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SUMMARY REPORT REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT WORKSHOP

FORT SIMPSON, NWT

FEBRUARY 14-15, 2017

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) is leading the development of the NWT Climate Change Strategic Framework and the Department of Public Works and Services (PWS) is leading the development of the NWT Energy Strategy. In parallel with this work, the federal Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) is leading the development of a Northern Adaptation Strategy and Health Canada is renewing the Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program.

Given the linkages between these different initiatives, the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT), INAC and Health Canada collaborated to organize regional workshops across the NWT to gather input on various energy and climate change issues and concerns.

On February 14-15, 2017 an invitational workshop was held at the Recreation Centre Community Hall in Fort Simpson. A total of 28 people attended the workshop – 12 from Aboriginal, community and regional organizations, 2 from non-governmental organizations, 1 from the private sector, and 13 from the GNWT, Government of Canada or Crown agencies. Additionally, two teachers and the grade 5/6 class from Bompas Elementary School attended for approximately half of the workshop. A public Open House was held during the evening of February 14th to engage with residents who might not have been able to attend the workshop during the day.

The workshop format involved several different sessions, each of which started with brief presentations, followed by breakout group discussions. The first day of the workshop focused on energy issues and in the breakout groups two themes reoccurred throughout all three sessions: the GNWT needs to provide more funding and education to support energy efficiency and conservation initiatives; and communication and partnerships across all levels of government and industry is needed to engage communities in energy projects and strategies.

The first session was led by the Department of Public Works and Services, to outline the NWT’s current energy system, the GNWT’s current renewable energy projects, and information on the potential use of renewable energy technologies in the NWT. Participants stated that when considering renewable energy projects, the GNWT needs to build region or community specific solutions and involve the community to the fullest extent. Geothermal was considered to be the best renewable energy for the Dehcho, with biomass and solar playing a role, despite their limitations. Education on energy use and conservation was lacking throughout the communities in the area and needed to be improved to help residents understand energy generation and develop solutions that reduce consumption and the cost of living.

The second session opened with a presentation from the Arctic Energy Alliance (AEA) on energy efficiency, energy conservation and AEA programs. The breakout groups noted that

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existing energy efficiency and conservation programs could be improved through increased education and communication about existing programs, and by expanding programs to further reduce the upfront costs to projects. It was noted that programs and funds should be directed towards large population centers and industry to see the largest reductions in pollution from energy generation, and towards land users and community collectives to help address the ever increasing cost of living in the NWT.

The third session focused on the NWT’s energy future. This session followed a different format than the earlier two sessions and did not solicit as much response from the participants in regards to an energy vision for the NWT. Participants felt that the NWT needed to help communities reduce fossil fuel use by investing in local, renewable energy projects. In addition, it was felt that industry should be encouraged to reduce emissions, and that the NWT should not be hampered by a greenhouse gas target.

The second day of the workshop focused on climate change impacts and adaptation. Some of the topics discussed over the course of the day were: impacts are being felt across the region but they are still largely not understood; adaptation funding works best at a local level but is often limited by community capacity; increasing partnerships and improving communication is key to building resiliency; and, the opportunities that come with our changing climate need to be properly identified and harnessed.

Environment and Natural Resources led the fourth session and explained climate change impacts, knowledge, monitoring and assessments. During the discussions, participants noted various locally observed climate change impacts in the region and spoke at length on how to improve monitoring and understanding of these impacts. Some of the key suggestions from this breakout session were to support community-based monitoring, help form partnerships between communities, monitoring agencies and researchers, involve industry in monitoring, and improve communication about research and monitoring results.

The final session explored the concepts of climate change adaptation and resilience. The breakout groups identified positive and negative climate change impacts, with overall concern for the lack of baseline knowledge in the area, a lack of knowledge on the impacts occurring, the loss of traditional knowledge with changing climatic conditions, and the need for more capacity and funding for local adaptation programs and projects. Participants also identified some potential opportunities that may arise due to climate change, and spoke of how resilient the people of the Dehcho have been to past climatic changes.

With the feedback received through the engagement process, the GNWT and their federal partners will continue improving and developing the various strategies that will guide energy and climate change issues moving forward.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . . . . . . . i

1.0 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . 11.1 Workshop Objectives and Agenda . . . . . 11.2 Workshop Participants . . . . . . 21.3 Energy Site Tour . . . . . . . 21.4 Public Information Session . . . . . . 2

2.0 WORKSHOP RESULTS . . . . . . . 32.1 Day 1: EnergyStrategy . . . . . . 3

Session #1: Renewable and Alternative Energy Development 3Session #2: Energy Efficiency and Conservation Initiatives . 4Session #3: Long-term Energy and Emissions Vision . . 6

2.2 Day 2: Climate Change Strategic Framework . . . 7Session #4: Knowledge, Monitoring and Risk Assessments . 7Session #5: Resilience and Adaptation . . . . 9

3.0 CONCLUSIONS / NEXT STEPS . . . . . . 11

APPENDIX A . . . . . . . . . . 13

APPENDIX B . . . . . . . . . . 15

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1.0 INTRODUCTION

To respond to concerns about the impacts of climate change and the need to reduce fossil fuel usage, energy costs and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has committed to develop a NWT Climate Change Strategic Framework and a NWT Energy Strategy.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) is leading the development of the NWT Climate Change Strategic Framework and the Department of Public Works and Services (PWS) is leading the development of the NWT Energy Strategy.

In parallel with the work described above, the federal Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) is leading the development of a Northern Adaptation Strategy that will help strengthen climate change adaptation efforts in Yukon, NWT, Nunavut, Nunavik (northern Quebec) and Nunatsiavut (northern Labrador). As well, Health Canada is renewing its Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program (CCHAP) which provides funding to address human health impacts resulting from climate change.

Given the linkages between these different initiatives, the GNWT (ENR and PWS) organized regional workshops across the NWT to gather input from Aboriginal organizations, community governments, institutions (regulatory, planning, co-management), business and industry, non-governmental organizations and residents on various energy and climate change issues and concerns. INAC and Health Canada provided financial and technical support to the GNWT for these workshops and sent representatives to most of the workshops.

On February 14-15, 2017 an invitational workshop was held at the Recreation Centre Community Hall in Fort Simpson. To engage with residents, a public Open House session was held during the evening of February 14th. A facilitator was hired to provide support during the workshop.

1.1 Workshop Objectives and Agenda

The main objectives for the workshop were to:

Discuss content for the NWT Climate Change Strategic Framework; Discuss energy planning and the NWT Energy Strategy; and, Discuss regional concerns, priorities and actions.

The workshop started with greetings from the facilitator and some opening remarks from Mr. John Vandenberg (Assistant Deputy Minister, Energy Planning, Public Works and Services). Grand Chief Norwegian (Dehcho First Nation) gave opening remarks, and Chief

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Antoine (Liidlii Kue First Nation) guided the opening prayer, followed by a drum song accompanied by three youth from Bompas Elementary School.

The opening comments were followed by a short presentation to provide the participants with an overview of the topics for discussion and explain how the participants’ feedback would be used to help inform the various climate change and energy initiatives under development. A presentation was also provided to introduce the participants to INAC’s Northern Renewable Energy Approach for Community Heat and Electricity program. The balance of the first day focused on energy supply, energy efficiency and energy visioning.

The second day started with an opening prayer by Chief Norwegian (Jean Marie River First Nation), followed by presentations from Health Canada about Health Canada and INAC climate change funding programs. The remainder of the day focused on climate change impacts, monitoring, risk and vulnerability assessments, and adaptation planning and projects.

A copy of the agenda is provided in Appendix A.

1.2 Workshop Participants

In total, twenty-eight (28) participants attended the workshop. A breakdown of the participants is:

- 12 participants from Aboriginal, community and regional organizations- 2 participants from non-governmental organizations- 1 participant from the private sector- 13 participants from the GNWT, Government of Canada and Crown agencies

In addition, two teachers and the grade 5/6 class from Bompas Elementary School attended the workshop for approximately half of the workshop.

A list of the participants is provided in Appendix B.

1.3 Energy Site Tour

The February 14th workshop was followed by a site visit to the Fort Simpson centralized biomass boiler that heats two schools and the recreation centre. The site was visited by approximately 10 people.

1.4 Public Information Session

During the evening of February 14, 2017 a public Open House was held at the Fort Simpson Recreation Centre to provide information about the workshop and the various topics and

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initiatives under discussion. The Open House was attended by approximately 10 people and lasted from 7:00 to 8:30 pm.

2.0 WORKSHOP RESULTS

The format for the workshop consisted of a series of sessions that focused on different topics. On Day 1, there were three energy sessions and on Day 2 there were two climate change sessions. Each session started with brief presentations, followed by breakout group discussions and ended with reports back from each breakout group to the plenary group.

The results of all the breakout group discussions were recorded. During each session, the breakout groups prepared three key messages, based on their discussion results. The results are summarized below.

2.1 Day 1: Energy

Session #1: Renewable and Alternative Energy Development

Session #1 started with two presentations from the Department of Public Works and Services. The first presentation, entitled “2017 Energy Strategy” provided information on the NWT’s current energy system, including statistics on the NWT’s energy supply and usage, energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions. The priorities used by the GNWT for energy planning purposes were also mentioned. The second presentation, entitled “Renewable and Alternative Energy” outlined the GNWT’s current renewable energy projects and provided some background on the pros and cons of using different renewable energy technologies (solar, wind, hydroelectricity, and biomass) in NWT communities.

The breakout groups used the following questions to help initiate and support their discussions:

How do you want to get involved in energy projects? How can your community become an energy leader? How can the GNWT support energy projects? What renewable or alternative energy technologies would be best for your

community? Why?

The key themes and results from this session included:

Education on energy use and conservation – Participants pointed to the lack of education and outreach on energy use, generation, efficiency and conservation in the communities. Improving knowledge of how energy is produced and used in the communities was identified as a key way to address the high cost of living and environmental concerns in the region. Involving the youth in these initiatives, incorporating energy discussion into school curricula, and having energy experts

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visit schools were seen as critical to successful outreach. It was also considered important to have examples of cost savings associated with energy efficiency or conservation actions.

Alternatives need to be region specific and community-driven – Alternative energy solutions are not one size fits all; the local resources and specific circumstances of communities need to be taken into consideration when proposing or considering new energy projects. The importance of community led projects, or at least allowing community input early and throughout projects, was highlighted as being important to successful energy projects.

Geothermal is the energy of choice in the Dehcho – Multiple workshop attendees spoke in support of geothermal energy production in the Dehcho. The geothermal resources in the Dehcho, specifically around Fort Liard and Sambaa K’e, should be reinvestigated and an attempt to develop them should be made. This was largely seen as a solution to the high costs of heating and powering the communities of the Dehcho and is a clean, renewable energy.

Solar, mounted on roofs with batteries, and wood heat were seen as energy solutions that are currently available and should be implemented now. Wind was positively perceived, but there were doubts about the wind in the area being strong enough to generate power. Hydroelectricity was not seen as a viable alternative in the region, especially with the adverse effects of the Bennett Dam on the NWT; though a run-of-river dam study had been undertaken recently in the Dehcho and residents felt there had not been reporting back on the results.

Shared costs of renewable energy projects – The costs of renewable projects are often a hindrance to their uptake. This could be resolved by the cost sharing of projects between residents and industry. Having industry invest in communities and community energy supplies would make them more cost effective and reduce the cost of living for residents.

Session #2: Improving Energy Efficiency and Conservation

Session #2 opened with a presentation from the Arctic Energy Alliance (AEA) on energy efficiency, energy conservation and AEA programs. A number of different energy efficiency measures and funding programs were described.

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What can we all do to improve our energy use? How would you improve energy efficiency programs (access and what they cover)? What can be done at the community level to improve efficiency? What can the GNWT do to help Northerners overcome barriers to being more

efficient?


Solutions can be incremental and don’t have to be large scale - Multiple examples of small solutions were provided, including programmable thermostats, timers on vehicles and using clotheslines. People were receptive to changing behaviors with more information about energy saving options.

Costs and lack of information are key obstacles to energy efficiency – Information available for decision making could be improved by offering educational pamphlets and demonstrations, while homeowners could be targeted by increasing the number of energy audits taking place in communities. Businesses would benefit from education on the cost-savings of energy efficient appliances and upgrades. Increasing awareness, through the promotion of existing AEA programs, was seen as the best way to improve energy efficiency in communities.

Focus on large emitters and population centers – Participants noted that the largest reductions in energy use could be realized by the largest users of energy, namely industrial sites and large communities. Focusing programs on these energy users would allow for larger reductions in energy use and see the most benefit.

Outreach is important – Raising the level of education and awareness about energy use, conservation and efficiency needs to be the focus of government. Communities could also increase their involvement in solutions by developing local energy committees.

Provide support to land users and community collectives – Programs aimed at land-users who might be using older equipment (such as boat motors, snow machines and all-terrain vehicles), and community collectives (such as wood marshaling yards, freezers or shared equipment), would help see reductions in fuel use. Often land-users do not replace their equipment for many years, and targeted incentives could help replace them with more fuel efficient models. Community collectives are

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already helping to reduce emissions through the sharing of resources and could be encouraged to do more of this with incentives.

Session #3: Energy Visioning

Session #3 opened with a brief presentation on what the NWT’s energy future might look like. It was noted that 25 of the NWT’s 33 communities are remote and rely on imported diesel fuel for electricity and heating. This isn’t sustainable in the long term so what should the NWT’s energy sector look like in the future?

Rather than breakout groups, it was decided to have an open discussion with the room about the five questions listed below.

How can we work as partners to support the transition to using less fossil fuels? Should the NWT set a price on fuel as proposed by the federal government? How should money from a carbon tax be spent? Should the NWT set greenhouse gas emission or renewable energy targets as part of

its vision? What types of projects can make significant contributions to keeping our energy

costs stable and also reducing our GHG emissions?


Community ownership or buy-in to energy projects is important – Private sector at a local level and community governments need to be involved in energy generation. Community-based projects should always be available to communities, if they would like to pursue them. The GNWT needs to cooperate with communities to help them access funding and expertise to develop their own energy projects.

Build trust in technologies using pilot projects – Pilot projects help to work out the issues with technologies and build confidence in their use. The GNWT is essential to funding and undertaking pilot projects with new technologies, as they have access to funding and expertise. An example is how GNWT pellet boiler installations were important in increasing the use of biomass for heat and have helped develop the market in the NWT. Participants felt that combined heat and power biomass systems, and geothermal power and heat were new technologies that the GNWT could be piloting and developing in the Dehcho.

Use policy initiatives to promote the use of renewables in industry – Participants felt it was important to use policy initiatives to encourage or force industry to adopt renewable energy technologies and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

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Targets are not necessary in the NWT – Participants felt that a greenhouse gas target was unnecessary in the NWT. The sacrifices that might be necessary to meet a target were seen as unacceptable to the economy of the NWT, and moving to expensive technologies, from cheap, reliable oil would increase the already high cost of living. It was also noted that technological advances might make targets unnecessary.

2.2 Day 2: Climate Change Knowledge, Resilience and Adaptation

Session #4: Climate Change Impacts, Knowledge and Monitoring

Session #4 opened with a presentation entitled “Climate Change Impacts and Knowledge” that showed current and potential climate impacts in the region and explained the importance of gathering knowledge about these impacts to guide decision-making and support adaptation efforts. Two key sources of knowledge include scientific research and monitoring, and traditional and local knowledge. The presentation went on to outline different approaches to monitoring and explain how risk and vulnerability assessments can be used as a tool for understanding the implications of climate change for planning purposes.


Research and monitoring - What are the gaps or priorities that communities are concerned about? How can government (federal, GNWT, regional) best work with researchers and communities to support research and monitoring projects and share results?

Community-based monitoring - Are communities interested in having more community-based monitoring activities? What kinds? What is required to make this happen?

Risk / vulnerability assessments - What are the risk / vulnerability gaps and priorities that communities are concerned about?

How should traditional and local knowledge be accessed and used?


Impacts on the land are being experienced – All the breakout groups expressed concerns about how climate change is impacting the land in the Dehcho. The major concerns were river-bank stability, thawing permafrost along waterways and inland, changes in water quality and quantity, increased contaminants in fish and wildlife, and changes in animal behaviour.

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Community profiles should be created – Participants felt that profiles describing the current climate change impacts, research and adaptation actions in each community should be developed. These profiles would help identify gaps in knowledge or actions that need to be taken. These profiles should be available online so anyone can access them.

Support for community-based monitoring – The workshop participants felt that community-based, and more importantly, community-driven, research is very important in the NWT and should be increased. Community-driven research allows communities to be involved in research and in setting research priorities. Community-driven research could be encouraged by facilitating research-scoping meetings between communities and researchers, developing policies on how traditional knowledge is used in research, and forming partnerships between research organizations and communities. Participants identified projects where researchers or government organizations paid land-users for samples that they were interested in studying (e.g., the Department of Fisheries and Oceans office in Inuvik paid for invasive fish samples) as being particularly successful and beneficial. These projects supported both land-users and data-gathers.

A lack of capacity was identified as the number one limitation around community-based monitoring programs. To deal with the capacity issues, participants suggested that a community-liaison position be developed. The position could be based in communities or regions and be responsible for coordinating funding and research. Participants noted that there is a lot of funding available for community-based research and monitoring, and though increased funding would be beneficial, improving access to current funding through a community-liaison would be more efficient.

Partnerships between researchers and communities – In order to address the capacity issues that often exist in communities, participants identified partnerships—especially with research and monitoring organizations—as being very important. Through partnerships with communities, researchers can gain access to traditional/local knowledge, add legitimacy to their research, and build connections between different research organizations working in the area. It was noted that proper respect and use of traditional knowledge is extremely important, and that communities should clearly outline expectations of researchers in partnership agreements, especially around the use of traditional knowledge by researchers.

Industry has a role to play in monitoring – Participants noted that industry employees spend a large amount of time in often remote locations. Industry was

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among the first to begin taking notice of climate change impacts and has a role to play in monitoring. Opportunities exist to include industry in monitoring and in developing solutions for adapting to climate change impacts. Land and water boards could help facilitate this cooperation.

Better communication of research and monitoring results – Participants identified that information from environmental research and monitoring is often not properly spread to the impacted communities. Researchers should be encouraged to present results to schools in the NWT. Another way to increase knowledge of the research and monitoring is to create a central information organization, responsible for tracking projects and communicating results to NWT residents.

Session #5: Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience

Session #5 started with a presentation entitled “Adaptation and Resilience” that defined the concepts of adaptation and resilience and explained how an adaptive management approach can be used to support planning and decision-making efforts when there is uncertainty about how the climate is changing. The presentation went on to outline four categories of climate resilience and adaptation action: ecosystem management; infrastructure and built environment; health and public safety; and, culture and heritage.


Do the following four categories – Ecosystems, Infrastructure, Health and Safety and Culture and Heritage – capture the impacts and adaptation actions you are most concerned about?

Within these four categories, what impacts are you most concerned about in your region or community? What specific adaptation actions do you think would help address these impacts?

What opportunities could climate change bring to this region? What barriers are there to resilience and adaptation planning and/or actions? How

can these barriers be overcome? Are there examples of successful climate change collaborations in your community

between groups, agencies and businesses? What factors have contributed to the success of these collaborations?


The four impact categories work well – PBarticipants generally felt that the categories captured all of the impacts that are occurring in the region. There were concerns about impacts in each of these categories, including:

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o Permafrost thaw, and resulting land slumps and river erosion;o Loss of culturally significant sites and artifacts due to thaw slumps;o Deceasing water quality and quantity in the region;o Changes in wildlife behaviour, and invasive animals moving into the area;o Food security and changes in the accessibility of country foods and

increasing contamination of these foods (e.g., increased mercury in fish);o Changes in ice conditions impacting the safety of land users;o Changes in vegetation in the area; and,o Increasing numbers of forest fires due to drought, and associated impacts

such as damage to infrastructure, reduced animal habitat and increasing numbers of morel pickers in the area.

There is a lack of environmental information – Participants felt that there is a lack of environmental baseline information, and also a lack of information on climate change impacts in the NWT. It was noted that it is important to have baseline information - either from traditional/local knowledge or from research – to inform adaptive management. Without baseline information new decision-makers might not realize how much the land has changed and what impacts have already taken place. Ongoing research into climate change impacts is also important to assess the rate, extent and consequences of these changes, and this research is lacking across much of the NWT.

Adaptation funding is necessary – Participants noted that where climate change impacts exist, it is often difficult to find funding and support for community-driven adaptation initiatives in response to these impacts. Community-driven adaptation funding should be available to communities for training community members and implementing adaptation actions. This funding should also be flexible to work with the limited capacity that communities often have when conducting work or applying for funding.

Loss of traditional knowledge – Several participants noted that as the climate of the NWT changes, traditional activities become more difficult to pursue and traditional knowledge becomes less reliable. The loss of traditional activities, plants and animals also impacts the language and identities of people. An example of this is that inland ice is often thinner now, making traditional trails and ice crossings less safe to use. Support for land-users, increased wilderness safety awareness and education, and programs designed to encourage people to be on the land were seen as ways to build a more resilient culture in the Dehcho.

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Opportunities that stem from impacts exist – Attendees identified opportunities that might come from climate change impacts such as increased agriculture, tourism and research. New animals and plants moving into the area also provide opportunity for additional food sources.

Participants noted that improved accessibility to the Horn Plateau and Nahanni National Park – through road building – would increase opportunities in tourism and mining. A center of climate excellence was also proposed as a way to capitalize on and encourage opportunities around climate change in the NWT. The center for climate excellence could bring together information sources involved in climate change and encourage research. Participants were in agreement that the people of the NWT would adapt to climate change impacts as they have in the past, but that funding and support from different levels of government would ease this adaptation.

3.0 CONCLUSIONS / NEXT STEPS

During the two-day workshop, the five key themes throughout were:

Communities need to be more strongly involved in local energy and climate change programs. This means developing funding programs that are easy to access and give money directly to communities to undertake their own projects;

Industry needs to be more engaged in energy and climate change solutions but cannot be driven out of the region by increased costs of business;

Outreach and education needs to be improved to allow NWT residents more information and understanding about energy solutions, climate change impacts and adaptation;

The cost of living in the Dehcho region is high. Energy solutions should not further increase these costs. Climate change impacts may cause increases if they are not properly understood and planned for; and,

Climate change is already impacting the Dehcho. Community-based monitoring programs that incorporate traditional and local knowledge need to be utilized to increase monitoring and understanding of these impacts.

All of these concerns suggest a necessity for improved collaboration between different levels of government (federal, territorial, Aboriginal, and local), industry, researchers and academics, and other key organizations (such as Arctic Energy Alliance, NWT Association of Communities and Ecology North).

At the end of the workshop, GNWT representatives thanked the participants for their time and generosity in sharing their knowledge and ideas. Participants were advised that the workshop results would be captured in a summary report that would be distributed to all participants.

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Looking forward, the GNWT and its federal partners (INAC and Health Canada) will use the workshop results to help inform their respective initiatives, which include:

NWT Energy Strategy (GNWT); NWT Climate Change Strategic Framework (GNWT); Northern Adaptation Strategy (INAC); and, Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program (Health Canada).

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APPENDIX A: WORKSHOP AGENDA

NWT CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK & NWT ENERGY STRATEGY

FORT SIMPSON INVITATIONAL WORKSHOPFort Simpson Community Hall (Recreation Centre), February 14-15, 2017

Day 1 – FEBRUARY 14ENERGY: HOW DO WE ADAPT AND MITIGATE OUR ENERGY USAGE? _________________________________________________________________________________________

8:30 – 9:00 Doors open – Coffee and conversation

9:00 – 9:30 Opening CommentsReview of Workshop Agenda

9:30 – 10:15 Setting the Stage: Opening Presentations on Climate Change and Energy

10:15 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 11:15 Presentations: Introduction to Energy in the NWT Renewable and Alternative Energy

11:15 – 12:15 Group Work #1: Supporting Renewable and Alternative Energy Development Participants will discuss and identify renewable and alternative energy solutions.

12:15 – 1:15 Lunch on site

1:15 – 1:30 Presentation: Energy Efficiency and Conservation

1:30 – 2:30 Group Work #2: Improving Energy Efficiency and ConservationParticipants will discuss these initiatives and additional initiatives they would like to see.

2:30 – 2:45 Break

2:45 – 3:00 Presentation: Electricity – Long Term Vision

3:00 – 4:00 Group Work #3: Developing a Long Term Vision for Energy in the NWTParticipants will discuss a long-term energy vision for the NWT.

4:00 – 4:15 Day 1 Wrap-up

4:15 – 5:00 Guided Tour for Participants (optional)

7:00 – 9:00 Information Session – Open to the Public

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NWT CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK & NWT ENERGY STRATEGY

FORT SIMPSON INVITATIONAL WORKSHOPFort Simpson Community Hall (Recreation Centre), February 14 & 15, 2017

Day 2 – FEBRUARY 15 CLIMATE CHANGE: KNOWLEDGE, RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION_____________________________________________________________________________________

8:30 – 9:00 Doors open – Coffee and conversation

9:00 – 9:15 Re-cap of Day 1 and Review of Day 2 Agenda

9:15 – 9:30 Presentations: Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program (CCHAP) Climate Change Preparedness in the North

9:30 – 9:45 Presentations: Climate Change Impacts and Knowledge Climate Change Monitoring and Risk/Vulnerability Assessments

9:45 – 10:30 Group Work #4: Climate Change Knowledge and Monitoring - Research Priorities

and ProjectsParticipants will identify knowledge and research gaps and priorities, as well as discuss monitoring programs and risk/vulnerability assessments.

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – Noon Group Work #4 (continued)

Noon – 1:00 Lunch on site

1:10 – 1:30 Presentation: Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience

1:30 – 3:00 Group Work #5: Climate Change Adaptation and ResilienceParticipants discuss how to plan and prioritize resilience and adaptation projects in the areas of ecosystem management; built environment and infrastructure; health and safety; and culture and heritage.

3:00 – 3:15 Break

3:15 – 3:45 Energy and Climate Change Wrap-up

Thank you for your presence and your contribution.

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APPENDIX B: LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Name OrganizationJohn Carr Arctic Energy Alliance

Bernie Leader Bompas Elementary Grades 5/6 Teacher

Leanne Jose Bompas Elementary Grades 5/6 Teacher

Wilbert Antoine Canadian Zinc

Barrett Lenoir Deh Gah Gotie First Nation

Herb Norwegian Dehcho First Nation

Chloe Dragon Smith Ecology North

Abigail Alty Environment and Natural Resources

Ben Linaker Environment and Natural Resources

Brian Sieben Environment and Natural Resources

Lisa Ratte Environment and Natural Resources

Wade Carpenter Public Works and Services

Steve Gooderman Environment and Natural Resources – Dehcho Office

Carl Lafferty Environment and Natural Resources –Dehcho Office

Daniel Petersen Fort Simpson Metis Nation

Marrissa White Health Canada

John Ritchie Industry, Tourism and Investment – Dehcho Office

Jerry Antoine Liidlii Kue First Nation

Jonas Antoine Liidlii Kue First Nation

Dean Holman Liidlii Kue First Nation

Steven Lenoir Liidlii Kue First Nation

Todd Roche Northwest Territories Power Corporation – Dehcho Office

Eileen Marlowe Public Works and Services

John Vandenberg Public Works and Services

Remi Gervais Public Works and Services

Dolphus Jumbo Sambaa K’e Dene Band

Mary Jane Cazon Translator

Gladys Norwegian TthedzehK’edeli First Nation

Margaret Ireland TthedzehK’edeli First Nation

Sasha Cayen West Point First Nation

Chelsea Thomas West Point First Nation

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