Sharon J. Riley
Managing editor
Sharon is an award-winning journalist based in Edmonton. Her writing has also been published by The Walrus, Harper’s, The Tyee and Maisonneuve, among others. Her work for The Narwhal has been nominated for a Canadian Association of Journalists award and a Digital Publishing Award. She was also named a finalist in the 2017 National Magazine Awards' Best New Magazine Writer category, was a 2017 recipient of the Access Copyright Foundation's Marian Hebb Research Grant for literary arts and won the Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism in 2020. Sharon was born and raised in rural Alberta, and if she's not at her computer she's probably in the Rockies with her family.
Stories by Sharon J. Riley
Notley vs. Kenney on how to deal with Alberta’s 167,000 inactive and abandoned oil and gas wells
7 min. readNDP promises to implement clean-up timelines and clamp down on liability dumping, while UCP vows...
Alberta issues 97% of reclamation certificates without ever visiting oil and gas sites
Data shows Alberta’s regulator visits less than three per cent of sites it certifies as...
The trouble with staking Alberta’s future on oil
There’s more to the province’s energy woes than carbon taxes, pipelines and protests
Two Banff National Park wolf packs likely decimated by trappers
‘There’s a really high likelihood that the pack is just gone altogether’
Oil and gas companies owe Albertans $20 million in unpaid land rents
Payments to landowners made by government on behalf of delinquent companies up 840 per cent...
What the Redwater ruling means for Alberta’s thousands of inactive oil and gas wells
The Supreme Court ruled even bankrupt oil and gas companies are responsible for cleaning up...
Central Alberta citizens band together to fight huge new water licence for fracking
Clearwater County residents are adamant they aren’t against the oil and gas industry, but they...
‘It can’t be a free-for-all anymore’: The battle for Bighorn Country
It’s a project the vast majority of Albertans support, yet misinformation has spread about the...
Alberta taxpayers footing bill for delinquent oil and gas companies, investigation reveals
Landowners are supposed to get paid for wells on their property, but companies are increasingly...
