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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Judge
Gives Okay for Snake River Dredging to Proceed (Northwest Public Radio)
After
Repairs, Grant PUD Reopens Most of Wanapum Dam Shoreline (Columbia Basin
Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Massachusetts: Tom May, Northeast Utilities Happy to
Get Out of Cape Wind “Clean energy…isn’t cheaper energy.” (Boston Globe, MA)
For
States That Don’t File Carbon-Cutting Plans, EPA Will Impose ‘Model Rule’ (NY
Times)
NoaNet
& Wahkiakum West’s Fiber Optics Project Offers Big Internet Speed Gains
(Chinook Observer, Long Beach, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- After Repairs, Grant PUD Reopens Most of Wanapum Dam Shoreline
- British Columbia: BC Hydro Dam Risk Leads to Jordan River Campground Closure
- Idaho Plans to Fine Feds for Not Shipping Nuclear Waste
- Wahkiakum PUD Considers Micro Hydro, Pot Issues
- Bonneville Power Administration Lineman Shares Life-Saving Skills with Electrical Workers in Suriname
- Op/Ed: Chelan County PUD Owner’s Guide: It’s Your Turn to Tell Us What You Think
- North Carolina: Customer Backlash after Duke Energy Conservation Plea
- Fitch Ratings Warns on Early Nuclear Retirements
- Have Santa Fe’s Plans for a Municipal Utility Hit a Roadblock?
- Supreme Court to Hear Case That Could Alter Scope of Federal Regulation
- Comcast Backs Away From Plans to Sell Electricity
- DUI Charge for Oregon Fish Hatchery Tanker Crash
- Christmas Trees Help Salmon Habitat on Oregon Coast
- Interior Secretary Calls for New Wildfire-Fighting Approach That Protects Sage Grouse Habitat
- Judge Gives Okay for Snake River Dredging to Proceed
- Massachusetts: Tom May, Northeast Utilities Happy to Get Out of Cape Wind “Clean energy…isn’t cheaper energy.”
- Can California Really Get to 50% Renewables in 15 Years?
- Montana: PSC Asked to Reconsider Fairfield Wind Farm
- SolarWorld-Backed Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels May be Halved
- GOP Sets Sights on Colorado Energy Mandates
- Buyer Beware! Amazing Claims for Slashing Energy Bills May be Just That: Amazing
- Weatherizing Your Home Can Increase Radon Risk
- Price of Legal Pot Plunges 40% in Washington as Shortages Ease
- Weed by the Numbers: Vancouver Shop Leads in Marijuana Sales
- Video: Medical Pot Shops Fight Millions in Unpaid Washington State Sales Tax
- Medical Marijuana Fans Light Up Tacoma City Council
- Two More Prefiled Cannabis Bills, Senator River’s Promised 48 Page Medial Pot Cleanup Up Is In
- For States That Don’t File Carbon-Cutting Plans, EPA Will Impose ‘Model Rule’
- New Oregon Rules Require Ten Percent Cleaner Fuels
- 2014 Was California’s Hottest Year, And it Wasn’t Even Close
- Free Ride Proposed for Electric Cars on Washington State Ferries
- Green Power Founder Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Investors of $10.4 Million
- NoaNet & Wahkiakum West’s Fiber Optics Project Offers Big Internet Speed Gains
- Sold: Wireless Tower Firm with Olympia Office
- Editorial: Plenty at Stake with Idaho Schools Broadband Fix
- FCC Chair Has All But Confirmed He’ll Side with Obama on Net Neutrality
- The Number of Americans Lacking Broadband Could Soon Go Up. That’s a Good Thing
- 65% of Facebook’s Video Views Are Now on Mobile Devices
- Energy Saving Tips from Pets: Unblock It!
- Google Search Slips after Firefox Switch
- Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
- Inslee, Washington State Republican Legislators at Odds: A Budget Battle in Olympia?
- California U-S Senator Barbara Boxer Won’t Seek Re-Election
- Mill Creek Continues Pattern of Ousting City Managers
- Paris Terror Attack: Suspects in Mass Shooting Are Dead; Hostage Freed
- Weyerhaeuser to Lay Off Longview Workers over Congestion at West Coast Ports
- Mason County Getting Federal Funds for Transportation Projects
- Pioneer School District Proposes Bond for Vote
- Washington State Distillers Don’t Have to Chip In for $105 Million Shortfall
- Outdoor Recreation in State Yields $22 Billion in Spending
- StubHub Spat over College Football Championship Tickets Has Happy Ending for Oregon Fan
Feng
Shui • \FUN-shway\ • Noun - A Chinese system for positioning a building and the
objects within a building in a way that is thought to agree with spiritual
forces and to bring health and happiness.
Sam,
a facilities assistant at the PUD, said he bought a book about Feng Shui over
the weekend. But he had to return it. He said he couldn’t find anywhere to put
it.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
After
Repairs, Grant PUD Reopens Most of Wanapum Dam Shoreline (Columbia Basin Herald,
Moses Lake, WA)
British
Columbia: BC Hydro Dam Risk Leads to Jordan River Campground Closure (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Idaho
Plans to Fine Feds for Not Shipping Nuclear Waste (Associated Press)
Wahkiakum
PUD Considers Micro Hydro, Pot Issues (Wahkiakum County Eagle, Cathlamet, WA)
Bonneville Power Administration Lineman Shares
Life-Saving Skills with Electrical Workers in Suriname (Bonneville Power
Administration)
Op/Ed:
Chelan County PUD Owner’s Guide: It’s Your Turn to Tell Us What You Think
(Wenatchee World, WA)
North
Carolina: Customer Backlash after Duke Energy Conservation Plea (WFMY-TV,
Greensboro, NC – I don’t think this should be one of your PR Quotes: “All the
infrastructure, all the equipment, cold weather is just hard on it because it’s
brittle and it’s cold & it makes it work harder than it would on a
pleasant, warm day.”)
Fitch
Ratings Warns on Early Nuclear Retirements (Electric Co-op
Today)
Have
Santa Fe’s Plans for a Municipal Utility Hit a Roadblock? (Utility Dive)
http://www.utilitydive.com/news/have-santa-fes-plans-for-a-municipal-utility-hit-a-roadblock/350019/
Supreme
Court to Hear Case That Could Alter Scope of Federal Regulation (E&E
Publishing)
Comcast
Backs Away From Plans to Sell Electricity (Broadband
Reports)
FISH & WILDLIFE
DUI Charge for Oregon Fish Hatchery Tanker Crash (Associated
Press)
Christmas Trees Help Salmon Habitat on Oregon
Coast (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
Interior Secretary Calls for New
Wildfire-Fighting Approach That Protects Sage Grouse Habitat (Associated Press)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Judge
Gives Okay for Snake River Dredging to Proceed (Northwest Public Radio)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Massachusetts: Tom May, Northeast Utilities Happy to
Get Out of Cape Wind “Clean energy…isn’t cheaper energy.” (Boston Globe, MA)
Can
California Really Get to 50% Renewables in 15 Years? (Utility Dive)
Montana:
PSC Asked to Reconsider Fairfield Wind Farm (Great Falls Tribune, MT)
SolarWorld-Backed
Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels May be Halved (Oregonian, Portland)
GOP
Sets Sights on Colorado Energy Mandates (Associated
Press)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Buyer
Beware! Amazing Claims for Slashing Energy Bills May be Just That: Amazing
(Mason PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Weatherizing
Your Home Can Increase Radon Risk (KGW-TV, Portland,
OR)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Price
of Legal Pot Plunges 40% in Washington as Shortages Ease (Bloomberg News)
Weed
by the Numbers: Vancouver Shop Leads in Marijuana Sales (Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, WA)
Video:
Medical Pot Shops Fight Millions in Unpaid Washington State Sales Tax (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Medical
Marijuana Fans Light Up Tacoma City Council (South Sound Business Examiner)
Two
More Prefiled Cannabis Bills, Senator River’s Promised 48 Page Medial Pot
Cleanup Up Is In (Washington State Wire, Olympia, WA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
For
States That Don’t File Carbon-Cutting Plans, EPA Will Impose ‘Model Rule’ (NY
Times)
New
Oregon Rules Require Ten Percent Cleaner Fuels (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
2014
Was California’s Hottest Year, And it Wasn’t Even Close (SF Chronicle)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Free
Ride Proposed for Electric Cars on Washington State Ferries (Associated Press)
Green
Power Founder Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Investors of $10.4 Million (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
NoaNet
& Wahkiakum West’s Fiber Optics Project Offers Big Internet Speed Gains
(Chinook Observer, Long Beach, WA)
Sold:
Wireless Tower Firm with Olympia Office (South Sound Business Examiner)
Editorial:
Plenty at Stake with Idaho Schools Broadband Fix (Idaho
Statesman, Boise)
FCC
Chair Has All But Confirmed He’ll Side with Obama on Net Neutrality (Washington
Post)
The
Number of Americans Lacking Broadband Could Soon Go Up. That’s a Good Thing (Washington
Post)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
65%
of Facebook’s Video Views Are Now on Mobile Devices (AdWeek)
Energy
Saving Tips from Pets: Unblock It! (Puget Sound Energy)
Google
Search Slips after Firefox Switch (USA Today)
Consumerist
Friday Flickr Finds (Consumerist)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Inslee,
Washington State Republican Legislators at Odds: A Budget Battle in Olympia?
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
California
U-S Senator Barbara Boxer Won’t Seek Re-Election (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Mill
Creek Continues Pattern of Ousting City Managers (Everett Herald, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Paris Terror Attack: Suspects in Mass Shooting
Are Dead; Hostage Freed (Associated Press)
Weyerhaeuser to Lay Off Longview Workers over
Congestion at West Coast Ports (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Mason County Getting Federal Funds for
Transportation Projects (Mason Web-TV, Shelton, WA)
Pioneer School District Proposes Bond for Vote (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Washington State Distillers Don’t Have to Chip In
for $105 Million Shortfall (Associated Press)
Outdoor Recreation in State Yields $22 Billion in
Spending (Associated Press)
StubHub Spat over College Football Championship
Tickets Has Happy Ending for Oregon Fan (Oregonian, Portland)
DIVERSIONS
Dogs
Taken by FedEx Driver Returned to Owners; Driver Suspended
Man
Fired After Not Coming to Work for 24 Years
Man
Told $500,000 Winning Lottery Ticket Was a ‘Misprint’
Giant
Snake Slithers from Clogged Office Toilet
SONG OF THE DAY
Commodores
– Easy
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