Climate Justice Forum: GTN Xpress Hearing, Completion, & Protests, Nuclear Waste Train, Collaborative Lakeside Logging, Sandpoint Long Bridge Expansion, Global North Violence 12-11-24


The Wednesday, December 11, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features speakers at the February 2023 People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, hosted by a Northwest coalition to gather testimony from community and tribal members threatened by the Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) Xpress methane pipeline expansion.  We also share news, music, and reflections on a submarine nuclear waste train moving from the Salish Sea to eastern Idaho on BNSF and Union Pacific tracks, Oregon and Washington compressor station construction, impending start, and upcoming, regional protests of the completed GTN Xpress fracked gas pipeline, another collaborative deforestation project on mountainous Lake Pend Oreille slopes, an Idaho Transportation Board resolution initiating Sandpoint Long Bridge replacement and expansion, and ongoing economic, social, and environmental violence inflicted by wealthy countries on the Global South.  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 at KRFP and the Pacifica Network AudioPort, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline opposition 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.

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