Climate Justice Forum: Highway 95 Wetland Permits, Resistance to NW Gas Pipeline Expansion, Oil-by-Rail, Nuclear Submarines, Lithium Mines, Fossil Fuels Funders, & Carbon Capture 5-17-23

The Wednesday, May 17, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers letter refuting flawed Idaho Transportation Department permit applications to destroy wetlands along a Highway 95 re-route near Moscow, a Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition co-founder memorial, Farmers Market outreach, an Idaho fact sheet, an editorial article, and a Washington D.C. protest of Northwest gas pipeline expansion, a Portland forum on the Zenith oil-by-rail terminal and nearby tank farms, a sabotaged Tacoma oil train derailment, a pre-Mother’s Day demonstration at a U.S. Navy nuclear missile submarine base in Washington, a second indigenous-led prayer blockade of Nevada lithium mine construction, the oil and gas industry carbon capture and storage scam, and four protests at fossil fuels-funding banks and a White House correspondents dinner. Broadcast for eleven years on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, on-air at 90.3 FM and online, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to fossil fuel projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.

Mother Earth, August 10, 2018 Memphis Slim

Army Corps Letter to ITD and Lawsuit Settlement Refuting Highway 95 Expansion Application Process, May 9, 2023 Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition

Charles ‘Chuck’ Clements Harris Jr., May 13, 2023 Moscow-Pullman Daily News

Thanks to everyone who visited the Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) outreach table…, May 15, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Stop GTN Xpress Idaho Fact Sheet, May 17, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Op-Ed: The New Landscape for Fighting Fossil Fuel Infrastructure, May 12, 2023 Common Dreams

Stop Manchin’s FERC!, 2023 Beyond Extreme Energy

Help Us Stop Zenith Oil-by-Rail: Forum 5/23 in PDX, May 16, 2023 Columbia Riverkeeper (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Arrest Made In Train Derailment, May 10, 2023 Tacoma Weekly

Activists Blockade U.S. Navy’s West Coast Nuclear Ballistic Missile Sub Base Before Mothers Day, May 16, 2023 World Beyond War

Native Prayer Action Ongoing at Thacker Pass / Peehee Mu’huh Today…, May 11, 2023 Protect Thacker Pass

The Carbon Capture Scam, Explained by Dr. Sandra Steingraber, February 16, 2023 Food and Water Watch