Are Rolling Blackouts Becoming the New Normal?

The hundreds of thousands of Oregonians who spent days without electricity, due to the recent ice storm, learned firsthand that power outages represent something more than an inconvenience. If you lose power during a period…

Miller is the executive director of Northwest RiverPartners, a Vancouver-based nonprofit organization that advocates for hydropower… Read the full article: Despite Unknowns, Dam-Breaching Proposal Is Opening Honest Conversations

The Puget Sound region receives roughly half of its electricity from hydropower, writes Kurt Miller, and dams lead the way producing 90%… Read the full article: Hydropower Needs to Have a Place in Our Clean…

I appreciate the guest column by Mr. Bert Bowler from December 15 and his concern for the health of Idaho salmon populations. Northwest … Read the full article: Ocean conditions affect Idaho salmon

I’m incredibly honored to work as a hydropower advocate. My organization champions clean energy works to fight climate change, and… Read the full article: Removal of Unproductive Dams Best for Salmon

Over Thanksgiving week, the state of Oregon very quietly filed a 60-day notice of its intent to sue the federal government over its planned Columbia River System Operations… Read the full article: Gov. Brown Puts…

Thanksgiving in 2020 will look much different than in previous years, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still plenty to be thankful for. Whether it is our health, our jobs, or our ability to gather…

That saying has probably never been more apparent than in the case of government responses to the COVID-19 outbreak. During the early stages of the pandemic, some officials in New York, and Washington, among other…

One of my friends and colleagues suggested a headline for me over a year ago, “Our Salmon Need the Dams to Survive”. Given conventional wisdom, this sounds like a contradiction. We all know dams kill…

In a November 9 op-ed, Sharon Grace and Chris Pinney suggested that my organization was peddling “disinformation” about the effect of the lower Snake River dams on salmon populations. They also stated their belief that…