Cynthia Morinville is a professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and holds the Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Energy Transition. Her research focuses on the extraction, circulation and recycling of critical minerals, the impacts of this extraction on frontline communities, and the territorial transitions associated with energy transition. Her research projects are driven by a deep tension between the growing demand for green energy in urban areas and the environmental and social consequences that such a transition involves elsewhere. Her Lithium Rush project examines the social and environmental dimensions of lithium mining exploration in Quebec. Her Bécancour en transition project looks at how the setting up of the battery industry has transformed the Bécancour region
