AltWeeklies Wire
To Catch a Salmonnew
An epic run of fall Chinook salmon on the Columbia River faces dams, predators and coal trains.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
09-02-2014 |
Environment
Chemical Trespass: Poison From Abovenew
More than 30 people in Curry County, Ore. say a helicopter dripping pesticides over their rural homes sickened them and their animals last October. Under Oregon law, helicopters can spray toxic pesticides right next to people's homes and farms, with no protective buffers.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
04-16-2014 |
Environment
Tags: pesticides
Prepare for the Worse: Climate Change Meets Disaster Planningnew
Disaster preparedness experts try to get homeowners and cities prepared for the looming threats of shaking earth and giant waves.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
10-24-2013 |
Environment
Trainloads of Toxics and Chemicals Going Through Eugene, Ore.new
A train-hopping videographer gets the information the government won't provide — just what's on the trains going through Eugene, Ore. Crude oil, hydrochloric acid and propane in tank cars known to puncture and tear.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
08-16-2013 |
Environment
Green Tribunal: India and Enviro Lawnew
While America-centric enviros might think of India as "backward" with images of the 1984 Union Carbide Bhopal disaster and its toxic effects lingering, India just might surge ahead of us when it comes to its system for litigating development and the environment.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
06-30-2013 |
Environment
Whither the River?new
How do you save an urban river in the age of global warming?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
11-16-2012 |
Environment
Still Watersnew
Kayla Godowa-Tufti wants to know why white privilege has allowed timber heirs to fight to pollute the sacred waters of Waldo Lake where her ancestors once lived.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
03-29-2012 |
Environment
Coal Train: Coming to Tracks Near Younew
With three proposed coal export terminals, Oregon is facing the prospect of over one mile long open-topped coal trains spewing diesel fumes and coal dust through its towns and into its forests, rivers and lakes. Will Oregon be the gateway for the fossil fuel exports Big Coal is looking for?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
01-20-2012 |
Environment
Death Metal: Uranium Mining May Start in Oregonnew
Like gold mining, uranium mining falls under the aegis of the 1872 General Mining Law that considers hardrock mining the highest and best use of the public’s land. When it comes to the General Mining Law the issue is usually not whether there will be a mine, but how bad the mine will be.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
09-29-2011 |
Environment
Gold Rush: The Invasion of the Nugget Suckersnew
Gold can be volatile, in investments or in the environment. Compared to other Western states like Idaho and California, “on the whole Oregon is not very well endowed,” when it comes to gold, UO geology professor Mark Reed says. But thanks to the skyrocketing price of gold — analysts predict an ounce of gold will sell for more than $2,000 before the end of the year — there’s a gold rush for Oregon’s public lands and pristine rivers.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
09-22-2011 |
Environment
Protest Rules: Against Big Oil in Montananew
The last night of the Earth First! 2011 Round River Rendezvous was one of the quietest nights of the almost weeklong gathering. The environmental activists slept at their campsites in the Lolo National Forest, awaiting a 5 am wake-up call for an action against Big Oil that would use chants, signs and “sleeping dragons.” After days of workshops and training sessions, participants knew the action would target the tar sands route and oil pipelines; they knew their legal rights and they knew how to practice civil disobedience and direct action as safely and ethically as possible.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
07-21-2011 |
Environment
Carbon Nation: CO2 Injection Hits the Northwestnew
Carbon capture and storage. It’s magic! With a little hocus pocus gas becomes liquid. But it might be a little more like a curse than a spell, or at least it has been for a farm in Canada where ponds began to fizz and ponds began to bubble.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
06-16-2011 |
Environment
Battle Over Biomassnew
Angry loggers, protesters locking themselves to cars and belligerent law enforcement bring to mind the face-offs between loggers and activists during the logging wars of the Northwest in the 1990s. But these days, with only a few exceptions, it’s energy and climate change, not old growth, that are causing the clashes between corporations and ecowarriers.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
05-13-2011 |
Environment
What's Green on Oregon's Legislative Agenda?new
When not deciding really important things like whether border collies are more symbolic of Oregon than Labradors, Oregon’s Legislature will be voting on issues that affect not only the economy, jobs and whose dog is the coolest but the environment as well.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
01-31-2011 |
Environment
Tags: Oregon, Sierra Club
Cry Me a Rivernew
The battle for water in the West is not just about who owns it. It's also about how to keep it clean.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
12-27-2010 |
Environment
