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
British Columbians Saddled With $40 Million Clean-Up Bill as Imperial Metals Escapes Criminal Charges
6 min. readBritish Columbian taxpayers will be on the hook for $40 million to clean up the...
Canada Risks International Embarrassment Over Mismanagement of World Heritage Site: UNESCO
Canada’s largest World Heritage Site is under threat from unfettered oilsands development and hydro dams...
Public Inquiry Formally Requested to Investigate B.C.’s Shoddy Mining Rules
The ramshackle regulatory system governing B.C.’s mining industry is profoundly dysfunctional and the public has...
B.C.’s Biggest Wind Farm Just Came Online — But Future of Wind in Province Bleak
On wind-swept ridgelines, surrounded by pine-beetle ravaged forests, the massive turbines at B.C.’s largest wind...
BC Hydro Let Off Hook for $400,000 Site C Dam Fine … Again
Sandbags, bales of weed-free straw, crushed gravel and silt fencing are among the extra supplies...
Tsilhqot’in Ready for Yet Another Fight if B.C. Grants Mine Exploration Permits Denied by Feds
A bizarre twist in a decade-long battle over a proposed mine on Tsilhqot’in Nation traditional...
Mining Giant Taseko Seeks to Revive B.C. Gold Mine Twice-Rejected by Harper Government
Two rejections by the federal government have not deterred a Vancouver mining company from again...
This First Nation Just Banned Industrial Logging and Mining from Vancouver Island Territory
Connection to the land and ocean has guided the Ahousaht people throughout their history and...
Secrecy Around Composition of Oilsands Dilbit Makes Effective Spill Response, Research Impossible: New Study
Knowledge gaps about the behaviour of diluted bitumen when it is spilled into saltwater and...
