CAEPLA CONNECTIONS - Landowner Options When a Pipeline Easement or Power Line Corridor Comes Knocking
The following four part series of radio programs (each program is in two parts), discusses the implications and options when a landowner realizes that a power line corridor or pipeline easement is going to be established on his or her property. Each program segment is about nine minutes long, meaning that each of the four programs are 18-20 minutes in total. The programs are hosted by well-known radio personality Dave Arnold, and are anchored by a three-person CAEPLA panel. Panel members include:
Dr. Ken Habermehl is a veterinarian who ranches near Lake Diefenbaker in Saskatchewan, southwest of the community of Outlook. He is the founding president (now past president) of the Saskatchewan Association of Pipeline Landowners, and serves as a Policy Advisor to CAEPLA.
Jim Ness is a licensed land agent in Alberta, who works only with and for landowners. He is a former director of the Alberta Grain Commission, was the founding president of the Alberta Association of Pipeline Landowners, and is a former director of CAEPLA. He now serves as a Projects Coordinator with CAEPLA. He is a rancher and farmer in east-central Alberta.
A graduate of Ridgetown College of Agriculture ( a campus of the University of Guelph), Dave Core has been a grain farmer, commercial poultry producer, and for many years operated his own trucking business. He is past-president of the Ontario Pipeline Landowners Association (OPLA), and founding president of CAEPLA.
Dave currently serves as CAEPLA's Director of Federally Regulated Projects. He is a much sought after public speaker, consultant and negotiator, and is considered by many to be one of Canada's foremost and leading landowner advocates.
Program 1 - Part 1 and 2
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Program 2 - Part 1 and 2
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Program 3 - Part 1 and 2
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Program 4 - Part 1 and 2
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CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio: Keith Wilson, and Kevin Avram
Keith Wilson and Kevin Avram talk property rights and Land Bills. Kevin reminisces about what it was like as a kid to hunt gophers with a 30-30, and compares that experience to Alberta's Bill 50. Keith Wilson ponders the many flip flops that have already been carried out by Alberta's new Premier during her first 30 days in office. Both men agree that Cabinet Minister Ted Morton acted with integrity on a key land bill, and that as a consequence, he found himself being thrown under the bus by his new boss, Premier Alison Redford.
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio:
Keith Wilson, and Kevin Avram
Keith Wilson, and program host, Kevin Avram, look at the the contrast between a market economy and a command economy, as well as the impact each has upon individual lives. The two men also look at the way the government's Land Bills will influence investors and investment in the province. The overall theme of this week's program is the role and function of property rights.
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio: Keith Wilson, and Kevin Avram
Keith Wilson, and program host, Kevin Avram, look at the new Alberta Cabinet, recognizing that the front ranks of Cabinet consists of individuals who in the past, most hotly argued with landowners over the existing Land Bill Package. The government's options are explained in detail, while Keith Wilson walks listeners through exactly what rescinding the Bills would require. Additionally, the program looks at the madness behind Bill 50 and the costs it will impose on all Albertans.
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio: Keith Wilson, and Kevin Avram
Host Kevin Avram and regular panelist Keith Wilson, discuss the difference between a commitment to “review” and a commitment to “cancel”. Premier Redford has indicated that a review of the Alberta Land Bills is in order. Avram and Wilson explain why the word review doesn’t give any landowner cause to celebrate. And to further explain why no one should be thinking in terms of mission accomplished. Wilson explains the role of the anti-devlopment constituency in the creation of Bill 36, and how the Alberta PC government had been co-opted by this group of people. This program in many ways explains why things are the way they are… It is enlightening to say the least!
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio: Keith Wilson, and Kevin Avram
Keith Wilson, and program host, Kevin Avram, finish their discussion about Alberta Cabinet Minister Mel Knight and his efforts as point man on behalf of the Alberta government to defend the indefensible in regard to Bill 36. The two men also address the Alberta government's past unwillingness to stand for the legitimate interests of landowners in the face of the regulatory takeover of the Alberta NOVA gas pipeline system by Ottawa's National Energy Board.
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio: Keith Wilson, Dave Core, and Kevin Avram
Keith Wilson, Dave Core, and program host Kevin Avram, discuss Ottawa's National Energy Board, its structure, performance, and disposition toward landowners. At the same time, our panel addresses Alberta's Bill 36, its impact upon the province, and the manner in which its chief defender, Cabinet Minister Mel Knight, is engaged in unfounded propaganda.
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio: Keith Wilson, Dave Core, Jim Ness, and Kevin Avram
Keith Wilson explains the implications of regulations that were recently released by the provincial government. The regulations flow out of Bill 36, and are designed to expand government control over Alberta businesses, aspects of farm operations, and much more. Dave Core and Jim Ness of CAEPLA explain the impact on landowners of transferring regulatory control of the NOVA pipeline system from Alberta to Ottawa.
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio: Dave Core, Keith Wilson, and Kevin Avram
CAEPLA's Dave Core explains how Ottawa's National Energy Board acted in a way that ensured landowners were misled about the impact of the NOVA jurisdictional hearing—a move which stripped landowner organizations of hundreds of thousands of dollars—and then he explains the attitude of the Alberta government toward landowner rights at that hearing. Keith Wilson follows that up with an assessment of regulations that were released at the end of August, which flow out of Bill 36, and extend the reach of the Alberta government’s central planning bureaucracy. The program host is Kevin Avram.
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio: Keith Wilson and Kevin Avram
Keith Wilson speaks about the history of surface rights in Alberta. This program was broadcast earlier this year. Yet due to its popularity and the expressed interest CAEPLA received about the content, it is being rebroadcast so landowners who didn't hear the original broadcast can listen in.
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio: Karen Selick, Keith Wilson, and Kevin Avram
Karen Selick, Litigation Director at the Canadian Constitution Foundation; Keith Wilson, CAEPLA's Alberta Polcy Chair, and CAEPLA's program host, Kevin Avram, discuss the rule of law and Bill 36. Selick and Wilson, both experienced lawyers, explain that the legislation is unlike anything either of them have ever seen.
Karen Selick has been a member of the bar for more than 30 years. Her role as Litigation Director at the Canadian Constitution Foundation means she oversees court challenges that are aimed at protecting the freedoms of individual Canadians. Karen is considered by many to be one of the country’s most prolific and insightful legal thinkers. For 16 years she wrote the back page column for Canadian Lawyer Magazine. Her insights, legal commentary, and columns, have been printed in virtually all of Canada’s leading newspapers including the National Post, Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, and others.
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio: Bill Newton, Keith Wilson, and Kevin Avram - Part 2
Dr. Bill Newton, Past President of the Western Stock Growers Association further explains statutory consents, their role in creating wealth, and the implications of Alberta’s Bill 36. He explains that Bill 36 will redefine property rights in the province. Keith Wilson explains how Bill 36 will restrict landowner compensation and turn landowners into favour seekers when it comes to seeking compensation for what has been done to their property by government; CAEPLA’s Kevin Avram looks at King John and the Magna Carta, which established the rule of law, as well as England’s King Charles, who was executed after he rejected the rule of law.
CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio: Bill Newton, Keith Wilson, and Kevin Avram - Part 1
Dr. Bill Newton, past-president of the Western Stock Growers Association, Keith Wilson, and Kevin Avram discuss the difference between elected officials who see themselves as managers and elected officials who see themselves as legislators. Kevin provides further background on the difference between Ontario and Alberta on key landowner issues. Bill Newton explains the role of statutory consents when it comes to understanding the value and usefulness of property. Keith explains how Bill 36 will redefine the relationship between Albertans and their government.
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio - Gunter, Avram, and Core
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio Program features Lorne Gunter, a columnist with the Edmonton Journal who is a member of the Editorial Board of the National Post, CAEPLA's Dave Core, and program host Kevin Avram. Lorne walks listeners through the connection between the growth of government and the loss of property rights. Kevin ponders why the Stelmach government is not letting up on its Land Bill package, which is designed to trample landowner rights in the province. Dave, Kevin, and Lorne then look at the implications of regulatory capture, and the way regulators become an extension of the very interests they are supposed to regulate. The manner in which Ottawa's National Energy Board has turned itself into a schoolyard bully that tramples landowners is especially addressed.
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio - Alberta Land Bills
Jim Ness, Keith Wilson, and Kevin Avram discuss Alberta Bills 19, 24, 36, and 50. Kevin provides a preview of upcoming programs that will feature the performance of Ottawa's National Energy Board, and the way it systematically tramples landowner rights. The program also provides an update on the location of 19 upcoming landowner meetings in the province, and then Kevin explores why property rights and freedom are synonymous.
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio - Alberta's Bill 36 - Part 2
Keith Wilson, Karla Kay Edwards, and Kevin Avram discuss the impact of Bill 36-like legislation in Oregon. Bill 36 is an Alberta law that is going to change Alberta in a way that few people realize. In many instances, it is also going to affect property values in ways that few people have thought about. The Bill is the Stelmach government’s central planning land use law.
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio - Alberta's Bill 36 - Part 1
Some may think Alberta's Bill 36 is only about zoning—in fact, it is about zoning, but it is equally about central planning, who does the planning, planners who can rip up legal contracts, and planning procedures that will empower activist organizations in a way that gives them as much say over what you can and cannot do with your property as you might have.
Karla Kay Edwards, the former Executive Vice President of the Washington Cattlemens Association who is now a Rural Land Use Policy Analyst at Oregon's Cascade Policy Institute joins us, as does Keith Wilson. When Alberta Cabinet Minister Mel Knight was asked if there was any democratic jurisdiction anywhere, that had implemented the kind of land use laws and central planning embodied in Alberta's Bill 36, he responded by saying, "Yes, in Oregon." And Oregon did it 40 years ago! Since then, other than Alberta, no one has copied Oregon's way of doing things, and with good reason. It's been a disaster for property rights.
This is part one of a two part series on Bill 36. The practical implications for Alberta as a result of Bill 36 will be addressed in part two.
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio for June 11th - Bill 50 and the Impact of Its Policies
Keith Wilson, Ted Johnston, President of Alberta Food Processors Association, and Kevin Avram discuss the adverse economic implications of the Bill 50 transmission line overbuild, which is projected to cost thousands of jobs and put a large percentage of the Alberta food processing industry out of business.
CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Landowner Talk Radio for June 4th features Keith Wilson speaking about the history of surface rights in Alberta.
CAEPLA Connections Landowner Talk Radio for May 28th features Lorne Gunter speaking with us about the distinction between economic property rights and political property rights, and why they both matter.
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May 21st 2011 Program
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May 7th 2011 Program
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April 30th 2011 Program (Eckville Debate)
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CAEPLA CONNECTIONS Radio Programs
Proprty and the History of Property Rights in Canada - Segment One and Two
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Provincial vs. Federal - The National Energy Board - Segment One and Two
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Legitimate Landowner Issues in Light of Development - Segment One and Two
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