Climate Justice Forum: Idaho Megaloads & Lake Herbicides, Canada Rail Strike, Costlier California Utilities, GTN Xpress Rehearing Rejection, BC & Wisconsin Pipeline Opposition 8-28-24


The Wednesday, August 28, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on north Idaho megaloads bound for an Alaska refinery and reduced Union Pacific train traffic from a nationwide Canadian rail workers strike, toxic herbicide treatments in and around Lake Pend Oreille, increased customer utility bills from additional California methane gas infrastructure, an ongoing Northwest construction report and federal agency arguments against a request for a permit rehearing for the GTN Xpress gas pipeline expansion, indigenous land defender blockades and defense hearings refuting two British Columbia methane pipelines, and opposition and comments on the Line 5 tar sands pipeline in Wisconsin.  Broadcast for twelve 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 fuels projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading