Idaho Power is Betting on Coal with Customer Dollars

Take Action! If you pay Idaho Power for your energy, you should contact the company by phone, paper mail or email and tell them that you want them to phase-out coal power, increase energy efficiency programs, and integrate renewable energy. Contact information for the company can be found here. Write a letter to the editor of [...]
Understanding How Idaho Public Utility Commission Hearings Operate and How to Participate

The Idaho Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has scheduled a public workshop for April 25 to allow Idaho Power, renewable energy companies, and most important YOU to address the utility’s controversial plan to radically change how customers can generate some of their own electricity and sell any surplus juice back to Idaho Power. Here’s a video we [...]
Public Gets a Chance to Speak Out on Idaho Power’s Solar Plans – Ken Miller

The Idaho Public Utilities Commission has scheduled a public workshop for April 25 to allow Idaho Power, renewable energy companies, and most important you to address the utility’s controversial plan to radically change how customers can generate some of their own electricity and sell any surplus juice back to Idaho Power. Known as “net metering,” [...]
Say Hello to Congress – Beatrice Brailsford

Much of the work of the Snake River Alliance is right here in Idaho. But more often than not, the problems we want to help fix are national in scope. For more than two decades, we have joined our Alliance for Nuclear Accountability friends to take a united stand for responsible nuclear policies that affect [...]

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Say “No!” to Commercial Nuclear Waste Coming to Idaho! The Leadership in Nuclear Energy (LINE) Commission has sent Governor Otter a “Progress Report” with more than 60 very preliminary recommendations from its subcommittees. The report includes boilerplate descriptions of the Idaho National Laboratory and a cursory history of its relationship with the State of Idaho [...]

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Coal vs. Efficiency

Latest Report Released on August 16, 2012! Download it here! Executive Summary Kicking Idaho’s Coal Habit: Charting a Cleaner Energy Future Idahoans pride themselves on being “energy smart” but also in their belief that they have about the cleanest electricity in the nation, with much of the state energized by the hydropower projects that have [...]

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Board of Directors Election

The Snake River Alliance members decide who will guide Alliance policy. You must be a current Alliance member to vote. You may renew your membership or join prior to voting by clicking (HERE) or calling 208.344.9161. Board members serve two-year terms. See below ballot box for nominee bios. Voting Directions: 1. Vote for a nominee by clicking the [...]

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Building a Greener Idaho – Interview with Ken Miller

Building a Greener Idaho | May 21, 2013 Special Guests: Ken Miller (Snake River Alliance)

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Post Register | Questions for DOE/BEA

Questions for DOE/BEA Post Register | May 17, 2013 | Opinion Helen Stanton Guest Columnist Prior to the plutonium contamination of 16 Idaho National Laboratory employees on Nov. 8, 2011, management was warned by an independent review safety chairman nearly three years earlier that breached plutonium plates could expose workers if opened. It appears to [...]

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Idaho Power: Company needs to explain coal decision

Idaho Statesman | May 14, 2013 – BOISE, Idaho By Ken Miller Rocky Barker got it right in his April 30 column: Idaho Power faces profound changes in how it does business. Burning coal to make electricity, for instance. As Idacorp shareholders convene Thursday for the company’s annual meeting, they face an urgent question not [...]

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Idaho Energy Update | May 10, 2013

Big proposed transmission lines remained in the news this week as the BLM began its public open houses for the proposed Gateway West project from Wyoming to southwest Idaho, while the federal land management agency also rolled out a preliminary route and map for the proposed Boardman to Hemingway line from southwest Idaho to the [...]

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