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News Digest Word Cloud for July 12, 2012
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Portland General Electric & PacifiCorp Rates
Set to Increase in January under Proposed Settlement (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Oregon
– Baker County Wind Farm Opponents Gather (Baker City Herald, OR)
http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/Wind-farm-opponents-gather
http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/Wind-farm-opponents-gather
Wind
Power Does Not Strongly Affect Greater Prairie Chickens, Seven-Year Study Finds
(Eureka Alert)
In
Obama Climate Plan, States Seek Flexibility (USA Today)
Steep Drop in Coastal Fish Found in California
Power Plant Records (Los Angeles Times, CA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Portland General Electric & PacifiCorp Rates Set to Increase in January under Proposed Settlement
- Lower Columbia River Hydropower Output Down Sharply in June
- U-S House Passes Gosar Amendment to Protect Power Marketing Administrations from Chu Memo’s Directives
- NorthWestern Energy Signs New Power Contracts
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s Dynamic Pricing Pilot Yielding Early Successes
- British Columbia Backs Down on Wireless Smart Meters
- New Light Show at Coulee Dam Delayed a Year
- Power Outage near Hermiston Caused by Snake
- Bonneville Power Administration Library: A Collection Worth Millions
- Emissions a Concern after California Nuclear Plant Shutdown
- Demonizing Existing Nuclear Energy Tech is a Poor Communications Tool
- Managing Outrage: A Primer
- Living Smart: Home Generators
- United Kingdom - Thieves Expose Power Plant Visitors to Electrocution Risk after Stealing Copper from Betteshanger
- Power Outage? Blame a Poor Squirrel
- Steep Drop in Coastal Fish Found in California Power Plant Records
- Port Angeles Officials React to Loss at Lower Elwha Klallam Fish Hatchery
- Three Cowlitz County Creeks to Turn Red for Salmon
- Land Trust Acquires Columbia River Island
- Cantwell, Herrera Beutler Introduce Bill to Help Local Fishermen
- Oregon – Baker County Wind Farm Opponents Gather
- Wind Power Does Not Strongly Affect Greater Prairie Chickens, Seven-Year Study Finds
- Solyndra Founder Unlikely to Face Criminal Charges, Sources Say
- Walgreens Taking on Big Boxes for Solar Energy Leadership
- Effort to Create New State Called ‘North Colorado’ Grows
- Why Storm Winds Turned Wind Turbine into a Fireball
- Vermont - Tensions Rise as Credits for Solar Cut into Utility Budgets; VEC Is the Third Utility to Hit Four Percent Cap
- Tiny Modems & Routers Can Be Big Energy Hogs
- In Obama Climate Plan, States Seek Flexibility
- Google Faces Environmentalists’ Ire over Inhofe Fundraiser
- Can Climate Bonds Advance Renewable Energy Finance?
- UN Recognition for Hydro in Brazil, Wind in Uruguay
- Verizon’s Test of Landline-Less Service Leaves Some Customers out in Cold
- Critics: Comcast’s $10 Broadband is a Shallow PR Ploy - When Government Acts as a Comcast Advertising Vessel
- Revealed: How Microsoft Handed the NSA Access to Encrypted Messages
- AltaVista is Dead. Here’s Why It’s So Hard to Compete with Google.
- New Smokey Bear Gives Hugs, Not Just Warnings
- Eleven Words We Learned on the Wienermobile
- Standard & Poor’s Raises ‘Puffery’ Defense in Federal Investor-Fraud Case
- 19-Year Corruption Sentence for Ex-Manager with Army Corps of Engineers
- No Sign Automatic Equipment Failed in San Francisco Airplane Crash: NTSB
- Copper Wire Thefts from Streetlights Reported in Lacey
- Longtime Washington State Lawmaker Duane Berentson Dies
WORD OF THE DAY
Vouchsafe
• \vowtch-SAYF\ • Verb - 1a: to grant or furnish often in a gracious or
condescending manner b: to give by way of reply 2: to grant as a privilege or
special favor
After
dragging his blanket through the mud, grass & gravel, Linus vouchsafed the
little blue “binkie” a respite by running it through the gentle wash cycle;
topping of its soapy journey with a light tumble in the dryer with the most
expensive & fragrant “dryer sheets.”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Portland General Electric & PacifiCorp Rates
Set to Increase in January under Proposed Settlement (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Lower Columbia River Hydropower Output Down
Sharply in June (SNL Financial)
U-S House Passes Gosar Amendment to Protect Power
Marketing Administrations from Chu Memo’s Directives (American Public Power Association)
NorthWestern Energy Signs New Power Contracts (Associated Press)
Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s Dynamic
Pricing Pilot Yielding Early Successes (Electric Energy Online)
British Columbia Backs Down on Wireless Smart
Meters - Customers will be able to pay extra for meters without wireless
technology (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
New Light Show at Coulee Dam Delayed a Year (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Power Outage near Hermiston Caused by Snake (Associated Press)
Bonneville Power Administration Library: A
Collection Worth Millions (Bonneville Power
Administration)
Emissions a Concern after California Nuclear
Plant Shutdown (Associated Press)
Demonizing Existing Nuclear Energy Tech is a Poor
Communications Tool (The Energy Collective)
Managing Outrage: A Primer (Peter M. Sandman)
Living Smart: Home Generators (Sacramento Bee, CA)
United Kingdom - Thieves Expose Power Plant
Visitors to Electrocution Risk after Stealing Copper from Betteshanger (Kent
Online, UK)
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/east_kent_mercury/news/Cable-thieves-expose-power-station-3131/
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/east_kent_mercury/news/Cable-thieves-expose-power-station-3131/
Power Outage? Blame a Poor Squirrel (Hickory
Record, NC)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Steep Drop in Coastal Fish Found in California
Power Plant Records (Los Angeles Times, CA)
Port Angeles Officials React to Loss at Lower
Elwha Klallam Fish Hatchery (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Three Cowlitz County Creeks to Turn Red for
Salmon (Access Washington, Olympia, WA)
Land Trust Acquires Columbia River Island (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Cantwell, Herrera Beutler Introduce Bill to Help
Local Fishermen (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Oregon
– Baker County Wind Farm Opponents Gather (Baker City Herald, OR)
http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/Wind-farm-opponents-gather
http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/Wind-farm-opponents-gather
Wind
Power Does Not Strongly Affect Greater Prairie Chickens, Seven-Year Study Finds
(Eureka Alert)
Solyndra
Founder Unlikely to Face Criminal Charges, Sources Say (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Walgreens
Taking on Big Boxes for Solar Energy Leadership (Midwest
Energy News)
Effort
to Create New State Called ‘North Colorado’ Grows (KCNC-TV, Denver, CO)
Why
Storm Winds Turned Wind Turbine into a Fireball (New Scientist)
Vermont
- Tensions Rise as Credits for Solar Cut into Utility Budgets; VEC Is the Third
Utility to Hit Four Percent Cap (VT Digger, Vermont)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Tiny
Modems & Routers Can Be Big Energy Hogs (Live Science)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
In
Obama Climate Plan, States Seek Flexibility (USA Today)
Google
Faces Environmentalists’ Ire over Inhofe Fundraiser (Washington Post)
Can
Climate Bonds Advance Renewable Energy Finance? (Renewable Energy World)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
UN Recognition for Hydro in Brazil, Wind in
Uruguay (Renewable Energy World)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Verizon’s Test of Landline-Less Service Leaves Some
Customers out in Cold (Consumerist)
Critics: Comcast’s $10 Broadband is a Shallow PR
Ploy - When Government Acts as a Comcast Advertising Vessel (Broadband Reports)
Revealed: How Microsoft Handed the NSA Access to
Encrypted Messages (The Guardian, UK)
AltaVista is Dead. Here’s Why It’s So Hard to
Compete with Google. (Washington Post)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
New Smokey Bear Gives Hugs, Not Just Warnings (NY
Times)
Eleven Words We Learned on the Wienermobile
(Mashable)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Standard & Poor’s Raises ‘Puffery’ Defense in
Federal Investor-Fraud Case (Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal, WA)
19-Year Corruption Sentence for Ex-Manager with Army
Corps of Engineers (Associated Press)
GENERAL NEWS
No Sign Automatic Equipment Failed in San Francisco
Airplane Crash: NTSB (Reuters)
Copper Wire Thefts from Streetlights Reported in Lacey
(Olympian, WA)
Longtime Washington State Lawmaker Duane Berentson Dies
(Associated Press)
DIVERSIONS
Embarrassed
by Your Bald Baby? Now You Can Get Her a Wig.
One
Small Step for Man: Lawmakers Want a National Park on the Moon
‘Whoa!
I’ve Been Hit by Lightning,’ Says British Columbia Man
Free
Slurpee Day Gets Sloppy
SONG OF THE DAY
Jose
Feliciano - Dance With Me (Instrumental)
Orleans
- Dance With Me
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