Spoil – Documentary on the Great Bear Rainforests under Threat by Dirty Tar Sands

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A powerful documentary on the Great Bear Rainforest by EP Films, Spoil shows the splendor of nature with some beautiful photography.  It highlights the nature we all want to protect, but our blinkered and incessant addiction to burn more oil is helping to destroy.

Winner of the top environmental award at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, Spoil is a lovely film and a perfect way to encourage us all to help protect and nurture nature and not destroy it for the sake of dirty oil.  We need to stop buying dirty oil and move faster into clean, renewable electricity. Continue reading →

Paving Paradise

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Tucked against Paradise Ridge, the small patch of low shrubs and bunchgrass appears unremarkable.

Yet this ten-acre parcel south of Moscow is one of the last, best remnants of the Palouse Prairie, one of the most endangered ecosystems in North America.

It is here that the Idaho Transportation Department plans to build a $17 million, four-lane stretch of highway, past the hawthorn bushes and wild rose.

“There’s really no Palouse Prairie left,” said Matt Finer, a Washington State University doctoral candidate studying the prairie.  “Paradise Ridge is one of the last good spots.  And the state wants a highway here?  It’s unimaginable.”

But it is the route chosen by the Idaho Transportation Board last week over the objections of the state Department of Fish and Game, conservationists, and local homeowners.

Read more: Paving Paradise

(By The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, October 27, 2002)

Thanks for Your Donation to WIRT!

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Wild Idaho Rising Tide confronts the root causes of climate change by asserting direct actions and promoting locally organized solutions, in solidarity with frontline communities of resistance and an international, volunteer, grassroots network of activists.

With and for you, we will continue to foster formidable citizen resistance to dirty energy development schemes like tar sands transports, Northwest coal and shale oil exports, and oil and gas drilling/fracking in Idaho.

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