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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Local Law Enforcement Launch New Campaign to Curb
Social Media during Emergencies (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Are New Advanced Electric Meters Gonna Fry Your
Brain? Investigating a Seattle City
Light Decision That’s Causing Tinfoil-Hat Panic (The Stranger)
Pacific Gas & Electric Calls Criminal Charges
Against Agency ‘Unwarranted,’ Says It Didn’t Break the Law (San Jose Mercury
News, CA)
Some
of America’s Best Solar Incentives Are in Washington State (Clean Technica)
Are You a Verizon Customer With Unlimited Data? Get
Ready to be Throttled (Yahoo! News)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Are New Advanced Electric Meters Gonna Fry Your Brain? Investigating a Seattle City Light Decision That’s Causing Tinfoil-Hat Panic
- Pacific Gas & Electric Calls Criminal Charges Against Agency ‘Unwarranted,’ Says It Didn’t Break the Law
- Portland General Electric Logs Bounceback, Of Sorts, As Report Shows a $35 Million Profit
- Judge Orders Cowlitz PUD Recall Backers to Pay Commissioner Piper $30,000 in Legal Fees
- Could Oregon Help Energize Mexico?
- Simulation Models Optimize Columbia River Water Power
- Clallam PUD Moves Ahead with Carlsborg Expansion
- Suzuki Foundation Takes Aim at Peace River’s Site C Dam, Other British Columbia Projects
- Editorial: California Public Utilities Commission Sweetly Snuggles Up to Pacific Gas & Electric
- The Biggest Threat to the Economy is from Outer Space
- FEMA Regulations Pose Electric Co-op Challenges
- Report on Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3) Application Data is Released
- Columbia River Fall Salmon Seasons Kick Off This Friday with Buoy 10 Opener
- Diggin’ In: Oyster Gardeners Help Save Chesapeake Bay
- Columbia River Treaty Review Could Be Massive Water Grab
- Some of America’s Best Solar Incentives Are in Washington State
- How to Invest in Renewable Energy
- Beyond Energy Efficiency - We’re Not Just Reducing Demand for Electricity, We’re Destroying It
- Energy Data Miner Opower Is Taking Big Steps into Asia
- Are You a Verizon Customer With Unlimited Data? Get Ready to be Throttled
- FCC ‘Deeply Troubled’ by Verizon’s Plan to Slow Down LTE for Unlimited Data Customers
- Verizon Explains Why It’s Throttling Its ‘Unlimited’ Data Customers
- How the History of Electricity Explains Municipal Broadband
- CenturyLink: How Dare Cities Challenge the Laws We Paid For
- Local Law Enforcement Launch New Campaign to Curb Social Media during Emergencies
- Permit Needed by News Media to Cover a Forest Fire? Legislation is Dead
- Google Maps on Your Feet: Smartshoes Vibrate to Tell You Where to Go
- Snubbed by the South: Washington State Loses Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner to South Carolina
- Is Marijuana an Oregon Cash Crop? Advocates Say Yes, State Says No
- Rare Look inside Bonneville Power Administration’s Vancouver Lightning Lab
- Defying Death in Utah Arches: A Thrill Too Far?
Rill
• \RILL\ • noun – A very small brook
Tommy
was very proud of his hydroelectric project. Built on a rill that fed the upper
reaches of the Columbia River, it generated one watt of electricity. He was
confused as to why he couldn’t get a feed-in tariff for what he considered a
valuable run of river project.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Are New Advanced Electric Meters Gonna Fry Your
Brain? Investigating a Seattle City
Light Decision That’s Causing Tinfoil-Hat Panic (The Stranger)
Pacific Gas & Electric Calls Criminal Charges
Against Agency ‘Unwarranted,’ Says It Didn’t Break the Law (San Jose Mercury
News, CA)
Portland General Electric Logs Bounceback, Of
Sorts, As Report Shows a $35 Million Profit (Sustainable Business Oregon)
Judge Orders Cowlitz PUD Recall Backers to Pay Commissioner
Piper $30,000 in Legal Fees (Longview Daily News, WA)
Could Oregon Help Energize Mexico? (Portland
Business Journal, OR)
Simulation Models Optimize Columbia River Water
Power (Phys.Org)
Clallam PUD Moves Ahead with Carlsborg Expansion (KONP
Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
Suzuki Foundation Takes Aim at Peace River’s Site
C Dam, Other British Columbia Projects (Globe & Mail, Canada)
Editorial: California Public Utilities Commission
Sweetly Snuggles Up to Pacific Gas & Electric (Sacramento Bee, CA)
The Biggest Threat to the Economy is from Outer
Space (Bloomberg News)
FEMA Regulations Pose Electric Co-op Challenges (Electric
Co-op Today)
Report on Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3)
Application Data is Released (American Public Power Association)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Columbia River Fall Salmon Seasons Kick Off This
Friday with Buoy 10 Opener (The Dalles Chronicle, OR)
Diggin’ In: Oyster Gardeners Help Save Chesapeake
Bay (Bellingham Herald, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Columbia
River Treaty Review Could Be Massive Water Grab (Coeur d’Alene Press, ID)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Some
of America’s Best Solar Incentives Are in Washington State (Clean Technica)
How
to Invest in Renewable Energy (Associated Press)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Beyond
Energy Efficiency - We’re Not Just Reducing Demand for Electricity, We’re
Destroying It (Slate Magazine)
Energy
Data Miner Opower Is Taking Big Steps into Asia (Forbes Magazine)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Are You a Verizon Customer With Unlimited Data? Get
Ready to be Throttled (Yahoo! News)
FCC ‘Deeply Troubled’ by Verizon’s Plan to Slow
Down LTE for Unlimited Data Customers (The Verge)
Verizon Explains Why It’s Throttling Its ‘Unlimited’
Data Customers (Yahoo! News)
How the History of Electricity Explains Municipal
Broadband (Washington Post)
CenturyLink: How Dare Cities Challenge the Laws We
Paid For (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/CenturyLink-How-Dare-Cities-Challenge-The-Laws-We-Paid-For-129896
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Local Law Enforcement Launch New Campaign to Curb
Social Media during Emergencies (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Permit Needed by News Media to Cover a Forest Fire?
Legislation is Dead (Courthouse News Service)
Google Maps on Your Feet: Smartshoes Vibrate to
Tell You Where to Go (Washington Post)
GENERAL NEWS
Snubbed by the South: Washington State Loses Boeing
787-10 Dreamliner to South Carolina (Puget Sound
Business Journal, WA)
Is Marijuana an Oregon Cash Crop? Advocates Say
Yes, State Says No (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Rare Look inside Bonneville Power Administration’s Vancouver
Lightning Lab (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
http://www.kgw.com/news/KGW-gets-rare-look-at-high-voltage-lightning-lab-in-Vancouver-269257631.html
Defying Death in Utah Arches: A Thrill Too Far? (NY
Times)
DIVERSIONS
Why
Songs Get Stuck in Your Head (and How to Stop It)
These
Maniacs Cooked Steak with Molten Lava & Lightning
Odd
Cause of Gaping Siberian Holes Possibly Found
Crashed
Drone Carried Contraband Aimed at South Carolina Prison
SONG OF THE DAY
The
Archies - Sugar Sugar (Earworm Food)
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