Tag Archive: Power generation

Mar 24

Community organizing for jobs

I spent today in Glenns Ferry doing community organizing (take that, Barack Obama!). One of my clients is Alternate Energy Holdings Inc., which has proposed a large nuclear reactor near Glenns Ferry in Elmore County, about 65 miles southwest of Boise. I drove to Glenns Ferry eager to meet with residents, particularly local small business …

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Feb 04

Time to ante up for power

While I risk upsetting people in the building industry,  I support recent legislation by Rep. John “Bert” Stevenson, R-Rupert, intended to charge new homes and businesses a fee for electrical system expansion. The development industry will likely oppose this measure, but it would be shortsighted of them to do so. Idaho Power is in a …

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Jan 26

Otter shows support of high-tech industry

Gov. Butch Otter has been criticized as being cool to Idaho’s tech sector, instead favoring old-school businesses like ag, lumber and mining, even as those make up a dwindling part of the state’s economy. Otter possibly drove a spike through the heart of those assertions – literally – by pounding a spike into a Western …

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