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
Margaret Atwood tells us which species she finds so annoying she might just kill it
5 min. readThe writer and bird lover has thoughts about camping, chiggers and the ethical thing to...
Disillusion over a solution to pollution in rural Alberta
Oilsands companies say carbon capture is a climate solution. Rural Albertans wonder about explosions, water...
5 questions rural Albertans have about oilsands companies’ huge new carbon capture plan
The Pathways Alliance plans to reduce carbon pollution by transporting it through a 400-kilometre pipeline...
Pathways Alliance’s oilsands carbon capture project won’t undergo Alberta environmental assessment
Officials have decided a provincial environmental assessment will not be required of the $16B carbon...
A $16B plan to bury oilsands carbon pollution — and the rural Albertans raising the alarm
The Pathways Alliance of six oilsands companies plans to reduce carbon pollution by transporting it...
Can Alberta’s ‘grey ghosts’ survive the intensifying wildfire crisis?
In our latest newsletter, we look at how woodland caribou face huge pressure from industry....
Senior Alberta official — who pushed back on renewables pause — out as CEO of electricity grid operator
In an announcement Friday, the Alberta Electric System Operator said CEO Michael Law would 'leave...
Our 25 FOIs led to major Alberta revelations. We need 300 members to keep on digging
Prairies reporter Drew Anderson was like a kid in a candy store sifting through piles...
Bears (and other critters) on the doorstep
At the intersection of human and animal habitats, we need to adjust our understanding of...
