Stakeholder Engagement
The Alaska Pipeline Project is actively engaging with external stakeholders, including Alaska Natives and First Nations and other Canadian aboriginal peoples. Throughout the winter and spring of 2010 and 2011, the project's stakeholder engagement teams met with communities along the proposed pipeline corridor in Alaska and Canada to share information about the project and understand issues related to project development.
Our Approach
A key objective of the Alaska Pipeline Project is to achieve positive, long-term relationships with Alaska Natives, First Nations and other aboriginal groups and communities along the pipeline corridor. The project's approach to building these relationships is to conduct engagement activities in a meaningful way that fully supports the spirit of collaboration. We are committed to:
- Providing information in a timely manner.
- Seeking to understand issues and concerns that have been raised.
- Making reasonable efforts to avoid or mitigate expressed concerns or issues.
- Identifying and seeking to fully understand potential adverse impacts.
- Ensuring the scope of any impacts are effectively communicated and mitigation measures are determined collectively.
Information Sharing
The Alaska Pipeline Project will share many types of information with its stakeholders throughout the engagement process, including:
- Project description and schedules.
- Pipeline route and facility locations.
- Land access requirements for field programs, pipeline construction and facilities.
- Potential effects of the project on the community.
- Data collected from traditional knowledge studies.
- Environment and engineering field study program results.
- Employment and business opportunities.
- Training and educational opportunities.
In the winter and spring of 2011, the Alaska Pipeline Project conducted 40 community meetings in Alaska and Canada. The project met with interested parties in the communities along the proposed pipeline corridor, including residents, community organizations, industry associations and civic governments.
- In Alaska, the project conducted 24 community meetings along the proposed pipeline corridors, including the North Slope, Copper River Basin, the Interior regions, and coastal and port communities.
- In Canada, the project conducted 16 community meetings in the Yukon Territory and Northeast British Columbia.
If you would like to provide comments to the Alaska Pipeline Project's stakeholder engagement team or have any questions, please complete a Comment Form
See the listing of 2011 stakeholder engagement and other community meetings.
Review the presentation materials provided at the community meetings.
Leadership and Community Meeting Project Update – Alaska
Community Meeting Project Update - Canada