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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Montana: Consumer Witness Says NorthWestern
Energy Dam Purchase a Bad Idea, Unless Altered (Montana Standard, Butte, MT)
EPA Proposal Could Essentially Block Huge Alaska Mine
over Concerns about Salmon Habitat (Associated Press)
Vestas
Says It’s Poised for the Future, Has 800 Colorado Jobs Open (Denver Business
Journal, CO)
A
Fresh Look at Iron, Plankton, Carbon, Salmon & Ocean Engineering (NY Times)
Shooting in Allyn Leaves One Dead, One in Custody
(Mason County Sheriff’s Office, Shelton, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Montana: Consumer Witness Says NorthWestern Energy Dam Purchase a Bad Idea, Unless Altered
- Tacoma Public Utilities Reports Increase in Scam Calls to Customers
- PUD 3′s Shelton Payment Center Closed for Emergency Maintenance
- Op/Ed: Keeping America’s Lights On
- Mosquito Trap Causes Bomb Scare at Wyoming Power Plant
- EPA Proposal Could Essentially Block Huge Alaska Mine over Concerns about Salmon Habitat
- Lake Wenatchee Sockeye Season Starts Saturday
- Falcons Guard Fruit Fields
- Toxic Battle Brewing at Longview’s Reynolds Plant
- Vestas Says It’s Poised for the Future, Has 800 Colorado Jobs Open
- Op/Ed: Dead Air: End of Tax Credit Deflates Wind Power
- Rooftop Solar Panels Just Got Easier to Install
- Canada: Hydropower Project on the Kapuskasing River Is a First for Many Reasons
- U-S Falls at the Bottom of International Energy Efficiency Rankings
- Washington Energy Department Seeks Businesses for Energy-Efficiency Program
- A Fresh Look at Iron, Plankton, Carbon, Salmon & Ocean Engineering
- Without Much Straining, Minnesota Reins In Its Utilities’ Carbon Emissions
- London Artists Design Giant ‘Energy Duck’ to Generate Electricity for Copenhagen
- Seattle Considering Municipal Broadband
- FCC: Over 1 Million Comments Filed on Net Neutrality
- FCC Offers $100 Million for Rural Broadband
- Nobody Doubts Google’s Cloud Intentions Anymore
- Google’s Nest Labs cleared to buy Dropcam
- Google Aimed to Build Ultrafast Broadband in Britain
- Coach Pete Carroll’s No. 1 Rule Makes Sense in the Workplace, Too
- Why Yahoo’s Troubles Reflect Bigger Problems for Media
- The Worst PR Firm in the World – In Seattle?
- Shooting in Allyn Leaves One Dead, One in Custody
- Hundreds Flee as Wildfires Rage in Okanogan County; Homes Lost; Town, Hospital Evacuated
- New Earthquake Maps Are Out
- ‘MRI’ Reveals Huge Magma Reserve under Mount Rainier
- World Leaders Demand Answers after Airliner Downed over Ukraine with 298 Dead
Walleyed
• \WALL-eyed\ • Adjective - 1: having walleyes or affected with walleye 2:
marked by a wild irrational staring of the eyes
Walleyed,
Banjo-Eyes, Pop-Eyed: Here’s Eddie Cantor: http://www.popmatters.com/review/172161-whoopee-and-kid-millions/
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Montana: Consumer Witness Says NorthWestern
Energy Dam Purchase a Bad Idea, Unless Altered (Montana Standard, Butte, MT)
Tacoma Public Utilities Reports Increase in Scam
Calls to Customers (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
PUD 3′s Shelton Payment Center Closed for
Emergency Maintenance (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Op/Ed: Keeping America’s Lights On (The Hill,
Washington, DC)
Mosquito Trap Causes Bomb Scare at Wyoming Power
Plant (Associated Press)
FISH & WILDLIFE
EPA Proposal Could Essentially Block Huge Alaska Mine
over Concerns about Salmon Habitat (Associated Press)
Lake Wenatchee Sockeye Season Starts Saturday (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Falcons Guard Fruit Fields - Raptors chase away
birds that damage crops (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Toxic
Battle Brewing at Longview’s Reynolds Plant (Sustainable
Business Oregon)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Vestas
Says It’s Poised for the Future, Has 800 Colorado Jobs Open (Denver Business
Journal, CO)
Op/Ed:
Dead Air: End of Tax Credit Deflates Wind Power (U-S News & World Report)
Rooftop
Solar Panels Just Got Easier to Install (Olympian - Paywall
Advisory)
Canada:
Hydropower Project on the Kapuskasing River Is a First for Many Reasons (Renewable Energy World)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
U-S
Falls at the Bottom of International Energy Efficiency Rankings (Fierce Energy)
Washington
Energy Department Seeks Businesses for Energy-Efficiency Program (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
A
Fresh Look at Iron, Plankton, Carbon, Salmon & Ocean Engineering (NY Times)
Without
Much Straining, Minnesota Reins In Its Utilities’ Carbon Emissions (NY Times)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
London Artists Design Giant ‘Energy Duck’ to
Generate Electricity for Copenhagen (Architecture & Design)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Seattle Considering Municipal Broadband (Government
Technology)
FCC: Over 1 Million Comments Filed on Net
Neutrality (Washington Post)
FCC Offers $100 Million for Rural Broadband (Electric Co-op Today)
Nobody Doubts Google’s Cloud Intentions Anymore (GigaOM)
Google’s Nest Labs cleared to buy Dropcam (USA
Today)
Google Aimed to Build Ultrafast Broadband in Britain
(The Telegraph, UK)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Coach Pete Carroll’s No. 1 Rule Makes Sense in the
Workplace, Too (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Why Yahoo’s Troubles Reflect Bigger Problems for
Media (Washington Post)
The Worst PR Firm in the World – In Seattle? (Courthouse News Service)
GENERAL NEWS
Shooting in Allyn Leaves One Dead, One in Custody
(Mason County Sheriff’s Office, Shelton, WA)
Hundreds Flee as Wildfires Rage in Okanogan County;
Homes Lost; Town, Hospital Evacuated (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
New Earthquake Maps
Are Out (Northwest Public Radio)
‘MRI’ Reveals Huge Magma Reserve under Mount
Rainier (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
World Leaders Demand Answers after Airliner Downed
over Ukraine with 298 Dead (Reuters)
DIVERSIONS
Austrian
Driver Allowed ‘Pastafarian’ Headgear Photo - wearing a pasta strainer as “religious
headgear”
California
Couple Conserving Water amid Drought Could Face Fine for Brown Lawn
Robber
Who Hit Same Bank, Teller Twice Sentenced
‘Mannequin’
dumped at Florida landfill was ‘mummified’ man
SONG OF THE DAY
Eddie
Cantor- Makin’ Whoopee
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