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Friday, April 08, 2011

Idaho Energy Update: Senate Pulls Plug on Idaho's Renewable Energy Development Incentive
By lwoodruff @ 4:49 PM :: 788 Views :: 2 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates

The Idaho Legislature finally completed its unusually acrimonious 2011 session Thursday, but not before the Senate’s final vote – to pull the plug on Idaho’s incentive for investments in renewable energy. Despite easy passage in the House and amid the end-of-session chaos, the Senate came one vote shy of extending the sales tax rebate for renewable energy developments, an incentive viewed as critical for many renewable projects to move forward. Meanwhile, Seattle City Light has signed an agreement to buy the renewable energy credits from a wind farm under construction near Mountain Home. The PUC surprised many in rejecting a settlement agreement reached between Idaho Power and other parties on how the utility funds its energy conservation programs. And peripatetic Payette power plant proponent Alternate Energy Holdings filed its late financial report to the SEC – and the outlook for its would-be nuclear reactor is not a pretty picture.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Taking Your Voice to the Nation's Capital -- DC Days 2011
By bbrailsford @ 3:01 PM :: 956 Views :: 2 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Nuclear Weapons, Action Alert!

For more than two decades the Snake River Alliance has had a consistent presence in Washington, DC, thanks to your support for DC Days, a remarkably successful annual event sponsored by the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Nuclear Waste -- Now What? Public meeting in May
By bbrailsford @ 1:59 PM :: 807 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Action Alert!

All nuclear waste is hazardous. But certain waste streams are particularly gnarly. Greater-than-Class-C waste is among the nastiest, and it might come here.

Friday, March 11, 2011

March 11 ID Energy Update: Wind Wars, Kjellander Back to PUC & , AEHI
By lwoodruff @ 4:42 PM :: 797 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates

Idaho’s gathering storm over utility wind projects burst open this week as rival bills were introduced in the Legislature first to extend the lifeblood renewable energy sales tax rebates beyond their expiration this summer, and then to ban new wind farms altogether pending a legislative study of how wind power works in Idaho. And in something of a surprise, Gov Otter moved former Idaho PUC Commissioner Paul Kjellander back to the PUC from the Office of Energy Resources, which Kjellander led for the past two years. And the Payette County Commission rejected appeals of a P&Z green light of a property rezone for a nuclear reactor, meaning the County Commission is now free to hold hearings of its own on the proposal that remains mired in a federal securities fraud suit.

Friday, March 04, 2011

March 4 ID Energy Update: Comment on Wind Contracts, Transmission & Eminent Domain, PUC Opening & Nuclear Rezone
By lwoodruff @ 12:38 PM :: 778 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates

Idahoans have a chance to speak out on 17 different wind projects that are before the Public Utilities Commission – but that are also caught in the regulatory tangle created when Idaho’s big electric utilities sought PUC approval to clamp down on the renewable energy projects they must deal with. Meanwhile, legislation has been introduced to change Idaho’s eminent domain laws and place new requirements on private transmission developers hoping to string lines across big swaths in Idaho. Gov. Otter has a PUC opening to fill, and the Payette County Commission on Monday will once again take up the case of would-be nuclear developer Alternate Energy Holdings.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Alliance Questions NRC Green Light for Areva Uranium Enrichment Factory
By lwoodruff @ 4:12 PM :: 1070 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases

The federal government’s announcement Monday that a proposed uranium enrichment factory outside of Idaho Falls passed its environmental review with flying colors comes as no surprise, but raises serious questions about the quality of the environmental review and the government’s failure to address scores of questions raised by concerned Idahoans, the Snake River Alliance said.

Friday, February 04, 2011

Feb 4 Idaho Energy Update: AEHI, new wind & state energy primer
By lwoodruff @ 4:57 PM :: 942 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates

A federal judge on Thursday lifted a freeze on the assets of troubled would-be nuclear reactor developer AEHI, but the decision does little to ease the massive legal problems facing the company in the wake of securities fraud charges filed in December. Meanwhile, a network of 11 wind farms from Hagerman to Cassia County has been fired up and the 122 turbines are sending enough electricity to Idaho Power to power about 40,000 homes. And the Office of Energy Resources has just issued its “Idaho Energy Primer,” a look at assorted energy issues in the state. In the Idaho Legislature, the House is expected to approve a resolution re-authorizing the interim joint Energy, Environment and Technology Committee to study energy issues after this year’s session. The top priority will be a review of Idaho’s 2007 Energy Plan, which after five years is up for a “complete study” to see which portions should be revised and what should be added or deleted from the plan.

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Secret Deal Aims Nuclear Waste at Idaho
By bbrailsford @ 7:48 PM :: 1241 Views :: 4 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Action Alert!

The State of Idaho has signed a secretly negotiated deal that will allow shipments of highly radioactive commercial nuclear waste to the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). It violates the spirit and intent of the 1995 agreement between Idaho and the U.S. Department of Energy forbidding such shipments into Idaho.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

AEHI: Nuclear Flim-Flam
By bbrailsford @ 7:07 PM :: 1414 Views :: 1 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Action Alert!

For the past four years, the Snake River Alliance has helped Idahoans stand against Alternate Energy Holdings’s proposal to build a nuclear reactor here. The proposal—from its inauspicious beginnings to its spectacular flameout—is pure Nuclear Burlesque.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

AEHI: A Community Organizer's Story
By bbrailsford @ 6:55 PM :: 1145 Views :: 6 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Action Alert!

My name is Liz Woodruff. I was new to the Snake River Alliance staff in spring 2008 as Alternate Energy Holdings (AEHI) was moving up river from Owyhee to Elmore County. At the very first meeting held by AEHI in Elmore County, at Mountain Home High School, I sat next to a quiet gentleman who had the look of a farmer.

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