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Christopher Pollon (born July 3, 1967) is an independant journalist known for his reporting on environmental and resource-related issues..^[1] Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, he has spent more than two decades exploring topics such as mining, land use, and the interplay between industry and environment.

Pollon went to high school in Scarborough, Ontario, where he wrote fiction and poetry.^[1] He earned a BA in history from McMaster University and a graduate diploma in journalism from Concordia University. After graduating, Pollon began working as a freelance journalist, quickly gaining recognition for covering First Nations stewardship of environmental resources.^[2][3] These experiences laid the groundwork for his focus on resource extraction and its impacts on communities and ecosystems.

While working on his second book, Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places, Pollon drew from his family's experience in the mining industry.^[4] His grandfather, who worked in a gold mine in northern Ontario, died of silicosis as a result. "My family were transmigrants from another place that came because of an emerging resource economy, which is something that fascinates me also. Because I went to Bolivia and I saw echoes of that in their mining industry. And I saw men working under the same conditions that my grandfather worked under. 25 year old men who might not live past 40 years old, you know, working as muckers, pushing wheelbarrows just covered with dust. So the book is global, but it’s personal, too."^[5]

Pollon’s writing has appeared in publications including National Geographic, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Mother Jones, The Walrus, The Tyee, and Hakai Magazine.^[6]

• The Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam (2016): tells the story of Pollon's four-day paddling trip on the Peace River, documenting a landscape that will soon be dramatically altered by the Site C Dam project^[7][8].

• Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places (2023): explains the world's increasing need for mined metals, and explores mining's human and environmental toll.^[9]

• Finalist for the $60,000 Writer’s Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.^[10]
• Winner of First prize in the 2024 Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Competition for British Columbian Authors of Nonfiction^[11].
• Finalist for the 2024 Banff Centre Mountain Book Competition in the Environmental Literature category^[12].
• Winner of the NASW Science in Society Journalism Book Award^[13]

Pollon continues to write for leading publications and is currently working on investigative pieces about renewable energy transitions and climate change.^[1]

Category:Journalists