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Hot Shots – Today’s Top Five Stories
Peace River
Dam: Is Victoria All-In on Site C? No, Energy Minister Bennett Insists (Vancouver Sun,
BC)
Los Angeles Sued By Two Companies over Rejection of Solar
Array Plan (Los Angeles Times, CA)
Texas Plant to Capture, and Then Reuse, Carbon (NY Times)
Cable Blackouts
Could Someday Be Broadband Blackouts, Too (Washington Post)
This Video
about Dropping a Brick Is Worth a Few Laughs & 67 Million Gallons of Water
(AdWeek)
News Highlights (Details Below)
- Peace River Dam: Is Victoria All-In on Site C? No, Energy Minister Bennett Insists
- Industry Group Urges British Columbia to Invest in 'Clean Energy' Instead of New Peace River Dam
- British Columbia: A Massive Dam - And a Massive Legal Test
- Ultralight Plane Crashes into Stanwood-Area Power Lines; Pilot Up, Walking
- Homeowners Billed for Utility’s Faulty Equipment
- California: PUC Judge & Commissioner Propose Sanctions against PG&E for Judge Shopping
- Calls to Use Yucca Mountain as a Nuclear Waste Site, Now Deemed Safe
- Job Opening: Political Scapegoat for New England's Out of Control Energy Prices
- Methow Valley Irrigation Gets Overhaul for Fish
- Beavers with Parachutes in Idaho?
- This Video about Dropping a Brick Is Worth a Few Laughs & 67 Million Gallons of Water
- Los Angeles Sued By Two Companies over Rejection of Solar Array Plan
- Proposed San Francisco Law Would Put a Solar Panel on Nearly Every Roof
- California: Group Seeks Protection That Could Block Wind Project
- Alaska: Electrical Blowout Stops Turbine at Nome Wind Farm
- Wind Blows Away Fossil Power in the Nordics, the Baltics Next
- Arlington Man Competes in Insulation Competition
- Texas Plant to Capture, and Then Reuse, Carbon
- Oregon Won't Get into Yale (or Harvard) with These Grades
- Biofuel Companies Look Beyond the Gas Tank
- Cable Blackouts Could Someday Be Broadband Blackouts, Too
- City of Seattle’s Exploration of Municipal Broadband Is Far-Reaching
- Another City Wants To Stop Comcast from Taking over Cable Service
- More Americans Using Mobile Devices to Access Internet
- Starbucks to Test Smartphone 'Pay Ahead' Option in Portland
- Google Shares Fall as Ad Growth Slows
- How the BBC Is Using WhatsApp to Combat Ebola in West Africa
- Candy Maker Sweet on Vine, Instagram after Facebook Reach Drops 73%
- Shelton Prison Inmate Found Dead in Cell
- Washington State Regulators Put Pot Sales Information, Enforcement Reports Online to Help Banks
- Oregon Economist: Pot Benefits Outweigh Societal Costs
- Feds: Don't Expect Winter to Be Polar Vortex Redux
- Charge: Pair Stole $45,000 in Luggage from Sea-Tac Baggage Claim
- Cleaning Supply Sales Are Up as Americans Freak Out over Ebola
- FCC: Half of Wireless 911 Calls Are Butt-Dials
Ideate • \EYE-dee-ate\ • verb – To form an idea or
conception of - to form an idea
Ideate a Plan
Put it into Motion Now
Seemed Right at the Time
Energy & Utility Issues
Peace River
Dam: Is Victoria All-In on Site C? No, Energy Minister Bennett Insists (Vancouver Sun,
BC)
Industry Group
Urges British Columbia to Invest in 'Clean Energy' Instead of New Peace River
Dam (Globe
& Mail, Canada)
British
Columbia: A Massive Dam - And a Massive Legal Test (Globe &
Mail, Canada)
Ultralight Plane
Crashes into Stanwood-Area Power Lines; Pilot Up, Walking (KIRO
Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Homeowners Billed
for Utility’s Faulty Equipment (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
California: PUC
Judge & Commissioner Propose Sanctions against PG&E for Judge Shopping
(Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, CA)
Calls to Use
Yucca Mountain as a Nuclear Waste Site, Now Deemed Safe (NY Times)
Job Opening:
Political Scapegoat for New England's Out of Control Energy Prices (Forbes
Magazine)
Fish & Wildlife
Methow Valley
Irrigation Gets Overhaul for Fish (Northwest Public Radio)
Beavers with
Parachutes in Idaho? (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
Water & Environment
This Video
about Dropping a Brick Is Worth a Few Laughs & 67 Million Gallons of Water
(AdWeek)
Renewable/Alternative Energy
Los Angeles Sued By Two Companies over Rejection of Solar
Array Plan (Los Angeles Times, CA)
Proposed San Francisco Law Would Put a Solar Panel on
Nearly Every Roof (SF Chronicle)
California: Group Seeks Protection That Could Block Wind
Project (Victorville Daily Press, CA)
Alaska: Electrical Blowout Stops Turbine at Nome Wind
Farm (KNOM Radio, Nome, AK)
Wind Blows Away Fossil Power in the Nordics, the Baltics Next
“…helping to meet demand when hydropower production…falls due to dry weather…” (Reuters)
Conservation & Efficiency
Arlington Man Competes
in Insulation Competition (Everett Herald, WA)
Climate Change Sequestration Vault
Texas Plant to Capture, and Then Reuse, Carbon (NY Times)
Barrel O’ Green Potpourri
Oregon Won't Get into Yale (or Harvard) with These Grades
“…is far behind…in establishing a way to curb carbon emissions through taxes &
fees…” (Sustainable
Business Oregon)
Biofuel Companies Look Beyond the Gas Tank (NY Times)
Technology & Telecommunications
Cable Blackouts
Could Someday Be Broadband Blackouts, Too (Washington Post)
City of Seattle’s
Exploration of Municipal Broadband Is Far-Reaching (International Examiner)
Another City
Wants To Stop Comcast from Taking over Cable Service (Consumerist)
http://consumerist.com/2014/10/16/another-city-wants-to-stop-comcast-from-taking-over-cable-service/
More Americans Using Mobile Devices to Access Internet (USA Today)
Social Media & Marketing
Starbucks to
Test Smartphone 'Pay Ahead' Option in Portland (Oregonian, Portland)
Google Shares
Fall as Ad Growth Slows (USA Today)
How the BBC Is
Using WhatsApp to Combat Ebola in West Africa (Christian Science Monitor)
Candy Maker
Sweet on Vine, Instagram after Facebook Reach Drops 73% (AdWeek)
General News
Shelton Prison
Inmate Found Dead in Cell (Associated Press)
Washington State
Regulators Put Pot Sales Information, Enforcement Reports Online to Help Banks (Associated
Press)
Oregon Economist:
Pot Benefits Outweigh Societal Costs (KOIN-TV, Portland, OR)
Feds: Don't
Expect Winter to Be Polar Vortex Redux (Associated Press)
Charge: Pair Stole
$45,000 in Luggage from Sea-Tac Baggage Claim (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
Cleaning Supply
Sales Are Up as Americans Freak Out over Ebola (Consumerist)
FCC: Half of
Wireless 911 Calls Are Butt-Dials (Mashable)
Diversions
Once in Million Years: Comet Buzzing Mars on Sunday,
Robotic Explorers Have Best Seats in the House
Turbo the Chihuahua Finally Meets the Man Who 3D Printed
His Wheelchair
Bigfoot Sighted Chasing Cars in Aberdeen
Australian Returns Home from Holiday with Spider in
Stomach
Song of the Day
Gene Krupa - Big Noise from Winnetka
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