Columbia River ‘at tipping point’ warns longtime conservation leader
By Chuck Thompson, Columbia Insight
Published: May 9, 2022, 6:04am
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In June 2016, a Union Pacific train carrying crude oil to a refinery in Tacoma derailed in the town of Mosier, Ore., along the Columbia River. (Jurgenhessphotography)Photo Gallery
“There’s such a need for a watchdog group on the Columbia. If there’s any place that deserves a strong presence and watershed-based approach it’s the Columbia River.”
So says Brett VandenHeuvel, executive director of Columbia Riverkeeper.
Check that.
The 48-year-old VandenHeuvel is the soon-to-be-former executive director of the Hood River, Ore.-based
