Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Please join Extinction Rebellion (XR) Palouse, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), and allied groups at multiple, upcoming gatherings in Moscow, Idaho, during the mid-April week before Earth Day, to interactively discuss and resist destructive fossil fuels and infrastructure expansions and their implications for climate change, biodiversity loss, and resident harms across north Idaho and the Northwest.

GTN Xpress Gas Pipeline Expansion Talk

On Thursday, April 18, from 6:30 to 8 pm, activist Helen Yost of WIRT welcomes everyone to learn about and resist plans by TC Energy, owner of the Keystone and Keystone XL tar sands pipelines, to expand its Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) fracked methane gas pipeline with the GTN Xpress project across the Idaho panhandle, eastern Washington, and central Oregon [1, 2].  This free, public event in the Fiske Room of the 1912 Center, 412 East Third Street in Moscow, will talk about the health, safety, and climate impacts of this unnecessary, Canadian fossil fuels invasion on pipeline corridor communities from Sandpoint and Athol, Idaho, to the Spokane, Washington, and Bend, Oregon areas.  The states of Washington, Oregon, and California and dozens of climate, conservation, faith, and health advocacy organizations have opposed GTN Xpress since its initial, autumn 2021 applications to federal and state agencies, through environmental review and public input processes in 2022, via numerous citizen and state official protests, media outreach articles, and government appeals in 2023, and by legal challenges filed in 2024.  XR Palouse and WIRT event hosts encourage participants to engage in a question and strategy session concluding this insightful presentation.

Mo(u)rning Walk on Paradise Ridge

From 10 am until 12 noon on Saturday, April 20, community members are meeting at the south parking lot and barn of the University of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical Garden, 1200 West Palouse River Drive, to attend a guided walk up Paradise Ridge with representatives of the Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition (PRDC) [3, 4].  Over the last three decades, PRDC has refuted deficient, Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) environmental studies and applications and has delayed flawed ITD  attempts to realign U.S. Highway 95 between Thorn Creek Road and Moscow, on this ridge that hosts some of the last, significant remnants of native Palouse Prairie.  Through four court challenges, expert wetland analyses, public records requests, and a lawsuit settlement, PRDC has forced suspension of wetland damage permits that ITD revised and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved during 2023.  As contested construction activities resume on Paradise Ridge, walk participants intend to share information about this ongoing preservation campaign and to collectively witness and grieve the degradation of this globally endangered ecosystem.

Allied Week of Actions in Moscow

Both of these convergences are part of a week of actions from Monday, April 15, to Saturday, April 20, variously organized and sponsored by XR Palouse, Friends of the Clearwater, KRFP Radio Free Moscow, Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment, Palouse Group Sierra Club, Sunrise Movement Palouse, and WIRT.  Other events include a free screening and discussion of the award-winning, climate documentary Once You Know at the Kenworthy Theatre, 508 South Main Street in Moscow, at 7 pm on Monday, April 15, a group eco-meditation and climate cafe with Jamie Derrick in the 1912 Center Reading Room, 412 East Third Street in Moscow, from 1 to 2 pm on Tuesday, April 16, a free, public, art session for expressing climate feelings in Friendship Square, Fourth and Main Streets in Moscow, from 11 am to 3 pm on Wednesday, April 17, and the third annual Biodiversity Ball featuring live musical performances by Evergreen Afrodub Orchestra and The Pond, a WIRT slide show of historic climate activism, an aquatic wildlife-themed costume contest, and raffle prizes, all for $20 suggested admission donations at Hunga Dunga Brewing Company, 333 North Jackson Street in Moscow, from 7 pm to 12 midnight on Friday, April 19 [5].  See the linked event descriptions and XR Palouse facebook page for further information [6].

Weekly Climate Issues Updates

Regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide invites you to listen to the Climate Justice Forum radio program that shares current news, music, recorded conversations, and associated reflections on continent-wide, grassroots, frontline resistance to the fossil fuels causes of climate change.  WIRT volunteers have compiled, produced, and broadcast this show full of reports and calls to action over twelve years on progressive, community station KRFP Radio Free Moscow, every Wednesday between 1:30 and 3 pm Pacific time, both on-air at 90.3 FM and online, thanks to generous, anonymous listeners who have adopted program host Helen Yost as their KRFP DJ.  Catch these updates live or visit the station website and click on the red heart on the front page, to hear archived, previous, WIRT, XR Palouse, and other KRFP programs [7].

Thanks for your climate concerns, renewed responses, and protective work!

[1] GTN Xpress Gas Pipeline Expansion Talk, April 1, 2024 Extinction Rebellion Palouse and Wild Idaho Rising Tide

[2] Stop GTN Xpress, January 31, 2023 Rogue Climate

[3] Mo(u)rning Walk on Paradise Ridge, April 1, 2024 Extinction Rebellion Palouse

[4] Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition, April 14, 2024 Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition

[5] Third Annual Biodiversity Ball, April 14, 2024 Extinction Rebellion Palouse, Friends of the Clearwater, and Hunga Dunga Brewing Company

[6] XR Palouse, April 14, 2024 Extinction Rebellion Palouse

[7] KRFP Radio Free Moscow, April 14, 2024 KRFP

The Wednesday, April 10, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features CR McGary and the Eclectrix duo of Jessica Amy Cowitz and Fiddlin’ Big Al Chidester performing music at the 13th anniversary celebration of WIRT in Moscow on March 29.  We also share news and reflections on a Moscow talk and Seattle blockade of Amazon headquarters, protesting the GTN Xpress methane pipeline expansion, inaccurate federal agency formulas for calculating gas pipeline rupture blast zones, a Paradise Ridge walk mourning Highway 95 construction, a month increase in Northwest military trains, coordinated global economic blockades to free Palestine, and opposition to Zenith Energy plans to expand Portland fuels storage and rail terminal operations.  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.

Protests at Amazon Headquarters Object to Use of Fossil Fuels in Oregon, March 27, 2024 KIRO

‘Troublemakers’ Block Amazon HQ over Plan to Link Data Centers With Gas Pipeline, March 27, 2024 Common Dreams

See also: Protesters Block Entrances at Amazon Headquarters, Objecting to Planned Use of Fossil Fuels in Oregon, March 27, 2024 GeekWire

See also: Protesters Obstruct Access to Amazon Headquarters in Protest of Proposed Use of Fossil Fuels in Oregon, March 27, 2024 Globe Echo

See also: Seattle Climate Protesters Blockade Amazon Corporate Headquarters Building, March 27, 2024 Seattle Times

GTN Xpress Gas Pipeline Expansion Talk, April 1, 2024 Extinction Rebellion Palouse and Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Feds Fall Short in Oversight of Pipeline ‘Blast Zones’ — Watchdog, April 4, 2024 E & E News (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Mo(u)rning Walk on Paradise Ridge, April 1, 2024 Extinction Rebellion Palouse

20 Northwest Military Trains in One Month!, April 8, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Coordinated Economic Blockade to Free Palestine, April 9, 2024 Civil Liberties Defense Center (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Zenith Energy’s Plan to Expand Operations Brings New Threats to Public Health and Safety and the Environment, April 7, 2024 Columbia Riverkeeper

The Wednesday, April 3, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features north Idaho poets Adrian Murillo and Robins and musician Desiree Aguirre performing at the 13th anniversary celebration of WIRT in Sandpoint on March 28.  We also share news, music, and reflections on an upcoming GTN Xpress gas pipeline expansion talk and Paradise Ridge walk mourning Highway 95 construction around Moscow, a Troublemakers blockade of Amazon headquarters in downtown Seattle protesting gas pipeline expansion use, and citizen closure of the last coal plant in New England.  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.

GTN Xpress Gas Pipeline Expansion Talk, April 1, 2024 Extinction Rebellion Palouse and Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Mo(u)rning Walk on Paradise Ridge, April 1, 2024 Extinction Rebellion Palouse

Happening now! Dozens of activists have blockaded EVERY entrance to Amazons headquarters in downtown Seattle…, March 27, 2024 Troublemakers

Amazon: A Commitment to GTN Xpress is a Commitment to Climate Catastrophe, March 27, 2024 Troublemakers

Breaking News: New England Activists Close Region’s Last Coal Plant, March 27, 2024 No Coal, No Gas

The Wednesday, March 27, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on upcoming thirteenth anniversary celebrations of WIRT, Washington and Oregon state opposition to industry insistence on federal approval to start construction of the GTN Xpress methane pipeline expansion in April 2024, letters to Northwest senators about energy commissioner nominees and their Congressional hearing, to Amazon denouncing its possible use of GTN Xpress gas, and to a British Columbia official warning of the climate impacts of increased fracking and liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, Canadian organizing pressure forcing changes in fossil fuels funding banks, and updates and resistance camp opportunities with First Nations.  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.

WIRT Song: The Tide Is Rising, 2013 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

13th Annual Celebration of Wild Idaho Rising Tide, March 21, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Answer of the States of Washington and Oregon re Gas Transmission Northwest LLC’s February 20, 2024, Request to Proceed with Construction at the GTN Xpress Project under CP22-2, March 18, 2024 Washington and Oregon Attorneys General

Gas Transmission Northwest LLC Submits Response to the March 18, 2024, Letter from the States of Washington and Oregon Opposing the February 20, 2024, Request for Notice to Proceed with Construction at the GTN Xpress Project under CP22-2, March 22, 2024 Gas Transmission Northwest

Gas Transmission Northwest LLC Submits Biweekly Construction Status Report No. 2 for the Period of March 6, 2024, to March 20, 2024, re the GTN Xpress Project under CP22-2, March 26, 2024 Gas Transmission Northwest

Letter to Northwest Senators about FERC Commissioner Nominees and Hearing, March 18, 2024 Stop GTN Xpress Coalition (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Letter to Amazon Opposing Its Use of GTN Xpress Pipeline Expansion Gas, March 19, 2024 Troublemakers Community (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Climate Impacts of Expanded Fracking and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in Canada (Letter to B.C. Premier David Eby), 2024 Wilderness Committee (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Organizing Pressure Forces Royal Bank of Canada Changes, March 21, 2024 Decolonial Solidarity (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Winter Update from Unist’ot’en, March 24, 2024 Unist’ot’en Camp (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) is celebrating its March 31 anniversary and thirteenth 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 milestone at two 13th Annual Celebrations of WIRT, held as benefit performances and potluck gatherings in Sandpoint and Moscow, Idaho, with provided pizza, requested snacks and beverages, a background slide show of WIRT and allied activism, and updates on six Northwest campaigns.  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 lively music, spirited conversations, invigorating camaraderie, wholesome food and drink, and creative works offered by north Idaho and regional residents.  At each of these free, public events, we eagerly anticipate community members sharing their admired talents and participating as volunteers and/or sponsors.  These yearly festivities not only strive to raise awareness and funds supporting relentless, earnest, WIRT climate activism, but also seek to further attract and involve cross-cultural and youth diversity in the climate justice movement in Idaho and the Northwest.

Thursday, March 28, 7 pm: Community Open Mic & Desiree Aguirre

Gardenia Center, 400 Church Street, Sandpoint

WIRT encourages poets, writers, musicians, creative peers, and allied groups to participate in an open microphone and potluck meal, at one of the last community events at the Gardenia Center, a beloved gathering place currently for sale and as endangered by development as the Earth [6].  A local poet will host reading and sharing of odes and tributes to the decades of community service bestowed by and through the Gardenia.  Multi-instrumentalist, roots musician Desiree Aguirre will sing stories and play banjo and maybe guitar for 30 to 45 minutes, and organizers will “pass the hat” for donations covering event publicity and travel.

Friday, March 29, 7 pm: Campaign Updates & the Eclectrix

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

During this year’s celebrations in both Sandpoint and Moscow, WIRT and allied group representatives plan to lead discussions about resistance campaigns and upcoming events, including Northwest tar sands mining and refining megaloads and Alberta tailing pond breaches, southwest Idaho oil and gas extraction and waste injection wells and plant emissions, Paradise Ridge highway construction through wetlands and rare native habitat, Idaho Panhandle fossil fuels and hazardous freight trains and railroad infrastructure and wrecks, Lake Pend Oreille-adjacent timber sales, and Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) Xpress pipeline expansion.  The high-energy Eclectrix duo of Jessica Amy Cowitz and Fiddlin’ Big Al Chidester will also play a variety of folk, blues, and country music as well as original compositions on guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and banjo.

After the pandemic and political upheavals of recent times, WIRT appreciates that Easter and its resurrection themes occur on our Sunday, March 31, 2024 anniversary, four years after Idaho’s second largest earthquake happened exactly while we announced our ninth anniversary on facebook in 2020, without an annual celebration that year [7].  After our 2024 celebrations, WIRT activists intend to assist the station that broadcasts our weekly Climate Justice Forum program, KRFP Radio Free Moscow, with its annual Real Radio Dinner fundraiser from 6 pm to 9 pm on Saturday, March 30, at the 1912 Center, 412 East Third Street in Moscow.

For further event and issue information and responses to your questions, ideas, and suggestions, and/or to contribute toward WIRT’s 13th anniversary celebration expenses, please visit the WIRT website and facebook pages, contact us via phone, text, email, or facebook message, and print and post the letter-size, color 13th Annual Celebration of WIRT Flyer [8, 9].  If you cannot attend these upcoming opportunities, but would like to uphold the persistent endeavors of this direct climate action group, please arrange a visit, send a mailed donation to our Sandpoint office, or pitch in through our online form [10].  Physical and fiscal contributions bolster the dedicated work and outreach of WIRT and partner, environmental justice organizations confronting new and expanded, fossil fuels extraction, production, transportation, and related infrastructure throughout the Northwest.

Recent WIRT Background

During the last two years, WIRT has extensively commented, testified, and petitioned, hosted frontline and solidarity action trainings, protests, and paddles, and communicated via social media, website, email, and on-air through our weekly Climate Justice Forum radio program, urging resistance and contesting myriad regional fossil fuels and industrial onslaughts [8, 9].  We have actively opposed and monitored BNSF Railway, Uinta Basin, and other railroads’ permits, track and bridge construction, derailments, and Northwest coal, oil, tar sands, petroleum coke, nuclear waste, and other hazardous freight trains, such as nationwide, rail transports of liquefied natural gas (LNG).  WIRT has supported concerned coalition efforts to halt Highway 95 realignment in wetlands on Paradise Ridge, to stop Treasure Valley and Payette River-side oil and gas well spacing, forced leasing, drilling, and waste injection, and to end expansion of the Coastal GasLink and GTN gas pipelines, along with the Keystone, Dakota Access, Lines 3 and 5, and Trans Mountain oil and tar sands pipelines.  We have countered Powder River Basin coal, Alberta tar sands, and Nevada and Oregon lithium mines, Salish Sea oil refineries, BNSF’s oil train trespasses and locomotive wreck and diesel leak on the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community reservation, the Zenith and Port Westward oil-by-rail terminals, and proposed massive deforestation projects around Lake Pend Oreille.

WIRT is grateful for ongoing community assistance and recognition of our shared, volunteer activism, especially around our 2021 and 2023 anniversaries, such as grants for fossil fuels train and pipeline resistance from the Stand Up to Oil and Stop GTN Xpress networks, a Good Steward of the Earth award given by allies Responsible Growth Northeast Washington, SHAWL Society (Sovereignty, Health, Air, Water, Land), and Silver Valley Community Resource Center in April 2021 [11, 12], and a Green and Red Podcast conversation with Scott Parkin of Rising Tide North America, around Earth Day 2021, about WIRT’s decade of dissidence [13-15].  In our fourteenth year and beyond, we will continue to intensely oppose the previously mentioned and other numerous threats to healthy air, water, land, and life, from climate-wrecking pollution and militarized violence, while rigorously amplifying the voices of indigenous and climate activists on some of the most challenging fossil fuels frontlines.

Thanks for your support!  We hope to see you and your friends and families at these 13th anniversary celebrations.

[1] Annual Celebrations, March 21, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

[2] WIRT Tenth Annual Celebration Announced Soon!, March 6, 2021 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

[3] WIRT: Ten Years Today!, March 31, 2021 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

[4] 11th WIRT Anniversary!, March 31, 2022 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

[5] Twelfth Annual Celebration of Wild Idaho Rising Tide, April 2, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

[6] From the President of the Gardenia Center Board of Directors…, March 8, 2024 Gardenia Center

[7] 6.5 Magnitude Idaho Earthquake-Interrupted Post, March 31, 2020 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

[8] Wild Idaho Rising Tide, March 21, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

[9] Wild Idaho Rising Tide, March 21, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

[10] Donate to WIRT, March 21, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide EverButton

[11] Enviro Groups Find Common Cause, To Hold Friday Stewardship Event, April 12, 2021 Spokane Public Radio

[12] Good Stewardship of the Earth Event (& Recognition of WIRT Activists)!, April 14, 2021 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

[13] G&R Episode 83: Fighting Fossil Fuels in Idaho w/ Organizer Helen Yost, April 22, 2021 Green and Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

[14] Happy Greenwash Day!, April 22, 2021 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

[15] Thanks to Scott Parkin and the Green and Red Podcast…, April 25, 2021 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

The Wednesday, March 20, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features physicist, author, and efficient and renewable energy designer Amory Lovins of RMI (formerly Rocky Mountain Institute) talking about exponential market demand for decarbonized products and power systems displacing incumbent energy industries and outdated government policies.  We also share news, music, and reflections on the March equinox and full moon and upcoming thirteenth annual celebrations of WIRT.  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.

Seo Linn – Rise (Wild Irish Wanderer Series, Mount Errigal, Donegal, Ireland), October 26, 2020 Seo Linn

The March Equinox, 2024 Time and Date

Worm Moon: Full Moon for March 2024, January 12, 2024 Old Farmer’s Almanac

13th Annual Celebration of Wild Idaho Rising Tide, March 20, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT website and facebook posts forthcoming)

Disruptive Energy Futures (Amory Lovins presentation), 2024 Institute for Energy Studies and The Foundation for Western Washington University and Alumni

The Wednesday, March 13, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features March 10 webinar speakers Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief Na’Moks and land defender Eve Saint, calling for actions  against Royal Bank of Canada funding of the Coastal GasLink pipeline through their unceded indigenous territory in British Columbia.  We also share news, music, and reflections on upcoming thirteenth annual WIRT celebrations offering campaign updates and live music and poetry, a Spokane grief circle for Gaza, a First Nation lawsuit against Alberta energy regulators over Kearl tar sands tailing pond leaks, and a dismissed claim against protesters of the Thacker Pass Nevada lithium mine.  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.

Green Day – The American Dream Is Killing Me (Official Music Video), October 24, 2023 Green Day

Campaign Updates at 13th Annual WIRT Celebrations, March 12, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

First Nation Sues Alberta Energy Regulator over Kearl Tailings Pond Spill, March 7, 2024 Desmog

Spokane: Grief Circle for Gaza, March 10, 2024 Party for Socialism and Liberation Eastern Washington

Press Release: Judge Tosses One Claim Against Thacker Pass Protectors, March 11, 2024 Protect Thacker Pass

Thank You for Attending! A Call to Action with Chief Na’Moks, Eve Saint, Cedar George-Parker, and Sarah Shamy, March 12, 2024 Decolonial Solidarity (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

A Call to Action – Mobilizing for RBC’s AGM: A Webinar with Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks, Wet’suwet’en Land Defender Eve Saint, Tsleil-Waututh Land Defender Cedar George-Parker, Palestinian Youth Movement Organizer Sarah Shamy…, March 11, 2024 Gidimt’en Checkpoint

The Wednesday, March 6, 2024, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features news, music, and reflections on methane and greenhouse gas emissions from a proposed California and all U.S. hydropower dams and reservoirs, environmental agency approval of jet and boat fuels refined from plastics that could cause cancer with every lifetime exposure, record-breaking ocean heat acceleration, a north Idaho head-on, two-train collision, White House nominated Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioners, and Palestine-supportive self-immolator Aaron Bushnell outside the Washington D.C. Israeli embassy.  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.

Climate Change Rap “Hell or High Water” Floodland Song, November 23, 2022 Dan Bull

Hydropower Dams Across the U.S. Are Leaking Methane, 2024 Hydropower Reform Coalition

Boiling Point: Would Filling a New Reservoir Give Off Lots of Greenhouse Gases?, August 24, 2023 Los Angeles Times

EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed Over a Lifetime, August 4, 2023 ProPublica

Accelerating Ocean Heat Breaks All-Time Records, March 1, 2024 Counterpunch

Head-On, Two-Train Collision near Bonners Ferry!, March 4, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Daily on Energy: A Look at the Three Nominees for FERC, March 1, 2024 Washington Examiner

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal”, February 26, 2024 Crimethinc

See also (warning: graphic video): Ignoring Immolators Lulls the Society to Sleep: Aaron Bushnell at the Israeli Embassy: “Free Palestine!”, February 25, 2024 Sam Husseini

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.

The Cranberries – Time Is Ticking Out (Official Music Video), December 20, 2010 TheCranberriesTV

It’s Confirmed. A Major Atlantic Ocean Current Is Verging on Collapse, February 13, 2024 Science Alert

#BANISHBOMBTRAINS! From 5:11 am to 5:48 am on Sunday, February 25, during the #IDoiltrainwatch and #WAoiltrainwatch…, February 25, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Most Claims Tossed in Idaho Panhandle Logging Project Challenge, February 26, 2024 Bloomberg Law (paywall)

Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. United States Forest Service, February 22, 2024 Case Text

FERC Post of Oregon and Washington Petition for Review, February 22, 2024 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

The Loss of Quorum at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, February 6, 2017 Every CRS Report

Rising Tide Drowns Mountain Valley Pipeline SLAPP Suit, February 24, 2024 Civil Liberties Defense Center

A Call to Action with Chief Na’Moks, Eve Saint, Cedar George-Parker, and Sarah Shamy, February 26, 2024 Decolonial Solidarity (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

A Call to Action, 2024 Decolonial Solidarity

New Film Documents Struggle of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders, February 23, 2024 Penticton Herald

Behind Israel’s ‘End Game’ for Gaza: Theft of Offshore Gas Reserves, November 14, 2023 International Action Center

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.

Get Up Stand Up (Official Fan Video ‘Legend 30th’) – Bob Marley, September 11, 2014 Bob Marley

Who Foots the Bill for an Oil Spill?, February 14, 2024 Friends of the San Juans

Rise with the Waters, February 17, 2024 Native Daily Network, NoLNG253, 350 Tacoma, and Coast Salish Water Warriors

Grassroots Groups Support Oregon and Washington Federal Court Challenge of GTN Xpress Fracked Gas Expansion Project, February 21, 2024 Stop GTN Xpress coalition (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

GTN Xpress Legal Challenges: Important Update on GTN Xpress Legal Challenges, February 19, 2024 Columbia Riverkeeper

TC Energy Pushes FERC for GTN Xpress Construction, February 21, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Departure at Critical Energy Regulator Threatens to Stymie Clean Power, February 11, 2024 Politico

Letter to Biden: Pause is Good, Reject LNG for Good!, February 23, 2024 Food and Water Watch, Oil Change International, Frack Action, Healthy Gulf, Vessel Project of Louisiana, For a Better Bayou, Center for Biological Diversity, Earthworks, and Friends of the Earth U.S.

New Georgia Cash Bail Expansion Will Criminalize Charitable Bail Funds, February 1, 2024 Atlanta Press Collective

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.

Talking Heads – [Nothing But] Flowers (Official Video), March 30, 2018 Talking Heads

The Collapse of NuScale’s Project Should Spell the End for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, January 31, 2024 Utility Dive

Carbon Free Power Project, February 5, 2024 Idaho National Laboratory

UK Largest Renewable Energy Supplier Building Longview Plant along Columbia River, February 10, 2024 Daily News (Longview, Washington)

Tribes to Sponsor One to Three Gigawatts of Renewables to Help Retire Dams and Restore Salmon, January 29, 2024 PV Magazine

BMI Says Outlook for Asia Natural Gas Demand Remains Bullish, February 12, 2024 RigZone

Chevron Get Out of Palestine, February 4, 2024 Indy Bay

Appalachians Against Pipelines, January 28 to 30, 2024 Appalachians Against Pipelines

New Report Raises Questions about Safety of Using PVC Plastic Pipes for Drinking Water, April 18, 2023 Beyond Plastics

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.

Infallible, July 25, 2018 Pearl Jam

Update on Litigation of Buckskin Saddle Lakeside Logging Scheme, January 24, 2024 Paul Sieracki (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Biden Urged to Use Obscure Law to Thwart Pacific Northwest Pipeline Expansion, January 16, 2024

Climate Activists Cancel Protests, Declare Victory after Biden’s LNG Freeze, January 26, 2024 Bloomberg

Tell the Biden Administration: Stop the Expansion of Oil and Gas Export Projects!, 2024 People vs. Fossil Fuels

U.S. Exporting Canadian Natural Gas as Global LNG Demand Surges, July 11, 2022 Energy Now Media

Plan a Solidarity Action, 2024 Appalachians Against Pipelines

Appalachians Against Pipelines, January 28 to 30, 2024 Appalachians Against Pipelines

A Year On from the East Palestine Toxic Train Derailment, What’s Changed? Podcast, February 2, 2024 Guardian

See also: Residents’ Lives Still in Limbo a Year after East Palestine Toxic Derailment, February 3, 2024 Guardian

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.

Proof: Israel to Steal Gaza’s Gas – Worth $500 Billion!, November 9, 2023 C.J. Werleman Show

ICJ Rules on Allegations of Genocide by Israel in Historic Decision, January 29, 2024 Nation of Change

Biden Takes a Step Forward on Ending Fossil Fuels, January 29, 2024 People vs. Fossil Fuels (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Statement from President Joe Biden on Decision to Pause Pending Approvals of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports, January 26, 2024 White House

Frontline and National Organizations Respond to Biden Administration Announcement to Pause New LNG Export Approvals and Reassess Public Interest Determination, January 26, 2024 Arc Initiatives

Canadian Gas and Oil Polluters Pissed Off by Biden Pausing Unnatural Fracked LNG Approvals in the U.S.A…., January 27, 2024 Jessica Ernst

See also: Canadian Energy Producers Dismayed by Biden’s Move to Pause U.S. LNG Approvals, January 26, 2024 Globe and Mail

Is GTN Xpress Pipeline Expansion Gas Heading to LNG Terminals?, January 27, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Gas Transmission Northwest LLC Submits Notification of Acceptance of Certificate Order for the GTN XPress Project under CP22-2, January 30, 2024 TC Energy

Puget Sound Energy Cancels Liquid Natural Gas Plant Expansion in Tacoma, January 24, 2024

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.

Climate Change is Simple: David Roberts at TEDx The Evergreen State College, June 12, 2012 TEDx Talks

Highway 95 Thorncreek to Moscow Update, Winter 2023-24 Sierra Club Palouse Group

Why PSE Urged Western Washington to Conserve Energy amid Severe Cold, January 14, 2024 KUOW

Abuse of Process Update, January 21, 2024 Yintah Access

Wet’suwet’en Yintah Defense Legal Funds, 2023 Molly Wickham

Come to DC to #StopLNG, January 24, 2024 People vs. Fossil Fuels (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

#StopLNG Sit-in at Department of Energy in Washington, DC, 2024 People vs. Fossil Fuels

Fumes in Focus: Visualizing Air Pollution from Gas Stoves, January 15, 2024 KBOO Locus Focus

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.

Lake Street Dive – Making Do, September 30, 2020 Lake Street Dive

Diminished Sandpoint and Northwest Train Traffic, January 14, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Environmental Groups Sue over Train-Related Grizzly Deaths, December 14, 2023 Montana Free Press

Hundreds Opposed Changes to Rooftop Solar Credits in Idaho. It Was Just Approved Anyway, January 3, 2024 Idaho Statesman

Massive Gas Outage Threatens Millions of Americans’ Energy Supplies Amid Arctic Storm, January 13, 2024 Huffington Post

Avista Problems with Gas Pipeline Supplier, January 13, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Customers Help Avista Avert Natural Gas Crisis over Weekend Cold Snap: ‘We Know It was a Hardship’, January 17, 2024 Spokesman Review

Trainers for Northwest Pipeline Actions, January 11, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Join Us from February 26 to March 3 for a Global Week of Action to End Fossil Fuels, 2024 Global Insure Our Future

Release: Nearly 150 Groups Urge White House to Fully Review FERC’s Disastrous Approval of PNW Pipeline Expansion, January 16, 2024 Revolving Door Project

Fumes in Focus: Visualizing Air Pollution from Gas Stoves, January 15, 2024 KBOO Locus Focus

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.

No More (Live), July 29, 2018 Eddie Vedder

Senate Democrats Scoff at Biden’s Israel Arms Sale, January 3, 2024 Hill

The Pentagon is the Elephant in the Climate Activist Room, Fall 2023 Edition, Peace and Planet News

Wow, 10 to 16 inches of already heavily falling snow in Sandpoint by Thursday…, January 9, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Two Months after He was Shot, activist Jacob Johns Led an Indigenous Delegation to COP 28 Climate Conference, January 8, 2024 Spokesman-Review

Northwest Coalition and GTN Gas Pipeline File Petitions for Court Review, January 8, 2024 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

In EPA’s New Methane Rule, an Innovative Way to Stop ‘Super Emitters’, December 13, 2023 Grist

Lightning Bolt, July 25, 2018 Pearl Jam

Press Release: Idaho PUC Dims Rooftop Solar Industry, Approves Lopsided Rate Increase, January 2, 2024 Sierra Club Idaho Chapter

Advancing Equitable Solar Power in Idaho: Where We Go From Here, 2024 Sierra Club Idaho Chapter

Court Updates, January 6, 2024 Gidimt’en Yintah Access

Eleven Months after Derailment, Safety Act Remains Stalled, January 2, 2024 Vindicator

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.

Waiting on the World to Change (Song Around The World), November 23, 2023 Playing For Change

FERC Ignored (Deemed Denied) Three GTN Xpress Rehearing Petitions, December 26, 2023 Wild Idaho Rising Tide

In the Matter of Venture Global CP2 LNG LLC, FE Docket No. 21-131-LNG, December 11, 2023 Earthjustice

Is the U.S. Going to Approve the Single Biggest Fossil Fuel Expansion on Earth?, December 19, 2023 Guardian

LNG Exports May Spell Trouble on Horizon for U.S. Consumers, April 24, 2023 Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis

What It Really Takes to Save the Planet, March 10, 2023 Our Changing Climate

2023’s Extreme Storms, Heat and Wildfires Broke Records — a Scientist Explains How Global Warming Fuels Climate Disasters, December 19, 2023 Conversation

2023 Has Been a Big Year for Climate Accountability in the Courts, December 26, 2023 DeSmog

A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair, October 1, 2020 Intercept