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PIPELINE & IDAHO LOGGING LAWSUITS, FERC QUORUM, CANADA BANK PROTEST & LAND
DEFENDER FILM, ISRAEL THEFT OF GAZA GAS 2-28-24


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The Wednesday, February 28, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced
by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT),
features news, music, and reflections on looming collapse of an Atlantic Ocean
current that warms European climate, Idaho panhandle logging lawsuit claims
partially dismissed by a federal judge and train congestion unrelieved by
doubled bridges and tracks, an Oregon and Washington petition for review of gas
pipeline approval by an agency that may soon lack decision-making quorum, a
Mountain Valley pipeline SLAPP suit against Rising Tide and frontline
protesters, solidarity actions against bank funding and a new film documenting
indigenous defenders of their lands invaded by a British Columbia methane
pipeline, and Israel’s intended theft of offshore Gaza gas reserves.  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, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance
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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CLIMATE JUSTICE FORUM: WASHINGTON OIL SPILL RULES, TACOMA PROTEST OF CITY, GTN
XPRESS CONSTRUCTION & STATES LAWSUIT, FERC RESIGNATIONS, PERMANENT LNG PAUSE
LETTER, GEORGIA BAIL LIMITS 2-21-24


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The Wednesday, February 21, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced
by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT),
features news, music, and reflections on Washington rulemaking and hearings on
financial responsibility for pipeline, refinery, and other facility oil spills,
a Tacoma demonstration holding city administrators accountable for not
protecting environments and communities, ongoing Northwest coalition resistance,
an Oregon and Washington federal court challenge, and a TC Energy push to start
construction of the GTN Xpress fracked gas pipeline expansion, departure of
commissioners and lack of quorum at a federal agency that permits energy
transportation projects, a letter to the Biden administration requesting a
permanent pause on liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals, and Georgia
criminalization of contributors to jailed activist bail funds.  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, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance
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.
Continue reading →


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2023 TAR SANDS MEGALOAD PROTESTS


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Megaload Information

During early December 2023, a Korean-manufactured steam boiler transported as a
megaload has been slowly moving north from southwestern Montana toward the Rocky
Mountain front and a tar sands exploitation site in northern Alberta, Canada. 
According to the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT), several local,
national, and international articles, and eyewitness conversations, the
rectangular, oversized load weighs about 360,000 pounds, stands more than 22
feet tall, and spans 29 feet of width [1-7, videos at 3].  While suspended on a
main frame between two 12-axle, front and rear trailers with numerous wheels,
tires, and at least four pull and push semi-trucks, the combined transport
weighs up to one million pounds and stretches almost 500 feet long.

Although some observers say that the cargo originated after ocean shipping at a
Corpus Christi, Texas, port (purportedly one of few North American places that
can handle transferring such a large load), media sources report that a
Scappoose, Oregon, company called OXBO Mega Transport Solutions is bringing the
megaload from Vancouver, Washington, over the U.S.-Canadian border.  Apparently,
the behemoth has parked all summer at a DuBois, Idaho, rest area, indicating
that it previously traveled across southern Idaho, perhaps like prior megaloads,
from the Port of Umatilla, Oregon.  Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) and allies,
among thousands of Northwest residents who have protested megaloads and tar
sands mining since 2010, are working to further discern the identity, owner,
origin, and destination of this fossil fuels industry monster.

The onslaught of this heavy industrial equipment poses significant challenges to
local traffic and infrastructure, as the massive size of this machinery requires
specialized, hopefully expensive, transportation permit arrangements, lane and
entire road closures, and delays, stops, and temporary rerouting to alternate
routes of other traffic.  This transportation fiasco is also imposing planned,
overnight, electricity service outages on notified residents and businesses in
its vicinity, during the cold of winter.  Utility crews are de-energizing and
lifting power lines and other electrical components out of the way for supposed
safety, mostly affecting street lights and nearby power for no more than 15
minutes.  However, unforeseen circumstances, such as megaload equipment failure
and/or severe weather conditions, could potentially inflict unexpected power
supply interruptions and further inconveniences, particularly in rural areas
with limited infrastructure near megaload-abused highways.  Even larger urban
populations, as in the Helena and surrounding area of Toston, Townsend, Winston,
and Wolf Creek, could experience brief power outages from Thursday through
Wednesday, December 7 to 13.  Preparations for such off-grid living could
include provisions like non-perishable food, bottled water, medicine,
flashlights, batteries, fully-charged communication devices, and other
precautions and resources ready for any emergency losses.

This impactful megaload and its extensive convoy of flaggers, pilot trucks, and
accompanying vehicles without police escort begin their dark, regional passage
every Sunday through Thursday night at 9:30 pm, to avoid disruptions of daytime
travel.  The exact itinerary of this (and other similar?) transport varies with
weather circumstances, daily changes, and the remainder of the later scheduled
move.  Justifiably concerned citizens can visit the MDT 511 map and application
and read the Oversized Load Movement web page under Alerts, to find further,
revised information [2].  Transport proponents expect the megaload to conclude
its journey through Montana by December 16 and arrive at its final destination
by the end of the month.  WIRT has mapped and lists here its recent and upcoming
path across Montana [8]. Continue reading →


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INLAND NORTHWEST GTN XPRESS WEEKS OF ACTIONS


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Posted on October 26, 2023 by WIRT
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On October 19, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved the Gas
Transmission Northwest (GTN) Xpress expansion of an unsafe, potentially
explosive, six-decade-plus, methane (“natural” gas) pipeline across Idaho,
Washington, and Oregon to California [1-7].  The Calgary, Alberta-based,
Canadian owner of the rejected Keystone XL and rupture-prone Keystone tar sands
pipelines in the Great Plains and the fiery Columbia Gas Transmission line in
the northeast U.S., TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) proposes to increase the
pump pressures of three compressor stations in Athol, Idaho, Starbuck,
Washington, and Kent, Oregon, and push an additional 150 million cubic feet per
day of unneeded, fracked gas volumes through the almost 1,400-mile-long GTN line
from Eastport, Idaho, to Malin, Oregon, suspiciously the origin point of the
defeated Pacific Connector gas pipeline to the also vanquished Jordan Cove
liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal planned for Coos Bay, Oregon [8, 9].

The bi-directional Williams Northwest gas line would carry over half (79 million
cubic feet per day) of GTN Xpress methane from the GTN-Northwest juncture near
the Columbia River at Stanfield, Oregon, to the Boise metropolitan area and
southern Idaho.  Cascade Natural Gas based in Kennewick, Washington, and
Intermountain Gas headquartered in Boise signed precedent agreements for their
utility companies to receive and distribute GTN Xpress gas.  Not coincidentally,
Intermountain has concurrently applied to the Idaho Public Utilities Commission
for customer rate increases, contested by the city of Boise and Idaho
Conservation League, likely to pass the costs of excess GTN methane on to Idaho
consumers.

After rubber stamping 423 of 425 pipeline applications as standard practice
during the last two decades, FERC published a 79-page order issuing a
certificate of public convenience and necessity for GTN Xpress, including
statements from commissioners Clements and Danly both partially concurring and
dissenting with the decision [10, 11].  This outcome ignored Northwest concerns
about the lack of gas demand and the climate, health, and safety impacts of the
expansion (addressed in an upcoming action alert), neglected proper tribal
consultation, despite extensive comments to FERC from the Columbia River
Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, and dismissed unprecedented community, tribal, and
state and federal government resistance to this scheme clearly driven by
industry profits from increasingly stranded fossil fuels assets.

Columbia Riverkeeper and Rogue Climate, accepted intervenors in this
quasi-judicial, FERC case deliberating whether GTN Xpress methane is both
necessary and in the public interest, will challenge this reckless decision, by
petitioning FERC before November 22, to withdraw its GTN Xpress order and/or
hold a formal rehearing.  Through their first of several filings, since the
public comment period on the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for GTN
Xpress in summer 2022, all three West Coast attorneys general requested belated
intervenor status after the February 2022 deadline.  The Stop GTN Xpress
coalition is encouraging the states of Washington, Oregon, and California, who
urged FERC to reject this project, to also ask FERC for a rehearing.  As the
Northwest continues to hold FERC, TC Energy, and GTN accountable for exacerbated
climate change and environmental injustices, FERC can grant, deny, or ignore
these petitions within 30 days of their filing, and compressor station upgrades
and construction could begin in January 2024.

Besides thousands of Northwest citizens and a broad coalition of dozens of
regional and nationwide, indigenous, environmental, health, and faith advocacy
groups, numerous elected officials have voiced objections to GTN Xpress,
including U.S. senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon, Maria Cantwell and
Patty Murray of Washington, and Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla of California,
U.S. Congressional members Earl Blumenauer and Andrea Salinas of Oregon,
Washington governor Jay Inslee, Oregon governor Tina Kotek, attorneys general
Rob Bonta of California, Bob Ferguson of Washington, and Ellen Rosenblum of
Oregon, and four Oregon and Washington state representatives.

Inland Northwest GTN Xpress Weeks of Actions Continue reading →


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SPOKANE VIGIL OPPOSING GTN XPRESS


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Along with Inland Northwest GTN Xpress Weeks of Actions in Athol, Boise, Moscow,
and Sandpoint, Idaho, and Kennewick and Spokane, Washington, on October 28 to
November 10, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) activists and allies encourage you to
attend this GTN Xpress pipeline corridor community safety vigil on Sunday
evening, November 5 [1, 2].

Forwarded message:

Dear colleagues and friends,

You are invited to a vigil to respond to the recent, disappointing news that the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has green-lighted the GTN Xpress
fracked gas pipeline expansion project.  Here are the details, and attached is a
flyer, which you are welcome to pass along to those who would be interested.

Vigil for Community Safety Against Approved Pipeline Expansion of Gas
Transmission Northwest Xpress

Sunday, November 5, 2023, 4:30-5:30 pm*

St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 316 East 24th Avenue, Spokane

*Please note that this will be an outdoor event on the day when clocks change
from daylight savings to standard time.  For more information, please see our
website, the Seattle Times, and Columbia Riverkeeper [3-5].

The vigil is co-sponsored by these organizations: Continue reading →


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2023 REMEMBER THE WATER KALISPEL POWWOW PADDLE


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Posted on July 31, 2023 by WIRT
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On Monday, July 31, through Friday, August 4, Kalispel and regional tribal
members and the River Warrior Society are holding the annual Remember the Water
Kalispel Powwow canoe journey [1, 2].  The paddle usually voyages from Lake Pend
Oreille and Qpqpe (Sandpoint), Idaho, to the Qlispe (Kalispel) Village in
Cusick, Washington, during the week before the yearly Kalispel Powwow and around
the time of the Festival at Sandpoint music concerts.  In this cultural journey,
families and friends are again paddling in traditional, dugout, wooden and
sturgeon nose canoes, like their ancestors did for travel, fishing, and fun,
over 50 miles through their home lands and waters among the tributaries, lake,
and river of the Pend Oreille watershed.

While oil and gas pipeline expansions and fossil fuels pipeline-on-rails
infrastructure and transportation impose and risk further harms to indigenous
people and places locally and across Turtle Island (North America), Native
neighbors continue to revive, uphold, and practice their ancient cultures and
sustainable ways, through admirable endeavors like this canoe journey and
culminating powwow.  Paddle organizers invite and encourage tribal allies and
everyone to join in this joyful resurgence at various route locations, as they
accommodate as many participants and observers as they can.

The canoe journey tentatively begins on Monday, July 31, with setting up camp at
Sam Owen Campground off Hope Peninsula Road near Hope, Idaho, before paddling to
the Bear Paw petroglyphs and back.  On Tuesday, August 1, participants plan to
put in, paddle, and take out on the Pack River, and later stay at Sam Owen or
the Best Western Edgewater Resort in Sandpoint.  Like during previous years, and
as depicted in linked photos and articles about prior journeys, Wild Idaho
Rising Tide (WIRT) activists and area groups intend to welcome the paddlers at
Sandpoint, during their arrival and/or departure on Tuesday evening and
Wednesday morning, August 1 and 2 [2]. Continue reading →


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URGENT JULY 26 & 27 GTN XPRESS PIPELINE ACTIONS


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Posted on July 26, 2023 by WIRT
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WHAT THE FERC?!

On Thursday, July 20, a Northwest coalition of groups working to stop the Gas
Transmission Northwest (GTN) Xpress pipeline expansion learned that the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) listed GTN Xpress on its certificate agenda
for its monthly meeting on Thursday, July 27.  In an apparent, massive,
rubberstamp attempt to rush approvals before FERC’s August non-meeting break,
the federal agency will likely permit a slew of fossil fuels projects including
the GTN Xpress application of TC Energy, owner of the rupturing Keystone and
rejected Keystone XL tar sands pipelines.  Along with thousands of Northwest
citizens and dozens of organizations, the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish
Commission and West Coast governors, state attorneys general and legislators,
and U.S. senators have opposed and organized against GTN Xpress for almost two
years.

GTN Xpress is essentially a fossil fuels invasion of southern Idaho, thankfully
challenged by neighboring states and Sandpoint and Spokane fossil fuels
sacrifice zones that would receive only 13 percent or none of additional GTN
gas.  More than half of the 150 million cubic feet per day of extra,
unnecessary, fracked gas that TC Energy plans to push with three upgraded
compressors through the 60-year-plus GTN pipeline would threaten the health and
safety of north Idaho and eastern Washington pipeline corridor residents, for
delivery to southern Idaho.  GTN and Intermountain Gas of Boise, who requested
gas customer price hikes last winter, intend to essentially take over and
reverse westward Williams Northwest pipeline flows, to bolster their profits at
the 30-year expense of utility ratepayers increasingly favoring alternative
energy.

WIRT is exploring the GTN Xpress record for information about probably missing
Williams agreements and to produce second WIRT comments before July 27,
welcoming other, also issue-underrepresented, Idaho and inland Northwest groups
and residents to send your remarks to FERC.  Despite postponed railroad
double-track construction impeding public transportation and requiring citizen
monitoring at the Sandpoint Amtrak station, we will next coordinate regional
protests in Athol (site of one of three compressor expansions), Sandpoint,
Spokane, Moscow, and Boise, denouncing GTN’s proposal and FERC’s predictable
decision, while supporting FERC re-hearing petitions filed by coalition partners
and hopefully Northwest states, before the August 26 challenge deadline.  We
appreciate your interest in GTN Xpress resistance and your input toward comments
and demonstrations that demand FERC justice from the ongoing dangers and
compounded risks of GTN Xpress expansion, leaks, and resulting climate
disasters.

ANOTHER TC ENERGY PIPELINE RUPTURE

On July 25, the TC Energy-owned Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline
catastrophically failed, causing a large explosion and fire and temporarily
closing Interstate 81 in rural Shenandoah County, Virginia, approximately 80
miles west of Washington, D.C. [1, 2].  Thankfully, the incident neither injured
nor killed anyone, and its causes and impacts remain unknown.  But like the
December 2022 rupture and 600,000-gallon spill from TC Energy’s Keystone tar
sands pipeline into a Kansas stream only weeks after FERC release of the GTN
Xpress final environmental impact statement (EIS), the Virginia disaster
demonstrates the terrible safety record of TC Energy and timely illustrates the
major risks posed by TC Energy’s GTN Xpress, less than 48 hours before FERC
could approve this expansion scheme [3].  The proposal would increase flammable,
climate-wrecking, methane gas flows through a six-decade-old pipeline among
fire-prone rural lands and urban residential areas in Idaho, Washington, and
Oregon.  As multiple wildfires burn and blanket the Northwest with smoke, a
pipeline accident like the one that just occurred in Shenandoah County could
devastate nearby communities. Continue reading →


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STOP OIL TRAINS 2023


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July 7-9 annual actions remember the Lac-Mégantic, Mosier, & Custer disasters

Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) and allied activists invite everyone to
participate in tenth annual, Stop Oil Trains direct actions and a training
workshop in north Idaho on Friday, July 7, through Sunday, July 9.  Five events
commemorate the 47 lives lost and downtowns devastated by oil train derailments,
spills, explosions, and fires in the lakeside village of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec,
on July 6, 2013, the Columbia River Gorge town of Mosier, Oregon, on June 3,
2016, and the northwestern hamlet of Custer, Washington, on December 22, 2020. 
These demonstrations also support pipeline-on-rails resistance across the
Northwest and in trackside and pipeline corridor communities and environments
threatened and polluted by dangerous oil and gas infrastructure and
transportation.

Spotlight Message Projection

Friday & Saturday, July 7 & 8, 10 pm, Downtown Sandpoint

As the sun sets, WIRT and allied organizers will provide brief, light projection
displays of social and climate justice messages on buildings in downtown
Sandpoint, Idaho.  Meet after 10 pm on Friday and Saturday, July 7 and 8,
wherever you see this light show, for discussions among activists and curious
passersby, about Northwest oil train and terminal and gas pipeline expansion
issues.

Resistance Outreach

Saturday, July 8, 9 am to 1 pm, near Farmin Park, Sandpoint

Gather with volunteer activists between 9 am and 1 pm on Saturday, July 8, at
the WIRT outreach table at the corner of Fourth and Oak Streets near Farmin
Park, during the Farmers Market at Sandpoint, Idaho.  We plan to talk with
residents and visitors of the one-mile-wide, north Idaho “bomb train blast
zone,” offer updates on Northwest oil and coal trains and infrastructure and
Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway’s doubled tracks and three new
communication towers and second railroad bridges, and provide #No2ndBridge and
other petitions, letters, flyers, and brochures [1-5].

Oil Trains Protest

Saturday, July 8, 2 pm, Farmin to City Beach Parks, Sandpoint

At 2 pm on Saturday, July 8, bring your family, friends, neighbors, co-workers,
protest signs, and creative spirit, to show community opposition to dangerous
crude oil conduits to refineries and export facilities: Oil trains and railroad
infrastructure, like the present and proposed, BNSF rail bridges in and near
Sandpoint.  Starting from the Farmin Park clock, we will walk with banners and
signs objecting to the Northwest pipeline-on-rails and its expansion, through
downtown Sandpoint to City Beach Park.  At these public march origin and
destination places, we will share reflections and stories about the isolated
vulnerability of rural, rail corridor communities to oil and hazardous materials
derailment catastrophes and industry invasions of local environments and
economies.

Train Watch Workshop

Sunday, July 9, 5 pm, Gardenia Center, Sandpoint

For the annual training sessions on regional oil and tar sands trainspotting,
David Perk of PNW Oil Train Watch will present methods for trackside observing,
documenting, and reporting Northwest fossil fuels train traffic with photos,
videos, and social media.  He will discuss rail routes from the plains to the
coast, train descriptors, refinery and receiving facilities, rail system
operations, stopovers, and transit times, and train watch motivations and
resources.  Please RSVP to WIRT at wild.idaho.rising.tide2@gmail.com, for
required registration to join this teleconferenced conversation with David
generously sharing images, skills, and insights, beginning at 5 pm on Sunday,
July 9, via Zoom and at the Gardenia Center, 400 Church Street in Sandpoint,
Idaho.  WIRT needs more train monitors along the tracks of the north Idaho,
fossil fuels frontline, to document all westbound, unit trains of cars hauling
Powder River Basin coal, Bakken crude oil, and Canadian tar sands.

Issue Background Continue reading →


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WIRT COMMENTS ON BNSF COMMUNICATION TOWERS


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WIRT Comments on BNSF Communication Towers 6-18-23


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SPOKANE COMMUNITY GTN XPRESS TEACH-IN


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On Wednesday evening, April 12, in Spokane, Washington, faith, spiritual,
health, and environmental advocates will lead a community gathering, teach-in,
and procession in opposition to the proposed Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN)
Xpress fracked gas pipeline expansion [1].  The 62-year-old GTN pipeline runs
under the Spokane River and through Liberty Lake, Spokane Valley, and other
parts of Spokane County [2, 3].  Canadian company TC Energy, owner of the
leaking Keystone and rejected Keystone XL tar sands pipelines, and its
subsidiary GTN threaten to pump up to 150 million cubic feet of additional
methane gas per day through the GTN pipeline that crosses north Idaho, eastern
Washington, and central Oregon.

While communities throughout the Northwest shift away from coal, oil, and
“natural” gas, fossil fuel companies like TC Energy have adopted a new tactic:
bolstering the capacity of aging pipelines.  A broad, regional, Stop GTN Xpress
coalition, the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, U.S. Senators Jeff
Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, three West
Coast state attorneys general, and other concerned Northwesterners are resisting
this gas pipeline and compressor station expansion.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) could vote for or against
granting project approval as early as April 20.  The GTN Xpress pipeline
expansion further risks exposing local, Spokane area, and north Idaho
communities to both the dangers and damages of ruptured pipeline explosions,
fires, and pollution and the increased carbon and greenhouse gas emissions that
are causing more severe storms, droughts, wildfires, and floods [4-6].

The gathering and teach-in at 6:30 pm Pacific time on April 12, at Salem
Lutheran Church, 1428 West Broadway Avenue in Spokane, will feature comments
from members of Earth Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power and Light (WAIPL),
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility (WPSR), and Wild Idaho Rising
Tide (WIRT), among other organizations [7-9].  They will offer opportunities to
learn about GTN Xpress and its potential impacts on public and environmental
health and safety.  After an interactive presentation with speakers, event
organizers invite participants to join a procession with signs and banners,
walking together several blocks to the banks of the Spokane River, where faith
leaders will share a brief group prayer and photograph the demonstration.

To access further information and attend, please contact coordinating groups and
visit their websites and RSVP through the event description link [10]. Continue
reading →


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TWELFTH ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF WILD IDAHO RISING TIDE


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Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) is celebrating its March 31 anniversary and
twelfth year as a regional, climate activists collective confronting the root
causes and perpetrators of air pollution, water degradation, and resulting
climate change, through direct actions and locally organized solutions, in
solidarity with frontline communities and grassroots networks of fossil fuels
resistance [1-5].  We welcome everyone of all ages to enjoy this decade-plus
milestone at two Twelfth Annual Celebrations of WIRT, held as benefit concerts
and potluck gatherings in Sandpoint and Moscow, Idaho, with provided pizza,
requested snacks and beverages, and a background slide show of WIRT and allied
activism.  WIRT invites and extends our hearty thanks to the remarkable core
activists, board members, friends, and allies who have coordinated and shared
the successes of ongoing citizen challenges of the corporate and government
sources of climate chaos.

Please join WIRT activists on two early spring evenings, for convergences full
of musical performances, spirited conversations, invigorating camaraderie,
wholesome food and drink, and other creative works offered by north Idaho and
regional residents.  At each of these free, lively, public events, we encourage
and eagerly anticipate organizers, musicians, and businesses sharing their
admired talents and participating as volunteers and/or sponsors.  These yearly
festivities not only strive to raise awareness and funds supporting relentless
WIRT activism, but also seek to attract and involve cross-cultural, youth, and
community member diversity in the climate justice movement in Idaho and the
Northwest.

Thursday, April 6, 7 pm: Monarch Mountain Band

Gardenia Center, 400 Church Street, Sandpoint

As a high-energy bluegrass, newgrass, and folk rock trio, the Monarch Mountain
Band has been performing at numerous local and regional venues, halls,
festivals, fairs, and clubs for close to 30 years [6].  Their high-stepping,
toe-tapping, progressive repertoire includes bluegrass standards along with
covers of the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Band, Byrds, Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan,
and many more.  Offering great entertainment for entire families and friends,
the Monarch Mountain Band thrills music enthusiasts of all genres, who
appreciate the excellent techniques and pure sounds played by this group of
musicians.

Saturday, April 8, 7 pm: Fiddlin’ Big Al & Guests

The Attic, 314 East Second Street (rear, second story), Moscow

KRFP Radio Free Moscow DJ and board member and core WIRT activist Fiddlin’ Big
Al Chidester performs ragtime, honky-tonk piano, fiddle, and guitar, singing
old-time, country blues and original, socio-political satire songs [7].  Al
started the practice of playing traditional, phase-shifted, electric viola,
adding to his multi-instrumental, experimental, Americana repertoire offered on
mandolin, banjo, dobro, and lap steel guitar.  He writes humorous, topical songs
about peace, freedom, and political hypocrisy, some recorded on his 2004 album
Where Were You the Night New Orleans Drowned? and Other Songs for Our Time. 
Besides performing at Northwest barter fairs and hosting a long-running jam
session at the Moscow Moose Lodge, Fiddlin’ Big Al broadcasts several weekly,
KRFP, music shows, giving airplay to an eclectic mix of genre-bending music,
recorded performances from regional venues, and occasional, live, studio
sessions. Continue reading →


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GTN XPRESS PIPELINE PROTESTS MEETINGS & WINTER UPDATES


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Protests Planning Meetings

While TC Energy desperately seeks to offload its stranded Canadian gas assets on
the Northwest with the GTN Xpress expansion project proposed for the Gas
Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline, and pits elected Idaho politicians
against their western Democrat neighbors, dozens of nonprofit organizations are
coordinating authentic, public opposition to GTN Xpress.  These community
groups, including Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), assert that the project is
inconsistent with regional efforts to transition away from reliance on
polluting, planet-warming fossil fuels.  Resistance to GTN Xpress continues to
grow, as thousands of Northwest residents work together to demand that the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) deny this risky plan and responsibly
uphold regionally legislated goals for diminishing use of climate-changing,
fracked gas.  With a final FERC decision on the project expected as early as
March 16 (postponed from the commission’s third Thursday, monthly meeting on
February 16), we again invite you and your friends, family, and colleagues to
join us in active rejection of this unnecessary fossil fuels invasion of the
Northwest, as TC Energy and its subsidiary GTN scheme to increase the volume and
pressure in their 62-year-old pipeline, just like TC Energy did in the
decade-old Keystone tar sands pipeline, before it burst in Kansas on December 7,
2022.

In preparation for a possible March 16, FERC decision, WIRT and allies in three
cities are holding in-person planning meetings to organize the next pipeline
protests with eager activists across the inland Northwest.  We hope that you
will participate in these gatherings and encourage your trusted comrades to
attend.

* Saturday, March 4, at 3 pm at The Attic, up the back stairs of 314 East Second
Street in Moscow, Idaho

* Sunday, March 5, at 1 pm at the Community Building, 35 West Main Street in
Spokane, Washington

* Monday, March 6, at 7 pm at the Gardenia Center, 400 Church Street in
Sandpoint, Idaho

For further information, please see and share the linked coalition videos about
GTN Xpress resistance and the February 13 People’s Hearing, send your written
comments sharing your concerns about GTN Xpress (Docket CP22-2-000) to FERC
soon, peruse the enclosed and linked information promised with the People’s
Hearing announcement and covering four months of campaign activity from
mid-November 2022 until mid-February 2023, contact WIRT with your questions and
suggestions, and expect further updates about upcoming, responsively scheduled
protests and other urgent actions.  WIRT and partner groups appreciate your work
and input on this crucial issue that requires even more public participation,
especially in the environmental and political sacrifice zones of Idaho.

Stop GTN Xpress, January 30, 2023 Rogue Climate

People’s Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, February 14, 2023 350PDX

How to File a Comment, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

FERC Online: Web Applications, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Pipeline Impacts & Winter Updates Continue reading →


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PEOPLE’S HEARING ON GTN XPRESS


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Starting at 5 pm Pacific time and 6 pm Mountain time on Monday evening, February
13, a Northwest coalition of nonprofit organizations, including 350 Deschutes,
350 PDX, Columbia Riverkeeper, Rogue Climate, Washington Physicians for Social
Responsibility, and Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), will host a People’s Hearing
on Canadian company TC Energy’s proposal to expand fracked “natural” gas
exported through the aging Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline and
compressor stations that span north Idaho, eastern Washington, and central
Oregon.  This hybrid town hall, convened online and in-person at the Gardenia
Center (400 Church Street in Sandpoint, Idaho) and at the Rogue Climate office
(205 North Phoenix Road, Suite G, Phoenix, Oregon), offers participants
opportunities to learn about the potential impacts of the GTN Xpress expansion
project and to provide testimony recorded and sent to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the project docket.

Among concerned, regional community members and environmental and climate
advocates sharing their insights and stories, the People’s Hearing on GTN Xpress
will feature these key speakers:

* U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon

* Audrey Leonard, staff attorney of Columbia Riverkeeper

* Peter McCartney, climate campaigner of Wilderness Committee

* Dr. Annemarie Dooley, physician and board member of Washington Physicians for
Social Responsibility

* Naghmana Sherazi, activist and board member of Earth Ministry/Washington
Interfaith Power and Light

Please RSVP and register to join this virtual conference at
bit.ly/peopleshearing_gtn and/or gather at the Gardenia Center or Rogue Climate
office and contact WIRT for further information [1].  Timely input from citizens
and local elected officials to FERC before its possible decision on this project
on Thursday, March 16, is crucial to halting the GTN Xpress fossil fuels
onslaught [2].  Along with commenting and/or testifying to FERC, help support
this resistance by amplifying a new video recently launched by the grassroots
coalition, through social media posts email messages, and other methods [3]. 
Also reach out to any of the partner groups, if your organization is interested
in joining the fight to #StopGTNXpress.  Within the next few days, WIRT will add
to this post and send further descriptions of pipeline expansion impacts and
issue updates, to assist involvement in this campaign. Continue reading →


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OPPOSE COLLABORATIVE DEFORESTATION AROUND LAKE PEND OREILLE!


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Posted on January 16, 2023 by WIRT
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (USFS) and compromised, north
Idaho Big Greens involved in the Panhandle Forest “Collaborative” have agreed to
massive deforestation of steep mountains on the remote, wilder, east side of
Lake Pend Oreille, promoted as “restoration” projects to reduce wildfires and
insect and disease outbreaks [1, 2].  Over the next few years, the Sandpoint
Ranger District of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests (IPNF) and timber
companies plan to excessively build roads and log over 175,000 acres of Lake
Pend Oreille slopes, which would degrade water and air quality, wildlife
habitat, protected areas, and recreational opportunities.  A complex of three
contiguous logging projects, the 57,000-acre Buckskin Saddle, 43,000-acre
Chloride Gold, and 43,500-acre Honey Badger, extends 45 miles from the Clark
Fork River on the north, throughout eastern lake forests, and south to the
Hayden Lake area.  Government proposals and decisions on these unnecessary
forays into carbon-sequestering forests overlap temporally, while the middle
Chloride Gold project also overlaps spatially with the area of the Kaniksu
Winter Recreation environmental assessment (EA).  These USFS overlaps are called
“stacking National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents,” an illegal rush
and overburden of public scrutiny.

Located to the south of federal agency-finalized Buckskin Saddle project
destruction, currently stalled by Johnson Creek bridge replacement near the
Clark Fork River delta between September 2022 and May 2023, and potential
litigation by grassroots groups, the Chloride Gold (CG) project proposes to
conduct “vegetation management,” “hazardous fuels reduction,” and other
activities to “manage invasive plants, roads, trails, recreation, wildlife
habitat, and improve fish passage under roads … [and] overall landscape
resiliency to disturbances” [2-6].  Pre-scoping ideas suggested that the USFS
planned to push approximately 23.8 miles of new, “temporary” road construction
and over 12 square miles of forest “regeneration” cuts in the area, which would
remove the vast majority of trees in over 17,000 acres (26.6 square miles),
through logging, road building, and controlled burning, even in inventoried
roadless areas (IRAs).  According to the December 1, 2022, Chloride Gold scoping
notice signed by Sandpoint District ranger Jessie Berner, over 22,500 acres
would undergo “vegetation treatments” including large clearcuts and prescribed
burns.  The scoping letter requests public review and comments by Monday,
January 16, 2023, for USFS consideration in drafting only an environmental
assessment (EA), not the full environmental impact statement (EIS) required and
necessary for the CG onslaught.

On September 27, 2022, in preparation for a public presentation and field trip
refuting this logging project, provided by regional, climate activist collective
Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) in spring or summer 2023, Northern Rockies
wildlands and wildlife activist and GIS researcher Paul Sieracki and two WIRT
board members visited the Chloride Gold logging project area [7].  With precise
maps in hand while exploring CG forests, these citizen monitors found a highly
impacted landscape, crossed by a spaghetti network of roads and all-terrain
vehicle (ATV) and motorcycle trails, devastated by huge logged areas, and
immersed in road dust and subsequent lake haze.  They documented and publicly
offered their observations with photographs and descriptions, noting several
situations in which further CG ravages could severely disturb flora, fauna, and
roadless areas [7].  For the Wednesday, January 11, 2023, Climate Justice Forum,
weekly radio program produced by WIRT and recorded and posted on the WIRT
website, Paul graciously expounded on his knowledge of the probable damages of
the lakeside Chloride Gold scheme [8].  WIRT shares a summary of these insights
in the following sections intended to further inform and assist public input
resisting this CG cause of regional climate chaos. Continue reading →


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STOP UINTA BASIN RAILWAY SOLIDARITY ACTION


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Posted on December 7, 2022 by WIRT
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Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) and climate activists throughout the West are
organizing solidarity protests of oil trains and infrastructure, for a day of
action against the Uinta Basin Railway (UBR), supporting campaigns against the
Utah oil-by-rail scheme and in north Idaho, denouncing completion of BNSF
Railway’s second, almost mile-long, rail bridge across the state’s largest,
deepest lake: mountainous Lake Pend Oreille.  Utah and Colorado comrades are
calling for community-led actions on Saturday, December 10, 2022, to show that
concerned citizens object to the devastating UBR project, and to pressure
federal lawmakers, state representatives, and local governments to prevent
building of the Uinta Basin Railway.  They ask everyone to explore the
#StopUintaBasinRailway action toolkit with information about the UBR and action
coordination, sign a letter to Agriculture Department Secretary Tom Vilsack,
demanding that he revoke the U.S. Forest Service permit for the railway,
participate in actions happening in a dozen locations, register to join a remote
phone bank on Tuesday, December 13, at 10 am Pacific time, and tell UBR
opponents that you are interested in assisting this campaign [1-2].

To involve local communities across the United States in advocating against UBR
permits and their potential disasters for climate and environmental justice,
Colorado groups held a public, online, action training on November 10 [3]. 
Organizers with years of experience shared ideas about planning effective
actions and helped participants learn about the UBR oil trains that would
threaten lives and livelihoods along rail routes from Utah to Oklahoma, Texas,
and Louisiana, and around the southern Northwest, Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
line across southern Idaho and eastern Oregon to western Washington.

Most of WIRT and allied resistance to behemoth oil and coal train shipments has
successfully focused on dozens of BNSF Railway fossil fuels pipeline-on-rails
routes from the Great Plains to the West Coast.  We rarely demonstrate against
Union Pacific, except while decrying its few weekly, Northwest, tar sands trains
and myriad derailments, including the Mosier, Oregon, oil train spill and fire
in June 2016.  Based on our experiences of BNSF’s ongoing malfeasance, WIRT
encouraged and sent extensive comments on the draft environmental impact
statement (EIS) in 2021, opposing the Uinta Basin Railway, and talked about the
issue during recent years on our weekly, Climate Justice Forum, radio program
[4].  WIRT remains steadfast in our thorough monitoring, reporting, and
protesting of daily, BNSF, Bakken crude oil trains across north Idaho, as we
gratefully accept dedicated co-workers’ invitations to alert our regional
neighbors to the impending dangers and direct action opportunities of Utah oil
transport across the Northwest.

Uinta Basin & BNSF Railways Protest

As part of countless demonstrations against the fossil fuel causes of the
climate crisis and their insidious pollution, risks, and impacts on north Idaho
and Northwest rail line communities, we plan to protest both the proposed Uinta
Basin Railway oil trains and tracks and the BNSF Railway expansion of its
industrial infrastructure into Lake Pend Oreille and Sandpoint, with three
second rail bridges and two miles of doubled main line.  Please dress for warmth
and dryness, bring your signs and banners, voices and drums, friends and family,
and joy and courage, and join WIRT and inland Northwest activists for the Stop
Uinta Basin Railway Solidarity Action at 12 noon on Saturday, December 10, at
the Serenity Lee trailhead near the East Superior Street and Highway 95
intersection and/or on the public, pedestrian, and bike path to Dog Beach Park
in Sandpoint, Idaho.  WIRT will provide on-site action advice and chants and
pizza for appreciated participants after the gathering.  Respond in advance with
your questions and suggestions, share this event information and flyer among
your associates and contacts, and see previous and upcoming, website- and
facebook-posted, WIRT newsletters and alerts, for further updates on these
issues.

Uinta Basin Railway Opposition Continue reading →


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NOVEMBER 17-18 GTN XPRESS ACTION, WIRT TALK, & FEIS RELEASE


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Posted on November 17, 2022 by WIRT
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GTN Xpress & Idaho & Northwest Stakeholders

Canadian energy company TC Energy (formerly TransCanada), owner of the notorious
Keystone and Keystone XL tar sands pipelines and the Coastal GasLink line under
contested construction through unceded, indigenous, Wet’suwet’en territories in
British Columbia (B.C.), has applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) to increase the “natural” gas pipeline volumes and pressures of three
compressor stations along its Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline, with
the GTN Xpress expansion project from B.C. through north Idaho, eastern
Washington, and central Oregon.  The 61-year-old, potentially explosive GTN
pipeline passes under Wild Idaho Rising Tide’s (WIRT) fossil fuels
pipeline-on-rails frontline community and waters around Sandpoint and Lake Pend
Oreille, Idaho, through several rural sacrifice zones, and below the Spokane,
Washington, metropolitan area.  One of the GTN compressor stations planned for
upgrades stands near dozens of unaware residences and a popular amusement park
full of hundreds of visitors in Athol, Idaho [1].

TC Energy and partner fossil fuel corporations propose to increase the capacity
for dangerous methane gas in the existing, 1,354-mile GTN pipeline by 150
million cubic feet per day, pushing more gas into the Northwest and locking
communities into expensive fossil fuel energy for decades.  If approved by FERC,
the GTN Xpress expansion would cause continued fracking in tribal lands in
Canada and threaten and harm the health and safety of rural, low-income
communities living and working along the pipeline route.  Prone to accidents
like leaks, fires, and explosions, the aging infrastructure of pipelines and
compressor stations risks exposing nearby residents to cancer-causing
pollutants.

Over the last few decades, Northwest citizens have defeated fossil fuels
pipelines, processing plants, and export terminals, and organized to pass local
and state climate laws, while experiencing record droughts, wildfires, storms,
floods, and other climate change impacts.  But sneakier pipeline expansions
require different government processes and regulations than new pipeline
construction, even though GTN Xpress would exacerbate the greenhouse gas
emissions and accelerate the climate crisis contributing to these conditions. 
Supplying enough gas to serve 1.2 million households each day, GTN Xpress would
contradict Oregon and Washington state policy commitments to reduce climate
pollution and end dependence on climate-wrecking fossil fuels.

During summer 2022, over 1,300 people petitioned FERC to deny TC Energy’s plans;
Columbia River tribes voiced their resistance; a broad, emerging coalition of
Northwest community groups commented against the project; and the attorneys
general of California, Oregon, and Washington told FERC that they oppose GTN
Xpress, because it clearly conflicts with state and federal climate goals.  With
FERC expected to release the scheme’s final environmental impact statement (EIS)
on November 18, 2022, and to issue an ultimate decision in February 2023,
Northwesterners need to hold FERC accountable, ask that the agency address valid
climate, public health, and environmental concerns raised across the region, and
demand that FERC reject the GTN Xpress project.

Since April 2022, the WIRT climate activist collective has been informing,
networking, and supporting impacted, indigenous, and grassroots groups and
individuals and state, county, and city, elected and agency officials about GTN
Xpress, along the north Idaho and eastern Washington GTN pipeline corridor and
in southern Idaho, where Intermountain Gas customers would receive over half of
the additional GTN Xpress methane gas from a Stanfield, Oregon, compressor
station diversion.  We have provided extensive comments to FERC on behalf of
WIRT’s 3,200-plus contacts, and communicated and urged opposition to the GTN
Xpress gas pipeline expansion via social media, email, website, and other online
resources, and through WIRT’s weekly, eleven-years-broadcast, community radio
program [2].  WIRT plans to continue to raise resistance to this Canadian
stranded gas asset invasion of the Northwest, by encouraging citizen involvement
in public processes and alternative methods of GTN Xpress rejection.

Stop GTN Xpress Week of Actions Report Continue reading →


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STOP GTN XPRESS WEEK OF ACTIONS


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Posted on October 24, 2022 by WIRT
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Regional organizations and grassroots activists of 350 Spokane, Idaho Chapter
Sierra Club, Palouse Extinction Rebellion, Rogue Climate, Veterans for Peace
Spokane Chapter 35, and Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) request your participation
and support of public protests of three corporations pushing the dangerous Gas
Transmission Northwest (GTN) Xpress pipeline expansion project.  We are
collectively co-hosting these actions in solidarity with sovereign Wet’suwet’en
land defenders and water protectors opposing Coastal GasLink pipeline
construction through their unceded, indigenous territories in British Columbia,
Canada.  Allied groups are planning peaceful, safe, and effective citizen
pickets on nearby public walkways outside fossil fuel company offices during
early November, to attract a broad range of involvement and responses from the
public, issue coalition groups, and media.  Several partner organizations are
graciously offering travel funds and providing Stop GTN Xpress/Coastal GasLink
logo designs, T-shirts, signs, banners, and other equipment.  Volunteer
activists are eager to engage you in resistance to both Northwest gas pipelines
owned by TC Energy, notorious for its Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.  Please
share this event announcement and flyer and other campaign outreach materials
via text, social media, email, and website, invite and bring your friends,
family, and protest signs, create props and coordinate carpools and various
logistics, and join us at one or all of these lively demonstrations!

Tuesday, November 1, 4 pm PDT at TC Energy, 201 West North River Drive, Suite
505, Spokane, Washington: Meet on the north path along the Spokane River, across
from Riverfront Park and between Washington and Division streets

Wednesday, November 2, 4 pm PDT at Cascade Natural Gas, 8113 West Grandridge
Boulevard, Kennewick, Washington: Gather on the south sidewalk along Grandridge
Boulevard

Friday, November 4, 4 pm MDT at Intermountain Gas, 555 South Cole Road, Boise,
Idaho: Converge on the west Cole Road walkway near the Farmers Lateral Canal

Resist plans by TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) and regional “natural” gas
utilities to increase methane gas volumes by 150 million (and eventually,
incrementally 250 million) cubic feet per day and upgrade the capacity of three
compressor stations of the 1,354-mile GTN pipeline that crosses from British
Columbia, through north Idaho, eastern Washington, and central Oregon, to
California [1, 2].  The 61-year-old, potentially explosive, climate-wrecking gas
pipeline is dangerously located under the Spokane, Washington, metropolitan area
and below the Schweitzer ski resort parking lot and city of Sandpoint, Idaho. 
The Athol, Idaho, pump station proposed for expansion stands only two miles from
the popular Silverwood Theme Park, full of hundreds of visitors on precarious
rides during spring, summer, and fall days.

GTN has applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for a
certificate of public convenience and necessity to permit the GTN Xpress
expansion project.  But controversy has continued to grow during and since the
too-brief comment period on FERC’s draft environmental impact statement (EIS)
that closed on August 22, despite a timely letter from twenty mostly Oregon
groups and Wild Idaho Rising Tide, requesting that FERC provide an additional 30
days for the public to review and evaluate the document [3].  As thousands of
people across the Northwest rise to oppose GTN Xpress, FERC has received over
1,300 oppositional petition signatures and extensive, informative remarks from
concerned citizens, environmental and climate groups, and tribal, state, and
federal government officials, denouncing draft EIS deficiencies and the fracked
gas pipeline expansion’s significant contributions to worsening climate change,
while the Northwest transitions off fossil fuels toward more sustainable,
renewable energy sources [2, 4, 5].

Attempting to foist stranded Canadian gas assets on the Northwest, likely aware
of its gradually failing product prospects, TC Energy expects to quickly,
stealthily secure GTN Xpress approval by FERC and other government regulatory
agencies.  It has strategically enlisted contracted, third-party, environmental
reviewers with undisclosed conflicts of interests as consulting firms
simultaneously working with TC Energy, and has expanded its other pipeline
volumes, instead of building new infrastructure that attracts justified direct
actions from frontline fossil fuels fighters [6, 7].  With anticipated release
of a final EIS on November 18, postponed from October 14, and a pending
conclusive FERC decision on GTN Xpress in February 2023, impacted residents and
concerned communities must act swiftly to protect the inland Northwest from this
proposal [8]. Continue reading →


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SEVENTH PANHANDLE PADDLE


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Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) and allied activists, friends, and supporters
heartily welcome your participation in the upcoming, Seventh Panhandle Paddle
weekend of opportunities to discuss, train for, and stage resistance to the
fossil fuels and railroad industry degraders of human rights, environmental
health, and the global climate.  Interior Northwest residents are coordinating
and co-hosting annual activities in Sandpoint, Idaho, to unite in opposition to
regional coal, oil, and tar sands trains, terminals, and derailments and
Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway’s almost complete track and bridge
construction across downtown Sandpoint, Sand Creek, and Lake Pend Oreille.  Amid
the intensifying situations of north Idaho railroad expansion, federal and media
criminalization of dissenters, and COVID-19 health and economic disasters during
the last two-plus years, we are reaching out to you, our regional network
comrades, to share direct action skills and invite you to join with rail line
communities, to protest fossil-fueled climate change via these free events on
Thursday through Sunday, September 22 to 25.  We would appreciate your
involvement in the talk, workshop, and paddle, your RSVP of your intentions for
spots in kayaks, canoes, and carpools, and your assistance with distributing
this event description and printing and posting the color, PDF version of the
WIRT website-linked Seventh Panhandle Paddle Flyer.

#No2ndBridge Talk

6 to 8 pm Thursday, September 22

Gardenia Center, Sandpoint

At this informal discussion, participants can exchange issue information, expand
knowledge, and brainstorm strategies and tactics for creatively engaging and
catalyzing further community resistance and regulatory and legal recourse to
BNSF’s Sandpoint Junction Connector project and railroad infrastructure,
pollution, and risks in the Lake Pend Oreille area and beyond, which activists
have denounced and challenged during each of the Panhandle Paddles [1-5]. 
Please bring ideas about campaign organizing and railroad monitoring and
protesting, and gather at 6 pm on Thursday, September 22, at the Gardenia
Center, 400 Church Street in Sandpoint.  During and after the Thursday and
Saturday meetings, we plan to broaden coalitions and camaraderie among
activists, while continuing conversations and enjoying music outside nearby
pubs.

Direct Action Training

2 to 5 pm Saturday, September 24

Gardenia Center, Sandpoint

Regional climate and environmental activists and water protectors will provide
several, interactive, training workshops, through talks and videos sharing
frontline skills, stories, and insights.  Advocating grassroots, direct actions
at the sites of environmental destruction, more than participation in expensive,
ineffective, legal systems and other government processes, trainers will offer
their expertise through three one-hour presentation and practice sessions on
topics such as knowing your rights, strategizing and tactical thinking, affinity
group dynamics, target selection and scouting, action design, roles, and
documentation, media communications, police interactions, de-escalation,
security, safety, and self-defense,  and jail solidarity.  The number, topics,
and lengths of training sessions have varied over the years, chosen by and
adapted to rural participants and supporting various ecological and social
justice movements within current, U.S., political contexts.  Prior speakers have
given advice on road and railroad actions, digital security, pipeline blockades,
grand jury resistance, know-your-rights, and the previously mentioned subjects. 
Organizers holding these trainings anticipate reciprocally learning and
strengthening the volunteer activism gaining momentum in the Idaho Panhandle. 
We encourage everyone who plans to attend to RSVP in advance and request
particular topics and further logistical information.  Join WIRT and guests
anytime between 2 and 5 pm on Saturday, September 24, at the Gardenia Center,
400 Church Street in Sandpoint.

Panhandle Paddle

10 am to 12 pm Sunday, September 25

City and Dog Beach Parks, Sandpoint

For a seventh year, WIRT and allied activists are bringing their boats, bodies,
and bravery to two locations, for on- and off-shore protests of Northwest coal,
oil, and tar sands trains, terminals, and derailments and north Idaho, railroad
bridge and track expansion.  To accommodate participants who are renting single
or double kayaks, paddleboards, or other manual watercraft from Sandpoint
businesses that open at 9 am, activists are meeting an hour later, at 10 am on
Sunday, September 25.  Near the south boat ramp at City Beach Park in Sandpoint,
we will launch a flotilla on Lake Pend Oreille, departing after participants
arrive by land and water, to voyage around present and proposed railroad bridge
sites.  By about 11 am on Sunday, another rally will converge after paddlers
reach Dog Beach Park south of Sandpoint.  Bring large, attractive banners and
signs, visible to observers at great distances, and respond to WIRT with your
boat rental intentions and mobility needs, so we can reserve and cover the costs
of watercraft, and arrange transportation for folks who cannot walk to Dog Beach
Park. Continue reading →


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STOP NORTH IDAHO’S KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE!


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Posted on August 18, 2022 by WIRT
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GTN Xpress Gas Pipeline Expansion

Residents of the Northwest and Turtle Island continent continue to experience
the extreme, worsening heat, droughts, wildfires, storms, and floods caused by
fossil-fueled climate change.  But Canadian energy company TC Energy (formerly
TransCanada), owner of the notoriously leaky Keystone tar sands pipeline,
partially completed but unpermitted Keystone XL pipeline, and new Coastal
GasLink line invading unceded indigenous lands in British Columbia (B.C.),
expects the public not to notice its plans to stealthily expand its
1,353-mile-long Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline across north Idaho,
eastern Washington, and central Oregon [1-5].

The GTN Xpress project would dangerously increase “natural” gas volumes by 150
million to 250 million cubic feet per day, in its 61-year-old pipeline system. 
GTN transports gas extracted via hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” from the
prolific West Canadian Sedimentary Basin and Rocky Mountain fields of northeast
British Columbia and Alberta.  It connects with the Foothills and Nova Gas
Transmission pipelines in Canada near Kingsgate, B.C., crosses the U.S. border
at Eastport, Idaho, and terminates in Malin, Oregon, where it flows into the
Tuscarora pipeline in northern California.  In north Idaho, the
climate-wrecking, potentially explosive GTN pipeline traverses the Moyie Valley,
Bonners Ferry, and the Highway 95 corridor, close and parallel to railroad
lines.  GTN passes under a Schweitzer Mountain ski resort parking lot and West
Pine Street in Sandpoint, and below the Pend Oreille River near Dover,
downstream from Idaho’s largest, deepest lake.  From Malin in southern Oregon,
the controversial Pacific Connector pipeline would have carried feedstock gas
out to the coastal Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in
Coos Bay.  But a decade-plus of broad public opposition and regulatory hurdles
overcame both boondoggles.

Through a compression-only expansion of the GTN system, GTN Xpress would
software-upgrade the capacity and pressure of the gas-fired turbine compressor
at the Athol, Idaho, pump station 5, from 14,300 to 23,470 horsepower.  Although
the Athol station is located at 2244 East Seasons Road in Kootenai County, a
dispatch center in Portland, Oregon, remotely controls it and 11 other
compressor stations, numbered 3 through 14, which move gas along the U.S. part
of the pipeline.  The facility stands just two miles west-northwest of the
popular Silverwood Theme Park, full of hundreds of visitors on precarious rides
during spring, summer, and fall days.  Installing new equipment and improving an
access road at two Washington and Oregon compressor stations and along the
pipeline, the GTN Xpress project would push an additional 250,000 dekatherms of
gas per day out to smaller, linked pipelines and markets in Washington, Oregon,
and California.  As one dekatherm provides enough gas for five average-sized
(over-large) homes, new GTN Xpress infrastructure and gas volumes would force
1.2 million households to use fossil fuels for at least another 30 years.

Excess Gas & Northwest Energy Transitions

In its October 2021 application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC), seeking a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the GTN
Xpress project, TC Energy claims that “increased market demand driven by
residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the Pacific Northwest”
justifies aged GTN pipeline expansion, and that “the benefits of GTN’s proposed
project far outweigh its potential adverse impacts” [6].  These plans prompted
FERC to prepare a draft, federal, environmental impact statement (EIS) currently
undergoing public scrutiny and input [7-9].  Although TC Energy has urged FERC
to approve the project with a final EIS by October 14, 2022, and to authorize it
by the 90-day federal deadline of January 12, 2023, company and agency staff
must first prove to the commission that Americans, not just Idahoans and
Northwesterners, need this pipeline expansion, and that GTN Xpress would benefit
public interests.  As FERC called for draft EIS scoping comments on the project
in February 2022, it also updated its policies guiding decisions on natural gas
projects, allowing the agency to more thoroughly consider a proposal’s
contributions to climate change and potential impacts on landowners and
environmental justice [10]. Continue reading →


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SUPPORT WIRT CROWDFUNDING FOR PRDC!


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Posted on August 7, 2022 by WIRT
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Protect Palouse Prairie Wetlands from Highway Expansion

For the fourth time in 20 years, the Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition (PRDC) is
challenging the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) and now also the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers (Corps), in an ongoing citizen attempt to force selection of
the least environmentally disruptive, central C-3 route for proposed U.S.
Highway 95 realignment south of Moscow, Idaho.  PRDC filed a legal complaint in
the U.S. District Court of Idaho on March 22, 2022, against the Thorn Creek Road
to Moscow highway project.  This ITD scheme plans to reroute and expand to four
lanes a six-mile segment of Highway 95, along the easternmost E-2 alternative
route highest on Paradise Ridge.  The E-2 alignment would significantly impact
some of the few remaining tracts of native Palouse Prairie and several critical
wetlands.

PRDC disputes ITD’s assessment that the E-2 route would not destroy essential
wetlands larger than the half-acre threshold of the Clean Water Act.  Smaller
wetland sizes along E-2 would allow the project to proceed under a “nationwide”
permit, with fewer restrictions and no further public input, while wetlands
larger than a half-acre require the Corps to issue a more rigorous “individual”
permit.  If PRDC can prove that some wetlands along the E-2 route each surpass a
half-acre in size, ITD may be forced to stop commenced construction, re-apply to
the Corps for an individual permit, and defend its preferred E-2 alternative as
the “least environmentally damaging, practicable alternative” (LEDPA), which it
is not.

After negotiations among opposing attorneys, the federal court let PRDC bring
two wetlands scientists and a licensed surveyor into the E-2 right-of-way. 
These experts found more than a half-acre of wetlands near the southern end of
the project.  Subsequently, the ITD wetlands consultant sent back to the
contested site confirmed the prior ITD determination.  Now, the Corps intends to
study the area and decide whether the assessments of ITD, PRDC, or neither are
correct.

On July 27, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), a member organization of the PRDC
coalition, launched a crowdfunding site for PRDC, to help cover the work of
attorneys and experts that could cost up to $20,000, during this expensive phase
of current litigation.  To win this federal case and protect native Palouse
Prairie on Paradise Ridge from Highway 95 expansion, PRDC and WIRT are relying
on contributions from concerned citizens and the regional community.

Please support these earnest efforts by generously donating soon toward the
$4,000 target of this publicly transparent crowdfunding campaign on the
GiveButter platform, or by mailing a check to PRDC.  You can further assist WIRT
and PRDC reaching this goal by posting this crowdfunding page and PRDC website
and facebook page updates to social media, sharing issue information and
articles with your friends and family, and encouraging participation in giving
to PRDC.  Thanks in advance for your gracious contributions!

Protect Palouse Prairie Wetlands from Highway Expansion

Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition website

Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition facebook page

P.O. Box 8804, Moscow, ID 83843




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CLIMATE JUSTICE FORUM: IDAHO NUCLEAR SMR, WASHINGTON BIOMASS & REPLACED DAM
ENERGY, ASIAN METHANE DEMAND, CALIFORNIA REFINERY & APPALACHIA PIPELINE
PROTESTS, UNSAFE PLASTIC WATER PIPES 2-14-24

Posted on February 14, 2024 by WIRT
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The Wednesday, February 14, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced
by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT),
features news, music, and reflections on an abandoned small modular reactor
(SMR) test project for Utah nuclear power at the Idaho National Laboratory, a
new English biomass pellet production plant under construction in Washington, an
agreement among regional tribes and state and federal governments to replace
removed Snake River dam hydroelectric with renewable energy, a predicted
increase in Asian methane gas demand and imports, a California protest outside a
Chevron refinery linking oil and gas interests to Israel genocide of
Palestinians, on-site and solidarity actions against the Mountain Valley gas
pipeline in Appalachia, and a report indicating the health and safety risks of
plastic drinking water pipes, after an Ohio toxic chemicals derailment. 
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, the show describes continent-wide, grassroots, frontline
resistance 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. Continue reading →


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CLIMATE JUSTICE FORUM: OHIO DERAILMENT AFTERMATH, IDAHO LOGGING LITIGATION,
NORTHWEST & APPALACHIA PIPELINE OPPOSITION, CANADIAN LNG EXPORTS, CANCELLED DC
PROTESTS 2-7-24

Posted on February 7, 2024 by WIRT
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The Wednesday, February 7, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced
by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT),
features a Guardian report on the community health and policy aftermath during
the year since the toxic plastic chemicals train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio. 
We also share news, music, and reflections on litigation against a massive,
north Idaho, lakeside logging scheme called Buckskin Saddle, a nationwide
request for Environmental Protection Agency and White House intervention in
federal approval of the GTN Xpress Northwest gas pipeline expansion, global
export of Canadian methane through U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals,
cancelled Washington D.C. protests and further petition opportunities after a
Biden administration pause on LNG facility permits, and local and widespread
solidarity actions against Mountain Valley methane pipeline construction in
Appalachia.  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, the show describes continent-wide,
grassroots, frontline resistance 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. Continue reading →


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CLIMATE JUSTICE FORUM: ISRAEL RESOURCE THEFT & GENOCIDE OF PALESTINE, U.S. LNG
EXPORT PERMIT PAUSE, RESPONSES, & NORTHWEST PIPELINE CONNECTIONS, CANCELLED
TACOMA LNG EXPANSION 1-31-23

Posted on January 31, 2024 by WIRT
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The Wednesday, January 31, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced
by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT),
features news, videos, and reflections on Israel’s theft of Palestine’s water
and oil and gas resources, a historic, international court ruling on South
Africa allegations of Israel genocide of Palestinians, a Biden-Harris
administration decision to pause permit approvals of fracked, liquefied natural
gas (LNG) exports, responses of frontline communities, environmental groups, and
the Canadian energy industry to the President’s announcement, a possible
connection of the GTN Xpress Northwest methane pipeline expansion to Gulf Coast
export terminals, and Puget Sound Energy cancellation of a liquefied gas plant
expansion in Tacoma.  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, the show describes continent-wide,
grassroots, frontline resistance 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. Continue reading →


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CLIMATE JUSTICE FORUM: MASON LEAVITT & AYA COCKRAM ON GAS STOVES, CLIMATE
DYNAMICS, HIGHWAY 95 OPPOSITION, WASHINGTON GAS FAILURES, BC PIPELINE BATTLES,
DC LNG PROTESTS 1-24-24

Posted on January 24, 2024 by WIRT
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The Wednesday, January 24, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced
by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT),
features Mason Leavitt with Beyond Toxics and Aya Cockram with Fossil Free
Eugene, talking about dangerous, toxic emissions from methane gas, kitchen
cooking stoves and attempts by gas companies to mislead consumers and lawmakers
about “natural” gas health impacts.  We also share news, music, and reflections
on the causes and effects of climate change, as discussed by writer David
Roberts at a 2012, Evergreen State College presentation, Highway 95 expansion
and opposition around Moscow, decreased methane gas supplies and energy
conservation requests during severely cold weather in western Washington,
Wet’suwet’en court battles against land defense criminal charges and abusive
police practices during British Columbia gas pipeline construction, and upcoming
Washington, D.C., demonstrations denouncing proposed, Gulf Coast, liquefied
methane export facilities.  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, the show describes
continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance 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. Continue reading →


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CLIMATE JUSTICE FORUM: MASON LEAVITT & AYA COCKRAM ON GAS STOVE EMISSIONS, TRAIN
NUMBERS & KILLED GRIZZLIES, IDAHO SOLAR RATES, NORTHWEST GAS LOSSES & PIPELINE &
INSURANCE PROTESTS 1-17-24

Posted on January 17, 2024 by WIRT
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The Wednesday, January 17, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced
by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT),
features Mason Leavitt with Beyond Toxics and Aya Cockram with Fossil Free
Eugene, talking about dangerous, toxic emissions from methane gas kitchen
cooking stoves and attempts by gas companies to mislead consumers and lawmakers
about “natural” gas health impacts.  We also share news, music, and reflections
on diminished north Idaho and Northwest fossil fuels and overall train traffic,
environmental groups’ case against BNSF Railway-caused, grizzly bear deaths, a
publicly opposed, Idaho agency decision reducing credits for rooftop solar power
generation, widespread, regional gas outages and pipeline pressure and supply
losses during frigid winter weather, upcoming pipeline resistance direct action
trainings, a global week of demonstrations against fossil fuels insurers, and a
nationwide request for White House council intervention in federal approval of
the GTN Xpress gas pipeline expansion.  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 fuels
projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous
listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading
→


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CLIMATE JUSTICE FORUM: U.S. MILITARY SALES & EMISSIONS, JACOB JOHNS & INDIGENOUS
COP 28, GTN XPRESS APPEALS, EPA METHANE RULE, IDAHO SOLAR DECISION, BC PIPELINE
TRIALS, RAILROAD SAFETY LAW 1-10-24

Posted on January 10, 2024 by WIRT
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The Wednesday, January 10, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced
by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT),
features news, music, and reflections on two Biden administration arms sales
bypassing Congressional approval of Israel genocide of Palestinians, global
environmental degradation and emissions of one-third of American greenhouse
gases by the U.S. military, leadership of an indigenous delegation to the COP 28
climate conference by Spokane activist and artist Jacob Johns two months after
he was shot, Northwest coalition and GTN gas pipeline filings of petitions for
appellant court review, a new federal methane rule supporting independent leak
detection and mitigation of oil and gas facilities, an Idaho Public Utilities
Commission rate decision obstructing equitable rooftop solar power generation,
ongoing First Nation resistance and court cases surrounding British Columbia gas
pipeline construction, and a national railroad safety law stalled eleven months
after a toxic Ohio derailment.  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 fuels projects, the
root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who
adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading →


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CLIMATE JUSTICE FORUM: OUR CHANGING CLIMATE ON FOSSIL FUELS SABOTAGE, NORTHWEST
PIPELINE REHEARING DENIAL, LNG EXPORT HARMS, 2023 CLIMATE DISASTERS & LAWSUITS,
REPAIRED WORLD DREAMS 1-3-24

Posted on January 3, 2024 by WIRT
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The Wednesday, January 3, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by
regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features
an Our Changing Climate examination of the historical context and possible role
of fossil fuel infrastructure sabotage in the broader climate movement.  We also
share news, music, and reflections on federal denial of rehearing petitions
objecting to Northwest gas pipeline expansion, the climate and consumer harms of
rapidly growing Gulf Coast and U.S. liquefied natural gas exports, 2023 climate
accountability lawsuits and record storms, heat, and wildfires prompted by
global warming, and voiced 2020 dreams of a repaired, future world inspired by
pandemic and uprising lessons.  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 fuels projects, the
root causes of climate change, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who
adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ. Continue reading →


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CLIMATE JUSTICE FORUM: TEXAS METHANE RELEASES, NORTHWEST MILITARY & COAL TRAINS,
PIPELINE REHEARING DENIAL & RUPTURE CHARGES, CONTESTED CLIMATE RULES, & CLIMATE
DECEPTION LAWSUIT 12-27-23

Posted on December 27, 2023 by WIRT
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The Wednesday, December 27, 2023, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced
by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT),
features a documentary describing oil and gas facility methane releases,
ineffective state regulation, and environmental watchdog opposition in the Texas
Permian Basin, the largest greenhouse gas generator on Earth.  We also share
news, music, and reflections on regional military and double-long coal trains,
denial of rehearing petitions objecting to federal approval of Northwest gas
pipeline expansion, a request for White House council intervention in this
decision, possible charges against a Washington landowner involved in a gas line
rupture, an Oregon appeals court ruling invalidating state climate change
regulations, a Washington tribes case against six oil companies for their
climate deception, and the first full moon of the new solar year.  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 fuels projects, the root causes of climate change, thanks to generous,
anonymous listeners who adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.
Continue reading →


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