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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Officials Blame Puget Sound Energy for Greenwood Explosion
That Injured Seattle Firefighters (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2016/09/20/pse-blamed-greenwood-seattle-explosion-cause.html
Op/Ed: Washington State Carbon Tax Would Hit Working People
Hard (Crosscut Seattle)
AT&T Uses Power Lines to Build High-Speed Wireless
Broadband Networks (ZD Net News)
Mason County Garry Oaks Make the Cut – And Don’t Get Cut! “…BPA
tree crews preserve unique Garry Oak trees during Shelton maintenance work…”
(Mason PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Marketers Rejoice: Twitter No Longer Counts Photos, GIFs,
Videos Toward 140-Character Limit (AdWeek)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Officials Blame Puget Sound Energy for Greenwood Explosion That Injured Seattle Firefighters
- Port of Tacoma Leader Blames Busy Schedule for Lack of Advance Notice on Puget Sound Energy Lease Extension
- Lecture Traces History of Grant PUD Founding
- Southern California Gas to Pay $4-Million Settlement over Massive Porter Ranch Gas Leak
- Texas: Austin Energy Gears Up for Smarter Smart Meters
- How Southern California Edison’s New Rate Case Would Transform the Grid
- Op/Ed: Dams Vital to Idaho Farmers, Offer Reliable, Environmentally Friendly Transportation
- Mason County Garry Oaks Make the Cut – And Don’t Get Cut!
- City of Seattle Seeks $1.6 Million in Fines, Damages for Illegal West Seattle Tree Cutting
- Snohomish PUD Lands $3.5 Million Clean Energy Grant
- Permit Approved for Drilling on Federal Land in Idaho’s Raft River Geothermal Area
- Greens Petition FERC to Intervene in Montana PURPA Fight
- SoloPower Sighting: Company Logs 10,000 Portable Power System Preorders
- Solar Power & Energy Efficiency Need to Work Together Like Peanut Butter & Jelly
- Op/Ed: Washington State Carbon Tax Would Hit Working People Hard
- Iconic Portland Buildings to Go Dark in Campaign to Cut Light Pollution
- AT&T Uses Power Lines to Build High-Speed Wireless Broadband Networks
- Google Fiber Wins Nashville Pole Vote, Readies for AT&T Lawsuit
- North Carolina Town Loses Gigabit Connections after FCC Municipal Broadband Court Loss
- CenturyLink Plans Thousands of Job Cuts This Fall – Cord-Cutting to Blame
- Marketers Rejoice: Twitter No Longer Counts Photos, GIFs, Videos Toward 140-Character Limit
- Regulator: Internet Subjecting U-S Elections to Foreign Influence
- Shelton Police Seek Man Who Invited Child into His Car Near School
- August Unemployment Rises in Mason
- Shelton Waterfront: Sierra Pacific Sawmill Project Ahead of
- Two Shelton Leaders Say Permit Fee Cuts Helped Boost Growth
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ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Officials Blame Puget Sound Energy for Greenwood Explosion
That Injured Seattle Firefighters (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2016/09/20/pse-blamed-greenwood-seattle-explosion-cause.html
Port of Tacoma Leader Blames Busy Schedule for Lack of
Advance Notice on Puget Sound Energy Lease Extension (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA
– Paywall Advisory)
Lecture Traces History of Grant PUD Founding (Columbia Basin
Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Southern California Gas to Pay $4-Million Settlement over Massive
Porter Ranch Gas Leak (Los Angeles Times, CA)
Texas: Austin Energy Gears Up for Smarter Smart Meters (Austin
Monitor, TX)
How Southern California Edison’s New Rate Case Would
Transform the Grid (Utility Dive)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Op/Ed: Dams Vital to Idaho Farmers, Offer Reliable,
Environmentally Friendly Transportation (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Mason County Garry Oaks Make the Cut – And Don’t Get Cut! “…BPA
tree crews preserve unique Garry Oak trees during Shelton maintenance work…”
(Mason PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
City of Seattle Seeks $1.6 Million in Fines, Damages for
Illegal West Seattle Tree Cutting (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Snohomish PUD Lands $3.5 Million Clean Energy Grant (Stanwood
Camano News, WA)
Permit Approved for Drilling on Federal Land in Idaho’s Raft
River Geothermal Area (Renewable Energy World)
Greens Petition FERC to Intervene in Montana PURPA Fight (Utility
Dive)
SoloPower Sighting: Company Logs 10,000 Portable Power
System Preorders (Portland Business Journal, OR)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Solar Power & Energy Efficiency Need to Work Together
Like Peanut Butter & Jelly (The Energy Collective)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Op/Ed: Washington State Carbon Tax Would Hit Working People
Hard (Crosscut Seattle)
SCIENCE SWIMS IN A BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Iconic Portland Buildings to Go Dark in Campaign to Cut
Light Pollution (Oregonian, Portland)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AT&T Uses Power Lines to Build High-Speed Wireless
Broadband Networks (ZD Net News)
Google Fiber Wins Nashville Pole Vote, Readies for AT&T
Lawsuit (Broadband Reports)
North Carolina Town Loses Gigabit Connections after FCC
Municipal Broadband Court Loss (TechDirt)
CenturyLink Plans Thousands of Job Cuts This Fall – Cord-Cutting
to Blame (Oregonian, Portland)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Marketers Rejoice: Twitter No Longer Counts Photos, GIFs,
Videos Toward 140-Character Limit (AdWeek)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Regulator: Internet Subjecting U-S Elections to Foreign
Influence (Washington Examiner)
GENERAL NEWS
Shelton Police Seek Man Who Invited Child into His Car Near
School (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
August Unemployment Rises in Mason County (Mason Web TV,
Shelton, WA)
Shelton Waterfront: Sierra Pacific Sawmill Project Ahead of
Schedule (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Two Shelton Leaders Say Permit Fee Cuts Helped Boost Growth (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
The Mythical Safe That Cost Jack Daniel’s Founder His Life
Just Turned Up in NYC
How Play-Doh Went from Being a Household Cleaning Supply to
a Beloved Toy
NYC Museum Invites Viewers to Use 18-Karat Gold Toilet
Call from Barnstaple, UK, Stumps Police in Barnstable, Mass.
SONG OF THE DAY
Gene McDaniels – A Hundred Pounds of Clay
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