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News Digest Word Cloud for July 2, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Experts See New Normal as a Hotter, Drier West
Faces More Huge Fires (NY Times)
Heat Wave Tests California Power Grid. Why No
Blackouts So Far? (Christian Science Monitor)
Federal Agency, Again, Orders Bonneville to
Reexamine Wind Power/Hydro Pricing Plan (Sustainable Business Oregon)
Oregon
- Two Wind Farms Planned in Huntington, Lime Area (Baker City Herald, OR)
Wind
Farms Touted as ‘Green’ Energy Source, but Have Impact on Birds (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Federal Agency, Again, Orders Bonneville to Reexamine Wind Power/Hydro Pricing Plan
- Heat Wave Tests California Power Grid. Why No Blackouts So Far?
- Electricity Rates across Clallam County (Outside Port Angeles) to Rise
- Energy Northwest Announces Small Modular Reactor Project Proposal
- Squirrel Trips Power at Substation in Southeast Portland, Causing Outage
- Clallam County PUD Seeks Help in Stopping Copper Theft
- Mason PUD 1’s Jack Janda Reelected to Energy Northwest Executive Board
- Practical Effect of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Decision: Non-Jurisdictionals May Opt Out of Regional Transmission Planning Processes
- Floating Power Plant Proposed For New York City
- For Many in Africa, Lack of Electricity is Barrier to Growth
- Co-op Plan Eyed on Prairie Chicken
- Molasses Pollution? Dead Fish Fill Mexico Reservoir
- Water Commission Approves Temporary Rules for Klamath Water Use
- Oregon - Two Wind Farms Planned in Huntington, Lime Area
- Wind Farms Touted as ‘Green’ Energy Source, but Have Impact on Birds
- Outrage over Plans to Build Wind Farm on First World War Battlefield
- Is Anything Stopping a Truly Massive Build-Out of Desert Solar Power?
- Tribal Teens to Get the Lowdown on Renewable Energy
- So Hot You’re Sticking to Your Couch? Tips on Cooling Your Home
- Want to Reduce Greenhouse Gasses? Don’t Subsidize Taxes, Study Says
- Wave Broadband CEO Not Worried About Gigabit: ‘We Compete with the Big Guys’
- $20 for 768Kbps Internet? AT&T “Deal” Shows Sad State of U-S Broadband
- Free Wi-Fi? Beware of Security Risks
- Apple Building Giant Solar Array to Power New Nevada Data Centre
- Nine Key Elements Missing from Your Social Strategy
- As Google Reader Winds Down, Feedly Just Keeps Growing
- Oregon - Clackamas County Chairman Hires Lawyer to Fight Public Records Request, Gets Board to Pay Legal Bill
- Experts See New Normal as a Hotter, Drier West Faces More Huge Fires
- El Niño Weather Could Be Forecast a Year Ahead
- Dozens of Sheep in Oregon Drop Dead in Heat
- Bomb Threat at Mason County Courthouse
- Nicaragua Canal Project Threatens Puget Sound Ports
WORD OF THE DAY
Demure
• \dih-MYOOR\ • Adjective – 1: reserved, modest 2: affectedly modest, reserved,
or serious: coy
Could
the same primordial soup (or Indian ink) that created Alley Oop have actually
been the source of genetic material for his beautiful & demure girlfriend Oola?
Or was it just the artist’s preference for goofy, neanderthalic men…accompanied
by female characters who looked like they stepped out of the glamor magazines
of the 1930’s?
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Federal Agency, Again, Orders Bonneville to
Reexamine Wind Power/Hydro Pricing Plan (Sustainable Business Oregon)
Heat Wave Tests California Power Grid. Why No
Blackouts So Far? (Christian Science Monitor)
Electricity Rates across Clallam County (Outside Port
Angeles) to Rise (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Energy Northwest Announces Small Modular Reactor
Project Proposal (Energy Northwest)
Squirrel Trips Power at Substation in Southeast
Portland, Causing Outage (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Clallam County PUD Seeks Help in Stopping Copper
Theft (Sequim Gazette, WA)
Mason PUD 1’s Jack Janda Reelected to Energy
Northwest Executive Board (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Practical Effect of Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission Decision: Non-Jurisdictionals May Opt Out of Regional Transmission
Planning Processes (National Law Review)
Floating Power Plant Proposed For New York City (Forbes
Magazine)
For Many in Africa, Lack of Electricity is
Barrier to Growth (NY Times)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Co-op Plan Eyed on Prairie Chicken (Electric
Co-op Today)
Molasses Pollution? Dead Fish Fill Mexico Reservoir
(British Broadcasting Corporation)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Water
Commission Approves Temporary Rules for Klamath Water Use (Oregonian, Portland,
OR)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Oregon
- Two Wind Farms Planned in Huntington, Lime Area (Baker City Herald, OR)
Wind
Farms Touted as ‘Green’ Energy Source, but Have Impact on Birds (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
Outrage
over Plans to Build Wind Farm on First World War Battlefield (Burton Mail, UK)
Is
Anything Stopping a Truly Massive Build-Out of Desert Solar Power? (Scientific
American)
Tribal
Teens to Get the Lowdown on Renewable Energy (Sustainable Business Oregon)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
So
Hot You’re Sticking to Your Couch? Tips on Cooling Your Home (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Want
to Reduce Greenhouse Gasses? Don’t Subsidize Taxes, Study Says. (Christian
Science Monitor)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Wave Broadband CEO Not Worried About Gigabit: ‘We Compete
with the Big Guys’ (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
$20 for 768Kbps Internet? AT&T “Deal” Shows Sad
State of U-S Broadband (Ars Technica)
Free Wi-Fi? Beware of Security Risks (USA Today)
Apple Building Giant Solar Array to Power New Nevada
Data Centre (Information Age)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Nine Key Elements Missing from Your Social Strategy
(Mashable)
As Google Reader Winds Down, Feedly Just Keeps
Growing (GigaOM)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Oregon - Clackamas County Chairman Hires Lawyer to
Fight Public Records Request, Gets Board to Pay Legal Bill (Oregonian,
Portland, OR)
GENERAL NEWS
Experts See New Normal as a Hotter, Drier West
Faces More Huge Fires (NY Times)
El Niño Weather Could Be Forecast a Year Ahead (USA
Today)
Dozens of Sheep in Oregon Drop Dead in Heat (KEPR-TV,
Tri-Cities, WA)
Bomb Threat at Mason County Courthouse (KMAS Radio,
Shelton, WA)
Nicaragua
Canal Project Threatens Puget Sound Ports (Puget Sound
Business Journal, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Oops:
‘Flordia’ Misspelling Makes It to Interstate 95 Sign
Could
an Italian Scientist Pave the Way for Human Head Transplants?
Seeing
Satan in the Downward Dog - Judge Allows Yoga in Schools
Man
Implants Magnets to Make His Ears into Their Own Headphones
SONG OF THE DAY
Marc
Cohn - Listening to Levon
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