SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
Weather Forecast for April 19, 2016
The Warmest April Day in Seattle History (Cliff Mass Weather
Blog)
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Spokane Tribe Will Study Salmon Habitat above Grand Coulee
Dam (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Merger Done, Pepco Seeks Ten Percent Rate Increase from
Maryland Customers “…”This has absolutely nothing to do with the merger…”
(Washington Post)
Idaho: Public Meetings This Week on Gateway West
Transmission Lines Project (Public News Service)
New Data: Americans Are Abandoning Wired Home Internet
(Washington Post)
Why some businesses are switching to LED lighting (Portland
Business Journal, OR)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Idaho: Public Meetings This Week on Gateway West Transmission Lines Project
- British Columbia: Paraglider Gets Entangled in North Vancouver Power Lines – Power cut to 3,000 homes
- Grays Harbor PUD Changes Rates in Compromise Plan
- Mason PUD 3 Reconsiders Belfair Line Crew Reorganization
- Skykomish River’s Electric Issue
- Video: For Pacific Gas & Electric’s Hydropower, Every Drop Counts
- Washington PUD Association Elects Officers; Two Lewis County Commissioners Serving
- Merger Done, Pepco Seeks Ten Percent Rate Increase from Maryland Customers
- Georgia Power Buys Land to Explore Building Nuclear Plant
- High Court Strikes Down Maryland Power Plant Subsidies
- The Supremes: Opinion Analysis – U-S Energy Regulators’ Authority Grows
- Senate Could Vote This Week on Broad Energy Bill Amendments
- U-S Quadrennial Energy Review Second Round
- Spokane Tribe Will Study Salmon Habitat above Grand Coulee Dam
- Talks between State & Tribes Resume on Setting Puget Sound Salmon Fishing Seasons
- Washington State Opens Yakima River for Spring Chinook Fishing
- Wallace River Hatchery Steelhead to Swim Again
- Alaska: Southeast King Salmon Quota Released, Higher Than Last Year
- Michigan Governor to Drink Flint Water in Show of Safety over Lead Crisis
- Idaho: Sandpoint Wins Grant to Install Solar Roadways Demo
- Why some businesses are switching to LED lighting
- Clatskanie PUD Offering Rebate for Energy Efficient Water Heaters
- Out-Of-State Companies Eye Oregon Marijuana Market for Expansion
- This Pot Farmers Organization Wants You to Think Local When Lighting Up on 4/20
- Liberal Biases, Too, May Block Progress on Climate Change
- Why This Greenhouse Gas May Help Some Crops
- Electric Car Incentives in Washington State Expanded to More Models
- New Data: Americans Are Abandoning Wired Home Internet
- Google Fiber Plans to Beam Wireless Broadband Internet Directly Into Homes
- Three Weeks In, Frontier Verizon Switchover Problems Continue
- Why Google Is Warning That ‘Google.Com’ Is ‘Partially Dangerous’
- Amazon Takes on Netflix with Standalone Video Streaming
- Facebook Carousel Content: How to Make Your Posts & Ads Stand Out
- Why Brands Need to Skip the Ads & Start Telling Stories
- Inslee’s Veto Spares Performance Auditors, Cybersecurity Reviews
- Two Wildfires Reported in Mason County
- Man Dies in Cycle Crash near Allyn
- Recent Earthquakes Likely Won’t Trigger NW Quake
- The New Yorker’s Cascadia Earthquake Doomsday Story Won a Pulitzer Prize
- City of Shelton to Ask Voters to Renew EMS Levy
- Drone Collision with Jet Highlights Growing Aviation Danger
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medium or instrument.
“…Now, as I was meeting at the RTF, talking about CFLs, LEDs
and concerns about BPA and the DOE from the PPC, ICNU, NWPPA, WPUDA, and PNGC,
and……” the power manager’s presentation trailed off in his staff meeting to a
dull buzz, his idioms floating away in the breeze, as the public information
officer started to ponder his lunch plans….
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Idaho: Public Meetings This Week on Gateway West
Transmission Lines Project (Public News Service)
British Columbia: Paraglider Gets Entangled in North
Vancouver Power Lines – Power cut to 3,000 homes (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Grays Harbor PUD Changes Rates in Compromise Plan (KXRO Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Mason PUD 3 Reconsiders Belfair Line Crew Reorganization
(Mason PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Skykomish River’s Electric Issue (The Monroe Monitor, WA)
Video: For Pacific Gas & Electric’s Hydropower, Every
Drop Counts (PG&E Currents)
Washington PUD Association Elects Officers; Two Lewis County
Commissioners Serving (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
Merger Done, Pepco Seeks Ten Percent Rate Increase from Maryland
Customers “…”This has absolutely nothing to do with the merger…” (Washington
Post)
Georgia Power Buys Land to Explore Building Nuclear Plant
(Atlanta Business Journal, GA)
High Court Strikes Down Maryland Power Plant Subsidies (Associated Press)
The Supremes: Opinion Analysis – U-S Energy Regulators’
Authority Grows (SCOTUS Blog)
Senate Could Vote This Week on Broad Energy Bill Amendments
(Utility Dive)
U-S Quadrennial Energy Review Second Round (Breaking Energy)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Spokane Tribe Will Study Salmon Habitat above Grand Coulee
Dam (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Talks between State & Tribes Resume on Setting Puget
Sound Salmon Fishing Seasons (Seattle
Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Washington State Opens Yakima River for Spring Chinook
Fishing (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Wallace River Hatchery Steelhead to Swim Again (Everett
Herald, WA)
Alaska: Southeast King Salmon Quota Released, Higher Than
Last Year (Alaska Public Media)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Michigan Governor to Drink Flint Water in Show of Safety
over Lead Crisis (Reuters – Shades of
the movie “Sahara”)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Idaho: Sandpoint Wins Grant to Install Solar Roadways Demo (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Why some businesses are switching to LED lighting (Portland
Business Journal, OR)
Clatskanie PUD Offering Rebate for Energy Efficient Water
Heaters (Clatskanie Chieftain, OR)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Out-Of-State Companies Eye Oregon Marijuana Market for
Expansion (Oregonian, Portland)
This Pot Farmers Organization Wants You to Think Local When
Lighting Up on 4/20 (AdWeek)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Liberal Biases, Too, May Block Progress on Climate Change (NY Times)
Why This Greenhouse Gas May Help Some Crops (Christian
Science Monitor)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Electric Car Incentives in Washington State Expanded to More
Models (Northwest Public Radio)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
New Data: Americans Are Abandoning Wired Home Internet (Washington
Post)
Google Fiber Plans to Beam Wireless Broadband Internet
Directly Into Homes (Tech Times)
Three Weeks In, Frontier Verizon Switchover Problems
Continue (Broadband Reports)
Why Google Is Warning That ‘Google.Com’ Is ‘Partially Dangerous’
(Washington Post)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Amazon Takes on Netflix with Standalone Video Streaming (San
Jose Mercury News, CA)
Facebook Carousel Content: How to Make Your Posts & Ads
Stand Out (Social Media Examiner)
Why Brands Need to Skip the Ads & Start Telling Stories –
Don’t get in the way of what consumers want, be what they want (AdWeek)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Inslee’s Veto Spares Performance Auditors, Cybersecurity
Reviews (Northwest Public Radio)
GENERAL NEWS
Two Wildfires Reported in Mason County (Mason Web TV,
Shelton, WA)
Man Dies in Cycle Crash near Allyn (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Recent Earthquakes Likely Won’t Trigger NW Quake (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
The New Yorker’s Cascadia Earthquake Doomsday Story Won a Pulitzer
Prize (Portland Business Journal, OR)
City of Shelton to Ask Voters to Renew EMS Levy (Mason Web
TV, Shelton, WA)
Drone Collision with Jet Highlights Growing Aviation Danger (Everett
Herald, WA)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune
Is the Klingon Language Protected by Copyright? Paramount
Thinks So
FedEx Employee Falls Asleep Loading Plane in Tennessee, Ends
Up in Texas
Doris Roberts, ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ Star, Passes Away
at Age 90
SONG OF THE DAY
Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks – How Can I Miss You When You
Won’t Go Away
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