Providing balanced information for using water as a renewable energy resource in the Northwest
By Associated Press Seattle Post Intelligencer HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Helena Valley Irrigation District is looking to retrofit its existing pump plant at Canyon Ferry Dam to produce hydropower. Read more
By Staff Spokesman Review QUINCY – Size matters, right? Just ask Yahoo! Inc., which is about to double the size of its Quincy data center. Yahoo said Monday it will add about 300,000 square feet and thousands of servers…
By RACHEL LA CORTE and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press The Columbian OLYMPIA — Until about a decade ago, the rural central Washington town of Quincy was perhaps best known for its apples and potatoes. Then Microsoft and…
By Ted Sickinger Oregonian Depending on where you live and who you listen to, the Clean Power Plan unveiled by President Obama Monday is either the most significant action on climate change ever undertaken or an economic disaster…
By Staff The Columbian News that U.S. officials plan to seek an update to the Columbia River Treaty with Canada was welcomed by local leaders who have long pushed for its renewal. Last month, the entire congressional delegation…
By Becky Kramer Spokesman Review A robust snowpack in British Columbia will help ease drought conditions in the Northwest this summer. Three B.C. reservoirs will release additional water into the Columbia River to help migrating salmon, power production, irrigation…
By Staff Spokesman Review CenturyLink is leasing a hydropowered server farm facility in Moses Lake, the company announced Wednesday. The sustainability of hydropower drew CenturyLink to the facility, a news release said. What’s more, the site has a very…
By Mike Rogoway Oregonian Apple put the Deschutes River on the cover of its annual environmental responsibility report, highlighting a hydroelectric project it acquired in 2012. The small facility near Haystack Reservoir won’t come close to meeting the…
By Lou Marzeles Goldendale Sentinel The Klickitat PUD (KPUD) thinks water is just too lazy, just lying there. At best, it seems, you can make it run through a dam and generate electricity. But why not really make…
By Susan Lockhart Northern Wyoming Daily News Milt Geiger gets pretty excited when he talks about small hydropower projects in Wyoming, but he says his excitement is tempered by his economics background which makes him weigh the benefits…