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News Digest Word Cloud for October 21, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
U-S Senator Ron Wyden Warns Against Interference
in Pacific Northwest Energy (Associated Press)
Ruling
on Snohomish County PUD Tidal Turbines Delayed; Sparring Continues (Everett
Herald, WA)
Thousands of Fish Die as Water Drops in Oregon’s
Deschutes River (Associated Press)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Thousands-of-fish-die-as-water-drops-in-Deschutes--228542711.html
Washington
State Governor to Attend Private Nippon Paper Biomass Plant Ribbon-Cutting (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Slow Wi-Fi Connections Trip Up University of Oregon
Students (Associated Press)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- U-S Senator Ron Wyden Warns Against Interference in Pacific Northwest Energy
- Bonneville Power Administration: U-S Senator Ron Wyden Says Those Who Discriminated Against Veterans Must Go
- British Columbia Releases Draft Columbia River Treaty Recommendations, Wants Full Accounting of U-S Benefits
- Bonneville Power Administration & Partners Surmount Unique Obstacles on Grand Coulee Project
- Beginning October 28 - On Harstine Island: South Island Drive Power Line Upgrade Scheduled
- Fitch Affirms Klickitat PUD’s Revenue Bonds at ‘A-’; Outlook Revised to Stable
- Benton PUD’s Senior Day Planned Wednesday
- Money for Ohio River Dam Project in Shutdown Deal Riles Conservatives
- Global Hydropower Set to Exceed $75 Billion Through to 2020
- Canada: Cancellation of Ontario Gas Plants to Blame for Upcoming Hike in Off-Peak Electricity Rates, Opposition Says
- United Kingdom: Man Has Been Without Electricity or Gas for Three Years Because He Refuses to Pay Energy Firm £70 ($113 U-S) to Repair His Meter
- Thousands of Fish Die as Water Drops in Oregon’s Deschutes River
- Council Considering $80 Million-A-Year Package of Habitat Restoration Projects to Be Funded by Bonneville Power Administration
- Op/Ed: Idaho Sockeye - Lonesome Larry Has Lots of Friends
- 100 Mule Train Commemorates Centennial of Los Angeles Aqueduct
- Ruling on Snohomish County PUD Tidal Turbines Delayed; Sparring Continues
- Washington State Governor to Attend Private Nippon Paper Biomass Plant Ribbon-Cutting
- The Renewable Boom: Solar, Wind & Efficiency Herald a Broad Change in U-S Energy Consumption
- Solar Projects Becoming More Mainstream As Costs Fall
- Op/Ed: European Economic Stability Threatened by Renewable Energy Subsidies
- Q&A: Tony Fadell, CEO of Nest, on Making Home Products Cool
- Getting a CLEW about Washington State Climate Legislation
- Professor: British Columbia’s Carbon Tax Lowered Pollution
- To Fix Climate Change, Scientists Turn to Hacking the Earth
- Should Newspapers Ban Letters from Climate Science Deniers?
- Editorial: Why Does the State of Oregon Hate Woodstoves?
- Slow Wi-Fi Connections Trip Up University of Oregon Students
- AT&T in Nearly $5 Billion Deal to Lease, Sell Wireless Towers
- AT&T Website Glitch Reveals New U-Verse Tiers, Pricing
- Comcast Hopes Wi-Fi Can Fend Off Google Fiber
- How Stores Use Your Phone’s Wi-Fi to Track Your Shopping Habits
- Facebook Working Again for Many after Worldwide Problems
- YouTube Mobile Traffic Explodes
- The Astounding Rise of ‘Search Engines’ & ‘Social Media,’ In Three Charts
- Western Washington State Grocery Strike Set to Start at 7 PM
- University of Washington Community Mourns Loss of Former Football Coach Don James
- Pacific Northwest Getting Hit by Virtual ‘‘Anti-Wind Storm’’
WORD OF THE DAY
In
Silico • \in-SILL-ih-koh\ • Adverb or Adjective - In or on a computer: done or
produced by using computer software or simulation.
“First
they came for my paper, and then they’ll come for my personality,” groused the
hermit, his ink-stained fingers caressing the 1,000 pages of his hand-written
manuscript, the contents of which centered on the exact science of low G tuning
on the tenor ukulele. “Soon my life will be lived in silico, just like ‘The
Matrix’.” Unbeknownst to him, he was already living a digital life, his essence
contained in the “UkeMaster” app on a teenybopper’s iPhone.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
U-S Senator Ron Wyden Warns Against Interference
in Pacific Northwest Energy (Associated Press)
Bonneville Power Administration: U-S Senator Ron
Wyden Says Those Who Discriminated Against Veterans Must Go (Oregonian,
Portland)
British Columbia Releases Draft Columbia River
Treaty Recommendations, Wants Full Accounting of U-S Benefits (Columbia Basin
Bulletin)
Bonneville Power Administration & Partners
Surmount Unique Obstacles on Grand Coulee Project (Bonneville Power
Administration)
Beginning October 28 - On Harstine Island: South
Island Drive Power Line Upgrade Scheduled (Mason County PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Fitch Affirms Klickitat PUD’s Revenue Bonds at ‘A-’;
Outlook Revised to Stable (BusinessWire)
Benton PUD’s Senior Day Planned Wednesday (Tri-City
Herald, WA)
Money for Ohio River Dam Project in Shutdown Deal
Riles Conservatives (National Public Radio)
Global Hydropower Set to Exceed $75 Billion
Through to 2020 (The Energy Collective)
http://theenergycollective.com/joshshill/290736/global-hydropower-set-exceed-75-billion-through-2020
Canada: Cancellation of Ontario Gas Plants to
Blame for Upcoming Hike in Off-Peak Electricity Rates, Opposition Says
(National Post)
United Kingdom: Man Has Been Without Electricity
or Gas for Three Years Because He Refuses to Pay Energy Firm £70 ($113 U-S) to
Repair His Meter (The Daily Mail, UK)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Thousands of Fish Die as Water Drops in Oregon’s
Deschutes River (Associated Press)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Thousands-of-fish-die-as-water-drops-in-Deschutes--228542711.html
Council Considering $80 Million-A-Year Package of
Habitat Restoration Projects to Be Funded by Bonneville Power Administration
(Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Op/Ed: Idaho Sockeye - Lonesome Larry Has Lots of
Friends (Bonney Lake Courier-Herald, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
100
Mule Train Commemorates Centennial of Los Angeles Aqueduct (Los Angeles Times,
CA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Ruling
on Snohomish County PUD Tidal Turbines Delayed; Sparring Continues (Everett
Herald, WA)
Washington
State Governor to Attend Private Nippon Paper Biomass Plant Ribbon-Cutting (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
The
Renewable Boom: Solar, Wind & Efficiency Herald a Broad Change in U-S Energy
Consumption (TIME Magazine)
Solar
Projects Becoming More Mainstream As Costs Fall (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Op/Ed:
European Economic Stability Threatened by Renewable Energy Subsidies (Forbes
Magazine)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Q&A: Tony Fadell, CEO of Nest, on Making Home
Products Cool (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Getting
a CLEW about Washington State Climate Legislation - Report to Governor’s
Climate Workgroup Suggests Future Course of Greenhouse Gas Regulation (GTH
Energy & Natural Resources Law Blog)
Professor:
British Columbia’s Carbon Tax Lowered Pollution (Juneau Empire, AK)
To
Fix Climate Change, Scientists Turn to Hacking the Earth (National Public
Radio)
Should
Newspapers Ban Letters from Climate Science Deniers? The LA Times decides not
to print letters from readers claiming there’s no evidence for human-caused
climate change (The Guardian, UK)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Editorial:
Why Does the State of Oregon Hate Woodstoves? (Baker City Herald, OR)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Slow Wi-Fi Connections Trip Up University of Oregon
Students (Associated Press)
AT&T in Nearly $5 Billion Deal to Lease, Sell
Wireless Towers (Associated Press)
AT&T Website Glitch Reveals New U-Verse Tiers,
Pricing (Broadband Reports)
Comcast Hopes Wi-Fi Can Fend Off Google Fiber
(Broadband Reports)
How Stores Use Your Phone’s Wi-Fi to Track Your
Shopping Habits (Washington Post)
SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING
Facebook Working Again for Many after Worldwide
Problems (Associated Press)
YouTube Mobile Traffic Explodes (Puget Sound
Business Journal, WA)
The Astounding Rise of ‘Search Engines’ & ‘Social
Media,’ In Three Charts (Washington Post)
GENERAL NEWS
Western Washington State Grocery Strike Set to
Start at 7 PM (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
University of Washington Community Mourns Loss of
Former Football Coach Don James (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
Pacific Northwest Getting Hit by Virtual ‘‘Anti-Wind
Storm’’ (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
DIVERSIONS
A
Map of How Personality Types Vary Across the United States
Men
Destroy 170 Million-Year-Old Utah Rock Formation, Then Celebrate
Songwriter
Spends Life Savings on Surgeries to Look Like Justin Bieber
Argentine
scientists tap cow burps for natural gas
SONG OF THE DAY
The Commodores – Easy
Ryan Cook – Commodores
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