Christopher Pollon

Vancouver

Contributor at Freelance

Freelance Journalist and Author of "PITFALL: THE RACE TO MINE THE WORLD'S MOST VULNERABLE PLACES"

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The US Badly Needs Rare Minerals and Fresh Water. Guess Who Has Them?

4 days ago | thewalrus.ca | Christopher Pollon

Rain fell for the first time on the highest point of the Greenland ice sheet in August 2021, seen by scientists as a foreboding precedent for sea level rise and the planet. But not everyone was alarmed. The melting of ice caps began exposing virgin ground for mining, including what has been touted as some of the largest deposits of rare earth elements, or REEs, in the world. REEs are a group of seventeen metals with remarkable magnetic, electrochemical, and luminescent properties.
Aging condos get expert help with clean upgrades

1 week ago | nationalobserver.com | Christopher Pollon

Riverview Court, home to 31 units in the city's Marpole neighbourhood, is among 8,000 aging condominiums facing expensive retrofits and replacements due to advancing age. But more than just another mounting cost-of-living expense, there is an opportunity to decarbonize existing buildings that across Canada account for almost 20 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions.
Americans keep an eye on Arctic port revival in Churchill

1 month ago | nationalobserver.com | Christopher Pollon

A senior US diplomat had a low-key visit to Churchill, MB this month to learn about "trade opportunities" for Canada's only rail-connected deep-sea Arctic port, a trade hub gaining strategic importance amid rising tensions with the United States.
'EV Sherpas': Car dealers are carrying us into an electric future

Feb 25, 2025 | nationalobserver.com | Christopher Pollon |Chris Hatch |Rory White

At Jacques Olivier’s Hyundai dealership in Saint-Basile Quebec, about an hour’s drive south-east of Montreal, the multiple onsite charger stations are always busy. Three rows of shiny new EVs have been strategically parked to be visible from nearby Highway 116, with Olivier’s best sellers – including the IONIQ 5, KONA and IONIQ 6 compact SUVs -- the most prominent.
The day the CEO hijacked the conversation

Dec 1, 2024 | theifp.ca | Christopher Pollon

From “Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places.”A few years back, I attended a “green business” convention in Vancouver, where an oil and gas CEO appeared as part of a panel to discuss the future of fossil fuels. The executive faced a tough crowd: the room was packed with NGO activists and university students, who by this point were demanding action on climate change. “Raise your hand if you don’t use oil,” he began, surveying the crowd. Silence.
The day the CEO hijacked the conversation

Nov 30, 2024 | mississauga.com | Christopher Pollon

From “Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places.”A few years back, I attended a “green business” convention in Vancouver, where an oil and gas CEO appeared as part of a panel to discuss the future of fossil fuels. The executive faced a tough crowd: the room was packed with NGO activists and university students, who by this point were demanding action on climate change. “Raise your hand if you don’t use oil,” he began, surveying the crowd. Silence.
The day the CEO hijacked the conversation

Nov 16, 2024 | thespec.com | Christopher Pollon

From “Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places.”A few years back, I attended a “green business” convention in Vancouver, where an oil and gas CEO appeared as part of a panel to discuss the future of fossil fuels. The executive faced a tough crowd: the room was packed with NGO activists and university students, who by this point were demanding action on climate change. “Raise your hand if you don’t use oil,” he began, surveying the crowd. Silence.
Where crisis meets opportunity

Oct 2, 2024 | magazine.cim.org | Christopher Pollon |Cecilia Keating |Kelsey Rolfe

By its very nature, mining is a glutton for energy. Despite efforts to source more clean energy, extracting minerals still relies on enormous inputs of diesel, coal and other fossil fuels to crush, transport and process ore. Sign Up Already signed up?
Pitfall

Mar 2, 2024 | schooldaysmagazine.com | Christopher Pollon

I was one of 'those people'. I knew very little about mining or the effects in many countries around the globe.Neither was I aware of the amount and the minerals, the uses for all these minerals and certainly did not know anything about the costs of such an industry on the local communities surrounding the mining sites. Pollon begins with a story about his maternal and paternal grandparents, leaving Italy after the First World War and settling in Canada.
Who will make mines safer?

Feb 8, 2024 | nationalobserver.com | Christopher Pollon |Chris Pollon

Late January marked the fifth anniversary of the world's worst modern-day tailings dam disaster at an iron ore mine in Brumadinho, Brazil. The collapse killed at least 270 people. They were mostly Vale company employees eating lunch in a canteen directly below a dam that gave way, sending a tidal wave of 12 million cubic metres of toxic orange sludge eight kilometres downstream, bulldozing houses, offices and people.

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27 May 25

Aging Condos Get Help With Clean Upgrades https://t.co/EWIoT1d21R @NationalObs

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15 May 25

RT @rcbregman: Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowne…

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26 Apr 25

The Americans are sniffing around #Churchill Manitoba like they (want to) own the place: here's the first in my series on Arctic sovereignty and #CriticalMinerals for @NationalObs -- https://t.co/YArlBzHfF5