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Ms. Grant is the director of the Oil Sands Program at the Pembina Institute and has worked since 2006 on the environmental impacts of Canada’s oilsands development. The Pembina Institute is an Alberta-based organization that advances clean energy solutions through research, education, consulting, and advocacy. Jennifer is passionate about advancing Canada’s transition to a clean energy future. www.pembina.org
Public is invited. Please contact Pat Fuerst for more information.
The film is a powerful commentary on the Occupy Movement. Double-check showing times with the Kenworthy.
Public is invited. Please contact Pat Fuerst for more information.
Note from Brian Koepke:
“We have a conflicting event on the Terrell Mall on April 18th that will distract from what we are all trying to do, so the ASWSU Environmental Task Force and WSU Environmental Science Club would like to invite you to come on Wednesday, April 17th from 9am-3pm (any time you have available during this period would be great). I am truly sorry about the change of plans, but I hope the organizations that have already confirmed: PESC, WIRT, Palouse Transition, PPF, and the Latah Trail Foundation, can still participate in our community tabling event and, maybe, this makes it possible for other environmentally conscious groups to come. We have other WSU groups that will be out there as well.”
Nez Perce, Idle No More, WIRT, and allied activists are gratefully anticipating hearing and sharing tribal activists’ insights at a gathering at Lapwai City Park in Lapwai, Idaho. The 6 pm meeting on Tuesday, September 3, may be moved indoors to the nearby Pi-Nee-Waus Community Center if it rains. Listen to the following KRFP interview of tribal activist Julian Matthews by citizen journalist Brett Haverstick, describing the last (first) such convergence.
https://www.facebook.com/events/237676256379693/
KRFP Report from Last Meeting
Nez Perce Hold Community Meeting in Lapwai City Park on Megaloads (August 21 KRFP Evening Report, between 11:41 and 3:14)
http://radiofreemoscow.org/2013/08/20130821/
At the next, first Wednesday of every month Liquid Forum, activists of WIRT‘s partner grassroots group, Idaho Residents Against Gas Extraction (IRAGE), will describe what is happening with and how citizens are fighting oil and gas drilling and looming fracking in Payette County. Deserving much more public attention, these processes threaten land, water, residents, agriculture, dairies, and sustainability in Idaho. Please join the discussion and enjoy music by Breakdown Boulevard (as experienced at the Community Progressive III), between 5:30 and 7:30 pm MDT on Wednesday, September 4, at the restaurant/bar Liquid, 405 South Eighth Street in Boise, Idaho.
https://www.facebook.com/events/323031004501173/
FROM WIRT: In solidarity with Nez Perce megaload blockaders, carpools are departing the WIRT Activist House at 8 am on Monday, September 9, with stops through the reservation, to rally outside and pack the 4 pm Boise federal court hearing seeking a megaload injunction. Advocates for the West will present oral arguments for suspending Idaho Transportation Department permits for Highway 12 megaloads until the Forest Service completes its megaload impact study. After the Nez Perce Tribe and Idaho Rivers United (IRU) versus the U.S. Forest Service case hearing, IRU is hosting a gathering of anti-megaload activists that evening, before we return to north central Idaho. Please contact IRU at 208-343-7481 or info@idahorivers.org if you can attend the party and call 208-301-8039 if you plan to carpool from the Moscow area. The following article and alert describe new developments in this lawsuit.
We have finalized arrangements for a Nez Perce megaload blockaders benefit concert at the Unitarian Church in Moscow and will bring our plans to the Tribal Activist Meeting tonight (Sept. 5). The Friday, September 20, tentative performance schedule sees the Moscow Volunteer Peace Band (Fritz Knorr contact) marching from Friendship Square/(downtown loop?) at 6:30 pm, Jeanne McHale and the Threat Level Purple Singers playing at 7 pm, the Galactic Tofu Farmers (Chris Norden and Leontina Hormel contacts) taking the stage at 8 or 8:30 pm, and Undiscovered Country (Tom Drake contact) performing at 9:30 or 10 pm. For further information, contact Helen Yost at wild.idaho.rising.tide@gmail.com.
The scoping period for the environmental review process is Aug. 16 to Nov. 18. During this period, comments to assist in a decision of what impacts to analyze in an environmental impact statement (EIS) will be gathered. During the scoping period there will be multiple ways for the public to submit comments, including online, by mail, by email and at public scoping meetings.
More information at Washington State Department of Ecology
“Our Liquid Asset”
Toyoko Tsukuda, Emeritus of University of New Mexico, School Medicine, Albuquerque and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, at Cornell University Medical College, New York, Postdoctoral fellow at Yale University Medical School, New Haven CT and at Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland WA will be giving a presentation at Washington State University on Thursday, October 3rd at 3:00pm in CUE 202.
Topics of Toyoko Tsukuda’s presentation:
- What do you know about GE organisms?
- What is the impact of GEO in our lives?
- What are the new studies telling us?
This presentation is brought to you by the Washington State University Environmental Science Club.
Graham Stevens, from Navigant’s Energy Practice (and a Moscow resident), will discuss methods of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, and evaluating the costs vs. efficacy of these options. Graham’s presentation is at 7 pm in room 103 of the Menard Law Building on the University of Idaho campus, with free parking nearby. The event is sponsored by the UI Environmental Law Society and the Palouse Environmental Sustainability Coalition.
(from Pat Rathmann) “Our UUCP friend and law professor Anastasia Telesetsky is giving a talk on “Planet Ocean: Why the Law of the Sea Matters in 21st Century America” This Wednesday at 12 noon in the Fiske Room. I plan on going. Maybe we can get her to give an evening presentation for our group.”
Panel discussion to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act, 4 pm Thursday at the University of Idaho,College of Law – room 103, 703 S Rayburn Drive, Moscow. Discussion topics include the history and future of the Wilderness Act and wilderness management challenges. Sponsored by the University of Idaho Environmental Law Society.