Providing balanced information for using water as a renewable energy resource in the Northwest
by Keith Ridler The Seattle Times Strategies used to bring back from the brink of extinction a population of central Idaho sockeye salmon have been so successful they could be used as a blueprint to prevent other extinctions,…
The News Tribune A little after 8 a.m. at the Cowlitz River Salmon Hatchery, about 800 coho idle in a narrow concrete channel impatiently leaping at the stainless steel grate barring their journey upriver. “It’s kind of slow…
By Cheryl Schweizer Seattle Times Grant County PUD officials should start raising the water behind Wanapum Dam sometime before the end of 2014. Construction work to repair a cracked spillway pillar and stabilize the rest of the dam…
By Ted Sickinger The Oregonian PacifiCorp this week trumpeted the kick-off of its participation in an “energy imbalance market” with California’s independent grid operator. It was the kind of announcement that only a utility wonk could love. Yet…
By The Associated Press The Oregonian Sea lions may be killing more returning salmon at the mouth of the Columbia River than previously thought, according to research on fish survival. Preliminary research by NOAA Fisheries shows a steady…
By, Northwest Part of Energy Department $10 Million Funding for Full-Scale Wave Energy Device Testing The Energy Department, in coordination with the Navy, today announced funding for two companies that will continue to advance marine and hydrokinetic (MHK)…
By Energy Department Making Hydropower More Eco-Friendly Hydropower has long provided a flexible, low-cost, and renewable source of power for the United States—since the 1800s, in fact. Even today, in fact, hydropower accounted for roughly half of the nation’s…
By Mark Freeman Register-Guard The federal government has pulled the plug on a utility company’s more than decade-long effort to build a hydropower generation system at Applegate Dam, saying the company’s work window has expired. The license holder,…
By Becky Kramer The Spokesman-Review White sturgeon in the Kootenai River can live for decades and grow to lengths of 8 feet. The bottom-dwelling fish share the river’s rocky depths with burbot, a pugnacious, freshwater cod. On Thursday,…