Greetings Earthlings. The struggle against Kinder Morgan’s proposed NED fracked gas pipeline here in Western Mass is’t just about writing letters to politicians, attending hearings and standing around with placards chanting “We don’ need no stinking pipeline!!”. There are also artful approaches to kickin’ KM’s corporate butt! Gus Ganley and Lindsay Swan of Children of the Wild Ensemble Theater join us and our roving reporter & troubadour Tom Neilson in the studio to get creative about stopping this bogus project. Our own d.o. may be up for a bit of spoken word as well, but then again he’s always speaking words on the show, no? As usual, we’ll be taking you on a visit to the Fool-on-the-hill and to The Enviro Show Echo Chamber, maybe do some Breaking News as well, but first it’s time for……..Revenge of the Critters!  Going for a hike? Stay off the beaver’s lodge!

This week’s Fool-on-the-Hill is Exxon funded, Mississippi Repugnican senator Roger Wicker, who cast the single no vote earlier this year against a symbolic “sense of the Senate” resolution that climate change was real and not a hoax. The resolution passed 98-1. Wicker, who received $14,000 from Exxon, voted no. Of course the vote was simply more smoke & mirrors from the Land of Make Believe. The sense of the Senate……wait! “sense?? Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha……(O, sorry) the document also stated the Climate Crisis was not human caused. So much for common ol’ sense.

Time for The Enviro Show Quote of the Week:  “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”    ― Kahlil Gibran

In our E-Valley-uation segment we once again put out the call: ALL OUT! for the FERC Scoping session on the environmental aspects of Kinder Morgan’s proposed NED fracked gas pipeline aimed straight at the heart of our Valley. It’s Wednesday, July 29, 6pm at the Greenfield Middle School, 195 Federal St., Greenfield, MA. Bring family & friends, signs & more noise! We don’t need no stinkin’ pipeline!! Also this: Congrats to Bill Gibson of Springfield for getting a special “DEP hot line” to call night or day about toxic odors from the Solutia/Eastman plant. Bill reports: “DEP sends a representative to meet with the reporting folks and witness the smell, every time they call…..again, day or night. Now……the smells have stopped! We had hoped to “catch” Solutia/Eastman with DEP air monitors and perhaps see them fined along with some negative media coverage. My sense is that Solutia/Eastman now knows that DEP is involved, and they have ceased releasing toxins.” 

Breaking News time! Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) concluded that Maine should not enter into contracts to purchase gas pipeline capacity because the costs of doing so would outweigh the benefits to Mainers! Massachusetts DPU, are you listening? Also this: James Hansen’s latest study spells bad news for coastal cities. To the hills!

In The Enviro Show Echo Chamber we hear from Grist that Big Organic farming has some greenhouse gas issues. All the more reason to keep at your gardening (and to frequent the farmers market). And this: There are only 57 Javan Rhinos left in the wild. Better have a look HERE.  Speaking of critters in trouble, it’s time the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service listed the Monarch Butterfly. Go HERE to tell them, please! Look: the Monsanto Protection Act is baaaaack (and worse than ever). Finally, we echo the Union Leader in the Live free or Die state: It seems Kinder Morgan has shrunk the size of its proposed NED fracked gas pipeline (maybe ‘cuz their outlook keeps shrinking). Read about all about it!

After we get all arty with Gus, Lindsay & Tom it’s on to the Bus Stop Billboard.

That is all for now. Remember, while you’re out & about listen to your Mother, OK?

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