Climate Justice Forum: Northwest Pipeline Hearing, Looming Decision, & Protests Week, Jacob Johns Benefit & Shooter Charges, Deadly Colorado Coal Derailment, Idaho Gas Line Explosion 10-18-23


The Wednesday, October 18, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features speakers at the February 13 People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, hosted by a Northwest coalition to gather testimony from community members threatened by Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline expansion.  We also share news, videos, and reflections on a shooter sentencing hearing, press conference, and benefit art show for Spokane indigenous activist Jacob Johns wounded in New Mexico, the recent annular and upcoming solar eclipses, a deadly Colorado bridge coal train derailment and prolonged interstate closure, an excavator rupture and explosion of an Idaho gas pipeline proposed for reversal, and a looming federal decision and week of inland Northwest protests of GTN Xpress.  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.

NDN LIVE: Press Conference #RyanMartinez Charged, #JacobJohns, #NM, October 13, 2023 NDN Collective

Join Us for the Support Jacob Benefit Show!, October 17, 2023 Jacob Johns

October 14, 2023, Annular Solar Eclipse, Sandpoint, ID, USA, October 13, 2023 Time and Date

Feds Begin Investigation of Train Derailment as Long I-25 Closure Continues near Pueblo, October 16, 2023 Denver Post

Idaho Gas Pipeline Explosion, October 13, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Inland Northwest Week of GTN Xpress Protests, October 18, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

October Enews Brings You…, October 18, 2023 Columbia Riverkeeper (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Pacific Northwest Gas Proposal Highlights FERC Balancing Act, October 17, 2023 Bloomberg Law

People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress – 2/14/23, February 14, 2023 Rogue Climate

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