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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for April 11, 2014
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
California: Pacific Gas & Offers $250,000 Reward
for Information on Attack on Silicon Valley Phone Lines, Power Grid (Casta.Net)
Power Grid Threat Report Mishandled, Feds Say (Associated
Press)
Pacific
Northwest Water Supply Rebounds Across Most of Northwest after March Storms
(Northwest Public Radio)
Federal Judges Deny Request for Emergency
Injunction against Steelhead Planting in Elwha River (Peninsula Daily News,
Port Angeles, WA)
Facebook to Strip Messaging Out of Its Main App
(Washington Post)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- California: Pacific Gas & Offers $250,000 Reward for Information on Attack on Silicon Valley Phone Lines, Power Grid (Casta.Net)
- Power Grid Threat Report Mishandled, Feds Say (Associated Press)
- Partnership, Information-Sharing Are Key to Electric Grid's Security, APPA’s Kelly Tells Senate Committee (American Public Power Association)
- Tree Down On 'High Line' Takes Out Power for Approximately 2,200 in Tumwater (Olympian - Paywall Advisory)
- City of Port Angeles Considers Shortening Utility Bill-Pay Period by Five Days (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
- Mason PUD 3 Commission Report for the April 8, 2014 Business Meeting (Mason County PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
- Colorado: Boulder City Council to Consider Creating New Electric Utility (Denver Business Journal, CO)
- Japan Approves Energy Plan Reinstating Nuclear Power (Reuters)
- Federal Judges Deny Request for Emergency Injunction against Steelhead Planting in Elwha River (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
- Washington Sets 2014 Salmon Fishing Seasons (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
- Outdoor Writer Dave Graybill Reports on Wanapum Dam Fish Passage (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
- City of Cle Elum Considers Selling Unused Land – Bonneville Power Administration would use land for salmon restoration project (Daily Record, Ellensburg, WA)
- Conservationists Seek More Protection for Sage Grouse (Associated Press)
- Pacific Northwest Water Supply Rebounds Across Most of Northwest after March Storms (Northwest Public Radio)
- Northern California: Want to Raft? Better Do So Rapidly (Sacramento Bee, CA)
- U-S Wind Industry Slammed By Tax Uncertainty, Fracking (USA Today)
- The Smartest Place to Build Solar Farms? Toxic Superfund Sites (Gizmodo)
- How the American Dream Is Killing the American Electric Bill (Gizmodo)
- Try Snohomish PUD EnergyAdvisor for Chance to Save $200 on Bill (Lake Stevens Journal, WA)
- Hoquiam School District Gets $200,000 Grant for Energy Efficiency Improvements (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
- Clean Coal Might Work in China, But Here’s Why We Won’t See Much of It Here (Washington Post)
- Artificial Cooling Tricky Topic for Climate Panel (Associated Press)
- Zero Energy Green Houses Far from a Silver Bullet in Combating Carbon Emissions (Sacramento Bee, CA)
- Do Cow Farts Actually Contribute to Global Warming? (Gizmodo)
- Could Creating a Methane-Free Cow of the Future Help Stop Climate Change? (Take Part)
- Broadband Faces a Fork in the Road - While AT&T and Google supercharge broadband, the have-nots still lag behind (ComputerWorld)
- Look Out Google Fiber: AT&T in 'Advanced Discussions' to Bring Gigabit Speeds to North Carolina (Triangle Business Journal, NC)
- Twitter Gets the Bird from Greenpeace Campaigners (Data Center Dynamics – Old Story, Great Headline)
- Facebook to Strip Messaging Out of Its Main App (Washington Post)
- How Much Are Your Solar Facebook Fans Worth? Around $403 Each (Renewable Energy World)
- A Facebook Fan is Worth $174, Researcher Says (Mashable)
- In France, a Move to Limit Off-the-Clock Work Emails (NY Times)
- Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds (Consumerist)
- Personal Info Found on State Computers Set for Public Sale (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
- Ten Killed in North California as Semi Truck Crashes into Students' Tour Bus (Associated Press)
- Officials Identify All 36 Mudslide Victims Found So Far (Associated Press)
- Slow-Moving Landslide Prompts Evacuations in Wyoming Resort Town (Reuters)
- Questions Remain Over Statewide 911 Shutdown (Associated Press)
- Boeing to Move 1,000 Engineering Jobs to Southern California (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
- New Forecast: U-S Medical & Recreational Marijuana Sales to Hit $8 Billion by 2018 (Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal, WA)
- Flashing Lights to Warn Others of Police Presence is Protected Speech (Associated Press)
- Spring Is Prime Time for Puget Sound Convergence Zone (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
WORD OF THE DAY
Feculent
• \FECK-yuh-lunt\ • Adjective - Foul with impurities.
“Ahhh,
time to be alone with my Limburger cheese, onion and liverwurst sandwich,”
sighed Angus lovingly. It was a good thing that he was alone with his odiferous
repast. Its feculent fragrance wafted through the air, like the cartoon depiction
of a strong, insistent odor…knocking over small appliances in its wake.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
California: Pacific Gas & Offers $250,000 Reward
for Information on Attack on Silicon Valley Phone Lines, Power Grid (Casta.Net)
Power Grid Threat Report Mishandled, Feds Say (Associated
Press)
Partnership, Information-Sharing Are Key to
Electric Grid's Security, APPA’s Kelly Tells Senate Committee (American Public
Power Association)
Tree Down On 'High Line' Takes Out Power for
Approximately 2,200 in Tumwater (Olympian -
Paywall Advisory)
City of Port Angeles Considers Shortening Utility
Bill-Pay Period by Five Days (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Mason PUD 3 Commission Report for the April 8,
2014 Business Meeting (Mason County PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Colorado: Boulder City Council to Consider
Creating New Electric Utility (Denver Business Journal, CO)
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/earth_to_power/2014/04/boulder-city-council-to-consider-creating-new.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/earth_to_power/2014/04/boulder-city-council-to-consider-creating-new.html
Japan Approves Energy Plan Reinstating Nuclear
Power (Reuters)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Federal Judges Deny Request for Emergency
Injunction against Steelhead Planting in Elwha River (Peninsula Daily News, Port
Angeles, WA)
Washington Sets 2014 Salmon Fishing Seasons (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Outdoor Writer Dave Graybill Reports on Wanapum
Dam Fish Passage (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
City of Cle Elum Considers Selling Unused Land –
Bonneville Power Administration would use land for salmon restoration project (Daily
Record, Ellensburg, WA)
Conservationists Seek More Protection for Sage Grouse
(Associated Press)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Pacific
Northwest Water Supply Rebounds Across Most of Northwest after March Storms (Northwest
Public Radio)
Northern
California: Want to Raft? Better Do So Rapidly (Sacramento
Bee, CA)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
U-S
Wind Industry Slammed By Tax Uncertainty, Fracking (USA Today)
The
Smartest Place to Build Solar Farms? Toxic Superfund Sites (Gizmodo)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
How
the American Dream Is Killing the American Electric Bill (Gizmodo)
Try
Snohomish PUD EnergyAdvisor for Chance to Save $200 on Bill (Lake Stevens
Journal, WA)
Hoquiam
School District Gets $200,000 Grant for Energy Efficiency Improvements (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Clean
Coal Might Work in China, But Here’s Why We Won’t See Much of It Here (Washington
Post)
Artificial
Cooling Tricky Topic for Climate Panel (Associated
Press)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Zero
Energy Green Houses Far from a Silver Bullet in Combating Carbon Emissions (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Do
Cow Farts Actually Contribute to Global Warming? (Gizmodo)
Could
Creating a Methane-Free Cow of the Future Help Stop Climate Change? (Take Part)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Broadband Faces a Fork in the Road - While AT&T
and Google supercharge broadband, the have-nots still lag behind
(ComputerWorld)
Look Out Google Fiber: AT&T in 'Advanced
Discussions' to Bring Gigabit Speeds to North Carolina (Triangle Business
Journal, NC)
Twitter Gets the Bird from Greenpeace Campaigners (Data
Center Dynamics – Old Story, Great Headline)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook to Strip Messaging Out of Its Main App (Washington
Post)
How Much Are Your Solar Facebook Fans Worth? Around
$403 Each (Renewable Energy World)
A Facebook Fan is Worth $174, Researcher Says
(Mashable)
In France, a Move to Limit Off-the-Clock Work
Emails (NY Times)
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds (Consumerist)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Personal Info Found on State Computers Set for
Public Sale (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Ten Killed in North California as Semi Truck
Crashes into Students' Tour Bus (Associated
Press)
Officials Identify All 36 Mudslide Victims Found So
Far (Associated Press)
Slow-Moving Landslide Prompts Evacuations in Wyoming
Resort Town (Reuters)
Questions Remain Over Statewide 911 Shutdown (Associated Press)
Boeing to Move 1,000 Engineering Jobs to Southern
California (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
New Forecast: U-S Medical & Recreational
Marijuana Sales to Hit $8 Billion by 2018 (Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal, WA)
Flashing Lights to Warn Others of Police Presence is
Protected Speech (Associated Press)
Spring Is Prime Time for Puget Sound Convergence
Zone (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
KISS,
Nirvana, Hall & Oates Inducted by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Teen
Could Be Deported for Selling Pot Brownies
Man
with First Name 'God' Sues Credit Rating Agency
California
Town Moves against Sriracha Hot Sauce Plant
SONG OF THE DAY
Kiss
- Rock N' Roll All Night
Daryl
Hall & John Oates - She's Gone
Nirvana
- Smells Like Teen Spirit
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