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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Despite
Drought, ‘Blob,’ Enough Hydro in Northwest (Electric Co-op Today)
Video: Massive Network Outage Disrupts Services
at State Agencies (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
BPA
Closes Out the 2015 Integrated Program Review Process – Decides to Move Energy
Efficiency Capital Program to Expense in 2016 (Bonneville Power Administration)
BC Hydro to Test Fish for Mercury after First
Nations Voice Concerns (Globe & Mail, Canada)
Editorial:
Pull Electric Cars, Plug-In Hybrids into the Road-Tax Fold (Oregonian,
Portland)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Despite Drought, ‘Blob,’ Enough Hydro in Northwest
- BPA Closes Out the 2015 Integrated Program Review Process
- Editorial: Jefferson PUD – Public Power Two Years Later
- Snohomish PUD Customers Moving to Monthly Billing
- Look, There’s Avista – Association of Washington Business Announce Environmental Excellence Award Winners
- Why Multi-Purpose Networks Are a Must for Today’s Smart Meter Winners
- Why DOE Says Hydropower is Poised for a Comeback
- Moeller Will Leave FERC after Nine Years with Commission: Report
- FERC: Key Senate Aide Likely to Replace Departing Commissioner
- Dan Poneman: Former Energy Department Official Wins Huge Pay Raise after Moving to Firm with Deep Ties to DOE
- BC Hydro to Test Fish for Mercury after First Nations Voice Concerns
- Let the Hype Begin: Move Over, Alaska Air Cargo. Salty’s on alki Beach Is Angling for First Copper River Salmon of 2015
- Where Are All the Bees?
- U-S House Votes to Block EPA Regulation of Streams, Wetlands
- Final Environmental Study Ready on Raising Lake Cle Elum Reservoir
- For a Second Time, San Francisco Tries New Way to Fund Home Solar
- Kansas Renewable Energy Bill More about Ideology than Environment
- Renewable Energy Transmission: Giving Landowners the Power
- Can High-Tech Companies Compete With Mainline Utilities for Energy Customers?
- Could This Be the World’s Most Efficient Solar Electricity System?
- Philips & the Future of LED Lighting
- Marijuana Grower Sparks a Buzz in Rural Rochester Neighborhood
- Hello Brinnon: First Annual Cannabis Olympics – June
- Need Some Weed? Oregon Offers the Best Buzz for Your Buck
- Paper Finds a Surprising Link between Warmer Temperatures & Math Test Scores
- Editorial: Pull Electric Cars, Plug-In Hybrids into the Road-Tax Fold
- CenturyLink Launches Cable TV in Portland, Challenging Comcast
- Microsoft Joins Plan to Build Undersea Cable from Hillsboro to Asia
- Energy Quote of the Day: Greenpeace Says Apple is the Internet’s Green Leader
- Here’s How Much Energy We Waste on Cat GIFs & Twitterbooks
- Report Says Southern Utilities Stand in the Way of Making the Internet Greener
- AT&T Repeatedly Fails to Meet Broadband Deployment Promises
- Facebook Begins Testing Instant Articles from News Publishers
- Facebook hires former FCC Chairman
- Pinterest Set to Surge in 2016: New Research
- Here’s Why AOL Is Poised to Take on Facebook & Google
- T-Mobile’s CEO has more Twitter followers than the Seattle Seahawks. Here’s how he does it
- Are Your Subject Lines Strong Enough?
- News Release: Representatives MacEwen & Stokesbary File Resolution to Begin Drafting Articles of Impeachment against Troy Kelley, Washington State Auditor
- Video: Massive Network Outage Disrupts Services at State Agencies
- Internet Disruption Affects Schools, County
- Online Filing Hampered by Statewide Network Outage
- Day 2 of Mason County Election Filing
- ‘We’re Going To … Put The Furnace In!’: Aggressive Phone Calls Target Elderly in Heat & AC Scam
Askance
• \us-SKANSE\ • Adverb – 1: with a side-glance: obliquely 2: with disapproval
or distrust: scornfully.
Frankie
Pentangeli looked askance at Carmine Rosato’s welcoming gift in the menacing,
mid-day silence of the bar meeting. “I don’t like this C-note, Rosato. I take
that as an insult.”
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Despite
Drought, ‘Blob,’ Enough Hydro in Northwest (Electric Co-op
Today)
BPA
Closes Out the 2015 Integrated Program Review Process – Decides to Move Energy
Efficiency Capital Program to Expense in 2016 (Bonneville
Power Administration)
Editorial:
Jefferson PUD – Public Power Two Years Later (Port Townsend Leader, WA)
Snohomish
PUD Customers Moving to Monthly Billing (My Everett News, WA)
Look, There’s Avista – Association of Washington Business
Announce Environmental Excellence Award Winners (KNDO/KNDU-TV, Tri Cities, WA)
Why
Multi-Purpose Networks Are a Must for Today’s Smart Meter Winners (The Energy
Collective)
Why
DOE Says Hydropower is Poised for a Comeback – New technology & the world’s
pressing need for it could heat up the sector again (Utility Dive)
Moeller
Will Leave FERC after Nine Years with Commission: Report (Utility Dive)
http://www.utilitydive.com/news/moeller-will-leave-ferc-after-9-years-with-commission-report/397229/
FERC:
Key Senate Aide Likely to Replace Departing Commissioner (E&E Publishing)
Dan
Poneman: Former Energy Department Official Wins Huge Pay Raise after Moving to Firm
with Deep Ties to DOE (Center for Public Integrity)
FISH & WILDLIFE
BC Hydro to Test Fish for Mercury after First
Nations Voice Concerns (Globe & Mail, Canada)
Let the Hype Begin: Move Over, Alaska Air Cargo. Salty’s
on alki Beach Is Angling for First Copper River Salmon of 2015 (Puget Sound
Business Journal, WA)
Where Are All the Bees? (Associated Press)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
U-S
House Votes to Block EPA Regulation of Streams, Wetlands (Associated Press)
Final
Environmental Study Ready on Raising Lake Cle Elum Reservoir (Ellensburg Daily
Record, WA)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
For
a Second Time, San Francisco Tries New Way to Fund Home Solar (SF Chronicle)
Kansas
Renewable Energy Bill More about Ideology than Environment (Lawrence Journal-World,
KS)
Renewable
Energy Transmission: Giving Landowners the Power (Breaking Energy)
Can
High-Tech Companies Compete With Mainline Utilities for Energy Customers? (Forbes
Magazine)
Could
This Be the World’s Most Efficient Solar Electricity System? (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/13/could-this-be-the-worlds-most-efficient-solar-electricity-system
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/13/could-this-be-the-worlds-most-efficient-solar-electricity-system
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Philips
& the Future of LED Lighting (Forbes Magazine)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Marijuana
Grower Sparks a Buzz in Rural Rochester Neighborhood (Olympian - Paywall Advisory – Ha! Sparks a “Buzz.” Drug humor is funny?)
Hello
Brinnon: First Annual Cannabis Olympics – June (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
Need
Some Weed? Oregon Offers the Best Buzz for Your Buck (Portland Business
Journal, OR)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Paper
Finds a Surprising Link between Warmer Temperatures & Math Test Scores (Washington
Post)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Editorial:
Pull Electric Cars, Plug-In Hybrids into the Road-Tax Fold (Oregonian,
Portland)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CenturyLink
Launches Cable TV in Portland, Challenging Comcast (Oregonian, Portland – Man,
this stock photo is becoming “CenturyLink” Story tradition)
Microsoft
Joins Plan to Build Undersea Cable from Hillsboro to Asia (Oregonian, Portland)
Energy
Quote of the Day: Greenpeace Says Apple is the Internet’s Green Leader
(Breaking Energy)
Here’s
How Much Energy We Waste on Cat GIFs & Twitterbooks (Gizmodo)
Report
Says Southern Utilities Stand in the Way of Making the Internet Greener
(E&E Publishing)
AT&T
Repeatedly Fails to Meet Broadband Deployment Promises (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Repeatedly-Fails-To-Meet-Broadband-Deployment-Promises-133754
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook
Begins Testing Instant Articles from News Publishers (NY Times)
Facebook
hires former FCC Chairman (Washington Post)
Pinterest Set to Surge in 2016: New Research (Social Media
Examiner)
Here’s
Why AOL Is Poised to Take on Facebook & Google (AdWeek)
T-Mobile’s
CEO has more Twitter followers than the Seattle Seahawks. Here’s how he does it
(Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Are
Your Subject Lines Strong Enough? (Mashable)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
News
Release: Representatives MacEwen & Stokesbary File Resolution to Begin
Drafting Articles of Impeachment against Troy Kelley, Washington State Auditor
(Washington State House Republicans)
GENERAL NEWS
Video: Massive Network Outage Disrupts Services at
State Agencies (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Internet
Disruption Affects Schools, County (Kitsap Sun,
Bremerton, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Online Filing Hampered by Statewide Network
Outage (KXRO Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Day 2 of Mason County Election Filing (Mason Web
TV, Shelton, WA)
‘We’re Going To … Put The Furnace In!’: Aggressive
Phone Calls Target Elderly in Heat & AC Scam (KCPQ-TV,
Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
$250,000
Bail for Wife Accused of Shooting at Husband over Chores
Can
We Reverse-Engineer Dinosaurs Out of Chickens?
Missing
Cat in Australia Found 49 Days Later in Shipping Container
Song
Stuck in Your Head? Chew Gum – Researchers Say Repetitive Jaw Motion Helps Get
Rid of Earworms
SONG OF THE DAY
Billy
Joel – The Stranger
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