Bonneville Power Announces 13 More Transmission Projects For Expected Future Load Growth, Estimated Cost $3 Billion
October 18th, 2024
The Bonneville Power Administration has identified 13 more transmission substation and line projects necessary to reinforce the Pacific Northwest’s electric grid.
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Interior Announces First Offshore Wind Energy Lease Sale Off Northwest Coast, Could Power One Million Homes
September 13th, 2024
The Department of the Interior has announced it will hold an offshore wind energy lease sale off southern Oregon. The two areas to be auctioned on October 15, 2024, by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management could generate more than 3.1 gigawatts of clean, renewable energy if fully developed, which could power approximately one million homes.
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Hydropower Industry Sues Biden Administration Over ESA Administrative Rule Changes, Says Excess Of Authority
September 13th, 2024
The hydropower industry has filed a lawsuit in U.S. district court that challenges administrative changes to the federal Endangered Species Act made by Biden Administration agencies this spring that the industry says were made in “excess of the Services’ statutory jurisdiction and authority.”
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Guest Column: Canada-U.S. ‘Agreement-In-Principle’ Sets Stage For More Balanced Columbia River Treaty
August 9th, 2024
On July 11, 2024, Canada and the U.S. reached a milestone in the process of modernizing the Columbia River Treaty – an agreement-in-principle (AIP) that sets the stage for an improved treaty that supports people and ecosystems on both sides of the border.
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U.S., Canada Reach ‘Agreement-In-Principle’ For Modernized Columbia River Treaty; Assures Pre-Planned Flood Control, Rebalances Power Benefits
July 12th, 2024
The governments of Canada and the United States announced Thursday they have reached an agreement-in-principle to modernize the Columbia River Treaty.
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Administration Report Describes Harm Of Dams To Columbia Basin Tribes, White House Sets Up Task Force To Coordinate Basin Salmon Recovery
June 21st, 2024
The Biden Administration this week released a controversial “Tribal Circumstances Analysis” acknowledging the harm 11 Columbia and Snake river dams have inflicted and continue to inflict on Columbia Basin Native American Tribes.
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WA Fish/Wildlife Commission Gets The Skinny On Columbia River Shad; ‘We Don’t Even Know If Shad Obstacle To Salmon Recovery Or Not’
June 21st, 2024
More than 1.6 million American shad have been counted at Bonneville Dam this year as of June 17 and a few of the non-native fish have even been counted as high in the river basin as Lower Granite Dam, the uppermost of the four lower Snake River dams, and Priest Rapids Dam in the mid-Columbia. For more than a decade they have outnumbered all other anadromous fish entering the river combined.
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Basin Summer Water Supply? Record Low Snowpacks In The North, Above Normal Southern Idaho, Dalles Dam Runoff 77 Percent Of Average
June 21st, 2024
Across most of the Columbia River basin, May brought cooler than normal weather with a mix of precipitation totals. Although providing a respite from this year’s typically lower than normal precipitation and higher than normal temperatures, water supply forecasts continue their downward trend into the summer months, according to the NOAA Northwest River Forecast Center June briefing.
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Canada Says Will Ban British Columbia Open Net-Pen Salmon Aquaculture By 2029, Developing Transition Plan For ‘Closed Containment’
June 21st, 2024
Aimed at protecting wild Pacific salmon, Diane Lebouthillier, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, announced this week that the Canadian Government will ban open net-pen salmon aquaculture in British Columbia coastal waters by June 30, 2029.