Shannon Waters
B.C. politics and environment reporter
@sobittersosweet.bsky.social 
Shannon Waters is a political reporter and editor with experience covering municipal, provincial and federal governments. She began her reporting career as a radio journalist in northern B.C., covering communities from Smithers to Williams Lake and leading award-winning coverage of B.C.’s 2017 wildfires. She has spent the last seven years reporting from her hometown of Victoria. Her professional passions are politics, policy and people and the ways they intersect and influence each other. She is happiest in places where the ocean meets mountains. When she’s not digging into stories, you can find Shannon cultivating her green thumb or biking to and from the beach, where she’s equally likely to be buried in a book or enjoying the water.
Stories by Shannon Waters
After Tumbler Ridge, B.C.’s throne speech was cancelled — here’s what it said
5 min. readThrough a freedom of information request, The Narwhal accessed B.C.’s undelivered throne speech. It details...
An ‘awful’ year for reconciliation as B.C. moves to change historic Indigenous Rights law
First Nations rejected the B.C. government’s plan to permanently change the Declaration on the Rights...
Why B.C. is flooding — again
In the years since the devastating 2021 floods, B.C. has taken some steps to reduce...
‘Significant effort’ has been made to address concerns about northeast B.C. waste facility, energy minister says
Residents of Rolla, B.C., say foul chemical odours have plagued their homes for more than...
‘Instant headache’: B.C. residents can’t get answers about odours from nearby oil and gas waste facility
When the wind blows past an oil and gas waste dump, residents of Rolla, B.C.,...
B.C. moves at ‘warp speed’ to change landmark Indigenous Rights law
B.C. plans to amend the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act by June....
As B.C. stokes its economic engine, Eby says reconciliation law is in the way
The government says changes are needed to avoid ‘uncertainty’ from court rulings. Critics argue the...
Who will pay to electrify North Coast LNG and mining projects? All of us, it turns out
Energy minister’s order could exempt North Coast transmission line customers from paying millions — and...
Is B.C. sidelining community power? Why co-ops struggle to compete in the energy sector
Community-owned energy projects can be resilient, responsive and efficient, research shows. So what’s holding them...
