The Monday, July 14, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes Herb Goodwin, a core WIRT and Occupy Bellingham activist resisting coal export and tar sands megaloads throughout the Northwest. Herb will talk about the oil industry end run around the U.S. crude oil export ban by eight proposed refineries with 80,000-barrel-per-day production capacities in Montana, North Dakota, and elsewhere. He will also discuss rapidly emerging megaload assembly plants and transports on the Montana Rocky Mountain Front, which build Alberta tar sands and Bakken shale oil extraction infrastructure. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide climate activism news and dirty energy developments, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.
Category Archives: Climate Justice Forum
Climate Justice Forum: 6-30-14
The Monday, June 30, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features updates on the Tar Sands Healing Walk and solidarity actions in three states, resistance to increased, potentially explosive, fracked Bakken shale oil trains and terminals across the Northwest, and lawsuits, rulemaking, and opposition surrounding nascent oil and gas drilling and looming fracking in southern Idaho. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers climate activism and dirty energy developments across the continent, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Dana Lyons 6-23-14
The Monday, June 23, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes again folk musician and activist Dana Lyons of Bellingham, Washington. From June 6 to 30, including tonight in Moscow, Dana is conducting a series of performances and presentations on the Crude Awakening Oil Train Tour, raising awareness and resistance across the four-state Northwest to increased, potentially explosive, fracked Bakken shale oil trains, tanker ships, and proposed and operating oil storage, refining, and shipping terminals in Oregon and Washington. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers climate activism and dirty energy developments across the continent, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Matt Landon 6-9-14
The Monday, June 9, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes Matt Landon, co-founder of the grassroots group Vancouver Action Network (VAN) in Washington. Matt will talk about VAN’s investigative and organizing work, including train spotting and documentation of potentially explosive Bakken shale oil rail shipments, Vancouver and regional resistance to associated proposed oil terminals, and efforts to build a state- and nation-wide movement with coordinated days of action. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers climate activism and dirty energy developments across the continent, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Crystal Lameman 6-2-14
The Monday, June 2, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) again gratefully welcomes Crystal Lameman, a Beaver Lake Cree First Nation activist, Alberta climate and energy campaigner for the Prairie Chapter of the Sierra Club Canada, and co-organizer of the annual and final Athabasca region Tar Sands Healing Walk near Fort McMurray, Alberta, on June 27 and 28. Crystal will talk about indigenous lawsuits against the Canadian provincial and federal governments and active efforts to restore Native treaty rights and territories and halt Alberta tar sands exploitation. She will also discuss the ongoing, year-long oil leak from underground bitumen steaming and mining, even while operations recently resumed in the Cold Lake area. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide climate activism and dirty energy developments, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Jesse Cardinal 5-26-14
The Monday, May 26, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes again Jesse Cardinal, the downriver coordinator for Keepers of the Athabasca and co-organizer of the annual and final Athabasca region Tar Sands Healing Walk near Fort McMurray, Alberta. Jesse will describe the upcoming June 27 to 29 presentations, workshops, ceremonies, and spiritual journey though tar sands-exploited lands. She will also discuss active First Nations resistance to tar sands mining and transportation operations, through various lawsuits, protests, and the ongoing Idle No More movement, defending indigenous rights and territories from industry and Canadian governments. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide dirty energy developments and climate activism news, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum: Herb Goodwin 5-12-14
The Monday, May 12, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes Herb Goodwin, a core WIRT and Occupy activist resisting coal export and tar sands megaloads from Bellingham, Washington. Herb will talk about recently rapidly expanding facilities and transports in and through Montana that build Alberta tar sands and Bakken shale oil extraction infrastructure, with megaload shipments, assembly plants, pipelines, and refineries. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide dirty energy developments and climate activism news, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum 5-5-14
Climate Justice Forum: Jessica Lee 4-28-14
The Monday, April 28, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) gratefully welcomes activist Jessica Lee of the Salt Lake City-based direct action groups Utah Tar Sands Resistance and Peaceful Uprising. Jessica will provide updates on U.S. Oil Sands’ attempt to mine Utah tar sands, the Utah Supreme Court case considering state permitting of this venture, water testing in the area, regional oil shale projects, and continued resistance and upcoming action camp opportunities to oppose tar sands exploitation. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show covers continent-wide dirty energy developments and climate activism news, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.
Climate Justice Forum 4-21-14
The Monday, April 21, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) discusses the largest ever Highway 95/200 megaloads proposed for a Great Falls tar sands refinery expansion, Rosebud Sioux tribal activism against Keystone XL pipeline megaloads, the Obama administration’s postponement of the Keystone XL permitting decision, and a Boise protest and investigation of Idaho Department of Lands leasing of state lands and minerals rights, even under rivers, for oil and gas exploration and extraction. Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT, live at 90.3 FM and online, the show also covers other continent-wide dirty energy developments and climate activism news, thanks to the generous, anonymous listener who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.