Climate Justice Forum: Idaho Tribal Paddle, Train Collision, & Wind Energy, Delayed Northwest, Fiery Virginia, & Protested Gas Pipelines, Montana Bridge Derailment, Atlanta Cop Training Loans 8-2-23


The Wednesday, August 2, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on the seventh annual Kalispel and allied tribal canoe journey, successful delay of a federal decision on an unsafe Northwest pipeline expansion after a fiery Virginia gas line explosion and public and political pressure, calls to frontline defense camps opposing Appalachia and British Columbia gas pipeline construction, actions dissuading bank loans for an Atlanta cop training facility, a deadly north Idaho train and vehicle collision, widespread downstream fossil fuels contamination from a Yellowstone River bridge derailment, spike sabotaged North Carolina railroad tracks, Congressional spending bill obstacles to Idaho wind energy, August blue super moons, and Irish uprising ballads.  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. Continue reading