Francesca Fionda
Director of newsroom development
Francesca Fionda is The Narwhal’s director of newsroom development, a role she took on after working as our mining reporter for almost two years. Since graduating from the British Columbia Institute of Technology, she’s worked on investigative teams with the three major news broadcasters across Canada and produced meaningful journalism at start-ups and local journalism outfits in her home-province of B.C. Francesca has a deep love for research and data journalism. She was recently awarded the first ever Lieutenant Governor’s BC Journalism Fellowship for an in-depth project looking at the challenges of people who have been evacuated because of climate disasters.
Stories by Francesca Fionda
‘Imminent threat’: plans to mine the bottom of the ocean raise concerns as Canada announces moratorium
9 min. readUnderwater mining to make batteries could create ‘a massive deadzone’ on the ocean floor. Canada...
‘Keep it quiet’: workers told not to report oil spill at remote B.C. worksite, insider says
A small unreported diesel spill in a remote part of B.C. is raising big questions...
First Nations’ legal challenge could completely change mining exploration in B.C.
Court will hear from Indigenous organizations, human rights groups, environmental groups and the mining industry...
A Canadian mining giant has long been fighting U.S. pollution rules. Now Montana is on its side
Montana’s about-face on pollution standards includes letting B.C.'s Teck Resources pen a petition to the...
Teck Resources, B.C. government pressed Ottawa to resist investigation into coal mine pollution
For a decade Ktunaxa Nation has been calling for a Canada-U.S. body to investigate coal...
‘Nature has no borders’: why Americans are worried about Canadian mines
Concerns are growing about the downstream impacts of Canadian mines. So much so that an...
Why doesn’t B.C. have mining regulations that Brazil, Ecuador and China already have?
B.C.’s mining regulations fall short on tailings dams, cleanup costs and Indigenous consent when comparing...
An ‘open, oozing wound’: why it’s taken decades to clean up waste from a troubled mine in B.C.
The closed Tulsequah Chief mine in northwest B.C. has been leaching untreated waste into a...
Eight years after the Mount Polley disaster, soaring prices mean Imperial Metals is gearing up to reopen … again
The miner behind Canada’s largest tailings dam failure wants to pump mining waste directly into...
