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Friday, July 11, 2008
Idaho Energy Update July 11: Nuke Plant Saga Continues
By Sandy Pederson @ 5:09 PM :: 112 Views :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates
The saga of Idaho’s nomad nuclear power plant continues to drag on, with the plant’s developer offering up yet another would-be financial angel – but the missing ingredient is once again the money. Meanwhile, you can read the developer’s short note to Idaho Legislators in which he excused himself from appearing before the Interim Energy Committee at the last minute, saying he was “busy.” On the utility side, Idaho Power is asking the PUC for permission to buy about 83MW of summer peak power from Montana to deal with those high summertime loads, and the PUC will be holding a workshop this week to look into how to spend a half-million dollars made available when Idaho Power sold surplus pollution credits – a good thing. And the sale price for Intermountain Gas was $328 million. Read on for details on these and other energy issues.
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Residents Raise Nuke Plant Questions at Mountain Home Meeting
By Sandy Pederson @ 4:05 PM :: 164 Views :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, SRA News Releases
More than 25 concerned residents filled a room at the Mountain Home Public Library Tuesday for the first open discussion of the proposed Elmore County nuclear power plant since Alternate Energy Holdings pulled up roots in Owyhee County last spring and moved its nomad nuke plant upstream on the Snake River. "For the first time, those affected by AEHI’s power plant proposal had a chance to ask their questions and get straight-up answers about the project and about the company,” Snake River Alliance Executive Director Andrea Shipley said. “The people of Elmore County and across southern Idaho have been looking for answers to their concerns, but unfortunately they haven’t been getting them at AEHI’s orchestrated and exclusive meetings so far.”
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Idaho Energy Update June 27 2008: Nuke Developer Vanishes; Idaho Power Rate Case
By Sandy Pederson @ 6:23 PM :: 211 Views :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates
A weird week on the energy front in Idaho, thanks in no small part to the unexplained disappearance of the developer of the Elmore nuclear power plant just before he was to appear before a legislative committee. Meanwhile, Idaho Power filed its newest rate increase, and unlike the past two, this one may not be settled so quickly. Also, Idaho Power has updated its power planning plan, which continues to emphasize conservation and energy efficiency.
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Friday, June 20, 2008
Idaho Energy Update June 20: Nuke Meeting Meltdown & Renewable News
By Sandy Pederson @ 4:39 PM :: 275 Views :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates
It’s been a busy week on the energy front in Idaho. This week’s Energy Update looks first at the recent nuclear power plant “meeting” in Glenns Ferry, followed by a reminder of next week’s legislative interim energy committee meeting on Wednesday and Thursday, an update on U.S. Geothermal’s activities at Raft River, the BLM and U.S. Forest Service taking comments on the Gateway West transmission line and also a geothermal leasing program, the Boise Climate Protection Committee is finishing its work in recommending actions to reduce local emissions, Idaho Power’s application to buy energy from a new anaerobic digester in Gooding, and finally the Department of Environmental Quality’s posting of new greenhouse gas emissions data on its website.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Idaho Energy Update: June 13 2008 - Legislature's Energy Panel Sets Hearings June 25-26
By Sandy Pederson @ 3:44 PM :: 285 Views :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates, SRA News Releases
The Idaho Legislature’s Interim Energy Committee scheduled a two-day meeting June 25-26 to discuss everything from gasoline prices to a proposed nuclear power plant and the Idaho Energy Plan. Meanwhile, developers of the Elmore County nuke plant will hold another “public meeting” Monday, June 16, in Glenns Ferry to make their pitch on the virtues of nuclear power – and more specifically having a power plant alongside the Snake River south of Mountain Home. Read on for developments on these and other energy issues in Idaho.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
The Snake River Alliance Introduces Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free Campaign
By Sandy Pederson @ 8:14 AM :: 266 Views :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, SRA News Releases
The Snake River Alliance will host an introduction of the nationwide Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free campaign on Wednesday, June 25, at the Basque Center in Boise. Doors open at 5 pm and an information-rich program and dinner begin at 6 pm. The Alliance is one of twelve groups on the campaign’s steering committee among over a hundred participant organizations engaging in a joint effort to increase public support for renewable energy sources as the best solution to our energy needs.
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Friday, June 06, 2008
Idaho Energy Update June 2008: Nukers Finally Say They're Leaving Owyhee
By Sandy Pederson @ 3:54 PM :: 279 Views :: Clean and Renewable Energy, Idaho Energy Updates
The developers of the on again-off again Owyhee County nuclear power plant finally told the county their company is leaving for good, but nuke watchers across southern Idaho remain vigilant about the prospects of a plant in Elmore County as well as in Owyhee County. Read on for developments on this and other energy issues in Idaho.


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Friday, May 23, 2008
Idaho Energy Update May 23: Effiiciency Workshop Coming to Boise
By Sandy Pederson @ 5:42 PM :: 318 Views :: Clean and Renewable Energy, Idaho Energy Updates
The NW Energy Coalition's Spring Board Meeting and Conference hits Helena this week. Meanwhile, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance will hold a strategic planning workshop June 9 at the Idaho Power Company Auditorium in Boise, and the BLM wants to hear your views on a big new transmission line proposed for southern Idaho. Read on for more information on these and other events coming up.
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Friday, May 09, 2008
Idaho Energy Update May 9: Areva & Toxic Sand
By Sandy Pederson @ 5:30 PM :: 513 Views :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Idaho Energy Updates
Idahoans continue to react with alarm over reports that thousands of tons of weapons-contaminated sand are being shipped from Kuwait to Grand View in one of the priciest trash pick-ups ever; as well as reports that the Idaho Legislature was successful in rolling out the red carpet to a French firm that will import milled uranium into Idaho, produce nuclear fuel for power plants, and leave a mountain of dangerous waste at its proposed site outside Idaho Falls. Meanwhile, Canada-based Iogen, which Idahoans assumed was a lock to build a major cellulosic ethanol plant in Shelley, has shut down its Idaho operations and is headed back to Saskatchewan, where the subsidies are much greener.
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
No Good Site for Dangerous Uranium Enrichment Plant
By Sandy Pederson @ 1:56 PM :: 502 Views :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, SRA News Releases
Tuesday’s announcement by French-controlled Areva, Inc., that it selected Idaho for its proposed uranium enrichment plant puts Idaho in the unenviable position of contributing to an industry that’s both dangerously risky and bad energy policy, the Snake River Alliance said.
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Friday, May 02, 2008
Idaho Energy Update May 2: New Wind in Bingham
By @ 4:45 PM :: 431 Views :: Clean and Renewable Energy, Idaho Energy Updates
With the 2008 Legislature in the rear-view mirror, attention is turning to a number of utility regulatory matters this spring and summer, as well as possible action by the Legislature’s interim Energy Committee. Meanwhile, the PUC has its plate full with Idaho Power’s request to increase its energy efficiency tariff, and it will also be considering whether to spend some extra pollution credit sales proceeds to Idaho Power to create an energy education program. And Ridgeline Energy received approval by the Bingham County Planning and Zoning Commission for its 150-turbine project east of Blackfoot.
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Friday, April 25, 2008
Nuclear Power is Not the Answer for Idaho
By @ 3:57 PM :: 498 Views :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, SRA News Releases
The Idaho National Laboratory welcomed Patrick Moore, a paid spokesman of the nuclear industry and self described environmentalist, to speak to the Idaho Environmental Forum in Boise this afternoon. “The good news is that Idahoans are having a conversation about climate change,” said Andrea Shipley, Snake River Alliance executive director. “But nuclear power is still not the answer."
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Friday, April 04, 2008
Idaho Energy Update: April 4 - End of Session Report
By @ 5:06 PM :: 724 Views :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates
The 2008 Idaho Legislature adjourned Wednesday night, ending a session in which lawmakers accomplished very little to address Idaho’s energy challenges or climate issues. Meanwhile, the would-be developer of a nuclear power plant south of Boise suddenly shunned Owyhee County and is now courting adjacent Elmore County. The PUC sets a May 15 deadline for public comments on Idaho Power’s request to raise rates for conservation programs, and Intermountain Gas Co. is on the blocks and will likely be sold this year.
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Another Session of Missed Opportunities as Legislature Skirts Energy Issues
By @ 2:50 PM :: 518 Views :: Clean and Renewable Energy, SRA News Releases
BOISE - The Idaho Legislature completed another session this week in which lawmakers ducked key energy and climate issues, and also failed to implement a single recommendation contained in the 2007 Idaho Energy Plan, the Snake River Alliance said.
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Friday, March 21, 2008
Idaho Energy Update: March 21, 2008 - Will Gov Sign Areva Bills?
By @ 5:34 PM :: 674 Views :: Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates
The Idaho Legislature is nearing adjournment – and for those supporting clean energy issues in Idaho the session looms as a disappointment. A handful of moderately helpful bills have been signed by the governor in the past week or will soon be on the governor’s desk for expected approval. Meanwhile, citizens still have a chance to comment to the Owyhee County Planning and Zoning Commission on its expected approval soon of two towers that were illegally built to support a possible nuclear power plantr; and Idaho Power is looking to buy up to 600MW of firm power in 2012 and is also asking the Idaho PUC to approve recovery of costs for its newest gas plant.
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