Tag: Oregon
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Clean Energy Breakthrough Uses Sun to Create Solar Materials
In a recent advance in solar energy, researchers have discovered a way to tap the sun not only as a source of power, but also to directly produce the solar energy materials that make this possible. [caption id="attachment_329453" align="alignnone" width="500"] The sun could almost be a “one-stop shop” that produces both the materials for solar…
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Large LNG Explosion Displaces Hundreds in Washington
Nearly 1,000 area residents and agricultural workers were displaced Monday following a liquefied natural gas (LNG) explosion at a plant near the Washington-Oregon border. According to the Tri-City Herald, hazardous materials experts believe the Monday morning explosion at Northwest Pipeline caused the slow leak of cold LNG from a 14.6-million-gallon storage tank that was struck by shrapnel.…
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Feds Greenlight LNG Exports From Controversial Jordan Cove Project in Oregon
Though the decision was anticipated and remains conditional, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) approval of the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Coos Bay, OR is already drawing the ire of environmental groups across the country. The Jordan Cove project includes building an export terminal that would be supplied by the proposed 235-mile-long Pacific Connector…
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Mushrooms Used for Bioremediation to Clean Pesticides From Oregon Waterways
Putting ideas into action, an Oregon-based restoration nonprofit group, Ocean Blue Project, is harnessing the power of mushrooms to clean up pesticides and other pollutants that plague Oregon and national waterways. Yes, mushrooms. [caption id="attachment_319044" align="alignnone" width="500"] These oyster mushroom have the filtering potential to break down oil, pesticides and harmful bacteria. Photo courtesy of…
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16 Arrested Blocking Tar Sands Megaload in Oregon
On Monday evening climate justice groups stopped the movement of a controversial shipment of equipment bound for the Alberta tar sands. Concerned citizens locked themselves to two disabled vehicles in front of the 901,000 lbs load, blocking it’s route along highway 26 outside of John Day, OR. Police responded and arrested 16 at the two…