This Week on GRadio
by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com
The maiden media flight of new tar sands pipeline balloons over B.C. was rendered awkward last week by the near sinking of an America barge in Fischer Channel, off Bella Bella. Locals are still wary of the Alaska-Washington State dangerous materials trade, shipping crude and all manner of unrevealed cargo via the inside passage. Much of that concern is due to memories of the pusher tug, Nathan E. Stewart that sank and fouled shellfish grounds after separating from its thankfully empty 10,000 ton oil barge in 2016.
So, the testy tone of President of Coastal First Nations and elected Chief Councillor, Marilyn Slett’s response to the press is understandable. When asked, Slett said, “We are tired of learning about these discussions regarding our traditional territories in the press.”
Ingmar Lee is a long-time BC-based environmentalist and human rights defender whose many articles have appeared at CounterPunch, among other places. Ingmar lives near Bella Bella, and is creator of the 10,000 Ton Oil Tanker industry watchdog Facebook page.
Ingmar Lee in the first half.
And; if you haven’t seen some of the myriad videos of America’s extended Kristallnacht for God’s sake’s turn off your television, cancel your legacy newspaper subscriptions, and wise up while you can!
Dave Lindorff is an Izzy Award-winning investigative journalist, author, and founder of the web news site, This Can’t Be Happening. Dave’s book titles include: ‘’This Can’t Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy,’ ‘Marketplace Medicine: The Rise of the For Profit Hospital Chains,’ ‘Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal,’ and his latest, ‘Spy for No Country: The story of Ted Hall, the teenage atomic spy who may have saved the world’.
Dave’s recent article at This Can’t Be Happening’s new Substack site, ‘What’s with ICE’s Camo (and Assault Rifles?)’ chronicles some of the madness down south.
Dave Lindorff with the latest from Crazy Land in the second half.
But first, Ingmar Lee and another near shipping disaster for B.C.’s mid-coast sullying the waters for the next newest Eastern pipeline dreams.
Music
Artist: David Rovics / Ai Tsuno
Song: ‘Class War Zone’
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at:
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