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Eastern Oregonian
By Michael Kohn EO Media Group
BEND — The supply of drinking water at the Oregon National Guard Youth Challenge Program on Dodds Road near Bend, as well as nine other national guard facilities in Oregon, contains toxic fluorinated chemicals, according to data released by a Washington, D.C.-based environmental organization.
While the levels of PFAS chemicals in the water fall within those considered safe by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, some scientists are concerned that even low levels […]
Continue reading ‘Forever chemicals’ found in water at Oregon National Guard bases, school
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press
SALEM — A newly revived committee in the Oregon House is taking a deep dive into water issues, potentially creating opportunities and worries for the state’s irrigators.
The seven-member House Water Committee, recently reformed after a long hiatus, will focus on a variety of issues relating to water quality and quantity, said Rep. Ken Helm, D-Beaverton, its chairman.
In the past, Helm has sponsored bills that proved highly controversial in the agricultural community, […]
Continue reading Oregon committee dives into water problems
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
By The Associated Press
July 11, 2019
The new owner of a troubled mega-dairy operation that violated hundreds of environmental rules wants to reopen the facility, drawing fresh opposition from environmental groups.
Washington-state based Easterday Farms requested permission from the Oregon Department of Agriculture earlier this month to house over 28,000 animals on the site of the now-shuttered Lost Valley Farm, according to the Statesman Journal.
Oregon’s […]
Continue reading Environmental groups decry bid to reopen troubled mega-dairy near Boardman
Oregonians demanding stronger protections for state’s water turn to the ballot Citizen initiative rebukes Oregon politicians’ repeated failures to modernize forest laws
Oregon Wild
Micha Elizabeth, Myrtle Glen Farm – 541.572.3295 Sean Stevens – 503.283.6343 ext 211
Salem, OR — July 10, 2019
The Oregon Forest Waters Protection Act was filed today with the Elections Division of the Oregon Secretary of State for the November 2020 election ballot. The initiative will help bring protections for rivers and streams in Oregon’s […]
Continue reading Oregonians demanding stronger protections for state’s water turn to the ballot
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