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Making The Green Scene: Catching Up With Canadian Solar , Trina Solar ...
Making The Green Scene: Catching Up With Canadian Solar , Trina Solar and China Winda s Earnings, ZeaChem To Start Cooking Soon, And The Best Of San Francisco Green Festival It was an extremely busy week for renewable energy earnings lead by Canadian Solar reporting on Q3 2009.
STORM: Power outage prompts Morrow County schools to close
Several schools in Morrow County have sent students home and closed today because of power outages related to a storm.
Lakewood company starts work on biofuel facility
A Colorado company that has developed a process to convert wood to fuel is starting construction of what will eventually be a commercial-scale production plant.
Interop, Web 2.0 Expo Previews
In our second all-digital issue of Network Computing , we offer hands-on reviews and in-depth analysis of unified computing platforms, energy efficient data centers and more.
NAS Whidbey conducting explosive demolitions at Boardman
If you, your friends or your family live near Boardman Oregon the dust you see and the vibrations you feel might well be coming from the Navy! Naval Air Station Whidbey is conducting explosive demolition operations on the Boardman Bombing Range for the remainder of the week.
Washington farm workers push for unionization
Margarito Martinez says he was fired from the eastern Washington dairy that employed him for more than a year because he tried to unionize the company.
Pies judged, cider pressed at annual museum fundraiser
Desi Smith gets help from Jane Opiat operating a cider press owned by his parents, Keith and Elaine Smith.
The Dalles Dam lock closure choking regional economy
The Tri-Cities of eastern Washington have not received gasoline deliveries since The Dalles Dam lock closure last week, while garbage has piled up in Vancouver, according to a feature report in the Oregonian.
Unionization efforts lead to tensions among farmers in eastern Washington state
The nation's largest farm worker union has filed a lawsuit on behalf of 10 eastern Washington dairy farmers who contend they've been fired for trying to unionize.
Dam's lock closure blocks Northwest commerce, fuel deliveries
River traffic - commercial and recreational - is impeded on the Columbia River at The Dalles Dam, where workers are repairing structural problems to the lock gates.
In Wash., farm workers push for unionization
Margarito Martinez says he was fired from the Eastern Washington dairy that employed him for more than a year because he tried to unionize the company.
MISSING: 2 boaters missing in Columbia River near Hermiston
Nearly 50 people are searching the Columbia River by boat, by air and along the shoreline today for two fishermen missing after their boat capsized.
Searchers find bodies of two fishermen in Columbia near Boardman
Searchers have pulled the bodies of two fishermen from the Columbia River near Boardman, the Morrow County Sheriff's Office reported.
Body of missing fisherman found near Boardman
BOARDMAN, Ore. - A Warm Springs fisherman has been found dead in the Columbia River near Boardman, while the search for another is continuing.
Amazon Halts Construction On $135 Million Datacenter Due To Economy
Amazon Halts Construction On $135 Million Datacenter Due To Economy Sep. 15, 2009, 7:54 AM Amazon has abandoned construction on a $135 million datacenter in Boardman, Oregon until "sometime next year" due to "poor economic conditions," according to the town's Chamber of Commerce.
Amazon cops to stalled data center
Amazon has acknowledged that it's behind the 116,700-square-foot data center no longer under construction on the banks of the Columbia River in Boardman, Oregon.
A Looking for a biofuels breakthrough in Boardman
On paper, making fuel from plant materials looks like a simple five-step process.
From poplar to ethanol: Plant could help save Northwest's biofuels industry
Poplar trees from the Greenwood Resources plantations near Boardman, Ore., are now made into lumber used in cabinets at a mill that opened earlier this year.
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Oregon ports take different routes getting shipments to Puget Sound
HERMISTON, Ore. - Picture Lewis and Clark splitting up at some point between present-day Umatilla and Boardman and racing to the Pacific Ocean.
Marine Found Hanging in Boardman Park
Boardman police are investigating the death of a Marine recruiter. Police were called to Tots Town in Boardman Park around 2 o'clock Friday afternoon.