Again, opposition to the Port of St. Helens’ proposed expansion of Port Westward dominated the May 20 Columbia County Planning Commission meeting. Two weeks prior, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
