The Pembina Institute delivers Northern Oil and Gas and the Environment Workshops in Alberta and in the North. Our past workshops include:
fourteen five-day workshops in Alberta (2002-2008)
community workshops in Tuktoyaktuk, Inuvik, Aklavik, Yellowknife, and Fort Good Hope in the Northwest Territories, and Whitehorse and Watson Lake in the Yukon (March 2005 and June 2006)
three coal bed methane workshops in Alberta (June-July 2006, 2007)
two youth workshops in Yellowknife (October and November 2005)
In spring 2008, Pembina coordinated the first-ever Northern Leaders Oil Sands Tour. A delegation of leaders from the Northwest Territories toured the Alberta oil
sands region. Participants learned about the environmental and social impacts of oil sands development and established relationships with Alberta First Nations.
2010 Workshops
Northern Oil and Gas and the Environment Workshop, September 27th to October 1st
The Pembina Institute's Northern Oil and Gas and the Environment Workshop is a unique opportunity designed for Northerners to learn about the oil and gas industry in Alberta first-hand. Participants will have the chance to hear multiple perspectives from industry and
industry associations, regulators, land owners, local First Nation representatives and environmental groups. This workshop balances time in the classroom with hands-on facility tours and interactions with people directly affected by the oil and gas sector. It includes technical aspects of the industry as well as policy considerations and best practices. For more information and to register, click here.
2009 Workshops and Tours
Northern Leaders Oil Sands Tour
Building on the success of last year's tour, the Pembina Institute offered a second Northern Leaders Oil Sands Tour from June 8 to 12, 2009. Northern Leaders toured the Fort McMurray oil sands region and learned about the environmental and social impacts of oil sands development and met with individuals associated with oil sands development.
Northern Oil and Gas and the Environment Workshop
We are also continuing to offer our popular Northern Oil and Gas and the Environment Workshops. In March 2009 we held a workshop on the oil and gas industry in the Calgary region.
In addition, the Pembina Institute plans to develop renewable energy and "solutions-based" workshops to contribute to sustainable energy development in the Arctic.
If you are interested in participating in a Pembina Institute tour or workshop, please contact Jennifer Grant.
Inside the Pembina Institute's Northern Oil and Gas Workshops: Videos and Photos
In this video, Peggy Holroyd, Director of the Pembina Institute's Arctic Energy Solutions program, introduces a "Build Your Own Gas Field" exercise at a workshop held in Yellowknife in 2005.
"Imagine you are coming to an area for the first time. Where are you going to explore? Where are you going to put the seismic lines?"
Participants in a 2005 workshop in Yellowknife take part in a creative exercise designed to demonstrate the risks associated with the cumulative effects of oil and gas development.
"If you have multiple variables . . .[the interplay] makes it harder and harder to come up with a meaningful risk assessment."
In this video from a workshop in Yellowknife in 2005, Tom Hegan, an Alberta Landowner, talks about the positives and negative effects oil and gas development has had on his community.
"There's a positive and there's a negative to just about everything."
