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the gas company insists on cutting down ALL my trees?
there is literally about 4 very large trees, & 3 smaller trees in my yard, that the gas company insists they must cut down. my family has lived on this property (well we owned like 4 large lots..then sold a couple) for close to a 100 years. They say they got an..easement (not sure how to spell it) but didn't show any paper work, & no idea how they got this, since nobody in my family agreed to this, unless it was by my grandmother 50 years ago...
anyway, i'm extremely angry about this. these trees are beautiful (some are walnut trees) & they also provide a lot of shade to our house, which allows us to not have to use air conditioning.
i'm all about saving the planet, etc. but i really don't know how to stop them, or at least not allow all my trees to be cut down. if i have to go chain myself to a tree. damnit i will.
haha, but really.. what can i do?! :(
i'd really like to be compensated for new trees, is that possible?
also, these were a bunch of trashy men, who were looking into all of my windows.. not sure what that was about. since that has nothing to do with my trees.
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The Power Company probably got the "Right of Way" for their power lines when they purchased the property or purchased the "Right of Way" for the power lines back when they were first installed. I cannot undestand the need to cut the trees down though. Were I live the power company generally does a deep prunning to keep the tree and tree limbs off their power lines duing severe storms. Ice storms are the worst and a main reason for the cut back of trees.
You can force them to stop work and produce the documents giving them the right of way. while it is a stretch it is possible the trees were not there when the powerlines went through and the "Right of Way" or easement doesn not give them the right to enter your property and cut back or cut dowm your trees.
There is an old saying that says; it is easier to ask for foregiveness than permission. If the power company is assuming they have the right of way they may be willing to inject that saying if needed.
If they will not produce the document on request but continue to send crews to your home a court ordered stop work order may be needed.
As for the workers looking in the windows. I can only assume you are a very pretty women and they are dirty old men. Pull your curtains.
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