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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for August 14, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Appeals
Court: Obama Administration Violating Law on Nuclear-Waste Site (Associated
Press)
Washington State AG Ferguson, Congressman Hastings
Cheered by Court Ruling on Nevada Nuclear Waste Site (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Revised Columbia River Treaty Could Restore
Salmon Runs (Globe & Mail, Canada)
Central Ferry-Lower Monumental Transmission Line
Project Moves Forward (Bonneville Power Administration)
Homicide Suspect Chased from Shelton Crime Scene,
One Injured, One Dead, One in Custody (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Appeals Court: Obama Administration Violating Law on Nuclear-Waste Site
- Court: Work on Yucca Mountain Must Resume
- Yucca Mountain Waste Site: Court Orders Nuclear Agency Back to Work
- Washington State AG Ferguson, Congressman Hastings Cheered by Court Ruling on Nevada Nuclear Waste Site
- Editorial: NRC Must Finish Work on Yucca Mountain Nuclear-Waste Site
- Central Ferry-Lower Monumental Transmission Line Project Moves Forward
- Mason County PUD 3 Commission Report for the August 13 Regular Business Meeting
- Ten Years after the Blackout, How Has the Power Grid Changed?
- Complex Networks Make Up U-S Power Grid
- Blackouts Less Likely Thanks to New Technology
- Power Play: People, Politics, Electricity, Nuclear Energy
- Municipal Utility Customers Enjoy Quicker Repairs, Shorter Outages, Florida Municipal Power Agency Report Says
- San Francisco Fails to Set Rates for Cleanpowersf
- African Villagers Destroying Electricity Pylons to Make Donkey Carts
- Revised Columbia River Treaty Could Restore Salmon Runs
- Helping Fish Find Their Way Up the Clackamas River
- Returning a Salmon Predator to the Upper Clackamas River
- Sandy River Dam Built In the 1930s to Help Salmon Will Now Be Removed
- Tiger Muskie Catch Sets New Idaho Record
- Judge Blocks Water Gusher in California’s Trinity River
- Water Advisory Lifted for Clallam Bay, Sekiu
- Orcas Power & Light Supports Solar Project
- Wind Industry Wildlife Biologist Fined in Unlawful Eagle Handling
- Alaska Airlines Ramps Up Its Use of Solar Power
- Solar, Geothermal Projects Touted at Vegas Summit
- How Much Land Does it Take to Produce Solar Energy for 1,000 Homes?
- NREL Releases Free, Open-Source Energy Analysis Tool
- Report: Redwoods Thriving as Climate Changes
- Portland Water Commissioner: Energy-Saving ‘Water House’ Was a Mistake
- Electric Vehicles, Advanced Chargers, & Maximizing the Value of the Pacific Northwest’s Electricity Grid
- California Billionaire Unveils Futuristic ‘Hyperloop’ Transport
- These American Balloons Are Powering Google Loon
- Oh Google. Of Course Email Users Expect Privacy - You Promised It to Them
- ComEd Becomes Most “Liked” Utility on Facebook
- Homicide Suspect Chased from Shelton Crime Scene, One Injured, One Dead, One in Custody
- Wildfire Threatens Two Idaho Mountain Towns; Evacuations Ordered
- FBI Tapes Indicate Serial Killer Had Victims in Washington State
- Opportunistic Burglars Ransacking Empty Kitsap County Homes
- Oregon-Led Columbia River Crossing Ups Risks for State Taxpayers, Still Includes Light Rail
WORD OF THE DAY
Impetus
• \IMP-puh-tus\ • Noun - 1a: a driving force: impulse b: incentive, stimulus c:
stimulation or encouragement resulting in increased activity 2: the property
possessed by a moving body in virtue of its mass & its motion; used of
bodies moving suddenly or violently to indicate the origin & intensity of
the motion
Whether
it was the impetus or not, the stubborn Scot called on all his mighty thews to
pull his sled of stones over the obstacle course…his ultimate prize: a year’s
worth of free food from Hiram’s Haggis Hut on South Second Street.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Appeals Court: Obama Administration Violating Law on
Nuclear-Waste Site (Associated Press)
Court: Work on Yucca Mountain Must Resume (Tri-City
Herald, WA)
Yucca Mountain Waste Site: Court Orders Nuclear
Agency Back to Work (Christian Science Monitor)
Washington State AG Ferguson, Congressman Hastings Cheered
by Court Ruling on Nevada Nuclear Waste Site (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Editorial: NRC Must Finish Work on Yucca Mountain Nuclear-Waste
Site (Seattle Times - Paywall Advisory)
Central Ferry-Lower Monumental Transmission Line
Project Moves Forward (Bonneville Power Administration)
Mason County PUD 3
Commission Report for the August 13 Regular Business Meeting (Mason County PUD 3,
Shelton, WA)
Ten Years after the Blackout, How Has the Power
Grid Changed? (National Public Radio)
Complex Networks Make Up U-S Power Grid (National Public Radio)
Blackouts Less Likely Thanks to New Technology (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Power Play: People, Politics, Electricity, Nuclear
Energy (The Energy Collective)
Municipal Utility Customers Enjoy Quicker
Repairs, Shorter Outages, Florida Municipal Power Agency Report Says (American Public Power Association)
San Francisco Fails to Set Rates for Cleanpowersf (SF
Chronicle, CA)
African Villagers Destroying Electricity Pylons to
Make Donkey Carts (Individual.com)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Revised Columbia River Treaty Could Restore
Salmon Runs (Globe & Mail, Canada)
Helping
Fish Find Their Way Up the Clackamas River (Oregon Public
Radio)
Returning a Salmon Predator to the Upper
Clackamas River (Oregon Public Radio)
Sandy River Dam Built In the 1930s to Help Salmon
Will Now Be Removed (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
Tiger Muskie Catch Sets New Idaho Record (Northwest
Cable News Network)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Judge
Blocks Water Gusher in California’s Trinity River (Courthouse News Service)
Water
Advisory Lifted for Clallam Bay, Sekiu (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Orcas
Power & Light Supports Solar Project (Island Sounder, Eastsound, WA)
Wind
Industry Wildlife Biologist Fined in Unlawful Eagle Handling (KCET-TV, Los
Angeles, CA)
Alaska
Airlines Ramps Up Its Use of Solar Power (Los Angeles Times, CA)
Solar,
Geothermal Projects Touted at Vegas Summit (Associated
Press)
How
Much Land Does it Take to Produce Solar Energy for 1,000 Homes? (Sustainable
Business)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
NREL
Releases Free, Open-Source Energy Analysis Tool (GCN)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Report:
Redwoods Thriving as Climate Changes (Petaluma 360, CA)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Portland
Water Commissioner: Energy-Saving ‘Water House’ Was a Mistake (KGW TV, Portland, OR)
Electric
Vehicles, Advanced Chargers, & Maximizing the Value of the Pacific
Northwest’s Electricity Grid (GTH Energy & Natural Resources Law Blog)
California Billionaire Unveils Futuristic ‘Hyperloop’
Transport (Reuters)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
These American Balloons Are Powering Google Loon (GigaOM)
Oh Google. Of Course Email Users Expect Privacy - You
Promised It to Them (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2013/08/14/oh-google-of-course-email-users-expect-privacy-you-promised-it-to-them/
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
ComEd Becomes Most “Liked” Utility on Facebook
(Electric Energy Online – Ed. Note: to put their story into context, ComEd’s 50,000
likes represent 1.32% of its customers. Selected PNW Publics: Mason PUD 3, 8.4%
- Mason County PUD 1, 5% - Clark Public Utilities, 3.4%)
GENERAL NEWS
Homicide Suspect Chased from Shelton Crime Scene,
One Injured, One Dead, One in Custody (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Wildfire Threatens Two Idaho Mountain Towns;
Evacuations Ordered (Reuters)
FBI Tapes Indicate Serial Killer Had Victims in Washington
State (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Opportunistic Burglars Ransacking Empty Kitsap
County Homes (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Oregon-Led Columbia River Crossing Ups Risks for
State Taxpayers, Still Includes Light Rail (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
DIVERSIONS
Sending
Sand through the Mail Probably Not the Best Idea for Strip Club Promo
Does
the World Really Need an Adult-Sized Big Wheel?
Boy
Finds Diamond? Vacationing Boy in Arkansas Finds a Five-Carat Diamond
Goats
Gone Wild! Natural Cleanup at D-C’S Congressional Cemetery – Just Watch Your
Step
SONG OF THE DAY
Pink
Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (full version)
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