Columbia River
Sequester Causes Problems for Toxic Waste Cleanup
An announcement by Washington State Governor Jay Inslee this week has nuclear energy watchdogs concerned: Six underground radioactive waste tanks at Washington’s Hanford Nuclear reservation are leaking. The tanks hold highly radioactive waste, produced over decades of plutonium production for nuclear weapons. The government spends billions of dollars annually on cleanup efforts at the site. […]
Consensus on Census: A Salmon Solution?
A number of varying interests in the quest to keep salmon spawning and hydropower in place for residents along the Columbia River may have found a new and worthwhile compromise. Based on a report by independent scientists commissioned by the four-state coalition Northwest Power Planning Council, a new science and way of looking at the […]
Documenting Emissions at Hanford…
Morgan Holm of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports on a new study of radioactive releases from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State into the Columbia river. The study confirms that Native Americans and others who ate large amounts of fish from the river in the two decades following World War II may have ingested high […]
U.S. Indian Tribes Challenge Canadian Company’s Legacy of Waste
For nearly a century, the toxic by-products of a Canadian smelter plant were discarded directly into the Columbia River. The company changed its practices in the mid-1990s, but the Colville Confederated Tribes of Washington state, whose waters and fish we