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News Digest Word Cloud for July 26, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Bonneville Power Administration: Congressman
Darrell Issa to Hold Hearings on DOE Whistleblower Retaliation (Washington Free
Beacon, DC)
Teanaway
Solar Officials: Plans Still Alive for Huge Power Array (Yakima Herald Republic, WA)
Oregon:
McKenzie River Snowpack to Drop by 56 Percent Due to Global Warming (Oregonian,
Portland, OR)
What
3.6 Degrees Means for Snowpack in the Western Cascades (Northwest Public Radio)
Can You Hear Me Now? Thieves Ripping Out Bulk Phone
Lines (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Bonneville Power Administration: Congressman Darrell Issa to Hold Hearings on DOE Whistleblower Retaliation
- Port Angeles City Light Power Rates May Go Up Due to Bonneville Power Administration Rate Hike
- Higher Federal Power Rates to Be Spread Out in Flathead
- Grays Harbor PUD Says Wire Thefts Are Rampant, No Solution in Sight
- Updated: Wright to Take Top Chelan PUD Post for Love of River
- Editorial: Wilf Woods - Wright Signals New Power Era in North Central Washington State
- British Columbia: Seymour Arm Residents to Vote on Electrical Service
- Hungry Horse Dam: Sixty Years on the South Fork
- Californians Consider a Future without a Nuclear Plant for a Neighbor
- U-S Natural Gas Supplies Grew Last Week
- Where Is All of the Water Going? A Look at Which Energy Resources Are Gulping Down Our Water
- Power Traders Get Protection from Scorching Temps
- Canada: Eventful Day for Eastern Canada Electric Power Industry
- Oregon: McKenzie River Snowpack to Drop by 56 Percent Due to Global Warming
- What 3.6 Degrees Means for Snowpack in the Western Cascades
- Water Power: 15 Tribes Have Say in Modernizing the Columbia River Treaty
- Teanaway Solar Officials: Plans Still Alive for Huge Power Array
- Oregon: Baker County Planning Commission Denies Wind Farm Permits
- Puget Sound Energy’s Green Power Program Offering a Solar Sweepstakes
- Wind, the “Workhorse” of Renewable Energy
- France’s Renewable Power Subsidies Not Effective Enough – Auditor
- Energy Champs: Bonneville Power Administration Industrial Energy Efficiency, Administrator Lauded for Hard-Hitting Results
- NEEA: Savings Since 1997 Would Power 660,000 Homes
- Saving Energy: Edmonds Wastewater Treatment Plant Meets Challenge
- FERC Settlements Illustrate Attempts to ‘Game’ Demand Response Programs
- Black Hills Heating: Using Free Filter Service to Build Trust
- Greenhouse Gas Test Planned in Wallula
- Editorial: Protection from Impact of Climate Change Will Be Costly
- Electric Vehicles Find Juice in the Northwest
- Buying an Electric Vehicle Won’t Up Your Green Cred
- Can You Hear Me Now? Thieves Ripping Out Bulk Phone Lines
- With New Law Nearly Here, Copper Wire Thieves Getting More Daring
- Idaho Schools Superintendent Defends Wireless Contract
- Google Still Dwarfs Facebook on the Infrastructure Front
- White Space: A New Way to Bring Broadband to Rural Towns in Upstate New York
- How to Alienate Your Twitter Followers: Chipotle Staged Hack Falls Flat
- Social Media: The Secret Weapon behind Diaper Rash Ointment’s National Launch
- Initiative Filed to Name Skagit River Bridge after Tim Eyman
- Heat to Ease This Weekend
- The Real Fair Story: Attendance
- Nearly 700 Inactive Groups Purged from Washington’s Adopt-A-Highway
WORD OF THE DAY
Repertoire
• \REP-err-twahr\ • Noun - 1: a list or supply of plays, operas, pieces, or parts
which a company or performer is prepared to present 2: a supply of skills,
devices, or expedients; broadly: amount, supply 3: a list or supply of
capabilities
I’ve
always contended that a musician’s commercial success can be gauged by the repertoire
& title of find on their retrospective that compiles all their material. A “Greatest
Hits” album has hits. A “Very Best Of” album normally has just one.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Bonneville Power Administration: Congressman Darrell
Issa to Hold Hearings on DOE Whistleblower Retaliation (Washington Free Beacon,
DC)
Port Angeles City Light Power Rates May Go Up Due
to Bonneville Power Administration Rate Hike (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
Higher Federal Power Rates to Be Spread Out in
Flathead (Daily Interlake, Kalispell, MT)
Grays Harbor PUD Says Wire Thefts Are Rampant, No
Solution in Sight (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)
http://thedailyworld.com/sections/news/local/pud-says-wire-thefts-are-rampant-no-solution-sight.html
Updated: Wright to Take Top Chelan PUD Post for
Love of River (Wenatchee World, WA)
Editorial: Wilf Woods - Wright Signals New Power
Era in North Central Washington State (Wenatchee
World, WA)
British Columbia: Seymour Arm Residents to Vote
on Electrical Service (Salmon Arm Observer, BC)
Hungry Horse Dam: Sixty Years on the South Fork
(Hungry Horse News, MT)
Californians Consider a Future without a Nuclear
Plant for a Neighbor (NY Times)
U-S Natural Gas Supplies Grew Last Week (Associated
Press)
Where Is All of the Water Going? A Look at Which
Energy Resources Are Gulping Down Our Water (Forbes Magazine)
Power Traders Get Protection from Scorching Temps
(PR Newswire)
Canada: Eventful Day for Eastern Canada Electric
Power Industry (Mondaq)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Oregon:
McKenzie River Snowpack to Drop by 56 Percent Due to Global Warming (Oregonian,
Portland, OR)
What
3.6 Degrees Means for Snowpack in the Western Cascades (Northwest Public Radio)
Water
Power: 15 Tribes Have Say in Modernizing the Columbia River Treaty (Indian
Country Today)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Teanaway
Solar Officials: Plans Still Alive for Huge Power Array (Yakima Herald Republic, WA)
Oregon:
Baker County Planning Commission Denies Wind Farm Permits (Baker City Herald,
OR)
Puget
Sound Energy’s Green Power Program Offering a Solar Sweepstakes - One winner
will receive a $10,000 solar photovoltaic system for their home (Enhanced
Online News)
Wind,
the “Workhorse” of Renewable Energy (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
France’s
Renewable Power Subsidies Not Effective Enough – Auditor (Reuters)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Energy
Champs: Bonneville Power Administration Industrial Energy Efficiency,
Administrator Lauded for Hard-Hitting Results (MarketWire)
NEEA:
Savings Since 1997 Would Power 660,000 Homes (Sustainable Business Oregon)
Saving
Energy: Edmonds Wastewater Treatment Plant Meets Challenge (Everett Patch, WA)
FERC Settlements Illustrate Attempts to ‘Game’
Demand Response Programs (The Energy Collective)
Black Hills Heating: Using Free Filter Service to
Build Trust (Thurston Talks, Olympia, WA)
http://www.thurstontalk.com/2013/07/25/black-hills-heating-using-free-filter-service-to-build-trust/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Greenhouse
Gas Test Planned in Wallula (Tri-City Herald, WA)
Editorial:
Protection from Impact of Climate Change Will Be Costly (Vancouver Sun, BC)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Electric
Vehicles Find Juice in the Northwest (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen,
WA)
Buying
an Electric Vehicle Won’t Up Your Green Cred (Mashable)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Can You Hear Me Now? Thieves Ripping Out Bulk Phone
Lines (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
With New Law Nearly Here, Copper Wire Thieves
Getting More Daring (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Idaho Schools Superintendent Defends Wireless
Contract (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
Google Still Dwarfs Facebook on the Infrastructure
Front (GigaOM)
White Space: A New Way to Bring Broadband to Rural
Towns in Upstate New York (WNET-TV, New York)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
How to Alienate Your Twitter Followers: Chipotle
Staged Hack Falls Flat (Washington Post)
Social Media: The Secret Weapon behind Diaper Rash
Ointment’s National Launch (San Antonio Business Journal, TX)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Initiative Filed to Name Skagit River Bridge after
Tim Eyman (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Heat to Ease This Weekend (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
The Real Fair Story: Attendance (KMAS Radio,
Shelton, WA)
Nearly 700 Inactive Groups Purged from Washington’s
Adopt-A-Highway (Northwest Public Radio)
DIVERSIONS
Singing
‘Happy Birthday’ Makes Cake Taste Better, Study Says
Punked
TV Station Fires Producers over Bogus Asiana Pilot Names (Political Correctness
Alert)
Someone
Go Back In Time & Tell This Family Not to “Invest” $100,000 in Beanie
Babies
Man
Arrested Trying to Rob Gun Store with Baseball Bat
SONG OF THE DAY
Joe
Cocker - Into the Mystic
Van
Morrison - Into the Mystic
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