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News Digest Word Cloud for November 19, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Coal Export Terminal Proposed for Longview Draws
Unprecedented 163,000-Plus Public Comments (Associated Press)
Fuel Removal Starts at Japan’s Crippled Nuclear
Plant (NY Times)
Tidal
Energy Sparks Concerns over Impact on Marine Life (KING-TV, Seattle, WA – Build a qualifying renewable energy project; we
dare you…)
No Data Storage, No Spying in Port Angeles’ Wi-Fi System,
City Police Say (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Flood Warning for Mason County’s Skokomish River
(National Weather Service, Seattle, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Coal Export Terminal Proposed for Longview Draws Unprecedented 163,000-Plus Public Comments
- Fuel Removal Starts at Japan’s Crippled Nuclear Plant
- Mason County PUD 3 Commission Report for the November 12, 2013 Business Meeting
- Moody’s Expects To Nudge Most Ratings Up a Notch For Private Utilities
- Power Grid ‘Under Considerable Stress’ from New Carbon Rules, AEP Exec Says
- $5.9 Million: Tennessee Valley Authority’s New CEO Paid Nearly 50% More Than Predecessor
- Recovering ‘The Lost Fish’
- Portland Water Customers Own a $500,000 Home with a Beautiful View
- Tidal Energy Sparks Concerns over Impact on Marine Life
- Who’s Winning the Net Metering Debate Now?
- Threat of Bat Fatalities Stalls Maine Wind Project
- Twenty Bad Things about Wind Energy, and Three Reasons Why
- Colorado: How Aspen Skiing Co. Became a Power Company
- Five Ways to Keep Food Fresher: Refrigerated Food Lasts Longer When Stored Correctly
- You Can Have Either Climate Justice or a Climate Treaty
- Where Will Electric Vehicles Get Their Juice?
- Hyundai to Market Hydrogen Vehicle Next Year
- How to Make Your Own Glowing Light Bulbs That Don’t Need Electricity
- No Data Storage, No Spying in Port Angeles’ Wi-Fi System, City Police Say
- Washington Wins $610,000 in Google Settlement
- CenturyLink Buys Tier 3 of Bellevue
- No, Wasn’t Just You: YouTube Went Down
- Six (Often Frustrating) Reasons for Comcast’s Varying Prices
- Selfie Is Officially the 2013 Word of the Year
- Washington State Audit Findings Could Prove Costly for Clark County
- Flood Warning for Mason County’s Skokomish River
- Hundreds Apply to Grow, Process & Sell Pot in Washington State
- U-S Now Produces More Oil Than It Imports: Good Or Bad?
- Spokane Valley Thieves Steal Thousands in Copper Wiring
- Butterball: Don’t Panic, But There’s a Turkey Shortage
- Olympic National Forest Christmas Tree Permits on Sale
WORD OF THE DAY
Simpatico • \simm-PAWT-ih-coe\
• Adjective - 1: Agreeable, likable 2: being on the same wavelength: congenial,
sympathetic.
David was
perplexed. His interview with the new division supervisor had gone horribly
wrong from the beginning, especially when his careless comment about the boss’s
LED lit bow-tie was taken as an insult on the level of a beer belch in church.
Regardless of his fashion sense, the new boss threw Dave into a tailspin when
he showed simpatico for a common interest: collecting campaign buttons for
failed presidential candidates…generally those of libertarians…and specifically
those of the 1972 slate of John Hospers & Theodora Nathan.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Coal Export Terminal Proposed for Longview Draws
Unprecedented 163,000-Plus Public Comments (Associated Press)
Fuel Removal Starts at Japan’s Crippled Nuclear
Plant (NY Times)
Mason County PUD 3 Commission Report for the
November 12, 2013 Business Meeting (Mason County PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Moody’s Expects To Nudge Most Ratings Up a Notch
For Private Utilities (American Public Power Association)
Power Grid ‘Under Considerable Stress’ from New
Carbon Rules, AEP Exec Says (Columbus Business First, OH)
$5.9 Million: Tennessee Valley Authority’s New CEO
Paid Nearly 50% More Than Predecessor (Nashville Business Journal, TN)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Recovering ‘The Lost Fish’ (Oregon Public
Broadcasting)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Portland
Water Customers Own a $500,000 Home with a Beautiful View (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Tidal
Energy Sparks Concerns over Impact on Marine Life (KING-TV, Seattle, WA – Build a qualifying renewable energy project; we
dare you…)
Who’s
Winning the Net Metering Debate Now? (Renewable
Energy World)
Threat
of Bat Fatalities Stalls Maine Wind Project (Portland Press Herald, ME)
Twenty
Bad Things about Wind Energy, and Three Reasons Why (Master Resource)
Colorado:
How Aspen Skiing Co. Became a Power Company (Aspen Journalism, CO)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Five Ways to Keep Food Fresher: Refrigerated Food
Lasts Longer When Stored Correctly (Consumer Reports)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
You
Can Have Either Climate Justice or a Climate Treaty (Slate Magazine)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Where Will Electric Vehicles Get Their Juice? (Forbes
Magazine)
Hyundai to Market Hydrogen Vehicle Next Year (Associated Press)
How
to Make Your Own Glowing Light Bulbs That Don’t Need Electricity (Gizmodo)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
No Data Storage, No Spying in Port Angeles’ Wi-Fi System,
City Police Say (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Washington Wins $610,000 in Google Settlement (KOMO-TV,
Seattle, WA)
CenturyLink Buys Tier 3 of Bellevue (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
No, Wasn’t Just You: YouTube Went Down (GigaOM)
Six (Often Frustrating) Reasons for Comcast’s
Varying Prices (Forbes Magazine)
SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING
Selfie Is Officially the 2013 Word of the Year
(Gizmodo)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Audit Findings Could Prove Costly
for Clark County (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Flood Warning for Mason County’s Skokomish River
(National Weather Service, Seattle, WA)
Hundreds Apply to Grow, Process & Sell Pot in Washington
State (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
U-S Now Produces More Oil Than It Imports: Good Or
Bad? (Christian Science Monitor)
Spokane Valley Thieves Steal Thousands in Copper
Wiring (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Butterball: Don’t Panic, But There’s a Turkey
Shortage (Christian Science Monitor)
Olympic National Forest Christmas Tree Permits on
Sale (Thurston Talks, Olympia, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Coffee
Maker Meals Mean You’ll Never Go Hungry in a Hotel Room Again
Bride
Jailed After Biting Groom in Kennewick (and we all know that being bitten in
the Kennewick is more painful than being bitten in the finger)
‘It’s
a Wonderful Life’ Sequel Planned for 2015 Theatrical Release
This
Is What a 3,400-Year-Old Mummy Steak Looks Like
SONG OF THE DAY
The
Pretenders - Thin Line Between Love & Hate
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