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News Digest Word Cloud for July 11, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Feds Give Nod to Okanogan PUD’s Enloe Dam
Approval (Wenatchee World, WA)
Draft Report from Federal Agencies Shows Gains
for Columbia River Basin Fish (Bonneville Power Administration)
Even
with Environmentalist Governor in Office, Enviros Still See Need to Press
Greenhouse Gas Case against Washington State (PubliCola)
Tri-State:
$1 Billion Cost to Meet Colorado’s Renewable-Energy Goal (Denver Business
Journal, CO)
Don’t
Thank Stringent Regulations for California’s Reduced Electricity Use (Forbes
Magazine)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Feds Give Nod to Okanogan PUD’s Enloe Dam Approval
- PPL Montana Dedicates New Powerhouse at Century-Old Rainbow Hydroelectric Facility
- Trudnowski Joins Tacoma Public Utility Board
- Grant PUD to Build Better Park near Vantage
- Conveyance of Kerr Dam Continues to Move Along
- Editorial - California Public Utilities Commission Reverses Course on San Bruno Explosion Penalty for Pacific Gas & Electric
- Russia’s Floating Nuclear Power Plants Will Power Remote Areas
- Op/Ed - Energy Ships Would Bring Hawaii Energy Independence
- Meet the New Generation of Power Plants: Small, Gas Powered & Local
- Arkansas Woman Dies Trying to Steal Copper Wire
- Recent FERC Actions Escalate Western PURPA Litigation War
- Draft Report from Federal Agencies Shows Gains for Columbia River Basin Fish
- Yakamas Celebrate Sockeye Return to Cle Elum Lake
- Sockeye Retention to Reopen in Lower Columbia River
- Oregon Lawmakers Back Columbia River Gillnetting Bill
- Some 200,000 Fish Reported Dead at Lower Elwha Fish Hatchery
- Tennessee Valley Authority Managing Tennessee River to Reduce Flooding
- Tri-State: $1 Billion Cost to Meet Colorado’s Renewable-Energy Goal
- Rooftop Solar Takes Off Across California as Costs Come Down
- Snohomish PUD Expecting More Solar Panel Installations in Everett
- The Disappearing Act of a High-Flying Solar Startup
- Germany’s Solar Industry is Imploding
- Ten Fascinating Facts about Wind Energy
- Don’t Thank Stringent Regulations for California’s Reduced Electricity Use
- To Save on Electricity, Check Your Energy Efficiency
- Even with Environmentalist Governor in Office, Enviros Still See Need to Press Greenhouse Gas Case against Washington State
- How Climate Change Makes It Harder to Keep the Lights On
- Utilities Organize Against EPA Haze Plan for Wyoming
- Microsoft Transforms Company with Massive Reorganization
- Comcast’s Cohen Still Hallucinating U-S Broadband Supremacy
- 137 House Members Sign Letter Supporting Tax-Exempt Municipal Financing
- Washington State Agency Emails Searched for Terms Such as ‘Tea Party,’ ‘Hicks’
- Exploding Targets ‘Growing Concern’ for Wildfire Investigators
- Coho Ferry Crashes into Victoria Seaplane Dock
WORD OF THE DAY
Éminence
Grise • \ay-mee-nawns - GREEZ\ • Noun - 1: a confidential agent; especially:
one exercising unsuspected or unofficial power 2: a respected authority; specifically:
an elder statesman.
See
Edgar Bergen
McCarthy’s
Éminence Grise
His
voice thrown for laughs
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Feds Give Nod to Okanogan PUD’s Enloe Dam Approval
(Wenatchee World, WA)
PPL Montana Dedicates New Powerhouse at
Century-Old Rainbow Hydroelectric Facility (Herald Online)
Trudnowski Joins Tacoma Public Utility Board (South Sound Business Examiner)
http://www.businessexaminer.com/blog/July-2013/Monique-Trudnowski-joins-Tacoma-Public-Utility-Board/
Grant PUD to Build Better Park near Vantage (Wenatchee World, WA)
Conveyance of Kerr Dam Continues to Move Along
(Char-Koosta News, Pablo, MT)
Editorial - California Public Utilities
Commission Reverses Course on San Bruno Explosion Penalty for Pacific Gas &
Electric (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Russia’s Floating Nuclear Power Plants Will Power
Remote Areas (Mashable)
Op/Ed - Energy Ships Would Bring Hawaii Energy
Independence (Hawaii Reporter, Honolulu)
Meet the New Generation of Power Plants: Small,
Gas Powered & Local (Globe & Mail, Canada)
Arkansas Woman Dies Trying to Steal Copper Wire
(KTHV-TV, Little Rock, AR)
Recent FERC Actions Escalate Western PURPA
Litigation War (GTH Energy & Natural Resources Law Blog)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Draft Report from Federal Agencies Shows Gains
for Columbia River Basin Fish (Bonneville Power Administration)
Yakamas Celebrate Sockeye Return to Cle Elum Lake
(Associated Press)
Sockeye Retention to Reopen in Lower Columbia
River (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Oregon Lawmakers Back Columbia River Gillnetting
Bill (Associated Press)
Some 200,000 Fish Reported Dead at Lower Elwha Fish
Hatchery (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Tennessee
Valley Authority Managing Tennessee River to Reduce Flooding (KPTV-TV,
Portland, OR)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Tri-State:
$1 Billion Cost to Meet Colorado’s Renewable-Energy Goal (Denver Business Journal,
CO)
Rooftop
Solar Takes Off Across California as Costs Come Down (San Jose Mercury News,
CA)
Snohomish
PUD Expecting More Solar Panel Installations in Everett (My Everett News, WA)
The
Disappearing Act of a High-Flying Solar Startup (Forbes Magazine)
Germany’s
Solar Industry is Imploding (Forbes Magazine)
Ten
Fascinating Facts about Wind Energy (The Motley Fool)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Don’t
Thank Stringent Regulations for California’s Reduced Electricity Use (Forbes
Magazine)
To
Save on Electricity, Check Your Energy Efficiency (Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel,
FL)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Even
with Environmentalist Governor in Office, Enviros Still See Need to Press
Greenhouse Gas Case against Washington State (PubliCola)
How
Climate Change Makes It Harder to Keep the Lights On (Washington Post)
Utilities Organize Against EPA Haze Plan for
Wyoming (Associated Press)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Microsoft Transforms Company with Massive
Reorganization (Mashable)
Comcast’s Cohen Still Hallucinating U-S Broadband
Supremacy - Perhaps He Should Spend a Year in Rural America (Broadband Reports)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
137 House Members Sign Letter Supporting Tax-Exempt
Municipal Financing (American Public Power Association)
GENERAL NEWS
Washington State Agency Emails Searched for Terms
Such as ‘Tea Party,’ ‘Hicks’ (Longview Daily News, WA)
Exploding Targets ‘Growing Concern’ for Wildfire
Investigators (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Coho Ferry Crashes into Victoria Seaplane Dock (Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation)
DIVERSIONS
First
Apple Computer Sells for Nearly $388,000
Nevada
Voters Can Keep Choosing ‘None of These’
Baby
Buys Car While Playing On Parents’ Cellphone
SONG OF THE DAY
The
Beatles - Drive My Car
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