Arno Kopecky
Arno Kopecky is an environmental journalist and author based in Vancouver. His reportage has spanned four continents, ranging from Iceland's attempt at becoming the first oil-free country on earth to the impact of resource extraction in the Amazon basin. For the past ten years, his primary focus has been the confluence of climate change and Indigenous Rights. The Oil Man And The Sea, Arno's book about the battle to keep oil tankers out of B.C.'s central coast, was shortlisted for the 2014 Governor-Generals Award. A 2016 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow, Arno contributes to numerous publications, including The Walrus, The Globe And Mail, The Tyee, Alberta Views and, of course, The Narwhal. His latest book, The Environmentalist's Dilemma, is an essay collection exploring North America's cultural response to ecological crisis.
Stories by Arno Kopecky
Fairy Creek’s fate is shrouded in silence — as logging deferrals set to expire
7 min. readThe southwest Vancouver Island forests that sparked massive, controversial protests and arrests could lose their...
The feds just approved a massive Port of Vancouver expansion — and it’s a blow to biodiversity
Conflicting imperatives collide at the mouth of the Fraser as the Roberts Bank Terminal 2...
Climate change has become a buzzword. That’s a problem
Climate change has become a poster child for environmental damage, but letting it hog the...
B.C.’s War in the Woods is entering a new phase. Will it be the last?
More than two years after the province promised to implement recommendations set out in the...
How a 32-year-old climate activist is shaking up the race to be B.C.’s next premier
In a litmus test for the political clout of the climate movement, Anjali Appadurai, who’s...
Fairy Creek, the climate crisis and the lawyer battling to redefine public interest
Lawyer Chris Tollefson says civil disobedience is a ‘symptom of democratic failure’ and in long-fought...
Let’s not forget we’re choosing our politicians while the world burns down around us
For too many years, governments and corporations alike urged us puny citizens to do our...
The record-setting day when global heating surpassed COVID-19 as the existential crisis
After the last four years of wildfire, we all know what comes next. The good...
The Amazon wildfires are cause for global concern. Canada’s should be, too
The impact of fire and industrial logging on Canada's forests — including the boreal, the...