Get Your Work Done & Gold Mining News

Get Your Work Done & Gold Mining News

Get Your Work Done & Gold Mining News. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report.

Saying, they need to get their work done, Oregon's Greg Walden spoke out against the Port of Portland's contract dispute joining some 359 Oregon agriculture and forest products companies and organizations who delivered a letter to the Oregon Congressional Delegation. 

WALDEN: Enough's, enough. These sides need to come together. I believe, as someone who represents that the lack of an agreement has caused a severe economic hardship and not only around the ports but also for our growers and our manufacturers. And this needs to change. I think that those involved in this debate and this discussion about a contract have to understand they have a special public obligation. There are very few, if any, alternatives to shipping.

Gold miners in Idaho just got some good news as a House committee has advanced to the full Idaho House a bill aimed at eliminating federal Clean Water Act protections for suction dredges and also opening Wild and Scenic Rivers to the miners. An opinion by the Idaho attorney general says portions of the bill conflict with federal and state laws. Miners told the committee the Clean Water Act shouldn't apply because suction dredges improve rivers.

That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network of the West.

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