SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
Wet Period Ahead (Cliff Mass Weather Blog)
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Columbia River System Operations EIS: Feds Asking Public to
Weigh in on Breaching Snake River Dams (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Puget Sound Energy Goes to Court Again to Block Liquefied
Natural Gas Plant Disclosures (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Record Number of Sockeye to Spawn in Lake Cle Elum (Yakima
Herald Republic, WA)
Offshore Wind Farms See Promise in Platforms That Float (NY
Times)
How to Email: An Etiquette Update – Brevity Is the Highest
Virtue (Atlantic Magazine)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Columbia River System Operations EIS: Feds Asking Public to Weigh in on Breaching Snake River Dams
- Meeting Schedule for Columbia River System Operations EIS
- Puget Sound Energy Goes to Court Again to Block Liquefied Natural Gas Plant Disclosures
- Grays Harbor PUD Runs 15th Straight Clean Audit
- Tacoma Public Utility’s Easy-To-Understand Utility Bill Lands in Mailboxes This Week
- Future of Montana Coal & Renewable Energy Discussed
- Ohio: Family of Disabled Teen Settles Power Line Lawsuit for $60 Million
- Public Service Company of New Mexico Vows Supreme Court Appeal after Regulators Slash Proposed Rate Hike in Half
- Emergency Preparation: How to Be Power Outage Ready
- Tillamook PUD’s Barbara Johnson Receives Prestigious Award
- Unplugging a Way of Life: Maine Island Eyes Trading Local Control for Cheaper Electricity
- There Are Two Issues the South Australian Blackout Should Make Us Think About
- Record Number of Sockeye to Spawn in Lake Cle Elum
- Columbia Tribal Fishers Preparing for New Food Safety Regulations
- U-S Cities Increasingly Dealing with Messy Goose Poop Problem
- The Duke & Duchess of Cambridge’s Greatest Challenge: Phallic Clams
- Wind Turbines Killing More Than Just Local Birds, Study Finds
- Offshore Wind Farms See Promise in Platforms That Float
- SolarCity, Citi Map Out $347 Million Financing Plan for Solar Projects
- Is New York City Ready for Solar Power?
- NREL Report Shows U-S Solar Photovoltaic Costs Continuing to Fall in 2016
- Energy Advisor: Energy Counselors Connected to History
- Montana PSC Votes to Bring $100 Million for Rural Broadband Investment
- A year of Alphabet: Great for Google, Less So for Moonshots
- Cellphones Spill into Yellowstone’s Wilds Despite Park Plan
- In-Flight GoGo Wi-Fi That’s 10x Faster Is Coming in 2018
- How to Email: An Etiquette Update – Brevity Is the Highest Virtue
- Stop Touting the Crazy Hours You Work – It Helps No One
- ‘Massive’ Shortage of Appraisers Causing Home Sales Delays
- Congress Approves Bill to Return Kennewick Man to Tribes
- Feds Think They Know Who Defaced Death Valley Landmark with Tire Tracks
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silly idea or event in a book, movie discussion, etc., that is serious in tone.
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Mustache on Mona Lisa
Marred by bathos
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Columbia River System Operations EIS: Feds Asking Public to
Weigh in on Breaching Snake River Dams (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Meeting Schedule for Columbia River System Operations EIS (PDF
File – Columbia River System Operations)
Puget Sound Energy Goes to Court Again to Block Liquefied
Natural Gas Plant Disclosures (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Grays Harbor PUD Runs 15th Straight Clean Audit (KXRO Radio,
Aberdeen, WA)
Tacoma Public Utility’s Easy-To-Understand Utility Bill
Lands in Mailboxes This Week (the Suburban Times, Lakewood, WA)
http://thesubtimes.com/2016/09/29/tpus-easy-to-understand-utility-bill-lands-in-mailboxes-this-week/
Future of Montana Coal & Renewable Energy Discussed (KPAX-TV,
Missoula, MT)
Ohio: Family of Disabled Teen Settles Power Line Lawsuit for
$60 Million (Associated Press)
Public Service Company of New Mexico Vows Supreme Court Appeal
after Regulators Slash Proposed Rate Hike in Half (Utility Dive)
Emergency Preparation: How to Be Power Outage Ready
(KTVA-TV, Anchorage, AK)
Tillamook PUD’s Barbara Johnson Receives Prestigious Award
(Tillamook Headlight Herald, OR)
Unplugging a Way of Life: Maine Island Eyes Trading Local
Control for Cheaper Electricity (Bangor Daily News, ME)
There Are Two Issues the South Australian Blackout Should
Make Us Think About (The Guardian, UK)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/30/there-are-two-issues-the-south-australian-blackout-should-make-us-think-about
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/30/there-are-two-issues-the-south-australian-blackout-should-make-us-think-about
FISH & WILDLIFE
Record Number of Sockeye to Spawn in Lake Cle Elum (Yakima
Herald Republic, WA)
Columbia Tribal Fishers Preparing for New Food Safety
Regulations (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
U-S Cities Increasingly Dealing with Messy Goose Poop
Problem (Associated Press)
The Duke & Duchess of Cambridge’s Greatest Challenge: Phallic
Clams (The Telegraph, UK)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Wind Turbines Killing More Than Just Local Birds, Study
Finds (Purdue Agriculture News)
Offshore Wind Farms See Promise in Platforms That Float (NY
Times)
SolarCity, Citi Map Out $347 Million Financing Plan for
Solar Projects (Utility Dive)
Is New York City Ready for Solar Power? (NY Times)
NREL Report Shows U-S Solar Photovoltaic Costs Continuing to
Fall in 2016 (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Energy Advisor: Energy Counselors Connected to History (Vancouver
Columbian, WA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Montana PSC Votes to Bring $100 Million for Rural Broadband
Investment (Telecompetitor)
A year of Alphabet: Great for Google, Less So for Moonshots
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
Cellphones Spill into Yellowstone’s Wilds Despite Park Plan
(Phys.Org)
In-Flight GoGo Wi-Fi That’s 10x Faster Is Coming in 2018
(Mashable)
MARKETING & MEDIA
How to Email: An Etiquette Update – Brevity Is the Highest
Virtue (Atlantic Magazine)
MANAGEMENT IN A TEACUP
Stop Touting the Crazy Hours You Work – It Helps No One (Washington
Post)
GENERAL NEWS
‘Massive’ Shortage of Appraisers Causing Home Sales Delays
(CNBC)
Congress Approves Bill to Return Kennewick Man to Tribes (KING-TV,
Seattle, WA)
Feds Think They Know Who Defaced Death Valley Landmark with
Tire Tracks (Associated Press)
DOGGIE DRESS-UP – DIVERSIONS
Patient Lotto Player Wins $1 Million After Someone Cut in
Front of Him in Line
Is Your Dog’s Halloween Costume Sexist?
Painting Last Seen in 1913 Found on ‘Roadshow’
Man Who Got Generations Singing Oscar Mayer Wiener Song Dies
(Look out! He’s got a banjo ukulele!
SONG OF THE DAY
Jerome Courtland - Old Yeller Theme Song
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