Murky outlook at Wanapum Dam
By: Kate Prengaman Yakima Herald-Republic VANTAGE — The boat ramp stretches out into mud, mud and more mud. Nearly 100 feet of mud now stands between the launch at Wanapum Recreational Area and the water. That’s what a…
By: Kate Prengaman Yakima Herald-Republic VANTAGE — The boat ramp stretches out into mud, mud and more mud. Nearly 100 feet of mud now stands between the launch at Wanapum Recreational Area and the water. That’s what a…
By: Ted Sikinger The Oregonian A bill designed to shield Oregon’s renewable energy mandates from a potentially game-changing ballot measure sailed through the Senate’s Business and Transportation Committee Tuesday, even as opponents called it a back-room deal hatched…
By: Lacey Jarrell Herald and News A hydroelectric project that could generate enough electricity to power 600,000 homes is still on track for completion in 2020. The facility is slated for construction at the 5,200-acre Jespersen-Edgewood Ranch in…
By: Gosia Wozniacka Associated Press PORTLAND – A Seattle company is being given the green light to develop plans to build the West Coast’s first offshore wind energy farm – five floating turbines off Oregon’s Coos Bay, federal…
Plans for a wind energy farm off the Oregon coast are to be developed by the Seattle firm Principle Power. By: Gosia Wozniacka The Associated Press – The Seattle Times PORTLAND — A Seattle company is being given…
Profits vs. fish on the North Umpqua By: Ted Taylor Eugene Weekly Some 65 dams came down for various reasons in the U.S. in 2012, according to National Geographic, and Oregon rivers are averaging three or four intentional dam…
Associated Press The U.S. Energy Department named a new administrator Monday to run the Bonneville Power Administration after a hiring scandal rocked the federal utility that sells and transmits much of the Northwest’s cheap and abundant hydroelectric power….