Outreach Action Plan
As of March 2010, the PCOR Partnership region covers all or part of nine states and four Canadian provinces and has a total population of nearly 30 million in 9 million households. During Years 3 through 8 of the Phase III U.S. Department of Energy Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Program, the PCOR Partnership outreach team will continue to undertake activities and develop products intended to help raise awareness of both the practice of sequestration as well as the PCOR Partnership to three types of audiences: the general public across the region, key audiences at the regional level and, in collaboration with project partners, audiences in the vicinity of the planned Phase III demonstrations. Outreach activities will be facilitated by the outreach materials developed during Phase I and II efforts, as well as additional materials to be developed under Phase III. Outreach to the general public will continue to occur predominantly through the periodic broadcast of original, half-hour television documentaries on public television along with a public website. At the same time, outreach to key audiences, including educators and decision makers, will continue utilizing the website and meetings as well as a combination of materials including the DVDs, the atlas, fact sheets, and reports. In the future, this plan will be modified to include plans for focused outreach efforts for the two Phase III commercial-scale geologic sequestration demonstrations. The demonstration outreach plans will be developed in collaboration with partners. Planning and impact assessment will be facilitated by the continued development of the outreach information system. Combining information on demographics, sequestration activities, and outreach activities, the outreach information system will be maintained and expanded to better support planning, tracking, and evaluation of outreach activities. The action plan will be updated as needed.View/Download Document