The Wednesday, May 31, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on a U.S. Supreme Court decision that weakens Clean Water Act wetlands protections, the End the Era of Fossil Fuels national week of actions, a Montana youth climate court case against state government, opposition to a Montana gravel mine and asphalt plant on the Flathead reservation, national debt ceiling compromise legislation that approves all Mountain Valley gas pipeline permits, Alberta wildfires, evacuations, and Kearl tar sands tailings pond leaks impacting indigenous communities, and Coastal GasLink pipeline sediment spills into First Nations waters in British Columbia.  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. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, May 24, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on departed core WIRT organizer Herb Goodwin and recent outreach events and conversations, updates on massive deforestation schemes, railroad and creek bridge replacements, and a double-long coal export train around Lake Pend Oreille, a missing Wyoming train shipment of explosive chemicals, increased train derailment disasters and rail worker safety concerns in Washington state, ongoing indigenous tipi blockades of Nevada lithium mine construction, Alberta wildfires threatening gas and tar sands extraction sites and prices, and a Washington D.C. protest of federal regulators dominated by coal baron Joe Manchin.  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. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, May 17, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers letter refuting flawed Idaho Transportation Department permit applications to destroy wetlands along a Highway 95 re-route near Moscow, a Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition co-founder memorial, Farmers Market outreach, an Idaho fact sheet, an editorial article, and a Washington D.C. protest of Northwest gas pipeline expansion, a Portland forum on the Zenith oil-by-rail terminal and nearby tank farms, a sabotaged Tacoma oil train derailment, a pre-Mother’s Day demonstration at a U.S. Navy nuclear missile submarine base in Washington, a second indigenous-led prayer blockade of Nevada lithium mine construction, the oil and gas industry carbon capture and storage scam, and four protests at fossil fuels-funding banks and a White House correspondents dinner.  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. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, May 10, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features community members threatened by Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline expansion, testifying at the February 13 People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, hosted by a Northwest coalition.  We also share news, music, and reflections on BNSF rail bridge and track construction and resulting harms to Sandpoint and Spokane area environments and economies, a Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition lawsuit settlement and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers letter refuting flawed Idaho Transportation Department attempts to realign Highway 95 near Moscow, and secret information about GTN Xpress contracts with gas supply companies sent to federal regulators ahead of a possible May 18 proposal decision.  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.

Big Yellow Taxi (2004 Remaster), August 18, 2014 Joni Mitchell

BNSF Rail Bridges Update, May 8, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

BNSF Rebuilds One Bridge, Begins Another in the Northwest, May 8, 2023 Railway Age

Palouse Group Says Settlement Reached in U.S. Highway 95 Suit, May 9, 2023 Lewiston Tribune

Army Corps Letter to ITD Refuting Highway 95 Expansion Application Process, May 9, 2023 Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition (PRDC & WIRT facebook posts forthcoming)

Secret GTN Xpress Contract Information Sent to FERC, May 4, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress Part 2, February 13, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

The Wednesday, May 3, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features lead 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, music, and reflections on a Maine derailment cleanup that spilled fuel, California first-in-nation diesel locomotive emissions rules, federal rejection of a liquefied natural gas train permit, and opportunities to support and participate in allied fundraising and events like Idaho Gives, the fiftieth annual Moscow Renaissance Fair, and a First Nation healing center spring work camp.  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. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, April 26, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on an Earth Day screening of a Northwest wildfire film in Newport and excessive north Idaho coal and oil trains, U.S. railroads’ comparably high derailment and fatality rates, an unknown, century-old, sunken train in Lake Pend Oreille, an injurious train crash and forest fire in Maine, Spokane faith leaders and Oregon youth climate strike protests of Northwest fracked gas pipeline expansion and a Portland fossil fuels hub, falling U.S. natural gas production and demand, a Native elders blockade of Nevada lithium mine construction, Canadian actions to abolish a police and industry response group, and First Nation spring resistance camp opportunities in British Columbia.  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. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, April 19, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features faith and climate leaders talking about Northwest fracked gas pipeline expansion and its resistance at the April 12 Spokane Community GTN Xpress Teach-In.  We also share news, music, and reflections on anti-oil train graffiti and upcoming Earth Day gatherings in north Idaho and Washington, supporting and opposing views on Lake Pend Oreille deforestation collaboration, an Idaho town hall meeting on recently legislated state oil and gas rules, and a postponed federal decision and faith organizations letter requesting regulator rejection 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. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, April 12, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on the first 2023 north Idaho thunder, gratitude for twelfth WIRT anniversary celebration performers and participants, an upcoming Spokane teach-in and demonstration against Northwest gas pipeline expansion, a southern Idaho town hall about recently legislated oil and gas rules changes, protests opposing bank financing of British Columbia pipeline construction across Canada and at an annual shareholder meeting excluding indigenous land defenders, derailments and their aftermath in the Swinomish reservation and western Montana, oil and hazardous materials train resistance in Washington and Colorado, and a federal government lawsuit against Norfolk Southern over the February Ohio train wreck.  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. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, April 5, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on coalition actions in Seattle and Spokane, Bellingham safety concern comments, and a federal agency request for information about the proposed GTN Xpress Northwest gas pipeline expansion, upcoming WIRT twelfth anniversary celebrations and myriad past events, southern Idaho city and oil and gas company conflicts over leases, corporate causes of decreasing rail safety, a Montana riverside and tunnel freight derailment and blocked, previously numerous coal trains, a fiery Minnesota ethanol train wreck, Washington and other state derailment numbers, and police raids and bank protests surrounding indigenous resistance to British Columbia pipeline construction.  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. Continue reading →

The Wednesday, March 29, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on an Idaho bill that would change oil and gas rules on state oversight and well spacing and forced leasing, Arizona corn syrup train wreck monitoring, causes of a Washington derailment that spewed locomotive diesel in the Swinomish reservation, a federal trial and ruling against oil trains violating a Swinomish easement agreement, a North Dakota hazardous materials train disaster, a railroad merger causing safety concerns about tar sands shipments, First Nation and U.S. elder protests of bank support of a contested gas pipeline and fossil fuels, and litigation challenging the approved Willow oil extraction project in Alaska.  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. Continue reading →