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SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Massive Solar Projects Will Power Facebook’s Prineville Data
Centers (Oregonian, Portland)
Portland General Electric, & Ratepayers, Off the Hook
for $130M Cost Overruns on Boardman Plant (Portland Business Journal, OR)
Warm Water Threatens What Should Be Bumper Year for Fraser
River Sockeye (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fraser-river-sockeye-2018-forecast-1.4750305?cmp=rss
Google Hit with Record $5 Billion Fine by European Union
(Bloomberg News)
Mason County Sheriff: High Number of Wildfires ‘Suspicious’
– Sets Up Task Force to Investigate (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
1.
Portland General Electric, & Ratepayers, Off
the Hook for $130M Cost Overruns on Boardman Plant
2.
Wildfire Bill Favoring Pacific Gas &
Electric Authored by Assemblyman Whose Son Works There
3.
Warm Water Threatens What Should Be Bumper Year
for Fraser River Sockeye
4.
Massive Solar Projects Will Power Facebook’s
Prineville Data Centers
5.
Salt River Project Launches Thermostat Demand
Management Program
6.
Video: You Can Slash Your Electric Bill with
LEDs
7.
WSU Study Finds Why Smoking Marijuana Causes the
Munchies
8.
The Return of Supersonic Planes Could Mean
Serious Pollution Problems
9.
Google Hit with Record $5 Billion Fine by
European Union
10.
Google Announces Plan to Lay Massive Subsea
Cable from Virginia to France
11.
Rising Broadband Speeds
12.
Mason County Sheriff: High Number of Wildfires
‘Suspicious’ – Sets Up Task Force to Investigate
13.
‘It’s Just a Tinder Box Out Here’ – Fire Near
the Dalles Grows, Prompting Evacuation Orders
14.
Summer Air Quality in Washington State Some of
the Worst in Lower 48
15.
Plan for Timber High-Rise in Portland’s Pearl
District Shelved
16.
Seattle’s Official Bird? The Construction Crane
– Seattle Tops the Nation in Tower Cranes for Third Straight Year as
Construction Reaches New Peak
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
1.
Portland General Electric, & Ratepayers, Off
the Hook for $130M Cost Overruns on Boardman Plant (Portland Business Journal,
OR)
2.
Wildfire Bill Favoring Pacific Gas & Electric
Authored by Assemblyman Whose Son Works There (L.A. Biz)
FISH & WILDLIFE
3.
Warm Water Threatens What Should Be Bumper Year for
Fraser River Sockeye (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fraser-river-sockeye-2018-forecast-1.4750305?cmp=rss
RENEWABLE ENERGY & SELF STORAGE
4.
Massive Solar Projects Will Power Facebook’s
Prineville Data Centers (Oregonian, Portland)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
5.
Salt River Project Launches Thermostat Demand
Management Program (American Public Power Association)
6.
Video: You Can Slash Your Electric Bill with LEDs
(USA Today)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
7.
WSU Study Finds Why Smoking Marijuana Causes the
Munchies (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI – DRIVING ON SUNSHINE
8.
The Return of Supersonic Planes Could Mean
Serious Pollution Problems (Mashable)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
9.
Google Hit with Record $5 Billion Fine by European
Union (Bloomberg News)
10. Google
Announces Plan to Lay Massive Subsea Cable from Virginia to France (Gizmodo)
11. Rising
Broadband Speeds (Pots & Pans)
GENERAL NEWS
12. Mason
County Sheriff: High Number of Wildfires ‘Suspicious’ – Sets Up Task Force to
Investigate (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
13. ‘It’s
Just a Tinder Box Out Here’ – Fire Near the Dalles Grows, Prompting Evacuation
Orders (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
14. Summer
Air Quality in Washington State Some of the Worst in Lower 48 (KCPQ-TV, Seattle,
WA)
15. Plan
for Timber High-Rise in Portland’s Pearl District Shelved (Vancouver Columbian,
WA)
16. Seattle’s
Official Bird? The Construction Crane – Seattle Tops the Nation in Tower Cranes
for Third Straight Year as Construction Reaches New Peak (Seattle Times, WA –
Paywall Advisory)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
Ray Manzarek – Riders on the Storm (bringing it all
together)
The Great American Read – America’s 100 Most-Loved Books
This Huge, Sexy Jeff Goldblum Statue Is Exactly What the
World Needs
Jupiter’s Moon Count Reaches 79, Including Tiny ‘Oddball’
SONG OF THE DAY
Mozart – Jupiter Symphony
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