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
Report ‘buried’ by Alberta government reveals ‘mounting evidence’ that oil and gas wells aren’t reclaimed in the long run
13 min. readA previously unreleased report obtained by The Narwhal shows a government division — soon to...
Why many Alberta oil and gas companies aren’t paying their taxes
The Rural Municipalities Association recently announced the outstanding tax debt they’re owed by oil and...
Meet the young Indigenous organizers working to bring together ceremony and activism in Alberta
For Indigenous activists in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton), a change in government doesn't necessarily mean a change...
Inside another kind of ‘war room’ — meet the Alberta climate activists who say they’re not scared of Jason Kenney
Alberta’s government has promised to clamp down on environmental groups criticizing the oil and gas...
Why the proposed Frontier oilsands mine is a political hot potato
The fate of a massive new oilsands project is being seen as the litmus test...
A mine in the middle: travelling through the Nahanni, the ‘Grand Canyon of Canada’
We paddled the Nahanni, where, despite prominent opposition, roads will soon be built to the...
Another ‘harvest from hell’: Canada’s farmers forced to acclimatize to weird weather
Several rural counties have declared local agricultural emergencies year after year, as farmers are increasingly...
‘Hidden danger’: Life for farmers atop Alberta’s 400,000 kilometres of pipelines
Don and Marg Wieben have lived side-by-side with the oilpatch for 45 years. “We accepted...
‘Deep state’ lobbying a growing tactic of fossil fuel industry, report finds
Since Justin Trudeau’s government took power in 2015, lobbyists in Ottawa have focused more attention...
