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.

The Foggy Dew, November 8, 2014 Chieftains

Foggy Dew — A Reflection on the Easter Rising 1916, 2023 Irish Music Daily

Sturgeon Full Moon and Blue Moon: August 2023, July 31, 2023 Old Farmer’s Almanac

2023 Remember the Water Kalispel Powwow Paddle, July 31, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Critics: East Coast Explosion Reason to Deny NW Pipeline Expansion, July 26, 2023 Public News Service

TC Energy’s Columbia Gas Transmission Pipeline Explodes in Virginia, July 25, 2023 Pipeline Safety Trust

Merkley, Wyden Urge FERC to Reject Fossil Gas Pipeline Expansion, July 26, 2023 Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator for Oregon

Key Vote on Expanding Gas Pipeline in Oregon, N. Idaho Delayed after Public, Political Pressure, July 28, 2023 Idaho Capital Sun

July 27, 2023 Open Meeting: FERC Press Conference, July 27, 2023 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Calling all Frontline Defenders! Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline, July 23, 2023 Stop Line 3 Team (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Stop Cadence Bank From Giving a $20 Million Loan to Cop City!, July 28, 2023 Rising Tide North America (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Welcome, Guests! Summer Camp is Open, July 27, 2023 Unist’ot’en Camp (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Three Killed when Freight Train Collides with a Car in Idaho, July 16, 2023 Associated Press

Tar Balls are Being Found 100 Miles Downstream from Yellowstone River Train Derailment, July 21, 2023 Idaho Press

Spikes Jammed into Railroad Tracks Create Derailment Concerns in Lancaster County, July 20, 2023 WSOC

Congress Spending Bill Rider Could Slow Down Idaho Wind Energy Installation, July 24, 2023 Public News Service

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