Providing balanced information for using water as a renewable energy resource in the Northwest
Thanks to Eastern Washington’s cheap and renewable hydroelectricity, Moses Lake will have “the largest carbon-fiber plant on earth,” a German auto executive leading the project said Friday. By: Dominic Gates The Seattle Times MOSES LAKE — By early…
By Kate Prengaman Yakima Herald-Republic From earlier snow melts to more wildfires, the Yakima River Basin is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, according to a new national report released Tuesday by the Obama administration. The…
By: Becky Kramer The Spokesman-Review VANTAGE, Wash. – Mud, lots of mud, with a river flowing through it. Anja Reynolds gaped at an unfamiliar Columbia last week as her husband, Dave, and their three kids stretched their legs at…
By: Mike Rogoway The Oregonian Data centers are huge, hulking industrial operations – remote warehouses packed with thousands of computers. They use as much electricity as small cities to store our e-mails, photos and Facebook updates, and to…
By: Becky Kramer The Spokesman-Review Northwest tribes and their Canadian counterparts are meeting in Spokane this week to discuss engineering solutions for getting salmon over Grand Coulee Dam. Returning chinook, sockeye and steelhead to the upper Columbia River is…
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…
By: Jeff Mapes The Oregonian Could a small electrical cooperative in eastern Oregon up-end the state’s renewable energy law? That’s the question being asked as the Umatilla Electric Cooperative essentially tells legislators: Fix the renewable energy standards to…
Associated Press The Oregonian The United States has staked out its position for potential negotiations with Canada over a treaty governing hydropower and flood control on the Columbia River and seeks to keep more of the energy produced…
By: Becky Kramer The Spokesman-Review Last weekend’s doozy of a storm followed a classic Northwest weather script. Winds gusting to 40 mph blew moisture-rich air from the ocean into the Cascades and Northern Rockies, dumping snow on the mountains…
By Rich Landers Spokesman Review Kokanee no longer pack enough influence to keep the U.S. Corps of Engineers from fluctuating water levels at Lake Pend Oreille during winter. Since 1996, the lake level behind Albeni Falls Dam has generally…