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
It’s official: Alberta’s oilsands tailings ponds are leaking. Now what?
14 min. readThere are more than a trillion litres of toxic oilsands waste stored in tailings ponds...
‘We’ve been too dependent on oil and gas’: the future of Alberta’s rural communities
As fossil fuel companies’ unpaid tax bills mount during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UCP government...
Meet the Canadian farmers fighting climate change
Conservation and agriculture have often been seen as being at odds with one another, but...
Ottawa is paying to clean up Alberta’s inactive wells. Are the oilsands next?
As $1 billion in federal funds go to clean up inactive wells, experts are sounding...
8 things you need to know as Alberta suspends even more environmental monitoring of oil and gas industry
The Alberta Energy Regulator has extended a waiver of many monitoring requirements to the entire...
Alberta picked up $8 million tab for land rent left unpaid by oil and gas companies in 2019
Data obtained via a freedom of information request shows taxpayers are footing the bill for...
Alberta delays $65 million in oil and gas company payments for orphan well cleanup
The Orphan Well Association has received $535 million in government loans in recent years, raising...
How federal funding can address the root causes of Alberta’s inactive well problem
As some 20,000 applications from oil and gas companies roll in for $1 billion in...
Alberta suspends at least 19 monitoring requirements in oilsands, citing coronavirus concerns
The Alberta Energy Regulator has told companies they can stop some monitoring programs, from groundwater...
