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| Friday, August 01, 2008 |
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Idaho Energy Update Aug. 1: Good Efficiency News, Less So On Rates
By Sandy Pederson @ 4:43 PM :: 263 Views :: Clean and Renewable Energy, Idaho Energy Updates, SRA News Releases
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Idaho Power told the Securities and Exchange Commission its credit rating is taking a beating because the company has struggled to recover rising power costs. Meanwhile, the PUC has set an Aug. 8 deadline for those wanting to intervene in Idaho Power’s rate case. And Avista Corp., which serves much of north Idaho, came in with its own power cost adjustment that could lead to a rate hike. The good news: The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance issued its annual report, which shows greater-than-expected energy efficiency gains across our region.
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| Tuesday, July 15, 2008 |
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Nuke Plant Developer’s New Funder Has Shaky Financial Past
By Sandy Pederson @ 4:51 PM :: 330 Views :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, SRA News Releases
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The Texas-based energy company selected by an Idaho nuclear power plant developer as its newest financial supporter has no history of developing power plants and last year saw its nuclear plant contract with the government of Yemen cancelled because the government didn’t think it was up to the job. It's the third time Alternate Energy Holdings has tried to convince Idahoans it has the resources for its Elmore County nuclear plant proposal, and it seems the third time won't be the charm.
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| Friday, July 11, 2008 |
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Idahoans Should Take Note of Areva’s French Nuke Spill
By Sandy Pederson @ 9:36 AM :: 274 Views :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
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The French-owned company that Idaho legislators and other officials lured to Idaho Falls with taxpayer-funded subsidies is battling public outrage at home over its handling of a uranium leak at one of its French nuclear plants. Areva, the nuclear giant courted by Idaho officials hoping it would bring its uranium enrichment plant to eastern Idaho, is under fire for the timing of its notification of a radioactive leak that prompted government-ordered bans on drinking tainted waters as well as swimming and fishing in them.
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| Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
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Residents Raise Nuke Plant Questions at Mountain Home Meeting
By Sandy Pederson @ 4:05 PM :: 324 Views :: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, Bruneau nuclear reactor, SRA News Releases
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More than 25 concerned residents filled a room at the Mountain Home Public Library Tuesday for the first open discussion of the proposed Elmore County nuclear power plant since Alternate Energy Holdings pulled up roots in Owyhee County last spring and moved its nomad nuke plant upstream on the Snake River. "For the first time, those affected by AEHI’s power plant proposal had a chance to ask their questions and get straight-up answers about the project and about the company,” Snake River Alliance Executive Director Andrea Shipley said. “The people of Elmore County and across southern Idaho have been looking for answers to their concerns, but unfortunately they haven’t been getting them at AEHI’s orchestrated and exclusive meetings so far.”
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| Thursday, June 26, 2008 |
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Elmore Nuke Plant Developer Sends Regrets to Legislature
By Sandy Pederson @ 6:40 PM :: 346 Views :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, SRA News Releases
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A state legislative energy committee meeting took a bizarre twist Thursday when the developer of a proposed Elmore County nuclear power plant left the Capitol Annex moments before his scheduled testimony, leaving word that he would e-mail his testimony in instead. AEHI President Don Gillispie had been on the agenda for the Interim Energy for more than a week and was scheduled to give lawmakers an update on his proposed 1,600MW nuclear power plant south of Mountain Home. When he failed to appear to testify, former Owyhee County Planning and Zoning Commissioner Joe Weatherby was invited to the podium to discuss the nuke plant with the panel.
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| Tuesday, June 17, 2008 |
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Nuclear Meeting Meltdown: Chaos at Glenns Ferry Nuke Meet
By Sandy Pederson @ 3:40 PM :: 556 Views :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, SRA News Releases
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Tuesday night’s so-called “open house” to discuss the proposed Idaho Energy Complex nuclear power plant south of Mountain Home melted down into a raucous meeting after the plant’s developers sought to silence critics of the energy scheme. The Elmore County Sheriff’s Office arrested one nuclear plant opponent and others were threatened with arrest as well simply for handing out brochures that set the record straight on a litany of misinformation being dished out by Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc., the chronically underfunded proponent of a power plant the company is shopping around southwest Idaho.
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| Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
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Elmore Nuke Plant Off to Shaky Start in Mountain Home
By Sandy Pederson @ 4:23 PM :: 335 Views :: Nuclear Power, SRA News Releases
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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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| Friday, May 23, 2008 |
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Questions Remain in the Case of the Tossed-Out INL Radioactive Waste Filters
By Sandy Pederson @ 3:30 PM :: 374 Views :: SRA News Releases
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The Department of Energy says it has no idea why an unidentified employee at the Idaho National Laboratory tossed out critical filters from eight drums of radioactive waste at the INL facility, but officials acknowledge the action was serious, and that the incident could have contaminated unknown numbers of workers at the site. Read more for an Associated Press account of the incident, and an editorial critique by the home-town newspaper.
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| Friday, May 16, 2008 |
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Alliance Protests Government's Plan to Ship More Waste to Idaho
By Beatrice Brailsford @ 4:30 PM :: 459 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
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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.
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| Friday, May 16, 2008 |
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Idaho's New Nuclear Friend Areva Faces NRC Probe
By Sandy Pederson @ 3:03 PM :: 439 Views :: Nuclear Power, SRA News Releases
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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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Thanks to our members, major donors, and these foundations for making our work possible: Bullitt, Lightfoot, Ploughshares, Patagonia, and New Belgium Brewing.
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