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News Digest Word Cloud for May 9, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Enron’s
Skilling Strikes Deal for Shorter Sentence (NY Times)
Northwest
Montana Electricity Restored after Major Morning Outage (The Daily Interlake,
Kalispell, MT)
Douglas
PUD to Celebrate New License for Wells Dam (Wenatchee World, WA)
No
New Wind Farm Construction in the Pacific Northwest This Year (Northwest Public
Radio)
Washington
State Home Builders Lead the Nation in Energy Code Compliance (MarketWatch)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Enron’s Skilling Strikes Deal for Shorter Sentence
- Why Ex-Enron CEO’s Prison Deal Matters in Portland
- Northwest Montana Electricity Restored after Major Morning Outage
- Douglas PUD to Celebrate New License for Wells Dam
- Port Angeles to Pay More for Utility Study
- Better Power Rates Possible for Mid-Columbia Customers if Columbia River Treaty Changes
- More Regulations on Idaho Rivers? Columbia Treaty Could Make It So
- Boardman to Hemmingway Power Line Talks Continue
- Energy Company Drops Columbia River Coal Terminal
- Over Canadian Hydroelectricity - New Hampshire Governor Criticizes Connecticut Renewable Energy Legislation
- World Bank Turns to Hydropower to Square Development with Climate Change
- U-S Senate Energy Committee Approves Energy Efficiency, Hydro Power Bills
- Plan to Use Sewage Worries Lake Stevens Residents
- Cheeseburger Grease Clogs Up Local Sewers!
- No New Wind Farm Construction in the Pacific Northwest This Year
- Vestas Reports Tough First Quarter in U-S Wind Market - No deliveries to U-S wind farms in the quarter
- South Dakota - Small Wind Farm Wins Right to Sell Power to Big Company
- Washington State Home Builders Lead the Nation in Energy Code Compliance
- Energy Efficiency First Provides Puget Sound Energy’s Free HomePrint Assessment
- Voltage Management: A Hidden Energy Efficiency Resource
- Greenland Glaciers Not Melting as Quickly: Sea Level Rise Slower Than Predicted
- National Telecommunications & Information Administration Releases BTOP Best Practices Toolkit
- Rural, Municipal Broadband Providers See Gains
- Verizon Tells More Sandy Victims They’ll Never See DSL Repaired
- Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion
- Syrian Web Traffic Returns after 20-Hour Outage
- Dish Network Profit Drops 40 Percent; Subscription Growth Falls
- McDonald’s Shows How to Capitalize on Recent Cleveland News in a Totally Tacky Way
- A Lesson for Teens: Be Careful What You Tweet
- U-S Senate Republicans Block Vote on Nominee to Lead EPA
- Lumber Mills Boost Production as Home Starts Rebound
- Mason County Special Election Results Official
- Federal Officials Reaffirm Support of Cowlitz Tribe’s LaCenter Area Casino Plans
- Study: Oregon the Worst State to Retire In – Washington’s Not That Much Better
- Future of Tillamook Blimp Hangar in Question as Air Museum Prepares to Move
WORD OF THE DAY
Decussate
• \DECK-uh-sate\ • Verb - To intersect or cross
Brittanee
sat spellbound watching the darkened eastern Oregon sky. The meteor showers
created more wishes than she could count, as the sparkling trails of the dying
specks of stellar dust spend all night decussating across each other. “Well,”
she murmured as she picked up her blanket, “I’d better start buying those
lottery tickets now.”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Enron’s Skilling Strikes Deal for Shorter
Sentence (NY Times)
Why Ex-Enron CEO’s Prison Deal Matters in Portland
(Portland Business Journal, OR)
Northwest Montana Electricity Restored after Major
Morning Outage (The Daily Interlake, Kalispell, MT)
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/news/local_montana/article_cfc70ea2-b8b6-11e2-9b3e-001a4bcf887a.html
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/news/local_montana/article_cfc70ea2-b8b6-11e2-9b3e-001a4bcf887a.html
Douglas PUD to Celebrate New License for Wells
Dam (Wenatchee World, WA)
Port Angeles to Pay More for Utility Study (KONP
Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
Better Power Rates Possible for Mid-Columbia Customers
if Columbia River Treaty Changes (Tri-City
Herald, WA)
More Regulations on Idaho Rivers? Columbia Treaty Could
Make It So (KTVB-TV, Boise, ID)
Boardman to Hemmingway Power Line Talks Continue
(Baker City Herald, OR)
Energy Company Drops Columbia River Coal Terminal
(KGW TV, Portland, OR)
Over Canadian Hydroelectricity - New Hampshire Governor
Criticizes Connecticut Renewable Energy Legislation (New Haven Register, CT)
World Bank Turns to Hydropower to Square
Development with Climate Change (Washington
Post)
U-S Senate Energy Committee Approves Energy
Efficiency, Hydro Power Bills (American Public Power
Association)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Plan
to Use Sewage Worries Lake Stevens Residents (Everett
Herald, WA)
Cheeseburger
Grease Clogs Up Local Sewers! (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
No
New Wind Farm Construction in the Pacific Northwest This Year (Northwest Public Radio)
Vestas
Reports Tough First Quarter in U-S Wind Market - No deliveries to U-S wind
farms in the quarter, the wind turbine maker says (Denver Business Journal, CO)
South
Dakota - Small Wind Farm Wins Right to Sell Power to Big Company (Rapid City
Journal, SD)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Washington
State Home Builders Lead the Nation in Energy Code Compliance (MarketWatch)
Energy
Efficiency First Provides Puget Sound Energy’s Free HomePrint Assessment
(Thurston Talks, Olympia, WA)
Voltage
Management: A Hidden Energy Efficiency Resource (GreenTech Media)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Greenland
Glaciers Not Melting as Quickly: Sea Level Rise Slower Than Predicted (Science
World Report)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
National Telecommunications & Information
Administration Releases BTOP Best Practices Toolkit - Drawn from Experiences of
Stimulus Fund Grantees (MultiChannel News)
Rural, Municipal Broadband Providers See Gains
(Civsource)
Verizon Tells More Sandy Victims They’ll Never See
DSL Repaired - Verizon Uses Storm Cover as Opportunity to Hang Up on Users (Broadband
Reports)
Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1
Billion (Tech Crunch)
Syrian Web Traffic Returns after 20-Hour Outage (Washington
Post)
Dish Network Profit Drops 40 Percent; Subscription
Growth Falls (Reuters)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
McDonald’s Shows How to Capitalize on Recent
Cleveland News in a Totally Tacky Way (Consumerist)
A Lesson for Teens: Be Careful What You Tweet
(KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
U-S Senate Republicans Block Vote on Nominee to
Lead EPA (NY Times)
GENERAL NEWS
Lumber Mills Boost Production as Home Starts
Rebound (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Mason County Special Election Results Official
(Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Federal Officials Reaffirm Support of Cowlitz Tribe’s
LaCenter Area Casino Plans (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Study: Oregon the Worst State to Retire In –
Washington’s Not That Much Better (KGW TV, Portland, OR)
Future of Tillamook Blimp Hangar in Question as Air
Museum Prepares to Move (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
DIVERSIONS
We
Still Use the Same Words We Did 15,000 Years Ago
Disney
Drops Bid to Trademark ‘Dia de los Muertos’
Canada’s
Jedi Knights Not as Much of a Religious Force
Longview
Squirrel Fest Returning Aug. 17; Spin Doctors to Perform
SONG OF THE DAY
Dirk
Leupolz - Suite from Hindenburg
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