Just finished an interview with Ezra and Ray of the Qualicum Nature Preservation Society about a local struggle to preserve ecologically sensitive wetland on Vancouver Island from development. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Kari Glynes Elliott is a board member of the Ottawa Transit Riders. Scott Neigh interviews her about the city’s transit system, including its troubled light rail (LRT) project, and about her group’s advocacy to make public transit in Ottawa more affordable, accessible, and reliable. Glynes Elliott has lived in Ottawa for about 20 years, and …
Scott Beaver is the president of the St. Mary’s River Association. Chris Hunter is a past president of that organization and he is currently the program director for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island with the Atlantic Salmon Federation. Scott Neigh interviews them about the NOPE Campaign – it stands for No Open Pit Excavation …
Maia Wikler lives in Vancouver and works as the Digital Communications Coordinator for Raven Trust, an organization whose mission is to fundraise to support First Nations in legal battles. Scott Neigh interviews her about the Pull Together campaign, a collaboration between Raven and the Sierra Club BC to raise money for the litigation by First …
Ramona Neckoway is a professor at the University College of the North in Thompson Manitoba. She is also a member of Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, a hydro-impacted community. Stephane McLachlan is a professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Both do research studying the impacts and implications of hydroelectricity projects on the environment and on …
Just closed out the week with an interview for Talking Radical Radio with Maia from Pull Together, a campaign raising funds to support the legal challenges by First Nations to the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project. Listen for it in a couple of weeks! Originally posted to Scott’s author page on Facebook.
Just finish the second of two Talking Radical Radio interviews for the week. On Tuesday, I interviewed Ramona Neckoway and Stephane McLachlan of Wa Ni Ska Tan, an alliance of Indigenous communities impacted by hydro projects in northern Manitoba and university-based researchers. And just now, I spoke with Tiffany Joseph of the Sḵx̱wu7mesh and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples about …
Marisa Vertrees is the organizing director for the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM), a network of almost 900 Catholic religious orders, dioceses, universities, lay organizations, and other insitutions in more than 90 countries. Agnes Richard is the co-ordinator of the new chapter of the GCCM in Canada. The GCCM’s mission is to engage Catholics in …
Jill Graham-Scanlan is a lifelong resident of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, a lawyer, and the president of the Friends of the Northumberland Strait. Scott Neigh interviews her about the group’s work to oppose a plan that would see effluent from the Northern Pulp mill piped into the strait, putting ecosystems, fisheries, and communities at risk. …
Did two Talking Radical interviews this week. Yesterday, I talked with Jill of the Friends of Northumberland Strait about the struggle to protect the ecosystem and fishery that lies between Nova Scotia and PEI from pulp mill effluent. And just now, I had a really powerful and generous interview with Rachel and Hirut of the Third Eye …