Top Stories
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Hanford to the Highest Bidder?
Tri-Cities-area business interests are still pushing the U.S. Department of Energy (Energy) to essentially sell more than a thousand acres of Hanford to private corporations. Given the monumental clean-up task facing Energy, and the impending budget shortfall, they should focus all their resources on cleaning up the toxic and nuclear contamination threatening our river. Selling [...]
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Don’t Shortchange Hanford’s Groundwater Cleanup
Radioactive and chemical waste in the groundwater at Hanford is already reaching the Columbia River. And computer models predict the pollution plumes will grow larger and more serious in the decades to come. So why is the U.S. Department of Energy (Energy) shortchanging groundwater cleanup at Hanford? Columbia Riverkeeper is alarmed by Energy’s decision to [...]
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Riverkeeper on Ring of Fire
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interviews Brett VandenHeuvel about coal export.
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It’s Not Too Late: Deadline Extended for Plans that Could Pave the Way for Coal Export
[ May 20, 2013; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] More industrial development in high quality salmon habitat? Bad idea.
Paving over farmland for dirty coal export terminals. Another bad idea.
On May 6, Columbia County heard an earful from over a hundred citizens who think the Port of St. Helens’ latest proposal to rezone nearly 1,000 acres of farmland and wetland for industrial development is a [...] -
Lower Columbia River Residents Gear Up For Next Round of Oregon LNG Fight
This summer we expect Oregon LNG and the Williams Pipeline Company to file their applications with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to site and construct a massive LNG export terminal and over 200 miles of new pipelines in Oregon and Washington.
Williams’s Washington Expansion Project would deliver North American gas to the Oregon LNG pipeline [...] -
Victory! Kinder Morgan Pulls the Plug on Coal Export
Kinder Morgan announces its decision to walk away from plans for a massive coal export terminal near Clatskanie, Oregon on the Columbia River.
In The News
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Coal Company Drops Plans For Export Terminal On Columbia
EarthFix. May 8, 2013.
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Another Northwest coal export project falls by the wayside; Kinder Morgan drops Oregon terminal plan
The Oregonian. May 8, 2013.
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Bonus money trumps safety at Hanford, experts say
KING 5 News. May 6, 2013.
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Business Interests Trump Health Concerns in Fish Consumption Fight
InvestigateWest. March 30, 2013.
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Treatment Plant for Waste in Nuclear Cleanup Has Design Flaws, Panel Says
New York Times. April 2, 2013.
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Environmentalists Announce Water Pollution Lawsuit Over Escaped Coal
OPB’s EarthFix. April 2, 2013.
Blog Posts
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Ambre Energy Remains the Biggest Threat to Coal Export on the Columbia
Blog post by Jasmine Zimmer-Stucky, Riverkeeper’s Community Organizer—
Don’t get me wrong, we are still jumping for joy that Kinder Morgan is giving up on a coal export proposal in Oregon. Read more about that victory here. But three coal export proposals remain in the Pacific Northwest: two on the Columbia River and one near Bellingham, [...] -
Successful and fun weekend: Dana Lyons and the Great Coal Train Tour
Blog post by Jasmine Zimmer-Stucky, Riverkeeper’s Community Organizer—
Every once and awhile it’s time to put the PowerPoint presentation away, silence the cell phone, and have a good time. Last weekend, Columbia Riverkeeper did just that. Three times, actually.
We needed a bit of help, and that is where Dana Lyons and the Great Coal Train Tour [...] -
A Call for Action on Hanford Reform: More than Two Dozen Organizations Deliver Letters to Northwest Senators Calling for Truth in Hanford Cleanup
Blog post by Theresa Labriola, Riverkeeper’s Hanford Coordinator -
Columbia Riverkeeper and more than two dozen other organizations delivered letters to Senators Wyden, Murray and Cantwell asking the Senators to usher a new era of oversight and accountability at the most contaminated place in the Western Hemisphere: the 586-square-mile Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The organizations, which ranged from [...] -
Will President Obama force Oregon LNG to evaluate climate impacts?
Possible new guidance from the White House may force consideration of climate impacts, which would likely make Oregon LNG’s proposed project even less viable.
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Appreciation of the Columbia River and Riverkeeper
Guest blog post provided by Frank Cretella—
Last I wrote of my time, years ago, on the wonderful Hudson River and how much I love my new home here in the Northwest with the beautiful Columbia River.
I watched a wonderful video documentary on the Lews & Clark expedition and how they survived many perilous adventures on their way from [...] -
Group Gathers to Educate One Another on LNG Proposals
Riverkeeper will be holding more events like this in the coming months to educate, engage, and empower people to stop LNG export. Learn more!
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Events
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Hanford to the Highest Bidder?
Tri-Cities-area business interests are still pushing the U.S. Department of Energy (Energy) to essentially sell more than a thousand acres of Hanford to private corporations. Given the monumental clean-up task facing Energy, and the impending budget shortfall, they should focus all their resources on cleaning up the toxic and nuclear contamination threatening our river. Selling [...]
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Don’t Shortchange Hanford’s Groundwater Cleanup
Radioactive and chemical waste in the groundwater at Hanford is already reaching the Columbia River. And computer models predict the pollution plumes will grow larger and more serious in the decades to come. So why is the U.S. Department of Energy (Energy) shortchanging groundwater cleanup at Hanford? Columbia Riverkeeper is alarmed by Energy’s decision to [...]
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Riverkeeper on Ring of Fire
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interviews Brett VandenHeuvel about coal export.
