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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for June 25, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Special
Weather Statement - Downpours & Threat of Thunderstorms Expected Today
(National Weather Service, Seattle)
Rate Hikes Approved for Puget Sound Energy (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
FERC Criticized on Pacific Northwest Planning
Order (Electric Co-op Today)
Boeing
Meeting Its Goals in Cutting Energy Use (Puget Sound
Business Journal, WA)
FCC Finalizes Effort to Make Available $485M for
Rural Broadband in USF Reform Effort (Bloomberg News)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Rate Hikes Approved for Puget Sound Energy
- FERC Criticized on Pacific Northwest Planning Order
- Mason County PUD 3 Clears another Audit
- Snohomish PUD Electrical System Improvements Aid Reliability & Growth Coming to Lake Stevens
- Scam Targets Pacific Power Customers
- California - San Bruno Demands Documents & Emails amid Rising Furor over PUC Oversight of Pacific Gas & Electric Gas Blast
- Op/Ed - Justice Long Delayed in Feds’ Energy Cheating
- Underground Electrical Vault Explodes In Downtown St. Louis
- APPA Supports Some Parts of Obama’s Climate Change Plan; Has Concerns about Other Aspects
- Presidential Climate Change Memorandum Includes Hydroelectric Power
- U-S Moves to Abandon Costly South Carolina Reactor Fuel Plant
- Coal is Again Our Major Source of Electricity
- Kitsap PUD, Silverdale District Sign Water-Sharing Agreement
- Will Ethiopia's 'Grand' New Dam Steal Nile Waters from Egypt?
- Why Obama's Plan to Accelerate Permitting for Renewable Energy is a Big Deal
- Can Wind Power Keep Energy Prices in Check?
- Dong Sells Off Danish Onshore Wind Projects
- Boeing Meeting Its Goals in Cutting Energy Use
- Nuclear Energy Innovation Big and Small Important to Climate Change
- Port Angeles to Get Donated Electric Car Charger
- FCC Finalizes Effort to Make Available $485M for Rural Broadband in USF Reform Effort
- Congressman Kilmer Speaks in Belfair
- Special Weather Statement - Downpours & Threat of Thunderstorms Expected Today
- Two Injured When SUV Goes over Embankment on Highway 3 Near Shelton
- Washington Same-Sex Marriages Gain Full Benefits as Supreme Court Strikes Down DOMA
- Mason County Unemployment Rate Up in May
- Early Count Shows Residents Voting to Recall Pacific Mayor
- Auburn Woman Arrested in Fake Cancer Scheme
WORD OF THE DAY
Jerkwater
• \JERK-wat-err\ • Adjective - 1: remote and unimportant 2: trivial.
“Jerkwater?
That’s really what the New York Times called our town?” mused the mayor to his
hound-dog as they lazed on the front porch, reveling in the afternoon summer
sunshine; the hypnotic droning of bees thrumming from the nearby honeysuckle. “Well,
that is most excellent.”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Rate Hikes Approved for Puget Sound Energy (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
FERC Criticized on Pacific Northwest Planning
Order (Electric Co-op Today)
Mason County PUD 3 Clears another Audit (Mason
Web-TV, Shelton, WA)
Snohomish PUD Electrical System Improvements Aid
Reliability & Growth Coming to Lake Stevens (Lake Stevens Journal, WA)
Scam Targets Pacific Power Customers (KGW TV, Portland, OR)
California - San Bruno Demands Documents &
Emails amid Rising Furor over PUC Oversight of Pacific Gas & Electric Gas
Blast (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Op/Ed - Justice Long Delayed in Feds’ Energy
Cheating (San Diego Daily Transcript, CA)
Underground Electrical Vault Explodes In Downtown
St. Louis (KTVI-TV, St Louis, MO)
APPA Supports Some Parts of Obama’s Climate
Change Plan; Has Concerns about Other Aspects (American
Public Power Association)
Presidential Climate Change Memorandum Includes
Hydroelectric Power (Pennenergy)
U-S Moves to Abandon Costly South Carolina Reactor
Fuel Plant (NY Times)
Coal is Again Our Major Source of Electricity
(Real Clear Energy)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Kitsap
PUD, Silverdale District Sign Water-Sharing Agreement (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Will
Ethiopia's 'Grand' New Dam Steal Nile Waters from Egypt? (Christian Science
Monitor)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Why
Obama's Plan to Accelerate Permitting for Renewable Energy is a Big Deal (Forbes
Magazine)
Can
Wind Power Keep Energy Prices in Check? (Renewable Energy World)
Dong
Sells Off Danish Onshore Wind Projects (WindPower Monthly)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Boeing
Meeting Its Goals in Cutting Energy Use (Puget Sound
Business Journal, WA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Nuclear
Energy Innovation Big and Small Important to Climate Change (The Energy
Collective)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Port
Angeles to Get Donated Electric Car Charger (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles,
WA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
FCC Finalizes Effort to Make Available $485M for
Rural Broadband in USF Reform Effort (Bloomberg News)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Congressman Kilmer Speaks in Belfair (Mason Web TV,
Shelton, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Special
Weather Statement - Downpours & Threat of Thunderstorms Expected Today
(National Weather Service, Seattle)
Two Injured When SUV Goes over Embankment on
Highway 3 Near Shelton (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Washington Same-Sex Marriages Gain Full Benefits as
Supreme Court Strikes Down DOMA (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Mason County Unemployment Rate Up in May (Mason Web
TV, Shelton, WA)
Early Count Shows Residents Voting to Recall Pacific
Mayor (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Auburn Woman Arrested in Fake Cancer Scheme (KIRO
Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
The
10 Most Musical Cities
Jesus
Ski Resort Statue Can Stay, Says Judge
Just
What You Needed: Emergency Flatware Pen Caps for the Office
Mason
County Crash Leaves Man & Dog Covered in Paint
SONG OF THE DAY
Steve
Miller Band - Threshold/Jet Airliner
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