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Hotshots – Today’s Top Five Stories
Cliff Mass Warns of
Powerful Storm Approaching: ‘It Will Be as Strong as a Hurricane’ (KIRO
Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
https://mynorthwest.com/4010489/cliff-mass-warns-of-powerful-storm-approaching-western-washington/
Canada Working with
Biden Team to Finalize British Columbia River Treaty Before Trump Takes Office (Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/columbia-river-treaty-trump-1.7384899?cmp=rss
Incoming Trump Admin
Likely to Pull Back on Push to Breach Snake River Dams (The Center Square – Via
MSN)
Horse Heaven
Windmills Behind Potential Lawsuit Against WA Governor (KNDO/KNDU-TV,
Yakima/Tri-Cities, WA)
Klamath River:
Salmon Return to Lay Eggs in Historic Habitat After Largest Dam Removal Project
in U.S. History (Associated Press)
News Highlights (See
Stories Below)
1. Canada
Working with Biden Team to Finalize British Columbia River Treaty Before Trump
Takes Office
2. Incoming
Trump Admin Likely to Pull Back on Push to Breach Snake River Dams
3. Defect
in Albeni Falls Dam Spillway Gate Could Take Years to Fully Replace. North
Idaho Residents Worry a Way of Life Is at Stake
4. Natural
Gas Supply Is a Bulk Power Reliability Risk This Winter: NERC
5. FERC’s
Talen Energy-Amazon Decision Unlikely to Impact NuScale Data Center Plans: CEO
6. U.S.
Department of Energy Invests Nearly $15 Million to Enhance Hydropower's Ability
to Support Electricity Grids
7. APPA,
NRECA Voice Concerns About Provisions in Energy Permitting Reform Bill
8. Zambia:
Why Hydropower Is Failing This Nation — And Could Fail Others
9. Plastic
Waste Chokes Congo Dam, Causing Widespread Power Cuts
10. Erin
Green, New Western Area Power Administration Chief of Staff Selected
11. Horse
Heaven Windmills Behind Potential Lawsuit Against WA Governor
12. Utah:
Logan City Light & Power Energizes Utility’s First Battery Energy Storage
System
13. FERC
Approves MISO, SPP Transmission Plan Expected to Spur 29 GW of Renewables
14. Chart:
Most Americans Support Expanding Solar & Wind Power
15. These
Are the Environmental Rules That Will Likely Outlive Trump
16. Klamath
River: Salmon Return to Lay Eggs in Historic Habitat After Largest Dam Removal
Project in U.S. History
17. The
Power of a Logjam: A Vision of the Northwest’s Rivers of Old
18. Orcas
Return to Penn Cove After 50 Years
19. More
Logging Is Proposed to Help Curb Wildfires in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
20. WA
State: Grant PUD Fiber Project at the Finish Line
21. WA
State Panel Not Ready to Scrap Building Codes Targeted by Gas Initiative
22. Trump
Picks Oil-Industry CEO Chris Wright as Energy Secretary Nominee
23. Trump
Names Brendan Carr, Senior GOP Leader at FCC, to Lead the Agency
24. Cliff
Mass Warns of Powerful Storm Approaching: ‘It Will Be as Strong as a Hurricane’
25. Snow,
Rain to Slam U.S. as Winter Storms Ramp Up Ahead of Early Thanksgiving Travel
26. Record
80 Million Americans Expected to Travel for Thanksgiving Holiday, Industry
Group Says
27.
Recognizing the Four Lower Snake River Dams
& the Value They Provide to Eastern Washington
Word of the Day – The Horrible Haiku Edition
Tatterdemalion /tatt-ter-duh-MAYL-ee-un/ Adjective – 1: ragged or disreputable in appearance 2: being in a decayed state or condition: dilapidated
A Dickens hero
Brave tatterdemalion
May I have some more?
Energy & Utility
Issues
1.
Canada Working with Biden Team to Finalize British
Columbia River Treaty Before Trump Takes Office (Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/columbia-river-treaty-trump-1.7384899?cmp=rss
2.
Incoming Trump Admin Likely to Pull Back on Push
to Breach Snake River Dams (The Center Square – Via MSN)
3.
Defect in Albeni Falls Dam Spillway Gate Could
Take Years to Fully Replace. North Idaho Residents Worry a Way of Life Is At
Stake (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA – Paywall Advisory)
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/nov/17/defect-in-albeni-falls-dam-spillway-gate-could-tak/
4.
Natural Gas Supply Is a Bulk Power Reliability
Risk This Winter: NERC (Utility Dive)
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/natural-gas-supply-a-bulk-power-reliability-risk-NERC-NGSA/733030/
5.
FERC’s Talen Energy-Amazon Decision Unlikely to Impact
NuScale Data Center Plans: CEO (Utility Dive)
6.
U.S. Department of Energy Invests Nearly $15
Million to Enhance Hydropower's Ability to Support Electricity Grids (U.S. Dept
of Energy)
7.
APPA, NRECA Voice Concerns About Provisions in Energy
Permitting Reform Bill (American Public Power Association)
8.
Zambia: Why Hydropower Is Failing This Nation —
And Could Fail Others (Washington Post – Via MSN)
9.
Plastic Waste Chokes Congo Dam, Causing
Widespread Power Cuts (Reuters)
10.
Erin Green, New Western Area Power
Administration Chief of Staff Selected (Western Area Power Administration)
https://www.wapa.gov/wapa-selects-next-chief-of-staff/
Renewable Energy & Self
Storage
11.
Horse Heaven Windmills Behind Potential Lawsuit
Against WA Governor (KNDO/KNDU-TV, Yakima/Tri-Cities, WA)
12.
Utah: Logan City Light & Power Energizes
Utility’s First Battery Energy Storage System (American Public Power
Association)
13.
FERC Approves MISO, SPP Transmission Plan
Expected to Spur 29 GW of Renewables (Utility Dive)
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-miso-spp-jtiq-joint-transmission-interconnection/733047/
14.
Chart: Most Americans Support Expanding Solar &
Wind Power (Canary Media)
Conservation &
Efficiency
15.
These Are the Environmental Rules That Will
Likely Outlive Trump (Washington Post – Vias MSN)
Fish & Wildlife
16.
Klamath River: Salmon Return to Lay Eggs in Historic
Habitat After Largest Dam Removal Project in U.S. History (Associated Press)
17.
The Power of a Logjam: A Vision of the Northwest’s
Rivers of Old (Olympian, WA – Paywall Advisory)
https://www.theolympian.com/news/state/washington/seattle/article295693424.html
18.
Orcas Return to Penn Cove After 50 Years (KIRO
Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/orcas-return-penn-cove-after-50-years/75PYMVDMSBAIDLC7OPQ425QWOA/
Environmental Afflatus –
Clean Up on Aisle Three
19.
More Logging Is Proposed to Help Curb Wildfires in
the U.S. Pacific Northwest (Associated Press)
London Calling
–Telecommunications
20.
WA State: Grant PUD Fiber Project at the Finish
Line (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
https://columbiabasinherald.com/news/2024/nov/18/grant-pud-fiber-project-at-the-finish-line/
Management &
Governance
21.
WA State Panel Not Ready to Scrap Building Codes
Targeted by Gas Initiative (Washington State Standard)
22.
Trump Picks Oil-Industry CEO Chris Wright as
Energy Secretary Nominee (Reuters)
23.
Trump Names Brendan Carr, Senior GOP Leader at FCC,
to Lead the Agency (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-fcc-chairman-carr-bf034fdd137e579c0c3e99681cc99541
Other Things to Know
About Today
24.
Cliff Mass Warns of Powerful Storm Approaching:
‘It Will Be as Strong as a Hurricane’ (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
https://mynorthwest.com/4010489/cliff-mass-warns-of-powerful-storm-approaching-western-washington/
25.
Snow, Rain to Slam U.S. as Winter Storms Ramp Up
Ahead of Early Thanksgiving Travel (Yahoo! News)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/snow-slam-us-winter-storms-144314770.html
26.
Record 80 Million Americans Expected to Travel for
Thanksgiving Holiday, Industry Group Says (Reuters)
Soapbox Serenade – Vox
Populi
27.
Recognizing the Four Lower Snake River Dams
& the Value They Provide to Eastern Washington (U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris
Rodgers, WA)
Bears in the Beemer – Diversions
They Told Insurers a
Bear Damaged Their Car. But It Was Actually a Person in a Costume
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5191741/bear-costume-insurance-fraud
Sabre-Toothed
‘Kitten’ Mummy Unearthed in Siberia Is First of Its Kind
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/science/mummified-sabre-toothed-cat-cub/index.html
Why So Many Cheese
Heists? As British Columbia Cops Foil Another, Here's Why Cheese Is So Valuable
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cheese-heists-1.7384611?cmp=rss
Plane Grounded for
Four Days When 132 Hamsters Escape on Board
Song of the Day
Al Stewart - Year of
the Cat (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEVgCbmNWFM
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