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SRA News Releases
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
No Good Site for Dangerous Uranium Enrichment Plant
By spederson @ 1:56 PM :: 92 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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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Thursday, May 01, 2008
Tons of Waste Shipped to Idaho from Kuwait
By @ 11:25 AM :: 119 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
6,700 tons of contaminated sand with depleted uranium and lead from Kuwait will be coming to American Ecology in Idaho this month. American Ecology Idaho’s Grand View facility, located 70 miles southeast of Boise in the Owyhee Desert, treats and disposes hazardous waste and non-hazardous industrial wastes and low-activity radioactive material.
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Friday, April 25, 2008
Nuclear Power is Not the Answer for Idaho
By @ 3:57 PM :: 146 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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
Nomad Nuke Plant Ditches Owyhee County; Targets Elmore
By @ 1:19 PM :: 306 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, SRA News Releases
BOISE – Friday’s announcement by the Idaho Energy Complex that it’s bailing out of Owyhee County in favor of adjacent Elmore County should send chills through the new target for the proposed merchant nuclear power plant, the Snake River Alliance said. “The last thing Idaho needs is a nomad nuclear power plant developer bouncing from county to county, looking for the best deal for his outrageously bad idea,” Alliance Executive Director Andrea Shipley said.
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Another Session of Missed Opportunities as Legislature Skirts Energy Issues
By @ 2:50 PM :: 247 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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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Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Idahoans Gather on April Fool’s Day to Say No to Areva, the French-based Nuclear Giant
By @ 12:39 PM :: 250 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
BOISE, April 1, 2008—The Snake River Alliance, Idaho’s nuclear watchdog and advocate for clean energy, will be joined by other concerned Idahoans for a rally outside the state annex building on April Fool’s day at 12:30 pm to tell Areva, the French-based Nuclear giant that Idahoans do not want a uranium enrichment facility built outside Idaho Falls.
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Friday, March 07, 2008
Alliance Commends Craig, Simpson on DOE Cleanup Funding
By @ 11:41 AM :: 228 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
The Snake River Alliance commends Senator Larry Craig and Representative Mike Simpson. Both signed letters to the leaders of the Senate and House Budget Committees objecting to the serious cuts in DOE cleanup funding proposed by the Bush Administration for next year.
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
State Subsidies for Uranium Enrichment Plant Would be an Insult to Idahoans
By @ 4:36 PM :: 584 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Reprocessing, Plutonium-238, SRA News Releases, Energy Intelligence News Releases
Idaho’s state leaders have no business using taxpayer money to try to lure a French government-controlled uranium enrichment plant to Idaho, the Snake River Alliance said Thursday.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
MidAmerican's Idaho Pullout Shows AEHI Nuclear is a Bad Investment
By @ 6:15 PM :: 470 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, SRA News Releases, Energy Intelligence News Releases
MidAmerican Energy announced Sunday they’re withdrawing plans to develop a nuclear power plant northwest of Boise in Payette County. It’s a prudent business decision, and one that Don Gillispie and his colleagues and investors at Alternate Energy Holdings Inc. (AEHI) should heed as they consider the wisdom of building a nuclear plant on the shores of C.J. Strike Reservoir near Bruneau.
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Monday, January 28, 2008
MidAmerican Nuclear Agrees with Snake River Alliance That Nuclear Energy is Too Expensive
By @ 3:44 PM :: 467 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, SRA News Releases, Energy Intelligence News Releases
Advocates of a nuclear power “renaissance” are basing their appeals on the notion that nuclear power will be an inexpensive way to get new baseload capacity and to combat global warming. However, MidAmerican Nuclear Energy Company, owned by Warren Buffett, has ended its pursuit of a nuclear energy facility in Payette County after the company spent $13 million researching the viability of the location.
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