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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Recommendations
to Change Western Area Power Administration May Not Be Legal, APPA, Others Tell
DOE (American Public Power Association)
Dueling Bills Introduced on Washington State’s Paid
Family Leave Law (Associated Press)
Predicting Salmon Returns: Food Supply Is a Good
Indicator (Seattle Times, WA)
Committee
Says Kitsap PUD Should Manage Bainbridge Water System (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Is Google Building a Wireless System with
Clearwire’s Network? (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Recommendations to Change Western Area Power Administration May Not Be Legal, APPA, Others Tell DOE
- Fired Cowlitz PUD Manager Hires Attorney Who Serves on Washington State Public Disclosure Commission
- Diverse Candidates Vie for Thurston County PUD Spot
- Idaho - Rupert Power Rates May Increase In October
- Mason County PUD 3 Commission Report for January 22, 2013
- Montana’s Crow Nation Signs Coal Deal with Wyoming Group
- Standard & Poors: U-S Public Power Credit Quality to Remain Solid in 2013
- Appeals Court Rejects EPA Bid on Power Plant Pollution Case
- Arizona Energy Company Issues Flat Fee to Compensate for Low Sales
- Florida - Villages Residents Fear ‘Smart’ Meters Invade Privacy
- U-S Natural Gas Supplies Fell Last Week
- Predicting Salmon Returns: Food Supply Is a Good Indicator
- Committee Says Kitsap PUD Should Manage Bainbridge Water System
- Watering the Oregon Desert
- Grand Canyon Flood Experiment Restores Beaches
- Effort to Drain Hetch Hetchy Reservoir Dealt Major Setback
- Washington State Governor Wastes No Time in Pushing for Ag Water Bill
- Oregon - A Quiet Breakthrough in Geothermal Power Tech
- Constellation Builds Solar Energy System for Portland General Electric
- Cool Job Posting: Earn $20 Pretending to Hate Wind Energy
- Energy Efficiency, Geothermal Heat Pumps & “Negawatts”
- Report Blames Central Washington Fires on Severe Drought; Not Bark Beetles
- Can Electric Cars Be Used As Backup Generators?
- In Crisis, Greeks Turn to Wood-Burning - And Choke
- ‘Solar Mamas’ - Barefoot College Women Turn On the Lights in Off-Grid Villages
- 21 Amazing Off-the-Grid Houses
- Is Google Building a Wireless System with Clearwire’s Network?
- Google Fiber Could Expand, But Only if Kansas City Succeeds
- Data Centers: To Collocate or Not to Collocate?
- Verizon Pulls Sports from New HD Channel Bundle - Follows DirecTV in Charging Regional Sports Fee
- ‘Dell Dude’ Says He Can Fix Dell
- Dueling Bills Introduced on Washington State’s Paid Family Leave Law
- Despite Bond Downgrade, City of Tacoma Happy
- Corruption Trial of Former Officials in Bell, California Begins
- Pilot OK after Plane Makes Emergency Landing on Shelton Matlock Road
- 15-Year-Old Shot in Leg in Lacey Drive-By Shooting
- Cash-Strapped USPS Raising the Price of a Stamp by a Penny Starting Sunday
- Bonneville Power Administration Hosts Nation’s Largest Regional Science Bowl
WORD OF THE DAY
Bourgeois
• \BOOZH-waw\ • Adjective - 1: of, relating to, or characteristic of the social
middle class 2: marked by a concern for material interests & respectability
& a tendency toward mediocrity 3: dominated by commercial & industrial
interests
For
some, the bourgeois experience is champagne and caviar…for others; it’s
drinking cheap beer from a frosted glass instead of straight from bottle. It’s
all relative, man.
SHELTON FORECAST &
WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Recommendations
to Change Western Area Power Administration May Not Be Legal, APPA, Others Tell
DOE (American Public Power Association)
Fired
Cowlitz PUD Manager Hires Attorney Who Serves on Washington State Public Disclosure
Commission (Longview Daily News, WA)
Diverse
Candidates Vie for Thurston County PUD Spot (Olympian, WA)
Idaho
- Rupert Power Rates May Increase In October (Weekly News Journal, Burley, ID)
Mason
County PUD 3 Commission Report for January 22, 2013 (Mason County PUD 3,
Shelton, WA)
Montana’s
Crow Nation Signs Coal Deal with Wyoming Group (Associated
Press)
Standard
& Poors: U-S Public Power Credit Quality to Remain Solid in 2013 (Houston Business
Journal, TX)
Appeals
Court Rejects EPA Bid on Power Plant Pollution Case (Associated Press)
Arizona
Energy Company Issues Flat Fee to Compensate for Low Sales (Mashable)
Florida
- Villages Residents Fear ‘Smart’ Meters Invade Privacy: Some worry even the United
Nations could get involved (Orlando Sentinel, FL)
U-S
Natural Gas Supplies Fell Last Week (Associated
Press)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Predicting Salmon Returns: Food Supply Is a Good
Indicator (Seattle Times, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Committee
Says Kitsap PUD Should Manage Bainbridge Water System (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Watering
the Oregon Desert (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Grand
Canyon Flood Experiment Restores Beaches (USA Today)
Effort
to Drain Hetch Hetchy Reservoir Dealt Major Setback (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Washington
State Governor Wastes No Time in Pushing for Ag Water Bill (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Oregon
- A Quiet Breakthrough in Geothermal Power Tech (GigaOM)
Constellation
Builds Solar Energy System For Portland General Electric (Electric Light & Power)
Cool
Job Posting: Earn $20 Pretending to Hate Wind Energy (Grist Online)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Energy Efficiency, Geothermal Heat Pumps & “Negawatts”
(Renewable Energy World)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Report
Blames Central Washington Fires on Severe Drought; Not Bark Beetles - A new study
finds that climate change is the culprit in catastrophic wildfires (Seattle Times, WA)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Can Electric Cars Be Used As Backup Generators? (Christian
Science Monitor)
In
Crisis, Greeks Turn to Wood-Burning - And Choke (Associated
Press)
‘Solar Mamas’ - Barefoot College Women Turn On the
Lights in Off-Grid Villages (Christian Science Monitor)
21 Amazing Off-the-Grid Houses (Gizmodo)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Is Google Building a Wireless System with Clearwire’s
Network? (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Google Fiber Could Expand, But Only if Kansas City Succeeds
(Wichita Business Journal, KS)
Data Centers: To Collocate or Not to Collocate? (Houston
Business Journal, TX)
Verizon Pulls Sports from New HD Channel Bundle - Follows
DirecTV in Charging Regional Sports Fee (Broadband Reports)
‘Dell Dude’ Says He Can Fix Dell (Bloomberg News)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Dueling Bills Introduced on Washington State’s Paid
Family Leave Law (Associated Press)
Despite Bond Downgrade, City of Tacoma Happy - When
does a city trumpet a credit ratings downgrade? After digging itself out of a
$63 million budget hole, that’s when (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Corruption Trial of Former Officials in Bell, California
Begins (Associated Press)
GENERAL NEWS
Pilot OK after Plane Makes Emergency Landing on
Shelton Matlock Road (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
15-Year-Old Shot in Leg in Lacey Drive-By Shooting (KING-TV,
Seattle, WA)
Cash-Strapped USPS Raising the Price of a Stamp by a
Penny Starting Sunday (Consumerist)
Bonneville Power Administration Hosts Nation’s
Largest Regional Science Bowl (Bonneville Power Administration)
DIVERSIONS
Did
Pompeii Create the First Social Network?
Super
Bowl Crisis? Chicken-Wings Shortage Looms
The
Force Is Strong with Star Wars Engagement Rings
Trader
Joe’s Raises Price of ‘Two-Buck Chuck’
SONG OF THE DAY
The Grass Roots - Temptation Eyes
