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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Pacific
Northwest Utilities Exceed Green Power Minimum (Northwest Public Radio)
Half of India Crippled by Second Day of Power
Failures (NY Times)
Power Marketing Administration Changes? Federal
Energy Officials Hear Local Utilities’ Concerns about Proposed Electrical Grid
Improvements (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Montana Wildfires Plague Electric Cooperatives
(Electric Co-op Today)
Avista’s Low-Cost Energy Audits to End (Spokesman
Review, Spokane, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Half of India Crippled by Second Day of Power Failures
- Power Marketing Administration Changes? Federal Energy Officials Hear Local Utilities’ Concerns about Proposed Electrical Grid Improvements
- Montana Wildfires Plague Electric Cooperatives
- Douglas County PUD Sells $76.1 Million in Bonds
- Montana - Setbacks Cloud Future of NorthWestern’s Proposed $1 Billion Power Line
- Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Declines to Vacate Clean Air Credits for California Power Plant
- August 10 - Early Morning Planned Power Outage for Lake Cushman area to Accommodate BPA Substation Maintenance
- Williams Plans to Double Natural Gas Volume in Lewis County Pipeline
- General Electric Says Nuclear Power Hard To Justify in Cheap Gas World
- How Much Cyber Security is Enough? Companies Wary as U-S Senate Weighs Bill
- Fun at the Just Completed Mason Area Fair - PUD 3 Drawing Winners Announced
- British Columbia’s Southern Okanagan Sees Record Sockeye Returns
- Ribbon Cutting at Belfair Sewer Plant
- Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Approves Oregon Forest Thinning Project
- Pacific Northwest Utilities Exceed Green Power Minimum
- Gresham’s Wastewater Treatment Plant Leading Way in Power Production, Alternative Energies
- Fuel Cell Maker Neah Power Signs Defense Contract
- On the Edge of the Subsidy Cliff: Will the U-S Production Tax Credit Expire?
- Lines Now Drawn on Wind Tax Credit: Romney Opposes It, Obama Favors It
- Avista’s Low-Cost Energy Audits to End (Spokesman Review,
- Toyota Center in Kennewick Using New Cost Saving Light Bulbs
- Starbucks to Add a Shot of Energy Efficiency to Its Coffee Shops
- California’s Carbon Caps are Contentious but Coming
- Seattle City Light Builds Solar Canopy at Park
- Seattle City Council Approves Skanska’s ‘Deep Green’ Building
- Local ISPs Say Chelan PUD Fiber Plan’s Costs Squeeze Small Service Providers
- Olympic Officials Ask Spectators to Go Easy on Texts, Tweets
- Municipal Bond Rates Examined for Signs of Rigging
- Woman Bites Shelton Attacker, Escapes – Suspect Arrested
- Innocent Plea from Teen Accused of Washington State Corrections Officer’s Murder
- Paddle to Squaxin - The End of Tribal Journeys is Only the Beginning
- Postal Service’s Woes Persist as $5.5 Billion Bill Comes Due
- King-Snohomish Counties’ Trash Strike Starts to Smell Bad to Waste Management Customers
WORD OF THE DAY
Beguine
• \bih-GEEN\ • Noun - A vigorous popular dance of the islands of Saint Lucia
and Martinique that somewhat resembles the rumba
Begin
the beguine
Dancers
shimmy to the beat
Tropic
moon shines bright
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Half of India Crippled by Second Day of Power
Failures (NY Times)
Power Marketing Administration Changes? Federal Energy
Officials Hear Local Utilities’ Concerns about Proposed Electrical Grid
Improvements (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Montana Wildfires Plague Electric Cooperatives
(Electric Co-op Today)
Douglas County PUD Sells $76.1 Million in Bonds (Wenatchee
World, WA)
Montana - Setbacks Cloud Future of NorthWestern’s
Proposed $1 Billion Power Line (Billings Gazette, MT)
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Declines to Vacate
Clean Air Credits for California Power Plant (Courthouse News Service)
August 10 - Early Morning Planned Power Outage for
Lake Cushman area to Accommodate BPA Substation Maintenance (Mason County PUD
No. 3)
Williams Plans to Double Natural Gas Volume in
Lewis County Pipeline (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
General Electric Says Nuclear Power Hard To Justify
in Cheap Gas World (Reuters)
How Much Cyber Security is Enough? Companies Wary as
U-S Senate Weighs Bill (Christian Science Monitor)
Fun at the Just Completed Mason Area Fair - PUD 3
Drawing Winners Announced (Mason County PUD No. 3)
FISH & WILDLIFE
British Columbia’s Southern Okanagan Sees Record
Sockeye Returns (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Ribbon
Cutting at Belfair Sewer Plant (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals Approves Oregon Forest Thinning Project (Courthouse
News Service)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Pacific
Northwest Utilities Exceed Green Power Minimum (Northwest Public Radio)
Gresham’s
Wastewater Treatment Plant Leading Way in Power Production, Alternative
Energies (Oregonian, Portland)
Fuel
Cell Maker Neah Power Signs Defense Contract (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
On
the Edge of the Subsidy Cliff: Will the U-S Production Tax Credit Expire? (Renewable
Energy World)
Lines
Now Drawn on Wind Tax Credit: Romney Opposes It, Obama Favors It (Des Moines
Register, IA)
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/07/30/lines-now-drawn-on-wind-tax-credit-romney-opposes-it-obama-favors-it/
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/07/30/lines-now-drawn-on-wind-tax-credit-romney-opposes-it-obama-favors-it/
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Avista’s Low-Cost Energy Audits to End (Spokesman
Review, Spokane, WA)
Toyota Center in Kennewick Using New Cost Saving
Light Bulbs (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Starbucks to Add a Shot of Energy Efficiency to Its
Coffee Shops (GigaOM)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
California’s
Carbon Caps are Contentious but Coming (Forbes Magazine)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Seattle
City Light Builds Solar Canopy at Park (American Public
Power Association)
Seattle
City Council Approves Skanska’s ‘Deep Green’ Building (Seattle Times)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Local ISPs Say Chelan PUD Fiber Plan’s Costs
Squeeze Small Service Providers (Wenatchee World, WA)
Olympic Officials Ask Spectators to Go Easy on
Texts, Tweets (USA Today)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Municipal Bond Rates Examined for Signs of Rigging (NY
Times)
GENERAL NEWS
Woman Bites Shelton Attacker, Escapes – Suspect Arrested
(Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Innocent Plea from Teen Accused of Washington State
Corrections Officer’s Murder (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Paddle to Squaxin - The End of Tribal Journeys is
Only the Beginning (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
Postal Service’s Woes Persist as $5.5 Billion Bill
Comes Due (Associated Press)
King-Snohomish Counties’ Trash Strike Starts to
Smell Bad to Waste Management Customers (Seattle Times)
DIVERSIONS
Romantic Crooner Tony Martin Dies at 98
Firework Buttocks Party Trick Backfires – “…Alcohol
was a possible factor involved in the stunt…”
Insult to Injury - Florida Boater Arrested for
Feeding Gator That Bit Off His Hand
Crop Circles Appear in Eastern Washington Wheat
Field
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Crop-circles-appear-in-Eastern-Washington-wheat-field-164424296.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Tony
Martin – Begin the Beguine
