SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
A Short Comment About the Storm (Cliff Mass Weather Blog)
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
What the Heck Went Wrong with the Storm Forecast?!?
(KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Irrigators Propose Giant Hydroelectric Project at Banks Lake
Near Grand Coulee Dam (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, WA)
Puget Sound Energy Trades in Gas, Electricity, Political
Clout (Northwest Public Radio)
Washington Energy Agency Overestimated Carbon Tax Impacts on
Power Prices (Utility Dive – “only 5.3 percent?” These guys have obviously not
had the pleasure of a customer blasting them over a three percent increase)
Northwest Utilities Amp Up New Business Line of Charging
Electric Cars (Northwest Public Radio)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Irrigators Propose Giant Hydroelectric Project at Banks Lake Near Grand Coulee Dam
- Puget Sound Energy Trades in Gas, Electricity, Political Clout
- Grays Harbor PUD Goes to Work as Most of Washington Asks “Where Did the Storm Go?”
- Update: Power Restored at Lake Cushman: Emergency Outage for Storm Damage Repairs
- Snohomish PUD & Edmonds Agree to Delay LED Streetlight Upgrades
- Northwest Power & Conservation Council Selects New Director of Power Planning
- Modular Nuclear – This New Technology Could Save the Troubled Nuclear Power Industry
- Six Ways the Presidential Election Will Influence the Electric Utility Sector
- Sea Lions Spending Longer Periods at Bonneville Dam – Warm Ocean Conditions to Blame?
- NW Power & Conservation Council Fish/Wildlife Committee Looks at How to Spend Project Cost Savings
- Final Columbia River Northern Pikeminnow Reward Catch Program Numbers Up from 2015
- Valdez Hydropower Project Makes Utility All-Renewable in Summer
- Floating Solar Arrays Point to Bright Future for Clean Energy
- I Love Word Games – Solar in “Six Words” & “Haiku”
- Marijuana Energy Efficiency
- Washington Energy Agency Overestimated Carbon Tax Impacts on Power Prices
- Canada’s Carbon Tax: A Model for the Future?
- September Was Warmest Such Month on Record, NASA Finds
- Northwest Utilities Amp Up New Business Line of Charging Electric Cars
- Why 'Abandoning' The Apple Car Makes Perfect Sense
- Yahoo Explains Why It Turned Off Email Auto-Forwarding; Turns It Back On
- Should I Keep My Laptop Plugged in While I Use It?
- Ten Ways to Increase Your Facebook Engagement
- Your Agency Needs This Buzzword Jar You Pay Every Time You Spout Dumb Marketing Jargon
- Ballots: Coming Soon to a Mailbox Near You
- How an Olympia Ballot Measure Could Pave the Way for a Statewide Income Tax
- What the Heck Went Wrong with the Storm Forecast?!?
- National Weather Service Explains How ‘Autumn Blast’ Became Average Storm
- Canada: Third Storm Fizzles on British Columbia’s South Coast
- Climate Center Shifts from ‘Neutral’ to 70 Percent La Nina Weather Pattern – Suggests Cooler, Wetter
- State Board of Natural Resources to Talk Timber Harvests Monday
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small, snooty street café he visited. “Mercy Buckets,” he would shout at the
retreating waiters & waitresses, chortling into his after dinner espresso.
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ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Irrigators Propose Giant Hydroelectric Project at Banks Lake
Near Grand Coulee Dam (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, WA)
Puget Sound Energy Trades in Gas, Electricity, Political
Clout (Northwest Public Radio)
Grays Harbor PUD Goes to Work as Most of Washington Asks
“Where Did the Storm Go?” (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Update: Power Restored at Lake Cushman: Emergency Outage for
Storm Damage Repairs - Nearly 400 Customers Affected (Mason PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Snohomish PUD & Edmonds Agree to Delay LED Streetlight
Upgrades (My Edmonds News, WA)
Northwest Power & Conservation Council Selects New
Director of Power Planning (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Modular Nuclear – This New Technology Could Save the Troubled
Nuclear Power Industry (The Guardian, UK)
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/oct/16/safer-small-nuclear-reactors-power-plant-technology
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/oct/16/safer-small-nuclear-reactors-power-plant-technology
Six Ways the Presidential Election Will Influence the
Electric Utility Sector (Utility Dive)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Sea Lions Spending Longer Periods at Bonneville Dam – Warm
Ocean Conditions to Blame? (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
NW Power & Conservation Council Fish/Wildlife Committee
Looks at How to Spend Project Cost Savings (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Final Columbia River Northern Pikeminnow Reward Catch
Program Numbers Up from 2015 (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Valdez Hydropower Project Makes Utility All-Renewable in
Summer (Alaska Dispatch News)
Floating Solar Arrays Point to Bright Future for Clean
Energy (CNBC)
I Love Word Games – Solar in “Six Words” & “Haiku” (Renewable
Energy World)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Marijuana Energy Efficiency (Canna Law Blog)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Washington Energy Agency Overestimated Carbon Tax Impacts on
Power Prices (Utility Dive – “only 5.3 percent?” These guys have obviously not
had the pleasure of a customer blasting them over a three percent increase)
Canada’s Carbon Tax: A Model for the Future? (The Energy
Collective)
September Was Warmest Such Month on Record, NASA Finds
(Mashable)
SCIENCE SWIMS IN A BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Northwest Utilities Amp Up New Business Line of Charging
Electric Cars (Northwest Public Radio)
Why 'Abandoning' The Apple Car Makes Perfect Sense (Mashable)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Yahoo Explains Why It Turned Off Email Auto-Forwarding;
Turns It Back On (Consumerist)
Should I Keep My Laptop Plugged in While I Use It? (Grist
Online)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Ten Ways to Increase Your Facebook Engagement (Social Media
Examiner)
Your Agency Needs This Buzzword Jar You Pay Every Time You
Spout Dumb Marketing Jargon (AdWeek)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Ballots: Coming Soon to a Mailbox Near You (Northwest Public
Radio)
How an Olympia Ballot Measure Could Pave the Way for a Statewide
Income Tax (Olympian, WA – Paywall Advisory)
GENERAL NEWS
What the Heck Went Wrong with the Storm Forecast?!? (KOMO-TV,
Seattle, WA)
National Weather Service Explains How ‘Autumn Blast’ Became
Average Storm (Komo-Tv, Seattle, Wa)
Canada: Third Storm Fizzles on British Columbia’s South
Coast (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
Climate Center Shifts from ‘Neutral’ to 70 Percent La Nina
Weather Pattern – Suggests Cooler, Wetter (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
State Board of Natural Resources to Talk Timber Harvests Monday
(Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
HORTON HEARS A WHO – DIVERSIONS
Dr. Seuss Made Paintings & Sculptures in Secret (Now You
Can See Them)
Wedding Photo Session Besieged by Angry Attacking Magpies
Could a Strike at Jim Beam Distilleries Mean a Whiskey
Shortage?
I Probably Shouldn't Spend $20,000 on This Gorgeous Moon
Landing-Inspired Pen, Right?
SONG OF THE DAY
Willie Nelson – Whiskey River
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