Energy News Digest for March 22, 2017 – Hot Shots Edition

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SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS

Weather Forecast for March 22, 2017

Special Weather Statement – Landslide Danger

Small Craft Advisory for Puget Sound & Hood Canal

HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP STORIES

Flood Warning Continues on Columbia River at Vancouver (Oregonian, Portland)

http://www.oregonlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2017/03/flood_warning_continues_on_col.html

Tacoma Public Utilities Customers Fight Rate Hikes (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)

http://www.king5.com/news/local/tacoma-utility-consumers-fight-rate-hikes/424499299

Happy 76^th Anniversary: Electric Generators at Grand Coulee Dam Go Online for the First Time March 22, 1941 (HistoryLink)

http://www.historylink.org/File/9798

Water for Fish, Farms, & People (Northwest Power & Conservation Council)

https://www.nwcouncil.org/news/blog/water-transactions-march-2017/

Record Precipitation, Snowpack in California Expected to Increase Hydro Generation in 2017 (U-S Energy Information Administration)

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=30452

SmartHub Available to Benton PUD Customers (KNDO/KNDU,-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)

http://www.nbcrightnow.com/story/34973581/smarthub-available-to-benton-pud-customers

Fifteen Winners Emerge in Oregon's Hotly Contested Solar Incentive Derby (Portland Business Journal, OR)

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2017/03/21/15-winners-emerge-in-oregons-hotly-contested-solar.html

Clallam County: Electrocuted Bird Dubbed Sparky ‘Acting More Like an Eagle Every Day’ (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/electrocuted-bird-dubbed-sparky-acting-more-like-an-eagle-every-day/

Mason County Sheriff’s Office: Overall Crime Numbers Decline in Mason County (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)

http://www.ifiberonenewsradio.com/news/local_news/sheriff-s-office-overall-crime-numbers-decline-in-mason-county/article_35b3fdb8-0e8c-11e7-aa1e-f7bfcfb94c88.html

Judge Convicts Four Malheur Occupiers of Misdemeanor Charges (Oregon Public Broadcasting)

http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/malheur-occupation-misdemeanor-verdict-guilty/

Weston Appointed to Hospital Board as Trucksess Retires (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)

http://masonwebtv.com/archives/24636

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