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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
California Scrambles to
Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures (CNBC)
https://cbnc.com/california-scrambles-to-find-electricity-to-offset-plant-closures/
Faced with a Power
Crisis, China May Have ‘Little Choice’ But to Ramp Up Coal Consumption (CNBC)
Researchers Make
Surprising Discovery While Tracking Chinook Salmon in Salish Sea, British
Columbia – Lots of Salmon (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
President Biden’s Wind
Farm Sale Opens Path to Turbines on Nearly All Coasts (Bakersfield Californian,
CA)
Vice-President Harris
to Discuss Drought, Climate Change at Lake Mead (Associated Press)
https://mynorthwest.com/3191436/harris-to-discuss-drought-climate-change-at-lake-mead/
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (See Stories Below)
1. California
Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures
2. Faced
with a Power Crisis, China May Have ‘Little Choice’ But to Ramp Up Coal
Consumption
3. Annual
U.S. Coal-Fired Electricity Generation Will Increase for the First Time Since
2014
4. Hydropower
Decline Adds Strain to Power Grids in Drought
5. Oregon:
Energy Bills Expected to Increase, Impacting Gas & Electric Bills
6. ‘I
Have Never Felt So Hopeless’: Millions in U.S. Fear Utility Shutoffs as Debts
Rise
7. WA
State: Cowlitz County PUD Uses Helicopter to Trim Trees Due to Climbing Crew
Shortage
8. Meet
Transmission Energy Imbalance Market Settlements: The Team That Doesn’t Settle
for Less
9. Guest
Essay: An Opportunity for Respectful Dialogue on Salmon & Dams
10. Guest
Essay: Clean Energy, Wild Salmon Critical for the Future of the Columbia Basin
11. Guest
Essay: George Caan & Kent Lopez - Keeping the Lights on as We Transition to
a Clean Energy Future – Lessons from California
12. Editorial:
Bonneville Power Administration Has Reason to Boast
13. President
Biden’s Wind Farm Sale Opens Path to Turbines on Nearly All Coasts
14. Idaho
National Lab to Work with PNW Hydrogen on Clean Hydrogen Project
15. The
Carbon Fight’s Mundane Frontier: Retrofitting Homes & Buildings
16. How
to Get the Most Out of a Home Energy Audit
17. Researchers
Make Surprising Discovery While Tracking Chinook Salmon in Salish Sea, British
Columbia – Lots of Salmon
18. No
Apparent Shortage of Prey for Southern Resident Killer Whales in Canadian
Waters During Summer
19. WA
Gov. Inslee, U.S. Senator Murray Plan New Report on Breaching Snake River Dams.
‘We Need an Answer’
20. The
Fight to Save the Pacific Northwest Salmon
21. Idaho
– Pink Salmon Makes Rare Appearance 400 Miles Inland
22. States,
Tribes, & NGOs Hold Polluters Accountable in a ‘Tidal Wave’ of Greenwashing
Lawsuits
23. Vancouver,
BC: Company Set to Build Wastewater Treatment Plant Decries Contract
Cancellation
24. Vice-President
Harris to Discuss Drought, Climate Change at Lake Mead
25. Lake
Tahoe Water Level Drops as Drought, Climate Change Plague Resort
26. BC
Hydro Report Points to Carbon Footprint Confusion
27. WA
State: Thurston County May Get High Speed Internet Thanks to Nisqually Tribe
28. WA
State: Lewis County Joins ToledoTel in Effort to Expand Broadband
29. New
York: Bitcoin-Mining Power Plant Raises Ire of Environmentalists
30. La Niña’s Back. Here’s How It Will Affect the Weather
WORD OF THE DAY
Empyreal /emp-pie-REE-ull/ Adjective – 1: of or relating to the heavens or firmament: celestial 2: sublime.
Spangled night of stars
Sky of empyreal glory
Pinpoint lights shine bright
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
1. California
Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures (CNBC)
https://cbnc.com/california-scrambles-to-find-electricity-to-offset-plant-closures/
2. Faced
with a Power Crisis, China May Have ‘Little Choice’ But to Ramp Up Coal
Consumption (CNBC)
3.
Annual U.S. Coal-Fired Electricity Generation
Will Increase for the First Time Since 2014 (U.S. Energy Information
Administration)
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=49996
4.
Hydropower Decline Adds Strain to Power Grids in
Drought (Associated Press)
5.
Oregon: Energy Bills Expected to Increase,
Impacting Gas & Electric Bills (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
https://katu.com/news/local/energy-bills-expected-to-increase-impacting-gas-and-electric-bills
6.
‘I Have Never Felt So Hopeless’: Millions in U.S.
Fear Utility Shutoffs as Debts Rise (The Guardian, UK)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/13/us-utility-bills-shutoffs-debt-covid-coronavirus
7.
WA State: Cowlitz County PUD Uses Helicopter to
Trim Trees Due to Climbing Crew Shortage (Longview Daily News, WA)
8.
Meet Transmission Energy Imbalance Market
Settlements: The Team That Doesn’t Settle for Less (Bonneville Power Administration)
SOAPBOX SERENADE – VOX POPULI
9.
Guest Essay: An Opportunity for Respectful
Dialogue on Salmon & Dams (Eugene Register-Guard, OR – Paywall Advisory)
10.
Guest Essay: Clean Energy, Wild Salmon Critical for
the Future of the Columbia Basin (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
11.
Guest Essay: George Caan & Kent Lopez - Keeping
the lights on as we transition to a clean energy future – lessons from
California (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA – Paywall Advisory)
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/oct/12/george-caan-and-kent-lopez-keeping-the-lights-on-a/
12.
Editorial: Bonneville Power Administration Has
Reason to Boast (Lewiston Tribune, ID)
RENEWABLE ENERGY & SELF STORAGE
14.
Idaho National Lab to Work with PNW Hydrogen on Clean
Hydrogen Project (Daily Energy Insider)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
15.
The Carbon Fight’s Mundane Frontier: Retrofitting
Homes & Buildings (Crosscut Seattle, WA)
16.
How to Get the Most Out of a Home Energy Audit (Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-energy-audit-1.6211198?cmp=rss
FISH & WILDLIFE
18.
No Apparent Shortage of Prey for Southern
Resident Killer Whales in Canadian Waters During Summer (University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, BC)
19.
WA Gov. Inslee, U.S. Senator Murray Plan New
Report on Breaching Snake River Dams. ‘We Need an Answer’ (Tri-City Herald, WA)
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article255030822.html
20.
The Fight to Save the Pacific Northwest Salmon
(TIME Magazine)
https://time.com/6105484/pacific-salmon-endangered-washington/
21.
Idaho – Pink Salmon Makes Rare Appearance 400
Miles Inland (Idaho State Journal)
ENVIRONMENTAL AFFLATUS – CLEAN UP ON AISLE THREE
22.
States, Tribes, & NGOs Hold Polluters
Accountable in a ‘Tidal Wave’ of Greenwashing Lawsuits (Grist Online)
23.
Vancouver, BC: Company Set to Build Wastewater
Treatment Plant Decries Contract Cancellation (Victoria Times-Colonist, BC)
WATER, WATER, ANYWHERE?
24. Vice-President
Harris to Discuss Drought, Climate Change at Lake Mead (Associated Press)
https://mynorthwest.com/3191436/harris-to-discuss-drought-climate-change-at-lake-mead/
25.
Lake Tahoe Water Level Drops as Drought, Climate
Change Plague Resort (Los Angeles Times, CA)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-17/lake-tahoe-water-level-drops
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
26.
BC Hydro Report Points to Carbon Footprint
Confusion (e-know Canada)
https://www.e-know.ca/regions/east-kootenay/bc-hydro-report-points-to-carbon-footprint-confusion/
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article255046322.html
28.
WA State: Lewis County Joins ToledoTel in Effort
to Expand Broadband (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
https://www.chronline.com/stories/lewis-county-joins-toledotel-in-effort-to-expand-broadband,275185
THE WIZARDING WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY
29.
New York: Bitcoin-Mining Power Plant Raises Ire of
Environmentalists (Associated Press)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI – SEETHING STEW OF SCIENCE
30.
La Niña’s Back. Here’s How It Will Affect the
Weather (Associated Press)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/la-nina-2021-1.6212257?cmp=rss
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
Craft Brewing in the Pacific
NW Dates So Far Back That Archaeologists Are on the Case
A Museum Says They Gave
an Artist $84,000 in Cash to Use in Artwork. He Delivered Blank Canvases &
Titled Them ‘Take the Money & Run.’
Couple Gets to Airport to
Find Luggage Is Overweight Because of Stowaway Dog
https://finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/couple-gets-airport-luggage-overweight-064224661.html
Squirrel Fills North
Dakota Man’s Pickup Truck with 42 Gallons of Walnuts
SONG OF THE DAY
Tom T. Hall – I Like
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