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- Water spills over the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, which runs along the Washington and Oregon state line, June 21, 2022. The U.S. and Canada said Thursday, July 11, 2024, that they have agreed to update a six-decade-old treaty that governs the use of one of North America’s largest rivers, the Columbia, with implications for electricity prices, irrigation, flood control and imperiled salmon runs. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski, File)
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US would keep more hydropower under agreement with Canada on treaty governing Columbia River
By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press
Thu,07/11/24-7:02PM , 154 Reads
SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. and Canada said Thursday they have agreed to update a six-decade-old treaty that governs the use of one of North America’s largest rivers, the Columbia, with provisions that officials said would provide for effective flood control, irrigation, and hydropower generation and sharing between the countries.
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- Water spills over the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, which runs along the Washington and Oregon state line, on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. The U.S. government on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest have caused Native American tribes, issuing a report that details how the unprecedented structures devastated salmon runs, inundated villages and burial grounds, and continue to severely curtail the tribes' ability to exercise their treaty fishing rights. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski, File)
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US acknowledges Northwest dams have devastated the region's Native tribes
By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press
Tue,06/18/24-3:04PM , 562 Reads
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- This photo provided by the Washington Department of Ecology shows a derailed BNSF train on the Swinomish tribal reservation near Anacortes, Wash. on March 16, 2023. A federal judge on Monday, June 17, 2024 ordered BNSF Railway to pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state after finding that the company intentionally trespassed when it repeatedly ran 100-car trains carrying crude oil across its reservation. (Washington Department of Ecology via AP)
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Judge orders railway to pay Washington tribe nearly $400 million for trespassing with oil trains
By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press
Mon,06/17/24-2:02PM , 245 Reads
SEATTLE (AP) — BNSF Railway must pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state, a federal judge ordered Monday after finding that the company intentionally trespassed when it repeatedly ran 100-car trains carrying crude oil across the tribe's reservation.
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- Two Makah Indian whalers stand atop the carcass of a dead gray whale moments after helping tow it close to shore in the harbor at Neah Bay, Wash., May 17, 1999. Earlier in the day, Makah Indians hunted and killed the whale in their first successful hunt since voluntarily quitting whaling over 70 years earlier. The United States on Thursday, June 13, 2024 granted the Makah Indian Tribe in Washington state a long-sought waiver that helps clear the way for its first sanctioned whale hunts since 1999. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
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Washington's Makah Tribe could once again harpoon whales as US waives conservation law
By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press
Thu,06/13/24-11:33AM , 529 Reads
SEATTLE (AP) — The United States granted the Makah Indian Tribe in Washington state a long-sought waiver Thursday that helps clear the way for its first sanctioned whale hunts since 1999 and sets the stage for renewed clashes with animal rights activists.
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