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| Alliance Protests Government's Plan to Ship More Waste to Idaho posted 5/16/2008 | | Plutonium-contaminated waste from nuclear bomb production remains hazardous for a quarter of a million years. By law, it must be isolated from the human biosphere in a deep geologic repository. Enormous quantities of plutonium-contaminated waste have been shipped to Idaho since the early 1950s. The Department of Energy has now announced plans to ship even more plutonium-contaminated waste to Idaho without adequate environmental analysis. Some of the waste planned for shipment here might never be eligible for disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and could remain stored above the Snake River Aquifer indefinitely. | | Idaho's New Nuclear Friend Areva Faces NRC Probe posted 5/16/2008 | | 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. | | Idaho Energy Update May 9: Areva & Toxic Sand posted 5/9/2008 | | 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. | | No Good Site for Dangerous Uranium Enrichment Plant posted 5/6/2008 | | 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. | | Idaho Energy Update May 2: New Wind in Bingham posted 5/2/2008 | | 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. | | Tons of Waste Shipped to Idaho from Kuwait posted 5/1/2008 | | 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. | | Nuclear Power is Not the Answer for Idaho posted 4/25/2008 | | 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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