Working Group Agendas, Proceedings Actions items & Presentations made at the 2015 Summit
Agriculture

Agenda |

Agriculture proceedings |

Agriculture action items 2015 |

Leslie Blakely - Transportation Challenges Impacting Agriculture Markets |

Kim Falcon - Cross-Border Agricultural Issues |

Shelley Jones - Social Licence Security |
Border Issues

Agenda |

Border Issues action items 2015 |

Geoffrey Hale - Inland Border Issues: The Alberta-Montana Region |

Ben Lones & Deborah Meyers - Beyond The Border |

Laurie Trautman - Borders in Globalization |
Cross-Border Livestock Health

Action Items |

Agenda |

Michael Latimer - CFIA Import Permit Delay: Effect on US and Canada Livestock Producers |

Antonio Ramirez - Minimizing Trade Restrictions Through the U.S.-Canada Foreign Animal Disease (FAD) Zoning Initiative |
Disaster Resilience and Cyber Security

Agenda |

Disaster Resilience and Cyber Security proceedings |

Disaster Resilience and Cyber Security action items 2015 |

Eric Holdeman - Center for Regional Disaster Resilience |

John Gordnier - Body Cameras, Drones, and The Law |
Energy

Agenda |

Energy proceedings |

Energy action items 2015 |

Mike Cashell - Renewable Resources and Transmission: Challenges and Successes |

Chris Hodge - Renewables and the Transmission Markets |

Peter Macconnachie - Canada’s Oil Sands: Connecting Energy Infrastructure with Core Values |

Mike Monea - Commercial CCS Operating Experience |

Greg Schnake - Best Practices in Enhanced Oil Recovery |

J.R. Tolbert - EPA’S Clean Power Plan: The Role of Advanced Energy |
Energy & Enviroment

Agenda |

Energy and Environment action items 2015 |

2015_energy_and_environment_proceedings.pdf |

Andrew Pape-Salmon - Roadmap to Resilient, Net Zero Energy Buildings and Deep Energy Retrofits |

Kevin Davis - High Performance Concrete Building Design |

Ron Melton - PNSGD Project Overview & Transactive Energy |

Ken Nichols - Distributed Energy Resources in the Pacific Northwest |
Expanding Natural Gas Resources

Expanding Natural Gas Markets proceedings |

David Bennett - Natural gas for transportation |

Ian Burkheimer - Natural Gas Market Opportunities: Mining |

Abraham Kim - Asia’s Growing Energy Demand: Opportunities & Challenges |

Dan Kirschner - What is the resource? |

Vern Wadey - Serving the Asia Pacific LNG Market through Jordan Cove LNG |
Forestry

Agenda |

Forestry proceedings |

Forestry action items 2015 |

Thomas Maness - Rethinking the Building From the Ground Up |
Innovation & Higher Education

Agenda |

Innovation and Higher Education proceedings |

Jane Muir - The Impact of Research and Technology Commercialization |
Invasive Species

Agenda |

Invasive Species proceedings |

Invasive Species action items 2015 |

Jennifer Andreas - Biocontrol Efforts on Flowering Rush |

Kylie Bloodsworth - Treatments to Eradicate Zebra Mussels in Christmas Lake |

Ray Callaway - Emerging Issues in the Region and their Biological Impacts |

Lisa DeBruyckere - Advancing A Regional Defense Against Dressenids in the Pacific Northwest |

Robyn Draheim - Evolving New Zealand Mudsnail Management Priorities in the PNW |

Virgil Dupuis - Flowering Rush An Invasive Aquatic Macrophyte Infesting the Columbia River Basin |

Jeff Forester - Protecting Minnesota’s Lakes and Rivers… Acting Locally |

Laurie Kerzicnik - Emerald Ash Borer |

Cindy Sawchuk - Mussels And Mutts: The Alberta Conservation K-9 Program |

Mark Sytsma - Update on Regional Legislation and Current Gaps in Legislation (United States) |

Kate Wilson - Federal AIS Regulations in Canada: Finally! |

Travis Ziehl - Determining Acres Protected: A need for managers of noxious weeds |
Market Access

Agenda |

Market Access proceedings |

Market Access action items 2015 |

Wendy Hutchinson - Millennium Bulk Terminals |

Joe Ritzman - Gateway Pacific Terminal |

Joe Ritzman - Trends in Global Shipping & Future Infrastructure Needs for Washington Ports |
Mining

Agenda |

Mining proceedings |

Mining action items 2015 |

Ed Fogels - Areas of regional cooperation for mine safety: Alaska |

Tammy Johnson - Overview of S.409 revise metal mine laws in Montana |

David Morel - B.C.'s Response to the Mount Polley Breach |
Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Development (P3)

Agenda |

P3 proceedings |

P3 action items |

Rick Adcock - Water Sector P3 Projects Market Trends and the Relative Cost of Service |

Mark Liedemann - The P3 Experience: Perspectives on the Benefits and Implementation of Public Private Partnerships |

Tesse Rasmussen - The P3 Experience: Perspectives on the Benefits and Implementation of P3s |

Bob Rowe - Planning and investing in critical utility infrastructure with public consultation |
Tourism

Agenda |

Tourism proceedings |

Tourism action items 2015 |

Dave Cowen - Update: NORPASS, Sichuan Vias Pilor, & PNWER Product Themes |

Chris Dorrington - Great Northern Corridor Multistate Planning & Development Study |

Rob Eaton - Amtrak Rail Passenger Service & PNWER |

Taylor Middleton - Opportunities to Market Winter Tourism: Bringing Winter Tourism Opportunities to Market |

Tourism Marketing Panel (Paul Nursey, Trina Mousseau, Glenniss Indreland & Dale Ryan) |

Marine Tourism Panel (Greg Wirtz, Ryan Malane, & Peter Schrappen) |
Trade and Economic Development

Agenda |

Trande and Economic Development proceedings |

Michael Brownrigg - Scaling Developing World Prosperity without Choking the Planet to Death |

Tim Faley - Regional Cluster Development: MARF Multi-Asset Renewal Funds |

Christian Hauselman - Economic Development with Market Returns Financial Innovation for Economic Renewal |
Transportation

Agenda |

Transportation proceedings |

Transportation action items 2015 |

Ken Holgard - Operational Controls for High-Hazard Flammable Trains New Regulatory Requirements Addressed in HM-251 Final Rule |

Jack Isselmann - Tank Car Regulations Summary |

Laureen Kinney - Transport Canada |

David Miller - CN: Playing our Role as a Backbone of the Economy |

Bill Owens - Tank Car Derail data and Tank Car Retrofit Deadlines |

Phillip Romero - Playing our Role as a Backbone of the Economy: How Freight Rail Drives Washington’s Economy |

Jerry Whitehead - Transportation Challenges In the Pacific Northwest Economic Region |

Dean Wise - Rail Capacity & Safety |
Water Policy

Agenda |

Water Policy proceedings |

Water Policy action items 2015 |

Spencer Cohen - Agriculture and Food Processing in Washington State Economic Impacts and Importance of Water |

Mike Nemwth - Rethinking operations of river infrastructure from experience in Alberta: people, tools, and process |

Derek Sandison - Identifying New Funding Sources to Support Water Infrastructure |
Workforce Development

Agenda |

Workforce proceedings |

Kim Allen - Challenges and Opportunities for Professional Licensure in the PNWER Region |

Katy Brooke - RevUp Montana |

Chris Parson - Flathead Valley Community College |

Shana Peschek - Washington State Sector Strategy for Workforce Development |