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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for April 18, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
U-S
Senate Declares April 18 National Lineman’s Appreciation Day (American Public Power Association, Mason County PUD No. 3, Shelton, WA)
Oregon
Kills First Salmon-Eating Sea Lion of 2013 at Bonneville Dam (Oregonian,
Portland, OR)
Bonneville
Power Administration Plan Would Share Costs of Wind-Power Shutdown – BPA
proposes to share the costs of shutting down wind turbines when energy production
exceeds demand (Seattle Times, WA)
Speed
Matters — Google Fiber Brings One-Gig Internet to Provo, UT (Provo Daily
Herald, UT)
Facebooking with Coworkers? 40% Will Do Something
Wrong (Portland Business Journal, OR)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- U-S Senate Declares April 18 National Lineman’s Appreciation Day
- Columbia River Treaty - Power Play among Friends
- Northern California Consumers Asked to Conserve Energy after Transformer Vandalism
- California Legislators Blast Public Utilities Commission - Safety & Utility Relationships Cited
- Hawaii Electric Light Company Looks to “Smart” Technology for Meter Reading
- Arizona Department of Public Safety Says Copper Thefts May Date Back to 2006
- American Public Power Association Stresses Importance of Municipal Bonds in Comments to House Panels
- Department of Energy, Bonneville Power Administration; Notice of Petition for Declaratory Order
- Electric Cable a Lifeline for Idled Symbol of Korean Cooperation
- Oregon Kills First Salmon-Eating Sea Lion of 2013 at Bonneville Dam
- Oregon Will Try to Trap Sea Lions That Have Gotten Through Bonneville Dam
- At First Foods Ceremonies along the Columbia River, Prized Spring Chinook is Scarce
- Bonneville Power Administration Considering Tribes' Proposed Hatchery
- Oregon Rivers Too Hot for Salmon? Deal Seeks Cooler Water
- Two Mason County Shellfish Areas Added to Threatened List
- West Richland Underbills Residents for Utility Services
- 'Elwha: A River Reborn' Tells Story of Dam Removal on Olympic Peninsula River
- Bonneville Power Administration Plan Would Share Costs of Wind-Power Shutdown
- Louisiana on the Brink of Dismantling Net Metering
- Rooftop Solar Vs. Utilities: The San Antonio Episode
- The Experts: How Should Governments Encourage Energy Conservation?
- Can We Afford a Carbon Tax?
- Kitsap Bank kicks off Go Green challenge on Earth Day
- Speed Matters — Google Fiber Brings One-Gig Internet to Provo, UT
- Buying iProvo - Google Fiber Takes On New Challenge: Obtaining an Already Existing System
- Telecom Companies Constantly Upgrade Networks
- Facebooking with Coworkers? 40% Will Do Something Wrong
- Just Who Uses Social Media? A Demographic Breakdown
- Five Things Kobe Bryant Can Teach Us about Social Media
- Why This Simple Government Website Was Named the Best Design of the Year
- Budgets Could Force Washington State Special Session
- Washington State Rep. DeBolt Steps Down as State House Republican Leader
- Inside Politics: How the Democrats Won the Election But Lost Olympia
- Texas: Fertilizer Plant Blast Injures Hundreds
- Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Captured in Terrifying Video
- It Could Happen: King County Prepares for Possible Bird Virus Pandemic
- 911 Operators Sound Alarm Over Washington State Lawmakers' Plan to Raid Budget
- Washington State's March Unemployment Rate Breaks Three-Month Holding Pattern
- Moses Lake Carbon Fiber Plant Readies Second Line for BMW
WORD OF THE DAY
Indissoluble
• \inn-dih-SAWL-you-bull\ • Adjective - Incapable of being dissolved or
disintegrated; especially: incapable of being annulled, undone, or broken:
permanent
Little
known story: while writing the lyrics for “South Pacific’s” “Gonna Wash That
Man Right out of My Hair” the renowned artist Oscar Hammerstein II was having a
follicular challenge of his own. His obsessive use of Brylcream had resulted in
an indissoluble mass of the petroleum-based hair dressing which took industrial
solvents to remove.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
U-S
Senate Declares April 18 National Lineman’s Appreciation Day (American Public Power Association, Mason County PUD No. 3, Shelton, WA)
Columbia River Treaty - Power Play among Friends
(Portland Tribune, Or)
Northern California Consumers Asked to Conserve
Energy after Transformer Vandalism (NBC News)
California Legislators Blast Public Utilities
Commission - Safety & Utility Relationships Cited (San Jose Mercury News,
CA)
Hawaii Electric Light Company Looks to “Smart”
Technology for Meter Reading (Hawaii Tribune-Herald, Hilo, HI)
Arizona Department of Public Safety Says Copper
Thefts May Date Back to 2006 (Bloomberg News)
American Public Power Association Stresses
Importance of Municipal Bonds in Comments to House Panels (American Public
Power Association)
Department of Energy, Bonneville Power
Administration; Notice of Petition for Declaratory Order “…conforms…to…pro
forma tariff and…satisfies the requirements for reciprocity status…” (Electric
Light & Power)
Electric Cable a Lifeline for Idled Symbol of
Korean Cooperation (Reuters)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Oregon
Kills First Salmon-Eating Sea Lion of 2013 at Bonneville Dam (Oregonian, Portland,
OR)
Oregon Will Try to Trap Sea Lions That Have
Gotten Through Bonneville Dam (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
At First Foods Ceremonies along the Columbia
River, Prized Spring Chinook is Scarce (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Bonneville Power Administration Considering
Tribes' Proposed Hatchery (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Oregon Rivers Too Hot for Salmon? Deal Seeks
Cooler Water (Associated Press)
Two Mason County Shellfish Areas Added to
Threatened List (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
West
Richland Underbills Residents for Utility Services (Tri-City Herald, WA)
'Elwha:
A River Reborn' tells story of dam removal on Olympic Peninsula river (Oregonian,
Portland, OR)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Bonneville
Power Administration Plan Would Share Costs of Wind-Power Shutdown – BPA proposes
to share the costs of shutting down wind turbines when energy production
exceeds demand (Seattle Times, WA)
Louisiana
on the Brink of Dismantling Net Metering (Renewable Energy World)
Rooftop
Solar Vs. Utilities: The San Antonio Episode (Grist
Online)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
The
Experts: How Should Governments Encourage Energy Conservation? (Wall Street
Journal)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Can
We Afford a Carbon Tax? (The Energy Collective)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Kitsap
Bank kicks off Go Green challenge on Earth Day (Kitsap Peninsula Business
Journal, WA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Speed Matters — Google Fiber Brings One-Gig Internet
to Provo, UT (Provo Daily Herald, UT)
Buying iProvo - Google Fiber Takes On New
Challenge: Obtaining an Already Existing System (Associated Press)
Telecom Companies Constantly Upgrade Networks - Investment
needed to outpace technology (Spokesman Review,
Spokane, WA)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebooking with Coworkers? 40% Will Do Something
Wrong (Portland Business Journal, OR)
Just Who Uses Social Media? A Demographic Breakdown
(Mashable)
Five Things Kobe Bryant Can Teach Us about Social
Media (Mashable)
Why This Simple Government Website Was Named the
Best Design of the Year (Gizmodo)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Budgets Could Force Washington State Special
Session (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Washington State Rep. DeBolt Steps Down as State House
Republican Leader (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Inside Politics: How the Democrats Won the Election
But Lost Olympia (Crosscut Seattle)
GENERAL NEWS
Texas: Fertilizer Plant Blast Injures Hundreds (Christian
Science Monitor)
Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Captured in
Terrifying Video (Mashable)
It Could Happen: King County Prepares for Possible
Bird Virus Pandemic (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
911 Operators Sound Alarm Over Washington State Lawmakers'
Plan to Raid Budget (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Washington State's March Unemployment Rate Breaks
Three-Month Holding Pattern (Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal, WA)
Moses Lake Carbon Fiber Plant Readies Second Line for
BMW “…BMW looked around the world to find a site where it could produce the
carbon fiber without burning fossil fuels, and settled on Washington’s Grant
County, with its low electricity costs due to the dams it operators on the
Columbia River…” (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Mariners
Offer Vegan Chili Cheese Dog
High-Tech
Bathrooms - Bathrooms Have Quickly Become the Gee-Whiz Spaces of Tomorrow
The
Master Bedroom is No More - In Residential Real Estate, Bid Farewell to the
'Master Bedroom'
George
Beverly Shea Dies at 104; Stirring Singer at Billy Graham Revivals
SONG OF THE DAY
George
Beverly Shea - How Great Thou Art
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