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By Bill Sheets The Daily Herald EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — This winter, a little more of the power flowing into Snohomish County homes will be locally grown. The Snohomish County Public Utility District has officially opened its new…
By Scott Learn The Oregonian DETROIT DAM – If you don’t like heights, this dam’s walkways are not for you, with winds that make you wobble and a 469-foot concrete-lined drop downriver. Detroit, like the other dams wedged…
By Staff Herald and News One of the Klamath Basin’s largest irrigation districts is one step closer to building a hydroelectric generation facility on a canal in the Klamath Reclamation Project. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has determined…
By Scott Learn The Oregonian Dam removal picks up steam in the Northwest this fall with the removal of two dams on the Olympic Peninsula’s Elwha River and the Condit Dam in the Columbia River Gorge. Activists are…
By Tim Fought, Associated Press The Columbian PORTLAND — A big spring rise in the Columbia River basin has finally washed out to sea, meaning that turbines in the region’s wind farms are back at full output. While…
By Scott Learn The Oregonian Federal Judge James A. Redden’s potential swan song hearing on the Northwest’s highest-profile salmon case Monday was short but not particularly sweet. Redden, 82, has presided over the U.S. District Court case since…
By Scott Learn The Oregonian CHINOOK, Wash. — This winter, restoration workers punched a 12-foot concrete culvert through the rock rip-rap that lines the Columbia River near the ocean and waited for fish to hit wetlands walled off…
By Rocky Barker Idaho Statesman Temperatures in the Columbia River Basin have risen 2 degrees in the past hundred years and could climb another 6 to 7 degrees this century, according to a west-wide report on the impact…
By Lynne Lynch Columbia Basin Herald EPHRATA – Grant County PUD engineer Dana Jeske recently accepted the Outstanding Stewards of Americans Waters award from the National Hydropower Association (NHA) in Washington, D.C. Grant PUD earned the award for…
By Rocky Barker Idaho Statesman Think about all the energy news that’s breaking around us in Idaho. The Idaho Legislature is debating whether to maintain a sales tax rebate for renewable projects. Days earlier, lawmakers killed a moratorium…