Christopher Pollon is a Vancouver-based independent journalist who reports on the politics of natural resources, focusing on energy, mines and oceans. He is the author of Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places (Greystone Books 2023), an investigation of global metal mining and the clean energy transition. His first book was 2017′s The Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam. He can be reached through Chrispollon.com.