The
Energy News Digest will be delighting in the Independence Day Holiday July 4,
basking in the rights it enjoys…freedom of speech, right to assemble. The whole
works!
Interesting
in that while some decry the state of affairs in the U-S, we’re STILL that “shining
city on the hill” to nearly everyone else.
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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Mayor Nixes Raise for Seattle City Light CEO
(Northwest Cable News)
Control & Consolidation: Researchers Asked 1,400
Experts to Describe the Biggest Threats to The Web. Here’s What They Said
(Washington Post)
Columbia River Salmon Anglers Turning Out for
Record Season (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
While
You’re Asleep, Electric Car Owners Are Guzzling Power (Mashable)
America’s
National Parks & Historic Sites Feel the Heat from Climate Change (Bloomberg
News)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Mayor Nixes Raise for Seattle City Light CEO
- Mayor on Seattle City Light: What Is This, Watergate?
- Clallam PUD Bill Bump Hits This Week
- British Columbia: Northwest Transmission Line Too Expensive for Small Business
- Mason PUD1 Employees Reach Milestone
- Seventh Circuit Rejects FERC’s Cost-Spreading Mechanism for High-Voltage Transmission, Raising Questions for the Pacific Northwest
- Electric Co-ops Reverse Slide in Power Sales
- Greek Unions in Showdown with Government over Planned Electric Utility Sale
- Columbia River Salmon Anglers Turning Out for Record Season
- Shrimp’s New Path to the Plate - With Wild Stocks of Shrimp Dwindling, Tank Farming Is on the Rise
- Portland Bottling Company Faces $450,000 in Fines & Charges for ‘Illicit Discharge’ of Water
- Columbia Falls Aluminum: Cleaning Up - Glencore Wants ‘Sustainable’ Solution
- PGE is (Still) Tops for Renewable Energy Buy-In Program
- Power in the Pipe: Inside a British Columbia Run-of-River Hydro Plant
- Arizona: Lawsuit Filed over Property Taxes on Solar Panels
- Old Materials Are Leading to New Innovations for LED Lighting
- Free Clark County Workshop Showcases Benefits of LED Lighting
- Home Energy Audit: DIY & Save Money
- America’s National Parks & Historic Sites Feel the Heat from Climate Change
- Op/Ed: Obama’s Regulatory Cap-And-Trade Does Not Work for Washington State
- Pumping Up Awareness - Campaign to Put Climate Change Warnings at Gas Stations
- While You’re Asleep, Electric Car Owners Are Guzzling Power
- Why Don’t We Put Solar Panels In The Sahara Desert As A Source Of Electricity?
- Control & Consolidation: Researchers Asked 1,400 Experts to Describe the Biggest Threats to The Web. Here’s What They Said
- Op/Ed: How Free Will the Internet Be in 2025?
- Google Fiber Extends Provo, Utah, Fiber Broadband Sign-Up Through September
- AT&T Wants to Build a 95-Foot Fake-Tree-Style Cell Tower near Tacoma’s Water Tanks Off South 19th Street
- Five Things That You Need Always-On Broadband to Accomplish
- With Apology, Facebook Tries to Defuse Growing Backlash
- Six New Facts about Facebook
- ‘Fraiser’ Tries to Fix Twitter Grammar
- Instagram Started as a Social Network Named After Bourbon
- Cleaning Up: Schedule Updated for Shelton’s Goose Lake Cleanup Site
- Severed Cable Leaves 911, Phone Outages in San Juan Islands
- Washington State Plans to Issue about 20 Pot Retail Licenses Monday
- Former GOP Governor Looks to Build the ‘Microsoft of Marijuana’
- Hurricane Season Is Here as Arthur Hits the East Coast
- Why You Might See More Raccoons Out after the 4th of July
- Tradition Schmadition - Radio Station KGY Discontinues High School Sports Broadcasts
Patriotic
• \pay-TREE-ot-tick \ • Adjective - Having or showing great love & support
for your country: having or showing patriotism.
Patriotic:
It’s not just about blowing stuff up, folks.
“The
Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of
America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding
Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as
the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and
Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from
one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.
You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of
the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this
Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I
can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more
than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days
Transaction, even although We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.”
-
John Adams July 3, 1776 (the decree was presented July 2 and adopted July 4)
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Mayor Nixes Raise for Seattle City Light CEO (Northwest
Cable News)
Mayor on Seattle City Light: What Is This, Watergate?
(KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Clallam PUD Bill Bump Hits This Week (Sequim
Gazette, WA)
British Columbia: Northwest Transmission Line Too
Expensive for Small Business - Power from $700 million line is unaffordable
says wilderness lodge operator (Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation)
Mason PUD1 Employees Reach Milestone (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Seventh Circuit Rejects FERC’s Cost-Spreading
Mechanism for High-Voltage Transmission, Raising Questions for the Pacific
Northwest (GTH Energy & Natural Resources Law Blog)
Electric Co-ops
Reverse Slide in Power Sales (Electric Co-op Today)
Greek Unions in Showdown with Government over
Planned Electric Utility Sale (U-S News & World Report)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Columbia River Salmon Anglers Turning Out for
Record Season (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Shrimp’s New Path to the Plate - With Wild Stocks
of Shrimp Dwindling, Tank Farming Is on the Rise (NY
Times)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Portland
Bottling Company Faces $450,000 in Fines & Charges for ‘Illicit Discharge’
of Water (Oregonian, Portland)
Columbia
Falls Aluminum: Cleaning Up - Glencore Wants ‘Sustainable’ Solution (Hungry
Horse News, MT)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
PGE
is (Still) Tops for Renewable Energy Buy-In Program (Portland Business Journal,
OR)
Power in the Pipe: Inside a British Columbia
Run-of-River Hydro Plant (Renewable Energy
World)
Arizona:
Lawsuit Filed over Property Taxes on Solar Panels (Associated Press)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Old
Materials Are Leading to New Innovations for LED Lighting (GigaOM)
Free
Clark County Workshop Showcases Benefits of LED Lighting (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Home
Energy Audit: DIY & Save Money (KAAL-TV, Austin MN)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
America’s
National Parks & Historic Sites Feel the Heat from Climate Change (Bloomberg
News)
Op/Ed:
Obama’s Regulatory Cap-And-Trade Does Not Work for Washington State (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Pumping
Up Awareness - Campaign to Put Climate Change Warnings at Gas Stations Gains
Traction in Berkeley & San Francisco (SF Bay Guardian, CA)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
While
You’re Asleep, Electric Car Owners Are Guzzling Power (Mashable)
Why
Don’t We Put Solar Panels In The Sahara Desert As A Source Of Electricity? (Forbes
Magazine)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Control & Consolidation: Researchers Asked
1,400 Experts to Describe the Biggest Threats to The Web. Here’s What They Said
(Washington Post)
Op/Ed: How Free Will the Internet Be in 2025? (USA
Today)
Google Fiber Extends Provo, Utah, Fiber Broadband
Sign-Up Through September (Fierce Telecom)
AT&T Wants to Build a 95-Foot Fake-Tree-Style
Cell Tower near Tacoma’s Water Tanks Off South 19th Street (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Five Things That You Need Always-On Broadband to
Accomplish (GigaOM)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
With Apology, Facebook Tries to Defuse Growing
Backlash (USA Today)
Six New Facts about Facebook (Pew Research Center)
‘Fraiser’ Tries to Fix Twitter Grammar (KCPQ-TV,
Seattle, WA)
Instagram Started as a Social Network Named After
Bourbon (Mashable)
GENERAL NEWS
Cleaning Up: Schedule Updated for Shelton’s Goose
Lake Cleanup Site (Washington State Department of Ecology)
Severed Cable Leaves 911, Phone Outages in San Juan
Islands (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Washington State Plans
to Issue about 20 Pot Retail Licenses Monday (Northwest Public Radio)
Former
GOP Governor Looks to Build the ‘Microsoft of Marijuana’ (U-S News & World
Report)
Hurricane Season Is
Here as Arthur Hits the East Coast (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
Why You Might See More Raccoons Out after the 4th of
July (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Tradition Schmadition - Radio Station KGY Discontinues
High School Sports Broadcasts (Olympian - Paywall Advisory)
DIVERSIONS
A
Gas Station Frank Lloyd Wright Designed 87 Years Ago Is Now Finished
It
Takes 155 Million Hot Dogs & 15,000 Fireworks to Celebrate the Fourth of
July
Five
Ways to Avoid Being Attacked by Crows - Crow Attacks on the Rise during Nesting
Season
Berkeley’s
Problem Squirrels Spared Mass Extermination
SONG OF THE DAY
Ray
Charles - America the Beautiful
Willie
Nelson & Friends - America the Beautiful
Marvin
Gaye - The Star Spangled Banner
Whitney
Houston - The Star Spangled Banner
LINKS & PAYWALL ADVISORY
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media organizations update their web sites regularly, which may result in
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However, some sites will allow a certain number of story accesses per month
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