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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Could Steelhead Fishing End in Order to Save
Them? Lawsuit: Steelhead hatcheries central to sport fishery hurting endangered
wild stocks (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Could-steelhead-fishing-end-in-order-to-save-them-5371030.php
Port Angeles to Pay Nippon $200,000 over
Disagreement about Utility Tax on Electricity (Peninsula
Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Pacific Northwest Hydro Generation Output in
March Up Sharply Year on Year (Platts)
Mayor Says Seattle City Light, Police & Fire
Not Paying Women Enough (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Gallup Poll Finds Majority Favor Energy
Conservation over Production (The Hill, Washington, DC)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Port Angeles to Pay Nippon $200,000 over Disagreement about Utility Tax on Electricity (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
- Pacific Northwest Hydro Generation Output in March Up Sharply Year on Year (Platts)
- Mayor Says Seattle City Light, Police & Fire Not Paying Women Enough (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
- Inslee Urged to Veto Budget Items – Includes Nuclear Energy Study (Everett Herald, WA)
- Tillamook PUD Board Awards Community Grants (North Coast Citizen, Manzanita, OR)
- Energy Boom Fuels Electric Co-op Growth - North Dakota’s energy boom is fueling rural economic development (Electric Co-op Today)
- U-S Public Support for Nuclear Power Declines Slightly: Poll (Platts)
- Revised OSHA Rule Will Have a Significant Impact on the Utility Industry, Says APPA’s Michael Hyland (American Public Power Association)
- Texas: Brrrr! Unusually Cold Winter Brings Abnormally High Electric Bills (Dallas Business Journal)
- Could Steelhead Fishing End in Order to Save Them? Lawsuit: Steelhead hatcheries central to sport fishery hurting endangered wild stocks (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
- Wind River Steelhead Add to Coastal Bird Buffet (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
- Smelt Make It Past Bonneville Dam this Spring (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
- Deals on Species Listings, Including the Mazama Pocket Gopher, Duck Challenge (Courthouse News Service)
- U-S House Members Offer Bills to Make Changes to Endangered Species Act (American Public Power Association)
- Engineered Salmon May Be a Tough Sell (Associated Press)
- Salmon for All Tastes - Versatile fish can be baked, barbecued, smoked or put on a plank (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
- Oregon: Terrebonne Water Board Members Recalled After Bills Triple (Associated Press)
- Minnesota: Wind Energy Businessman Convicted of Defrauding Investors (Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal, MN)
- Texas Supreme Court Blows Away Wind Generator Claims, Finds Contracts Assigned Risk of Transmission Congestion to Generators (GTH Energy & Natural Resources Law Blog)
- Green Groups Say German Energy Reform Painful, Despite Concessions (Reuters)
- Advancements in Wind Turbine Technology: Improving Efficiency & Reducing Cost (Renewable Energy World)
- Robots Find a Job in the Emerging World of Solar Energy (Washington Post)
- Gallup Poll Finds Majority Favor Energy Conservation over Production (The Hill, Washington, DC)
- DOE Needs to Rework Proposal to Make Computers Subject to Energy Efficiency Standards (American Public Power Association)
- Idaho Scientists Lay Out Their Data on How Our Climate Has Changed (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
- Smarter Crock Pots: The Smart Home Gateway Drug? (Ovens Reviewed)
- Op/Ed: A California Green Bank Would Create More Clean Energy Innovation (Sacramento Bee, CA)
- Electric Cars Must Make Noise Under New European Union Rules (British Broadcasting Corporation)
- Amazon Unveils New Fire TV Streaming Video Box (USA Today)
- Google Fiber Means Business: Comcast & Crowd React (The Motley Fool)
- Greenpeace Report Points to Iowa’s Role in Google, Facebook Efforts to ‘Green the Internet’ (Des Moines Register, IA)
- Consumers Are Souring on Web, Post-NSA, Survey Says (USA Today)
- Branded Viral Videos: The Secret Marketing Weapon (Mashable)
- President Obama Declares Federal Disaster in Mudslide Area; Locals Told to Register with FEMA (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
- Community Bank Offers to Forgive Home Loan Debt for Customers Impacted by Oso Mudslide (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
- Another Warning for the Pacific Northwest from Chile’s Earthquake Hot Zone (NY Times)
- Mason County Commissioner Jeffreys Seeking Re-Election (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
- Washington Pot Store Lottery Announced; Grow Licenses Lagging (Northwest Public Radio)
- Utah: Banned from the Slopes, Snowboarders File Suit (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
WORD OF THE DAY
Cadge
• \KAJ\ • Verb - Beg, sponge
Craving
a smoke
Cadge
a butt, take a deep drag
Blow
some smoke rings
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Port Angeles to Pay Nippon $200,000 over
Disagreement about Utility Tax on Electricity (Peninsula
Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Pacific Northwest Hydro Generation Output in
March Up Sharply Year on Year (Platts)
Mayor Says Seattle City Light, Police & Fire Not
Paying Women Enough (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Inslee Urged to Veto Budget Items – Includes Nuclear
Energy Study (Everett Herald, WA)
Tillamook PUD Board Awards Community Grants (North
Coast Citizen, Manzanita, OR)
Energy Boom Fuels Electric Co-op Growth - North
Dakota’s energy boom is fueling rural economic development (Electric Co-op
Today)
U-S Public Support for Nuclear Power Declines
Slightly: Poll (Platts)
Revised OSHA Rule Will Have a Significant Impact on
the Utility Industry, Says APPA’s Michael Hyland (American Public Power
Association)
Texas: Brrrr! Unusually Cold Winter Brings
Abnormally High Electric Bills (Dallas Business Journal)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Could Steelhead Fishing End in Order to Save
Them? Lawsuit: Steelhead hatcheries central to sport fishery hurting endangered
wild stocks (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Could-steelhead-fishing-end-in-order-to-save-them-5371030.php
Wind River Steelhead Add to Coastal Bird Buffet (Vancouver
Columbian, WA)
Smelt Make It Past Bonneville Dam this Spring (Vancouver
Columbian, WA)
Deals on Species Listings, Including the Mazama
Pocket Gopher, Duck Challenge (Courthouse News Service)
U-S House Members Offer Bills to Make Changes to Endangered
Species Act (American Public Power Association)
Engineered Salmon May Be a Tough Sell (Associated
Press)
Salmon for All Tastes - Versatile fish can be
baked, barbecued, smoked or put on a plank (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Oregon:
Terrebonne Water Board Members Recalled After Bills Triple (Associated Press)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Minnesota:
Wind Energy Businessman Convicted of Defrauding Investors (Minneapolis-St. Paul
Business Journal, MN)
Texas
Supreme Court Blows Away Wind Generator Claims, Finds Contracts Assigned Risk
of Transmission Congestion to Generators (GTH Energy
& Natural Resources Law Blog)
Green
Groups Say German Energy Reform Painful, Despite Concessions (Reuters)
Advancements
in Wind Turbine Technology: Improving Efficiency & Reducing Cost (Renewable Energy World)
Robots
Find a Job in the Emerging World of Solar Energy (Washington Post)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Gallup Poll Finds Majority Favor Energy
Conservation over Production (The Hill, Washington, DC)
DOE Needs to Rework Proposal to Make Computers
Subject to Energy Efficiency Standards (American Public Power Association)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Idaho
Scientists Lay Out Their Data on How Our Climate Has Changed (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Smarter
Crock Pots: The Smart Home Gateway Drug? (Ovens Reviewed)
Op/Ed:
A California Green Bank Would Create More Clean Energy Innovation (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Electric
Cars Must Make Noise Under New European Union Rules (British Broadcasting
Corporation)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Amazon Unveils New Fire TV Streaming Video Box (USA
Today)
Google Fiber Means Business: Comcast & Crowd
React (The Motley Fool)
Greenpeace Report Points to Iowa’s Role in Google,
Facebook Efforts to ‘Green the Internet’ (Des Moines Register, IA)
SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING
Consumers Are Souring on Web, Post-NSA, Survey Says
(USA Today)
Branded Viral Videos: The Secret Marketing Weapon
(Mashable)
GENERAL NEWS
President Obama Declares Federal Disaster in
Mudslide Area; Locals Told to Register with FEMA (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
Community Bank Offers to Forgive Home Loan Debt for
Customers Impacted by Oso Mudslide (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Another Warning for the Pacific Northwest from
Chile’s Earthquake Hot Zone (NY Times)
Mason County Commissioner Jeffreys Seeking
Re-Election (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Washington Pot Store Lottery Announced; Grow
Licenses Lagging (Northwest Public Radio)
Utah: Banned from the Slopes, Snowboarders File
Suit (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
125th
Anniversary of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
Starbucks:
Sorry About ‘666’ in Coffee Foam
Two
Dollar Bill is Oddity, but Some Love the Tender
Newsflash:
Americans Are Dumping Ranch Dressing All Over Everything
http://consumerist.com/2014/04/02/newsflash-american-are-dumping-ranch-dressing-all-over-everything/
SONG OF THE DAY
Camille
- Le Festin (Ratatouille Soundtrack)
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