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How to Manage Social & Environmental Risk in Oil & Gas, Mining and Steel
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§ 21-22 JUNE 2011 | HILTON DOUBLETREE, HOUSTON, TEXAS
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Maintain your social license to operate: Build effective community
relations and improve productivity at site level
Implement CSR strategies on site level: Put policies into action
across global operations
Prevent policy breaches: Carry out human rights due diligence, comply
with changing legislation and get effective guidance on preventing reputational
damage
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Mitigate environmental challenges: Minimize the impact of
fracking, increased water usage carbon footprint trails to keep your reputation
intact and reduce project costs
Effective stakeholder engagement: How to construct productive
long-term relationships with governments, NGOs and employees
Expert tips on operating in conflict zones: Identify and calculate EVENT SPONSOR
risks to your business
THIS CONFERENCE IS FOR YOU IF YOU WORK IN:
ORGANIZED BY
Mining / Oil / Gas industry Community Development Climate Change
Steel or other heavy industries Corporate Policy / Affairs Risk / Crisis Management
Social Performance Corporate Communications Environment
Stakeholder Engagement Corporate Partnerships Health Safety
Sustainable Development Corporate Responsibility Reputation Management
Environmental Management Sustainable Investment Community Relations
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2. Practical advice on social environmental management for your industry
Social Environmental Risk Management Conference USA 2011
Devoted exclusively to the needs of the mining, oil, gas, steel other heavy
industries in North America – and worldwide
Supported by ICMM IPIECA
Dear Colleague,
ing – they are also becoming harder to access. According to
What does the future hold for the extractive sector? Supplies are not only diminish
in the wake of the Middle East crisis, oil prices spiked to their
the International Energy Agency, demand is increasing markedly. And of course,
of time.
highest levels since 2008, amid speculation that the $200 barrel is only a matter
es across North America, and some analysts are
Shale gas supplies appear to be one answer. They are available in ubiquitous quantiti
on in North America by the end of the decade.
forecasting shale gas will supply as much as 50% of the USA’s natural gas producti
documentary Gasland has helped mobilize massive
But fracking has been condemned by environmentalists and NGOs. Oscar-nominated
opposition to the process.
a new standard for transparency, and social and
With the White House committed to a green agenda, the Dodd-Frank Act setting
g even more important, the heat is on.
environmental issues – including human rights and water management – becomin
the globe, it is nothing short of business-critical to
Quite simply, with so many high profile issues resonating and being debated across
that is where the Social Environmental Risk
identify and implement practical solutions to the many challenges we face. And
Management Conference fits in.
by attracting relevant delegates.
“This Conference sets itself apart by its engaging format, progressive agenda, and
Definitely the event for sustainability in heavy industry.”
- Charlotte Wolff, Corporate Responsibility Manager, ArcelorMittal
in the UK by Ethical Corporation – and it crosses the pond
This top-level event comes to North America following two sell-out events staged
and expertize that was on offer.
by popular demand from those of you who missed out on the market intelligence
refreshed, with a heightened focus on here-and-now
However, this isn’t merely a re-tread. The entire Conference has been updated and
all face when operating overseas.
challenges in the US, in addition to thought-provoking sessions on the issues we
ark your own initiatives against many of the industry’s
When you come to take a look at the Agenda, you’ll see this is a chance to benchm
ng the do’s – and don’ts – of social and environmental risk
most prominent names, and to pick the brains of their CSR leaders while evaluati
management.
ittal, Rio Tinto, Marathon Oil, Barrick Gold and
Expert speakers from companies such as Chevron, Shell, ExxonMobil, ArcelorM
about their own social and environmental issues, as
Halliburton are converging on Houston from around the world, ready to talk openly
avoiding specific pitfalls.
well as sharing examples of best practice and providing invaluable insights into
agenda. And that’s no accident. The Agenda for Social
You will see that each session zones in on topics that currently dominate your own
with pertinent experts in mining, gas, oil, steel and other
Environmental Risk Management Conference is the direct result of primary research
g, useful and –above all else – relevant.
heavy industries, which means we guarantee everything you learn is thought-provokin
der groups, the best methods to minimize carbon footprint
That’s why we’re tackling issues such as project finance, how to engage stakehol
success of your CSR policies, protecting your social license to
and water usage, strategies to implement CSR policies in the field, measuring the
media and increasingly savvy environmentalists.
operate and handling crises and reputation management in the face of a hostile
n event, delegates came from all over the world – from 21
Important though all of this is, it is not the only reason to attend. At our Europea
g in Houston will have an equally international flavor,
different countries, including Brazil, Peru, Finland and Australia – and the gatherin
as well as catching up with old colleagues and friends.
making this a fabulous opportunity for networking and making useful new contacts
Hope you can join us 21-22 June in Houston.
Yours sincerely,
Liam Richardson
Conference Director
Ethical Corporation
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c “Excellent, good mix of speakers and topics – and also, importantly, attendees”
– Jenny Olsson, Environment and Social Advisor, BP
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Here are some of the delegates who attended the Summit in 2010: knowledgeable professionals. Above all else, it
has been developed with one thought in mind:
# Dalradian Gold, CEO # ICMM, Senior Program Director # Maersk Drilling, Head of CSR
To tackle every major issue and challenge you
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Who were last year’s delegates at our UK conference? PARTICIPATORY AND INTERACTIVE
DELEGATE SENIORITY ORGANIZATION TYPE ATTENDEES BY COUNTRY
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No teacher-classroom atmosphere, we promise.
Instead, a conference experience that enables
you to progress your own corporate agenda and
discuss your specific issues with our experts. The
emphasis is on discussion and debate, all
expertly chaired. And instead of just one voice
speaking for what feels like forever, everyone
will be encouraged to have their say.
I Other 2% I Corporate 58% I UK 46% RELEVANT AND EXCLUSIVE FOR
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I Manager 46% I Industry Association 6% I North America 16% This conference is definitely NOT a chance for
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I Head Of 6% I Africa 4% have you pay top dollar for endless sales pitches
I C-Suite 4%
and PR speak. Instead, it’s tailored specifically to
deal with your sector’s problems – and deliver
solutions – with business intelligence on tap
SPEAKING, EXHIBITING, SPONSORSHIP AND NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES from top professionals who have practical
experience they can offer the room. That way, it
Highlight your company’s work, raise your profile and connect with senior corporate
is guaranteed to meet your business needs and
sustainability and climate professionals provide genuine return on your investment of
time and money.
Raise the profile of your service or product with a focused group of senior decision makers in major corporations
working in Sustainability, Environmental Management and Compliance, Corporate Affairs, Operations, Product
Development, Strategy and Communications.
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Our list of speakers consists only of top industry
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you conquer major challenges this year.
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4. DAY 1 AGENDA 21 June 2011 www.ethicalcorp.com/risk-usa
Protect your social license and reputations. So what exactly is it you need to Minimize supply chain risks:
achieve? And how do you want your stakeholder
to operate: Build effective relationships to develop?
Enlist maximum support from
community relations • Marathon Oil discuss how their engagement
your suppliers
Your business is increasingly reliant on a social license guidelines and software tools can ensure Monitoring a supply chain is enormously complex,
to operate – but liaising with local communities is evidence based solutions to your decision making especially in the extractive industry with its vast
getting tougher. Running a global operation means • Hear how Pacific Rubiales Energy worked with the global supply chain. And that’s before you take into
it’s essential for your people to properly understand Colombian Government on the country's account the rise of China. As developing countries
countries whose cultures and attitudes are very infrastructure and established their presence in come increasingly into the equation, reaching
different from their own, and an innocent mistake the country effective supplier agreements becomes ever more of
can have serious consequences. ICMM’s Aidan Davy • Learn about upcoming regulations and how the a challenge. Moreover, once you’re involved with a
warns: “Companies that fail to respect indigenous Dodd Frank Act 2010 will impact on your global supplier, it can be very difficult to terminate your
peoples’ rights and interests are more likely to operations arrangement – and making the break in any event
become embroiled in local and regional disputes and is often not the best solution. Suppliers need to
• How to engage communities and integrate them
conflicts”. In short, a one-size-fits-all model doesn’t adjust to your social and environmental requests.
into your workforce
work. In this session find out about the processes and And more important, they need to understand why
management structures used by Barrick Gold on their • Practical information on how Marathon Oil has it’s crucial for them to do so. But how do you strike
successful community relations schemes including a increased their stakeholder engagement with groups
a balance between policing a supply chain and
project in Chile which has resulted in new homes for located near assets to better understand their needs
remedying it?
3000 people, technology for schools and tailored Marathon Oil, Amy Mifflin, Social Programs Manager
• Find out how to effectively evaluate suppliers by
business training for local people: Pacific Rubiales Energy, Fredrico Restrepo, Vice President
Corporate Affairs
tailoring questionnaires and scorecards to your
• Expert advice on the best way to develop specific needs
productive – and profitable – relationships with
• How to ensure your suppliers do not merely agree
indigenous peoples
on paper.
• Find out how Barrick Gold implement their Measure the success of your • Proven strategies to get suppliers to understand –
policies on the ground. How do you get site staff
CSR initiatives: Develop powerful and live up to – the social and environmental
on board with CSR strategies?
reporting techniques and standards you require
• Practical information to help you quickly identify
benchmark • How far down the supply chain do you need to
the needs of different stakeholders – and secure
go to effectively monitor your social and
their co-operation
In the current financial climate, calculating the environmental risks?
• How to be responsible corporate citizens without value of your CSR policies is vital. But how can you Shell, Rebecca Nadel, Senior Regional Ventures Support
taking on the role of government get your hands on meaningful and measurable Integrator
Barrick Gold, Peter Sinclair, Vice President Corporate Social results? What’s needed is a tailor-made
Responsibility comprehensive reporting program. One that enables
CBSR, Trevor Hindmarch, Senior CSR Advisor you to identify key sustainability issues and report
ExxonMobil, Senior Level Speaker to be confirmed shortly. back to your stakeholder groups. This session walks
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5. DAY 2 AGENDA 22 June 2011
Case Study: How ArcelorMittal Fracking: Establish health and Human rights violations:
has preserved access to water safety best practices and How to safeguard your operations
supplies - and minimized the minimize controversy from breaches of policy
impact on the local environment There’s no doubt about it: Fracking equals UN Special Advisor on Business and Human Rights,
A recent Ethical Corporation report, “Unlocking the profits controversy. In central Arkansas, where 800 Professor John Ruggie, has delivered his new
in Water Savings”, reveals that 99% of sustainability earthquakes were recorded in just six months, two Protect, Respect, Remedy framework.
managers say water is currently a “top-of-my-agenda” natural gas companies agreed to suspend use of Guidelines such as ISO26000 on social
item. In this session ArcelorMittal will present a case injection wells. A New York Times investigative series responsibility have now been updated to reflect his
study on their Sustain Our Great Lakes programme, which on the dangers associated with fracking has resulted work. Playing out against a backdrop of violence
has restored 9000 acres of wetland, coastal and upland in officials declaring a moratorium on new activities and continuing uncertainty in the Middle East and
habitat. What are your peers doing to cut water usage? until the middle of 2011 at the earliest. And then renewed criticisms of health and safety practices on
How much money can a savvy water usage strategy there’s the impact of the Oscar-nominated movie, extractive sites, this session will get you up to speed
Gasland. Nonetheless, the shift from oil to natural with policy changes you need to consider:
save you? And what else should you be doing to
gas is gaining momentum with Halliburton leading
minimize irrevocable damage to the local landscapes? • How to carry out due diligence on human rights
the way to mitigate environmental challenges by
• The benefits of measuring your water use for swapping usual fracking chemicals with materials • Expert tips on innovative human rights policy for
specific projects sourced entirely from the food industry: operating in conflict zones
• How ArcelorMittal worked with communities and • Practical information from Halliburton on the • Human rights integration: Best practice methods
issued grants to minimize damage to local habitats potential alternatives to traditional fracturing to ensure your detailed guidelines are integrated
• Essential data to highlight how ArcelorMittal has chemicals. In what ways are these alternatives within corporate culture and management systems
minimized their water and carbon footprints to beneficial to your company? • How to develop better labor relations – and
make crucial savings • How to challenge environmental groups by maximize efficiency
• How to identify – and calculate – risk from your responding effectively to criticisms and ensuring Rio Tinto, Matt Jeschke, Regional Communities Manager
water management and footprint creation all your processes are transparent Syncrude, Kara Flynn, Public Affairs Manager
strategies • Best practice from Halliburton on the fracture
ArcelorMittal, Heather Loebner, Executive Director mapping technology that mitigates environmental
ArcelorMittal USA Foundation and CR Governance Board risk to water sources
• Sensible solutions on how best to liaise with local
Project finance: Meeting
communities, explain your safeguards against the banking sector’s lending
Bridging the gap: Put CSR potential risks, and highlight benefits requirements
Halliburton, Robert Sherman, Global Manager Health,
strategies into action across Safety Sustainability Since 2003, the Equator Principles have been the
a global site network WWF, Suzanne Apple, Vice President and Managing recognized guidelines companies need to follow in
Director Business and Industry order to secure project finance. Over 70 banks conform
Your site managers and their staff understand to the Equator Principles today, making it more
environmental and operational issues. But there is important than ever to fully understand the
often a knowledge gap when it comes to dealing requirements. What’s more, the IFC’s (International
with social issues. So how can you bring boardroom Finance Corporation) latest sustainability guidelines
strategies to life, and make them work on sites on environment, health and safety are making it even
across the globe – especially in places where tougher and more complex to get your latest projects
legislation can change rapidly and communities can off the ground. This session shows you how to make
be divided over the right approach to take? the strongest possible case for project finance:
• Tried and tested ways of encouraging buy-in from • The best way to structure your application
local operational staff • First-hand advice: What potential investors want
• Sensible solutions for dealing with on-site to see
operational issues • What CSR standards must you reach to satisfy
• Equip your operators with the skills they require investment requirements?
to handle social issues with ease • Use results from social impact assessment to
• Learn how to structure the training and support your bid application
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Operating in conflict zones: Improve your reputation: Case Study: Suncor Energy -
Structuring your operations Get your message across to the Thinking about the future: The
to minimize financial risk media and stakeholder groups Oil Sands and their importance
to the industry
When it comes to exploration, extractive companies How long will it take BP to recover from the
have always needed to mix pragmatism and The world is shrinking. The number of economically
Deepwater Horizon disaster – or has its reputation
idealism. But with this year’s wave of popular and politically sensitive areas is growing. And the
been tainted, and if so, how many billion dollars high risk extractive sector is growing even riskier.
uprisings sweeping the Middle East – and long-
will continue to haemorrhage from its bottom line There’s an urgent need to deliver solutions that
standing rulers ejected from office – how are ‘the
rules’ changing? We’ve seen companies like ENI, in the years ahead? protect ways of life and the environment and enable
TOTAL and BP evacuate their people from Libya. How our corporations to co-exist peacefully in these
Even more pertinently, how can you stop
locations. These challenges are encapsulated by the
can a company integrate themselves both politically your own company’s good name being rapidly need to move forward in extracting the Oil Sands
and socially into a country? Chevron has amassed destroyed if the worst should ever happen? And and fully grasp the benefits that natural gas
great experience across the globe of operating
in the meantime, are you doing everything extraction can bring to North American economies
successfully in locations that are culturally different
possible to share your successes and tap into currently overly reliant on imported oil. However,
and lacking cohesive political stability. Find out how how can this be done both responsibly and
new communication channels to broadcast your
they tailor their management frameworks to each efficiently causing minimal impact to communities
site in which they operate. Access to supplies is vital mission statement and goals?
and the environment? In this session, Suncor
no matter how perilous the political climate. But • How to develop and strengthen ties with Energy, the first company to extract the Oil Sands
what’s the safest way to organize operations in the the media – and project a more positive image share their story. This closing session will leave you
least stable countries in the world? with plenty of food for thought – and help spur
• Utilize new communications channels
• Preparing – and updating – contingency plans to ongoing discussion and debate with your peers:
and improve brand awareness with sustainability
ensure safety of staff and supplies with minimal • Learn how Suncor Energy has developed a sustainable
measures and new partnerships water usage scheme for its extraction processes
damage and loss
• How best to handle negative situations – lessons • Tools to help the sector develop a unified natural gas
• Best practice guidance on handling crises and
evacuations with minimal business impact learned from other companies’ disasters extraction strategy in the North American tar sands
• Risk management: Preparing a convincing • Best practice on minimizing the social and
• How to build trust within communities – and
environmental impact of extracting the Oil Sands
alleviate tension – by collaborating with key PR strategy to combat and alleviate potential
stakeholder groups crisis situations • Suncor Energy share their community strategy for
engaging First Nations people by supporting
• Learn how best to approach political situations Omya, James Hamilton, Vice President of Environmental
business and incorporating local entrepreneur
both nationally and globally - and act in the best and External Affairs
into the company value chain
interests of the company and its reputation CLF Ventures, Jasmine Tanguay, Associate Managing Suncor Energy, Patricia O'Reilly, Vice President
Chevron, Silvia Garrigo, Manager Global Issues Director Communications and Public Affairs
Acknowledgements to our Panel of Experts
We would like to express special acknowledgment to our panel of experts who have really helped us zone into the core topics of this agenda.
# Talisman Energy, Jim O’Driscoll, Vice President # TOTAL, Bertrand Janus, Sustainable Development # Halliburton, Bob Sherman, Global Manager
External Relations Environment Manager Health, Safety Sustainability
# ExxonMobil, Noa Gimelli, Corporate Citizenship # Vedanta, Tony Henshaw, Chief Sustainability
Advisor # Suncor Energy, Patricia O’Reilly, Vice President
Officer
Communications Public Affairs
# Hess Corporation, Doug Maddams, Social # BHP Billiton, Doris Thompson, Community
Responsibility Advisor # Freeport-McMoran, Shari Knoerzer, Director
Relations Advisor
# Vale, Cory McPhee, Director Corporate Public Social Responsibility
Affairs # Chevron, Lauren Berry, Corporate Responsibility
Advisor # Baker Hughes, Melanie Brook-Lander, Health,
# Newmont, Chris Anderson, Director Corporate
External Affairs # ArcelorMittal, Charlotte Wolff, Corporate Safety Environment Director
# ENI, Roberto Bossi, Sustainability Planning Responsibility Manager
# Hess Corporation, Armand Zantman, Social
Manager # ArcelorMittal, Heather Loebner, Executive Responsibility Advisor
# Rio Tinto, John Hall, Corporate Relations Director USA Foundation and Corporate
Manager Responsibility Manager # CBSR, Trevor Hindmarch, Senior CSR Advisor
# CDC Group, Niclas During, ESG Manager # Noble Energy, David Shelfer # CBSR, Maria Jose Ramos, CSR Advisor
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Barrick Gold, Peter Sinclair, Vice Shell, Rebecca Nadel, Senior Royal Bank of Scotland, Tim Rio Tinto, Matt Jeschke, Regional
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Pacific Rubiales Energy,
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Sustainability Omya, James Hamilton, Vice Senior Social Environmental
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Xstrata, Elvie Granchero,
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