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A weekly summary of energy and climate issues. We feature updates from the Legislature and state agencies, Idaho's utilities and regulators, and topical clean energy developments in Idaho and the Northwest - all designed to help you follow and participate in Idaho energy issues.


 

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Friday, June 13, 2008
The Snake River Alliance Introduces Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free Campaign
By spederson @ 8:14 AM :: 264 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 :: 296 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 :: 235 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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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Oppose the Nuclear Power Plant in Elmore County
By spederson @ 8:41 AM :: 390 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Idaho Energy Updates, Action Alert!
The Snake River Alliance held a public meeting at the Mountain Home Library on July 1st from 6-8:30 pm to discuss AEHI's proposal for a nuclear power plant on the Snake River near Hammett.  We are in the process of helping a group of citizens, who attended the meeting, from Elmore and Owyhee Counties form their own coalition to oppose the plant.  If you want to be part of this group please contact the Alliance.

To act today, contact the policy makers who will decide on whether the plant is allowed or not:




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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
DOE Sends Yucca Application to NRC; Former NRC Commissioner Says 'These People Have Lost Track of Reality'
By spederson @ 4:25 PM :: 238 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination
The Department of Energy on Tuesday submitted its long-awaited application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in hopes of licensing the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. While DOE’s submittal of the license application was long anticipated, the odds of Yucca actually opening are long as well. Read on for the NRC news release and a take from the L.A. Times.

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Friday, May 16, 2008
Idaho's New Nuclear Friend Areva Faces NRC Probe
By spederson @ 3:03 PM :: 353 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, SRA News Releases
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is looking into whether Areva NP, Inc., violated NRC transportation regulations during a shipment of equipment to a Tennessee nuclear power power plant. Areva is the same French-controlled company Idaho officials assiduously courted - and threw millions of dollars in Idaho tax freebies at - to convince the company to build its uranium enrichment factory in Idaho Falls.
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Friday, May 09, 2008
Idaho Energy Update May 9: Areva & Toxic Sand
By spederson @ 5:30 PM :: 510 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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 spederson @ 1:56 PM :: 501 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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Friday, April 25, 2008
Nuclear Power is Not the Answer for Idaho
By @ 3:57 PM :: 497 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
Idaho Energy Update: April 4 - End of Session Report
By @ 5:06 PM :: 723 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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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