Climate Justice Forum: Nez Perce Megaloads, Idaho Rail Expansion, Gas Line Rupture, River Exposure, & Nearby Fire, Oregon & Appalachian Pipeline Opposition, Montana Youth Climate Win 8-16-23

The Wednesday, August 16, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, videos, and reflections on the tenth anniversary of Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) blockades of tar sands megaloads in their Idaho reservation and wildlands, an Idaho women’s symposium on legislative threats to reproductive health, BNSF Railway completion and traffic on its two-way, double tracks and second bridges on Lake Pend Oreille, a north Idaho gas pipeline rupture and reburied exposure under a river, wildfires and evacuations in small cities, near a gas compressor station planned for expansion, and within a massive, litigated, proposed logging project in lakeside mountains, Oregon opposition to Northwest gas pipeline expansion, protests and arrests at a Washington nuclear submarine base and Appalachian pipeline work site, and federal court decisions denying attorney fee recovery to Idaho gas well drilling proponents and affirming Montana youth constitutional rights to state climate action. 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.

Nez Perce Megaload Confrontation – August 5, 2013, August 6, 2013 Tom Hansen

Ten years ago, us Nimiipuu did some pretty gangsta sh…, August 14, 2023 Mary Jane Oatman

Idaho Women’s Symposium: August 16-19!, August 13, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

BNSF Completed Double Bridges/Tracks in Lake Pend Oreille and Sandpoint!, August 12, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

BNSF Officially Opens Two-Way Rail Traffic over Lake Pend Oreille Bridges, August 10, 2023

Shelter-In-Place Order Lifted Following Gas Line Rupture in Sandpoint, August 15, 2023 KXLY

Sandpoint Gas Line Rupture, August 15, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

GTN Exposed, Reburied Under Pend Oreille River in 2013, August 8, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Athol Fire Mostly Contained, Evacuations Downgraded to ‘Get Ready’, August 14, 2023 Spokesman-Review

Sarah Loop Fire Evacuations Downgraded, August 15, 2023 Coeur d’Alene Press

FERC Off, August 2, 2023 Bend Source Weekly

Guest Column: Federal Government Should Block the GTN Xpress Pipeline Expansion, June 28, 2023 Bend Bulletin