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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Proposed
Klickitat PUD Pumped Storage Hydro Project Holds Meetings - Five-year plan to
build hydroelectric project could bring new jobs (Goldendale Sentinel, WA)
Washington State Fishery Managers Set Smelt,
Spring Chinook Seasons (Longview Daily News, WA)
Now
That Growing Pot Is Legal, Can It Also Be More Energy Efficient? (Oregon Public
Broadcasting)
Washington‐Made
Solar Products Power Award-Winning Bainbridge Island Development (Kitsap
Peninsula Business Journal, WA)
Survey:
Trust Is Key to Utility-Customer Relationship (Utility Dive)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Proposed Klickitat PUD Pumped Storage Hydro Project Holds Meetings - Five-year plan to build hydroelectric project could bring new jobs
- Survey: Trust Is Key to Utility-Customer Relationship
- Grant PUD to Sell Dozen Homes at Wanapum Village
- 2014: A High-Visibility Year for Bonneville Power Administration’s Synchrophasor Program
- Texas: Energy Company Stands behind High Electricity Bills
- Former EPA Administrator Browner Pushes for More Nuclear Power
- Oklahoma Worries about Swarm of Earthquakes & Connection to Oil Industry
- Washington State Fishery Managers Set Smelt, Spring Chinook Seasons
- U-S Senate Votes to Keep Lesser Prairie Chicken on ‘Threatened’ List
- Where Rhinos Once Roamed, A Habitat for Sensitive Willamette Valley Species Emerges in Oregon Wine Country – Thanks to some Bonneville Power Administration Money
- California: Measuring Sierra Snowpack Is a Lot More Complex than It Looks
- Washington‐Made Solar Products Power Award-Winning Bainbridge Island Development
- Solar Panels Get Heat from Beaverton Residents
- Solar Parking Lots Sound Like a Great Idea. Why Aren’t They Catching On?
- Consumers’ Bureau & FTC Say They Understand Concerns about Solar Leasing Practices
- Buffalo Jump? Is Surging U-S Wind Power Headed Off a Cliff?
- Energy Smart Industrial: Five Years of Enormous Savings - Program has saved industries more than 647 million kWh of electricity
- Energy Adviser: Incentives, Loans Help Conserve Energy
- Why People Use Less Energy on Super Bowl Sunday
- Now That Growing Pot Is Legal, Can It Also Be More Energy Efficient?
- Marijuana News: U-S Attorney General Nominee Opposes Legal Pot
- Dude! Legal Marijuana America’s Fastest-Growing Industry – Report
- Prominent Investment Firm Pumps Money into Cannabis Tech Company
- 12,000 Joints Rolled for Super Bowl ‘12th Pack’
- Can We Harvest Lightning for the Power Grid?
- Grant PUD Expands Wireless Broadband Network
- Google Fiber in Portland, Apple Data Center in Prineville Could Both Hinge on Obscure Oregon Tax Law
- Google Says Net Neutrality Won’t Curb Expansion of Google Fiber
- Oregon Official: As Comcast Critics Pounce, Kate Brown Doesn’t Want to Talk about Her Letter Supporting Cable Giant
- Amazon Starts Cloud Email Service for Businesses
- Facebook Tops Wall Street Revenue Target in Fourth
- Tips on Shooting Slo-Mo Video with iPhone
- Tri-City Legislators Propose Bill to Explore Eastern Washington Seceding from State
- Comcast Customer Service Renames Spokane Couple with Profanity on Billing Address
- Video: Students Use Seahawks to Learn Leadership
Myrmidon
• \MURR-muh-don\ • noun – 1: A member of a warlike Thessalian people who
followed Achilles on the expedition against Troy 2: A loyal follower,
especially one who executes orders without question, protest, or pity.
Alfonse
was chosen to meet with the irritated customers over how they had been treated.
It wasn’t so much that he was the paragon of human strength or struck fear in
the hearts of anyone. It was that Alfonse was considered the ultimate myrmidon,
or “good soldier”. He would bleat the company’s party line regardless of logic,
precedence or legality until all in the room were exhausted by his efforts.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Proposed
Klickitat PUD Pumped Storage Hydro Project Holds Meetings - Five-year plan to
build hydroelectric project could bring new jobs (Goldendale Sentinel, WA)
Survey:
Trust Is Key to Utility-Customer Relationship (Utility Dive)
Grant
PUD to Sell Dozen Homes at Wanapum Village (iFiber One News, Ephrata, WA)
2014:
A High-Visibility Year for Bonneville Power
Administration’s
Synchrophasor Program (Bonneville Power Administration)
Texas:
Energy Company Stands behind High Electricity Bills (KTRK-TV, Houston, TX)
Former
EPA Administrator Browner Pushes for More Nuclear Power (Utility Dive)
Oklahoma
Worries about Swarm of Earthquakes & Connection to Oil Industry (Washington
Post)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Washington State Fishery Managers Set Smelt,
Spring Chinook Seasons (Longview Daily News, WA)
U-S Senate Votes to Keep Lesser Prairie Chicken on
‘Threatened’ List (Associated Press)
Where Rhinos Once Roamed, A Habitat for Sensitive
Willamette Valley Species Emerges in Oregon Wine Country – Thanks to some
Bonneville Power Administration Money (Oregonian, Portland)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
California:
Measuring Sierra Snowpack Is a Lot More Complex than It Looks (San Jose Mercury
News, CA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Washington‐Made
Solar Products Power Award-Winning Bainbridge Island Development (Kitsap
Peninsula Business Journal, WA)
Solar
Panels Get Heat from Beaverton Residents (KOIN-TV,
Portland, OR)
Solar
Parking Lots Sound Like a Great Idea. Why Aren’t They Catching On? (Christian
Science Monitor)
Consumers’
Bureau & FTC Say They Understand Concerns about Solar Leasing Practices (American
Public Power Association)
Buffalo
Jump? Is Surging U-S Wind Power Headed Off a Cliff? (Breaking Energy)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Energy
Smart Industrial: Five Years of Enormous Savings - Program has saved industries
more than 647 million kWh of electricity (Bonneville Power Administration)
Energy
Adviser: Incentives, Loans Help Conserve Energy (Vancouver
Columbian, WA)
Why
People Use Less Energy on Super Bowl Sunday (Washington Post)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Now
That Growing Pot Is Legal, Can It Also Be More Energy Efficient? (Oregon Public
Broadcasting)
Marijuana
News: U-S Attorney General Nominee Opposes Legal Pot (Oregonian, Portland)
Dude!
Legal Marijuana America’s Fastest-Growing Industry – Report (RT)
Prominent
Investment Firm Pumps Money into Cannabis Tech Company (Marijuana Business
Daily)
12,000
Joints Rolled for Super Bowl ‘12th Pack’ (KING-TV, Seattle,
WA)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Can
We Harvest Lightning for the Power Grid? (Forbes Magazine)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Grant
PUD Expands Wireless Broadband Network (KPQ Radio,
Wenatchee, WA)
Google
Fiber in Portland, Apple Data Center in Prineville Could Both Hinge on Obscure Oregon
Tax Law (Oregonian, Portland)
Google
Says Net Neutrality Won’t Curb Expansion of Google Fiber (Consumerist)
Oregon
Official: As Comcast Critics Pounce, Kate Brown Doesn’t Want to Talk about Her
Letter Supporting Cable Giant (Oregonian, Portland)
Amazon
Starts Cloud Email Service for Businesses (Puget Sound
Business Journal, WA)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook
Tops Wall Street Revenue Target in Fourth Quarter (Reuters)
Tips
on Shooting Slo-Mo Video with iPhone (USA Today)
GENERAL NEWS
Tri-City
Legislators Propose Bill to Explore Eastern Washington Seceding from State (Tri-City Herald, WA)
Comcast
Customer Service Renames Spokane Couple with Profanity on Billing Address (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Video:
Students Use Seahawks to Learn Leadership (KING-TV, Seattle,
WA)
DIVERSIONS
Farmer
Herds His Happy Cows into Smiley-Face Formation
Simulator
Runs Super Bowl Matchup 50,000 Times, And the Winner Is ...
“Bare
Shoulders” – Teen Forced to Wear Winter Coat or Leave School Dance
Chocolate
Was Once Considered a Powerful Cure-All Drug
SONG OF THE DAY
John
Denver - Sunshine on My Shoulders
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