief Joseph Hatchery (KBKW
Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Editorial - If Dams Don’t Kill Them, What Does? (Wenatchee World, WA)
A whale of a find near Ocean Shores (KXRO Radio,
Aberdeen, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Ranchers
in the Upper Klamath Are Having Their Irrigation Shut Off (Oregon Public
Broadcasting)
City
of Aberdeen Will Sell Timber to Pay for Water Meter Replacement Project (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Casting
a Constitutional Cloud on In-State Renewable Preferences, Seventh Circuit
Upholds Transmission Cost-Spreading (GTH Energy & Natural Resources Law
Blog)
How
Green Does Utah Go? State Panel to Decide - State panel’s ruling could define
future of Utah clean energy & also impact electric rates (Salt Lake
Tribune, UT)
California
Solar Power Hitting Records (San Francisco Business Times, CA)
Vermont
- Net Metering a Victim of Its Own Success for Some Rural Utilities (VT Digger,
Montpelier, VT)
Report:
Wind Energy May Be Harmful to Your Health (Boston Business Journal, MA)
Germany
- Tilting at Windmills (The Economist Magazine)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Cold
Cash for a Warm Home - An Update on Thurston Energy’s Rebate Program (Thurston
Talk, Olympia, WA)
Efficiency
Exchange 2013: Good Things Go Better Together (Bonneville
Power Administration)
Slideshow
- Energy Savings Myths (Forbes Magazine)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Obama
Administration Quietly Raises ‘Carbon Price’ as Costs to Climate Increase (Bloomberg
News)
China
is Testing Out Cap-And-Trade - But Will it Actually Work? (Washington Post)
Cheaper
Ways to Capture Carbon Dioxide (MIT Technology Review)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Hydrogen
Hiccup - Amateur Science Project Goes Boom, Sends Man to Hospital (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
City of Tacoma’s Click! Cable Rates Soon to Rise (South
Sound Business Examiner)
Clearwire Board Backs Dish Network Offer over Sprint
Merger (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Utah Home to NSA’s New Mega-Warehouse for Data (Associated
Press)
Gatekeepers of Cable TV Try to Stop Intel (NY
Times)
Switch to HDTV Went Quicker Than to Color TV (USA
Today)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Hog Fuel or Health Care? Washington State Senate Considering
14 More Tax Loopholes (Washington Policy Watch)
Bill To Require Oregonians to Pay Sales Tax in Washington
Passes House (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
http://q13fox.com/2013/06/12/bill-to-require-oregonians-to-pay-sales-tax-in-washington-passes-house/
GENERAL NEWS
Heroin Overdose Deaths on the Rise in Washington
State (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Average Wage in Washington State Cracks $50,000 for
the First Time (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Last Year’s Dry Summer Could Be Hurting Trees Now (Aberdeen
Daily World, WA)
Oregon Lumber Business Finds Success in
Diversifying (Seattle Times, WA)
After Shelton Schooling - 27 Trooper Cadets
Graduate From Patrol Academy in Olympia Ceremony (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Costco & Gasoline: Are You Really Saving at the
Pump? (Christian Science Monitor)
DIVERSIONS
A
Jet Powered, Fire Blowing Bicycle Is Not Ridiculous At All
At
Least One Hostess Plant Reopened, Prepping To Re-Snackify Store Shelves
Portland
to Attempt World-Record Tree Hug
Animal
Clinic Rescues Six Squirrels with Tails Fused Together
SONG OF THE DAY
Paul
McCartney & Wings - Jet
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