As the chair of the House of Commons Energy (Natural Resources) Committee, Leon Benoit is the Alberta MP who whistled Dixie while Ottawa's National Energy Board was stripping thousands of Alberta landowners of their long standing property rights. Then, when landowner leaders from CAEPLA appeared before Benoit's committee in Ottawa to speak to the House of Common's Energy Committee on the issue, Benoit and his conservative MP colleagues, including MP David Anderson, refused to say a word or ask even a single question—not a peep! Earlier, when Dave Core of CAEPLA in private conversation with Benoit began to explain the implications of the NOVA jurisdictional shift upon Alberta landowners, rather than listen to what was being said, Benoit responded by calling Core a liar. 
CAEPLA Blogs - Dave Core and Friends
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CAEPLA Letter to CEAA Process
Advisory Team - Re: Northern Gateway Joint Review Regulatory Process
Dear Ms. Spagnuolo,
In our conversation the other day, we talked about landowner issues and the compromise of their legitimate issues and stewardship responsibilities in the Northern Gateway Joint Review regulatory process.
Click here to read the rest of the letter...
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CAEPLA CONNECTIONS
Landowner
Talk Radio
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CAEPLA Requests a
Clear Explanation from
the National Energy
Board (NEB)
Being that the NEB does not require pipeline companies to inform individual landowners about the implications of policy changes upon them and their holdings—such as occurred during the jurisdictional changes on the Alberta NOVA system—and being that the NEB itself has a policy of deliberately not keeping landowners informed when it has had policies amended that imposed liability and risk upon landowners (as was the case when Section 112 of the National Energy Board Act was implemented), we are writing to enquire about the NEB’s objective via this recently announced telephone solicitation of landowners.
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Proposed Amendments to Bill 36 Do Not Fix the Problem
Part 1 of 2
Once regulatory capture becomes deeply rooted, the regulator will see itself as being in a partnership with the most powerful of the players it is supposed to regulate.
90,000 copies of the new Caepla Landowner Journal were mailed to landowners, government and opposition MPs, Senators, energy regulators, and many others. The new publication features three distinct special feature sections:
1) Ottawa's National Energy Board and its disposition towards landowners;
2) The Alberta Land Bills and the impact they will have on property rights, not just in Alberta, but even elsewhere in Canada (see what the CAEPLA SmartPig has to say about that in the letters section), and;
3) What to do when the landman comes calling.
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The Impact of
New Alberta Legislation
on
Landowner Rights
by Keith Wilson
Part one examines recent provincial legislation
impacting on governmental processes for either taking rights in private lands or restricting the
uses of private lands and occupied Crown lands. The second part examines
recent trends and developments with respect to surface rights compensation and board
procedures of the Energy Resources Conservation Board.
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Bill 36 Proposed Amendments
Bill 36 has resulted in a law called the Alberta Land Stewardship Act. It is a law that gives Cabinet the power to wipe out property rights in Alberta in a number of very specific areas. The public outcry against Bill 36 has been so intense that amendments were introduced this spring.
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Learn more about Alberta's controversial Land Bills - 19, 36, 50, & 24...
Proposed Amendments to Bill 36 Do Not Fix the Problem
Part 2 of 2
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The Process of Change...
Listen to Craig Docksteader discuss how public policy is changed.
About CAEPLA
The Canadian Association of Energy and Pipeline Landowner Associations (CAEPLA) is Canada’s foremost and leading association of landowners who have a direct and ongoing interest in the way government and energy regulators define, and then influence, the relationships that exist between landowners and various aspects of the energy sector. A decidedly pro-development association, CAEPLA's role is to advance the legitimate interests of landowners within the context of development, and at the same time, provide all Canadians with a better understanding of the way property rights encourage responsible stewardship.