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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Governor
Inslee’s Cap-And-Trade Plan for Carbon Emitters Could Hit 130 Enterprises (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Olympic
Mountain Snowpack 23 Percent of Normal - Too Soon to Worry about 2015 Water
Supply, Officials Say (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Draft
Plan Unveiled for Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Line (Boise Weekly, ID)
Wind
Farm Operator PacifiCorp Energy Pleads Guilty in Bird Deaths at Wind Farms in
Wyoming (U-S News & World Report)
Oregon, Washington Seek to Juice Electric Car Sales with
More Incentives (Northwest Public Radio)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Draft Plan Unveiled for Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Line
- Some Things Change When it Comes to British Columbia Dams. Some Remain the Same
- Wyoming/Idaho: Two Yellowstone Co-ops Ink Management Pact
- Op/Ed: Independent Public Power Can Re-Energize Klamath
- Colorado: FERC Rules It Must Play a Role in Transfer of Assets for Boulder Municipalization
- California Public Utilities Commission Names Interim Chief
- FERC Proposes $30 Million in Penalties for Powhatan Trading Firm
- Final Environmental Impact Statement for Upper Drum-Spaulding Hydroelectric Project, Lower Drum Hydroelectric Project, Creek Hydroelectric Project, & Yuba-Bear Hydroelectric Project
- Power Sector Employment Declines, Except for Renewable Electricity Generators
- Leave It to Beavers: California Joins Other States in Embracing the Rodent
- Olympic Mountain Snowpack 23 Percent of Normal - Too Soon to Worry about 2015 Water Supply, Officials Say
- Wind Farm Operator PacifiCorp Energy Pleads Guilty in Bird Deaths at Wind Farms in Wyoming
- Columbia Basin College’s Million Dollar Solar Energy Project Will Save Big – 100 Kilowatt System
- Arizona Regulators Approve Tucson Electric Power Bid to Own Rooftop Solar
- OP/Ed: 96 Percent Carbon-Free Power
- Californians Pay for Bay Bridge Flaws, But Wind Farm Recoups Costs from Same Contractor
- Michigan: Off-Key Carolers Sing for Higher Renewable Energy Standards
- Video: Platform for a Modern Grid - Customer Engagement
- Minnesota Vikings Spend $1.2 Million on LED Stadium Light Upgrade
- Washington State Lottery Process Dishes Out Three More Pot Licenses
- Governor Inslee’s Cap-And-Trade Plan for Carbon Emitters Could Hit 130 Enterprises
- PDF File: List of Entities with Major Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Washington State
- Interior Announces New Wildlife, Climate Studies at Northwest Climate Science Center
- Oregon, Washington Seek to Juice Electric Car Sales with More Incentives
- Puget Sound Energy Offers New Rebate on Faster Chargers for Electric Vehicles
- CenturyLink Strikes Cable TV Deal with Portland; Service Could Begin in 2015
- Google Fiber Puts Portland, Other Cities on Hold
- FCC Mysteriously Lost Hundreds of Thousands Net Neutrality Comments
- Was The Sony Hack a Practice Run for Later Attempts on Utilities?
- How Social Media Affects Business
- Mason County Mills Not Involved - Interfor Buys Two Simpson Lumber Company Mills in Washington State Plus Two More in Southeast
- Idaho Nuclear Waste Shipments in Limbo
- Storm Repairs in Jefferson County at Least $1.7 Million
- Port Angeles Considering Indigenous People’s Day
- ROXY: Playing Pop, Rock Hits Since ‘98
Epithet
• \EPP-uh-teth\ • Noun - 1: a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or
occurring in place of the name of a person or thing 2: a disparaging or abusive
word or phrase 3: the part of a taxonomic name identifying a subordinate unit
within a genus
Epithets
zinged across the conference room like nuclear missiles, obscene gerunds
dropping like bowling balls, misnomers crashing like broken glass (similes
succeeding as well as lead balloons). And that was just the discussion over the
consent agenda at the local council meeting in the small, normally serene
northwest community.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Draft
Plan Unveiled for Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Line (Boise Weekly, ID)
Some
Things Change When it Comes to British Columbia Dams. Some Remain the Same (Globe
& Mail, Canada)
Wyoming/Idaho:
Two Yellowstone Co-ops Ink Management Pact (Electric Co-op
Today)
Op/Ed:
Independent Public Power Can Re-Energize Klamath (Klamath Falls Herald & News,
OR)
Colorado:
FERC Rules It Must Play a Role in Transfer of Assets for Boulder Municipalization
(American Public Power Association)
California
Public Utilities Commission Names Interim Chief (Sacramento Business Journal,
CA)
FERC
Proposes $30 Million in Penalties for Powhatan Trading Firm (Utility Dive)
Final
Environmental Impact Statement for Upper Drum-Spaulding Hydroelectric Project,
Lower Drum Hydroelectric Project, Creek Hydroelectric Project, & Yuba-Bear
Hydroelectric Project (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)
Power
Sector Employment Declines, Except for Renewable Electricity Generators (Energy
Information Administration)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Leave It to Beavers: California Joins Other
States in Embracing the Rodent (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Olympic
Mountain Snowpack 23 Percent of Normal - Too Soon to Worry about 2015 Water
Supply, Officials Say (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Wind
Farm Operator PacifiCorp Energy Pleads Guilty in Bird Deaths at Wind Farms in Wyoming
(U-S News & World Report)
Columbia
Basin College’s Million Dollar Solar Energy Project Will Save Big – 100 Kilowatt
System (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Arizona
Regulators Approve Tucson Electric Power Bid to Own Rooftop Solar (Utility Dive)
OP/Ed:
96 Percent Carbon-Free Power (Ravalli Republic, Hamilton, MT)
Californians
Pay for Bay Bridge Flaws, But Wind Farm Recoups Costs from Same Contractor (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Michigan: Off-Key Carolers Sing for Higher Renewable Energy
Standards (Michigan Public Radio – OK, I see a trombone, but where’s the banjo,
accordion & ukulele?)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Video:
Platform for a Modern Grid - Customer Engagement (Bonneville
Power Administration)
Minnesota
Vikings Spend $1.2 Million on LED Stadium Light Upgrade (Minneapolis/St. Paul
Business Journal, MN)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Washington
State Lottery Process Dishes Out Three More Pot Licenses (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Governor
Inslee’s Cap-And-Trade Plan for Carbon Emitters Could Hit 130 Enterprises (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
PDF
File: List of Entities with Major Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Washington State
(WA Department of Ecology – How ironic, REC Silicon is on this list)
Interior
Announces New Wildlife, Climate Studies at Northwest Climate Science Center (Columbia
Basin Bulletin)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Oregon, Washington Seek to Juice Electric Car Sales with More
Incentives (Northwest Public Radio)
Puget
Sound Energy Offers New Rebate on Faster Chargers for Electric Vehicles (Kitsap
Peninsula Business Journal, WA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CenturyLink
Strikes Cable TV Deal with Portland; Service Could Begin in 2015 (Oregonian,
Portland)
Google
Fiber Puts Portland, Other Cities on Hold (Portland Business Journal, OR)
FCC
Mysteriously Lost Hundreds of Thousands Net Neutrality Comments (Gizmodo)
Was
The Sony Hack a Practice Run for Later Attempts on Utilities? (Utility Dive)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
How
Social Media Affects Business (Rob Wotton, LinkedIn)
GENERAL NEWS
Mason County Mills Not Involved - Interfor Buys
Two Simpson Lumber Company Mills in Washington State Plus Two More in Southeast
(Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Idaho Nuclear Waste Shipments in Limbo (Idaho
Statesman, Boise)
Storm Repairs in Jefferson County at Least $1.7
Million (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Port Angeles Considering Indigenous People’s Day (KOMO-TV,
Seattle, WA)
ROXY: Playing Pop, Rock Hits Since ‘98 (Olympian - Paywall Advisory)
DIVERSIONS
Residents
Riled over Medical Marijuana Shop’s Christmas Display of Pot-Smoking Santa
We
Love Them Yeah, Yeah, Yeah & Yeah! - The Beatles’ popularity, again on an
upswing.
Japan: ‘Solo Weddings’ for Single Women
Captive Orangutan Has Human Right to Freedom, Argentine
Court Rules
SONG OF THE DAY
Beatles
- She Loves You
The
Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
Randy
Bachman - The Real Opening Chord to A Hard Day’s Night
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