Invitation
PTAC Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada invites you to join us for this informative 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 reduce impacts to biodiversity and ecological processes while continuing to sustainably develop, reclaim, and effectively restore areas impacted by oil and gas development. At the same time, it is important that policy and regulatory requirements governing oil and gas activity in these areas are informed through research and sound science.
Oil and gas producers have in recent years invested millions of dollars in ecological related research projects to address challenges. The broad focus areas of these projects include the role of predation in woodland caribou population declines; the effectiveness of footprint reclamation or functional restoration; the effectiveness of mitigation activities; and wildlife responses to oil and gas activity.
This event will provide technical updates from the 2018/19 industry sponsored research that has oversight from industry and government technical champions. Presentation highlights will include project learnings/outcomes, best practices, potential cost savings, and future impact to 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.
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| Time | Presentation | |
| 8:30 AM | Registration, Networking, and Breakfast | |
| 9:00 AM | Opening Remarks
PTAC | |
| 9:10 AM | Keynote Speaker
Robert Albricht, ConocoPhillips
Faster Forest Program | |
| 10:00 AM | Canada Warbler Response to Vegetation on Recovering Energy Sector Disturbances
Erin Bayne, University of Alberta
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| 10:25 AM | Networking Break | |
| 10:45 AM | Evaluating 30 Years of Landsat Data to Develop Vegetation Disturbance and Recovery Information for Caribou Ranges in Northeast British Columbia
Olivier Tsui, Hatfield Consultants | |
| 11:10 AM | Algar Caribou Habitat Restoration Project
Scott Wilson, Silvacom | |
| 11:35 AM | Targeting Alternate Prey to Understand Caribou and Moose Habitat Management Choices in a Regenerating Landscape: Increasing Functional Habitat for Caribou Within West-Central Ranges
Laura Finnegan, fRI Research | |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM | ERPC Committee Technical Update
Shane Patterson, Committee Chair | |
| 1:20 PM | Redefining Designable Units (DUs): Phase 2, Mountain and Boreal Caribou in Alberta and BC
Marco Musiani, University of Calgary | |
| 1:45 PM | Woodland Caribou Calving Areas and Calf Survival in Relation to Habitat Selection, Anthropogenic Disturbance, and Exposure to Predation Risk
Laura Finnegan, fRI Research | |
| 2:10 PM | Networking Break | |
| 2:30 PM | Evaluation of New Grizzly Bear Genetic Scat Results with DNA Results from Hair Collection – A Test and Comparison of Population Monitoring for the Future of Provincial Grizzly Bear Monitoring
Isobel Phoebus, fRI Research | |
| 3:00 PM | CLOSING REMARKS | FORUM CLOSES | |
Event Fee:
Members: $95
Non-Members: $105
Student: $75
NGOs: $95
