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Solar Plant Opens in Salem, OR

(photo: Governor Ted Kulongoski (second from right) helps cut a ceremonial ribbon at the Sanyo plant in Salem)

SALEM, OR - Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski joined officials from electronics giant Sanyo in Salem today to help open a solar cell plant. It’s the same place the governor visited a year ago to celebrate the plant’s ground-breaking.

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Top Power Producers in the Northwest

The Northwest Power and Conservation website provides an interactive, Google-generated map that displays power plants and their output in the Northwest.  By selecting different energy projects such as; hydroelectric, wind power, coal projects, biomass, nuclear energy, and natural gas, the map will display the location and output of the plant.

 

Truck Plant Closes While Solar Plant Breaks Ground in Oregon

SALEM, OR - One day after news that a truck plant would close in Portland, Oregon’s economy is taking a symbolic step forward. Officials broke ground in Salem today on a new solar manufacturing facility. Correspondent Chris Lehman reports.

Proposed Reservoir Could Leach Radioactive Waste

September 19, 2007

Two federal reports show the controversial and expensive Black Rock Reservoir proposed in the Yakima Valley could leach under the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and let radioactive waste ooze into the Columbia River.

Spokane Public Radio's Amanda Loder reports.