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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
U-S Plants Prepare Long-Term Nuclear Waste
Storage - With plans for Yucca Mountain repository scrapped, some plants are
building their own storage (Associated Press)
Seven
States Running Out of Water (USA Today)
Governments
Await Obama’s Move on Carbon to Gauge U-S Climate Efforts (NY Times)
Related to Highway 3 Project - Mason PUD 3
Schedules June 7 Planned Outage in Belfair for Relocation of High Voltage Power
Pole (Mason County PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Court Approves FCC Plan to Subsidize Rural
Broadband Service (NY Times)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- U-S Plants Prepare Long-Term Nuclear Waste Storage - With plans for Yucca Mountain repository scrapped, some plants are building their own storage
- Related to Highway 3 Project - Mason PUD 3 Schedules June 7 Planned Outage in Belfair for Relocation of High Voltage Power Pole
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission Releases Proposed Rule to Provide Relief to Public Power Utilities
- Boundary Dam Prepared to Offer Stunning Tours
- Film Critical of River Dams to Be Screened Thursday in Port Townsend
- Delay EPA Power Plant Rules, U-S Senators Demand
- Federal Court Throws Out FERC Effort to Boost Demand Response
- Cooperatives Scores Higher than Municipal Utilities
- Big Stakes in Debate over Fish Consumption in Washington State
- Researcher Draws Connection between Climate Change & Harmful Hybridization of Native Trout
- Seven States Running Out of Water
- Portland Boil Water Alert: Advisory Is Cancelled, But Questions Persist
- Industrial Growth: Columbia’s Deeper Channel Is a Magnet for Big Business
- Oregon: Closed Cave Junction Mill Rehires Many of Its Workers - will fire up its biomass burners, which are used to dry wood & generate electricity
- Bonneville Moving Ahead on Transmission Aimed at Boosting Wind Energy Flow
- Kansas: Wind War’s Total - Nearly Half-Million in Lobbying Dollars
- Wind Turbines Popping Up on New York Roofs, Along with Questions of Efficiency “…A tiny windmill on a big building is just silly — it might as well be a pinwheel…”
- Non-Hydro Renewables Outproduce Hydro for First Time Ever – But It’s also Non-Firm Power
- ‘Home-Made’ Electricity Creating Buzz in Germany
- Lighting is a ‘Gateway Drug to Energy Efficiency’
- Cable Converters Are Electricity Hogs, Critics Say
- How Much Did Nest Labs Save Utilities Last Summer?
- What Is the State of the US Smart Grid Market?
- Bulb of the Pharaoh: Egypt Takes Authoritarian Approach to Efficiency
- Governments Await Obama’s Move on Carbon to Gauge U-S Climate Efforts
- Scientists Say California Drought Causing Tule Fog to Disappear from Central Valley
- Why the Best Path to a Low-Carbon Future is Not Wind or Solar Power
- Tech Five: Google, Apple Entering Smart Home Market?
- Two High-Profile Sustainability Jobs Open in Portland
- Court Approves FCC Plan to Subsidize Rural Broadband Service
- North Thurston Schools Embrace Wi-Fi
- Europe’s Order to Mute Google Angers U-S
- Report: Twitter Will Have Nearly 400 Million Users by 2018
- Spring Clean Your Website Content for Better Summertime Results
- Put Communications Front & Center at Your Co-op
- Iranian Judge Summons Facebook CEO for Breach of Privacy
- How One Girl’s Goofy Self-Portraits Became a Viral Hit
- Power Outage, Property Damage: Port Angeles Man Pleads Guilty to 2013 Bulldozer Rampage
- Snohomish Teen’s ‘Tunnel Game’ Caused Brutal Accident, Police Say
- Tent Caterpillars Set Up Camp in Western Washington
Bowdlerize • \BODE-lu-rise\ • Verb - To change by
removing parts that could offend people.
Stalin was ecstatic with the final draft of his
bowdlerized autobiography. “I especially like how you airbrushed those pesky
purges from this most excellent volume,” he purred to his ghostwriter.
Unbeknownst to the wispy, pasty-faced clerk, he was only a few days from
literally becoming a “ghost writer.”
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
U-S Plants Prepare Long-Term Nuclear Waste
Storage - With plans for Yucca Mountain repository scrapped, some plants are
building their own storage (Associated Press)
Related to Highway 3 Project - Mason PUD 3
Schedules June 7 Planned Outage in Belfair for Relocation of High Voltage Power
Pole (Mason County PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Releases
Proposed Rule to Provide Relief to Public Power Utilities (American Public
Power Association)
Boundary Dam Prepared to Offer Stunning Tours
(KXLY-TV, Spokane, WA)
Film Critical of River Dams to Be Screened
Thursday in Port Townsend (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Delay EPA Power Plant Rules, U-S Senators Demand
(The Hill, Washington, DC)
Federal Court Throws Out FERC Effort to Boost
Demand Response (Power Magazine)
Cooperatives Scores Higher than Municipal
Utilities (Independence, IA)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Big Stakes in Debate over Fish Consumption in
Washington State (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Researcher Draws Connection between Climate
Change & Harmful Hybridization of Native Trout (Flathead Beacon, Kalispell,
MT)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Seven
States Running Out of Water (USA Today)
Portland
Boil Water Alert: Advisory Is Cancelled, But Questions Persist (Oregonian, Portland)
Industrial
Growth: Columbia’s Deeper Channel Is a Magnet for Big Business (Longview Daily News, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Oregon:
Closed Cave Junction Mill Rehires Many of Its Workers - will fire up its
biomass burners, which are used to dry wood & generate electricity (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
Bonneville
Moving Ahead on Transmission Aimed at Boosting Wind Energy Flow (SNL Financial)
Kansas:
Wind War’s Total - Nearly Half-Million in Lobbying Dollars (Topeka
Capital-Journal, KS)
Wind
Turbines Popping Up on New York Roofs, Along with Questions of Efficiency “…A
tiny windmill on a big building is just silly — it might as well be a pinwheel…”
(NY Times)
Non-Hydro
Renewables Outproduce Hydro for First Time Ever – But It’s also Non-Firm Power (Renewable Energy World)
‘Home-Made’
Electricity Creating Buzz in Germany (CTV News)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Lighting is a ‘Gateway Drug to Energy Efficiency’
(The Energy Collective)
Cable Converters Are Electricity Hogs, Critics Say
(Orlando Sentinel, FL)
How Much Did Nest Labs Save Utilities Last Summer?
(The Energy Collective)
What Is the State of the US Smart Grid Market? (Renewable Energy World)
Bulb of the Pharaoh: Egypt Takes Authoritarian
Approach to Efficiency (Forbes Magazine)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Governments
Await Obama’s Move on Carbon to Gauge U-S Climate Efforts (NY Times)
Scientists
Say California Drought Causing Tule Fog to Disappear from Central Valley (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Why
the Best Path to a Low-Carbon Future is Not Wind or Solar Power (Brookings
Institution)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Tech
Five: Google, Apple Entering Smart Home Market? (USA
Today)
Two
High-Profile Sustainability Jobs Open in Portland (Sustainable Business Oregon)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Court Approves FCC Plan to Subsidize Rural
Broadband Service (NY Times)
North Thurston Schools Embrace Wi-Fi (Olympian - Paywall
Advisory)
Europe’s Order to Mute Google Angers U-S (Associated Press)
SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING
Report: Twitter Will Have Nearly 400 Million Users
by 2018 (Mashable)
Spring Clean Your Website Content for Better Summertime Results (The
Business Journals)
Put Communications Front & Center at Your Co-op
(Electric Co-op Today)
Iranian Judge Summons Facebook CEO for Breach of
Privacy (Reuters)
How One Girl’s Goofy Self-Portraits Became a Viral
Hit (Reviewed.com)
GENERAL NEWS
Power Outage, Property Damage: Port Angeles Man
Pleads Guilty to 2013 Bulldozer Rampage (Peninsula
Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Snohomish Teen’s ‘Tunnel Game’ Caused Brutal
Accident, Police Say (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
Tent Caterpillars Set Up Camp in Western Washington
(KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
The
Making of NASA’s Global Selfie: 100+ Countries, Thousands of Photos
Nepal
Probes If Chinese Woman Used Helicopter on Everest Climb
“Weed
Fairy” Visits Seattle & Leaves a Trail
HUH?
Washingtonians apparently love Judas Priest, Pho & Unicorn tattoos
SONG OF THE DAY
Electric
Light Orchestra - All Over the World
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