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Boardman plan is good; now let's reach for better
Andrea Durbin, Executive Director of Coalition member Oregon Environmental Council has an opinion piece in The Oregonian on the plan to close the Boardman coal-fired power plant no later than the end of 2020.
Read MoreFederal investigators probing finances of nuclear backers in Idaho
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday suspended trading of Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc., stock out of concerns about stock sales practices, the viability of the company and its ability to build a nuclear reactor in Payette County, Idaho and how AEHI’s executives are compensated…
Read MoreThe Daily Astorian: Coal exports and tar sands extraction carry large environmental costs
Coal coming down the Columbia River for export to China and tar sands equipment heading upriver to Canada suggest that we are collaborating in our own destruction.
Read the full article online at The Daily Astorian.
Read MoreThe New York Times: Integrating Wind and Water Power, an Increasingly Tough Balancing Act
Coalition Senior Policy Associate Steve Weiss is quoted in today’s New York Times article on the challenges of using smart grid technology to balance the Northwest’s huge base of hydroelectric power with its fast-expanding collection of wind farms.
Read the full article at The New York Times
Read MoreThe Oregonian: Australian coal company wants to build coal-export terminal in Longview to ship to Asia
An Australian coal company wants to build a coal-export terminal at a private port in Longview, Wash., a move that would allow 5.7 million tons of U.S. coal exports to Asia each year just as environmental activists are trying to shut down coal-fired power plants in Washington and Oregon.
Read the full article online at The Oregonian.
Read MoreThe Oregonian: Charting Oregon's energy future beyond coal
Closing a coal plant is a big deal. Closing a large, modern coal plant like the one at Boardman is areally big deal. It hasn’t happened before in the Northwest — or arguably anywhere else in the United States. But today Oregon is close to an agreement to end coal burning at Boardman by no…
Read MoreCoalition documents Obama’s ghoulish salmon plan
A coalition of fishing, business, and conservation organizations asked a federal judge today to declare President Obama’s Columbia and Snake river salmon recovery plan illegal…
Read MoreWNS story: Attack of the Oil Company Mega-Loads? Big Shipments Scare NW Watchdogs
Washington State is closely watching a battle in the Idaho Supreme Court over whether to allow massive oil exploration equipment to be trucked across scenic roadways of Northern Idaho and Montana to the tar sands of Alberta, Canada.
Read MoreMissoulian Op-Ed: Renewable energy works for Montana
Complaints about the supposedly high costs of renewable energy by political pundits and candidates around the state are vastly misleading and need correction. In an Oct. 11 Missoulian story, Public Service Commission candidate Bill Gallagher is quoted as saying that renewable energy in Montana has raised electricity rates “without generating any real benefits.” Meanwhile, PSC candidate Travis Kavulla claims that renewable energy requirements for our utilities are “going to add costs to the consumer without adding any real value for them.” Let’s set the record straight…
Read the full Op-Ed online at The Missoulian.
Read MoreFirst solar projects approved for public land
The Interior Department approved the first solar projects on public land Tuesday, a move aimed at shifting the type of energy development on federal property in the years to come.
The two ventures greenlighted in the California desert — the Imperial Valley and Chevron Lucerne Valley solar projects — could provide energy for hundreds of thousands of homes, though neither would start generating electricity for more than a year, at the earliest…
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