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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
British Columbia’s Financial Honeymoon Ends with
Columbia River Treaty Anniversary - Payments from the U.S. that now average
$220 million will be up for negotiation (Vancouver Sun, B-C)
FERC Partially Accepts Order No. 1000 Filings for
ColumbiaGrid, Florida Regions (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)
Obama Readying Emissions Limits on Power Plants (NY Times)
Making
Energy Efficiency Attractive for Owners of Older Seattle Buildings (NY Times)
Budget Bill Would Make It Optional for California
Local Governments to Comply with Public Records Laws (Sacramento Bee, CA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- British Columbia’s Financial Honeymoon Ends with Columbia River Treaty Anniversary - Payments from the U.S. that now average $220 million will be up for negotiation
- FERC Partially Accepts Order No. 1000 Filings for ColumbiaGrid, Florida Regions
- BPA Welcomes Washington’s Newest PUD, Jefferson County
- Port Angeles City Council Plans Meeting on Electrical Utilities
- Tacoma Power - Sticky Wickets: Coatings Mitigate Butterfly Valve Leakage at Cushman No. 2
- Charges: Washington State’s Biggest Copper Thieves Undone by Gatorade
- 21 Individuals, Ten Utilities Win APPA Awards; 23 Earn Public Power Manager Certificates – Including Washington State Honorees
- FERC Affirms Open Access Rights for Qualifying Facilities in Complaint against the Oregon PUC
- Fitch 2013 Public Power Peer Study Notes Downward Trend On Debt Service Coverage, But Strong Liquidity In Sector
- Colville Confederated Tribes Open $51 Million Washington State Fish Hatchery
- Biosolids Debate Spreads
- Elwha Water Treatment Fix Expected by September
- California Solar Energy Initiative Is Ending: What Has It Left Behind?
- Wind Companies Blow Off Disputes
- Pennsylvania - $10,000 Worth of Copper Wire Taken from Somerset County Wind Turbines
- Wind-Wildlife Group Begins Building Bird-Death Database
- Black Clouds Hang over Spain’s Small Solar Farms
- Making Energy Efficiency Attractive for Owners of Older Seattle Buildings
- Age of the Internet of Everything: Automating Household Objects Via the Internet Now a Reality
- Get the Most Out of Your Home Appliances - Without Taking Them Apart
- Obama Readying Emissions Limits on Power Plants
- Need Carbon Credits? An Entire Forest Is Up for Grabs
- NC Senate Signs Off on Compromise Bill to Allow LEED Public Projects
- Best Time to Drive a Hybrid? When Traffic is Bad
- Chelan PUD Finishes Lake Wenatchee Fiber Rebuild
- OP/Ed - No Country for Slow Broadband
- Op/Ed Response - NY Times Leaves Industry Disclosure Out of Op-Ed Celebrating Broadband Mediocrity
- FCC Nominee Tom Wheeler Touts Telecom Industry Ties
- Having Problems with Your Netflix? You Can Blame Verizon
- ComEd Offers Customers Once-in-a-Lifetime Experiences in “Coolest Summer Ever” Promotion
- Steal This Idea, a Campaign Urges
- George Takei: Why We Care That His Facebook is ‘Fake’
- Budget Bill Would Make It Optional for California Local Governments to Comply with Public Records Laws
- Local Governments Spend Big to Lobby Washington State Legislature
- State Reconsiders Rule against Growing Marijuana Outdoors
- May Unemployment Lowest Since November 2008
- I-5 Skagit River Bridge Reopens Less Than 4 Weeks after Collapse
- Port of Shelton Starts Process to Surplus More Timber
- Visiting Energy Secretary Pledges Improvements in Hanford Cleanup
- Men Charged with Stealing $16,000 of Liquor since Privatization
WORDS OF THE DAY
Peccant
• \PECK-un\ • Adjective - 1: guilty of a moral offense: sinning 2: violating a
principle or rule: faulty
Habiliment
• \huh-BILL-uh-munt\ • Noun - 1: characteristic apparatus: trappings 2a: the
dress characteristic of an occupation or occasion - usually used in plural
Oh No! Captain Crunch's naval habiliment tags him as a Commander, not a Captain! Naval experts worldwide call for a court martial to punish his peccant behavior: impersonating an officer.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
British Columbia’s Financial Honeymoon Ends with Columbia
River Treaty Anniversary - Payments from the U.S. that now average $220 million
will be up for negotiation (Vancouver Sun, B-C)
FERC Partially Accepts Order No. 1000 Filings for
ColumbiaGrid, Florida Regions (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)
BPA Welcomes Washington’s Newest PUD, Jefferson
County (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Port Angeles City Council Plans Meeting on Electrical
Utilities (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Tacoma Power - Sticky Wickets: Coatings Mitigate
Butterfly Valve Leakage at Cushman No. 2 (HydroWorld)
Charges: Washington State’s Biggest Copper
Thieves Undone by Gatorade (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
21 Individuals, Ten Utilities Win APPA Awards; 23
Earn Public Power Manager Certificates – Including Washington State Honorees (American Public Power Association)
FERC Affirms Open Access Rights for Qualifying
Facilities in Complaint against the Oregon PUC (GTH Energy & Natural
Resources Law Blog)
Fitch 2013 Public Power Peer Study Notes Downward
Trend On Debt Service Coverage, But Strong Liquidity In Sector (American Public Power Association)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Colville Confederated Tribes Open $51 Million Washington
State Fish Hatchery (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Biosolids
Debate Spreads (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Elwha
Water Treatment Fix Expected by September (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
California
Solar Energy Initiative Is Ending: What Has It Left Behind? (The Energy
Collective)
Wind
Companies Blow Off Disputes (Philadelphia Business Journal, PA)
Pennsylvania
- $10,000 Worth of Copper Wire Taken from Somerset County Wind Turbines (Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review, PA)
Wind-Wildlife
Group Begins Building Bird-Death Database (Midwest Energy
News)
http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2013/06/20/wind-wildlife-group-begins-building-bird-death-database/
Black
Clouds Hang over Spain’s Small Solar Farms (Reuters)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Making
Energy Efficiency Attractive for Owners of Older Seattle Buildings (NY Times)
Age
of the Internet of Everything: Automating Household Objects Via the Internet Now
a Reality (National Post, Canada)
Get
the Most Out of Your Home Appliances - Without Taking Them Apart (Gizmodo)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Obama Readying Emissions Limits on Power Plants (NY Times)
Need
Carbon Credits? An Entire Forest Is Up for Grabs (Portland Business Journal, OR)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/real-estate-daily/2013/06/need-carbon-credits-an-entire-forest.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/real-estate-daily/2013/06/need-carbon-credits-an-entire-forest.html
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
NC
Senate Signs Off on Compromise Bill to Allow LEED Public Projects (Charlotte
Business Journal, NC)
Best
Time to Drive a Hybrid? When Traffic is Bad (Christian Science Monitor)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Chelan PUD Finishes Lake Wenatchee Fiber Rebuild (Wenatchee
World, WA)
OP/Ed - No Country for Slow Broadband (NY Times)
Op/Ed Response - NY Times Leaves Industry
Disclosure Out of Op-Ed Celebrating Broadband Mediocrity (Media Matters)
FCC Nominee Tom Wheeler Touts Telecom Industry Ties
(Washington Post)
Having Problems with Your Netflix? You Can Blame Verizon
(GigaOM)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
ComEd Offers Customers Once-in-a-Lifetime
Experiences in “Coolest Summer Ever” Promotion (Electric Energy Online - .9% Facebook
customer to like ratio)
Steal This Idea, a Campaign Urges (NY Times)
George Takei: Why We Care That His Facebook is ‘Fake’
(Christian Science Monitor)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Budget Bill Would Make It Optional for California Local
Governments to Comply with Public Records Laws (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Local Governments Spend Big to Lobby Washington
State Legislature (Seattle Times, WA)
State
Reconsiders Rule against Growing Marijuana Outdoors (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
May Unemployment Lowest Since November 2008 (South
Sound Business Examiner)
I-5 Skagit River Bridge Reopens Less Than 4 Weeks after
Collapse (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
Port of Shelton Starts Process to Surplus More
Timber (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Visiting Energy Secretary Pledges Improvements in
Hanford Cleanup (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Men Charged with Stealing $16,000 of Liquor since
Privatization (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
We
Don’t Know How to Handle the Fact That Cap’n Crunch Has Been Living a Lie
Urban
Outfitters Decides Maybe Prescription Pill Bottles as Shot Glasses Isn’t a
Great Idea
Men’s
Wearhouse Ousts Founder, Pitchman Zimmer
SONG OF THE DAY
Blues
Image - Ride Captain Ride
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