Judith Lavoie
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@LavoieJudith Judith Lavoie is an award-winning journalist based in Victoria, British Columbia. Lavoie covered environment and First Nations stories for the Victoria Times Colonist for more than 20 years and is now working as a freelancer. She previously worked on newspapers in New Brunswick, Cyprus, England and the Middle East. Lavoie has won four Webster awards and has been nominated for a National Newspaper Award and a Michener Award.
Stories by Judith Lavoie
Falling Costs of Renewable Power Make Site C Dam Obsolete, Says Energy Economist
6 min. readThe cost of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, has dropped dramatically...
New B.C. Government Inherits Toxic Legacy as Tulsequah Chief Buyer Backs Away from Abandoned, Leaky Mine
The Tulsequah Chief mine, a zinc and copper mine close to the Alaska border, has...
The Fight Over Taseko Mine Permits Issued During Forest Fire Evacuation Just Levelled Up
Representatives from the Tsilhqot’in National Government were in the B.C. Supreme Court this week asking...
Forestry Consultant Who Warned of Timber Overcutting Continues Court Battle
Despite a legal setback, Martin Watts is vowing to continue his crusade against what he...
How to Defend Science From Political Interference: New Study
Politically inconvenient findings can be revealed by scientific research and, as concerns grow in the...
Kamloops Council, First Nations Ask B.C. Government to Suspend Controversial Ajax Mine Proposal
One of the first controversies likely to land on the desk of newly minted Energy,...
Fort Nelson First Nation Files Legal Challenge to Gas Pipeline Claiming It Will Threaten Caribou Habitat
A First Nation in northeastern B.C. is challenging the province’s approval of a proposed gas...
Mining Company Gets Federal Approval to Use B.C. Fish-Bearing Streams to Dump Tailings
Two fish-bearing creeks will be used for 2.3 billion tonnes of toxic tailings from the...
Alaskan Hopes Pinned on New B.C. Government as Sale Looms for Polluting Mine
Generations of John Morris Sr.’s family have fished the Taku River in Southeast Alaska and...
