The BP of New Jersey

Our neighborhood is being assaulted by PSE&G.

They have a right of way over our properties for the maintenance of electrical transmission lines. For years, they came every few years to trim branches that could have threatened the lines. They then decided it would be cheaper to simply clear cut our backyards.

Gone would be the character of our properties, with wooded privacy for which we purchased our homes.

Gone would be character of our neighborhood. And about $50-$100K of each properties value, and significant tax rateables for our town. Our township is joining us to stop them.

We have been fighting this for over 10 years. We have allowed them to construct a road across our properties for them to facilitate their periodic maintenance. We have allowed them to cut more and more.In their most recent cutting in May, their employees deemed our properties "safe".

And now, using A specious safety argument, they want to destroy the rest of our properties. They have gone to the BPU and lobbied for more onerous regulations that may be fine for open spaces, but not for private residential neighborhoods.

Just like BP, they want to save money, and they don't care how they do it. They don't care what it does to homeowners, their privacy, their private property and the value of their homes. They don't care what it does to the character of our homes, or neighborhood, or our town, as long as they can save a few bucks. Just like BP.

In recent days we have seen what happens when big companies try to save money with a callous disregard for everything else. This venality and mendaciousness knows no bounds. We refuse to allow it to happen to us.