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The Future According to Andrew Nikiforuk

November 15, 2021

The Future According to Andrew Nikiforuk

He gives the Southam Lecture at UVic Wednesday. It’s sold out in person but sign up for free to watch his talk live online.

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Journalist and author Andrew Nikiforuk speaks Nov. 17 at 2 p.m. The Tyee contributing editor will discuss myths about how we’re tackling climate change, and offer his view on what it will really take.

Andrew Nikiforuk shares a lot of words in written form in The Tyee. But hearing him speak his brilliant mind in person is a rare event. You’ll have that opportunity on Wednesday, Nov. 17, when Nikiforuk gives the prestigious Harvey S. Southam lecture by invitation of the department of writing at the University of Victoria. If you can’t be in the room, the address will be livestreamed.

The title of his talk is “Energy Dead-Ends: Green Lies, Climate Change and Chaotic Transitions.” If you’ve been reading Nikiforuk over the years, you may recognize some of those themes. This presentation, he said in a phone conversation, will not only knit together research and forecasts in new ways, but explore fresh territory.

“I’ll be driving towards six general thoughts for young people, including withdrawing from the technosphere, defending the natural world and building refuges,” he said.

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Come Listen to the Man Fracking Powers Tried to Silence

January 18, 2016

Come Listen to the Man Fracking Powers Tried to Silence

Why you should spend Thursday, Jan. 28, with Andrew Nikiforuk. A special Tyee event.

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On Jan. 28, Andrew Nikiforuk has some knowledge to share.

On Jan. 28, in Vancouver, you have the opportunity to spend an evening with Andrew Nikiforuk, one the finest journalists, one of the finest minds, one the most courageous and public spirited people I have ever met.

If you are a regular reader of The Tyee you probably recognize Andrew’s byline. But you may not know of his new book on fracking in Canada with a fascinating, real-life hero at the centre of it.

You also may not know how hostile a place Canada can be for a journalist as effective as Andrew Nikiforuk.

And before you buy a ticket for the “Standing up to Fracking” Jan. 28 event, you’d probably like to know more about what will be discussed.

So I thought I’d quickly fill you in on all that here.

Andrew first met Alberta landowner and oil patch consultant Jessica Ernst in 2004 while reporting for the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business on “unconventional” energy sources — like fracked gas. It wasn’t until the next year that the harm fracking can do became personal for Ernst. She’d discovered groundwater contamination on her own land 113 kilometres northeast of Calgary, and Andrew returned to write about that for Canadian Business.

He couldn’t believe the level of fraud she had documented or how the Alberta Energy Regulator had banished all communication from her to thwart her efforts. In fact her story about pollution eerily previewed the trouble and controversy fracking would later cause across the continent.

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