US Energy Secretary touts Northwest dams, innovation at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

US Energy Secretary touts Northwest dams, innovation at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Over a two-day tour around the Tri-Cities, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright boasted about the low cost of energy in the Northwest, noting prices are largely helped by the region’s hydropower system.At a press conference on Thursday, Wright stood on a bluff overlooking Ice Harbor Dam, one of the controversial Lower Snake River dams. Fish advocates have pushed to remove the four dams as part of an effort to save endangered salmon and steelhead.S…