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August 31st, 2019 | Category: Bottled Water, Columbia River, Featured Posts, Grassroots Movements, Legal, News, Oregon, Privatization, Protection, United States, Washington | August 29, 2019
As a member of Columbia Riverkeeper, we thought you’d appreciate this story of corporate greed and community resistance. Big kudos to the people of Lewis County who are taking on Crystal Geyser and winning!
Email goof leaks corporate playbook
By Brett VandenHeuvel, Executive Director
Columbia Riverkeepers
It’s rare to get a glimpse inside the multinational corporation playbook, but water bottling giant Crystal Geyser lays bare its strategy: if the local community does not support its […]
Continue reading Washington state Lewis County fight against water bottler
By James MacPherson The Associated Press
August 26, 2019
BISMARCK, N.D. — Attorneys general from a dozen western states, including Oregon, want the Trump administration to halt a proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that they say usurps states’ authority over their own water.
The Water Supply Rule proposed in the waning days of the Obama administration could allow the Corps to charge for water drawn from reservoirs it manages, said North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, who […]
Continue reading Oregon joins western states to oppose plan to charge for U.S. reservoir water
OPB by Erin Ross
Aug. 21, 2019 4
Most of the West Coast’s estuary habitat has vanished, according to a new study, the most thorough of its kind. The mapping project found that, today, less than 15% of historic estuaries remain along the Washington, Oregon and California coastlines.
Estuaries form where fresh water from rivers and streams meets the salt water of the ocean. They take the form of salt marshes, tidal forests, beaches and steep river mouths. […]
Continue reading Many Of The West’s Estuaries Have Vanished: Here’s Why That Matters
By Cody Neuenschwander / cneuenschwander@chronline.com
The Daily Chronicle (serving greater Lewis County Washington)
Aug 5, 2019
The Lewis County Board of Commissioners voted Monday morning to impose a moratorium on permits seeking water extraction in rural Lewis County and certain standalone food and beverage manufacturing applications — much to the appreciation of a large gathering of Lewis County Water Alliance members who have fiercely voiced their opposition to a proposed Crystal Geyser water bottling facility in Randle.
Continue reading County Approves Moratorium That Would Stop Crystal Geyser Project
July 24, 2019
Earth.com
Researchers have identified four Pacific salmon populations in California, Oregon, and Idaho that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. The salmon inhabit a broad range of territory which makes them much more likely to be impacted by environmental changes.
Although Pacific salmon spend most of their lives in the ocean, they return to their native waterways to spawn, migrating as far inland as central Idaho.
The study, led by Lisa Crozier of the National […]
Continue reading Pacific salmon will struggle with rising water temperatures, acidification
July 22nd, 2019 | Category: Bottled Water, Columbia River, Featured Posts, Nestlé, News, Oregon, Privatization, Protection, United States, Washington |
Scores of cars lined either side of U.S. Highway 12 Wednesday evening, spilling over from the full parking lot at the Randle Fire Hall. Inside the building, close to 250 people packed into the meeting room, with dozens more listening to an audio speaker stationed outside.
The attendees came from all over the Pacific Northwest, but most were local to Randle or East Lewis County. Nearly all were there to register their opposition to the proposed water […]
Continue reading Randle Town Hall Draws Strong Turnout to Oppose Water Bottling Plant
March 18th, 2019 | Category: Featured Posts, Legal, News, Oregon, Protection, Rights of Nature, Surface Water, United States, Washington, Water Conservation |
By Eric Barker, The Lewiston Tribune
LEWISTON, Idaho — The way dams and storage reservoirs on the Columbia River and its tributaries are managed could change dramatically in a short five years if negotiators from the United States and Canada don’t strike a deal.
At issue is the Columbia River Treaty, a transboundary agreement that has governed flood risk management and hydropower production for more than five decades. The treaty is evergreen, meaning it doesn’t have […]
Continue reading Columbia River Treaty deadline could shift downstream flood risk management
December 18, 2018 Seattle Times By Lynda V. Mapes and Hal Bernton
After decades of arguments and court challenges, a landmark agreement supported by states, tribes and federal agencies is expected to change how water is spilled at Columbia and Lower Snake River dams to boost the survival of young salmon while limiting the financial hit to hydropower.
The agreement is to be recorded Tuesday […]
Continue reading Changes to dams on Columbia, Snake rivers to benefit salmon, hydropower and orcas
Published 11/05/2018 at 2:29 AM PDT By Oregon Coast Beach Connection Staff
According to findings by Francis Chan of Oregon State University in Corvallis (of which the Hatfield in Newport is a part), Oregon has seen a decline in oxygen in ocean waters near the seafloor for two decades now, resulting in what they term “hypoxia season.” It’s not dissimilar to the idea of a wildfire season, except here there are periods where oxygen levels nosedive in various […]
Continue reading Dead Zones Increasing Off Oregon Coast, Including California, Washington
May 29th, 2018 | Category: Columbia River, Featured Posts, Legal, News, Oregon, Protection, Rights of Nature, Surface Water, United States, Washington | MAY 28, 2018, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fox Q13
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Talks are scheduled to begin this week in Washington, D.C., to modernize the document that coordinates flood control and hydropower generation in the United States and Canada along the 1,200-mile Columbia River.
Northwest politicians have been pushing for years to renegotiate the Columbia River Treaty between the two countries. The lawmakers are particularly keen to eliminate a so-called “Canadian […]
Continue reading Talks to revise the Columbia River Treaty with Canada to begin Tuesday
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