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.

Down On Our Knees, July 25, 2023 Glen Hansard

Sandpoint Megaloads!, August 27, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Treat Invasive Flowering Rush in Lake Pend Oreille, July 31, 2024 Sandpoint Reader

Canadian Government Moves to End Nationwide Rail Strike, August 23, 2024 Guardian

California Isn’t Planning a Natural Gas Phaseout. Your Bills Could Increase Nine-Fold, August 16, 2024 Mike Florio/Sacramento Bee

Order Addressing Arguments Raised on Rehearing re Gas Transmission Northwest LLC’s GTN Xpress Project under CP22-2, August 19, 2024 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Gas Transmission Northwest LLC Submits Biweekly Construction Status Report No. 13 for the Period of 08/09/2024 to 08/22/2024 re the GTN XPress Project under CP22-2, August 26, 2024 Gas Transmission Northwest

Gimme Some Truth, December 10, 2019 Pearl Jam

Allied Frontline Update, August 26, 2024 Gidimt’en Yintah Access (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Support Land Defenders, August 26, 2024 Gidimt’en Yintah Access (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Tell the Army Corps: No Permits for Line 5, 2024 Sierra Club

Line 5, 2024 Sierra Club Wisconsin Chapter

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