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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Mason PUD 3
Customers Should be on the Alert for Possible Telephone Scams (Mason County PUD
3, Shelton, WA)
Salmon Funds Approved for Ongoing Skokomish
Restoration (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Biologists Identify Pot Gardens as Salmon Threat
(Associated Press)
Centralia
College Gets $10 Million Federal Clean Energy Grant (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
Green Diamond: From Shelton Roots to Klamath Falls
Forests (South Sound Business Examiner)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Mason PUD 3 Customers Should be on the Alert for Possible Telephone Scams
- Jefferson PUD Candidates Confess: Neither Voted for Electrical Takeover in 2008 Election
- Rationalizing California’s Residential Electricity Rates
- Electric Rates Soar in New England
- Co-ops Win Case over FERC Demand Response Order
- Tennessee Valley Authority Prices $1 Billion of New 10-Year Global Power Bonds
- Salmon Funds Approved for Ongoing Skokomish Restoration
- Biologists Identify Pot Gardens as Salmon Threat
- Detroit Bankruptcy Judge Says He Can’t Stop Water Shutoffs
- Centralia College Gets $10 Million Federal Clean Energy Grant
- Bats Killed by Wind Turbines ‘Because They Mistake Them for Trees’
- How Solar Power is Changing Your Utility Bill - And Your Utility
- Taxes, Fees: The Worldwide Battle between Utilities & Solar
- Using LED Lights to Change Moods
- California Drought Tied to Climate Change? Scientists Unsure
- Oregon Global Warming Commission Endorses Obama Power Plant Regulations
- Latest EIA Report Shows Marked Increase in U-S Carbon Dioxide Emissions
- California Plastic Bag Ban Signed, Setting Off Sweeping Changes
- Irony Alert: Field Roast’s Fake Meat Has to be Tested on Real Animals
- The Internet is Still ‘Shellshocked’ by Latest Bug — But It Won’t be the Last
- Cisco: The Internet Needs More Control
- FCC Lays Groundwork for 5G Wireless Networks
- EBay is Splitting PayPal Off as a Separate Company
- FCC Appears Poised to Loosen Sports Blackout Rule, Despite Protests by the NFL
- Londoners Accidentally Pay for Free Wi-Fi with a Firstborn, Because No One Reads Anymore
- This Supermarket Poster Was Not Meant to Be Seen by the Public
- Green Diamond: From Shelton Roots to Klamath Falls Forests
- Huge Tax Breaks for Boeing Weren’t Tied to Jobs; 2,000 Jobs to be Cut, Moved from Washington
- Two Kennewick Residents Lose $6,300 from Phone Scams
- Kansas City Chiefs Fans Now NFL’s Noisiest, Take Title from Seahawk Fans
Esurient
• \ih-SURR-ee-unt\ • Adjective - Hungry,
greedy
Feed
me, Seymour (growled the esurient houseplant)
Feed
me all night long
‘Cause
if you feed me Seymour
I
can grow up big & strong
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Mason PUD 3
Customers Should be on the Alert for Possible Telephone Scams (Mason County PUD
3, Shelton, WA)
Jefferson PUD Candidates Confess: Neither Voted for
Electrical Takeover in 2008 Election (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Rationalizing
California’s Residential Electricity Rates (The Energy Collective)
Electric Rates
Soar in New England (U-S News & World Report)
Co-ops Win Case over FERC Demand Response Order (Electric
Co-op Today)
Tennessee Valley Authority Prices $1 Billion of New
10-Year Global Power Bonds (American Public Power Association)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Salmon Funds Approved for Ongoing Skokomish
Restoration (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Biologists Identify Pot Gardens as Salmon Threat (Associated
Press)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Detroit
Bankruptcy Judge Says He Can’t Stop Water Shutoffs (Christian Science Monitor)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Centralia
College Gets $10 Million Federal Clean Energy Grant (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
Bats
Killed by Wind Turbines ‘Because They Mistake Them for Trees’ (International Business
Times)
How
Solar Power is Changing Your Utility Bill - And Your Utility (Christian Science
Monitor)
Taxes,
Fees: The Worldwide Battle between Utilities & Solar (Reuters)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Using
LED Lights to Change Moods (Electric Co-op Today)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
California
Drought Tied to Climate Change? Scientists Unsure (SF Chronicle)
Oregon Global Warming Commission Endorses Obama
Power Plant Regulations (Portland Tribune, OR)
Latest
EIA Report Shows Marked Increase in U-S Carbon Dioxide Emissions (The Energy
Collective)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
California
Plastic Bag Ban Signed, Setting Off Sweeping Changes (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Irony
Alert: Field Roast’s Fake Meat Has to be Tested on Real Animals (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
The Internet is Still ‘Shellshocked’ by Latest Bug
— But It Won’t be the Last (Washington Post)
Cisco: The Internet Needs More Control (NY Times)
FCC Lays Groundwork for 5G Wireless Networks (Broadband
Reports)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
EBay is Splitting PayPal Off as a Separate Company (Gizmodo)
FCC Appears Poised to Loosen Sports Blackout Rule,
Despite Protests by the NFL (NY Times)
Londoners Accidentally Pay for Free Wi-Fi with a
Firstborn, Because No One Reads Anymore (Everett
Herald, WA)
This Supermarket Poster Was Not Meant to Be Seen by
the Public (Consumerist)
GENERAL NEWS
Green Diamond: From Shelton Roots to Klamath Falls
Forests (South Sound Business Examiner)
Huge Tax Breaks for Boeing Weren’t Tied to Jobs;
2,000 Jobs to be Cut, Moved from Washington (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Two Kennewick Residents Lose $6,300 from Phone
Scams (Tri-City Herald, WA)
Kansas City Chiefs Fans Now NFL’s Noisiest, Take
Title from Seahawk Fans (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Firefighters
Save Family of Hamsters With Tiny Oxygen Masks
Oregon
Fugitive’s Strong Cologne Leads Cops to His Hiding Spot
Leonardo
Da Vinci ‘Painted Three Ermine Portraits’
European
Union Flag Stirs Confused Terrorist Alert in Belfast
SONG OF THE DAY
The
Little Shop of Horrors - Feed Me, Seymour (Git It)
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