Ports-to-Plains Alliance Colorado Regional Meeting July 12, 2012 May Farms, Byers, CO The Ports-to-Plains Alliance: An Overview Duffy Hinkle, Vice President of Membership & Marketing, Ports-to-Plains Alliance The Alliance membership, mission, advocacy efforts focusing on rural transportation and economic development will be highlighted.

1. Duffy Hinkle
Vice President of Membership & Marketing
COLORADO REGIONAL MEETING

2. Economic development has
historically followed
transportation…
Rivers…Seaports…Railroads…
And today the Highways

4. THE BEGINNING
YEARS…
•1998 – General Federal
Happy
Designation in TEA-21
Tulia
Plainview
Hale Center •2001 – Appropriations Bill
New Deal
Abernathy
authorized the route
through Texas
•Oct. 30, 2002 – Remainder
of the Corridor (OK, NM,
CO) was approved in an
independent bill signed by
the President
•2005 – Colorado portion of
Heartland Expressway
designated in SAFETEA-LU

6. Mark Barr – Big Spring, TX
Brad Bekkedahl – Williston, ND
Chairman Justin Bennett – Des Moines, NM
Steve Burgess – Limon, CO
John Bertsch – Plainview, TX
Board Members English Ramsey Cantu – Eagle Pass, TX
Sid Cauthorn – Del Rio, TX
Gil Cisneros – Denver, CO
Chris Cornell – San Angelo, TX
Mark Barr – Big Spring, TX
Buzz David – Amarillo, TX
Travis Hiner – Scottsbluff, NE
John Friess – Sonora, TX
Beverly Haggard – Lamar, CO
Todd McKee – Lubbock, TX
Dwain Morrison – San Angelo, TX
Dave Nix – Lamesa, TX
Milton Pax – Dumas, TX
Gaynelle Riffe – Stratford, TX
Board
Staff Penny Peryatel – Raton, NM
Members Len Mitzel – Alberta, Canada

8. SAFETY Watch
out!!!
• Rural fatality rates 2.5
times higher than urban
roadways
• Completion of PTP
projected to reduce
accidents by the following
rates:
– Texas – 47%
– Oklahoma – 44%
– New Mexico – 33%
– Colorado – 28%

9. THE ALLIANCE HAS 6 OF THE TOP 10 AG
PRODUCING STATES IN THE NATION

10. WHO BUYS U.S. FARM PRODUCTS?
All figures are in U.S. Dollars
Source: U.S. Dept of Commerce, Census Bureau, August 2009

11. PORTS-TO-PLAINS HAS 9
OF THE TOP 10 STATES
FOR WIND ENERGY
POTENTIAL
U.S. Annual Average
Wind Power

12. OIL AND GAS
CORRIDOR
8 of the top 10 oil producing states
5 of the top 6 natural gas producing states

13. PORTS-TO-PLAINS STATES
• 16,000 employees
• Approximately $2.8 billion in royalties
and taxes paid to Provincial, State and
Local governments
• 82 million barrels of oil produced annually
• Almost 1.5 trillion cubic feet of natural
gas production annually
• 4 refineries
• 7800 miles of pipeline

14. PROVINCE OF ALBERTA
JOINS ALLIANCE IN MAY 2009

15. and

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17. and
Similar economies…
OIL & AGRICULTURE
Means opportunities for more
growth

18. “ALBERTA’S OIL SANDS – CANADA’S GREATEST BURIED ENERGY TREASURE”
– TIME MAGAZINE
Worlds Oil Reserves

19. WHO DO YOU TRUST?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

20. WHO DO YOU TRUST?
Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Alberta Premier Alison Redford

21. • Development of eastern
corridor to improve freight
flow, especially to Ft
McMurray, rural economic
development
• Less congested alternative
to other highways and
border crossings
• Expand Port of Wild Horse

22. MEXICO PARTNERS

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24. COAHUILA, MEXICO
• Torreon – “New Blue Jeans
Capital of the World”
• Monclova – 3 wind tower /
turbine plants
• Acuña – Upgrading customs
facility
• Piedras Negras – new
brewery, major rail crossing

25. Federal
Advocacy

27. FEDERAL ADVOCACY EFFORTS
 TRANSPORTATION REAUTHORIZATION BILL
• 110 Ports-to-Plains Members signed letter of support
• Many of Ports-to-Plains Alliance recommendations were
included in Map21 signed by the President on July 6, 2012
 Cross Border Issues
• Wild Horse Crossing
• Trade Issues
 Forums for education
• Energy & Agriculture Issues

28. Keystone XL Pipeline

33. WHAT CAN YOU DO?
• OUR POWER AND SUCCESS COMES
FROM AN ENGAGED, ACTIVE
GRASSROOTS MEMBERSHIP
• LET ELECTED OFFICIALS KNOW
PORTS-TO-PLAINS IS IMPORTANT
TO THE LOCAL ECONOMY AND
YOUR BUSINESS
• ATTEND PORTS-TO-PLAINS

34. PARTNERS WORKING TOGETHER
TO SECURE THE BENEFITS OF COMMERCE TO NORTH AMERICA'S ENERGY & AGRICULTURAL HEARTLAND