Columbia River

• All 18-Hole Cabot Golf Courses Place in the Coveted Golf Rankings, With Newcomer Cabot Saint Lucia Featured on the Cover
  TORONTO, Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cabot Collection, developer and operator of luxury resort and residential golf destinations, is pleased to announce all four of its regulation-length golf courses are named in the prestigious Top 100 Courses in the World ranking from GOLF Magazine.
• A rarity for a golf brand, every 18-hole Cabot golf course currently open has made the coveted list, including Cabot Cliffs and Cabot Links at Cabot Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, Point Hardy Golf Club at Cabot Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, and Castle Stuart Golf Links at Cabot Highlands in Scotland.
• The biennial "Top 100 Courses in the World" print issue remains one of GOLF Magazine's most popular issues and informs readers where to visit for the best golf experiences.
• Cabot Cape Breton's Cabot Cliffs and Cabot Links are the only Canadian courses ranked in the top 100.

• It initiated a global arms race that threatens the survival of humanity and the planet as we know it.
• It also led to widespread public health and environmental damage from nuclear weapons production and testing.
• As a researcher examining communication in science, technology, energy and environmental contexts, I’ve studied these legacies of nuclear weapons production.
• Total cleanup costs are projected to reach up to US$640 billion, and the job won’t be completed for decades, if ever.

Victims of nuclear tests

• Nuclear weapons production and testing have harmed public health and the environment in multiple ways.
• So far, they have not been included in the federal program to compensate uranium miners and “downwinders” who developed radiation-linked illnesses after exposure to later atmospheric nuclear tests.
• The largest above-ground U.S. tests, along with tests conducted underwater, took place in the Pacific islands.
• Estimating how many people have suffered health effects from these tests is notoriously difficult.

Polluted soil and water

• Starting in 1944, workers at the remote site in eastern Washington state irradiated uranium fuel in reactors and then dissolved it in acid to extract its plutonium content.
• Hanford’s nine reactors, located along the Columbia River to provide a source of cooling water, discharged water contaminated with radioactive and hazardous chemicals into the river through 1987, when the last operating reactor was shut down.
• Extracting plutonium from the irradiated fuel, an activity called reprocessing, generated 56 million gallons of liquid waste laced with radioactive and chemical poisons.
• The wastes were stored in underground tanks designed to last 25 years, based on an assumption that a disposal solution would be developed later.

A culture of secrecy

• As the movie “Oppenheimer” shows, government secrecy has shrouded nuclear weapons activities from their inception.
• But as I’ve argued previously, the principle of secrecy quickly expanded more broadly.
• Initially, strict secrecy – reinforced by the region’s economic dependence on the Hanford site – made it hard for concerned citizens to get information.

Cautionary legacies

• As Nolan’s film recounts, J. Robert Oppenheimer and many other Manhattan Project scientists had deep concerns about how their work might create unprecedented dangers.
• Looking at the legacies of the Trinity test, I wonder whether any of them imagined the scale and scope of those outcomes.

• "Oregon state tort law is very explicit about what constitutes negligence, fraud and public nuisance.
• We contend that these companies took actions and engaged in deception regarding the impact of these companies that are virtual textbook examples."
• While historically temperate, the region reached record highs of 108, 112 and 116 during an unprecedented June 2021 heat event.
• The lawsuit seeks to hold the oil and gas companies responsible for decades of knowingly producing and selling climate-destroying products while deceiving the public of the dangers.

• Aboard National Geographic Sea Bird and National Geographic Sea Lion , wine lovers and gastronomes alike will embark on an eight-day Columbia and Snake Rivers Journey Presented by FOOD & WINE expedition of the Pacific Northwest .
• "The bountiful diversity in the Columbia and Snake Rivers region is every chef's dream!
• Nimble, reliable, and intimately scaled, National Geographic Sea Bird and National Geographic Sea Lion each feature just 31 outside cabins and suites.
• To learn more about this expertly designed expedition series announced last week at the FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen, visit www.expeditions.com/landing/foodandwine .