Christopher Pollon is a Vancouver-based independent journalist covering business and the politics of natural resources, with a focus on energy, mines and oceans. His writing has appeared in The Walrus, Reader’s Digest, The Globe and Mail, National Geographic Books, and The Tyee, where he has been a Contributing Editor since 2008. Christopher’s first book, The Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam (Harbour Publishing) was published in late 2016.
As climate change ravages the North, an Inuit-led company in Inukjuak, Que. is pushing to build a small-scale hydro project that would end the community’s dependence on diesel. If they succeed dozens of communities across the Arctic could follow.
Many governments agree that access to energy is a basic right, but when it comes to deciding who pays for providing that access, there’s little consensus. Here’s a look at some of the diverse approaches different countries have used.
How to do the complex work of reporting in remote communities? Don’t just come for the scoop. Instead, spend more time getting to know the locals as people: it’s more valuable for everyone.
The demand for mobile phones in the developing world is an incentive to build decentralized electricity grids to power cell towers and, in turn, nearby communities. But economic viability in remote areas and the lack of a standardized business model remai
With five metres of rainfall each year, the First Nations village of Hartley Bay in northern British Columbia is one of the wettest places in Canada. So why is it so hard to turn their most plentiful resource into electricity?
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