Christopher Pollon
Reporter
@C_Pollon Christopher Pollon is a Vancouver-based independent journalist who reports on the politics of natural resources, focusing on energy, mines and oceans. He is the author of The Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam.
Stories by Christopher Pollon
B.C.’s ‘archaic’ mining laws urgently need update: 30 groups
9 min. readReforms required to address ‘ticking time bomb’ of abandoned mines and protect taxpayers from millions...
B.C.’s last great herring fishery
The Georgia Strait is home to one of the few remaining industrial herring fisheries on...
Will B.C.’s wild salmon strategy be a boon or bust?
A rushed process that emphasizes hatcheries and coastal fisheries over habitat restoration and inland spawning...
The uncertain fate of the lower Fraser River’s last salmon island strongholds
Most of this iconic salmon river’s foreshore wetlands, marshes and islands have been logged, diked,...
Lake interrupted
Four years after the Mount Polley mine first spilled contaminated waste into a once-cherished body...
Year four: Tracing Mount Polley’s toxic legacy
It was one of the largest environmental disasters in Canada’s history. Now, four years after...
Blueberry River and the death by a thousand cuts
Once promised a life in perpetuity on a rich and vibrant landscape, the Blueberry River...
Science fiction or resource extraction? The strange tale of one of the largest mines ever proposed in B.C.
The KSM mine would develop one of the planet’s largest deposits of gold and copper...
Fish Farm Lowballed Number of Escaped Atlantic Salmon, Misled Regulator: Report
It’s been a nightmarish year for Washington State’s only active Atlantic salmon farming company —...
