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
Many of Alberta’s ‘reclaimed’ wells aren’t actually reclaimed: government presentation
23 min. readWith the click of a button, oil and gas companies can receive certificates for site...
Life after coal
As Alberta moves away from burning coal for electricity, miners face an uncertain future. The...
The story of Alberta’s $100-billion well liability problem. How did we get here?
Landowners once promised a fair share for hosting oil and gas infrastructure on their properties...
How Alberta is getting away with running deceptive ads on Trans Mountain
Canada’s Code of Advertising Standards is meant to ensure accuracy, but doesn’t apply to ‘political...
Latest oilsands mega mine proposal a reality check for Alberta’s emissions cap
Teck Resources underreporting climate impacts of Frontier mine by 48 per cent, analysts say
One of the largest oilsands mines ever proposed advances to public hearings
At a staggering 292 square kilometres, Teck Resources’ Frontier mine is a colossal undertaking that...
‘The lost summer’: the emotional and spiritual toll of the 2018 smoke apocalypse
Anxiety, fear and grief: what experts are learning about the mental health effects of wildfire...
How climate change is making B.C.’s wildfire season hotter, longer, drier
Scientists fear ‘vicious, vicious cycle’
