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News Digest Word Cloud for September 23, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Idaho Power Waits for Obama Carbon Rules (Idaho
Statesman, Boise)
U-N
Panel to Blame Mankind for Global Warming, Explain “Hiatus” (Reuters)
Regional Players Divided on How to Renegotiate
Columbia River Treaty (Northwest Public Radio)
Cell Tower Companies Negotiating to Pay for King
County Staff (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Restoration Work Starts Again Near Upper Elwha
River Dam (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Idaho Power Waits for Obama Carbon Rules
- Everything You Need to Know about the EPA’s Carbon Limits for New Power Plants
- Regional Players Divided on How to Renegotiate Columbia River Treaty
- U-S Congressman Hastings Statement on Draft Recommendation on the Columbia River Treaty
- Oregon’s Energy Hub on the Willamette River a Catastrophic Risk When a Megaquake Hits
- How Smart Are ‘Smart Meters’? Enough to Stir a Ruckus in Port Angeles
- Tom Stredwick, Ephrata Relief Worker: ‘Simple Things Mean More’ In Flood-Damaged Colorado
- Tennessee Valley Authority Ready for Coal Power Change, Lamar Alexander Opposes It
- FERC: Senate Support Unravels for Obama’s Energy Nominee
- French Nuclear Tax to Be Added to Carbon Tax to Fund Green Sector Growth
- Rehabs Squeeze More Power from Existing Plants
- Utilities Jump into the Weather Business
- South Carolina: Stolen Copper Returned to Co-op
- Restoration Work Starts Again Near Upper Elwha River Dam
- Rocky Barker: A Quick Guide to the Salmon-Dam Debate
- Op/Ed: There’s Good News & Bad News for Pacific Northwest’s Salmon
- Sea Change: Ocean Acidification Drives Willapa Bay Oyster Farmers to Hawaii
- Tests on Idaho River Reveal Challenge of Cleaning Up Waterways
- Southern California Water Users View Delta Tunnel Plan as Key to Reliable Future
- Oregon: Wind Energy - Principle Power Town Hall Meeting
- Editorial: $30 Million in Business Energy Tax Credits for Shepherds Flat Wind Farm? State Needs to Explain It Better
- Montana Opinion: Let’s Face Facts about Wind Energy
- Massachusetts Utilities Seek More Wind Power
- Why Most ‘Renewable’ Energy Sources Aren’t Really Renewable
- Oklahoma Gas & Electric Smart Temp Thermostats on Hold in Arkansas
- U-N Panel to Blame Mankind for Global Warming, Explain “Hiatus”
- Global Warming Slowdown Hinders Climate Treaty Effort
- Australia Abolishes Climate Change Commission
- Santa Monica Bets on Electric Cars, but Consumers Are Slow to Switch
- Part 1: Millennial Trains Project Explores Energy Innovation in Utah
- Part 2: The Mad Scientists at the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories
- Cell Tower Companies Negotiating to Pay for King County Staff
- Report Says Wireless Broadband Network Investments Will Create 1.2 Million Jobs over Five Years
- Cut The Cord for Home Broadband? Not So Fast
- Is Asia’s Internet Superiority Due to High-Density Cities? Readers Debate.
- Customers Allege LinkedIn Hacked Email Addresses
- Ten Empowering Apps for Social Good
- Secession Drive Gathers Steam in Rural Colorado
- Shelton Man Injured in Sunday I-5 Pileup
- Western Washington Tribes Receive More Than $10-Million in Department of Justice Grants
- Women’s’ Prison at Mission Creek Has New Superintendent
- Apple Shatters iPhone Sales Record
- Using Homeless to Buy New iPhones Sparks Outrage, Anger
WORD OF THE DAY
Pluviophile
• \PLEW-vee-ph-file\ • Noun - In biology, thriving in conditions of abundant
rainfall; One who likes rain.
Pluviophiles
had an embarrassment of riches over the weekend. Welcome to autumn everybody!
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Idaho Power Waits for Obama Carbon Rules (Idaho
Statesman, Boise)
Everything You Need to Know about the EPA’s Carbon
Limits for New Power Plants (Washington Post)
Regional Players Divided on How to Renegotiate
Columbia River Treaty (Northwest Public Radio)
U-S Congressman Hastings Statement on Draft
Recommendation on the Columbia River Treaty (U-S House Natural Resources
Committee)
Oregon’s Energy Hub on the Willamette River a
Catastrophic Risk When a Megaquake Hits (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
How Smart Are ‘Smart Meters’? Enough to Stir a
Ruckus in Port Angeles (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Tom Stredwick, Ephrata Relief Worker: ‘Simple Things
Mean More’ In Flood-Damaged Colorado (Wenatchee
World, WA)
Tennessee Valley Authority Ready for Coal Power Change,
Lamar Alexander Opposes It (Chattanooga Timnes Free Press, TN)
FERC: Senate Support Unravels for Obama’s Energy
Nominee (The Hill)
French Nuclear Tax to Be Added to Carbon Tax to
Fund Green Sector Growth (Platts)
Rehabs Squeeze More Power from Existing Plants
(Hydro World)
Utilities Jump into the Weather Business
(Electric Light & Power)
South Carolina: Stolen Copper Returned to Co-op
(Electric Co-op Today)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Restoration Work Starts Again Near Upper Elwha
River Dam (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
Rocky Barker: A Quick Guide to the Salmon-Dam
Debate (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
Op/Ed: There’s Good News & Bad News for Pacific
Northwest’s Salmon (Bellingham Herald, WA)
Sea Change: Ocean Acidification Drives Willapa
Bay Oyster Farmers to Hawaii (Longview Daily News, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Tests
on Idaho River Reveal Challenge of Cleaning Up Waterways (Northwest Public Radio)
Southern
California Water Users View Delta Tunnel Plan as Key to Reliable Future (Sacramento Bee, CA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Oregon:
Wind Energy - Principle Power Town Hall Meeting (Coos Bay World, OR)
Editorial:
$30 Million in Business Energy Tax Credits for Shepherds Flat Wind Farm? State Needs
to Explain It Better (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Montana
Opinion: Let’s Face Facts about Wind Energy (Great Falls Tribune, MT)
Massachusetts
Utilities Seek More Wind Power (Associated Press)
Why
Most ‘Renewable’ Energy Sources Aren’t Really Renewable (Wall Street Journal)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Oklahoma
Gas & Electric Smart Temp Thermostats on Hold in Arkansas (The Times
Record, Fort Smith AR)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
U-N
Panel to Blame Mankind for Global Warming, Explain “Hiatus” (Reuters)
Global
Warming Slowdown Hinders Climate Treaty Effort (Bloomberg News)
Australia
Abolishes Climate Change Commission (United Press International)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Santa
Monica Bets on Electric Cars, but Consumers Are Slow to Switch (NY Times)
Part
1: Millennial Trains Project Explores Energy Innovation in Utah (The Energy
Collective)
Part
2: The Mad Scientists at the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories (The
Energy Collective)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Cell Tower Companies Negotiating to Pay for King County
Staff (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Report Says Wireless Broadband Network Investments
Will Create 1.2 Million Jobs over Five Years (Fierce Telecom)
Cut The Cord for Home Broadband? Not So Fast (USA
Today)
Is Asia’s Internet Superiority Due to High-Density
Cities? Readers Debate. (Washington Post)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Customers Allege LinkedIn Hacked Email Addresses (Everett Herald, WA)
Ten Empowering Apps for Social Good (Mashable)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Secession
Drive Gathers Steam in Rural Colorado (Los Angeles Times, CA)
GENERAL NEWS
Shelton Man Injured in Sunday I-5 Pileup (Mason Web
TV, Shelton, WA)
Western Washington Tribes Receive More Than
$10-Million in Department of Justice Grants (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Women’s’ Prison at Mission Creek Has New
Superintendent (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Apple Shatters iPhone Sales Record (Sacramento
Business Journal, CA)
Using Homeless to Buy New iPhones Sparks Outrage,
Anger (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
DIVERSIONS
Venezuela
Orders Temporary Takeover of Toilet Paper Factory (insert scatological puns
here)
“I’m
Not Tarzan,” Pope Francis Tells Young Crowd
New
York Town Finds 850 Snakes in Man’s Home
Tokyo
Man to Lose Home to Make Way for Stadium: Again
SONG OF THE DAY
Guitarzan - Ray Stevens
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