AEHI, the saga continues

I have to agree with your assessment of Don Gillispie and/or AEHI. I believe this is a childish act of a desperate man. I am going to take my ball and go play somewhere else and I am not telling you where I am going. He has underestimated Elmore county and the people who reside here so now he must pout. I say good riddance.

I do not not feel like a jilted lover as that would indicate that that I cared for them in the beginning. I lost the little respect I had for this company when they attempted to buy support with the promise of jobs, implying that if you would speak for them you would be a future AEHI employee. In these times of high unemployment, this is as low as one can go when they know they will not be hiring anyone to construct or operate this facility.

I hope Mr. G takes his toys and tries to play in someone else's playground. I support nuclear power but not if this company is involved. They have been very shady from the start and have been constant in that area.

DG has said he would leave our area for some time now...sure wish he was a man of his word and do just that...

First-- Snake river alliance is 100 % anti nuke weather it is AEHI/Don G. or ANYBODY else in the Nuclear energy bussiness, so consider the source.

They are set in there views. Anyone reading this, as in anything look at multiple sources when researching ANYTHING, to make an educated opinion.

2nd--Can you find me a non-for profit utilities company that is sustaining a community ? Do you think Idaho power is not making a profit ?

From the IDACORP web site "Idaho Power Company, IDACORP's principal subsidiary, reported second quarter net income of $26.3 million compared to $17.7 million in 2008" Hello ! Wake up people ! Holy smokes. The problem is were hooked on oil.

For ANY other source of energy to replace oil, its got to be profitable. The hard facts are that wind,solar,geothermal,hydrogen,ethanol,biodeiesel,biobutanol,natural gas,tar sands,solar satellites,oil shale and right now even nuclear are not ready to replace oil, for various reasons.

We know oil WILL run out. We have gotton lip service since the Nixon yeras from our elected officials about how were going to ween ourselves off of foreign oil. Hog wash ! Were in deeper then ever to our oil fix. Did you know we get the most oil from Mexico ? Wonder if that's why we can't seem to secure that border ? HMMMM...

Anyways...

We need time to develop new proven tecnology and make them cost effective and profitiable. , but need to reduce our oil consumption from countries that really could do without us.did you know we are like the middle east of coal ? We have enough coal to last us past 100 years. We have coal to oil technology. (synthetic oil)

My point is after all that.

Bring something to the discussion besides just blasting on AEHI/Don G.

Alot of people blast them, then end with, "but I am for nuclear energy". Really, I couldnt tell, because you use all your energy with silliness trying to belittle one man.

Some of you are guilty of using the Saul Alinsky tactic: Isolate a target and ridicule them.(look it up )

Instead lets have an open, educated disscussion from all sides that will help America keep her freedom and liberty, and demand our elected officials hear us as united. That's their worst fear.

I am critical of his salesman-like ways. Having worked in customer service for 3 years, I can smell a sales pitch from a mile away. Manipulative types that cant be blunt, honest, and realistic are quick fodder for me. Nuclear is not inherently evil. If the man could go about this in a more ethical fashion we may have to deal with it and let it happen. Distorting the numbers are standard practice for business, I realize. That does not mean that I have to like it or respect it.

Paul,

Spoken like an AEHI stockholder. Obviously we are all in business to make money, that is what makes this world revolve. Everyone knows that we must stop our heavy reliance on oil but nuclear power is not the answer. Is plutonium a renewable resource? No more than the oil we rely on now and the waste produced by this process is not conducive to life and lasts for thousands of years.

We live in the strongest and most industrious nations in the world; we have the ability to devise a source of power that is sustainable and waste free. Until then the status quo will have to do.

jtrotter,

You make little sense if not any.

Yes, we are all in bussiness to make money,I think I stated that. Nice AEHI reference, just couldn't resist huh ? Maybe re-read my post, I didn't say Nuclear was the answer ! READ IT AGAIN TWIT ! I do think its PART of the soulution, but not the end all -be all.

Plutonium can be recycled down--see the French for how behind we are on Nuclear energy because of closed minded people and fear and ignorance.

Whats your soulutions--as you sugested nothing other than the staus quo--deep thinker !

The name calling makes me smile, you must be on the defensive. My solution is wind and solar coupled with hydroelectric generation until something better comes along. Why is the U.S. so unwilling to recycle plutonium? It is because nobody wants the stuff in their backyards or traveling the roadways.

My point is nuclear power is not a long term answer and we need to be committed to finding the solution not extending the problem.

France recycles it by using it again in their Nuclear power plants untill 75 % plus of the original material is used....leaving a very small amount of waste(less then a hockey puck.)

If you can find it, watch "The Nuclear option" documentary by CNBC, original air date 10-14-2008

its on there.

We can't conserve our way to energy independence.

I would rather deal with HAZMAT waste then radical Islam anyday.

We don't recycle nuclear like that in America because we have law's on the book's dating back to the 80's I beleive, preventing using it again. I find this Stupid.

No, "we" do not recycle nuclear waste because it is VERY expensive and nobody wants to spend the money to build a facility plus, if not done correctly the results can be deadly. Plus, the US does not have a good record on this front.

http://ecopolitology.org/2009/07/03/us-department-of-energy-cancels-nuclear-repr...

http://science.house.gov/press/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=2520

Think you are right Paul as it is against the law to reprocess here in the states and it is not cost affective. Japan and the French do it though.

Here is some interesting stuff on the "oh so safe never killed anybody" nuclear power. Please, as always, feel free to comment.

http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/reacproj.htm

Or

http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/accidents/accidentshome.htm

Or

http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/chernobylcanhappenhere2005.pdf

the point of this blog is that if what he was selling was so great he should have been willing to weather the storm. Anything good in life usually is met with opposition. If the first waves of resistance make your sand castle crumble then apparently it was not that strong after all. Pulling out the better offers elsewhere card is weak. He may be right or not, it matters not. He chose Elmore county for certain reasons. Apparently he does not hold those very dear because he is jumping ship when citizens dont buy into it right away. I would say that he needs to plan better next time and enlist better help.

News as of recently is that AEHI has filed form 10-Q with the SEC. This form reports a grim picture for the fledgling company. I would think that they knew about this a while ago. All those in the know at AEHI probably knew that this was a risky venture. They were simply hoping that a down economy would sway the votes of Elmore County. This may not be the end of this saga but we are probably writing the last chapters.