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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Aviation Expert Says Boeing Is Using ‘Economic
Blackmail’ Against Washington (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Washington State Completes Installation Of 1,600-Mile,
$140 Million Broadband Network for Rural Areas (GeekWire)
U-S
Senators Propose National Renewable Electricity Standard (Renew Grid)
Landscaper Trimming Hedges Electrocuted in
Southwest Portland (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
Earth’s
Oceans Warming at an Alarming Rate (USA Today)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Landscaper Trimming Hedges Electrocuted in Southwest Portland
- Cost of Service Increasing for Cascade Natural Gas Customers
- Avista Natural Gas Customers’ Bills to Rise
- Iconic Greenpeace Ship Delivers Anti-Coal Message to Longview
- Bellingham: The Future of a Big Coal-Export Project Will Be Decided By This Small Washington Community
- $1.2 Billion Canada-U-S Hydropower Line Proposed
- New Mexico: Kit Carson Electric Warns of Fraudulent Calls
- Consumers Elect Cooperatives for Most Affordable, Reliable Utility Services
- U-S Representative Herrera Beutler Signs on to Salmon Habitat Bill
- Unregulated Bumblebee Trade Threatens Bumblebees
- Diverse Push for Salal Permits on Olympic Peninsula
- River Fluctuations Expected through Winter around Rocky Reach Dam on Columbia River
- U-S Senators Propose National Renewable Electricity Standard
- Arizona Commissioner Probes Utility’s Secret Funding of Anti-Solar Campaign
- How Solar Power is Lighting up Business in Rural East Africa
- New Regs for Thursday: Energy Conservation Rules Extend to Wine Chillers
- Vampire Slaying & More: NRDC’s Halloween Energy Survival Guide
- Earth’s Oceans Warming at an Alarming Rate
- Tracking a Building’s Carbon Footprint Harder than You Might Think
- New Products: Power Pot Converts Heat to Electric Power
- Washington State Completes Installation Of 1,600-Mile, $140 Million Broadband Network for Rural Areas
- Tacoma’s NoaNet Helps State Finish “Broadband Highway”
- U-S Broadband Adoption Goal Remains Elusive Despite Government’s Assistance
- A Tale of Two Internets of Things: Connectivity Will Invade Your Home & Office in Different Ways
- Study Finds Women Are More Addicted to Smartphones than Men
- Yes, Twitter is Flawed during an Event like the Boston Bombings; And So Is Everything Else
- Aviation Expert Says Boeing Is Using ‘Economic Blackmail’ Against Washington
- Doug Reed: Green Diamond Forest Products Firm Names New President
- Neutral Weather Season Could Mean Pineapple Express
- FAA OKs Air Passengers Using Gadgets on Planes
- Thirsty? There’s a Global Wine Shortage
- Oregon’s Exploding-Whale Engineer George Thornton Has Died At Age 84
- Thieves Stealing Baby Formula, But Not to Feed Children
WORD OF THE DAY
Splendiferous
• \splenn-DIFF-uh-russ\ • Adjective - Extraordinarily or showily impressive.
Bertino’s
resume was the perfect example of a splendiferous creation intended to divert
the reader from the limits of its contents. Beautiful, illuminated script in
the manner of bibles crafted by monks of the middle-ages; illustrations in the
Peter Maxx style of the college president handing down his bachelor’s degree in
Albanian art history that hinted at the delivery of the Ten Commandments from
the hands of God; sealing wax to embellish his cover letter signature. None of
these could cover the fact that Bertie was woefully underqualified for the
position of fry chef at the local Arby’s restaurant.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Landscaper Trimming Hedges Electrocuted in Southwest
Portland (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
Cost of Service Increasing for Cascade Natural
Gas Customers (KNDO/KNDU-TV, Tri Cities, WA)
Avista Natural Gas Customers’ Bills to Rise (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Iconic Greenpeace Ship Delivers Anti-Coal Message
to Longview (Longview Daily News, WA)
Bellingham: The Future of a Big Coal-Export
Project Will Be Decided By This Small Washington Community (Grist Online)
$1.2 Billion Canada-U-S Hydropower line proposed
- Privately financed project would go from Quebec & under Lake Champlain
(Burlington Free Press, VT)
New Mexico: Kit Carson Electric Warns of
Fraudulent Calls (Taos News, NM)
Consumers Elect Cooperatives for Most Affordable,
Reliable Utility Services (Agri-View)
FISH & WILDLIFE
U-S Representative Herrera Beutler Signs on to Salmon
Habitat Bill (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Unregulated Bumblebee Trade Threatens Bumblebees
(Grist Online)
Diverse Push for Salal Permits on Olympic Peninsula
(Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
River
Fluctuations Expected through Winter around Rocky Reach Dam on Columbia River (Wenatchee World, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
U-S
Senators Propose National Renewable Electricity Standard (Renew Grid)
Arizona
Commissioner Probes Utility’s Secret Funding Of Anti-Solar Campaign (Huffington
Post)
How
Solar Power is Lighting up Business in Rural East Africa (Christian Science
Monitor)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
New
Regs for Thursday: Energy Conservation Rules Extend to Wine Chillers (The Hill)
Vampire
Slaying & More: NRDC’s Halloween Energy Survival Guide (The Energy
Collective)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Earth’s
Oceans Warming at an Alarming Rate (USA Today)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Tracking
a Building’s Carbon Footprint Harder Than You Might Think (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
New
Products: Power Pot Converts Heat to Electric Power (USA Today)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Washington State Completes Installation Of
1,600-Mile, $140 Million Broadband Network for Rural Areas (GeekWire)
Tacoma’s NoaNet Helps State Finish “Broadband
Highway” (South Sound Business Examiner, WA)
U-S Broadband Adoption Goal Remains Elusive Despite
Government’s Assistance (Bloomberg News)
Report: NSA Broke Into Yahoo, Google Data Centers (Associated Press)
A Tale of Two Internets of Things: Connectivity
Will Invade Your Home & Office in Different Ways (GigaOM)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Study Finds Women Are More Addicted to Smartphones than
Men (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
Yes, Twitter is Flawed during an Event like the Boston
Bombings; And So Is Everything Else (GigaOM)
GENERAL NEWS
Aviation Expert Says Boeing Is Using ‘Economic
Blackmail’ Against Washington (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Doug Reed: Green Diamond Forest Products Firm Names
New President (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Neutral Weather Season Could Mean Pineapple Express
(KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
FAA OKs Air Passengers Using Gadgets on Planes (Associated Press)
Thirsty? There’s a Global Wine Shortage (KCPQ-TV,
Seattle, WA)
Oregon’s Exploding-Whale Engineer George Thornton Has
Died At Age 84 (Oregonian, Portland)
Thieves Stealing Baby Formula, But Not to Feed
Children (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
170
Years of Music Player History in One Glorious Chart
Odor
from Los Angeles Sriracha Chili Plant a Nuisance
Uber
Will Deliver You Kittens RIGHT NOW. (If you live in Seattle or San Francisco.)
‘No
Herb Is Safe:’ Portland’s Urban Gardeners Say Chefs Won’t Stop Stealing Their
Crops
SONG OF THE DAY
The
O’Jays - I Love Music
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