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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Western WA State: Flood
Warnings Continue, with High Winds, Heavy Rain Cutting Power, Closing Roads
(KIRO News, Seattle, WA)
EIA Expects U.S. Power
Use to Rise 3% in 2021 as Economy Recovers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/eia-expects-us-power-use-rise-3-2021-economy-recovers-2021-11-09/
Some Old Dams in the
U.S. & Canada Are Being Given a New Power: Generating Clean Electricity
(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-hydro-dams-new-power-1.6245422
New Puget Sound Report
Finds These ‘Red Flags’ Toward Environmental Recovery Goals (News Tribune,
Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/washington/article255717971.html
How the Federal
Infrastructure Bill Could Expand Broadband Access (Yahoo News)
https://news.yahoo.com/infrastructure-bill-could-expand-broadband-220115376.html
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (See Stories Below)
1. Western
WA State: Flood Warnings Continue, with High Winds, Heavy Rain Cutting Power,
Closing Roads
2. Eastern
WA State: Windy Weather Causes Outages
3. EIA
Expects U.S. Power Use to Rise 3% in 2021 as Economy Recovers
4. U.S.
Households Face Biggest Surge in Electricity Costs Since 2009
5. Power
Grid, Bonneville Power Administration, Nuclear Energy - How Could the $1
Trillion Federal Infrastructure Act Help Tri-Cities?
6. WA
State: Carbon-Free Sources, Demand Response Incentives Part of Pacific Power’s
Clean Energy Plan
7. Wyoming:
Can a Coal State Go Nuclear?
8. How
Reliable Are Your State’s Electric Providers? AZ, CA, ID, MT, NV, OR, UT, WA,
WY
9. Power
Play Pits Rural Utah Concerns Against Southern California
10. WA
State: Chelan PUD Proposes System Impact Fees
11. Vegetation
Management Takes to the Skies with Helicopter Tree Trimming
12. Power
Line Debate: Clean Energy or Environmental Harm?
13. Blackout
Fears Amid Energy Crunch Boosts Gas Cookers, Lantern Sales in Spain
14. Guest
Essay: Calling for Honesty in Dams Fight as President Biden, WA Gov. Inslee
Urge Climate Action in Glasgow
15. The
Case Against Hydro Power
16. Nuclear
May Be the Ticket to a Carbon-Free Future. Why Do Environmentalists Hate It?
17. Some
Old Dams in the U.S. & Canada Are Being Given a New Power: Generating Clean
Electricity
18. WA
State: King County Trash Could Go Up in Smoke One Day - To the Benefit of
Electricity Customers
19. California:
Massive Morro Bay Offshore Wind Farm Proposal Starts Environmental Review.
What’s Next?
20. How
Do Wind Farms Change Small Towns?
21. NW
Natural Forms Subsidiary to Invest in Renewable Natural Gas
22. Colorado
Farmers Embrace Micro-Hydropower Energy Projects to Cut Cost, Add to the Grid
23. U.S.
Rep Herrera Beutler (R-WA) Visits Bonneville Dam to See Effects of Salmon
Legislation
24. Tearing
the Web: Invasive Trout Disrupt Glacier Park’s Lakes
25. Sea
Lions Are Reclaiming Their Territory in New Zealand, Humans Be Damned
26. This
Washington State Whiskey Is for Protecting Salmon
27. New
Puget Sound Report Finds These ‘Red Flags’ Toward Environmental Recovery Goals
28. Cannabis
Requires More Water Than Commodity Crops, Researchers Say
29. Groups
Accuse Seattle City Light of Using Misinformation to Obtain Green Status on
Skagit Dams
30. How
the Federal Infrastructure Bill Could Expand Broadband Access
31. Students
Are Still Struggling to Get Internet. The Infrastructure Bill Could Help
32. Bitfarms
Acquires Unnamed 24-MW Hydro Power Plant in Washington State
33. What
the Extension of Cybersecurity Standards Beyond NERC Critical Infrastructure
Protection Means to Utilities
34. Montana Is One of the Worst Ready States for Electric Vehicles
WORD OF THE DAY
Pariah \PUH-RYE-uh\ Noun – 1: one that is despised or rejected 2: a member of a low caste of southern India
Bobo the clown was crushed. He thought his grease-painted friends would love his new shoes, but instead, he was banished from the clown car for two weeks because they were “way too small” according to the clown prince. “A pariah over shoe size,” Bobo grumbled. “Next thing you know, they’ll be regulating clown nose colors!”
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
2.
Eastern WA State: Windy Weather Causes Outages (KHQ-TV,
Spokane, WA)
3. EIA
Expects U.S. Power Use to Rise 3% in 2021 as Economy Recovers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/eia-expects-us-power-use-rise-3-2021-economy-recovers-2021-11-09/
4.
U.S. Households Face Biggest Surge in
Electricity Costs Since 2009 (Yahoo News)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-electricity-costs-surge-most-151622541.html
5.
Power Grid, Bonneville Power Administration, Nuclear
Energy - How Could the $1 Trillion Federal Infrastructure Act Help Tri-Cities? (Tri-City
Herald, WA)
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article255645346.html
6.
WA State: Carbon-Free Sources, Demand Response
Incentives Part of Pacific Power’s Clean Energy Plan (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
7.
Wyoming: Can a Coal State Go Nuclear? (Casper
Star Tribune, WY)
8.
How Reliable Are Your State’s Electric
Providers? AZ, CA, ID, MT, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY (Patch)
https://energynewsfeed.blogspot.com/2021/11/how-reliable-are-your-states-electric.html
9.
Power Play Pits Rural Utah Concerns Against Southern
California (Deseret News, Salt Lake City, UT)
10.
WA State: Chelan PUD Proposes System Impact Fees
(KOZI-Radio, Chelan, WA)
https://www.kozi.com/pud-proposes-system-impact-fees/
11.
Vegetation Management Takes to the Skies with Helicopter
Tree Trimming (Bonneville Power Administration)
12.
Power Line Debate: Clean Energy or Environmental
Harm? (U.S. News & World Report)
13.
Blackout Fears Amid Energy Crunch Boosts Gas
Cookers, Lantern Sales in Spain (Reuters)
SOAPBOX SERENADE – VOX POPULI
14.
Guest Essay: Calling for Honesty in Dams Fight as
President Biden, WA Gov. Inslee Urge Climate Action in Glasgow (Walla Walla
Union-Bulletin, WA)
15.
The Case Against Hydro Power (Yale Environment
360)
16.
Nuclear May Be the Ticket to a Carbon-Free
Future. Why Do Environmentalists Hate It? (Shore News Network)
RENEWABLE ENERGY & SELF STORAGE
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-hydro-dams-new-power-1.6245422
18.
WA State: King County Trash Could Go Up in Smoke
One Day - To the Benefit of Electricity Customers (KOMO News, Seattle, WA)
19.
California: Massive Morro Bay Offshore Wind Farm
Proposal Starts Environmental Review. What’s Next? (San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA)
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/environment/article255768621.html
20.
How Do Wind Farms Change Small Towns? (KNXV-TV, Phoenix,
AZ)
https://www.abc15.com/news/national-politics/how-do-wind-farms-change-small-towns
21.
NW Natural Forms Subsidiary to Invest in Renewable
Natural Gas (Portland Business Journal, OR – Paywall Advisory)
https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2021/11/11/nw-natural-renewables-rng.html
22.
Colorado Farmers Embrace Micro-Hydropower Energy
Projects to Cut Cost, Add to the Grid (Loveland Reporter-Herald, CO)
FISH & WILDLIFE
23.
U.S. Rep Herrera Beutler (R-WA) Visits
Bonneville Dam to See Effects of Salmon Legislation (The Chronicle, Centralia,
WA)
24.
Tearing the Web: Invasive Trout Disrupt Glacier Park’s
Lakes (Associated Press)
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2021/11/tearing-the-web-invasive-trout-disrupt-glacier-parks-lakes/
25.
Sea Lions Are Reclaiming Their Territory in New
Zealand, Humans Be Damned (Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/sea-lions-are-reclaiming-their-territory-in-new-zealand-1848016861
26.
This Washington State Whiskey Is for Protecting
Salmon (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/11/13/this-whiskey-is-for-protecting-salmon/
ENVIRONMENTAL AFFLATUS – CLEAN UP ON AISLE THREE
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/washington/article255717971.html
WATER, WATER, ANYWHERE?
28.
Cannabis Requires More Water Than Commodity
Crops, Researchers Say (Marijuana Business Daily)
https://mjbizdaily.com/cannabis-requires-more-water-than-commodity-crops-researchers-say/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
29.
Groups Accuse Seattle City Light of Using Misinformation
to Obtain Green Status on Skagit Dams (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
30. How
the Federal Infrastructure Bill Could Expand Broadband Access (Yahoo News)
https://news.yahoo.com/infrastructure-bill-could-expand-broadband-220115376.html
31.
Students Are Still Struggling to Get Internet. The
Infrastructure Bill Could Help (National Public Radio)
THE WIZARDING WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY
32.
Bitfarms Acquires Unnamed 24-MW Hydro Power
Plant in Washington State (Hydro Review)
33.
What the Extension of Cybersecurity Standards
Beyond NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection Means to Utilities (Utility
Dive)
I SING THE CAR ELECTRIC
34.
Montana Is One of the Worst Ready States for
Electric Vehicles (KISS-Radio, Bozeman, MT)
https://bozemanskissfm.com/montana-is-one-of-the-worst-ready-states-for-electric-vehicles/
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
Authors Who Made Their
Mark with Made-Up Words
$300 Gold Tooth Donated
to Salvation Army Thrift Store in Arizona
Labor Shortage Hits Santa
Supply as Workers Weigh COVID-19 Risks
https://abc7chicago.com/santa-claus-labor-shortage-christmas-2021-covid/11232371/
Earth Has a Second
Moon—For Another 300 Years, At Least
https://time.com/6116644/earth-second-moon/
SONG OF THE DAY
Ella Fitzgerald - How
High the Moon
