SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
Extremely Wet Fall in the Northwest: Will We Break the
October Record? (Cliff Mass Weather Blog)
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Re-introduced Sockeye Salmon Returning in Growing Numbers to
Upper Yakima Basin’s Lake Cle Elum (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Douglas County PUD Customers Face Rate Increase (North
Central Washington Life, East Wenatchee, WA)
Big Companies Push Pacific Northwest Utilities to Produce
Clean Sources for Electricity (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Attack on Web Provider Disrupts Some Sites on U-S East Coast
(Reuters)
A Carbon Tax Should Confront Environmental Inequity Not
Affirm It – I-732 squanders the power of a carbon tax (Seattle Met)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Douglas County PUD Customers Face Rate Increase
- Crow, Montana Settle Dispute Over Taxing Coal Owned by Tribe
- British Columbia: Dam Failure a Quake Risk for Campbell River
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District Looks to Join Western Energy Market for Savings, Green Technology
- Seven Ways Animals Threaten the Power Grid
- Illinois to Crack Down on Retail Electric Suppliers
- Re-introduced Sockeye Salmon Returning in Growing Numbers to Upper Yakima Basin’s Lake Cle Elum
- Fishing Season Ends Early on Columbia River
- Vandals, Thieves, Target Salmon Returning to Two Victoria-Area Streams
- Big Companies Push Pacific Northwest Utilities to Produce Clean Sources for Electricity
- Grays Harbor PUD Energy Services Department Helps Customers Save Money & Be Energy Aware
- Marijuana Farmers, Including Spokane City Council Member, Hinge Hopes on Harvest
- A Carbon Tax Should Confront Environmental Inequity Not Affirm It – I-732 squanders the power of a carbon tax
- Editorial: Reluctant No on Initiative 732
- Cow Burps – Let Them Eat Kelp
- Attack on Web Provider Disrupts Some Sites on U-S East Coast
- AT&T in Talks to Acquire Time Warner
- Ninety Percent of ‘Genuine’ Apple Chargers On Amazon Are Fake
- No Partner in Sight, Twitter Faces Tough Solo Choices
- Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
- Blast Rocks Legal Marijuana Business in Astoria, Sends Two to Burn Unit
- Video: Third Mason County Job Fair fills Shelton Civic Center
- ‘Like an Easter Egg Hunt for Adults’: Foraging for Mushrooms on the Forest Floor
- New Photo Shows Crash Site of Europe’s Lost Mars Lander
- Self-Checkout Could Soon Be Checking Out
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ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Douglas County PUD Customers Face Rate Increase (North
Central Washington Life, East Wenatchee, WA)
Crow, Montana Settle Dispute Over Taxing Coal Owned by Tribe
(Associated Press)
British Columbia: Dam Failure a Quake Risk for Campbell
River (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Sacramento Municipal Utility District Looks to Join Western Energy
Market for Savings, Green Technology (Sacramento Business Journal, CA)
Seven Ways Animals Threaten the Power Grid (Utility Dive)
Illinois to Crack Down on Retail Electric Suppliers (Utility
Dive)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Re-introduced Sockeye Salmon Returning in Growing Numbers to
Upper Yakima Basin’s Lake Cle Elum (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Fishing Season Ends Early on Columbia River (Associated
Press)
Vandals, Thieves, Target Salmon Returning to Two Victoria-Area
Streams (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Big Companies Push Pacific Northwest Utilities to Produce
Clean Sources for Electricity (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Grays Harbor PUD Energy Services Department Helps Customers
Save Money & Be Energy Aware (Grays Harbor Talks, WA)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNIBAS
Marijuana Farmers, Including Spokane City Council Member,
Hinge Hopes on Harvest (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
A Carbon Tax Should Confront Environmental Inequity Not
Affirm It – I-732 squanders the power of a carbon tax (Seattle Met)
Editorial: Reluctant No on Initiative 732 (Columbia Basin
Bulletin)
SCIENCE SWIMS IN A HUGE VAT OF POTPOURRI
Cow Burps – Let Them Eat Kelp (Grist Online)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Attack on Web Provider Disrupts Some Sites on U-S East Coast
(Reuters)
AT&T in Talks to Acquire Time Warner (Broadband Reports)
Ninety Percent of ‘Genuine’ Apple Chargers On Amazon Are
Fake (Nashville Business Journal, TN)
MARKETING & MEDIA
No Partner in Sight, Twitter Faces Tough Solo Choices (Reuters)
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds (Consumerist)
GENERAL NEWS
Blast Rocks Legal Marijuana Business in Astoria, Sends Two to
Burn Unit (Oregonian, Portland)
Video: Third Mason County Job Fair fills Shelton Civic
Center (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
‘Like an Easter Egg Hunt for Adults’: Foraging for Mushrooms
on the Forest Floor (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
New Photo Shows Crash Site of Europe’s Lost Mars Lander (Mashable)
Self-Checkout Could Soon Be
Checking Out (National Public Radio)
THE BOSS & HARRY POTTER – DIVERSIONS
Behind ‘25 Minutes of Silence,’ The Quietest Podcast on the Internet
Apparently Bruce Springsteen Wrote a Song for Harry Potter
But They Didn’t Use It
Oregon Orders Man to Stop Marketing ‘Keep Portland Weird’
License Plate Idea
Two to Get Comfy Coffin for Overnight Stay in Dracula’s Castle
SONG OF THE DAY
Supertramp – Even in the Quietest Moments
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