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SRA News Releases
Friday, August 01, 2008
Idaho Energy Update Aug. 1: Good Efficiency News, Less So On Rates
By spederson @ 4:43 PM :: 76 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Clean and Renewable Energy, Idaho Energy Updates, SRA News Releases
Idaho Power told the Securities and Exchange Commission its credit rating is taking a beating because the company has struggled to recover rising power costs. Meanwhile, the PUC has set an Aug. 8 deadline for those wanting to intervene in Idaho Power’s rate case. And Avista Corp., which serves much of north Idaho, came in with its own power cost adjustment that could lead to a rate hike. The good news: The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance issued its annual report, which shows greater-than-expected energy efficiency gains across our region.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Nuke Plant Developer’s New Funder Has Shaky Financial Past
By spederson @ 4:51 PM :: 196 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, SRA News Releases
The Texas-based energy company selected by an Idaho nuclear power plant developer as its newest financial supporter has no history of developing power plants and last year saw its nuclear plant contract with the government of Yemen cancelled because the government didn’t think it was up to the job. It's the third time Alternate Energy Holdings has tried to convince Idahoans it has the resources for its Elmore County nuclear plant proposal, and it seems the third time won't be the charm.
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Friday, July 11, 2008
Idahoans Should Take Note of Areva’s French Nuke Spill
By spederson @ 9:36 AM :: 188 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
The French-owned company that Idaho legislators and other officials lured to Idaho Falls with taxpayer-funded subsidies is battling public outrage at home over its handling of a uranium leak at one of its French nuclear plants. Areva, the nuclear giant courted by Idaho officials hoping it would bring its uranium enrichment plant to eastern Idaho, is under fire for the timing of its notification of a radioactive leak that prompted government-ordered bans on drinking tainted waters as well as swimming and fishing in them.
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Residents Raise Nuke Plant Questions at Mountain Home Meeting
By spederson @ 4:05 PM :: 239 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Elmore Nuke Plant Developer Sends Regrets to Legislature
By spederson @ 6:40 PM :: 272 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, SRA News Releases
A state legislative energy committee meeting took a bizarre twist Thursday when the developer of a proposed Elmore County nuclear power plant left the Capitol Annex moments before his scheduled testimony, leaving word that he would e-mail his testimony in instead. AEHI President Don Gillispie had been on the agenda for the Interim Energy for more than a week and was scheduled to give lawmakers an update on his proposed 1,600MW nuclear power plant south of Mountain Home. When he failed to appear to testify, former Owyhee County Planning and Zoning Commissioner Joe Weatherby was invited to the podium to discuss the nuke plant with the panel.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Nuclear Meeting Meltdown: Chaos at Glenns Ferry Nuke Meet
By spederson @ 3:40 PM :: 467 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, SRA News Releases
Tuesday night’s so-called “open house” to discuss the proposed Idaho Energy Complex nuclear power plant south of Mountain Home melted down into a raucous meeting after the plant’s developers sought to silence critics of the energy scheme. The Elmore County Sheriff’s Office arrested one nuclear plant opponent and others were threatened with arrest as well simply for handing out brochures that set the record straight on a litany of misinformation being dished out by Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc., the chronically underfunded proponent of a power plant the company is shopping around southwest Idaho.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Idaho Energy Update: June 13 2008 - Legislature's Energy Panel Sets Hearings June 25-26
By spederson @ 3:44 PM :: 347 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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 spederson @ 8:14 AM :: 318 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Idaho Energy Update: June 11 2008: Questions Abound for Elmore Nuke Plant
By spederson @ 5:19 PM :: 351 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates, SRA News Releases
After leaving Owyhee County amid controversy two months ago, Alternate Energy Holdings on Tuesday peddled its as-yet-unfunded nuclear power plant proposal to nearby Elmore County, rolling out another factually challenged presentation that underscored the company’s uphill fight to convince residents to accept its energy scheme.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Elmore Nuke Plant Off to Shaky Start in Mountain Home
By spederson @ 4:23 PM :: 277 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, SRA News Releases
Developers of a proposed nuclear power plant in Elmore County held their first “public meeting” Tuesday, a 90-minute session in which they limited questions to county residents only and rattled off a series of inaccurate claims about nuclear power, their proposed project, and how it will impact Mountain Home and other communities in Elmore County.
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