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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for November 20, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
U-S,
Canada Clash over Columbia River Treaty Agendas (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Energy
Department Is Told to Stop Collecting Fee for Nuclear Waste Disposal (NY Times)
Obama
Budget Staff Studying Sale of Tennessee Valley Authority - Unions & U-S
Senator Lamar Alexander Denounce Move (The Chattanooga Times Free Press, TN)
With
Rogue River Dams Gone, Chinook Salmon Make a Splash (Seattle Times, WA -
Paywall Advisory)
Special
Weather Statement for Cold and Clear Conditions into the Weekend (National
Weather Service, Seattle, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- U-S, Canada Clash over Columbia River Treaty Agendas
- U-S/Canada Treaty Governing Dams, Water Up for Review
- Energy Department Is Told to Stop Collecting Fee for Nuclear Waste Disposal
- Obama Budget Staff Studying Sale of Tennessee Valley Authority
- Clallam Public Utility District Eyes Rate Hike for Electricity Users
- Grays Harbor PUD Customers to See Rate Increases in 2014
- Billing & Payment Confusion Leads to Lights Out for Port Ludlow Woman
- Idaho Rejects Tax Shift Sought By Telecoms, Railroads & Utilities
- Video: Detroit Teen Called Hero as He Knocks Friend Off Live Power Line
- Pacific Northwest Center of Excellence for Clean Energy Releases Capstone Project
- FERC, California Sign Hydropower Coordination Agreement
- With Rogue River Dams Gone, Chinook Salmon Make a Splash
- PETA to Protest Fishing at Pike Place Market Wednesday
- Seabeck: Picturesque Puget Sound Lagoon Littered with Toxic Sea Junk
- Utility Regulators Reject NW Natural Plan to Share Costs of Portland Harbor Cleanup with Customers
- Powering America's Alternatives
- As ALEC Shifts Its Renewable Portfolio Standard Strategy, State Laws Favor Renewables
- Apple’s Green Energy Efforts in North Carolina Inspires Industry Shift
- Green Fatigue Threatens Clean-Energy Leader Germany
- Class Sues Costco Over HVAC Systems - Claimed They Were Energy-Efficient Enough to Qualify for a Rebate
- NW Natural Customers Get Smarter about Carbon
- Tesla Battery Fires Spark Federal Safety Probe
- Contest Aims for a Cleaner-Burning Wood Stove
- FCC Chairman Calls for Transforming the Technology Used by Phone Systems
- Four Years Later: Just How Big is Google Fiber's Impact?
- Texas: Here's Austin’s Google Fiber Wish List in an Interactive Map
- Apple May Get $10 Million Arizona Grant for New Mesa Plant
- Here’s The Scariest Part About the Internet of Things
- Social Media Monitoring Secrecy Will Cost Feds
- Special Weather Statement for Cold and Clear Conditions into the Weekend
- States Salivating for Boeing 777X Feast
- Carbon Fiber Production Line at Moses Lake Expanding to Meet BMW's Needs
- The New Forest Economy: Exploring Oregon's Changing Wood Products Sector
- Former Washington State Governor Locke Stepping Down as Ambassador to China
- JPMorgan Chase Agrees to Pay $13 Billion Fine, Largest In U-S History
- How Small Tribes Could Get In On the Internet Gambling Bonanza
- Drama Builds for Comet Flyby
WORD OF THE DAY
Cubit • \CUE-bit\
• Noun - Any of various ancient units of length based on the length of the
forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger and usually equal to about
18 inches (46 centimeters).
“You idiot,”
thundered the voice of God through the foothills of Mount Ararat. The
admonition was uncharacteristic for the Creator, who had always favored the lesser-known
Bennie, the older brother of Noah, the “boat builder.” “When I said cubits, I
MEANT adult cubits,” thundered the Most High. “Using your infant child to make
the measurements makes this thing more of a dinghy, only capable of holding
perhaps twenty animals; two-by-two.”
“Where’s that lazy
brother of yours?”
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
U-S, Canada Clash over Columbia River Treaty Agendas
(Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
U-S/Canada Treaty Governing Dams, Water Up for
Review (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Energy Department Is Told to Stop Collecting Fee
for Nuclear Waste Disposal (NY Times)
Obama Budget Staff Studying Sale of Tennessee
Valley Authority - Unions & U-S Senator Lamar Alexander Denounce Move (The
Chattanooga Times Free Press, TN)
Clallam Public Utility District Eyes Rate Hike for
Electricity Users (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Grays Harbor PUD Customers to See Rate Increases
in 2014 (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)
Billing & Payment Confusion Leads to Lights
Out for Port Ludlow Woman (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle,
WA)
Idaho Rejects Tax Shift Sought By Telecoms,
Railroads & Utilities (Spokesman Review, Spokane,
WA)
Video: Detroit Teen Called Hero as He Knocks
Friend Off Live Power Line (Detroit Free Press, MI)
Pacific
Northwest Center of Excellence for Clean Energy Releases Capstone Project: Workforce
Challenges of Electric Power Employers in the Pacific Northwest (Pacific
Northwest Center of Excellence for Clean Energy, Centralia, WA)
FERC, California Sign Hydropower Coordination
Agreement (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)
FISH & WILDLIFE
With Rogue River Dams Gone, Chinook Salmon Make a
Splash (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
PETA to Protest Fishing at Pike Place Market
Wednesday (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Seabeck:
Picturesque Puget Sound Lagoon Littered with Toxic Sea Junk (KOMO-TV, Seattle,
WA)
Utility
Regulators Reject NW Natural Plan to Share Costs of Portland Harbor Cleanup with
Customers (Oregonian, Portland)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Powering
America's Alternatives - Salem home to facility that is shaping the approach to
how we use energy (Salem Statesman Journal, OR)
As
ALEC Shifts Its Renewable Portfolio Standard Strategy, State Laws Favor
Renewables (Midwest Energy News)
Apple’s
Green Energy Efforts in North Carolina Inspires Industry Shift (Wall Street
Cheat Sheet)
Green
Fatigue Threatens Clean-Energy Leader Germany (Minnpost, Minneapolis, MN)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Class Sues Costco Over HVAC Systems - Claimed They
Were Energy-Efficient Enough to Qualify for a Rebate (Courthouse News Service)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
NW
Natural Customers Get Smarter about Carbon (Sustainable
Business Oregon)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Tesla
Battery Fires Spark Federal Safety Probe (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Contest
Aims for a Cleaner-Burning Wood Stove (NY Times)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
FCC Chairman Calls for Transforming the Technology
Used by Phone Systems (NY Times)
Four Years Later: Just How Big is Google Fiber's
Impact? (Broadband Reports)
Texas: Here's Austin’s Google Fiber Wish List in an
Interactive Map (Austin Business Journal, TX)
Apple May Get $10 Million Arizona Grant for New Mesa
Plant (Associated Press)
Here’s The Scariest Part About the Internet of Things
(Washington Post)
SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING
Social Media Monitoring Secrecy Will Cost Feds (Courthouse News Service)
GENERAL NEWS
Special Weather Statement for Cold and Clear
Conditions into the Weekend (National Weather Service, Seattle, WA)
States Salivating for Boeing 777X Feast (Seattle
Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Carbon Fiber Production Line at Moses Lake Expanding
to Meet BMW's Needs “…plant was located in Moses Lake to take advantage of
low-cost electricity supplied by Columbia River dams…” (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
The New Forest Economy: Exploring Oregon's Changing
Wood Products Sector (Portland Business Journal, OR)
Former Washington State Governor Locke Stepping
Down as Ambassador to China (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
JPMorgan Chase Agrees to Pay $13 Billion Fine,
Largest In U-S History (Associated Press)
How Small Tribes Could Get In On the Internet
Gambling Bonanza (Washington Post)
Drama Builds for Comet Flyby (Northwest Public
Radio)
DIVERSIONS
Elvis
Presley's Intellectual Property Rights Sold
Vancouver,
B-C Is Banning Doorknobs on New Buildings
This
Fake Poop Is Helping Designers Test the Toilet of the Future
Harry
Potter Stamp Riles Postal Panel, Traditional Collectors
SONG OF THE DAY
Paul
McCartney & Wings - Let 'Em In
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