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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Federal Agencies Listen to Concerns & Suggestions on
Lower Snake River Dams (KLEW-TV, Lewiston, ID)
NW Power & Conservation Council Hears Report On Best
Ways to Pass Salmonids Above High Head Dams Such as Grand Coulee (Columbia Basin
Bulletin)
Facebook Is America’s Favorite Media Product – It’s
equivalent to 1.5 Super Bowls happening every day, audience-wise (Atlantic
Magazine)
Move Over, Booze: 2016 Is a Milestone Year for Sales of Pot
in State (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Washington State Budget Outlook Estimates $5 Billion on
Education Through 2021 (Associated Press)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Federal Agencies Listen to Concerns & Suggestions on Lower Snake River Dams
- Fitch Affirms Energy Northwest’s Wind Project Bonds at ‘A-’; Outlook Stable
- Kujala Named Director of Power Planning for Northwest Power & Conservation Council
- Illinois: Inside Exelon’s Last-Minute Push to Save Its Nukes & Remake the Illinois Power Sector
- Battle Lines Drawn Over Extending Energy Tax Credits
- Janet Sena – Former Utility Exec Floated to Lead FERC
- NW Power & Conservation Council Hears Report On Best Ways to Pass Salmonids Above High Head Dams Such as Grand Coulee
- Washington State Court Rules Against Proposed Gig Harbor-Area Geoduck Farm
- Limping, Lame Wild Elk Stricken with Perplexing Hoof Disease
- October Brought Wet Records for Much of Northwest, Above Average Precipitation Expected to Continue
- Musk Says Tesla’s Solar Shingles Will Cost Less Than a Dumb Roof
- California “Duck Curve” Growing Faster Than Expected, Phenomenon Poised to Spread
- For a Welsh City, the Tides Offer Renewal
- Bonneville Power Administration Hits the Road to Introduce Air Northwest
- Move Over, Booze: 2016 Is a Milestone Year for Sales of Pot in State
- Legal Uncertainty for Marijuana Industry after Trump Election, Conference Panelists Say
- Jeff Sessions Named as AG: Doom for Pot?
- America’s TV Meteorologists: Symptoms of Climate Change Are Rampant, Undeniable
- Scientists Turn Carbon Dioxide into Rock – Again
- Stephen Hawking Says We Have 1,000 Years to Find a New Home
- Analysis: After Election, Broadband Proponents Need to Go Local
- Facebook Is America’s Favorite Media Product
- Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
- Washington State Budget Outlook Estimates $5 Billion on Education Through 2021
- Hunters Find Missing Montesano Family in Mason County
- Olympia Police Break Up Anti-Fracking Protest Camp
- Several from North Mason Injured in Four-Vehicle Crash on SR 3
- Washington State Awards $160,000 Grant to Port of Shelton
- Travelers from All Over Donate to Quincy I-90 Holiday Light Fund
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Ends with future’s hope
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Federal Agencies Listen to Concerns & Suggestions on Lower
Snake River Dams (KLEW-TV, Lewiston, ID)
Fitch Affirms Energy Northwest’s Wind Project Bonds at ‘A-’;
Outlook Stable (Digital Journal)
Kujala Named Director of Power Planning for Northwest Power &
Conservation Council (Hydroworld)
Illinois: Inside Exelon’s Last-Minute Push to Save Its Nukes
& Remake the Illinois Power Sector (Utility Dive)
Battle Lines Drawn Over Extending Energy Tax Credits (Bloomberg
News)
Janet Sena – Former Utility Exec Floated to Lead FERC
(E&E Publishing)
FISH & WILDLIFE
NW Power & Conservation Council Hears Report On Best
Ways to Pass Salmonids Above High Head Dams Such as Grand Coulee (Columbia
Basin Bulletin)
Washington State Court Rules Against Proposed Gig Harbor-Area
Geoduck Farm (Associated Press)
Limping, Lame Wild Elk Stricken with Perplexing Hoof Disease
(Northwest Public Radio)
WATER, THE SOURCE OF ALL LIFE
October Brought Wet Records for Much of Northwest, Above
Average Precipitation Expected to Continue (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Musk Says Tesla’s Solar Shingles Will Cost Less Than a Dumb
Roof (Bloomberg News)
California “Duck Curve” Growing Faster Than Expected, Phenomenon
Poised to Spread (American Public Power Association)
For a Welsh City, the Tides Offer Renewal (NY Times)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Bonneville Power Administration Hits the Road to Introduce Air
Northwest (Bonneville Power Administration)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Move Over, Booze: 2016 Is a Milestone Year for Sales of Pot in
State (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Legal Uncertainty for Marijuana Industry after Trump Election,
Conference Panelists Say (Marijuana Business Daily)
Jeff Sessions Named as AG: Doom for Pot? (Canna Law Blog)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
America’s TV Meteorologists: Symptoms of Climate Change Are
Rampant, Undeniable (Washington Post)
Scientists Turn Carbon Dioxide into Rock – Again (Christian
Science Monitor)
SCIENCE SWIMS IN A BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Stephen Hawking Says We Have Have 1,000 Years to Find a New
Home (Christian Science Monitor)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Analysis: After Election, Broadband Proponents Need to Go
Local (The Daily Yonder)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Facebook Is America’s Favorite Media Product – It’s
equivalent to 1.5 Super Bowls happening every day, audience-wise (Atlantic
Magazine)
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds (Consumerist)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Budget Outlook Estimates $5 Billion on Education
Through 2021 (Associated Press)
GENERAL NEWS
Hunters Find Missing Montesano Family in Mason County (Mason
Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Olympia Police Break Up Anti-Fracking Protest Camp (Associated
Press)
Several from North Mason Injured in Four-Vehicle Crash on SR
3 (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Washington State Awards $160,000 Grant to Port of Shelton (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
Travelers from All Over Donate to Quincy I-90 Holiday Light
Fund (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
KILLER GEYSER CONUNDRUM – DIVERSIONS
Portland Man Who Died in Yellowstone Hot Spring Was Trying to
‘Hot Pot’
Builder Turned to Fraud after Wife Ditched Him for Fake Elvis
Benjamin Franklin’s Gravestone Develops Crack from Pennies
Sweden Stops Sale of New Zealand Beer over Explosion Fears
SONG OF THE DAY
Edmund Butt - Yellowstone Suite (Soundtrack)
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