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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Sacramento Municipal Utility District Wins $53.1
Million in Legal Fight over Nuclear Waste Facility (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Montana: NorthWest Energy’s Electric Rates among
the Highest in the Region (Helena Independent-Record, MT)
Supreme
Court Nibbles at EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Powers (Politico, Washington, DC)
Sockeye Showing over 7,000 A Day Past Bonneville,
Run Likely to be Twice 2004-13 Average (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
ABA: Lawyers Can Scour Jurors’ Social Media Sites (Associated Press)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District Wins $53.1 Million in Legal Fight over Nuclear Waste Facility
- Montana: NorthWest Energy’s Electric Rates among the Highest in the Region
- Power Grid Hidden Marvel of Engineering
- Energized Innovation - PUD 3 Linemen & Engineers Move Transmission Lines & Poles in Belfair
- Audio: Andrew York Lineman’s Rodeo
- FERC Approves Energy Imbalance Market Tariffs, Paving Way for October Start-Up
- Northern Gateway Pipeline’s Doubled-Up Challenge
- A Postcard from the Public Power Future
- Artist’s Birdhouses Have Sacramento Municipal Utility District Scrambling Up Utility Poles
- Sockeye Showing over 7,000 A Day Past Bonneville, Run Likely to be Twice 2004-13 Average
- Olympic Peninsula Volunteers Pitching in on Sea Star Wasting Disease Research
- Pain of California’s Water Shortage is Spreading
- Skagit PUD Waterline Work Begins Monday
- No Potash Plant at Port of Vancouver - For Now
- SoloPower Systems Wires Cash, Extends Lifeline after State of Oregon Demands Payment
- Idaho Power: Wind Power Intermittent, Short Notice Driving Up Costs
- Montana: Lightning Strike Melts Cascade County Wind Turbine
- Initiative for Renewable Power in San Francisco Is Stalling
- Supreme Court Nibbles at EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Powers
- U-S Mayors Unanimously Pass Climate Change Ideas
- Op/Ed: The Coming Climate Crash - Lessons for Climate Change in the 2008 Recession
- New Bill in Congress Could Help Industrial Facilities Keep Lights On During Power Outages
- New Rule for Broadband Build Funds
- Neutrality Begins at Home: How Mayors Could Help Save the Internet
- Editorial: The Fast Lane to a Closed Internet
- Editorial: We Can’t Run a School without Broadband
- Michigan: Seniors Displaced by Fire Could Be Charged for Cable Boxes
- ABA: Lawyers Can Scour Jurors’ Social Media Sites
- Facebook, Twitter, Google Score during World Cup
- Does New OverHeard App Sound Spooky?
- Online Advertising Explained by Common Craft
- Watch Mason County Candidates’ Video Sit Downs Here!
- Lack of Funding Could Close Shelton’s Community Kitchen
- Port Angeles Man Gets 29 Months in Prison for Bulldozer Rampage
- Why You Can’t Blame El Niño for Extreme Weather
- Oregon to Use Radio-Controlled Helicopter on Fires
- Man Clubbed By Large Limb during Tree Removal, Family Says
- Pagans Mark Summer Solstice at Replica Stonehenge
Sacrosanct • \SACK-roe-sankt\ • Adjective - 1: most sacred or holy: inviolable 2:
treated as if holy: immune from
criticism or violation.
See Star Trek’s “A Piece of the Action” episode &
its references to THE book. Sacrosanct to the Iotians, the book “Chicago Mobs
of the Twenties,” forms the basis of the planet’s entire culture. Geeking done,
back to work.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Sacramento Municipal Utility District Wins $53.1
Million in Legal Fight over Nuclear Waste Facility (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Montana: NorthWest Energy’s Electric Rates among
the Highest in the Region (Helena Independent-Record, MT)
Power Grid Hidden Marvel of Engineering (Spokesman
Review, Spokane, WA)
Energized
Innovation - PUD 3 Linemen & Engineers Move Transmission Lines & Poles
in Belfair (Mason PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Audio: Andrew York Lineman’s Rodeo (KPQ Radio,
Wenatchee, WA)
Here Are the Andrew York Lineman’s Rodeo Results
FERC Approves Energy Imbalance Market Tariffs,
Paving Way for October Start-Up (GTH Energy & Natural Resources Law Blog)
Northern Gateway Pipeline’s Doubled-Up Challenge
(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
A Postcard from the Public Power Future (American
Public Power Association)
Artist’s Birdhouses Have Sacramento Municipal
Utility District Scrambling Up Utility Poles (Sacramento
Bee, CA)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Sockeye Showing over 7,000 A Day Past Bonneville,
Run Likely to be Twice 2004-13 Average (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Olympic Peninsula Volunteers Pitching in on Sea
Star Wasting Disease Research (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Pain
of California’s Water Shortage is Spreading (Sacramento Bee,
CA)
Skagit
PUD Waterline Work Begins Monday (Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, WA)
No
Potash Plant at Port of Vancouver - For Now (Portland Business Journal, OR)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
SoloPower
Systems Wires Cash, Extends Lifeline after State of Oregon Demands Payment (Oregonian,
Portland)
Idaho
Power: Wind Power Intermittent, Short Notice Driving Up Costs (Boise Weekly,
ID)
Montana:
Lightning Strike Melts Cascade County Wind Turbine (KRTV-TV, Great Falls MT)
Initiative
for Renewable Power in San Francisco Is Stalling (SF
Chronicle, CA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Supreme
Court Nibbles at EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Powers (Politico, Washington, DC)
U-S
Mayors Unanimously Pass Climate Change Ideas (SF
Chronicle, CA)
Op/Ed:
The Coming Climate Crash - Lessons for Climate Change in the 2008 Recession (NY Times)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
New
Bill in Congress Could Help Industrial Facilities Keep Lights On During Power
Outages (Triangle Business Journal, NC)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
New Rule for Broadband Build Funds - Things got
just a little easier for electric cooperatives seeking a share of the $1.8
billion federal pot for broadband build-out (Electric
Co-op Today)
Neutrality Begins at Home: How Mayors Could Help
Save the Internet (Gizmodo)
Editorial: The Fast Lane to a Closed Internet - Regulating
Broadband Networks Will Preserve an Open Internet (U-S
Editorial: We Can’t Run a School without Broadband
(WRAL Raleigh, NC)
http://wraltechwire.com/-we-can-t-run-a-school-without-broadband-/13755900/#VUUJJt393uhw1tpD.99
http://wraltechwire.com/-we-can-t-run-a-school-without-broadband-/13755900/#VUUJJt393uhw1tpD.99
Michigan: Seniors Displaced by Fire Could Be
Charged for Cable Boxes (WWMT-TV, Kalamazoo, MI)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
ABA: Lawyers Can Scour Jurors’ Social Media Sites (Associated Press)
Facebook, Twitter, Google Score during World Cup (USA
Today)
Does New OverHeard App Sound Spooky? (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Online Advertising Explained by Common Craft
(Common Craft)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Watch Mason County Candidates’ Video Sit Downs
Here! (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Lack of Funding Could Close Shelton’s Community
Kitchen (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Port Angeles Man Gets 29 Months in Prison for
Bulldozer Rampage – Power Outage, Property Damage (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Why You Can’t Blame El Niño for Extreme Weather
(Yet) (Mashable)
Oregon to Use Radio-Controlled Helicopter on Fires (Associated Press)
Man Clubbed By Large Limb during Tree Removal,
Family Says (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
Pagans Mark Summer Solstice at Replica Stonehenge (KOMO-TV,
Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Teens
Try to Steal Car but Can’t Drive a Stick Shift
Lightning
Strike Knocks Man Out of Steel-Toed Boots
Lightning
Safety Awareness Week Runs June 22 through June 28
Chinese
Official Sacked for Flood Piggyback
Eight
Tiny Sculptures You Can Only See with an Electron Microscope
SONG OF THE DAY
Lou
Christie - Lightnin’ Strikes
Chi
Coltrane - Thunder & Lightning
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