Invitation
PTAC Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada invites you to join us for this informative full-day event. Sustainable resource development and access to the resource are some of the leading challenges facing industry today. The oil and gas industry is committed to integrated resource management by managing physical footprint on the landscape and minimizing industry-based effects on species, ecosystems and ecosystem components. The challenge facing industry is to minimize impacts to all levels of biodiversity 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 policy and regulatory requirements governing oil and gas activity in these areas be based in science. Thus, research is needed to affect the direction of current and emerging policy and legislation
Oil and gas producers have in recent years invested millions of dollars in ecological related research projects to address these challenges. The broad focus areas of these projects include the role of predation in woodland caribou population declines; the effectiveness of industry footprint reclamation or functional restoration; the effectiveness of mitigation activities; and wildlife responses to oil and gas activity. This event will also provide technical updates of the 2017 industry sponsored research that have had oversight from industry and government technical champions. The intent of projects selected through multi-stakeholder review and funded through the AUPRF program is that they may lead to changes in best practices, policy and regulations. Interspersed among the project-based presentations will be presentations related to recently identified priority issues and initiatives for the oil and gas sector.
Session 1: Panel – Policy and Emerging Technology – Implications to Biodiversity Management
Management of biodiversity is an important component of effective resource management in Alberta. Over the last few years a number of policies and initiatives have been rolled out by the Government and the Alberta Energy Regulator that have implications on biodiversity and how industry operates on the landscape. Technologies will play a key role in supporting implementation and assessment of outcomes as they relate to biodiversity. The panel provide insight into some of these new initiatives, emerging technologies and the consequences for environmental management.
Session 2: Caribou
Session 3: Impact of Disturbance
Session 4: Cross Cutting Technologies
Forum Partners:
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Time | Presentation |
8:00 AM | Registration Opens |
8:30 AM | Opening Remarks – Ecological Research Planning Committee Update
Shane Patterson, Alberta Environment and Parks |
8:45 AM | Session 1: Panel – Policy and Emerging Technology - Implications to Biodiversity Management |
| Management of biodiversity is an important component of effective resource management in Alberta. Over the last few years a number of policies and initiatives have been rolled out by the Government and the Alberta Energy Regulator that have implications on biodiversity and how industry operates on the landscape. Technologies will play a key role in supporting implementation and assessment of outcomes as they relate to biodiversity. The panel provide insight into some of these new initiatives, emerging technologies and the consequences for environmental management. |
| Panel Chair: |
| Caroline Bampfylde, Ecosystem and Risk Assessment Modeller, Alberta Environment and Parks |
| Panelists: |
| Anish Neupane, Alberta Environment and Parks
Offset Policies - Wetlands and Biodiversity
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| TBC |
| Jared Hobbs, Hemmera Envirochem
Environmental DNA with Potentially Cross Cutting Applications for Biodiversity Management
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| Jeremy Reid, Devon
Industry Perspective on Biodiversity Planning and Policy Initiatives
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10:00 AM | COFFEE BREAK |
| Session 2: Caribou |
10:15 AM | Laura Finnegan, fRI Research
Assessing Disease Prevalence and Caribou Health in West-Central Alberta
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10:45 AM | Marco Musiani, University of Calgary
Evaluating Genomic Diversity for Caribou in Alberta to Allow for Effective Biodiversity Monitoring, Augmentation and Conservation |
11:15 AM | Paula Bentham, Golder Associates Ltd.
Caribou Range Restoration Monitoring: A Comparison of Vegetation Response to Restoration Treatments as Compared to Natural Vegetation Recovery |
11:45 AM | Laura Finnegan, fRI Research
Does Recovery Linear Features Increase Functional Habitat for Caribou?
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12:15 PM | LUNCH |
| Session 3: Impact of Disturbance |
1:00 PM | Gordon Stenhouse, fRI Research
Grizzly Bear Survival in Oil and Gas Operating Areas
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1:30 PM | Jason Fisher, InnoTech Alberta Inc.
White-Tailed Deer Resource and Movement Selection: The Role of Oil and Gas Features in Boreal Forest Expansion
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2:00 PM | Joanna Burgar, UBC
Monitoring Wildlife Responses to Seismic Line Restoration in the Algar Habitat Restoration Program
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2:30 PM | COFFEE BREAK |
| Session 4: Cross Cutting Technologies |
2:45 PM | Erin Bayne, University of Alberta
Canada Warbler Response to Vegetation Structure on Recovering Energy Sector Disturbances
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3:15 PM | Nadia Rochdi, University of Lethbridge
Development of Remote Sensing Techniques for Regional Reclamation Monitoring of Peatlands in Alberta
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3:45 PM | Steve Liang, SensorUp
Building Environmental Data Exchange Node (ENDN) - Architecture, Challenges, and Opportunities
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4:15 PM | Closing Remarks |
Pre-Event Fee (before noon Nov 22):
Members: $95
Non-Members: $395
Student: $75
NGOs: $95
For information on sponsorship opportunities for this event, please see the Sponsorship Levels Fact Sheet here
Contact Lorie Mayes mailto:[email protected] to discuss sponsorship.