Idaho Power Has Good Intentions, but Calling Hydropower ‘Clean’ Energy Is a Bit of a Leap

Ben Lzicar, a Boise resident and avid river recreator, shares his concerns with how Idaho Power’s clean energy goals have failed to acknowledge hydropower’s drawbacks. He brings up the detrimental impacts dams have on Idaho’s native fish populations, as well as the fact that the reservoirs dams create and emit a significant amount of greenhouse gases. Click here to read his Op-Ed in the Idaho Statesman.