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News Digest Word Cloud for October 11, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Bonneville
Power Administration: Mainzer Will Remain Acting Administrator; Wyden Addresses
Fallout (Oregonian, Portland)
SolarWorld
Replaces Top U-S Executives, Consolidates Sales & Marketing into Hillsboro
Hub (Oregonian, Portland)
U-S Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of FCC Pole Attachment
Rule (American Public Power Association)
Okanogan PUD: New Structures to Carry Broadband,
Power Line Cables (Methow Valley News, Twisp, WA)
Bye, Bye Cookie: Microsoft Plots Its Own Tracking
Technology to Span Desktop, Mobile, Xbox (Ad Age)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Bonneville Power Administration: Mainzer Will Remain Acting Administrator; Wyden Addresses Fallout
- Damning DOE Report Puts BPA's Independence at Risk
- U-S Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of FCC Pole Attachment Rule
- Electric Rate Increase in the City of Rupert
- Energy Adviser: Hydropower Is Reliable, Renewable & Public
- Snohomish PUD Offers Bill-Paying Assistance to Seniors, Low-Income Customers
- Op/Ed: Suzanne Hartman - Ready for Extreme Weather?
- FERC Files Suit Seeking Market Manipulation Penalties against Barclays
- Ontario's Latest Electricity Scheme: Pumped Energy Storage
- Donald Trump Takes Florida Power & Light Feud over Power Poles to Twitter
- Water Level near Grant County PUD Dams Will Fluctuate during the Next Four Days
- SolarWorld Replaces Top U-S Executives, Consolidates Sales & Marketing into Hillsboro
- Will Oregon Test Project Bring Offshore Wind to the West Coast?
- Google Invests $103 Million in California Solar Project
- City of Olympia Converts to LED Streetlights
- Editorial: Oroville School Board Should Not Turn Over Energy Savings Incentives
- Good Energy News: U-S Energy More Secure and Reliable, Thanks to Efficiency
- New Jersey Reconsiders Carbon Trading a Year after Sandy
- Op/Ed: Politics is Poorly Suited to Address Global Warming
- LEED Certified Building Projects
- Okanogan PUD: New Structures to Carry Broadband, Power Line Cables
- Google's Free Wi-Fi Is So Terrible That City of Mountain View Seeks Alternatives
- Google Fiber Puts the Kibosh on Startups in Kansas City
- United Kingdom: Britons Waste Enough Broadband to Power BBC iPlayer for 59 Years
- Bye, Bye Cookie: Microsoft Plots Its Own Tracking Technology to Span Desktop, Mobile, Xbox
- Survey Says Twitter Overtakes Facebook among U-S Teens
- Who Is to Blame for Creating Hashtags?
- Utah to Pay Federal Government to Reopen National Parks
- Wire Thieves Hit Steamboat Island Preschool
- Rocket Car Tested in Shelton: Jessi Combs Sets New Women’s Land Speed Record
WORD OF THE DAY
Corrigendum • \kor-uh-JEN-dum\ • Noun - An error in a printed work
discovered after printing and shown with its correction on a separate sheet.
Barty’s first attempt at editing his weekly newsletter alone was a
disaster. His one pager had quickly grown to at least ten pages as error after
error was found in grammar, spelling and layout. The biggest impact was on his
customers, who consistently found their feet covered by slips of paper that had
fallen out of the mailing envelope, the corrigendum heaped on the floor like
small drifts of snow.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Bonneville
Power Administration: Mainzer Will Remain Acting Administrator; Wyden Addresses
Fallout (Oregonian, Portland)
Damning DOE Report Puts BPA's Independence at
Risk (Sustainable Business Oregon)
U-S Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of FCC Pole
Attachment Rule (American Public Power Association)
Electric Rate Increase in the City of Rupert
(KMVT-TV, Twin Falls, ID)
Energy Adviser: Hydropower Is Reliable, Renewable
& Public (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Snohomish PUD Offers Bill-Paying Assistance to
Seniors, Low-Income Customers (Mountlake Terrace News, WA)
Op/Ed: Suzanne Hartman - Ready for Extreme
Weather? (Wenatchee World, WA)
FERC Files Suit Seeking Market Manipulation
Penalties against Barclays (GTH Energy & Natural Resources Law Blog)
Ontario's Latest Electricity Scheme: Pumped Energy
Storage (Financial Post, Canada)
Donald Trump Takes Florida Power & Light Feud
over Power Poles to Twitter (Miami Herald, FL)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Water
Level near Grant County PUD Dams Will Fluctuate during the Next Four Days (iFiber
News, Ephrata, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
SolarWorld
Replaces Top U-S Executives, Consolidates Sales & Marketing into Hillsboro Hub
(Oregonian, Portland)
Will
Oregon Test Project Bring Offshore Wind to the West Coast? (E&E Publishing)
Google
Invests $103 Million in California Solar Project (Bloomberg News)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-10/google-invests-103-million-in-california-solar-project.html
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
City of Olympia Converts to LED Streetlights
(Thurston Talks, Olympia, WA)
Editorial: Oroville School Board Should Not Turn
Over Energy Savings Incentives (Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune, Oroville, WA)
Good Energy News: U-S Energy More Secure and
Reliable, Thanks to Efficiency (The Energy Collective)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
New
Jersey Reconsiders Carbon Trading a Year after Sandy (Bloomberg News)
Op/Ed:
Politics is Poorly Suited to Address Global Warming (Washington Post)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
LEED
Certified Building Projects (Louisville Business First, KY)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Okanogan PUD: New Structures to Carry Broadband,
Power Line Cables (Methow Valley News, Twisp, WA)
Google's Free Wi-Fi Is So Terrible That City of Mountain
View Seeks Alternatives (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2013/10/googles-free-wifi-is-so-terrible-that.html
Google Fiber Puts the Kibosh on Startups in Kansas
City (Broadband Reports)
United Kingdom: Britons Waste Enough Broadband to
Power BBC iPlayer for 59 Years (The Telegraph, UK)
SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING
Bye, Bye Cookie: Microsoft Plots Its Own Tracking
Technology to Span Desktop, Mobile, Xbox (Ad Age)
Survey Says Twitter Overtakes Facebook among U-S Teens
(Yahoo! News)
Who Is to Blame for Creating Hashtags?
(Consumerist)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Utah to Pay Federal Government to Reopen National
Parks (Reuters)
GENERAL NEWS
Wire Thieves Hit Steamboat Island Preschool
(Olympian - Paywall Advisory)
Rocket Car Tested in Shelton: Jessi Combs Sets New
Women’s Land Speed Record (Landspeed)
DIVERSIONS
This
iPad Child Potty Represents Everything Wrong with America
U-S
Judge Tells Man He's Still Legally Dead
Chinese
Mock Official for Blaming Cooking Fumes for Pollution
Saudi
Women Defy Driving Ban in Online Photos, Video Clips
SONG OF THE DAY
The
Cars - Drive
Everything
but the Girl – Driving
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