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News Digest Word Cloud for August 5, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Eugene Water & Electric Board Hydropower
Turbines Facing Shutdown - The utility won’t spend $45 million on Trail Bridge
Dam work (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
Shrapnel from Imploding California Power Plant
Injures Five Spectators (Associated Press)
Portland
General Electric Buys Development Rights to Dayton-Area Wind Farm (Renewables
Biz)
Puget Sound Orcas versus California Farmers:
Whales Win (Seattle Times - Paywall Advisory)
Largest
Geothermal Development in America Coming to Kennewick (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Eugene Water & Electric Board Hydropower Turbines Facing Shutdown
- Shrapnel from Imploding California Power Plant Injures Five Spectators
- Cowlitz County Commissioners Seek Payments for Tax Revenue 'Lost' to Proposed Bonneville Power Administration Line
- Nuclear Energy Investment Less Risky than Natural Gas
- Fines May Not Deter Companies from Manipulating Markets
- Tennessee Valley Authority Reports Third Quarter 2013 Results
- Who Owns Land under the River – North Carolina Files Hydroelectric Lawsuit against ALCOA
- Ohio: Office Wants Public Voice on American Electric Power’s Storm Bill
- Tennessee: ‘Smart’ Meter Debate Pushes toward Vote Later this Month
- Minneapolis Debates Getting into Electricity Business
- Texas: Area Man Convicted in Fake Power Plant Case
- Oklahoma: Copper Theft Suspected in Pocola Electrocution Death
- Rising Utility Bills? Credit Rating Agencies May Be to Blame
- Free Electricity on Saturdays? Offer Could Come to United Kingdom
- Puget Sound Orcas versus California Farmers: Whales Win
- Record Returns of Fall Chinook Salmon Predicted on Lower Columbia River
- Endangered Adult Sockeye Passing Little Goose Dam Then Hitting Lower Granite’s ‘Thermal Barrier’
- The Heat Is on for Salmon
- Bonneville Power Assistance: State of Montana Considers Buying Land on Flathead Lake
- Crazy for Carp - The ‘Trash Fish’ That’s Taking the Angling World by Storm
- Potlatch State Park Closed to Recreational Water Use
- U-S Senator Wyden Looking for Klamath Basin’s Solution
- Treated Sewage Seeping into Central Oregon’s Water
- Portland General Electric Buys Development Rights to Dayton-Area Wind Farm
- Hastings, McClintock Applaud Senate Passage of House Bill to Expand Renewable Hydropower Production
- Congress Can’t Agree on Most Energy Issues - But It Loves Dams
- Co-ops Doubt Rural Utility Service Renewable Energy Project Finance Plan
- These Clever Wind Turbines Store Energy for When the Wind’s Not Blowing
- Largest Geothermal Development in America Coming to Kennewick
- Kansas: Westar Energy Seeks $10 Million Reimbursement for Program Designed to Reduce Energy Usage
- 34 Home Maintenance Myths
- This Gamble on Carbon & the Climate Could Trigger a New Financial Crisis
- Study: Climate Change Makes People Hotter & Angrier
- Jump-Starting Electric Vehicle Sales with Workplace Charging Stations
- Idaho Schools Flock to State Wireless Program
- Vancouver, WA: Comcast Offering Cloud-Based Services Locally
- Clark County High-Tech Firms Eye Growth amid Challenges - Cheap power, clean water and a skilled workforce brought them here
- Phone Company Ordered to Pay Calif. $24.4 Million in Fees
- Utah Officials Seek to Exempt NSA Data Center from Tax
- Obama Nominates Two for Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
- Forget Governor? Idaho’s Labrador Touted as Next House Speaker
- Colockum Tarps Fire 50 Percent Contained
- Man Charged in Washington State with Stealing $28 Million in School Computers
- Oregon Embraces ‘University of Nike’ Image
- Court: No Oregon Workers’ Comp in Drunk Dockworker Case
- California Metal Recycler Pays $4.1 Million to Settle Lawsuit
- On Yellow Alert: Wasp Totals Boom in Late Summer
- Stranded Tenino Cat Escapes on Fourth Day Atop Power Pole
- Skokomish Park Lake Cushman – Campground
WORD OF THE DAY
MacGuffin
• \muh-GUFF-fin\ • Noun - An object, event, or character in a film or story
that serves to set and keep the plot in motion despite usually lacking
intrinsic importance.
Hitchcock’s
MacGuffins are considered to be among the best in film: What are the “39 Steps,”
what are in those champagne bottles in “Notorious,” that stupid little statue
with the microfilm in “North by Northwest,” the birds in “The Birds.”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Eugene Water & Electric Board Hydropower
Turbines Facing Shutdown - The utility won’t spend $45 million on Trail Bridge
Dam work (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
Shrapnel from Imploding California Power Plant
Injures Five Spectators (Associated Press)
Cowlitz County Commissioners Seek Payments for
Tax Revenue 'Lost' to Proposed Bonneville Power Administration Line (Longview
Daily News, WA)
Nuclear Energy Investment Less Risky than Natural
Gas (The Energy Collective)
Fines May Not Deter Companies from Manipulating
Markets (McClatchy Syndication)
Tennessee Valley Authority Reports Third Quarter
2013 Results (PR Newswire)
Who Owns Land under the River – North Carolina Files
Hydroelectric Lawsuit against ALCOA (Stanley News & Press, NC)
Ohio: Office Wants Public Voice on American
Electric Power’s Storm Bill (Columbus Dispatch, OH)
Tennessee: ‘Smart’ Meter Debate Pushes toward
Vote Later this Month (Memphis Commercial Appeal, TN)
Minneapolis Debates Getting into Electricity
Business (Minnesota Public Radio)
Texas: Area Man Convicted in Fake Power Plant
Case (Greenville Herald Banner, TX)
Oklahoma: Copper Theft Suspected in Pocola
Electrocution Death (Associated Press)
Rising Utility Bills? Credit Rating Agencies May
Be to Blame (Forbes Magazine)
Free Electricity on Saturdays? Offer Could Come to
United Kingdom (CNBC)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Puget Sound Orcas versus California Farmers:
Whales Win (Seattle Times - Paywall Advisory)
Record Returns of Fall Chinook Salmon Predicted
on Lower Columbia River (Seattle Times - Paywall Advisory)
Endangered Adult Sockeye Passing Little Goose Dam
Then Hitting Lower Granite’s ‘Thermal Barrier’ (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
The Heat Is on for Salmon (Idaho Statesman,
Boise)
Bonneville Power Assistance: State of Montana
Considers Buying Land on Flathead Lake (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Crazy for Carp - The ‘Trash Fish’ That’s Taking
the Angling World by Storm (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Potlatch
State Park Closed to Recreational Water Use (KMAS Radio,
Shelton, WA)
U-S
Senator Wyden Looking for Klamath Basin’s Solution (Northwest Public Radio)
Treated
Sewage Seeping into Central Oregon’s Water (Associated
Press)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Portland
General Electric Buys Development Rights to Dayton-Area Wind Farm (Renewables
Biz)
Hastings,
McClintock Applaud Senate Passage of House Bill to Expand Renewable Hydropower
Production (U-S House Committee on Natural Resources)
Congress
Can’t Agree on Most Energy Issues - But It Loves Dams (Washington Post)
Co-ops
Doubt Rural Utility Service Renewable Energy Project Finance Plan (Electric
Co-op Today)
These
Clever Wind Turbines Store Energy for When the Wind’s Not Blowing (Mother
Nature Network)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Largest
Geothermal Development in America Coming to Kennewick (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Kansas:
Westar Energy Seeks $10 Million Reimbursement for Program Designed to Reduce
Energy Usage (Wichita Eagle, KS)
34
Home Maintenance Myths (Boston Globe, MA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
This
Gamble on Carbon & the Climate Could Trigger a New Financial Crisis (The
Guardian, UK)
Study:
Climate Change Makes People Hotter & Angrier (MSNBC)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Jump-Starting
Electric Vehicle Sales with Workplace Charging Stations (Los Angeles Times, CA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Idaho Schools Flock to State Wireless Program (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
Vancouver, WA: Comcast Offering Cloud-Based
Services Locally (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Clark County High-Tech Firms Eye Growth amid
Challenges - Cheap power, clean water and a skilled workforce brought them here
(Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Phone Company Ordered to Pay Calif. $24.4 Million
in Fees (Associated Press)
Utah Officials Seek to Exempt NSA Data Center from
Tax (Associated Press)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Obama Nominates Two for Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals (Courthouse News Service)
Forget Governor? Idaho’s Labrador Touted as Next
House Speaker (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
GENERAL NEWS
Colockum Tarps Fire 50 Percent Contained (KING-TV, Seattle,
WA)
Man Charged in Washington State with Stealing $28
Million in School Computers (KGW TV, Portland, OR)
Oregon Embraces ‘University of Nike’ Image (NY
Times)
Court: No Oregon Workers’ Comp in Drunk Dockworker
Case (Associated Press)
California
Metal Recycler Pays $4.1 Million to Settle Lawsuit (Tri-City Herald, WA)
On Yellow Alert: Wasp Totals Boom in Late Summer (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Stranded Tenino Cat Escapes on Fourth Day Atop
Power Pole (Olympian, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Skokomish Park Lake Cushman – Campground (Thurston
Talks, Olympia, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Local
City Named One of the Grooviest Places for Hippies
Seattle
Politely Discourages Offensive Words like ‘Brown Bag’ & ‘Citizen’
Starry
Starry Nights: The Perseid Meteor Shower, Which Peaks this Month, Promises to be
Nature's Summer Blockbuster
Woman
Tricked into Buying Two Actual Apples She Thought Were iPhones
SONG OF THE DAY
Scott McKenzie - If You’re Going to San
Francisco
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