Climate Justice Forum: Rob Briggs 3-10-14


The Monday, March 10, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features Rob Briggs, a core WIRT activist and co-founder of the Palouse regional chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby.  Rob discusses the rapidly-growing, nonpartisan, nationwide organization building the political will for a stable climate and advancing a market-based solution to climate change known as a revenue-neutral carbon fee and dividend.  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 his KRFP DJ.

Climate Justice Forum: City of Moscow Mammoet Megaload Workshop 2-24-14


The Monday, February 24, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features the entire recording of the January 15, 2014, public workshop hosted by the City of Moscow about Dutch hauling company Mammoet’s plans to ship the heaviest, longest, and widest ever megaloads in the region on Highway 95 and Interstate 90, through Moscow and Coeur d’Alene.  Representatives of Mammoet, the Idaho Transportation Department, the Idaho State Police, Latah County Sheriff’s Department, City of Moscow Police, and elected officials discussed plans to move the 1.6-million-pound, 441-feet-long, 27-feet-wide industrial transports to the Calumet refinery in Great Falls, where they will triple production of Alberta tar sands heavy crude oil.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PST, 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 his KRFP DJ.

Climate Justice Forum: Peter Goodman 2-17-14


The Monday, February 17, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features Oregon megaload and coal export opponent and activist Peter Goodman of Act on Climate.  With Walla Walla Chief Yellow Bird, Carl Sampson, Peter filed a Petition for Review of Agency Order against the Oregon Department of Transportation on Tuesday, February 11, in Marion County Circuit Court in Salem. Carl and Peter are asking the court to require ODOT to follow state laws obliging it to act in the public interest and thus consult the Umatilla tribes and Oregonians before issuing permits to Omega Morgan tars sands megaloads that cause multiple harms and hasten global climate change.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PST, 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 his KRFP DJ.

Climate Justice Forum: Al Smith & Chris Wahmhoff 2-10-14


Free the MI CATS

The Monday, February 10, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by WIRT features Al Smith of Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands (MI CATS) and Chris Wahmhoff of Occupy Kalamazoo.  Al is the husband of Vicci Hamlin, who with Barb Carter and Lisa Leggio locked-down to construction equipment last summer, to protest expansion of the Enbridge pipeline that leaked the largest, non-marine, (tar sands) oil spill in U.S. history into the still unremediated Kalamazoo River.  Likewise, Chris skateboarded deep into the same pipeline in June, to stall its development.  All four are facing charges, some felonies with years in prison, and/or are being unjustly held in a Michigan jail.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PST, 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 his KRFP DJ.

Highway 12 Megaload Update, Michigan & Oregon Solidarity


Weather and road conditions will likely stop the Everett transport and/or a crane from moving WEST on Highway 12 tonight.  Barely under the 16-foot-width limitations for Highway 12 megaloads established by the Forest Service, one or more singular shipments could regretfully move sometime this week or on Saturday, February 8, as originally projected.  Friends of the Clearwater, Idaho Rivers United, and Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) are communicating with the Idaho Transportation Department, to obtain more information.  WIRT is working with allies to convince federal agencies to not allow the proposed three Mammoet 1.6-million-pound loads to travel on Highway 95 and Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive.

Climate Justice Forum: Al Smith & Chris Wahmhoff 2-10-14 (website excerpted)

Share Solidarity with Jailed MI CATS

WIRT shares deep respect and sadness with our valiant anti-tar sands comrades.  On Friday, January 31, after a four-day trial of three brave and peaceful female activists, a jury found them guilty of misdemeanor trespassing and felony resisting/obstructing an officer.  Judge Collette’s disdain for the defendants and their supporters refused to allow expert witnesses and documentation and revoked their bond.  The increased police presence in the courtroom on Friday immediately took all three women into custody until their March 5 sentencing of possibly years in jail.  Their acts of love, protection, and courage do not deserve such harsh treatment and felony charges.  Vickie became a great grandmother last week, and Lisa expects a new grandchild this week.  Visit the MI CATS website and facebook pages to find ways to share strength and solidarity with them.  Please send to them handwritten, 4-by-6-inch postcards/index cards without images, mailed to the Ingham County Jail, 640 N. Cedar Street, Mason, MI 48854.  Continent-wide resistance to tar sands, fossil fuels, and unfair corporations and “justice systems” will continue to grow! Continue reading

Climate Justice Forum: Carol Marsh 1-27-14


The Monday, January 27, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features Montana climate activist Carol Marsh, one of three grandmothers who twice sat down and blockaded an Omega Morgan tars sands megaload in Missoula’s Reserve Street on the nights of January 22 and 24.  71-year-old Carol talks about past and recent Missoula tar sands megaload and pipeline protests, her and our comrades’ associated arrests and citations, Alberta tar sands mining operations, impacts, and regional overlegal shipments, and global climate change.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PST 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 his KRFP DJ.

Climate Justice Forum: Arrested Rising Tide Activist 12-23-13


The Monday, December 23, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features a recorded interview of a Rising Tide climate activist whom police illegally arrested as an innocent bystander at a vehicle lock-down blockade that temporarily halted an Omega Morgan-hauled tar sands megaload in John Day, eastern Oregon, on Monday, December 16.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PST 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 his KRFP DJ.

Climate Justice Forum: Chief Carl Sampson 12-16-13


The Monday, December 16, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features Wall Walla Chief Carl Sampson of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, talking about tribal and climate activist resistance to tar sands megaloads on ceded Umatilla territories and ancestral homelands in eastern Oregon and Washington.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PST 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 his KRFP DJ.

Climate Justice Forum: Millennium Bulk Terminal Scoping Hearing Testimony in Pasco 10-28-13


The Monday, October 28, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features recorded and edited testimony from the three-hour Millennium Bulk Terminal scoping hearing in Pasco, Washington, on October 1.  Speakers voice concerns about the global, regional, and community impacts of the proposed Longview coal export facilities and accompanying Northwest coal trains, for agency consideration in a draft environmental impact statement.  Participants note employment opportunities, economic vitality, worker/public safety, and human, environmental, and climate health threats.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 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 his KRFP DJ.

Climate Justice Forum: Millennium Bulk Terminal Scoping Hearing Testimony in Pasco 10-14-13


The Monday, October 14, Climate Justice Forum radio program hosted by Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) features recorded and edited testimony from the three-hour Millennium Bulk Terminal scoping hearing in Pasco, Washington, on October 1.  Speakers voice concerns about the global, regional, and community impacts of the proposed Longview coal export facilities and accompanying Northwest coal trains, for agency consideration in a draft environmental impact statement.  Participants note employment opportunities, economic vitality, worker/public safety, and human, environmental, and climate health threats.  Broadcast on progressive, volunteer, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow every Monday between 7:30 and 10 pm PDT live at 92.5 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 his KRFP DJ.