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Hyperscale data center developer confirmed

  • By Emma Renly For Columbia Gorge News
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Along the Columbia River, about eight miles southeast of Goldendale, all that’s left of a former aluminum reduction plant is its foundation and contaminated soil. The site has sat empty since 2003, when the company Golden Northwest Aluminum, Inc. filed for bankruptcy.

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Commentary: ‘Green’ project would destroy culturally significant resources

  • By Simone Anter Jicarilla Apache/Yaqu
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In the recent Columbia Gorge News’ report, “Energy Storage Project Moving Forward,” Eric Steimle, vice president of project development for Rye Development, is pictured posing on a hillside, an area that Rye would destroy as part of its pumped-storage hydroelectric development. An unabashed portrait, atop an article that only mentions the “potential” for loss or damage to tribal culturally significant resources once and as part of the development’s “environmental impacts.”