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2011 Resource Access and Ecological Issues Forum
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Description
Sustainable resource access is one of the leading challenges facing industry today. The oil and gas industry is committed to reducing physical footprint on the landscape and to minimizing industry-based effects on species, ecosystems and ecosystem components. The challenge facing industry is to minimize impacts to all levels of biodiversity (including flora and fauna) and ecological processes while continuing to develop oil and gas reserves, and to effectively restore impacted areas. At the same time, it is important that the regulatory environmental requirements governing oil and gas activity be based in science. Thus, research is needed to affect the direction of current and emerging policy and legislation.
Oil and gas producers have invested millions of dollars in ecological related research projects in recent years to address these challenges. This event will focus on the ecological research coordinated by PTAC (on behalf of CAPP) in 2010 and 2011. The event provides technical updates of 2010 and 2011 research, which included projects related to footprint restoration, strategies for revegetating sensitive landscapes, seismic line successional recovery, and ecology of species at risk. Interspersed among the project-based presentations will be numerous presentations related to important issues and initiatives for the oil and gas sector, such as regulatory updates, species at risk recovery plan updates, land conservation projects and other projects of interest.
Agenda
| Nov 30 | ||
| 8:00 AM | Registration and continental breakfast | |
| 8:30 AM |
Welcome and Introduction Soheil Asgarpour, PTAC |
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| 8:45 AM |
Ecological Research Planning Committee Update Amit Saxena, Devon |
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| 9:00 AM |
Ecological Monitoring Committee for the Lower Athabasca: Update Suzanne Cote, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute |
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| 9:25 AM |
Assessing Biodiversity Recovery After Land Disturbance Using Freely Available Data and Models Daniel Farr, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute |
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| 9:50 AM |
Alberta Land Use Knowledge Network Neil MacAlpine, Foothills Research Institute |
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| 10:15 AM | Refreshment Break | |
| 10:30 AM |
Diurnal and Nocturnal Space-use by Burrowing Owls: Implications for Setback Distances Corey Scobie, University of Alberta |
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| 10:55 AM |
Grizzly Bear Response to Oil and Gas Development and Activities in Alberta Gordon Stenhouse, Foothills Research Institute |
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| 11:20 AM |
Calving Habitat Selection by Caribou in Northeastern BC Craig DeMars, University of Alberta |
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| 11:50 AM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM |
Removing the Wellsite Footprint Terry Osko, University of Alberta |
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| 1:25 PM |
Long Term Revegetation Success of Industry Reclamation Techniques for Native Prairie Jane Lancaster, Kestrel Research Inc. and Marilyn Neville, Gramineae Services Ltd. |
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| 1:50 PM |
Evaluating the Revegetation Success of Foothills Fescue Grassland Jay Wossaree and Marshall McKenzie, Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures |
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| 2:15 PM | Refreshment Break | |
| 2:30 PM |
Scaling Up the Role of Predation in Caribou Declines in West-Central Alberta Marco Musiani, University of Calgary |
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| 2:55 PM |
Plant Species at Risk Responses to Shallow Gas Development Jane Lancaster, Kestrel Research Inc. |
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| 3:20 PM |
The Role of Coyotes in Woodland Caribou Declines Stan Boutin, University of Alberta |
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| 3:45 PM |
Closing Remarks / Wrap Up All presenters invited, some yet to be confirmed. |
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Fees
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Early Bird (29 Nov) |
Pre-Event (Noon on Nov 29) |
At Event | ||
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| PTAC Member | $395.00 | $395.00 | $495.00 | |
| Sponsor | $495.00 | $495.00 | $595.00 | |
| Non-Members | $595.00 | $595.00 | $695.00 | |
| NGO | $125.00 | $125.00 | $225.00 | |
| Student | $125.00 | $125.00 | $125.00 |
Sponsorship Opportunities
PTAC Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada invites your support as an event Sponsor. This event will focus on technologies and practices to address oil and gas industry needs on ecological issues.
This sponsorship opportunity identifies your organization as an advocate for increasing profitability using new technologies and best practices for ecological issues in the oil and gas industry. Sponsor will leverage and increase brand recognition through exposure to a broad group of event participants and invited speakers.
Several flexible partnership opportunity packages are available and can be customized to best suit your business development needs.
To ensure your company’s wordmark or logo appears in as many marketing opportunities as possible, please contact Lorie Frei
Platinum Sponsor This Event
- Four complimentary event registrations
- Opportunity to display your banner, distribute promotional materials and/or exhibit technology, and network with event attendees
- Corporate logo on promotional material, event proceedings, event signage and PowerPoint sponsor page displayed between technical sessions
- Corporate logo on website
- A brief company description in the event proceedings
- Credit as a Lunch Sponsor
Gold Sponsor This Event
- Three complimentary event registrations
- Opportunity to display your banner, distribute promotional materials and/or exhibit technology, and network with event attendees
- Corporate logo on promotional material, event proceedings, event signage and PowerPoint sponsor page displayed between technical sessions
- Corporate logo on website
- A brief company description in the event proceedings
- Credit as a Breakfast Sponsor
Silver Sponsor This Event
- Two complimentary event registration
- Opportunity to display your banner, distribute promotional materials and/or exhibit technology, and network with event attendees
- Corporate logo on promotional material, event proceedings, event signage and * PowerPoint sponsor page displayed between technical sessions
- Corporate logo on website
- A brief company description in the event proceedings
- Credit as a Refreshment Break Sponsor
Bronze Sponsor This Event
- One complimentary event registration
- Opportunity to display your banner, distribute promotional materials and/or exhibit technology, and network with event attendees
- Corporate logo on promotional material, event proceedings, event signage and PowerPoint sponsor page displayed between technical sessions
- Corporate logo on website
- A brief company description in the event proceedings
Partners Sponsor This Event
Contacts
Environmental Research Coordinator and Web Site Administrator
(403) 218-7707
lfrei@ptac.org
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