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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Washington
State Snowpack 107 Percent of Normal (Associated
Press)
Portland Commissioners Suggest Subsidizing Google
Fiber for Low-Income Residents (Oregonian, Portland)
Future
of Taxpayer Funded Wave-Energy Buoy in Failed Oregon Project Unclear (KATU-TV,
Portland, OR)
Opponents Sound Off On Port Angeles Controversial
‘Smart’ Meters (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Canadian Geoduck Fishery Dispute Prompts First
Nation Blockade Threat (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Opponents Sound Off On Port Angeles Controversial ‘Smart’ Meters
- Grant PUD, Washington State to Keep Lowered Columbia River Reservoir Off Limits
- Lake Roosevelt Drawdown Leaves Gifford Ferry High & Dry
- Op/Ed: Tear Down ‘Deadbeat’ Dams
- Mill Salvage Agreement Saves Grays Harbor PUD $75,000
- Kennewick Police Find Man Accused of Water Scam
- Easton to Run for Skagit PUD Commission
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District Begins Feasibility Work on $800 Million Pumped-Storage System
- Judge to Consider New Report in Southern Montana Electric Co-op Bankruptcy
- Railroad: Federal Safety Order Won’t Affect Oil Shipments
- Keystone Pipeline Dispute Muddles the Path Forward on Energy Bill
- Moderate Environmentalists Go Nuclear “…you cannot simply oppose clean, low-carbon energy sources…”
- Colorado: Xcel Says Boulder is Premature in Creating City Utility
- Energy Information Administration Releases Complete Annual Energy Outlook 2014 Report
- Progressive Utilities Increasingly Engage Customers Behind the Meter
- Canadian Geoduck Fishery Dispute Prompts First Nation Blockade Threat
- How to Get a Fish to Cross a Dam
- Lone Caribou Herd in Lower 48 Keeps Federal Protection
- Washington State Snowpack 107 Percent of Normal
- Heavy Rain Threatens Irrigation Pumps on the Willamette River, Its Tributaries, Officials Say
- Tacoma Rain Gardens Cleaning Contaminants in Thea Foss Waterway
- A Thirsty California Puts a Premium on Excess Water Use
- Future of Taxpayer Funded Wave-Energy Buoy in Failed Oregon Project Unclear
- Oregon State Brings Ground-Mounted Solar On Line
- Seattle Steam Tapping New Urban Well to Make Steam for Skyscrapers
- Tahltan First Nation Signs Deal for Run-of-River Power Projects in Northwestern British Columbia
- Wind Manufacturers Surge with Unexpected Profit after Turnaround, Seek Expansion Plans
- Days after Climate Report, White House Makes Clean-Energy Push
- Watch James Brown Touting Home Weatherization in This Amazing Video
- Washington State the Center of Climate Change Solutions
- Global Climate Change Report: Impacts on Oregon, Pacific Northwest
- The Nose: As Sea Levels Rise, Local TV Weather Anchor Holds Strong
- Wyoming Declines New Science Standards with Global Warming Components
- Miami Finds Itself Ankle-Deep in Climate Change Debate
- Lloyd’s Calls on Insurers to Take into Account Climate-Change Risk
- Thieves Find a Lucrative New Commodity – Cooking Grease
- Tinfoil at the Ready? Wireless Electricity? It’s Here “…they are the same kind of fields used in Wi-Fi routers…”
- Intercity Transit Recognized for Environmental Leadership, Gets Prestigious ISO 14001 Certification
- Portland Commissioners Suggest Subsidizing Google Fiber for Low-Income Residents
- Is Google Fiber on Track to Become Major Broadband Competitor?
- The Wait Goes On: Verizon’s FiOS Deployment in D-C Pushed Back a Year
- Supreme Court to Decide Case on How Cell Tower Permits Can Be Denied
- Reinventing the Internet: How Wireless Networks Could Become the Workhorses of the Web
- On Net Neutrality, The FCC’s Chairman Increasingly Stands Alone
- A Second Large Coalition Calls on White House & FCC to Not Screw Up Net Neutrality
- Your Broadband Company May Be Holding Your Internet Access Hostage
- Cogent Blames Comcast for Prior Netflix Slowdown
- E-Rate Program Commits over $450 Million in Funding for Broadband in Schools & Libraries
- Snapchat Settles Federal Charges it Misled Users about Privacy
- Twitter’s Stock Drop on Monday Was the Worst of Major Tech Firms
- App Splitting is a Silly Idea. Let’s Not Encourage It
- Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
- Mason County’s 2014 Candidate Filing
- Cowlitz County: Filing Week for Local, State Offices Begins Monday
- Ted Sturdevant, Top Inslee Advisor Stepping Down
- Feds approve bitcoins for campaign contributions
- Seattle Credit Union Moves Toward Serving Marijuana Growers
- Credit Union in Spokane to Serve Eastern Washington State Marijuana Growers
- Entrepreneurs Selling Washington State Marijuana Store Licenses for Big Bucks
- Mason County Rodeo & Fair Get Leases while Port, County & Rotary Talk Event Center
- Worse than Average Washington Wildfire Season Seen
- Bremerton: Man Rescued after Driving Car into Puget Sound
- Tumwater Police Arrest Two Shelton Women after Neighbor Reports Burglary
- Community Interviews Scheduled for North Mason Schools’ Superintendent Finalists
- What’s in a Name: Activists Oppose Restart of Coal Mine in Black Diamond
- Cowlitz Tribe to Get Gaming Revenues - State panel OKs compact granting it a share
Vexatious
• \veck-SAY-sush\ • Adjective - 1a: causing vexation: distressing b: intended
to harass 2: full of disorder or stress: troubled
Cape
Wind Legal Kerfuffle: Federal Judge Richard Stearns dismissed all claims made
by the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound and other project opponents, saying “there
comes a point at which the right to litigate can become a vexatious abuse of
the democratic process.”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Opponents Sound Off On Port Angeles Controversial
‘Smart’ Meters (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Grant PUD, Washington State to Keep Lowered
Columbia River Reservoir Off Limits (Bellingham Herald, WA)
Lake Roosevelt Drawdown Leaves Gifford Ferry High
& Dry (KXLY-TV, Spokane, WA)
Op/Ed: Tear Down ‘Deadbeat’ Dams (NY Times)
Mill Salvage Agreement Saves Grays Harbor PUD
$75,000 (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Kennewick Police Find Man Accused of Water Scam (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Easton to Run for Skagit PUD Commission (Skagit
Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, WA)
Sacramento Municipal Utility District Begins
Feasibility Work on $800 Million Pumped-Storage System (Sacramento Business
Journal, CA)
Judge to Consider New Report in Southern Montana
Electric Co-op Bankruptcy (Associated Press)
Railroad: Federal Safety Order Won’t Affect Oil
Shipments (Associated Press)
Keystone Pipeline Dispute Muddles the Path
Forward on Energy Bill (National Public Radio)
Moderate Environmentalists Go Nuclear “…you
cannot simply oppose clean, low-carbon energy sources…” (The Energy Collective)
Colorado: Xcel Says Boulder is Premature in
Creating City Utility (Denver Business Journal, CO)
Energy Information Administration Releases
Complete Annual Energy Outlook 2014 Report (The Energy Collective)
Progressive Utilities Increasingly Engage
Customers Behind the Meter (The Energy Collective)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Canadian Geoduck Fishery Dispute Prompts First
Nation Blockade Threat (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
How to Get a Fish to Cross a Dam (Gizmodo)
Lone Caribou Herd in Lower 48 Keeps Federal
Protection (Northwest Public Radio)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Washington
State Snowpack 107 Percent of Normal (Associated
Press)
Heavy
Rain Threatens Irrigation Pumps on the Willamette River, Its Tributaries,
Officials Say (Oregonian, Portland)
Tacoma
Rain Gardens Cleaning Contaminants in Thea Foss Waterway (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
A
Thirsty California Puts a Premium on Excess Water Use (NY Times)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Future
of Taxpayer Funded Wave-Energy Buoy in Failed Oregon Project Unclear (KATU-TV,
Portland, OR)
Oregon
State Brings Ground-Mounted Solar On Line (Solar Novus Today)
Seattle
Steam Tapping New Urban Well to Make Steam for Skyscrapers (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Tahltan
First Nation Signs Deal for Run-of-River Power Projects in Northwestern British
Columbia (The Province, Vancouver, BC)
Wind
Manufacturers Surge with Unexpected Profit after Turnaround, Seek Expansion
Plans (Renewable Energy World)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Days
after Climate Report, White House Makes Clean-Energy Push (U-S News & World
Report)
Watch
James Brown Touting Home Weatherization in This Amazing Video (Grist Online)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Washington
State the Center of Climate Change Solutions (KING-TV,
Seattle, WA)
Global
Climate Change Report: Impacts on Oregon, Pacific Northwest (Oregonian,
Portland)
The
Nose: As Sea Levels Rise, Local TV Weather Anchor Holds Strong (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Wyoming
Declines New Science Standards with Global Warming Components (Associated Press)
Miami
Finds Itself Ankle-Deep in Climate Change Debate (NY
Times)
Lloyd’s
Calls on Insurers to Take into Account Climate-Change Risk (The Guardian, UK)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Thieves
Find a Lucrative New Commodity – Cooking Grease (Fort Worth Star-Telegram, TX)
Tinfoil
at the Ready? Wireless Electricity? It’s Here “…they are the same kind of fields
used in Wi-Fi routers…” (Cable News Network)
Intercity
Transit Recognized for Environmental Leadership, Gets Prestigious ISO 14001
Certification (Thurston Talks, Olympia, WA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Portland Commissioners Suggest Subsidizing Google
Fiber for Low-Income Residents (Oregonian, Portland)
Is Google Fiber on Track to Become Major Broadband
Competitor? (C/NET News)
The Wait Goes On: Verizon’s FiOS Deployment in D-C
Pushed Back a Year (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Supreme Court to Decide Case on How Cell Tower
Permits Can Be Denied (Fierce Wireless)
Reinventing the Internet: How Wireless Networks
Could Become the Workhorses of the Web (GigaOM)
On Net Neutrality, The FCC’s Chairman Increasingly
Stands Alone (Washington Post)
A Second Large Coalition Calls on White House &
FCC to Not Screw Up Net Neutrality (Consumerist)
Your Broadband Company May Be Holding Your Internet
Access Hostage (TIME Magazine)
Cogent Blames Comcast for Prior Netflix Slowdown (Associated Press)
E-Rate Program Commits over $450 Million in Funding
for Broadband in Schools & Libraries (Fierce Telecom)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Snapchat Settles Federal Charges it Misled Users
about Privacy (Consumerist)
Twitter’s Stock Drop on Monday Was the Worst of
Major Tech Firms (Mashable)
App Splitting is a Silly Idea. Let’s Not Encourage
It (Washington Post)
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds (Consumerist)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Mason County’s 2014 Candidate Filing (KMAS Radio,
Shelton, WA)
Cowlitz County: Filing Week for Local, State
Offices Begins Monday (Longview Daily News, WA)
Ted Sturdevant, Top Inslee Advisor Stepping Down (Everett
Herald, WA)
Feds approve bitcoins for campaign contributions (USA
Today)
GENERAL NEWS
Seattle Credit Union Moves Toward Serving Marijuana
Growers (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Credit Union in Spokane to Serve Eastern Washington
State Marijuana Growers (Associated Press)
Entrepreneurs Selling Washington State Marijuana
Store Licenses for Big Bucks (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
Mason County Rodeo & Fair Get Leases while
Port, County & Rotary Talk Event Center (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Worse than Average Washington Wildfire Season Seen (Associated Press)
Bremerton: Man Rescued after Driving Car into Puget
Sound (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA – Accountant Jenifer’s Bro Was In The Water For
This Rescue)
Tumwater Police Arrest Two Shelton Women after Neighbor
Reports Burglary (Olympian - Paywall Advisory)
Community Interviews Scheduled for North Mason
Schools’ Superintendent Finalists (Mason Web-TV, Shelton, WA)
What’s in a Name: Activists Oppose Restart of Coal
Mine in Black Diamond (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Cowlitz Tribe to Get Gaming Revenues - State panel
OKs compact granting it a share (Vancouver
Columbian, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Knocked
Out in Bar Fight, Man Wakes Up as a Genius
The
World’s Smallest Comic Strip is Etched on a Single Strand of Hair
Seattle
TV Station Refuses to Use OKC Thunder Team Name in Playoff Coverage
The
End is Nigh: Woman Gets Tattoo of Herself Taking a Selfie
SONG OF THE DAY
Tears
For Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Used in the movie “Real Genius”)
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