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Presentations-2006 Pipeline Safety Trust Conference

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2006 Pipeline Safety Trust Conference Presentations

Opening Address
Guy Dauncey – Author & President of the BC Sustainable Energy Assoc.
“Sustainable Energy Solutions at the End of the Age of Oil”

Pipelines & Risk Based Management – 4 Perspectives – How Safe is Safe?
Jeff Wiese, Program Development Director, Office of Pipeline Safety
Denise Hamsher, Director Public, Government and Regulatory Affairs, Enbridge
Joe Killins, P.E., Principal Consultant, Joe Killins & Associates
Carl Weimer, Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust

Update on the Aftermath of Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina – The Untold
Alex Alvarado, Chief, Pipeline Section, Minerals Management Service
John Jacobi, CATS Manager Southwest Region, Office of Pipeline Safety
Rusty Burroughs, Region Manager, Entergy Gas Operations
G “Ram” Ramachandran – Pipeline Safety Trust & Parish Councilman, Louisiana

Pipeline Right-of-way Maintenance – Why Now?
Dan Gustafson, City Council Member, Burnsville, Minnesota
Nathan Muehl, Mgr. Damage Prevention & ROW Relations, Marathon Pipe Line
Harold Winnie, CATS Manager Central Region, Office of Pipeline Safety
Steve Weinberg, Property Owner, East Brunswick, New Jersey

Pipelines 101 – Don’t know Transmission from Distribution, FERC from OPS, LNG from LPG? – This is the place for you
Carl Weimer – Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust
Denise Hamsher, Director Public, Government and Regulatory Affairs, Enbridge
Terry Boss, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, INGAA
Lori Traweek, Senior Vice President, Operations and Engineering, AGA
Michael Khayata, CATS Manager Southern Region, Office of Pipeline Safety

Environmental Effects of Gulf Coast Energy Infrastructure
Tim Osborn, Navigation Manager, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin.
Dr Roy Dokka, Executive Director, Center for GeoInformatics & Professor, LSU
G “Ram” Ramachandran – Pipeline Safety Trust & Parish Councilman, Louisiana

Setbacks, real estate disclosure, franchise agreements – Do local governments have any real tools to protect people?
Bob Beaumier Assistant City Attorney, City of Spokane, WA
Michael Watza, Attorney, Detroit, Michigan
Chuck Lesniak, Environmental Program Coordinator, Austin, Texas
Jim Doherty, Legal Consultant, Municipal Research and Services Center

Pipeline Maps – A valuable tool for local government and citizens, or an invitation for pipeline damage or sabotage?
Bob Rackleff, Pipeline Safety Trust & Commissioner Leon County, Florida
Raymond Paul, Executive Director, Association of Oil Pipe Lines
Jeff Wiese, Office of Pipeline Safety, Program Development Director
Tim Sweeney, Policy & Outreach Coord., Wash. Utilities & Trans. Commission

Pipelines and Hurricanes- Are we prepared?
Elizabeth Komiskey, CATS Manager Southern Region, Office of Pipeline Safety
Alex Alvarado, Chief, Pipeline Section, Minerals Management Service
John Amos, Executive Director, SkyTruth
Earl J. Crochet, Director Field Operations, Kinder Morgan

Can Technology Save Us? Smart pigs, SCADA, Integrity management, and leak detection- what more could we need?
Tom Bubenik, Vice President Integrity Services, CC Technologies
Andy Drake, P.E., General Mgr. of Tech. Services, Duke Energy Gas Trans.
Don Deaver, President, Deatech Consulting, Houston, Texas
Bruce Nestleroth, Pipeline Technology Center, Battelle

How can/should pipeline companies communicate better with the public
Gini Cooper, Floyd Unified Landowners Association, Virginia
Susan Waller, Vice President, Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure
Rick Kivela, Manager Operations Compliance, Duke Energy
Norm Winter, Program Manager, Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure
Gweneyette Broussard, Sr. Legislative & Regulatory Rep., Shell Pipeline Co.

Herding C.A.T.S. – What have these liaisons between the public, industry and government learned in their first few years on the job?

DAY TWO – Nov. 3, 2006

Morning Address
Thomas J. Barrett – New Administrator, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

Other information needs to create greater safety, transparency, and trust in pipeline safety
Richard Kuprewicz, President Accufacts Inc
Lois Epstein, Senior Engineer, Cook Inletkeeper
Carol Parker, Attorney, New Mexico
Richard Fineberg, Principal, Fineberg Research, Alaska

Pipelines and Land Use Planning- Protecting People and Pipelines from Encroachment
Jim Pates, Pipeline Safety Trust & TRB Pipeline & Public Safe Committee
Blaine Keener, CATS Coordinator, Office of Pipeline Safety
Tim Sweeney, Washington Utilities & Transportation Commission
Carl Weimer, Councilman, Whatcom County Council

So you have a concern about the pipeline on your property, who cares?
Shelley Miller, Property Owner, St. Peters, Missouri
Glenn Archambault, Property Owner, Phoenix, Oregon
Karen Butler, CATS Manager Central Region, Office of Pipeline Safety
Gene Gould, Friends or Rockwood Park, Saint John, New Brunswick

Pipeline Damage Prevention – It Takes a Community – Why local and state government, and the public, need to play a bigger role. How can it happen, and who pays?
Vic Weston, Board of Directors, Common Ground Alliance
Lori Traweek, Senior Vice President, Operations and Engineering, AGA
Kimbra Davis, CATS Manager Western Region, Office of Pipeline Safety

How do pipeline laws and rules get made?
Jeff Wiese, Program Development Director, Office of Pipeline Safety
Lois Epstein, Senior Engineer, Cook Inletkeeper
Andrea Johnson, Senior Standards Associate, American Petroleum Institute
Breean Beggs, Board of Directors, Pipeline Safety Trust

Greater Public Involvement – What does that mean?
Bruce Brabec – Board of Directors, Pipeline Safety Trust
Katherine Hansen -Washington Citizen Committee on Pipeline Safety
Chris Stockton, Williams Pipelines
Dave Knoelke, BP Pipelines
Ross Reineke, CATS Manager Western Region, Office of Pipeline Safety

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