In a letter to the NJ DEP, The NJ Highlands Coalition has "strongly objected" to PSE&G's Highlands power line plan, according to NJ Herald, in what sounds like an even stronger opposition than the Coalition's 11/18/08 press release which "asks the DEP to carefully review the power line expansion plan."

What really raises my ire is that PSE&G is telling residents attending its "information sessions" that its designs are only partially complete, according to the Highlands Coalition and recent articles on these sessions, yet then tells the NJ Herald reporter, "the DEP deemed it complete" and won't fully explain what it left out when talking to the public.

We've seen this old game many times. Instead of answering tough questions from citizens, say "we're working on it," to postpone having to explicate the gory details as long as possible, so that you delay and weaken the opposition that would coalesce if it knew the truth at the outset. The further into the DEP approval process that PSE&G can get before it has to explain just how environmentally damaging its project will be, the higher likelihood it will slip by before people realize they were double-talked.

PSE&G's duplicitous behavior virtually guarantees that it's hiding just how destructive its power line project will really be.

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