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SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
Marine Forecast for Puget Sound & Hood Canal
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Orca Task Force to Write Blueprint to Save Dying Species
(KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
Advocates Sound Alarm on Unfolding Disaster in British
Columbia Salmon Fishing Industry – B.C. is seeing its worst commercial fishing
season in 50 years (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Mason PUD 3 Commissioners Considering 2020 Budget – Budget
includes first rate increase since 2016 (Mason PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
The Next Target in the Climate-Change Debate: Your Gas Stove
(Reuters)
Gov. Inslee & Sen. King to Dedicate Klickitat PUD
Renewable Natural Gas Plant (Gorge Country Media, The Dalles, OR)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
1.
Mason PUD 3 Commissioners Considering 2020
Budget – Budget includes first rate increase since 2016
2.
Benton PUD to Implement 2.9% Rate Increase
October 1, 2019
3.
Pacific Gas & Electric Looks to Cap Wildfire
Costs at $18 Billion Through Its Bankruptcy Plan
4.
As Earth Faces Climate Catastrophe, U.S. Set to
Open Nearly 200 Power Plants
5.
How Old Nukes Can Help Green New Dealers
6.
Orca Task Force to Write Blueprint to Save Dying
Species
7.
Photo: Port Angeles City Council Member ‘Stands’
Up for Orcas in Protest
8.
Could A Seal Cull in Canada Help Salish Salmon
& Southern Resident Orcas?
9.
Advocates Sound Alarm on Unfolding Disaster in
British Columbia Salmon Fishing Industry
10.
Snake & Columbia River Steelhead Forecast
Downgrades
11.
California Sails Toward Biggest Salmon Harvest
in Years
12.
Gov. Inslee & Sen. King to Dedicate
Klickitat PUD Renewable Natural Gas Plant
13.
Lewis County: Skookumchuck Wind Energy Project
Enters Construction Phase
14.
City Grids Risk Being Overwhelmed by Electric
Vehicle Growth: Report
15.
The Next Target in the Climate-Change Debate:
Your Gas Stove
16.
How a Natural Gas Ban in Seattle Could Affect
Housing Market
17.
British Columbia Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still
Near 2007 Levels, Ministry Says
18.
Controversial Biofuels Project Gets Lease on
Lower Columbia River
19.
Burn Restrictions Lifted in Mason County
20.
Work Underway for New Hybrid-Electric State
Ferry
21.
Bonneville Dam Lock Closure Stops Inland Grain
Exports to Global Markets
WORD OF THE DAY
Heliolatry • \hee-lee-AH-luh-tree\ • noun – Sun worship
“Boy, those ancient religions and their sun worship,”
scoffed Tiffani to her deeply tanned companion. “How they would have the gall
to worship the sun as a god and arrange their lives around its heavenly path is
beyond me,” she sighed as she slathered on another layer of sunscreen to ward
off the effects of another four hours spent on sunbathing. Her unwitting
heliolatry would be her undoing ten years later.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
1.
Mason PUD 3 Commissioners Considering 2020
Budget – Budget includes first rate increase since 2016 (Mason PUD 3, Shelton,
WA)
2.
Benton PUD to Implement 2.9% Rate Increase October
1, 2019 (KFFX-TV, Kennewick, WA)
3.
Pacific Gas & Electric Looks to Cap Wildfire
Costs at $18 Billion Through Its Bankruptcy Plan (Los Angeles Times, CA)
4.
As Earth Faces Climate Catastrophe, U.S. Set to Open
Nearly 200 Power Plants (USA Today)
5.
How Old Nukes Can Help Green New Dealers (Washington
Post)
FISH & WILDLIFE
6.
Orca Task Force to Write Blueprint to Save Dying
Species (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
7.
Photo: Port Angeles City Council Member ‘Stands’
Up for Orcas in Protest (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, Wa)
8.
Could A Seal Cull in Canada Help Salish Salmon &
Southern Resident Orcas? (KNKX Radio, Tacoma, WA)
9.
Advocates Sound Alarm on Unfolding Disaster in
British Columbia Salmon Fishing Industry – B.C. is seeing its worst commercial
fishing season in 50 years (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
10. Snake
& Columbia River Steelhead Forecast Downgrades (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
11. California
Sails Toward Biggest Salmon Harvest in Years (Associated Press)
RENEWABLE ENERGY & SELF STORAGE
12. Gov.
Inslee & Sen. King to Dedicate Klickitat PUD Renewable Natural Gas Plant
(Gorge Country Media, The Dalles, OR)
13. Lewis
County: Skookumchuck Wind Energy Project Enters Construction Phase (The Chronicle,
Centralia, WA)
I SING THE CAR ELECTRIC
14. City
Grids Risk Being Overwhelmed by Electric Vehicle Growth: Report (Utility Dive)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
15. The
Next Target in the Climate-Change Debate: Your Gas Stove (Reuters)
16. How
a Natural Gas Ban in Seattle Could Affect Housing Market (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle,
WA)
17. British
Columbia Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Near 2007 Levels, Ministry Says (Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI – SEETHING STEW OF SCIENCE
18. Controversial
Biofuels Project Gets Lease on Lower Columbia River (Northwest Public Radio)
GENERAL NEWS
19. Burn
Restrictions Lifted in Mason County (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
20. Work
Underway for New Hybrid-Electric State Ferry (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton – Paywall
Advisory)
21. Bonneville
Dam Lock Closure Stops Inland Grain Exports to Global Markets (Northwest Public
Radio)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
Woman Tries to Use Drone to Deliver Drugs to Prison, Warrant
Says
New Species of Electric Eel Is the Most Shocking Yet
'Lady M' Cakes: Delivery Man in Hot Water Over Alleged
Thefts
Animal Poop Forces Cancellation of World's Biggest Bounce
House Event in Oakland
SONG OF THE DAY
Donna Summer - MacArthur Park
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