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News Digest Word Cloud for April 15, 2014
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Portland General Electric to Take Bigger Stake in
Boardman Coal Plant; Strikes Deal to Keep Buying Hydropower from Tribes (Oregonian,
Portland)
Washington State Preparing to Truck Salmon around
Wanapum Dam (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Drawdown of Columbia River Reservoir Creates
Problems, Opportunities (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Pot
Fields in Columbia Basin, Yakima Valley Might Lack Irrigation Water (Tri-City
Herald, WA)
Heartbleed Bug Fixes Threaten to Cause Major
Internet Disruptions in Coming Weeks (Washington Post)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Portland General Electric to Take Bigger Stake in Boardman Coal Plant; Strikes Deal to Keep Buying Hydropower from Tribes (Oregonian, Portland)
- Drawdown of Columbia River Reservoir Creates Problems, Opportunities (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
- 2014 Northwest Public Power Association Safety Award Winners Announced (Northwest Public Power Association)
- Mason PUD 3 Awarded First Place in Regional Safety Contest (Mason County PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
- U-S Senate Turns Spotlight on Power Grid Security (Electric Co-op Today)
- North American Electric Reliability Corporation Posts Proposed Physical Security Standard for Comment (American Public Power Association)
- Colorado: Boulder City Council to Vote on Creating a Municipal Electric Utility (American Public Power Association)
- Utilities Face Massive Brain Drain (Transmission & Distribution World)
- Washington State Preparing to Truck Salmon around Wanapum Dam (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
- Pacific Northwest: The Demise of Fish-Eating Birds (Electric Co-op Today)
- Drakes Bay Oyster Company Takes Its Case to U-S Supreme Court (KQED Broadcasting, San Francisco, CA)
- Pot Fields in Columbia Basin, Yakima Valley Might Lack Irrigation Water (Tri-City Herald, WA)
- Longview Septic Tank Pumper Gets 27-Month Sentence for Illegal Dumping (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
- Can Nuclear Power & Renewable Energy Learn to Get Along? (The Energy Collective)
- Energy Storage Project Deemed Success, Could Pave Way for More Batteries on Texas Grid (Dallas Business Journal, TX)
- ‘Internet of Things’ Turns Up the Heat On Utilities (Midwest Energy News)
- Is This the Nest of Air Conditioners? (Mashable)
- Climate Control: University of Oregon Looks at Ups & Downs of Teaching Global Change (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
- Heartbleed Bug Fixes Threaten to Cause Major Internet Disruptions in Coming Weeks (Washington Post)
- Akamai Admits Its Heartbleed Patch Was Faulty, Has to Reissue All SSL Certs & Keys (Crooks & Liars Blog)
- State Lands Chief Breaks Vow, Takes Timber-Industry Money (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
- Washington State Senate Majority Leader Rodney Tom Ends Re-Election Campaign (Everett Herald, WA)
- Montana Democratic Primary: Education, Broadband Priorities for U-S House Candidate Lewis (Missoulian, MT)
- CenturyLink: 4,500 Washington State Calls Failed During 911 Outage - Caused By Technical Error in Third-Party Vendor’s Call Router (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
- It’s Tax Day! Don’t Panic, Go Get Free Curly Fries (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
- Fire Razes a Washington State Fairground Building in Puyallup, One Animal Dies (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
- Full Lunar Eclipse Delights Americas, First of the Year (Associated Press)
- Scientists Say a Deep Canyon Feeds Puget Sound (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
WORD OF THE DAY
Recondite
• \RECK-kun-dyte\ • Adjective - 1: hidden from sight: concealed 2: difficult or
impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend: deep 3:
of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure
Harvey
Brandeis reveled in his talent of knowing things unknown to others. His skill
was such that for his office mates, his presence was not unlike wearing a
woolen shirt…without underwear. It irritated, but had to be endured. Every
utterance from Harvey that began with “did you know that…” was met with eye
rolling and sighs. The main irritant was not so much the little bits of
information, but the inability to fact check the recondite factoids.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Portland General Electric to Take Bigger Stake in
Boardman Coal Plant; Strikes Deal to Keep Buying Hydropower from Tribes (Oregonian,
Portland)
Drawdown of Columbia River Reservoir Creates
Problems, Opportunities (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
2014 Northwest Public Power Association Safety
Award Winners Announced (Northwest Public Power Association)
Mason PUD 3 Awarded First Place in Regional
Safety Contest (Mason County PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
U-S Senate Turns Spotlight on Power Grid Security
(Electric Co-op Today)
North American Electric Reliability Corporation Posts
Proposed Physical Security Standard for Comment (American Public Power
Association)
Colorado: Boulder City Council to Vote on
Creating a Municipal Electric Utility (American Public Power Association)
Utilities Face Massive Brain Drain (Transmission
& Distribution World)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Washington State Preparing to Truck Salmon around
Wanapum Dam (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Pacific Northwest: The Demise of Fish-Eating
Birds (Electric Co-op Today)
Drakes Bay Oyster Company Takes Its Case to U-S Supreme
Court (KQED Broadcasting, San Francisco, CA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Pot
Fields in Columbia Basin, Yakima Valley Might Lack Irrigation Water (Tri-City
Herald, WA)
Longview
Septic Tank Pumper Gets 27-Month Sentence for Illegal Dumping (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Can
Nuclear Power & Renewable Energy Learn to Get Along? (The Energy
Collective)
Energy
Storage Project Deemed Success, Could Pave Way for More Batteries on Texas Grid
(Dallas Business Journal, TX)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
‘Internet
of Things’ Turns Up the Heat On Utilities (Midwest Energy News)
Is
This the Nest of Air Conditioners? (Mashable)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Climate
Control: University of Oregon Looks at Ups & Downs of Teaching Global
Change (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Heartbleed Bug Fixes Threaten to Cause Major Internet
Disruptions in Coming Weeks (Washington Post)
Akamai Admits Its Heartbleed Patch Was Faulty, Has
to Reissue All SSL Certs & Keys (Crooks & Liars Blog)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
State Lands Chief Breaks Vow, Takes Timber-Industry
Money (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Washington State Senate Majority Leader Rodney Tom Ends
Re-Election Campaign (Everett Herald, WA)
Montana Democratic Primary: Education, Broadband
Priorities for U-S House Candidate Lewis (Missoulian, MT)
GENERAL NEWS
CenturyLink: 4,500 Washington State Calls Failed
During 911 Outage - Caused By Technical Error in Third-Party Vendor’s Call
Router (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
It’s Tax Day! Don’t Panic, Go Get Free Curly Fries (KIRO
Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Fire Razes a Washington State Fairground Building in
Puyallup, One Animal Dies (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Full Lunar Eclipse Delights Americas, First of the
Year (Associated Press)
Scientists Say a Deep Canyon Feeds Puget Sound (KING-TV,
Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Hungry
Spouse, Angry Spouse? Study With Voodoo Dolls Ties Marital Discord to Low Blood
Sugar
Ohio
Man Sentenced to Wear ‘BULLY’ Sign Is Jeered, Taunted
This
Pot Vending Machine Is Just As Awesome As It Sounds
Couple
Steals a Car So They Can Make Court Date in Timely Fashion
SONG OF THE DAY
Santana
- Black Magic Woman
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