Wild Idaho Rising Tide

05/27/2026

The Wednesday, May 27, 2026, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features the May 21 panel discussion called The State of U.S. Activism: Radicals, Realists, and Repression, moderated by Jason Myles, host of the This is Revolution podcast, with speakers Annie Leonard, author of Protest: Respect It, Defend It, Use It, Scott Parkin, co-host of the Green and Red podcast, Omar Wasow, professor at University of California Berkeley, and Thomas Zeitzoff, professor at American University. We also share news, music, and reflections on Memorial Day calls for peace and remembrance of global civilian communities and lives devastated by needless U.S. wars, two new, South Hills and Peregrine methane power plants proposed for southern Idaho construction by Idaho Power Company, and summer work parties with a Wet’suwet’en First Nation clan contesting Coastal GasLink pipeline construction and expansion through their unceeded territories in British Columbia. Broadcast for fourteen 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 at KRFP and the Pacifica Network AudioPort, 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. ~Helen

KRFP Radio Free Moscow
http://radiofreemoscow.org

Wild Idaho Rising Tide on AudioPort
https://audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=3075

I Don’t Wanna Get Drafted, August 28, 2018 Frank Zappa
https://youtu.be/6X-xIC1lEKw

On Memorial Day, Veterans For Peace Say “War No More!”, May 25, 2026 Veterans For Peace
https://www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2026/05/25/memorial-day-veterans-peace-say-war-no-more

Idaho Power Wants to Build Two Natural Gas Power Plants. Here’s Where and Why, May 7, 2026 Idaho Statesman
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article315647760.html

Idaho Power Proposes More Gas Plants to Meet Capacity Needs, May 4, 2026 NewsData
https://www.newsdata.com/clearing_up/clearing_it_up/idaho-power-proposes-more-gas-plants-to-meet-capacity-needs/article_66a84010-5424-4360-86ea-4a975f9a0bf2.html

Two Proposed Southern Idaho Methane-Powered Plants, May 27, 2026 Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

See also: Idaho Power Company -- Application for Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity for the South Hills and Peregrine Power Plants and for an Associated Accounting Order, March 11, 2026 Idaho Public Utilities Commission
https://puc.idaho.gov/case/Details/7719

Summer Work Party Announcement, May 25, 2026 Unistoten Village
https://unistoten.camp/summer-work-party-announcement

Panel Discussion: The State of U.S. Activism, May 21, 2026 Green and Red Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/live/VLMt3SAHoqs

05/20/2026

The Wednesday, May 20, 2026, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features attorney Audrey Leonard of Columbia Riverkeeper talking about the ongoing campaign to stop NXT Clean Fuels from acquiring permits and imposing its enormous, train-fed, “renewable” diesel refinery at Port Westward, on the Columbia River Estuary near Clatskanie, Oregon. We also share news, poems, and reflections on the proposed bedrock blasting under rivers and wetlands, for construction of the Enbridge Line 5 tar sands pipeline, rerouted around a Wisconsin indigenous reservation near the Great Lakes, and industry information and a regional coalition letter sent to elected, Washington officials, opposing the Williams Companies’ Rockies Columbia Connector plan to expand its Northwest methane pipeline and build new spur segments across Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Broadcast for fourteen 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 at KRFP and the Pacifica Network AudioPort, 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. ~Helen

KRFP Radio Free Moscow
http://radiofreemoscow.org

Wild Idaho Rising Tide on AudioPort
https://audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=3075

“They can kill our careers, but they won’t kill our integrity...”, May 17, 2026 Caitlin O’Ryan/SpitNights
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1460814828508122

Enbridge’s Line 5 Reroute Blasts through Bedrock Without Permits, Threatening the Great Lakes, May 7, 2026 Unicorn Riot
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/enbridges-line-5-reroute-blasts-through-bedrock-without-permits-threatening-the-great-lakes

Williams Sign-On Letter Sent and More Information about Rockies Columbia Connector, May 18, 2026 Columbia Riverkeeper (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

Regarding a Proposal by Williams Northwest Pipeline to Expand and Build New Segments of
Pipeline through Washington, May 18, 2026 Columbia Riverkeeper (WIRT facebook post forthcoming)

What’s Next with NXT, May 18, 2026 Locus Focus/KBOO
https://kboo.fm/media/133544-whats-next-nxt

05/14/2026

The Wednesday, May 13, 2026, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features an Earth Day panel discussion facilitated by Bill Moyer of Solutionary Rail, with environmental justice and labor organizers Ryan Calbreath of the UE Union Green Locomotive program, Jess Conard of Rail Watch, mark! Lopez of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, Tabitha Tripp of Public Rail Now, and Andrea Vidaurre of People’s Collective for Environmental Justice, talking about shifting harmful, private, Wall Street-extractive, Class 1 railroads into beneficial, public, electrified, rail and transmission infrastructure systems that could provide better accountability and community safety and services. We also share news, videos, and reflections on the proposed, unpermitted, bedrock blasting under rivers for construction of the Enbridge Line 5 tar sands pipeline, rerouted around a Wisconsin indigenous reservation near the Great Lakes, and Idaho citizen objections to Snake River Oil and Gas plans to drill the Miller 1-15 methane well and extract their privately-owned resources via forced leasing, close to hundreds of Fruitland residences, businesses, and water wells. Broadcast for fourteen 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 at KRFP and the Pacifica Network AudioPort, 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. ~Helen

KRFP Radio Free Moscow
http://radiofreemoscow.org

Wild Idaho Rising Tide on AudioPort
https://audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=3075

New: Enbridge’s Line 5 Reroute Blasts through Bedrock Without Permits, Threatening the Great Lakes, May 7, 2026 Unicorn Riot
https://www.facebook.com/reel/931698313162134

WIRT Comments and CAIA Objection with Attachments Opposing Snake River Oil and Gas Miller 1-15 Methane Well Drilling Application, April 20, 2026 Wild Idaho Rising Tide
https://wildidahorisingtide.org/2026/04/20/wirt-comments-caia-objection-with-attachments-opposing-snake-river-oil-gas-miller-1-15-methane-well-drilling-application

Panel Discussion: Solutionary Earth Day Special -- From Problem to Solution, May 2, 2026 Solutionary Rail
https://youtu.be/314Dm2Wdlrc

05/06/2026

The Wednesday, May 6, 2026, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features George Price, a Native and African American, organic farmer, history educator, writer, and eco-socialist advocate in Montana, talking about the critical planetary boundaries of human existence, destructive activities causing current ecological overshoot, and solutions that replace industrial capitalism with cooperative, alternative, societal and economic structures. We also share news, videos, and reflections on indigenous direct actions and a federal lawsuit and injunction stopping exploratory graphite drilling at the Pe’ Sla sacred site near the South Dakota Black Hills, thousands of May Day strikes, blockades, and demonstrations across the U.S., growth of global electricity capacity from renewable energy sources to almost fifty percent during 2025, and Fruitland city and Idaho citizen objections to Snake River Oil and Gas plans to drill the Miller 1-15 methane well and extract their privately-owned resources via forced leasing, close to hundreds of residences and water wells. Broadcast for fourteen 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 at KRFP and the Pacifica Network AudioPort, 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. ~Helen

KRFP Radio Free Moscow
http://radiofreemoscow.org

Wild Idaho Rising Tide on AudioPort
https://audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=3075

The Drills Are Gone. But the Lakota Are Still Here., May 5, 2026 NDN Collective
https://youtu.be/Kyc_s9th9Uk

Breaking: Community Members Take Direct Action to Stop Drilling at Pe’ Sla, April 30, 2026 NDN Collective
https://ndncollective.org/breaking-community-members-take-direct-action-to-stop-drilling-at-pe-sla

Federal Judge Halts Drilling near Pe’ Sla in Black Hills, May 5, 2026 Buffalo’s Fire
https://www.buffalosfire.com/the-daily-spark/judge-pauses-pete-lien-drilling-near-pe-sla

‘A Moment of Reckoning’: 4,000-Plus May Day Demonstrations Across U.S., May 1, 2026 Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/may-day-2026

Exclusive: Renewables Grew to Almost 50 Percent of Global Electricity Capacity in 2025 after Solar Boost, March 31, 2026 Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/renewables-grew-almost-50-global-electricity-capacity-2025-after-solar-boost-2026-03-31

Fruitland Weighs Acreage Offer as Drilling Debate Intensifies, May 4, 2026 Argus Observer
https://www.argusobserver.com/free_access/fruitland-weighs-acreage-offer-as-drilling-debate-intensifies/article_a1d01a4f-e16a-4dda-9f13-d690380b1179.html

WIRT Comments and CAIA Objection with Attachments Opposing Snake River Oil and Gas Miller 1-15 Methane Well Drilling Application, April 20, 2026 Wild Idaho Rising Tide
https://wildidahorisingtide.org/2026/04/20/wirt-comments-caia-objection-with-attachments-opposing-snake-river-oil-gas-miller-1-15-methane-well-drilling-application

An Indigenous Perspective on Ecological Overshoot: In Conversation with George Price, April 18, 2026 System Change Not Climate Change
https://youtu.be/7yqPsI2cO08

04/29/2026

The Wednesday, April 29, 2026, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features George Price, an indigenous and African American, organic farmer, history educator, writer, and eco-socialist advocate in Montana, talking about the critical planetary boundaries of human existence, destructive activities causing current ecological overshoot, and solutions that replace industrial capitalism with cooperative, alternative, societal and economic structures. We also share news, videos, and reflections on the history and upcoming workers rights demonstrations of May Day as International Labor Day, public comment opportunities to resist the proposed Bridger tar sands pipeline from Canada across eastern Montana to Wyoming, and a crucial Atlantic Ocean current system that could soon collapse and bring catastrophic cold to northern Europe and sea level rise to the U.S. East Coast. Broadcast for fourteen 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 at KRFP and the Pacifica Network AudioPort, 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. ~Helen

KRFP Radio Free Moscow
http://radiofreemoscow.org

Wild Idaho Rising Tide on AudioPort
https://audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=3075

International Labour Day: Know the History of May Day and How Workers Fought for Rights, May 1, 2023 In Depth
https://youtu.be/Rb4BM5hMPK0

May 1 Actions, April 29, 2026 May Day Strong
https://maydaystrong.org

Proposed Bridger Pipeline Creating Debate, April 9, 2026 Northern Plains Independent
https://www.northernplainsindependent.com/2026/04/09/proposed-bridger-pipeline-creating-debate

See also for maps: Why a Proposed Pipeline Ending in Wyoming Draws Comparisons to Keystone XL, April 28, 2026 Wyoming Public Radio
https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/open-spaces/2026-04-28/why-a-proposed-pipeline-ending-in-wyoming-draws-comparisons-to-keystone-xl

See also to comment: Bridger Pipeline Expansion Project, March 31, 2026 Bureau of Land Management
https://eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home/?id=43c2e68c-e410-f111-8406-001dd8029ed0

A Catastrophic Climate Event is Upon Us. Here is Why You’ve Heard So Little about It, April 23, 2026 George Monbiot/Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/23/catastrophic-climate-event-scientists-atlantic-system-collapse-billionaire-existential-crisis

An Indigenous Perspective on Ecological Overshoot: In Conversation with George Price, April 18, 2026 System Change Not Climate Change
https://youtu.be/7yqPsI2cO08

04/22/2026

HAPPY EARTH DAY? "Never use Amazon again. Never buy another Apple product. De-Google. Take as much money as you can out of the big banks. Put it into credit unions. Only support small businesses as much as possible. Start using cash as much as possible. And step by step, we can shut down this contraption that was designed in the 1700s, for extraction, exploitation, and permanent war."

(https://www.facebook.com/share/v/187rxRyefA)

04/22/2026

The Wednesday, April 22, 2026, Climate Justice Forum radio program, produced by regional, climate activists collective Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT), features attorney Mary Stites of the Northwest Environmental Defense Center, talking about current, legal wrangling between the City of Portland and the Zenith Energy oil train terminal and infrastructure, which have violated Oregon and city agreements on numerous occasions, while constructing and transporting its fossil and renewable fuels. We also share news, videos, and reflections on the climate-altering history of Earth Day, a second Spokane, Washington, screening of Abby Martin’s documentary about global U.S. militarism and its climate and environmental impacts, a nuclear energy informational session presented for Nez Perce tribal officials and members, a Spokane discussion about sustainable approaches to community needs, led by a Nicaragua advocate, two new, southern Idaho, methane power plants proposed by Idaho Power, and a lawsuit brought by 24 states and ten cities against federal agency repeal of the endangerment finding central to climate regulations. Broadcast for fourteen 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 at KRFP and the Pacifica Network AudioPort, 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. ~Helen

KRFP Radio Free Moscow
http://radiofreemoscow.org

Wild Idaho Rising Tide on AudioPort
https://audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=3075

Earth Day 2026 Explained -- The History That Changed the World, April 21, 2026 Anand Sankar
https://youtu.be/6TQ4ZRgqlU8

On Wednesday, April 22 (Earth Day), Abby Martin’s seminal, 2025 documentary about global, U.S. militarism..., April 20, 2026 Wild Idaho Rising Tide
https://www.facebook.com/wildidaho.risingtide/posts/pfbid02xdPCSTQSdL1rh7Cu9PcyRmU3GTEXhdhP4h4pnhJcaCPQSi5rAhrKvm9Q9zUnsE2Kl

Nez Perce Tribal Members are invited to attend an informational session regarding nuclear energy..., April 14, 2026 Nez Perce Tribe
https://www.facebook.com/NPT1855/posts/pfbid0256JX5SJu9i25EbBurVMHdYBAdjBwZgnrrT2a9q8JovpJg1xrBGrLMNPjkcLA6PfMl

Nicaragua: Doing What the People Will -- A Sustainable Approach, April 21, 2026 David Brookbank
https://www.facebook.com/events/943987528234638

Idaho Power Applies for Natural Gas Power Plant Certificates, April 7, 2026 ChangeFlow
https://changeflow.com/govping/energy/idaho-power-applies-for-two-natural-gas-power-plants-2026-04-08

See also: Idaho Power Company -- Application for Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity for the South Hills and Peregrine Power Plants and for an Associated Accounting Order, March 11, 2026 Idaho Public Utilities Commission
https://puc.idaho.gov/case/Details/7719

Two Dozen States, Ten Cities Sue EPA over Repeal of ‘Endangerment’ Finding Central to Climate Fight, March 19, 2026 Associated Press
https://apnews.com/article/trump-climate-change-epa-states-endangerment-6b1b5b38140c76a5cc55e17ae5f3b99b

The Endless Zenith Saga Continues, April 20, 2026 Locus Focus/KBOO
https://kboo.fm/media/133038-endless-zenith-saga-continues

04/21/2026

On Wednesday, April 22 (Earth Day), Abby Martin’s seminal, 2025 documentary about global, U.S. militarism and its climate change and environmental impacts returns to Spokane! Local activist and supporter of the Inland Northwest Coalition for the Liberation of Palestine (INWCLP) Terra Scanlon, along with Code Pink, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Veterans for Peace Spokane Chapter 25, are hosting this screening at the 500-seat Garland Theater, located at 924 West Garland Avenue in Spokane. Doors open with a INWCLP resource table at 5:30 pm, and this impactful film commences at 6 pm. Invite and bring everyone you can, especially if you missed the January 2026 show or would like to watch it again. Find tickets on EventBrite, and enjoy this worthwhile opportunity to consider the American empire crisis with your community. Co-sponsoring groups are offering free admission and welcoming donations. Wild Idaho Rising Tide activists and allies encourage you to share this post, as we hope to see you all there!

04/20/2026

IDAHO & MONTANA EXXONMOBIL MEGALOADS 11 YEARS LATER:
"The Spill Heard Round the World: 2023

In February 2023, the [Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation] community learns what [ExxonMobil Canadian subsidiary] Imperial Oil has known for nine months: 5.3 million litres of contaminated wastewater -- a mixture of bitumen, heavy metals, naphthenic acids, and other toxic compounds -- have been seeping from the Kearl Mine into the surrounding environment, eventually draining toward the Athabasca River system.

The fine: $50,000.

ACFN Chief Allan Adam calls it what it is: an environmental catastrophe that was covered up. Premier Danielle Smith dismisses it, claiming the release had no effect on local waterways or wildlife.

In April of the same year, a separate incident: approximately six million litres of water spill from a Suncor settling pond into the Athabasca River.

Both incidents produce the same response from Alberta: cleanup is underway, no confirmed impacts to wildlife or waterways, monitoring continues."

Please support Indigenous Insider journalist Brandi Morin and her ongoing work to expose the heinous injustices inflicted by tar sands mining on Native, northern Alberta residents!

Fort Chipewyan Has Been Dying Since 1929. Here's the Paper Trail., April 20, 2026 Brandi Morin
(https://indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/fort-chipewyan-has-been-dying-since)

Decades of evidence. Hundreds dead. The science knew, yet the governments looked away. So, here's the record.