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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
The New Yorker
Kathryn Schulz July 1, 2019
Other than asteroid strikes and atomic bombs, there is no more destructive force on this planet than water. Six inches of it, flowing at a mere seven miles per hour, will knock a grown man off his feet. Two feet of it will sweep away most cars. Two cubic yards of it weighs well over a ton; if that much of it hits you at, say, twenty miles per hour, it […]
Continue reading Oregon’s Tsunami Risk: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
June 19th, 2019 | Category: Central Oregon, Featured Posts, Legal, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, News, Oregon, Protection, Rights of Nature, Surface Water, United States, Water Conservation |
Bend Bulletin
June 18, 2019
This is my 50th year farming in Madras. I’m the son of an Idaho farmer who came to the North Unit Irrigation District (NUID) in 1948. Father took the first delivery of water on the Agency Plains north of Madras in June of 1948 after the Willow Creek siphon was repaired. He was always concerned if NUID would have enough water to raise the crops in all years.
NUID is the […]
Continue reading Farmers view on junior water rights and the environment
TUE JUNE 04, 2019 – WEST EDITION #12 ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has denied a water quality certification for a proposed natural gas export project on Oregon’s southern coast.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reported that in a letter to the project backers of the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal the agency said it “does not have a reasonable assurance that the construction and authorization of the project will comply with applicable Oregon […]
Continue reading Oregon Denies Key Permit for Natural Gas Export Project
May 30th, 2019 | Category: Columbia River, Featured Posts, Legal, News, Oregon, Other States, Privatization, Protection, Rights of Nature, Surface Water, United States | KIVI Boise May 29, 2019 AP
Idaho, Oregon OK water certifications for hydroelectric dams
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho and Oregon have completed key elements in a process that will allow the license renewal for a major hydroelectric project on the Snake River on the Idaho-Oregon border, an Idaho utility said Tuesday.
Idaho Power said the two states approved the company’s water quality certification for the Hells Canyon Complex on Friday. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will now review the certification.
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Continue reading Idaho, Oregon OK water certifications for hydroelectric dams
Permalink William Poehler and Tracy Loew, Salem Statesman Journal
May 29, 2019
Billions of gallons of water have been hidden behind the Willamette River Basin’s 13 dams since they were constructed starting in the 1930s.
For 30 years, powerful interests including cities, farmers and industry have been slugging it out for access to that water, which has yet to be designated for a use. Fisheries and environmental groups […]
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