by Snake River Alliance | Feb 11, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
Idaho National Laboratory contractor, Battelle, and its supporters in eastern Idaho would very much like to have a piece of the federal funding for commercial nuclear waste storage and disposal. It will be a pretty big pie. States that might be thinking about...
by Snake River Alliance | Feb 11, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC
The NW Power & Conservation Council on Wednesday voted unanimously to approve the four-state Northwest Regional Power Plan, a green energy roadmap showing how Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Montana can meet our electricity needs for the next 20 years almost...
by Snake River Alliance | Feb 11, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear
And we’re going for a visit April 17 through 20! Much of what the Snake River Alliance works on and what our members care about is right here at home – the Snake River Aquifer, the infernal intention to always, always push nuclear waste toward the west. But the...
by Snake River Alliance | Jan 27, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
Idaho Power, which serves a part of eastern Oregon for about 5 percent of its total customer base, has asked Oregon utility regulators to allow it to offer incentives for customers who install “smart thermostats” as part of the utility’s energy efficiency offerings...
by Snake River Alliance | Jan 27, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
Wednesday was confirmation hearing day for former Rep. Eric Anderson, a five-term GOP House member from Priest River in the Idaho Panhandle who was appointed by Gov. Butch Otter last year to replace former PUC member Marsha Smith, who retired earlier in 2015 but then...
by Snake River Alliance | Jan 13, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
A collaborative series of articles by four Idaho newspapers featured a healthy helping of Idaho climate change information – especially as viewed through the eyes of decision makers and other interests that often dominate the climate debate in our state and who also...
by Snake River Alliance | Jan 13, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Idaho Energy Updates, Nuclear
The No. 2 executive of a company that roamed Idaho and beyond bilking investors of millions of dollars in a scheme to build a phony nuclear power plant was sentenced Jan. 7 to 30 months in federal prison, three years of supervised release including six months of home...
by Snake River Alliance | Jan 13, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
Ever wonder how many Idahoans believe climate change is actually happening, whether humans have anything to do with it, how we compare with those in other states or even among Idaho’s individual counties or its two congressional districts? Wonder no more and head to...
by Snake River Alliance | Dec 16, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
Utilities using out-of-state coal-fired power plants to generate electricity for Idahoans have said that the power is relatively cheap. But, the Snake River Alliance has looked closely at one of those distant coal plants, the North Valmy Generating Station in northern...
by Snake River Alliance | Dec 16, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Electric Utilities & PUC, Idaho Energy Updates
As world leaders and climate activists bask in the afterglow of the historic international climate accord agreed to by 195 nations in Paris last weekend, the reaction in Idaho has been for the most part muted – and for Idaho clean energy advocates, that’s not such a...
