Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist, writer, and environmental activist. He has won numerous awards for his work including the National Newspaper Award for Environment. His book, The Energy of Slaves, was released in September 2006 to critical acclaim. Andrew was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and spent much of his childhood living in remote rural regions of Canada's North
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He received his B.A. in English from the University of Victoria, and later earned an M.A. in English from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.
He was a staff writer at The Tyee, a weekly newspaper devoted to news and comment about local and national affairs in British Columbia, and was a columnist for the Vancouver Sun and the Vancouver Province for over a decade. Andrew is currently working on a book on BC's liquefied natural gas industry that will be released in the fall of 2008.