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CAEPLA
Bio
The future of energy transport and family agribusiness is at a crossroads today. As founding president of the Canadian Association of Energy and Pipeline Landowners Associations (CAEPLA), Dave Core has dedicated most of his working life to helping resolve conflict between pipeline landowners and industry. Dave grew up on a family farm featuring one of Canada’s first cross country oil pipelines. After college he farmed full time, and subsequently pursued business ventures in the ag sector. A lifetime of living with the operational, safety, and environmental impact of pipelines and power lines led Dave to take an interest in Canada’s landowner movement and to research the ethics of expropriation. Later, he would set out across the country, following the major energy corridors, to talk to thousands of fellow pipeline landowners. Dave’s experiences in farming, business, and politics has helped him see that the problems associated with energy transport are best addressed at the local grassroots level - not via distant, top down, bureaucratic intervention. Instead, Dave and CAEPLA call for partnership with industry and respect for property rights as the keys to ensuring safety and environmental stewardship standards that surpass outdated and too often biased government regulations.