The 2017 Summit

We had a great turnout in our first year. Check out a little about what it was like!


2017 Schedule

Tuesday, April 25, 2017
6:30AM – 7:45AM
Gates Open, Set-up, and Breakfast
7:45AM – 8:15AM
General Announcements, Vendor/Sponsor Thank You, Housekeeping, and Introduction
8:15AM – 9:15AM
Speaker 1
9:15AM – 9:30AM
Break
9:30AM – 10:30AM
Speaker 2
10:30AM – 10:45AM
Break
10:45AM – 11:45AM
Speaker 3
11:45AM – 1:00PM
Break/Lunch/Duraroot Talk
1:00PM – 2:00PM
Vendor Hour
2:00PM – 3:00PM
Speaker 4
3:00PM – 3:15PM
Break
3:15PM – 4:15PM
Speaker 5
4:15PM – 5:00PM
Speaker Forum, Q&A, and Vendor Teak-down
5:00PM – 6:00PM
Social Hour

2017 Event Layout


2017 Speakers

Anne Allen

Weston Solutions, Inc.

Ms. Allen has more than 13 years of technical experience in regulatory management and consulting, including extensive experience in all phases of the development, construction, and operation of oil and gas projects in more than 20 states from both the operator and consultant perspectives. Her primary focus is on natural gas facilities, including LNG regulated by the FERC, but her experience includes a broader understanding of the regulatory process for multiple private sector industries. Key experience includes NEPA, government/agency affairs, public outreach, construction compliance programs, and regulatory permitting and compliance.

Reclamation Planning & Agency Consultations

Robert Schindelbeck

Cornell University

Mr. Schindelbeck has worked to develop the Cornell Soil Health Laboratory over the last 14 years. He oversees the operation and modifies the testing strategies and develops the soil health management planning effort to assist growers and researchers to best use the information. Bob has considerable field experience and has planned, developed and implemented field experiments studying soil physical behavior under different management regimes.

Using Soil Health Indicators to Understand the Effects of Land Disturbance – from Pipeline ROW Construction to Site Reclamation

Cindy Ivey

The Williams Companies, Inc.

Ms. Ivey is responsible for establishing the strategic direction for stakeholder engagement plans for Williams. She created, developed and implemented Williams initial public outreach program, one of the first outreach programs for natural gas infrastructure in the country. She recently served on the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force and chaired the Public Participation workgroup. Cindy has a degree in Petroleum Land Management from the University of Texas at Austin and has been with Williams for 17 years.

Sustainable Development & Successful Reclamation – Social License to Operate

Michael Banovich

Colorado Department of Transportation

2017 Sponsors


2017 Attendee Companies

  • 4 Rivers Equipment
  • AECOM
  • Agfinity Inc
  • AloTerra Energy
  • AMS
  • Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
  • Apex Companies LLC
  • ARB Midstream
  • Bamert Seed
  • Bank of Colorado
  • Bill Barrett Corp
  • Blackeagle Energy Services
  • Bowman Construction Supply
  • Caretaker Landscape and Tree Management
  • CCLS
  • CH2M Hill
  • Co Department of Agriculture
  • CO Department of Transportation
  • CO Education Initiative
  • Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety
  • Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission
  • Colorado Parks and Recreation
  • Confluence Energy
  • Crop Production Services
  • Cross Country
  • DCP Midstream
  • Discovery Midstream
  • Elkhorn Construction
  • Encana
  • ENERCON
  • Enterprise Products
  • Environmental Landworks
  • EOG Resources, Inc.
  • Excel Energy
  • Farnsworth Group
  • Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  • Great Basin Environmental Services
  • Holganix
  • HUB International
  • Hydro Turf, Inc.
  • Jackson Kelly PLLC
  • JMD Company
  • John Deere
  • Johnson’s Auto Plaza
  • Jomax Construction
  • Kenworth
  • KerTech, LLC
  • Kinder Morgan
  • King Group
  • Land Stewards
  • Laney Directional Drilling Co.
  • Larimer County – Natural Resources
  • Lourinda R Willey, LLC
  • Lowlands, LLC
  • LSC Environmental
  • Mergent
  • Metco
  • Michels Pipeline
  • Noble Energy
  • NPIC
  • Olson & Olson
  • Olsson Associates
  • PDC Energy
  • Pennington Seed
  • Profile Products
  • Remmington Homes
  • Resource Environmental Solutions
  • RWT Excavating
  • SEM Group
  • Sharp Bros Seed/Buffalo Brand
  • Soil Services Company, Inc.
  • Spradley Barr Ford
  • Sterling Lumber
  • Suncor Energy
  • Sunland
  • Synergy Resources
  • Tallgrass Energy
  • Tetra Tech
  • TIC, a Kiewit Company
  • TransCanada
  • TRC
  • Trihydro
  • Tri-State
  • Triton Environmental
  • Trout Unlimited
  • Uncommon Solutions
  • Wagner CAT
  • Ward Labrotories
  • Warren Tech HS
  • Waste Management
  • Whiting Petroleum
  • Williams
  • WoodGroup

2017 Charities

Colorado Education Initiative

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
Strengthening science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education and experiences for all Colorado students is a critical component to supporting innovation and postsecondary readiness. STEM competencies — often referred to as STEM literacy — prepare students to be critical thinkers, to persevere through failure to achieve success, to communicate and collaborate across real and perceived barriers, and to solve complex and ever-changing problems, among many other tangible and critical skills. Coloradans with these competencies will drive innovations and fuel our increasingly STEM-based economy.

Trout Unlimited

Today TU is a national organization with about 300,000 members and supporters organized into over 400 chapters and councils from Maine to Montana to Alaska. The organization remains committed to applying “the very best information and thinking available” in its conservation work and has developed cutting-edge tools such as the Conservation Success Index (CSI), a sophisticated framework for assessing the health of coldwater fish species throughout their native range. Whether this range encompasses a few hundred miles or multiple states, the CSI helps the organization target its efforts toward those populations most in need of protection or restoration. The CSI also enables TU to measure its progress in achieving the bold goals laid out in its mission and vision. These goals require the organization to work at increasingly larger scales, and to collaborate with other conservation interests, local communities and state and federal partners to begin to rebuild the natural resiliency of watersheds.