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Energy News Digest Word Cloud for October 15, 2014
Hot Shots – Today’s Top Five Stories
Snow Forecast in
Cascades High Country (KHQ-TV,
Spokane, WA)
Pacific County
PUD Sets Policy on New Large-Load Customers as Pot Farms Take Root (Chinook
Observer, Long Beach, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Idaho Power’s
Vital Boardman-To-Hemingway Transmission Line Wrestles with Permitting (Utility
Dive)
The Risks of
Cheap Water (NY Times)
Study: Recent Sea Level Rise is Highest in 6,000 Years (USA Today)
News Highlights (Details Below)
- Pacific County PUD Sets Policy on New Large-Load Customers as Pot Farms Take Root
- Idaho Power’s Vital Boardman-To-Hemingway Transmission Line Wrestles with Permitting
- Power Outage Leads to Chlorine Dioxide Leak, Evacuation at Wauna Mill
- Tacoma Utility Increases Proposed at City Budget Meeting
- Peace River: British Columbia Gives Environmental Green Light to $7.9-Billion Site C Dam Project
- Mason PUD 3 Commission Report – October 14, 2014 Business Meeting
- Snohomish PUD Low-Income & Senior Energy Assistance
- Skagit PUD Receives Clean Audit for 2013
- Preserving Tax-Exempt Status of Municipal Bonds is Vital to the Utility Sector, APPA & Others Tell DOE
- What Congress Should Know about EPA’s Control over Electric Power
- Acing Your Bucket Truck Inspection
- The Risks of Cheap Water
- OneEnergy Renewables Raises $5 Million in Funding
- Is Solar Power About to Go through the Roof?
- Study: Recent Sea Level Rise is Highest in 6,000 Years
- Infographic on EPA Regulation Matrix
- Washington State Computer Network Goes on Blink, Stopping Email & Other Service at Agencies for Nearly Four Hours
- Idaho Broadband Case Remains Unsettled
- Google Earnings Will Depend on Wringing More from Mobile Advertisers
- Virgin America’s Six Hour Preroll Ad Is Creepy, Warholian & Sort of Brilliant
- Watch Shelton-Mason County Chamber Candidates’ Forum
- Former Seattle Mayor’s Office Press Secretary Files Discrimination Claim against City
- Snow Forecast in Cascades High Country
- FCC Approves Sale of KGY AM to Catholic Broadcasting Group
- ‘Word Gap’ Chasm for Kids: 30 Million Words
Hoodwink • \HOOD-wink\ • verb – to deceive by false
appearance: dupe
(Use hoodwink in your own sample sentence: it’s fun!
Insert your very own cynical comment about government, energy trading
shenanigans, pet peeves and other issues here)
A now-obsolete sense of the word “wink” is “to close one’s
eyes,” and “hoodwink” once meant to cover the eyes of someone, such as a
prisoner, with a hood or blindfold. (“Hoodwink” was also once a name for the
game of blindman’s buff.) This 16th-century term soon came to be used
figuratively for veiling the truth.
Energy & Utility Issues
Pacific County
PUD Sets Policy on New Large-Load Customers as Pot Farms Take Root (Chinook
Observer, Long Beach, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Idaho Power’s Vital
Boardman-To-Hemingway Transmission Line Wrestles with Permitting (Utility Dive)
Power Outage
Leads to Chlorine Dioxide Leak, Evacuation at Wauna Mill (Longview Daily
News, WA)
Tacoma Utility
Increases Proposed at City Budget Meeting (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall
Advisory)
Peace River: British
Columbia Gives Environmental Green Light to $7.9-Billion Site C Dam Project (Globe &
Mail, Canada)
Mason PUD 3
Commission Report – October 14, 2014 Business Meeting (Mason County PUD 3,
Shelton, WA)
Snohomish PUD
Low-Income & Senior Energy Assistance (Snohomish Times, WA)
Skagit PUD Receives
Clean Audit for 2013 (Skagit Valley Herald, Mt Vernon, WA)
Preserving
Tax-Exempt Status of Municipal Bonds is Vital to the Utility Sector, APPA &
Others Tell DOE (American Public Power Association)
What Congress Should Know about EPA’s Control over
Electric Power (Roll Call, Washington, DC)
Acing Your
Bucket Truck Inspection (ADT Trucking Info)
Water & Environment
The Risks of
Cheap Water (NY Times)
Renewable/Alternative Energy
OneEnergy Renewables Raises $5 Million in Funding (Puget Sound
Business Journal, WA)
Is Solar Power About to Go through the Roof? (Electric Co-op
Today)
Climate Change Sequestration Vault
Study: Recent Sea Level Rise is Highest in 6,000 Years (USA Today)
Infographic on EPA Regulation Matrix (Action.Coop)
Technology & Telecommunications
Washington State
Computer Network Goes on Blink, Stopping Email & Other Service at Agencies for
Nearly Four Hours (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Idaho Broadband
Case Remains Unsettled (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
Social Media & Marketing
Google Earnings
Will Depend on Wringing More from Mobile Advertisers (NY Times)
Virgin America’s
Six Hour Preroll Ad Is Creepy, Warholian & Sort of Brilliant (AdWeek)
Politics & Governance
Watch Shelton-Mason
County Chamber Candidates’ Forum (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Former Seattle Mayor’s
Office Press Secretary Files Discrimination Claim against City (Crosscut
Seattle)
General News
Snow Forecast in
Cascades High Country (KHQ-TV,
Spokane, WA)
FCC Approves
Sale of KGY AM to Catholic Broadcasting Group (Olympian - Paywall Advisory)
‘Word Gap’ Chasm
for Kids: 30 Million Words (KOIN-TV, Portland, OR)
Diversions
Renton High School Student Sues over ‘F’ Grade
Woman Sent to Jail over Overgrown Yard
New Florida Million-Dollar Home Has Nice View, But Built on
Wrong Lot
Drunken Santa Zombie Enters St. Paul Home
Song of the Day
Dr. John - Right Place, Wrong Time
Links & Paywall Advisory
All the links in today’s news digest lead to current
stories. Please note that some media organizations update their web sites
regularly, which may result in broken links in the future.
Note that as some newspapers migrate to a “paywall”
system of access, some articles may not be available without forking over some
cold hard credit card cash. However, some sites will allow a certain number of
story accesses per month before holding out their hand. Sorry if this is an
inconvenience.
