6 February 2012
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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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Nuclear Power
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 :: 666 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.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Alliance Questions NRC Green Light for Areva Uranium Enrichment Factory
By lwoodruff @ 4:12 PM :: 933 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.
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Friday, February 04, 2011
Feb 4 Idaho Energy Update: AEHI, new wind & state energy primer
By lwoodruff @ 4:57 PM :: 834 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.
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Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Secret Deal Aims Nuclear Waste at Idaho
By bbrailsford @ 7:48 PM :: 1032 Views :: 3 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.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
AEHI: Nuclear Flim-Flam
By bbrailsford @ 7:07 PM :: 1211 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. 

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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
AEHI: A Community Organizer's Story
By bbrailsford @ 6:55 PM :: 1034 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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Friday, December 17, 2010
Dec 17 Idaho Energy Update: Out With Nukes, In With Wind
By lwoodruff @ 5:13 PM :: 854 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates
Idaho Power wants the Public Utilities Commission to sign off on contracts with six more wind farms in the Mountain Home area, while the PUC also recently approved another 80MW wind contract for a wind farm in eastern Idaho. Meanwhile, the PUC is taking public comments on a request by Idaho Power to return proceeds from the sale of surplus pollution allowances mostly to customers, with a small amount going to shareholders. And the PUC is also holding public meetings this month on a requested rate hike by PacifiCorp, best known in Idaho as Rocky Mountain Power.
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Thursday, October 07, 2010
Oct 7 Idaho Energy Update: AEHI Takes a Few Media Hits
By lwoodruff @ 2:52 PM :: 1065 Views :: 1 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates
Developers of a planned nuclear reactor in Payette County had a tough week, with two investor-oriented news organizations raising questions about the company’s ability to pull off its plan. Meanwhile, Owyhee County’s first big wind project was presented to the county’s planning commission with strong support from county residents, many of whom are farming and ranching the 5,000 acres where the turbines would be sited. At the PUC, the Commission approved the first solar contract with Idaho Power as well as a proposal by Intermountain Gas to reduce rates due to reduce gas prices and demand.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Well Done, Snake River Alliance!
By bbrailsford @ 5:05 PM :: 1322 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons, Action Alert!
Well Done, Snake River Alliance!

The determination, intelligence and creativity of Snake River Alliance supporters have been at the forefront in the past weeks at meetings on Areva’s plans to build a uranium factory here and in less public but as important efforts to convince Idaho senators to help ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Nomad Nuke Peddler AEHI Surrenders in Elmore County
By lwoodruff @ 1:36 PM :: 1178 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, SRA News Releases
Facing overwhelming community opposition and a skeptical county government, developers of Idaho’s Vagabond Nuclear Reactor surrendered Tuesday and withdrew their rezoning application in Elmore County, retrenching instead to Payette County where their project is every bit as much a long shot.
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