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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for January 14, 2014
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
The
Rains Came Late, But Snowpack’s Not a Concern - January’s precipitation has
already surpassed December’s total (Everett Herald, WA)
Salmon-Eating Wolverines Found for First Time on
Island Off British Columbia’s Coast (The Province, Vancouver, BC)
Scammers Targeting Local Utility Customers
(KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
Google to Buy Nest for $3.2B in Quest for the
‘Conscious Home’ (CNET News)
Op/Ed: America’s Most Underutilized Resource? Plain
Old Telephone Poles (Washington Post)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Scammers Targeting Local Utility Customers
- Mason PUD 3’s Financial Reporting Wins Recognition from International Finance Organization
- Clallam PUD Audit is Spotless
- How Smart Meters Are Helping Utilities with Voltage Management
- Salmon-Eating Wolverines Found for First Time on Island Off British Columbia’s Coast
- Elwha River Fireworks - Glines Canyon Blasting Likely to Resume This Week After Winds Delayed Weekend Plans
- The Rains Came Late, But Snowpack’s Not a Concern
- Idaho Water Director Warns He May Have to Curtail Groundwater Use
- With a Trickle, Not a Flood, West Virginia Water Restrictions Are Ending
- Wind Turbine Photos: Access from Puget Sound Energy Key to Making Unique Images
- Straw to Be Turned into Power
- Google to Buy Nest for $3.2B in Quest for the ‘Conscious Home’
- PNNL Research Finds Highly Insulating Windows Come At High Cost
- Energy Efficiency Can Reduce the Cost of Home Heating
- Antarctica: Pine Island Glacier’s Retreat ‘Irreversible’
- Seattle Scientist Distills 2,200-Page Report into Haiku
- LEED Certification’s Impact on America by the Numbers
- Electric Cars May Hold Solution for Power Storage
- Op/Ed: America’s Most Underutilized Resource? Plain Old Telephone Poles
- AT&T Plans Massive Small Cell Push
- Meet the Man Upgrading Britain’s Broadband
- Twelve Outdated Web Features That Need to Disappear in 2014
- How Israel & Hamas Weaponized Social Media
- What to Do If Westboro Baptist Church Shows Up on Your Doorstep
- Three Vehicles Hit Herd of Elk on Highway 12 near Satsop
- U-S December Budget Surplus $53 Billion
WORD OF THE DAY
Wangle
• \WANG-gull\ • Verb - 1: to resort to trickery or devious methods 2: to adjust
or manipulate for personal or fraudulent ends 3: to make or get by devious means:
finagle
Wangle
and Fritter
Fish
and politics don’t mix
You
can’t swim in spin
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Scammers Targeting Local Utility Customers (KATU-TV,
Portland, OR)
Mason PUD 3’s Financial Reporting Wins
Recognition from International Finance Organization (Mason County PUD 3)
Clallam PUD Audit is Spotless (Sequim Gazette,
WA)
How Smart Meters Are Helping Utilities with
Voltage Management (GreenTech Grid)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Salmon-Eating Wolverines Found for First Time on
Island Off British Columbia’s Coast (The Province, Vancouver, BC)
Elwha River Fireworks - Glines Canyon Blasting
Likely to Resume This Week After Winds Delayed Weekend Plans (Peninsula Daily
News, Port Angeles, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
The
Rains Came Late, But Snowpack’s Not a Concern - January’s precipitation has
already surpassed December’s total (Everett Herald, WA)
Idaho
Water Director Warns He May Have to Curtail Groundwater Use (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
With
a Trickle, Not a Flood, West Virginia Water Restrictions Are Ending (Cable News
Network)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Wind
Turbine Photos: Access from Puget Sound Energy Key to Making Unique Images (Oregonian,
Portland)
Straw
to Be Turned into Power (Manitoba Co-Operator)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Google to Buy Nest for $3.2B in Quest for the ‘Conscious
Home’ (CNET News)
PNNL
Research Finds Highly Insulating Windows Come At High Cost (Walla Walla Union Bulletin,
WA)
Energy Efficiency Can Reduce the Cost of Home
Heating (Huntington Herald-Dispatch, WV)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Antarctica:
Pine Island Glacier’s Retreat ‘Irreversible’ (British Broadcasting Corporation)
Seattle
Scientist Distills 2,200-Page Report into Haiku (Seattle
Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
LEED
Certification’s Impact on America by the Numbers (The Energy Collective)
Electric
Cars May Hold Solution for Power Storage (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Op/Ed: America’s Most Underutilized Resource? Plain
Old Telephone Poles (Washington Post)
AT&T Plans Massive Small Cell Push (Broadband
Reports)
Meet the Man Upgrading Britain’s Broadband (The Telegraph,
UK)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Twelve Outdated Web Features That Need to Disappear
in 2014 (Mashable)
How Israel & Hamas Weaponized Social Media
(CNET News)
What to Do If Westboro Baptist Church Shows Up on
Your Doorstep (Christian Science Monitor)
GENERAL NEWS
Three Vehicles Hit Herd of Elk on Highway 12 near Satsop
(Associated Press)
U-S December Budget Surplus $53 Billion (MarketWatch)
DIVERSIONS
The
Anatomy of Toys & Characters Will Ruin Your Memories Forever
NFL’s
Colin Kaepernick vs. Russell Wilson: A Tale of Two Instagrams
Jim
Beam Acquired - Japanese Company to Buy Beam, Inc.
What
Happens When You Let the Internet Name a Baby
SONG OF THE DAY
Willie
Nelson - Whiskey River
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