May 16th, 2013: 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 [...]
May 16th, 2013: 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 [...]
May 15th, 2013: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interviews Brett VandenHeuvel about coal export.
May 14th, 2013: [ 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 [...]
May 10th, 2013: 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 [...]
May 8th, 2013: Kinder Morgan announces its decision to walk away from plans for a massive coal export terminal near Clatskanie, Oregon on the Columbia River.
May 7th, 2013: Two Hearings in One Night
On Monday, May 6th, residents of Columbia County and neighboring areas attended two important hearings about the future of coal exports in Oregon. Columbia County is ground zero for coal development proposals in Oregon, with both Ambre and Kinder Morgan seeking to build major coal export facilities at Port Westward near [...]
May 7th, 2013: What we add to our drinking water, we add to our rivers and our salmon. Fluoride is a toxic pollutant that harms salmon and other aquatic life.
The Columbia River and many of its tributaries already suffer from an overload of toxic chemicals that damage the same salmon runs that we all work so hard to [...]
April 16th, 2013: [ April 26, 2013; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Filmmaker, Andy Maser, and authors, Brad Tyer and Steven Hawley, will join Columbia Riverkeeper to present their latest works and lead a discussion on river issues Friday, April 26th (7pm) at Pfriem Brewery in Hood River, Oregon.
Riverkeeper will show two film shorts highlighting pressing issues on the Columbia River.
Maser will show his recent film production [...]
April 16th, 2013: [ May 13, 2013 5:30 pm to May 22, 2013 8:30 pm. ] Volunteers Needed for Water Quality Monitoring Program
If you’re interested, please sign up for a Volunteer Water Quality Orientation.
Water Quality Training Workshops are for new and returning Adopt-a-River and Water Quality Monitoring volunteers. Pick a training that is convenient for you, and please register with Riverkeeper's Water Quality Director, Lorri Epstein, at 541-399-0769 or lorri@columbiariverkeeper.org. All [...]
