Climate Justice Forum: Mystery Megaload, Logging, Youth Climate, & Fossil Fuels Lawsuits, River Bridge Derailment, Navajo Coal Trains, Nuclear Transports, Australia Blockades, BC Wildfires 6-28-23


The Wednesday, June 28, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, recordings, and reflections on an Oregon and Idaho mystery megaload, conservation and climate group challenges of proposed north Idaho lakeside logging and burning, oil trains, and railroad expansion project communication towers, a Montana hazardous materials derailment and removal on a collapsed Yellowstone River bridge and science-devoid state defense during a youth climate trial, a federal agency decision mandating more coal train shipments from a Navajo-owned Montana mine, an Oregon county lawsuit against fossil fuel companies and enablers of deadly heatwaves, western U.S. opposition to nuclear waste transports, British Columbia wildfires around fracked oil and gas wells, and Australia train blockades by anti-coal advocates.  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.

‘We’re Already Here’: Jeff Merkley Sounds the Alarm on Climate Change Reality, June 25, 2023 Forbes Breaking News

Mystery Megaload Shuts Down Main Street in John Day, June 26, 2023 Blue Mountain Eagle

Conservation Groups Challenge Buckskin Saddle Project, June 20, 2023 Bonner County Daily Bee

WIRT Comments on BNSF Communication Towers, June 22, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Stop Oil Trains 2022, July 5, 2022 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

First of Ten Train Cars Removed from Yellowstone River, June 27, 2023 Billings Gazette

Asphalt from Montana Rail Link Derailment Reported in Yellowstone River, June 27, 2023 Montana Free Press

Regulators Tell BNSF to Move More Coal from Navajo-Owned Mine, June 26, 2023 Montana Free Press

Montana’s Narrow Defense in Youth Climate Trial was Devoid of Climate Science, June 20, 2023 DeSmog

Oregon County Sues Fossil Fuel Entities and Enablers for Contributing to Deadly 2021 Heatwave, June 22, 2023 DeSmog

Nuclear Waste Transportation Draws Opposition in West, June 26, 2023 Public News Service

Melbourne Train Halted as Efforts to Stop Climate Activists ‘Backfire’, June 21, 2023 Yahoo News Australia

In B.C.’s Bone-Dry Northeast, What Happens When Wildfires and Fracking Collide?, June 14, 2023 Narwhal

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